Eric Linus Kaplan

I saw an article about the worst casting ever and I think it might be Jesus Christ played by Cary Grant

In my opiion -which you did not ask for I'm srry but I find it an interesting topic -- some degree of shielding is okay cause it gives the children a secure base. Once they grow up with a secure base then they have the strength to handle challenges.

I was kidding, but sure. You are corect!

I'm super empathetic though -- does that give me a pass?

nice!

a beautiful rough-hewn wall in Oaxaca. I think it may be a Masonic Temple. If not, it is nearby, on the way to the botanic gardens.

right you are!

as the salmon when the time is right, suddenly is driven by its ancient atavistic program to swim upstream, so is the middle-aged man driven to read "Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate"

where am I? I'm not sure.

what would you have done differently?

this is a really insightful point. The beautiful simplicity of our parents' lives, the fact that they glow with a pure almost fairy tale archetypical glow, is just because we are remembering what was perceived by the mind of a child.

We all think we know the finances of our elders. We probably don't. But ask your grandma about the years she didn't work. And prepare to find out she has a social security check of her own because she did in fact work. Or she had cottage industry income. You just didn't know about it.

it reminds me of when thew crew of DARK STAR went to their frozen captain because their bombs didn't believe in the universe any more. He said "teach them...ontology." But instead "teach them...epistemology."

anybody annoyed by a writer letting people know they wrote something isn't worth minding

challenge to those who are confident that the mirror is not a doorway to another world
explain the world and where it comes from and why it exists

I like the charismatic adventurers in cool costumes

also -- it's cretinous

One of my favorite things about Ramadan is its emphasis on giving and empathy for others.

In what's become a 7 year old tradition, every day of Ramadan, I'll be spotlighting a single charity or cause--some international, some US-based.

Follow along with #30Days30Causes & send recommendations too!

I couldn't finish it -- the MC made me feel uncomfortable

now that is an explanation i can understand

wasn't mastodon a thing too?

sorry doc

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sometimes bad people write good books

an old animal that is a wreck but its lovability shines through

they catch a guilty conscience napping

Riley and Gresham are the only people to discover laws in the human sciecnes

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thanks!