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Had many jobs in many places done lots of interesting things had lots of friends still learning and growing. #music #songwriting #opera #literature #dance #bass #guitar #violin #piano #clarinet #flute #BakingBread #recipes #chocolate #foodie #gardening #ProgressivePolitics #science #math #languages #travel #français #italiano #deutsche #español #magyarul #originalmusic #canada

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writeplace , to bookstodon
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Hi, I'm an as-of-yet unpublished YA author and high school math teacher who just joined Mastodon. I'm looking out for suggestions of who to follow in the writing/teaching community!

@bookstodon @edutooters

SusanHR ,
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@writeplace @Emmacox @bookstodon @edutooters @johnhowesauthor Following hashtags is definitely the way to go.... Follow all your interests From cooking through gaming!

appassionato , to bookstodon
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The Collapse of Complex Societies

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

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SusanHR ,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @curmudgeonaf @appassionato @bookstodon That is more my impression of The Greeks. They were kind of "Be in our empire and we will give you olive trees" a quote from Susan's Distorted History....

SusanHR ,
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@curmudgeonaf @Grizzlysgrowls @appassionato @bookstodon And bureaucracy, lots and lots of bureaucracy....

SusanHR ,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @curmudgeonaf @appassionato @bookstodon But but Olive Oil is the Grease of Modern Civilization (no pun intended)

SusanHR ,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @curmudgeonaf @appassionato @bookstodon Well I love Napoli but that aint Rome baby! And I refuse to forgive the Romans for bureacracy....the lines at the passport office All Their Fault!!

MarjoleinRotsteeg , to poetry Dutch
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One of those 'WOW!' moments. One of my haiku has just been published in the Autumn 2023 edition of 'The Wales Haiku Journal'. (cf p 53). The whole magazine can be read and downloaded for free via this link: 👇🏽

https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/autumn23


@poetry

SusanHR ,
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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @poetry YAY! Good going!!!

MarjoleinRotsteeg , to poetry Dutch
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on the pond
a brittle film of ice
the sun rises

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@tanweerdar

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SusanHR ,
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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @tanweerdar @poetry Pretty Haiku!

EdwardJCornwell , to philosophy
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@lxvtnii I do so love being lectured by anonymous trolls who are so unimaginative they have to get their opinions from someone else!!
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SusanHR ,
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@lxvtnii @EdwardJCornwell @philosophy Pretentiousnous is neither next to godliness nor is it a signifier of advanced intellect.

NickEast , to bookstodon
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I couldn't agree more! 😁

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SusanHR ,
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@drakenblackknight @NickEast @bookstodon @libraries @librarians @publiclibraries @reading LOL But Jolene is basically a nice person so she just has to guilt trip her!

SusanHR ,
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@drakenblackknight @NickEast @bookstodon @libraries @librarians @publiclibraries @reading I don't think that was my assumption. I assumed that appealing to Jolene's better nature works (please don't take my man) but I am not so sure it would work with the Z or the X. Not sure Y tho LOL 😜

SusanHR ,
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@drakenblackknight @NickEast @bookstodon @libraries @librarians @publiclibraries @reading BTW you said "fuck up" not "take care of."

cbontenbal , to philosophy Dutch
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I find myself not understanding the concept of atheism. Who wants to explain it to me in a coherent way for a beginner? With a metaphysical substantiation please, if that is at all possible.

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SusanHR ,
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@cbontenbal @philosophy I just find the idea of an all knowing all powerful entity who behaves like a petulant egomaniac too ridiculous to entertain.

SusanHR , (edited )
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@cbontenbal @philosophy How does that follow?

I totally believe that the love of money is the root of all evil.

I do not believe that the first people Adam and Eve had two sons who went forth and populated the world.

I absolutely believe in the value of education and the use of logic.

SusanHR ,
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@cbontenbal @philosophy

I do not believe there is an all powerful being judging us. I believe the universe is a great big chemical reaction that does not care and entropy always wins.
But, here on earth, I believe when we do good the world is better and when we do bad the world is worse. I believe at times it is hard to know what "The right thing" is.
And I think religion is one of the worst things human beings invented. And probably did so to enhance their lust for wealth and power.

SusanHR ,
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@cbontenbal @davidesalerno68 @pauld @economics @smithkm @philosophy Everything is physical. Matter and energy, photons and electrons. There is nothing else. You can not survive without air and water no matter howspiritually advanced you think you are.

This does not negate empathy and feelings and the soulfulness of great art. But all those things are physical. Not bestial, physical chemical interactions.

SusanHR ,
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@pauld @cbontenbal @davidesalerno68 @jordan_kendrick @economics @smithkm @philosophy Does God have a penis? How can god be he? How can an all knowing all powerful perfect entity produce such a flawed universe? Such flawed beings?

SusanHR ,
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@pauld @cbontenbal @davidesalerno68 @economics @smithkm @philosophy And are firing neurons!!

SusanHR , (edited )
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@cbontenbal @pauld @davidesalerno68 @jordan_kendrick @economics @smithkm @philosophy Referring to God as "he," denotes the patriarchal idea of god.

SusanHR ,
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@jordan_kendrick @cbontenbal @pauld @davidesalerno68 @economics @smithkm @philosophy In English, "It" would denote a non human being and "They" would denote a multitude of entities. I don't think you all get to be lingistically and philosophically specific in the discussion and then slur over the gender of the god pronoun! Uhm! I am telling!!! 😜

SusanHR ,
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@nowan @cbontenbal @philosophy I think you mean Judeo Christian.

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@jordan_kendrick @cbontenbal @pauld @davidesalerno68 @economics @smithkm @philosophy Go forth and multiply yourself!

SusanHR ,
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@mkhoury @Jakra @cbontenbal @philosophy @davidesalerno68 The universe is neither conscious nor caring. It is ruled by entropy. Some human beings are conscious and/or caring. Our entire existence is a battle against entropy. But entropy always wins.

SusanHR ,
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@lack @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy If I accept "I think therefore I am" the fact that things I do not think or believe or imagine occur, seems proof that there is something other than me out there.

SusanHR ,
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@tetranomos @lack @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy While the I that is thinking is thinking it must exist seems brilliant.
The non sequitur that God Is Good seems fear of being burned at the stake more than anything else.

SusanHR ,
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@pauld @lack @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy Because if some event that is a surprise to me occurs, or if I am totally wrong in my expectation of the outcome (what ME wrong?), then something outside of my own thought process must be. And I can attest that I personally am often surprised by reality despite my gigantic brain. 😜

SusanHR ,
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@lack @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy Really? My dreams are always metaphors for my thoughts, feelings, or experiences. Although sometimes it can be quite a stretch.

SusanHR ,
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@EdwardJCornwell @tetranomos @lack @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy No Iamnot.

SusanHR , (edited )
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@EdwardJCornwell @tetranomos @lack @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy No.. Please stop confusing your lack of comprehension with other people's understanding. Thank you.

SusanHR ,
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@PatternChaser @lack @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy LOL yes of course perception! But still, if something I do not believe think or reason seems to occur is that not evidence that something outside my magnificent brain is creating something I am perceiving. Not perhaps as my flawed senses and magnificent brain perceive it, but still something beyond ME.

SusanHR ,
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@lack @PatternChaser @EdwardJCornwell @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy Yeah!

john1954moi , to random
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It goes without saying that what Hamas did was morally abhorrent, but every time you see a tower block in Gaza being destroyed by an Israeli missile on the news you are watching children being killed, injured, or made orphans. 😡

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi Which superpower do you have in mind? The US that decimated Iraq after Saudis bombed the World Trade Centre? Russia who is currently invading the Ukraine? China who the rest of the world has treated like a leper for decades?

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi I don't know. It makes me sick. All the innocent people suffer in wars but we keep having them.

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi It is easy to say we should not be violent if you have never been subjected to a littany of injustices,but it is much more difficult to think sanely and rationally if you have been subjected over and over to injustices that are never properly readdressed.

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi But that is just words and we can talk all we want to, but people in the spell of violence can't just talk. It is a huge privilege to be able to just talk. And I am very grateful we have that privilege, but I don't think telling people in the throws of violence to just talk, works.

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@Melinda @john1954moi I read a book in the late 70s.I have never been able to find it again. I believe it was written in the 40s. called something like "Night Music" and I think it was written by Lily Palmer?
Anyhow the story took place in Serbia? A young reporter comes on the job. He can't understand why they keep fighting this endless war. He ends up staying with a woman and her child. He becomes emotionally entangled and eventually realizes that they are also involved in fighting. 1/2

SusanHR , (edited )
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@Melinda @john1954moi When they are killed in the fighting he picks up a gun and joins the fight.

Reading that book gave me much better insight. It was brilliantly written. I wish I could find it again. 2/2 @bookstodon

wendypalmer , to bookstodon
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I live rurally and my library has been part of a consortium of 24 libraries across this part of the state where they all share a catalogue and patrons can borrow from all of them. Recently, courier costs have become too much and they’ve cut into blocks of 5 or so libraries for delivery (I honestly just thought they’d hired someone whose job it was to continuously circuit through the 24 libraries, collecting and returning books).

The other cost-cutting measure is that they no longer return books to the originating library. So I’m seeing “New to this library” bookmarks on quite a few books now.

One of the librarians casually told me that patrons still have membership in the full 24-library network. So that if I were to, say, visit one of the big towns now outside our small delivery block, I could, maybe, borrow books directly from there — and I could, you know, conveniently return it via my own library.

And then my library gets to keep it.

They’re very quietly deploying their readers to raid the bigger libraries 😂

@bookstodon

SusanHR ,
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@wendypalmer @bookstodon This is hilarious!!

dickrubin716 , to bookstodon
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When writing your book, do you give thought to the final word count, or is it irrelevant to you? @bookstodon

SusanHR ,
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@golgaloth @dickrubin716 @bookstodon Or stop naming characters Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova!

azforeman , to histodons
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My reading of Demetrius' and Chiron's execution scene from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" in early 17th century pronunciation. I used a rather more innovative accent for Publius than for Titus.

People: "Stuff is so violent these days, we didn't use to have such gratuitous violence in entertainment"

be like "Orly?"

https://youtu.be/uryDbnNGviI

@linguistics @poetry @histodons @bookstodon
@litstudies

SusanHR ,
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@richard @azforeman @linguistics @poetry @histodons @bookstodon @litstudies I dunno... I think that shakespeare has nowhere near as much sex and violence as The Bible.

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