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“You’re a little bit fixated on these Lawton people,” Candice had once said. Tell me about it.
Weird simile
NK stood for “New Kingdom.”
Spin-inspired Christian movement—
trading shaky academic careers for a less demanding enlightenment.
C. R. Ratel,
Laura Greengage,
not much agenda, beyond a kind of weekend communalism.
Haha
Ekstasis?”
Haha simile nice
just a few hundred pilgrims smiling into the teeth of extinction and loving their neighbors like they’d like to be loved.
Cf. THE PEOPLE CHEERING FOR HUMANITY’S END
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise, By Adam Kirsch, 12/1/2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/
https://apple.news/AB85f1CSSRn6IWTtIkOJyWA
Haha
Diane’s their target audience. She’s scared to death of the Spin and everything it implies about the world.
NK is an anodyne for people like her. It turns the thing they’re most afraid of into an object of adoration, a door into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Simon Townsend.”
Haha
“Is he good for her?” “He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs.”
Haha simile
rude health and hayseed sensuality.
Simile
Double simile
Jason’s shadow life.
Haha simile
he was casting a bigger shadow now.
Why? How would that accomplish things? Drama queen.
Haha of course duh
Haha
It was hard to sustain a conversation when there was so much we weren’t supposed to talk about.
Haha. Fortunes are made in many ways. Life savers, comet cleansers,
Haha
I wonder how useful any career will be in the long run. Considering the state of things.
Haha simile
Haha simile extraordinary
We have Internet friends all across the country.
Haha
Haha
Christian Hedonism.
Before long people will have to face up to reality whether they want to or not. And they’ll have to choose between a scientific understanding and a spiritual one.
Haha
A prayer expressing not gratitude but the need for courage. Very contemporary.
Chilling.
More than three years of sunlight for every second that passed:
Simile
and celibacy
NK isn’t about my father. It’s about discovering the divinity in what’s happened to the Earth
and expressing that divinity in daily life.”
“We’re either being murdered or transformed, Simon says.”
“He told me you’re building heaven on Earth.” “Isn’t that what Christians are supposed to do?
the Parousia.
an arc of reddish glow that stretched across at least fifteen degrees of the horizon,
