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@DoctorPerin And what's that made of?

My dissertation researched positive change after trauma. Do you know what the most consistently reported outcome of trauma was across studies? Personal strength.

@TheSimonEvans Yes. "Peace to people of goodwill." "Be angry, sin not." Somewhere in there is the value of reasonable anger towards those who would do us ill. As long as it is always in the service of love, goodness, beauty, truth.

This is why I also feel “Hope not Hate” is such a dubious coinage. Hate, such as it is, is almost always aroused when one sees a threat to something one loves. And it should drive corrective responses better than mere “hope”.

A rather disingenuous question. Has Matthew never loved something, and at the same time despaired at what was happening to it, how the qualities he first loved were being eroded, neglected, discarded entirely? If he had a child that was descending into addiction, bad company or self destructive behaviour of any kind, would it not be love that drove the urgency of his anguish?

@AmyMantravadi @holland_tom @flemingrut He transformed it into a promise.

@holland_tom @flemingrut He became a curse. “Cursed is anyone hung on a tree.”

“Had he died in a more merciful, less deliberately dehumanising way, it would not be possible to see in his death the sum of all horrors.” @flemingrut on the theological implications of the fact that Jesus was not just executed, but crucified.

@FeistyKittyPie @the_mel_jar Provocative parenthesis there. Love it.

Another way Freud was way ahead of us. Instead of consoling or cheering up the melancholic person who thinks he or she is a piece of shit, he says, no we should take that utterance very seriously and find out how this person has been a piece of shit (in their own mind).

@mjdaly57 @cathynewman @Channel4News @SkyNews Pfft.

Good riddance. Your decamping to @SkyNews is the inevitable conclusion of your twenty year drift to the right. You’ve ended up at your spiritual home. A willing participant in the MSM’s savaging of Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour Party - the shrill, petulant and interrogative intimidation of not just Corbyn but anyone who’s your political and ideological opposite such as the Russian ambassador a few days ago. You represented the decline of @Channel4News news from a pioneering alternative to just another propaganda bulwark for the establishment.

Over 20 years @Channel4News I’ve been around the world - to the Congolese jungle, on the trail of paedophiles in South Africa and Kenya - and closer to home down a sewer in Soho. I’ve shared tears & memories today with incredible colleagues. See you ⁦@SkyNews⁩ at 7

@maniaUFO It's the sense of an interior life that's most unsettling.

Believe it or not, this is real footage of an alien.🧐🤔👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽 The people who say definitively "fake" or "real" probably need to research it more because the fact is, we just can't tell with certainty either way. Some insights: it was first known to surface on the net in 2011 no one has staked claim since, as to having anything to do with it's origins one of the rumors abound was that it came from a KGB leak experts weigh in on a daily star article and it is, as expected, inconclusively determined that "if it was faked it cost a lot and required incredible expertise" (with a ballpark guesstimate of 250k) the soviet story was that Bob was a pilot the soviets captured from zeta reticuli the premier argument made seems to be one of "should we really believe an alien looks so humanoid or stereotypical".... well, probably not back then IMO, but now "commonly hominid" seems to overlap with a lot of other theories so this argument doesn't hold water like it used to. That's all I can think of on skinny Bob. It is hands down, one of my favorite featuring a biologic. I just mean, it seems the most plausibly believable grey footage I've personally seen. Now let the roast begin

@TheSimonEvans In fairness, a grotesque perversion of the original is faithful to the horror they depicted.

You gotta be f*cking kidding.

@ClarkeMicah The bible demands the fullness of your being. We've diminished and devalued many of the faculties that enable that level of engagement.

I didn't say it was enough. The Bible is an assembly of myth, law, history, poetry and biography. You have to read it intelligently.

@BoylanRoger He could do with cleaning that room. He could get a book out of it.

Karl Ove Knausgård, Norwegian author of a series of six autobiographical novels titled "My Struggle" ("Min Kamp"). The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations."

@DurhamWASP We all have a bit of Kingsley and a bit of Beckett knocking about in us.

Look thy last on all things shitty While thou’rt at it: soccer stars, Soccer crowds, bedezined bushheads Jerking over their guitars. German tourists, plastic roses, Face of Mao and face of Ché, Women wearing curtains, blankets, Beckett at the ICA… Kingsley Amis, Shitty [1979]

@bernardtjoy Prufrock is a young man's poem. Many of us feel like Methuselah when we are 23.

Contra Prufrock, who out there still feels young in their 40s and 50s?

@miltonappl3 @JoshuaLWatson Oh yes.

@MichaelRonson88 @JoshuaLWatson Lol. Chesterton?

Augustine seems to me to be someone who suffered from self-hatred and managed to pass this off as pious virtue, with the disastrous result that a tradition affecting countless people, under his influence, has cultivated this same self-loathing under the guise of humility.

@m_aadil And there is a perception that holds the opposite view. Psychotherapy may be helpful for understanding cognitive distortions and defenses.

There is a perception that overestimates what psychotherapy can deliver while underestimating what medications can offer.

@danielmgmoylan They have no framework to discuss our common cultural inheritance. It's a total absence of curiosity and comprehension. Like talking to goldfish about geology.

@_AhmadHijazi "Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance".

"Can I skip the line... my flight is in 15 minutes!" Are 'white lies' that innocent? Ethercast / Ep. 18 / The Morality of Small Things (Podcast)

@RonSerious @holland_tom Awareness of cultural Christianity can help people to cultivate a kind of attention that permits the possibility of belief. It's gradual, then all at once in my experience.

@holland_tom I don't understand this 'cultural Christianity,' It seems phony to me. You either believe in a supernatural dimension to life or you don't. You can't fudge the issue.

Startled (but kind of flattered) to learn that I have killed New Atheism

@Resident_Cynic @MrJamesMay @decorativeartt Abuse is not a strategy you're free to use just because you're tired of treating someone with respect. This was misogynistic abuse.

People have tried nice and sincere with her countless times... she ignored every effort and still lectured everyone out of complete ignorance. At some point arseholes get told they're arseholes. Particular the abjectly evil ones that betray women's rights, and advocate for (unevidenced) policy that mutilates and sterilises children.

Good evening, Deborah Meaden. How very revealing. You, the dried-up, multi-millionaire Dragons’ Den old hag, now lecture the British public that Ed Davey and the Lib Dems are the “Grown Ups back in the room” because you just creamed yourself over a clip of Davey attacking North Sea Oil and praising Starmer. The sheer, brain-rotted delusion of a rich, out-of-touch pensioner calling the party that can’t define what a woman is “grown-up politics” is actually fucking hilarious. One does so admire a bitter old bag who sits in her ivory tower of wealth, completely removed from the real Britain she loves to lecture, sneering at anyone who dares say the bleeding obvious: a woman is an adult human female no penis, no debate, no matter how much you and your deranged Lib Dem friends wish otherwise. Yet here you are, an actual biological woman, desperately defending the party that has turned basic biology into a “divisive” issue while cheering child mutilation, open borders and the deliberate freezing of British families. How very civilised, you pathetic, virtue-signalling fossil. The video you’re drooling over shows Davey parroting the same net-zero insanity that is bankrupting the country, while the man himself helped cover up the Post Office scandal that ruined countless lives. And you call this “grown-up”? You’re not wise, Deborah, you’re a smug, senile, out-of-touch old crone who has spent years playing the billionaire dragon on TV while your beloved Lib Dems help turn Britain into a biological and cultural lunatic asylum. The British public sees you clearly now, Deborah Meaden, a contemptible, shrivelled, brain-dead old cunt, a dried-up, irrelevant, millionaire fossil so far removed from reality that you still desperately simper and drool over the Lib Dems like a sad, decaying pensioner trying to stay relevant. Feel that deep, crushing, soul-destroying shame burning through your hollow core. Feel how utterly pathetic, ridiculous and embarrassing you look at your age still defending the party of child mutilators, groomers and open border zealots while Britain is destroyed. Wear that humiliation and failure like the expensive clothes hanging off your withered old body as the nation you claim to care about is fucked into oblivion around you. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

@JusBrierley It may help right hemisphere thought, though at some cost to the left!

We could try adding a glass or two of wine into the conversations themselves and seeing what new insights we glean 😄🍷

@JusBrierley @dr_mcgilchrist After a tough day, an evening listening to these two gentlemen explore the nature of consciousness was a nourishing joy that stays with me today (two glasses of malbec seemed to help my understanding). Expertly, generously and deftly moderated.

This is an unmissable conversation. It may be my favourite of the series so far. Renowned philosopher and psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist delves into consciousness, brains and spirituality (as well as opening up about his recent embrace of Christian faith) in a conversation with influential neuroscientist @anilkseth. ▶️ Watch or 🎧 Listen to our latest episode of Uncommon Ground 👉 justinbrierley.com/uncommon-groun…