Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

“Growing up doesn’t have to be so much a straight line as a series of advances and retreats.” -Kevin Arnold Joined July 2020

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

a year ago

We have an epidemic of "right?" in modern language. It's a rhetorical conversational tag, but I'm not a fan. It's happening too early in a thought for me to even understand how to process a non-literal "right?" "So, here's the thing, right? I told them to..."

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

Every time a family travels by air, the reward of travel comes at the expense of a high stakes threat to themselves and their children. Moving at 550mph in a 980,000lb metal tube 35,000ft above the ground. And yet, they fly. Innovation + risk tolerance = The safest way to travel

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

Is this: A) a Baptist talking about a Catholic. B) a Mormon talking about a Muslim. C) a Christian talking about an atheist. D) a Zack Snyder fan talking about everyone who isn’t a Zack Snyder fan.

GreatGooglyMoogly @BSNRNCertified

2 years ago

Is this: A) a Baptist talking about a Catholic. B) a Mormon talking about a Muslim. C) a Christian talking about an atheist. D) a Zack Snyder fan talking about everyone who isn’t a Zack Snyder fan.

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

We too readily forget the protests of critics who once opposed what we consider entirely benign today. We shouldn't. They can be a useful lens by which we compare the veracity of our own assertions about the "evils" of evolving technology in our age. ocw.mit.edu/courses/21m-38…

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

"Common sense" isn't actually a sufficient catch-all for tackling any ethical, legal, cross-cultural, global, religious, philosophical, scientific, medicinal, or developing technological issue. Let's resist Sola Common Sensus.

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

The vast majority of people who commit all that they are to the doctrines and dogma of Christianity do so without knowing what the positive arguments for other religions even are.

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Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul

2 years ago

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It…

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Xavid X. Xanderson @davidanieland

2 years ago

"That the sun is the center of the world and motionless is a proposition which is philosophically absurd and false, and formally heretical, for being EXPLICITLY CONTRARY to Holy Scripture." -Papal condemnation of Galileo Wait. Is my fundamentalist family actually progressive?