#Allegory

I’ve always been essentially agnostic but I’ll admit that I’ve been mulling over the fact that some of the principal architects of our Championship winning season are religious - Radrizzani,
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Context is key Trailer allegedly dropping tomorrow, let's see if that holds water or nay https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1294764307394301958?s=19 This creases me, I did not know this ridiculousness existed https://youtu.be/_y3o4okK
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1/nBegan tweeting actively this March & this came as a pleasant surprise to me . Thank you so much everyone for 5k! I have varied interests & my threads are
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1/ As anyone who follows me, you know I'm a big fan of the philosopher/enlightenment author Jed McKenna. For people who've read him, I thought a list of movies that
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This seems a fun time to talk about one of my favorite literary subjects - the origins of cyberpunk, how its visual aesthetic began in Fascist and Soviet art, and
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Lilly Wachowski recently looked back on the film and confirmed the long-discussed theory of THE MATRIX as an allegory for gender transition. “THE MATRIX was all about the desire for
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Ballad of Buster Scruggs is the best film of 2018. It’s a study on justice, mercy, and grace.The first 3 stories (mostly) echo the Old Testament. Whereas the final 3
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Thread: Botticelli (c1445-1510) was one of the great masters of the Early Renaissance. His paintings have been treasured for their serene beauty, their lyrical lines & distilled composition. Let’s take
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I don't think there is any one phrase that so adequately summarizes the global moment we're living in than this one attributed to David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who died
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THREAD: The story of the week in finance is how a group of retail traders at @wallstreetbets, with assists from @ElonMusk and @Chamath, took down the establishment short sellers at
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THREAD: Robinhood and other brokerages came under fire last week for restricting trading in certain securities, including $GME and $AMC.A thread simplifying the underlying mechanics of this drama and explaining
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THREAD: With #silversqueeze trending on Twitter, it appears that this week's market spectacle may well be in the silver market.A perfect moment for a thread on the Hunt Brothers and
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Thread: One of my favourite art galleries is in Edinburgh. The National Gallery on the Mound is one of the great treasures of Scotland. Here’s why a visit to the
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Thinking about this interaction with an Uber driver this AM, who (hesitantly) voted for Obama twice & voted for Trump in his first run. He didn’t vote in the last
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In "The Feeling of Power" (Asimov, 1958), ubiquitous computation causes humanity to forget the fundamentals of math, including how to count. A technician rediscovers it by studying computer schematics, and
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1/25 @Eddie_At_Skaro asked me to expand on how the 13th Doctor moved away from white savior tropes of previous eras. First:1. I'll mostly focus on New Who as it's been
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