David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Hello friends! Haven't been on here too much, mostly been posting on the other place. But I wanted to share a personal update here too for those of you who I'm only connected to here: we're moving to Murfreesboro! For Jo's job primarily, but I've also found an opportunity to do some teaching. 390
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Mikel Arteta be like: "Arsenal can still win the League, if Mike Pence has the courage" 010
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I'm an older millennial and can I just say I genuinely miss talking on the phone to my friends all the time when I was a kid. When I went to college and got a calling card and could talk to my cousin (long distance!) without much of a time limit, it was great. 280
Reposted by David MahfoodBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 05/02/2025our common life depends upon each other's toil 16522
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Not to toot my own horn but some of us are still having fun on the other website 010
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Someone on the other site said that in the Bible Jesus has no sense of humor, but if you ask me "How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?" is a genuinely a funny line, among others. 3122
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A thought sparked by a project I'm working on: A lot of work in philosophy of religion has been about trying to show that some religious belief is or isn't rationally justified according to some preselected standard. And that's generally a fine sort of project. 1/ 120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 25/01/2025My wife is what some might call a "Disney adult" (not a weird emotionally stunted one—she just likes it and considers being able to go relatively affordably a perk of living in Central Florida). But I'm grateful I've got a buddy who, like me, is mostly in it for the snacks. 030
Reposted by David MahfoodTea with Tolkien @teawithtolkien.com · 25/01/2025nobody: my six year-old: mom it was so dumb of Sauron to pour all of his strength into the One Ring 61138
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I've been thinking about the criticism that some elements in an artistic product are "gratuitous." Surely the whole thing is gratuitous in one sense—the author or artist wasn't obligated to make it at all, and is free to do whatever she wants with it. But on another level... 1/ 120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Descriptivists can't explain why "a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true" does not appear in the dictionary under the word "tenant" 221
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 30/12/2024The practical theologians have only changed the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to interpret it. 030
Reposted by David Mahfoodlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I once naively thought that since child mortality was so much higher back in the day people would be inured to it. But reading the Stoic philosophers (Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius in particular) made it apparent: no, it was experienced as fully devastating, it took immense fortitude just to go on. 19596101
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Me coming up with names for arbitrarily divided generations 010
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I love the Third Day of Christmas. It's all about constructing bizarre mini-feasts from clever combinations of leftovers while your kids play with their new stuff. 020
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Merry Christmas 2: Electric Boogaloo to all who celebrate 030
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Guys, over on Twitter we are having meltdowns some guy never having heard of Homer's Odyssey and then other people acting like it's crazy/elitist/America-centric(???) to think not having *heard of* The Odyssey is a mark against one's being considered an educated person 1110
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!! Wordle 1,285 2/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 24/12/2024The church scene in Home Alone is an all time great representation of Christianity in a Christmas movie 1121
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 24/12/2024What we need for college football is a Champions League style formula allocating playoff slots to conferences based on non-conference performance over the previous few seasons 120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I guess in this way it's a perfect analogy for politics 010
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The great thing about college football is there's too many teams and not enough games to provide enough data to rank them very confidently but everyone draws super strong conclusions based on each individual game 000
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Will Bluesky ever give us something like this? Is it even possible anymore, or has the time for this passed us by unappreciated 160
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Ok just discovered Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas. A+ Christmas vibes, kids both loved it.media.tenor.coma group of teddy bears are playing instruments in a shed .Alt: a group of Muppet animals are playing jug band instruments in a shed 110
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 20/12/2024NYT Spelling Bee taking a position on whether Christ had a gnomic will 2120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I was a physics major, and took a two semester History of Science sequence. One of the best things I ever did. Paradigm shifting. Introduced me to philosophy when I was too scared to take a philosophy class. Useful? I dunno. But it expanded my whole sense of the intellectual world. 160
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 19/12/2024In case anyone's wondering how December is treating us down here in Florida, just left the house to pick up my kids from school and saw a guy walking down the sidewalk in a swimsuit headed to the neighborhood pool. 000
Reposted by David MahfoodBryce @statcrux.bsky.social · 18/12/2024friend: Is she the one? Plotinus: No but she emanates from it 26223
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Lonergan headed to BC! Big news for the Lonergan Institute, @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social @josephkgordon.bsky.social @catholickungfu.bsky.social and other Lonerganiacs 160
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The thing we have to reckon with is that it's very possible to get a decent liberal arts/humanities education (certainly by today's standards) and still come away with, well, just about any shallow outlook on the world. 151
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024New study by the folks who brought you the "do you hear voices when you read" one and the "can you picture an apple" one: only some people consciously intend the meanings associated with the words and sentences they utter; others just sort of doing the thing from the Chinese Room thought experiment. 020
Reposted by David Mahfoodeli 🕊️ @nienna121.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I really feel like we can advocate for gun control without mocking people for praying after a tragedy idk 1286
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Well on the other site they're doing a Michael Servetus discourse. What's going on over here? 000
Reposted by David MahfoodJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I was skeptical of the drone reports at first. I mocked people who reported them. I laughed at them. And then I saw one for myself and captured photographic evidence. They’re real. 2987307561
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I'm a big fan of sci-fi/fantasy books, movies, games etc., but I find the use of the term "lore" (usually "the lore") in talking about it really irritating. Is there any hope for me? Am I the only one? 220
Reposted by David Mahfoodpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Stephen King was unhappy with the film adaptation of The Shining because he felt that Stanley Kubrick had ignored the key themes of a deeply personal novel based on King’s own struggle with ghosts in a crazy hotel 1664412250
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Probably top left. Something about that crust, man. 120
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Isn't it crazy how the kingdom of this world is become THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST??? (it's time to watch the flash mob again, guys) youtu.be/SXh7JR9oKVE?...youtu.beChristmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!YouTube video by Alphabet Photography Inc. 010
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024My kids haven't gotten to go to nearly as many weddings as I guess I'd like them to have gone to, so one thing I learned this weekend is kids LOVE TO DANCE 010
Reposted by David Mahfoodstabke @stabke.bsky.social · 16/12/2024You, a slob: The Last Supper was hilarious because what kinda dudes all sit on the same side of the table lmao Me, an intellectual: it was a hibachi restaurant 221194167
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Just tried Branston Pickle. It's pretty good. Nice job on this one, Brits. 030
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Just tried Branston Pickle. It's pretty good. Nice job on this one, Brits. 000
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Me opening up today's NYT Connectionsmedia.tenor.coma man with long hair and a beard is making a face .ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is making a face . 270
Reposted by David MahfoodBarry Ritholtz @ritholtz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: We process print more deeply than digital content (for informational rather than purely narrative). The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books! via @adamgrant.bsky.social 4467
David Mahfood @dmahfood.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Just saw this claim: "déjà vu is probably just your brain's familiarity circuit misfiring in a context that isn't actually familiar" and now I'm wondering how "your brain's familiarity circuit misfired" is any less mysterious than "something felt familiar to you even though it wasn't"? 370