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"Hm it's almost as though she had to present in a more masculine manner to be taken seriously? Actual records of her saying as much. Sometimes these people are so desperate to act progressive that it becomes regressive. Girl is smart with short hair? = she must be a man!"
"Simone Weil once said that 'attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity' It is trite at this point to talk about how social media, the internet, every other dopamine circuit in the playground of modern life has sapped our attention spans. But it matters."
"A great famine had broken out in China, and I was told that when she heard the news she had wept: these tears compelled my respect much more than her gifts as a philosopher. I envied her for having a heart that could beat right across the world. I managed to get near her one day. I don't know how th"
"Just like, read Simone Weil, St Augustine, the Sunnah, et al instead. Pray and meditate and shit. Those who abuse you are afflicted losers suffering under the yoke of other afflicted losers."
"Just like, read Simone Weil, St Augustine, the Sunnah, et al instead."
"There is only one fault, only one. Our inability to feed upon light."
"Also Murdoch draws on Simone Weil's concept of loving attention as a way to move toward moral perfection. Weil is a RS girl for sure. Super christian, starved to death 34 in protest of BLAH and after battling lifelong frailty."