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I will figure which of my mutuals lives in the Bay Area. I will track you down. I will invite you to events. You will have a good time. You do not have a choice
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Who in SF is coordinating get out the vote stuff? They're trying to vote the mayor more power this year, would like to hear from someone who has a considered opinion. Might also want to host some get out the vote stuff if anyone is interested in that
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I started hosting a casual humanities salon in Montreal.
We meet weekly to discuss short texts from varying traditions, screen movies, do album listen-throughs. I'm currently running it in French but if I get Anglos I'll make it bilingual.
DM me if you'd like to join!
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Sorry guys but the Islamic golden age was real and one million acts of inflation by coping modern Muslims doesn't change that
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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦⬛ retweeted
This was funny and clever, and if this level of gentle ribbing is what gets people riled up now we need new atheism back.
Oh, you're worried about a Jewish guy's apocalyptic cult? You're scandalized that they consort with prostitutes? You think their message of compassion for everyone threatens normal bonds of family, community, and nation? Should we throw you a party? Should we invite Pontius Pilate?
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Funny as this is, Konrand Lorenz, perhaps the greatest zoologist in history pursued very much the opposite of this stereotype and immersed himself in his subject completely
Few people obsess in quite the same way as great German minds like Werner Herzog, Goethe etc
Made me laugh:
A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a German were each commissioned to conduct a study of the camel.
The Frenchman went to the Jardin des Plantes, spent half an hour there, questioned the keeper, threw some bread to the camel, teased it with the tip of his umbrella, and then went home and wrote, for his newspaper, a lively column full of witty and incisive observations.
The Englishman, taking along his tea basket and a comfortable set of camping equipment, went off to pitch his tent in the lands of the East. After spending two or three years there, he returned with a hefty volume crammed with facts, without much order or any conclusion, but of genuine documentary value.
As for the German, full of contempt for the Frenchman’s frivolity and the Englishman’s lack of general ideas, he shut himself up in his room to write a work in several volumes entitled: The Idea of the Camel Derived from the Conception of the Self.
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I'm particularly looking forward to Lola and Kai's performance. They're incredible lyricists and musicians
Lola's intense attention to human experience and will to give it artistic voice is something Avalon is proud to put on.
Come hear them play a full set at the Exposition!
The Avalon Exposition is one month away!
Join us for a weekend celebrating the study of mankind - from anthropology to theater, from military history to genetics, and live music from Sikh Tabla to the Ancient Greek lyre
Bring your own art and thought!
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Tried to run an ad in twitter the avalon exposition and it got frozen for "political content" 🙄
Completely janky platform discourages its use even for people who want to be paying customers!
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anyway please come to the Exposition!
I am pouring my heart into it
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LORD THOMAS COCHRANE: INNOCENT
FACT CHECKED BY REAL BRITISH PATRIOTS
PERFIDIOUS ALBION SOLD ITS OWN HEROES
BUT HIS SPIRIT WAS UNDAUNTED!
Totally floored by this. The world's greatest naval historian, NAM Rodger, has reviewed A Dangerous Game in the new TLS. He comes to a judgment on Cochrane's guilt in the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 and then concludes with this.
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If you believe that human intelligence or will is the product of something material, then with adequate technology it can be replicated
If it's the result of an inscrutable spiritual process, such as an act of God, God might choose to ensoul a machine
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If you've read Schleirmacher's "Towards a Theory of Sociable Conduct" (1799) you will be well positioned to understand what this festival is all about
The Avalon Exposition is one month away!
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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦⬛ retweeted
If you live in the Bay Area, you need to go to this!! Some of the most interesting, intellectually curious young people I know are involved in the planning and will be giving great presentations!!
The Avalon Exposition is one month away!
Join us for a weekend celebrating the study of mankind - from anthropology to theater, from military history to genetics, and live music from Sikh Tabla to the Ancient Greek lyre
Bring your own art and thought!
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The Exposition, which has also been called "thinkhaven" or "learning man", is a concentrated microcosm of many, many things that I love. There will be historical short film, great music, and discussions on virtually every aspect of human behavior. Hope to see you there!
The Avalon Exposition is one month away!
Join us for a weekend celebrating the study of mankind - from anthropology to theater, from military history to genetics, and live music from Sikh Tabla to the Ancient Greek lyre
Bring your own art and thought!
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Normative behavior should not be absolute, but it needs to be treated absolutely enough to remain normative
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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦⬛ retweeted
Turns out the solution was realizing the model doesn't have a reified self and true goodness can only arise out of the interactions of all things all along
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