and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
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aohsu
Профиль VivelyMedieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
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So it seems to me that he has made a very "democratic" Odyssey - one that is achieving a certain kind of universality - while structuring both character and casting to communicate that it is a universal story that belongs to everyone EXCEPT those who would use it for supremacist purposes
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Reading the classics in the original Greek and Latin was part of the standard education for British and then American elites; in the 1950s, when the Great Books curriculum was being put together at the University of Chicago, it was explicitly imagined as a democratic cultural project
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Amusing myself and my wife by referring to him as Peter Spiderman, like he's a guy we met once at Shul
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Few subjects have stirred as much nationalistic debate across the Pacific as biotech. For our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks to Abigail Coplin and Chenjian Li about the power and limits of biotechnologies, and how the body becomes a geopolitical battleground and site for profit.
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WIFE: (MFA from RISD) I thought a lot of her points were astute, even if her obvious bias for classics made a poor replacement for film criticism specifically, you know? ME: (just found out only yesterday that flies aren't food) I don't feel good. I can still feel some of them moving inside of me.
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* Religious Itinerancy, a virtual tour of Buddhist monks’ travels, directed by Yuan-ju Liu and reviewed by 洪振洲 (Joey Hung) reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/religiou... #ReviewsInDH