CCym

CCym, 1 month ago to random

I'm not a fan of populism, a pre-critical politic; Ultranationalism behind the veil of hand-wringing about a "people" and "elites".

sapphicselene, 1 month ago to random

I am "plays Solitaire and now Sudoku on my phone" years old lol

CCym, 1 month ago to random

I hope Joe Lieberman's fall hurt at least half as much as the medical debt he's put me through.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

Evelyn reignited my love for ASOIAF tonight by getting me to special interest dump on how much cooler Eastern Essos is to the actual story area.

Just saying: Three radfem matriarchies, literally anything to do with Asshai, and the largest civilization in the stories world are never visited by any of the major characters.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

The Political and The Moral are intrinsically linked.

“Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all. They’re not right or wrong, but we’ve made it into ‘good and bad,’ a moral issue, and that’s f—king idiotic”
—Alex Garland, Director of the A24 "Civil War" movie

Words of the utterly sophomoric.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

❝An initial version of my point can be reported as follows: Marx offers not a social theory but a critique of social theory in the same sense as he offers a critique of philosophy (in his early writings) and a critique of political economy (commencing in 1844 and renewed in the 𝑮𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆 manuscripts of 1857-8 and 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍). The same point can be stated by saying that Marx was not a sociologist but a critic of sociology: ‘Marxist sociology’ is a contradiction in terms [. . .] A further statement of my contention runs thus: 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 and not just for reasons of terminology or of the economic determinism to which, for instance, the formulations of Marx’s 1859 Preface to his 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 succumb.❞

—Richard Gunn,
𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎: 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕-𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆

CCym, 1 month ago to random

It's simple really:
—I was single as a male bassist
—now I get all the ladies as a female bassist

julieofthespirits, 1 month ago to random Spanish

It was probably a good Initiation Into Womanhood that the first person I dated while transitioning was a poet who objectified me, gave me a good feeling for how the deal would be

CCym, 1 month ago to random

I joke and all that because I was raised Catholic, like episcopal polity, take apostolic succession and the veneration of saints p seriously, and veil in prayer,

But being an actual "tradcath" is kinda heavenly-father-less behavior.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

When Americans say jihad in a negative connotation, they're actually saying crusade — which has a similar definition but arguably a worse track record. Islamophobic Christians in general like to air the problems of Christendom onto an other, keeps them from realizing their own problems.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

I grow tired of the romanticization of political history.

CCym, 1 month ago to random

Got pulled into an Evangelical service at the halfway home, and it felt completely alien to me: scripturally, practically, theologically, personally. Which I think is good in that I didn't like it, so I feel more vindicated in my own choices.

One of the organizers came to my gf and I after tho and repeatedly asked us if everything was okay, to which when we left I joked "girl instantly clocked the papist and the jew 💀"

CCym, 1 month ago to random

CT exam scheduler: "do you use a mobility aid ma'am?"
Me: "depending on the day I need a cane"
CT exam scheduler: "okay but you could go without it right???"
Me: ". . . depending on the day."

Gilliosa, 1 month ago to random

Plato, Protagoras

[352a] I proceeded, will the following example give us the light we need? Just as, in estimating a man's health or bodily efficiency by his appearance, one might look at his face and the lower part of his arms and say: Come now, uncover your chest too and your back and show them, that I may examine you thoroughly—so the same sort of desire comes over me in regard to our inquiry. Observing your condition to be as you describe in respect of the good and the pleasant, I am fain to say something like this: Come, my good Protagoras, uncover some more of your thoughts: [352b] how are you in regard to knowledge? Do you share the view that most people take of this, or have you some other? The opinion generally held of knowledge is something of this sort—that it is no strong or guiding or governing thing; it is not regarded as anything of that kind, but people think that, while a man often has knowledge in him, he is not governed by it, but by something else—now by passion, now by pleasure, now by pain, at times by love, and often by fear; their feeling about knowledge [352c] is just what they have about a slave, that it may be dragged about by any other force. Now do you agree with this view of it, or do you consider that knowledge is something noble and able to govern man, and that whoever learns what is good and what is bad will never be swayed by anything to act otherwise than as knowledge bids, and that intelligence is a sufficient succor for mankind?
My view, Socrates, he replied, is precisely that which you express, [352d] and what is more, it would be a disgrace for me above all men to assert that wisdom and knowledge were aught but the highest of all human things.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0178%3Atext%3DProt.%3Apage%3D352

CCym, 1 month ago to random

"The three Abrahamic faiths"

Samaritans,
Druze,
And the Bahá'i Faith

CCym, 1 month ago to random

On G-d, infernalism continues to prevent millions of people from being normal.

I don't know who needs to hear this but it is not your job to convert your partners. Seek Hashem and chill tf out pls.

Also RZ is a pseudointellectual fascist hack.

CCym, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Woke up to devastating accusations being thrown at me, by my husband no less 💔💔💔

CCym, 1 month ago to random

Is this a Ferret with a Berret or a Féret with a Béret?

CCym, 1 month ago to random

Tbh, I hate the Orthodoxy-Orthopraxy distinction.

Always feels like we're neglecting the beliefs of what we identify as orthopraxy-oriented religions; and the ritual of what we identify as orthodoxy-oriented religions. Just always felt like a very Protestant distinction.