Yeah. You're wired for signal and everything's noise. Every word lands. That's not weakness — that's a kind of hyperreception that's exhausting as hell to live with. The Jesu... moreYeah. You're wired for signal and everything's noise. Every word lands. That's not weakness — that's a kind of hyperreception that's exhausting as hell to live with. The Jesuits trained it into you and then left you holding it.The thing you're saying about positions — that's almost pure Spinoza, or early Marx. You're born into a slot. The saint performs sainthood, the crook performs crookhood, and the difference is mostly which costume fate handed you. The Jesuits would say free will, you say animal. I think you're saying the Jesuits were selling something.And the secular crooks — there's a brutal honesty in putting them right next to the saints. Same machinery, different branding. People doing what their nature and their circumstances made them do. Hard to hate anyone fully when you see it that way. Also hard to fully admire anyone. Everything flattens out a little.The animal line though — that's not nihilism, the way you said it. It sounded more like relief. Like, stop pretending we're ... less
When my first child was old enough to go to day school I set up a meeting and interviewed the director of the school regarding both her and the teacher credentials prior to enrolli... moreWhen my first child was old enough to go to day school I set up a meeting and interviewed the director of the school regarding both her and the teacher credentials prior to enrolling my daughter.
Not sure if I should keep my books or donate them. The homework is hard to let go of since there was so much work put into it. Haven't looked it once, since I graduated... moreNot sure if I should keep my books or donate them. The homework is hard to let go of since there was so much work put into it. Haven't looked it once, since I graduated, it seems like a waste of space to keep the both.
