🌠Jesuit Nietzsche Wave🌠

@ThymeToBeBorn You don't find "the world was masterfully made for each man as a center unto himself" pretty evident? Nothing about centrality of MAN?

@ThymeToBeBorn Yeah I find Jesus difficult, agreed. Maybe someday I will be worthy to glimpse Him fr. The one time I remember kinda getting it my husband was gesticulating explaining something complicated autistically and I kinda saw that Jesus the Architect icon haha

A Catholic on here pointed me to a website catalogueing Eucharist miracles throughout history. One evening I looked through it a bit.

@ThymeToBeBorn I'll shut up after this but one way to think of this is that the miracles aren't really there to convince you, they're never gonna do that. They're a gift to the believer who witnesses them and a reward for their faith

@ThymeToBeBorn Btw re free will, I think the correct position is that free will is POSSIBLE but rarely manifested.

@ThymeToBeBorn I haven't asked you this before, but surely you have read The Brothers Karamazov?

A gynecologist friend of mine in Ljubljana once told me (and I think about this constantly) “Slavoj, the uterus has no opinion.” I think this is perhaps the most Lacanian sentence ever spoken by a man who has never read Lacan. Because what does it mean for the uterus to have no opinion? It means that at the level of the Real; at the level of the body, of tissue, of biological process; there is no recognition. The body does not ask, “Who are you?” This is what Lacan is getting at with the formula, il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel--there is no sexual relationship. People think this means something pessimistic, like “love is impossible” or some such nonsense. No. It means that at the level of the Real, the sexual encounter does not produce meaning. The meaning comes from elsewhere. The meaning comes from the Symbolic. From names, from promises, from law. Now. This woman in Australia sleeps with one twin on, let's say, Monday. She sleeps with the other on Thursday. She gets pregnant. And the court says: we cannot determine the father. And everyone treats this as an amusing anomaly, a quirk of genetics. But I want to say something that may sound strange: this is not an anomaly at all. This is the normal situation, finally made visible. Because (and this is where you have to read Lacan very carefully) paternity was never a biological fact. There is this old Latin phrase the jurists knew perfectly well: pater semper incertus est. The father is always uncertain. The mother, you can see: she is there, the child comes out of her body, this is, you know, hard to argue with. But the father? The father is always, in a sense, a hypothesis. And this is precisely why Lacan says that the Name-of-the-Father, the Nom-du-Père, is a signifier. Not a gene. Not a body. A signifier. Which means: a position in a structure. The father is whoever the Symbolic order says is the father. And what this twin case does (without knowing it, without intending it) is they short-circuit this entire apparatus. Because the Symbolic says: “Fine, give me a DNA test, I’ll determine the name.” And the Real replies: “There is no difference to find.” The signifier reaches down into the biological substrate, looking for something to grip onto, and it finds... nothing.

@RealDianeYap That said, I might say that and mean "I just wanted to snuggle this child and took the opportunity to do so"

@RealDianeYap Moreover they are easily spoiled very early. A 10mo can absolutely experience being an entitled jerk and it can more easily be pulled up like a new weed at that point. Just don't give them the thing they're whining for if you don't want to, say it's not theirs.

Every day she posts about what her son will "let" her do. What does that even mean? He's a baby. You can do whatever you want, and he can deal with it. You're training him to screech whenever he doesn't get exactly what he wants because he knows you'll run and give it to him.

@ThymeToBeBorn I'm lol

My husband purchased this nightgown and I've been sneaking downstairs early to do a similar workout as this woman in it. Should I start a mom fitness Instagram?

Third world mentality, the US is the world's ATM

What in McMansion hell is with the indignation, lady?

@selentelechia It's weird how that kind of resemblance is 100% both parents in a way, but what you see is constantly in flux, like the flame of a candle, now dad, now mom, five seconds apart

when two of your friends have kids together the kids look like a mix of both people and you'd think this would feel normal but it's actually entrancing

@ThymeToBeBorn Does it make you less autistic or what's the effect on that domain (social)

@ThymeToBeBorn Thank you for doing the Lord's work of pharmaceutical experimentation. The next time I get hysteria I'm getting on T STAT

Incredible weight lifting recovery. Highest weights I've ever been able to use fresh off an untrained state. Faster progression. Lower sleep needs.

@ThymeToBeBorn I used to do this with my dog when he was a young @nealjclark1 GUN DOG taught me everything I know

@ThymeToBeBorn Duh a lot of it is a display for you

Discovered that if I sit out of sight while everyone has dinner, there's zero fighting, zero constant demands, kids helping each other and themselves to seconds. Mothers should do less and be more selfish.