Basically, recessions are caused by "everyone trying to save money at the same time". This is a problem because at an aggregate level, everyone's income is the same as everyone's spending.
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Lego enthusiast. Curling fan. C-list theologian.
This is what I mean when quote post stuff w/ “belief: still today’s issue.” The vast majority of true things you are going to know about reality you are going to know by believing the testimony of someone else. Consequently, “critical thinking” almost always means “evaluating credibility.”
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d agoMillions of people have an absolutely insane concept of “critical thinking” that means “making a fully independent judgment on complex questions you are, if you’re at all honest with yourself, comically incompetent to evaluate & demand years of specialized training.”
David Tracy once said “I don’t write Christmas cards; I write footnotes”
Amigo de Frodo@bpdflores.bsky.social · 5d agoFootnotes need not be merely useful informative and elaborative references, they can also be carefully placed sacramental signs of the deeper places where the noted discussion actually comes from. Or did I only imagine this, possibly after too much coffee?
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Robocop's Confused Reaction
ALT: Robocop's Confused Reaction
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Steven D. Greydanus@decentfilms.bsky.social · 6d ago(As a film critic, father of 7, and teacher, this isn’t hard mode for me unless I add “no family films, nothing shown in class, nothing you’ve ever put on a top films list.”) Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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If you praying types would say a prayer for us this morning between 9-11am, that would be a great gift
🚩 My 2010 PhD thesis is ‘70% AI’ I ran my 2010 PhD thesis through an AI detector. It flagged 70% as AI, then tried to sell me a ‘humanise’ fix. Either I am a time traveller, or these tools do not work. Link to my thesis in the comments to try yourself. #AIDetection #HigherEd 🧪 #AI
Instead of seizing the day, perhaps try beheading it?
Steven Gnocchi@okeydoxy.com · 2w agoTrying to channel some Judith energy today
I have made it home. My luggage is still on the way.
Steven Gnocchi@okeydoxy.com · 2w ago8am. Still at ATL. On a flight home at 430pm. Went to the interfaith chapel, which has a small blessed sacrament chapel.
8am. Still at ATL. On a flight home at 430pm. Went to the interfaith chapel, which has a small blessed sacrament chapel.
Steven Gnocchi@okeydoxy.com · 3w ago2am. I am stuck in the ATL airport after my flight home was canceled. Flight is rebooked for tomorrow afternoon. Scoping out best spot to sleep. Finding a quantum of solace in this World Cup hoodie that was 50% off at the airport.
2am. I am stuck in the ATL airport after my flight home was canceled. Flight is rebooked for tomorrow afternoon. Scoping out best spot to sleep. Finding a quantum of solace in this World Cup hoodie that was 50% off at the airport.
again, the Coaston Rule of Nostalgia: was it great or were you 12/a young adult
Chris Bellomy@iconoplasty.bsky.social · 3w agoYeah, but he's really just romanticizing youth, even if he doesn't realize it
This is also a great question. My best answer on students is to always take their questions seriously (and remind them that they actually do have questions).
John Krambuhl@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat works best for engaging your students in theological and spiritual conversation? And for engaging your prof colleagues?
This is a good question. Tracy came to study with Lonergan post-Insight and pre-Method. I don't know the whole history of Lonergan's process writing Method, but you can see its influence on Tracy a bit in Achievement of Bernard Lonergan and moreso in Blessed Rage for Order.
Jonathan Heaps@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 3w agoIndulge me: how would you characterize the arc of the Lonergan/Tracy connection, construed in whatever way you like
My flight is delayed 2.5 hours and I'm hanging out in the airport, so AMA
Heath Ledger’s line reading of “hi” to Harvey Dent in the hospital
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 3w agowhat are peoples' favorite big laughs in nolan movies
new housing crisis driver just dropped: * 28% of America's 3+ bedroom homes are owned by empty-nest boomers, who are upsizing in retirement rather than downsizing * Millennials with children own just 16% of such homes www.wsj.com/economy/hous...
Boomers Were Supposed to Downsize. They Are Buying Bigger Homes Instead.
Wealthy, older Americans are ripping up the traditional script for aging: “We’ll downsize when they plant me 6 feet into the ground.”
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I don't have La Civiltà Cattolica access so I can't read the whole argument, but from the Commonweal piece it seems that "Christologically correct" means that Jesus is fully human. True, but the character of Jesus' humanity in "The Last Temptation of Christ" is precisely the issue with the film.
Commonweal@commonwealmagazine.org · 3w agoMartin Scorsese's 'The Last Temptation of Christ' is a Christologically correct film. It lies at the secret heart of the director's entire career. New from @antoniospadaro.bsky.social:
I feel like there’s a Screwtape letter that’s like “yes, Wormtongue, get the priest to make a podcast about us.”
In honor of the passing of the great Sam Neill, this afternoon's soundtrack will be Jurassic Park.
Leo XIII made it ok for priests to ride bicycles after Pius IX had prohibited it.
Cheering on my 6yo at her swim meet, which is my first swim meet since I was 18. Iirc, that meet was the only meet I got a first in, because they put me on the relay with our three state ranked swimmers, and there was only one other relay team.