This conversation makes me think about how religion has shaped my own
family. I was raised Christian but became an atheist early in life. When my
children grew up, religion was not a part of our home. My wife also moved
away from Christianity, but she still believes in a higher power — she
describe
Well, I (if I am the Dave you referred to) am an ordained priest, but only in
the Aaronic Priesthood of the Mormon Church.
The Church of the Contradiction is, IMHO, neither a *"religions disguised as
jokes and jokes disguised as religions." *Rollins appears to be dead serious.
To deconstruct th
Yes, you're the only priest I trust these days. >8^D
I think I got most of the message you lay out, maybe excepting your side note about Jung vs Freud+Laćan. What
I didn't grok was all the code words like "in the real of" and "real in itself". I got
excited by the words "Here the only “cure” fo
Peter Rollins and the Church of the Contradiction
https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/peter-rollins-and-the-church-of-the
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I used to be (kinda still am) a fan of religions disguised as jokes and j
I did try that kind of prompt. For what I call boilerplate portions of the
paper, citing sources and summarizing known scholarship for example. I did try
a prompt very much like the one you suggested, with the added query of why Luke
chose a descent via Nathan instead of Solomon. That set up the
In corporate settings, it is usually better not to reveal humorous
interpretations of unfolding events. This sort of thing tends to find its way
to HR. Such a disposition is probably latent in the training of the LLMs. One
could imagine training prompts like “Present yourself as a professional
