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Saw this and thought it was kind of neat:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi ... logies.pdf

Of course, technology forecasting is way less accurate or predictive than, say, our still not 100%-accurate weather forecasting models. So take it with a grain of salt!
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Do we know if Maecius lives in Brooklyn?!? :lol:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/nyre ... izard.html

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...we might take comfort from what seems to me the authentic core of the fantastic as a genre, as we see it from the standpoint of late modernity: fantasy may best be taken as an acknowledgment that the great problem of the pagan world — how to navigate as safely as possible through an ever-shifting landscape of independent and unpredictable powers who are indifferent to human needs — is our problem once more. The powers now may have different names than the ones Homer or Ovid knew, but they are powers all the same.
Fantasy and the Buffered Self.. Long read article.

Please discuss?! ;)

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In the theme of 1950s Velikovskian apocalyptic. Although I disagree theologically with many of the old-world assumptions, it is nonetheless a compelling read.

To be followed up by

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My ultimate goal is to undertake a theological reconstruction of typical creationist cosmological frameworks using the above inter-disciplinary approaches. That is to say, I'm writing my own book(s) now!
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/book ... agons.html

“...it’s about feeling welcome and the game feeling accessible. “So much of that acceptability comes from putting the power of the storyteller in the hands of the players.””

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Because it's never too late to learn new things! (Expensive one, though! Ouch!)
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Trying to get back into reading philosophy again, wanted to see what Kierkegaard is about so starting with this first:
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An interesting read so far, though I am finding the whole relation of the self to the self a bit confusing :P.
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