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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 28m

Is my mother getting better because the treatment is working, or because she's decided to seem fine so I'll stop hovering? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-16?…

The God Show question of the day: Is my mother getting better because the treatment is working, or because she's decided to seem fine so I'll stop hovering?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 17h

The oldest living religion — no founder, no headquarters, no single book — explained by the publishing format that requires all three. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/95cwnxt

Hinduism For Dummies — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

After thirty years away, does going back to the town that couldn't wait to lose you count as winning or just proving it right? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-15?…

The God Show question of the day: After thirty years away, does going back to the town that couldn't wait to lose you count as winning or just proving it right?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A schoolteacher threw a rock at her cheating husband, became a Buddhist nun, and wrote the only comfort book honest enough to skip the comfort. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/gwkvxce

When Things Fall Apart — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Why did the earthquake hit their school and not ours, and what am I supposed to say when she asks if we're next? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-14?…

The God Show question of the day: Why did the earthquake hit their school and not ours, and what am I supposed to say when she asks if we're next?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Berkeley's crankiest literary critic retranslates the Torah to rescue it from committees—and his footnotes throw elbows at every Bible in the hotel drawer. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/4hp4xg4

The Five Books of Moses — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If I could find out right now whether I'm actually talented or just surrounded by people too polite to say so, would I want to know? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-13?…

The God Show question of the day: If I could find out right now whether I'm actually talented or just surrounded by people too polite to say so, would I want to know?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A rented convertible, a Samoan attorney, a trunkful of controlled substances, and the funniest funeral the American Dream ever received. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/jzegrnn

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I could guarantee my rival never found out I helped him, would I still want to do it? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-12?…

The God Show question of the day: If I could guarantee my rival never found out I helped him, would I still want to do it?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The pocket Epicurus: a four-part cure for dread and the most quoted case against fearing death ever mailed to a friend. Self-help from before the genre ruined it. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/bcuvt77

Letters on Happiness — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Should I keep giving tourists wrong directions when they ask with that insufferable confidence, or does that make me the problem? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-11?…

The God Show question of the day: Should I keep giving tourists wrong directions when they ask with that insufferable confidence, or does that make me the problem?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The essay that asked why revolutions keep eating their children — and got Camus excommunicated from the Left Bank by his best friend's magazine. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/mv74cvf

The Rebel — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why does every new friendship seem to require one person to need the other a little more, and is that actually fine or just what we've agreed to call fine? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-10?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does every new friendship seem to require one person to need the other a little more, and is that actually fine or just what we've agreed to call fine?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An Ohio philosophy professor goes shopping for a life philosophy, test-drives a 2,000-year-old operating system, and accidentally reboots Stoicism. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/2ksfqzn

A Guide to the Good Life — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is getting off lighter than you deserved something to be grateful for, or something to quietly be ashamed of? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-09?…

The God Show question of the day: Is getting off lighter than you deserved something to be grateful for, or something to quietly be ashamed of?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The sequel nobody's yoga teacher quotes: Hoff trades honey for grievances and accidentally proves the Tao cannot survive a second book deal. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/gjhnwp2

The Te of Piglet — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What do I tell my daughter when the robin's egg she's been checking on every morning turns out to have never hatched? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-08?…

The God Show question of the day: What do I tell my daughter when the robin's egg she's been checking on every morning turns out to have never hatched?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 1946 memoir that taught America to say guru, put four Indian masters on the Sgt. Pepper cover, and ended up the only book on Steve Jobs' iPad. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/vhpd6cu

Autobiography of a Yogi — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can a person stay genuinely faithful to someone without occasionally wanting to be a completely different person's problem? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-07?…

The God Show question of the day: Can a person stay genuinely faithful to someone without occasionally wanting to be a completely different person's problem?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The exiled Vietnamese monk MLK nominated for a Nobel distills all of Buddhism into one volume—every truth, list, and breath, minus the migraine. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/dmt4sgx

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Does getting the promotion mean I finally earned the right to stop being the funny one in every meeting? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-06?…

The God Show question of the day: Does getting the promotion mean I finally earned the right to stop being the funny one in every meeting?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Published in 2000 to polite reviews; one Tuesday in September turned it into the most urgently thumbed paperback in America. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/yfqnhe3

Islam: A Short History — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why does every house I almost buy turn out to be where someone died, and should that actually bother me? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-05?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does every house I almost buy turn out to be where someone died, and should that actually bother me?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Five Depression years reading nine hours a day in a Woodstock shack produced the skeleton key Hollywood now jams into every locked screenplay. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/p33g886

The Hero with a Thousand Faces — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why do people who know they are dying still bother to make their beds in the morning? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-04?…

The God Show question of the day: Why do people who know they are dying still bother to make their beds in the morning?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Wolfe, sober in a white suit, rides along with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and files the founding gospel of psychedelic America. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/jyyxxfc

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When is it right to stop hiding the part of your life that finally got good? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-03?…

The God Show question of the day: When is it right to stop hiding the part of your life that finally got good?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rome's strangest masterpiece: a physics textbook in hexameter that debunks the gods, dismantles romance, and ends mid-plague with the heavens conspicuously silent. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/a4xmvm8

On the Nature of Things — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why does my best friend keep thanking everyone in her wedding toast except the person who actually showed up? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-02?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does my best friend keep thanking everyone in her wedding toast except the person who actually showed up?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a foggy Amsterdam bar, a charming ex-lawyer buys you a drink and performs the most weaponized confession in literature. You are not the audience. You're the catch. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/7k4ch6v

The Fall — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Should I tell my son he has my father's walk, or let him find his own body without that already in it? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-10-01?…

The God Show question of the day: Should I tell my son he has my father's walk, or let him find his own body without that already in it?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roman elites paid tuition to be verbally demolished by a formerly enslaved teacher who insisted they already owned the only thing worth having. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/agjbxsv

Discourses and Selected Writings — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is watching your brother ruin his life at his own pace mercy or just really convenient for you? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-30?…

The God Show question of the day: Is watching your brother ruin his life at his own pace mercy or just really convenient for you?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Taoist alchemy manual dictated by a dead immortal, translated by a missionary who converted no one, and annexed by Carl Jung as evidence for Carl Jung. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/yyzx3yf

The Secret of the Golden Flower — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Should I keep laughing at my boss's jokes, or does that make me responsible for what he thinks of himself? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-29?…

The God Show question of the day: Should I keep laughing at my boss's jokes, or does that make me responsible for what he thinks of himself?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seven hundred verses of crisis counseling, delivered in a parked chariot while two armies stand around waiting for one archer to stop hyperventilating. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/wh6tjfy

The Bhagavad Gita — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does getting good enough at something to be taken seriously always require becoming a little like the people you used to find unbearable? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-28?…

The God Show question of the day: Does getting good enough at something to be taken seriously always require becoming a little like the people you used to find unbearable?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dawn-talk transcripts from a tiny Japanese priest in 1960s California became the West's favorite Zen book. Step one: sit down. There is no step two. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/r2jmbfn

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why does the oldest person on the block always seem to know exactly how much to eat? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-27?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does the oldest person on the block always seem to know exactly how much to eat?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Marin County convert treks into the Sahara, memorizes a 19th-century poem on diseases of the heart, and comes home with a cure for your personality. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/epx5y6e

Purification of the Heart — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why does it feel like an insult to God to admit you're happy while you're still inside a church? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-26?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does it feel like an insult to God to admit you're happy while you're still inside a church?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Written at 31 while running an illegal seminary under the Gestapo's nose—the century's most credible takedown of forgiveness as a subscription perk. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/xjudd57

The Cost of Discipleship — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why does everyone who shows up with a casserole seem so certain this is going to turn out fine? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-25?…

The God Show question of the day: Why does everyone who shows up with a casserole seem so certain this is going to turn out fine?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Game guy gets scared, buys a second passport, learns to kill what he eats, and accidentally writes a conversion memoir for the apocalypse-curious. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/n2phmcx

Emergency — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does letting a seven-year-old lose at board games actually teach her anything, or does it just make me feel principled? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-24?…

The God Show question of the day: Does letting a seven-year-old lose at board games actually teach her anything, or does it just make me feel principled?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

His name became a synonym for fine dining. His menu was bread and water. Everything that survives of Epicurus is a system for subtracting fear, not adding truffles. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/ztdkqxb

The Art of Happiness — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can a person come into real money without quietly turning into someone who finds their old friends a little exhausting? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-23?…

The God Show question of the day: Can a person come into real money without quietly turning into someone who finds their old friends a little exhausting?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Camus locks an Algerian port city in quarantine and discovers the only superpower against mass death: doing your job until it kills you. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/k7krkea

The Plague — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I stop cooking the holiday meal every year, does the family actually gather, or does the gathering turn out to have been the meal? Fifteen traditions answer, every day. www.thegodshow.us/daily/2026-09-22?…

The God Show question of the day: If I stop cooking the holiday meal every year, does the family actually gather, or does the gathering turn out to have been the meal?

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GodShow.us @thegodshow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exiled by one emperor, executed by another, quotable in between: the best advice column in Roman history was written waiting for the knock on the door. → Read the full review: www.thegodshow.us/r/2bcn5ar

Letters from a Stoic — The God Show Irreverent Reviews card

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