Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavan
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Back in @TheFP this morning with a piece on love and beauty in Of Human Bondage, one of my favorite novels and surprisingly helpful in the age of the doomscroll.
Put your phone down, confront your fellow man, and you realize within five seconds how many posters are just inhaling and exhaling clouds of meaningless abstraction like 19th-century opium addicts. And just like an opium den, X lulls you into forgetting there’s an outside world.
Ten minutes ago I had an interaction with two black nurses. They were both extremely helpful solving an issue I’ve been having when others weren’t. I think Fuentes just doesn’t go outside and bases all his opinions on viral videos.
Would you die for 10^100 shrimps right now? Hi. I’m excited to tell you about Red Lobster’s new all you can eat seafood buffet
Was the American Revolution such a good idea? nyer.cm/RafU1FD
Was the American Revolution such a good idea? nyer.cm/RafU1FD
One of my favorite parts of the Aeneid series has been writing my own translations. Here's the hair-raising appearance of the Sibyl as she channels the god Apollo. Catch the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=RvgYRV…
Honestly can’t believe the creator of this comedic gem got canceled
The one thing that terrifies right wing authoritarians is my razor-sharp satire, I think to myself as I scream a single obscenity over and over into an increasingly empty auditorium
Jon Stewart responded to CBS bowing down to Trump and canceling Colbert
We are approaching levels of derivativeness Pierre Menard could only dream of
Margot Robbie will star in Tim Burton’s remake of ‘ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN’ (Source: theinsneider.com/p/margot-robbi…)
I look forward eagerly to falling asleep in the middle of all four elements
First poster for ‘AVATAR: FIRE & ASH’ The first trailer will play exclusively in theaters this weekend.
Which seal of the apocalypse is this
Liquid Death has released a Fruity Pebbles cereal milk flavored sparkling water
Disgusting. No matter how many short men there are out there, you’ll never convince me they have rights
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
He did but not the rhombus. That thing is an abomination
how else would the wesleyan quadrilateral exist?
No, you just stuffed the list of unsayable words so damn full that the seams burst and the ones at the bottom started spilling out into the open, as people warned you for literally decades that they would
Boring. Wake me when he declassifies who killed Martin Luther
BREAKING: Trump administration releases files on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
When you get confronted with something “everyone will be doing” in ten years, A. the prediction is probably wrong, and B. It’s also irrelevant if the thing everyone will do is trash. “everyone will be watching movies made by robots” huh, well that will suck for them
Fascinating observation about the subjectivity of other gods in the Bible, leading me to reflect for the trillionth time that psalm 115 is among the most important texts of our time or ever
Spencer is such a joy to read—elegant, witty, erudite. An essential follow. Here he tackles a question I get asked a lot. What does the Bible mean when it talks about “other gods”? Spencer’s thread is awesome. I’ve added my own thread below, which I believe supports his point!
Spencer is such a joy to read—elegant, witty, erudite. An essential follow. Here he tackles a question I get asked a lot. What does the Bible mean when it talks about “other gods”? Spencer’s thread is awesome. I’ve added my own thread below, which I believe supports his point!
You know what, this is actually a decent question. I’ll bite. Hebrew has a number of words that we typically translate as “God.” One is elohim, and it basically means any higher power or absolute authority. Similar to English when we say “LeBron is a GOD of the court.” 🧵