@mikalvi.bsky.socialPerhaps the greatest travesty you can enact on yourself is to not learn reading at a good level. The ability to read was the biggest tool used to control for centuries. If you could read and were not meant to know how, the punishment was sometimes death. Read.
@mikalvi.bsky.socialWhen looking at the reality in what much of Christianity has been used to accomplish; it is a difficult thing for anyone of African descent with open eyes to reconcile with the nature of the faith itself.
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@mikalvi.bsky.socialThe ideal parent is wrong.
@mikalvi.bsky.socialThe New Renaissance
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@mikalvi.bsky.socialI’m writing something special! Visit my substack for the first Episode of Transfixed!
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@mikalvi.bsky.socialVampires are real, but they are not the nightcrawlers of cinema.
@philosophyplaydate.bsky.socialIt's new episode day! After SOMEONE watched TOO MUCH BLUEY we've been asked about dobbing. Foundation of society or betrayal of trust? Can we live in a world where everyone confesses all the time?
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@mikalvi.bsky.socialLive to love.
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@auldjohn-emeritus.bsky.socialConcentration of power and wealth vs Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness from the Constitutional Convention to Today.
@geirknappen.bsky.socialStupid people and unfortunate circumstances are not a new phenomenon. They’ve been here since the beginning, and the future has more of the same to offer.
@keleary.bsky.socialIt is better for the laws to rule than one of the citizens, so that even the guardians of the laws are obeying the laws. Thereby, citizens are under not any other citizen, but under the law.
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@philosophyplaydate.bsky.socialIt's new episode day! We've been asked to judge the numerical nature of infinity and that's easy probably. Oh, wait...
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@keleary.bsky.social@keleary.bsky.socialIt's not enough just to say don't, don't, don't. One must also say do. Love wisdom! #philosophysky
@keleary.bsky.socialMe now: lexemical etymistic development would be concerned with changing fundamental conceptual units. #philosophysky #academicsky
@keleary.bsky.socialPhilosophy means love of wisdom so being philosophical is about feeling love. #philosophysky
@keithwilson.euThis is the energy we are trying to create on #PhilosophySky…
@keleary.bsky.socialLet's notice the easy point: given human nature, let's design institutions which foster freedom. #hdca #philosophysky #academicsky
@keleary.bsky.socialBehavioural pattern following has an opportunity cost against behaving in some other way (less predictably, more chaotically, etc.). Therefore, human nature has evolved to find that it is most effective to have the innate tendency for following patterns which we actually have. #philosophysky