ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

what's his name

lowell

he would describe himself as a 'reluctant schopenhauerian pessimist' on ilx, though not on his twitter biography because he would have left twitter after deciding that microblogging was 'inimical to proper reflection'

what's his middle name?

How would he react to people playfully abbreviating his name to "lol"

just would not reply to any post that did not substantially engage his own arguments

he would have a low threshold for caustically insincere nihilistic irony

a lowell threshold

a 'I got friends in lowell places' dn

a 'lowellin in the deep' dn

tempted to make an "ask lowell" thread to see if he'll materialize

It will be a Field of Lols

Treeship,

What did you think if Hatfields & McCoys?

i think they both had some pretty good points.

would Lowell like pineapple on pizza?

Treeship,

Seems that you took some time off. How was your time away? Were you more productive?

Not Lamp,

i'm not supposed to be back. i made a pledge on Facebook to not read the internet (beyond Facebook PMs, emails, and things for school and work) for the rest of the calendar year. today was a relapse.

i was much more productive during the two weeks i was away though.

ah, you are still doing pretty well then.

thanks sufjan.

going to stop posting on lena dunham now. here is something to enjoy while i am gone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQFmsvPo6BQ

Rewatching Roseanne for the umpteenth time and realizing how much the Amy Sherman-penned episodes feel like proto-GG.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Lord_Byron_-_Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgimage_-_Dugdale_edition.jpg

trís have you read this

trís as a declared fan of autumn, how do you feel about that season giving way to winter

i hate it. it gets dark early and i feel less productive.

triste

estela apreesh thread^^

i was productive today, despite the cold and dark

i don't totally hate winter. very cold days can be beautiful. i go on long walks and bike rides in the cold.

it's still autumn btw

I've only just now finished memorizing Shelley "To the West Wind", how the fuck am I gonna bring that up in conversation if it's not still autumn

my favorite Gilmore Girls episode is the one where they invent the ultimate pumpkin pie cocktail

because if winter's here can spring be far behind??? xp

hmmm you raise a good point

I don't wanna sell winter short though, I just want it to still be the fall for as long as possible

... although I am already looking forward to hitting 'rock bottom' on the solstice, so

i love shelley

i love how queen mab is hosted on marxists.org

https://www.marxists.org/archive/shelley/1813/queen-mab.htm

winter can fuck off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUZKOh5kLc

treesh what do u think of liberation theology

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:00 (5 months ago)

please don’t make us wait another five months for a response

that was from another thread and it was probably asked facetiously however five months later it looks like a viable question for trís

from what little i know about it, catholic liberation theology as practiced in latin america seems like it was progressive. i always thought it was ironic/despicable how the post vatican ii popes have distanced themselves from liberation theology for fear of possibly being seen to lend support to leftist armed insurrections when in the past they were openly supportive of fascism. queasiness with militarism was clearly not their issue with it.

hitchens' line that mother teresa wasn't a fan of the poor, but a fan of poverty, who romanticized suffering and was only interested in partial, "charitable" approaches to ameliorating the effects of inequality was harsh but otm. liberation theology is interested in political solutions to suffering and inequality, and i think that's the crucial difference between them and the equivocators in the church who of course support the "preferential option for the poor" and even the welfare state but are paranoid of "marxism."

what do you think nakh?

also pre-francis, with the european popes, there was something grotesque about the vatican telling priests how they should respond to the political situations in their own countries, especially since in each case it was clear that they were doing what they thought was best for their congregations.

the only catholic hierarch i respect is ratzinger

you're going to have to unpack that

good luck unnakhing that

there is no conceivable worth to the catholic church other than its enduring capacity to disregard people with good intentions from within and ill intentions from without

sub specie aeternitatis; resilience is a transcendent value

u get $$$ sometimes if u get confirmed

liberation theology maybe had some local practical benefits for local people but its syncretization of guileless marxism and peasant christianity is just part of south america's endless oscillation between messianism (latterly mostly secular) and entrenched power, the former needing the latter for victims to fetishize and the latter needing the former to overreach again and again

insofar as priests in latin america really did try to fight for socialism, i don't know if they were as invested in the romanticization of poverty as the mainstream church. from what i understand, that is what made the vatican uncomfortable right up through francis