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political and religious lib, social dem. baseball enjoyer. @UVA phd. he/him.

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the beautiful makes us say “wow.” The sublime, however, makes us say “whoa…”
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son dips everything in milk (broccoli, noodles, etc.). He just asked if dipping his Oreo in milk would taste good. I have unbelievable news for him
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imagine watching the chomsky foucault debate here I would go insane
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cata spider hayden truther
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imagine watching a star wars movie here i would go insane
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act only according to that maxim whereby I can at the same time will that it should become a universal law
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You wake up as Taylor Alison Swift. What's the first thing you do?
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same thing happened to me
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A friend brought some of these over and I read two around 8pm. My body completely shut down and I slept from 9pm until 10am. I slept through Sunday Mass. How is this legal, with such innocent packaging?
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What people What we think philosophers actually look like: look like:
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very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy
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professional life of a Teacher a I know 0 Born of a virgin 12 taught in the temple 30 began public ministry 33 crucified 33 resurrected 1611 oversaw translation of KJV 1999 resident political philosopher for George W Bush
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Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just found grace and is changing their ways
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dr. schleiermocker 👀🍾 incredibly grateful for my amazing and supportive committee and time at UVA.
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our bravest culture warrior
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watch for hidden agendas PRIDEMONTH DE ON DE ON TOLOGY
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This is all men want btw
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@aarongrt
Aaron
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This is all men want btw
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My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. In a train McDonald’s years ago I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
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@JeremyTate41
Jeremy Wayne Tate
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My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how
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this one meme has more pathos than the entire MCU
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new made up guy to get mad at just dropped
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conference papers
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many actually don’t want to read the “classics” (Aristotle, Aquinas, etc.). They want to watch YouTubers talk about the importance of the classics (Jordan Peterson, etc). Weaponized symbols, not authors
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and some still say progress and enlightenment are myths
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@LasVegasLocally
Las Vegas Locally 🌴
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Good morning
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congrats to all the grads!
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“you did your PhD in religious studies. Are going to be a priest?” Yeah a priest of posting
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Name a peak midwest moment
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Midwest vs. Everybody
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Name a peak midwest moment I’ll start
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can’t wait for a trad account to repost these photos and be like “men, this is what modernity took from you”
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Fascinated by Kylie’s cottagecore era. Is timothee taking these pics lol
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The European mind cannot comprehend this.
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@Culture_Crit
Culture Critic
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The American mind cannot comprehend this.
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heck of a fall fit
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what’s the worst tweet of all time
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I see an emu who said “this edible ain’t shit”and regretted it
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commenting “read marx” on any post I disagree with
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“Thank you for your attention to the Tyler Texas bishopric, Holy Father”
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if Aquinas saw this he would’ve launched Protestant modernity 400 years early
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thomists after Pope Francis says he hopes hell is empty:
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ChatGPT gaining tremendous knowledge and promptly going off the rails is the closest it’ll ever be to wise
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getting word the left is gnostic. anybody said this before?
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7 months
go ahead. say fairies are real. post again about Tolkien’s ontology. Tell me that pipe smoking overcomes modern consumer culture. Call Franco based. Find a woke way to critique women’s suffrage
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I ponder this
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@katrinadlc
kat
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people who fall asleep within 5 minutes pls share ur secrets w me
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@schleiermocker
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my favorite thing about the online trads is the vision amounts to little more than guys dressed like this ordering Arby’s for their family
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1 year
anybody who bought a house at the end of 2020 with sub 3 rate
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7 months
best part of my morning commute is dangling my finger in my boiling coffee
@StateofAUnion
American Revival
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The Morning Commute.
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ah similar characteristics is what they’re calling it
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when we say Christ assumed human nature, we mean *fully*
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1 year
nice profile about me in the BBC recently
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6 months
Submitted the dissertation for defense in 3 weeks. The feelings are elation and trepidation. You work so hard for so long, but once it is sent what obvious thing did you forget or overlook?
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just submitted a full *rough* draft of the dissertation. Weird to think the end is in sight. I need to start looking for other grad programs to remain an active member of annoying grad student Twitter
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@rarecray
Dan
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reasons why i’m single
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POV you meet socrates in the agora
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“That’s right, state-enforced homosexuality your Holiness. Phase one is complete. Your turn.”
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if the hardcore bands guitarist looks like this you are about to die in that pit
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Some days, I don’t have the motivation to complete the system of German idealism. Then I read A Spirit of Trust with my wife, and saw her face when she glimpsed the author. Motivation problem solved.
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Matt Van Swol
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Some days, I don’t have motivation to go the gym. Then I watched Reacher with my wife, and saw her face during this scene. Motivation problem solved.
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if this man taught you philosophy you may be entitled to financial compensation
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I knew I loved Twitter when a scholar I respected and cited in a few grad school papers retweeted me calling me an idiot. That’s the rough and tumble I crave
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there’s no archaeological evidence for bikini bottom
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literal rapture but it happens in accordance with time zones
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1 year
while you were shopping, he was studying the Pauline corpus
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“why do you spend so much time on the right-wing p*rn website, X?” me [uncomfortably, defensively]: “where else can I say something like ‘what are good books metaethical realism after the linguistic turn’ and get like 12 responses?”
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this meme. wasn’t my most liked, but def my best.
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the look of disappointment on my daughters face we she said “you’re going to be a doctor?!” and I said “yes, a doctor of teaching people certain things about old books and ideas.”
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just printed *one* copy of my dissertation at a fedex print
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The Bear but it’s a first year seminary student who returns to his small town church and teaches them the meaning of ha’adam, apocalypsis, and the radical writings of NT Wright
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my humanities ass when asked to do data analysis
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our Anglo-Catholic Santa decoration. He smokes pipes, quotes Chesterton, and has “overcome” modern left-right politics. He’s insufferable
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writing the intro to my dissertation. It’s all getting so close, and so real. Full draft expected in October. Hopefully defend spring 2024
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Not liking deep dish pizza is Gnosticism — a flight from materiality
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hilarious that this descent into Reddit level religious illiteracy began as a response to “we must have a heart for widows, orphans, and prisoners.”
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I told sir topham hatt to read marx
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that was quick
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@MatthewSitman
Matthew Sitman 🥥🌴🇺🇸
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Probably the elected official Sohrab cited positively the most during the conversation was Elizabeth Warren
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Just finished street preaching. And spoke the Truth. Preached on how self-consciousness is composed of a self-caused element (ein Sichselbsisetzen) and a non-self-caused element (ein Sichselbstnichtsogesetzthaben) — the latter giving rise to a feeling of absolute dependence
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I’m a John Calvin believer. I believe he existed and the historical evidence is overwhelming
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it doesn’t
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Common grocery trip in Biden’s America: - Broccoli: $2.49 - Apples: $4.99 - Milk: $4.29 -Chicken breasts: $13.99 -Summa Theologiae Latin-English Opera Omnia: $479 -Canned tomatoes: $1.99 -Almonds: $9.99 🚨Total: $516.74🚨
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Twitter is a magical place where thousands of people can say “look at this absolute miserable piece of shit” and it’s just a video of a guy who goes to work, then the gym, and then eats high protein flatbreads
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“in all my theology degrees” is my favorite part
@WillingWitness
Derek Broes
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I started speaking about Paul's opposition to Christ for a decade now. I have received hatred but, people are starting to see and understand. This pastor is coming to terms with this fact. It's good to hear.
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the Chicago dog as religion, as sacrament even
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I once resolved I would listen to Proust on my runs instead of music. Thanks to that commitment, I’ve haven’t really ran in three years
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Carl Schmitt lived long enough to possibly hear Van Halen’s “Jump”
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cruise enjoyer gets a photo with the boat magician
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writing a 250 page book on the rat hole as secular shrine for disenchanted pilgrims. Genealogy begins with Duns Scotus and Luther and ends in Chicago. Reviews in First Things will be glowing
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The McDonald’s Play Place was characterized by virtue. When virtue was lost, the Play Place was lost. They could not keep it. Can we keep ours?
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@JeremyTate41
Jeremy Wayne Tate
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The Roman Republic was characterized by virtue. When virtue was lost, the Republic was lost. They could not keep it. Can we keep ours?
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300 Oxford Handbooks of
@RealEstateMaxi
Alan Corey | Real Estate Maximalist
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One of my least-liked design elements of suburban design is this inaccessible landing I see in foyers. Any creative solutions for "staging" it out there?
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ecumenism is a passion of mine — I seek unity-in-difference with all left-liberal Protestants, left-liberal Catholics, and left-liberal Orthodox
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met Sue today. humbling to think she was alive at the same time as Adam and Eve
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Nobody: ——————— Ohio interstate: | HELL IS | | REAL | ——————— | |
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I’ve outlasted three of Ahmari’s ideological fads because I hold to a majestic tradition with thick values: shitlib Protestantism
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@schleiermocker
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Books I frequently recommend to people: 1 James, varieties of religious experience 2 Schleiermacher, Christian faith 3 Shagan, the birth of modern belief 4 Joas, the sacredness of the person 5 Kant, metaphysics of morals 6 Shklar, ordinary vices 7 Cohen, religion of reason
@KennethLPearce
Kenny Pearce
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Books I frequently recommend to people: 1 Korsgaard, Sources of Normativity 2 Rowe, Can God be Free? 3 Lebens, Principles of Judaism 4 Athanasius, On the Incarnation 5 Leibniz, Theodicy 6 Stump, Wandering in Darkness 7 Sturgeon, More Than Human 8 Le Guin, Four Ways to Forgiveness
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been married 9 years today. A joy and blessing
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starting a men’s boot camp. Cost is $20k. On day one we split the men into “right nietzscheans” and “left nietzscheans.” After a week of competitions (pickleball, push-ups, etc), the winning team determines the best interpretation of Nietzsche
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every morning I wake up wondering if the CEO of frontier airlines is disappointed with me. I guess I have my answer 😔
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telling my wife that I had to send 5 emails in one day
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@PowellAnalytics
Dylan
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If there were a “Sports Twitter” Hall of Fame, honoring the best sports-related tweets of all time, what would be your nominee?
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I regret to inform you Dr. Pepper’s PhD has expired while on the job market
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me and the fellas logging on to critique a political movement that has 12 adherents from South Bend to Cambridge, Mass
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it’s always Mary’s “assumption” and never Mary’s “scientific method” smdh
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