AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” That's why its output is, put simply, slop 

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At its American debut, half the audience walked out of Waiting for Godot. Now the whole world waits with it

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The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life”

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“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. […] Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.” - Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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suliqyre:When I see something disturbing, I immediately want to look away. Sometimes I want to look away because it’s too painful to see what I’m seeing. Sometimes I don’t want to look because I don’t like what it means — difficult changes will be necessary and I don’t want to change. And sometimes I look away just because I know what I’m seeing requires a great deal of attention and I’d much rather look at something else.In every case, my attention is prevented from being allowed to see more. This is a terrible mistake, because it stops me from reaching the understanding I need, and by ignoring this need, I guarantee further suffering for myself and others. Instead of regularly feeling joy, I will experience it only rarely before I’m sent back to the misery of suffering.Read more…

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“Remember that in general we don’t use language according to strict rules — it hasn’t been taught us by means of strict rules, either.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book

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“If energy is imperishable, how much more so is love! Like energy, which is still a complete enigma, love is always there, always on tap. Man has never created an ounce of energy, nor did he create love. Love and energy have always been, always will be. Perhaps in essence they are one and the same. Why not? Perhaps this mysterious energy which is identified with the life of the universe, which is God in action, as some one has said, perhaps this secret, all-invasive force is but the manifestation of love.” — Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion

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[Revised entry by Mark J. Edwards on July 21, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Origen (c. 185 – c. 253) was a Christian exegete and theologian, who made copious use of the allegorical method in his commentaries, and (though later considered a heretic) laid the foundations of philosophical theology for the church. He was […]

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“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“Joyce stands out? among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday”

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