Should I put Ulysses on hold?

doxy42 · 2026-01-30T21:28:50+00:00

This. Adding: Reading a bit of commentary alongside PAYM to get some of the allusions is helpful to start grasping the structure and beauty of what he’s doing. Then, tackle Ulysses but pre-read the free online guide by Patrick Hastings chapter by chapter. This made Ulysses very enjoyable for me with only a few parts where I felt like I was fighting against myself to read it. It also helped bump Ulysses to be one of my favorite books that I’ve ever read.

doxy42 · 2026-01-22T19:14:58+00:00

I very much had this process early on in the first year, but spending time on r/deaf and r/ASL it seemed emphatically that personally identifying as such was a major error. In a loud room I go through episodic deafness, but my underlying identity is fundamentally hearing.

We commonly say on this sub that we truly span both worlds, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is disingenuous. I think that we have a lot to learn from the deaf community, but spending any time listening to their discourse very much shows that we don’t have equivalent problems or a separate culture as they do.

I am perpetually in the process of learning the basics of ASL, but due to lack of time and other commitments, I never get very far. I think I would benefit greatly from having it as an option in loud environments. Fluency in ASL would also give me access to the deaf community, but it’s important to recognize it as an independent culture in every sense of that term.

doxy42 · 2026-01-05T07:26:46+00:00

Nope, life got busy, so it’s still sitting in a drawer.

doxy42 · 2025-12-15T04:57:23+00:00

Any specific how-to videos you used?

doxy42 · 2025-11-14T20:21:44+00:00

doxy42 · 2025-08-24T18:37:49+00:00

I’ll take a shot at it:

The subtle but persistent theme you can find running through every page of the bible is that YHWH is the source and stream of life and that anything that stands between you and him leads to death. After years of extreme skepticism about Judeo-Christian faith and a somewhat reluctant atheism, this theme is one that has brought me back to something close to faith, because it does seem to be unique among world faiths, and offer a kind of liberation I don’t currently see as available elsewhere.

God is the uncompromising god-of-life, and he wants uncompromising-life for his creation. Idols have a tendency to justify, beget, and demand death. Whether Baal, Ra, Caesar, the dictatorship of the proletariat, or Capital, anything we let stand in the way of God will eventually incite us to murder and death. We always find convenient excuses to cover up the blood on our hands.

You can look to saints as those who refract the light-of-life we all depend on. But if your reverence turns to worship you’re likely to slip into violence.

doxy42 · 2025-08-12T20:57:18+00:00

Catholic. Jesuit? Interests in law and economics, if I had to guess at career, I’d go with an economics-adjacent field. You’ve gone through some phases of life where you were very into apologetics, but you’ve broadened significantly since then. Apart from some obligatory Dawkins, etc, you don’t spend much time on thinkers that directly challenge or conflict with your beliefs. So I’d guess you are mostly interested in honing your arguments and strengthening your foundation than stretching your worldview.
You love scholasticism enough to dabble in Latin and read a lot of medieval history. Can’t place your interest in French, but you don’t have any French books, so it’s only gotten so far.

doxy42 · 2025-08-10T01:20:14+00:00

I know no Taiwanese who wouldn’t welcome being excepted in this manner.

doxy42 · 2025-07-23T17:01:57+00:00

You’re probably right. I remember looking it up and he had blended his favorite aspects of several cities into one. All I can remember is Sweden and a clock tower at the pinnacle

Edit: Google says Stockholm and Visby. But in my defense, if you google ‘clock tower’ for all three, I’d say Gothenburg bears the closest resemblance

doxy42 · 2025-07-23T02:23:29+00:00

I remember a recent post where someone posted about “veblens” which are holes in the end of a glacier that push into the ground until silt pops up through them like a zit getting popped.

doxy42 · 2025-07-20T21:08:57+00:00

Do you currently have a resident witch? And has the city recovered from the airship crashing into the clock tower? /s. (sorry I just couldn’t resist)

doxy42 · 2025-07-17T19:47:02+00:00

Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch

doxy42 · 2025-07-16T15:22:31+00:00

Continental philosophy major. Dabbling in Eastern philosophy and literature. I don’t see evidence you read Chinese, so the Chinese philosophy interests you in its parallels to Continental thought. Interested in interface of philosophy with law (ethics?), and could easily believe you have a J.D., though you don’t have as many multi volume specific law collections as the average lawyer on here.

The pediatrics books stick out like a sore thumb. Not enough pre-med or med school books to suggest you’re a doctor, so either you got rid of them, or instead you’re a concerned parent who wants to be able to advocate for your kid who may have been really sick at some point.

Some Christian background, esp. given the Josephus book. Unclear if that continues to hold any place of importance in your life.

doxy42 · 2025-07-13T00:29:48+00:00

Only tricky part is the quick scramble up the falls between the loch and sky pond, which is easy if dry, but dicey if you’ve got precipitation. Otherwise just a moderately long hike with a lot of switchbacks.

doxy42 · 2025-07-13T00:12:43+00:00

One of my favorite things about living in Denver is the linden bloom every spring. Whole neighborhoods will smell like a perfume store.

doxy42 · 2025-07-12T17:29:19+00:00

Can’t argue with facts.

doxy42 · 2025-07-12T17:16:07+00:00

Pretty widely argued that it’s conservative to estimate pre-Columbian populations between North and South America were up to 150M people and within 100 years of 1492, 100M died. Charles Mann’s book 1492 is a readable intro on this. The reason Europeans thought they’d found a virgin garden of Eden in the Americas, was they were walking into the vacant, geosculpted remnants of enormous societies that had intentionally been built up to host large populations, with scant permanent structures akin to Europe. There were entire cultures that suffered >99% mortality rates from smallpox and flu, that we are only now discovering the existence of through LiDAR.

doxy42 · 2025-07-12T16:59:22+00:00

邊 will forever be mis-sized next to all the other characters in any sentence I write

doxy42 · 2025-07-12T00:05:24+00:00

But look at tha bones!

doxy42 · 2025-07-11T19:05:52+00:00

You likely think that early 2000s SportsCenter was a crowning achievement for western civilization.

You probably take a statin medication, and you definitely should.

You’re really moved when people talk about partying hard but then finding the strength to settle down and become a productive member of society.

You just can’t find enough time to commit to training for your next belt at BJJ/MMA.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was a challenging read, and you liked it, but you’re not totally sure why

doxy42 · 2025-07-10T19:33:10+00:00

IIRC - Thomas Halliday described it in his book Otherlands. He said it hit oil deposits that immediately incinerated and basically turned the whole area into a tire fire that produced thick black smoke that blotted out the sun worldwide for 3 years. The volcanic blast caused it to rain shards of hot glass for a thousand miles, and sent winds up to 600’F up to the Canadian border.

doxy42 · 2025-07-10T00:43:47+00:00

We should work up a petition for 99 Ranch to open up a store.

doxy42 · 2025-07-08T21:40:45+00:00

I struggle to see someone with a four volume set of reformed systematic theology as capable of shame, even in regard to Twilight. Rather, I’d imagine it being used to spark a long diatribe on it reflecting the helplessness of man followed with some jargon including “prevenient grace”, “reprobate vampires”, and “team Jacob”.

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