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Seth

@prehistoricseth.bsky.social
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Professional research scientist. Amateur pontificator. Esoteric dabbler.

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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I just started reading the new book by my friend @collincornell.bsky.social (name drop!) He thoroughly critiques a model that never really resonated with me - reading the Bible like an unfolding start-to-finish drama - and presents a non-linearized "geometric" concept. Worth a read! a.co/d/56QTHxh
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God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission
God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission [Collin Cornell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Hey corporate America, this is what you want? If he decides he doesn’t like the name “Goldman Sachs” will you change it? What about law firm names? Suppose Trump wants you to drop the names of certain founding partners? When is it enough?
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Trump is now calling for the deportation of American citizens. This is fascism
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Trying to imagine Hitler and Goebbels preening for photos at a concentration camp, wearing stupid little hats like these.
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Buttholes
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Pretty interesting to read about other historical periods when Christianity became a tool of the state (or the Empire) in service of advancing the state (or Empire).
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
""God” then was not a one-sized-fits-all category either within or across cultures. The prototypical anthropomorphic masters of the universe certainly qualify as deities but so do a host of other things that today we might hesitate to call animate, let alone divine." anetoday.org/god-ancient-...
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What is a God in the Ancient Near East? - The Ancient Near East Today
What is a god? While the question is simple enough, the answer depends on context and perspective.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"At Downey Memorial Christian church on Thursday, officers reportedly arrested a man in the parking lot then pointed a gun at senior pastor Tanya Lopez..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘To not speak out is to be complicit’: LA faith leaders mobilize amid Ice raids
Since federal agents descended on the city, faith leaders have rallied congregants, protested and devoted resources to serve immigrants
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...
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New PRRI Poll: Six in Ten Americans Oppose Exporting Undocumented Immigrants to Foreign Prisons Without Due Process
Under the Trump administration, immigration enforcement has taken an unprecedented turn as immigrants, including asylum seekers and individuals with legal protections, are now being transferred to…
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Proving my point by defending Jesus religiondispatches.org/stop-trying-...
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Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism
If you’ve spent much time around fandoms, online or off, you’ve surely heard something like, “Celebrity X (or TV show, or book series, etc.) is great, but my God, their fans are the worst.” Of course,...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war. If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
REMINDER: Black ppl are ✨so✨ intrinsic to this [fucked-up] U.S. society, our decision to intentionally abstain from these street-level protests of racist fascism—which, mind you, is counter-intuitive to most of us—is SAVING the nation from the Martial Law of Project 2025. Follow for more reminders!
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Dem strategy: cross fingers and wait for enough voters to get tired of MAGA by the time the next election rolls around.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him. by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth
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David W. Swanson @davidwswanson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The White House and Homeland Security recently promoted a graphic made by white supremacists describing immigrants & migrants as "foreign invaders" and urging people to turn them in. This administration continues to make its goals plain. Believe them and act accordingly. HT @dbernstein.bsky.social
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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The question we need to consider isn’t so much, “Why did white evangelicals choose to embrace Trump?” It’s, “Why did Trump think he could attract white evangelicals?”
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I think it is an important thing for a translator to clearly note. For example, when trying to understand the source/context of the household codes in chapter 5 or the spiritual forces section in chapter 6.
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Rasool Berry @rasoolberry.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
due process. freedom of speech. meritocracy over nepotism balance of power in govt Competent Leadership Science based health guidance foreign policy based on US interest academic freedom. non-retaliatory govt Court rulings being followed just a few things i used to take for granted in the US
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
How much trouble could have been avoided if this framework for reading scripture had been taken more seriously. Don't assume every story, good, bad, or ugly, is a literal record or is intended to be taken literally.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 05/06/2025
Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
With the country descending into fascism, it's the perfect time for me to plug my new book on the left's cancel culture problem.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
not trying to entirely absolve voters of their culpability here but at some point people in the media also need to reckon with why so many voters didn’t know that donald trump was planning to deport moms.
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I really like this introduction to the book of Job as explained by Maimonides. I wish I had read it earlier in life. "This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths."
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Limited government" isn't what they said it would be.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...
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Trump Displays DRC Visual As Proof Of South African 'Genocide'
US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Guys the whole point of authoritarianism is being above and beyond the law which is why it attracts "lawless" individuals such as Noem. Habeus corpus is an annoyance for authoritarians.
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I have spoken publicly many times and have seen countless public speakers. Waving is normal. I never did or saw something that could have been mistaken for a fascist salute though.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Government agencies who don't want to be compared to the Gestapo should make sure they don't do any of the stuff on the Gestapo page of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Just saying.
The Nazi regime gave Gestapo

agents a great deal of power to decide the fate of the people they arrested.  

Most notably, the Gestapo
had the power to send people directly to a concentration camp. This was called “protective custody” (Schutzhaft). Protective custody

allowed the Gestapo to bypass the court system. Those placed in protective custody could not consult a lawyer, appeal their sentence, or defend themselves in court. The Gestapo even used protective custody to override court decisions in some cases. Typically they did so when they considered the court’s sentence too lenient. 

As an institution, the Gestapo
was not subject to legal or administrative oversight. This meant that no other institution (including the courts) could overrule the Gestapo’s decisions. The Gestapo had the final word.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
WHY DOES SHE HAVE THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF ALL-TIME & I ONLY GET KID ROCK??? WAAAAAHHH!!!!! 😩
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." - Hannah Arendt
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I think Maimonides is on to something...and it might not jive with what we learned in Sunday school.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Quote post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe
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a computer generated image of a space ship with the word wos on the bottom right
ALT: a computer generated image of a space ship with the word wos on the bottom right
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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
*whistles to self* Look at all that liberal drift inside the Southern Baptist Convention.....
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 12/05/2025
Trump is literally trying to fly around on a plane from a foreign government while serving as President. That’s a violation of the Constitution. The Emoluments Clause wasn’t a suggestion. It’s the LAW.
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Trump defends the prospect of Qatar gifting him a plane to use as Air Force One
U.S. officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One. The Qatari government said a final decision hadn’t been made.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
What if Trump vs. the United States, which extended absolute criminal immunity to Donald Trump for “official acts” while in office, was wrongly decided?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I guess we just DNGAF about the emoluments clause any more, which was designed to prohibit bribing public officials.
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Conservatives, if the choice were to tear down and overhaul 50+ years of industry and trade, suffering high unemployment and inflation for perhaps decades while "resetting" a trillion dollar global market, or you could just elect a different president, what would you do?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 08/05/2025
Told you. This is all one scheme
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/05/2025
Trump’s back in the White House—and his kids are cashing in. Saudi towers, Qatari golf deals, crypto schemes. This isn’t public service. It’s a shakedown. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Crime Family Business: Selling America from the Inside
While Trump sits in the Oval Office, his sons are cutting foreign deals—from Saudi towers to Qatari golf resorts.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This seems to be the correct answer. The dads idolize men like Trump and the sons follow their dads. We are looking for a “crisis” among young men but i think its actually middle aged men who have gone insane because many of us never really grew up bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Imagine what the Left Behind crowd would have said if Obama had done something like this.
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Every attribute predicated of God either denotes the quality of an action, or--when the attribute is intended to convey some idea of the Divine Being itself, and not of His actions--the negation of the opposite." R. Maimonides
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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
You know what types of Catholics really like Trump? Old ones that attend Mass pretty often. You know which ones don't like Trump that much? Young ones that rarely go to Mass. Shocking, I know. Follow me for me very hot takes with data.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Well we are about to find out what kind of Christianity is not acceptable to the administration
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Seth @prehistoricseth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Yep. Time to start asking more fundamental questions about why *Christians* broadly are not as repulsed by Trumpism as our more progessive communities say should be a clear issue.
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