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I hate the merger of Christianity and Republicanism. It feels like it’s created a beast that no one should be comfortable with unless they are entirely okay with ignoring the source material. I really feel like you’d like this book @LUCIUS — a scathing critique of how a middle eastern rabbi was painted to be a jacked white guy who loves guns & hates poor people. It’s nuts to have spent so much of my life learning foundational theological principles only to see it portrayed in the media and resenting it + denying it entirely.
Apr 21, 2025
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I’m very tangled in with the Christian faith due to my upbringing, but part of my deconstruction over the last decade has really driven me to dig into what this faith looks like historically, and especially in the eastern world where it was formed.
I think there’s a major blind spot in the current Christian leader landscape, especially when you apply a historical view of church leaders in Roman times vs. American times.
To be a church leader then, it was required that you’d have at least a basic grasp of current scientific advancements (compared to science-rejecting stereotypes today) + an understanding of world history (compared to a rejection today) + acceptance of astrological findings (“but the earth is flat!!!”) + a commitment to your spouse (how many more spiritual leaders committing affairs types of news can we handle) + common decency and kindness (……..not even touching this one).
I find that the studies that show that Christianity is declining yearly here in the US is fascinating because if, perhaps, the general consensus was to steer back into historical church history, and you filled leadership with kind men & women who loved their communities and didn’t fight science and know history and how to not repeat it then…MAYBE…the church as a whole would be seen as a safe haven once again. Tom Holland (secular historian) wrote a fascinating book called Dominion — his thesis was the the Christian faith was [historically] responsible for a large amount of early social justice reform + funding of communal help systems + supporting the science and arts. That has sadly died today, and we can see how it’s affected everything.
Sorry, just a long rant I needed to get out.
Aug 25, 2024
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Enraging but very easy read about why things are currently the way they are that doesn’t feed into the Spider-Man pointing meme that is liberal discourse
Nov 15, 2024
"When we are baffled by the insanity of the "other side"—in our politics, at work, or at home-it's because we aren't seeing how the conflict itself has taken over.
That's what "high conflict" does. It's the invisible hand of our time. And it's different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That's good conflict, and it's a necessary force that pushes us to be better people.
High conflict, by contrast, is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. In this state, the normal rules of engagement no longer apply. The brain behaves differently. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side."
I found the concept of high conflict extremely useful in my own life and it makes a lot of interactions make sense. Once you know what it is, you see it everywhere, and you can easily identify when you enter it. High conflict at the root of every culture war. Now that I know the topics I enter into high conflict about, I simply avoid them unless I'm in an intimate conversation with trusted peers where actual conversation can take place.
Jul 3, 2024
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I feel like there’s a special connectivity on this app that I haven’t felt in a long time, maybe since early 2010’s tumblr. The fact that you can’t promote yourself like IG is wonderful. The fact that there isn’t mass video content like Tik Tok is great. It’s not this monetized / paid sponsorship app. People are here because they want to be a part of something with nothing to gain besides friendship. Seeing the URL -> IRL meetups warms my heart so much (waiting for an NYC or Brooklyn meetup).
Thanks for your participation on this niche little app. I smile reading all the recs and all the comments and all the asks. Hope we’ll all be here for a long time.
Jun 15, 2024
florinegrassenhopper riotgrrrl brendanooooo slowdazzle buck_mcgraw and indianjones — we did it. Not only did we successfully meet for drinks, but we also schemed the hostile takeover of this app from tyler tonight.
In all seriousness — weird that an app I downloaded in April would make genuinely want to drive back into Brooklyn during end of day traffic for a happy hour. Great app filled with great people.
Jul 20, 2024
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I think a life rule for me is to surround myself with people who know more / are smarter / are cooler than me and just absorb their aura by listening / observing them. It’s made me the incredibly smart / cool person you all know and love.
I just never thought I’d feel the same way about URL friends. I’m constantly listening to the songs I see posted here, reading the articles, subbing to newsletters, and googling topics that get tossed onto the feed.
It’s nice to know you can become a more rounded person by just absorbing what your mutuals post on here. I’m going to sit on my couch, have a cocktail and digest my lovely feed. Happy Sunday!
Sep 15, 2024