#pyrotheology — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116176897250347078

Both gambling and heavy AI usage are an addiction.

But it's not an addiction to winning or getting information.

It's an addiction to the *fantasy* that you could get enough money or information to make you whole and complete.
(Nothing can do that, because the universe itself is lacking.)

#AIAddiction
#gambling
#Lack
#pyrotheology

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116176897250347078

Both gambling and heavy AI usage are an addiction.

But it's not an addiction to winning or getting information.

It's an addiction to the *fantasy* that you could get enough money or information to make you whole and complete.
(Nothing can do that, because the universe itself is lacking.)

#AIAddiction
#gambling
#Lack
#pyrotheology

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116176897250347078

Both gambling and heavy AI usage are an addiction.

But it's not an addiction to winning or getting information.

It's an addiction to the *fantasy* that you could get enough money or information to make you whole and complete.
(Nothing can do that, because the universe itself is lacking.)

#AIAddiction
#gambling
#Lack
#pyrotheology

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116176897250347078

Both gambling and heavy AI usage are an addiction.

But it's not an addiction to winning or getting information.

It's an addiction to the *fantasy* that you could get enough money or information to make you whole and complete.
(Nothing can do that, because the universe itself is lacking.)

#AIAddiction
#gambling
#Lack
#pyrotheology

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116176897250347078

Both gambling and heavy AI usage are an addiction.

But it's not an addiction to winning or getting information.

It's an addiction to the *fantasy* that you could get enough money or information to make you whole and complete.
(Nothing can do that, because the universe itself is lacking.)

#AIAddiction
#gambling
#Lack
#pyrotheology

just who the hell *is* my neighbor?

https://courtcan.com/2025/11/12/just-who-the-hell-is-my-neighbor/

#fascism
#extremism
#MAGA
#DonaldTrump
#compassion
#boundaries
#pyrotheology
#sadopopulism
#TimothySnyder
#reconciliation
#NaziBar

"There's enigmatic dimensions in everything because we are human.... There's no pure-sign language that we can find. We have to tolerate a certain amount of ambiguity, a certain amount of mystery, an enigmatic heart to our language. To our being.
"Part of the 'cure' is to *embrace* that enigmatic dimension...[which] marks us all and is impossible to abolish."

-- #PeterRollins

#pyrotheology
#language
#linguistics
#communication
#imperfection
#human
#PeterRollins

"All institutions fail to live up to their ideals."

--Peter Rollins

ALL institutions.

Yes, that one too.

And that one.

Mm-hm, that one as well.

Oh yeah, *especially* that one.

There are no exceptions. #AllYourFavoritesAreProblematic

#PeterRollins
#TheLack
#pyrotheology

"Enjoy the very place where you're not normal. 'Cause none of youse are. You're all a bit weird."
-- Peter Rollins⁩

A good mid-week reminder for me of why I had a T-shirt printed that has "filthy chaos gremlin" on it. 😆🖖🤘

#weird
#wyrde
#PeterRollins
#pyrotheology

IN HAPPIER HAPPY NEWS,

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT.
🎺 🎶 🥁 💃 🥳 🍾 🥂 📚 💖

APPETITE FOR ANTITHESIS: (DE)KNOWING GOD IN A LENTEN PRACTICE

Foreword by N. Irish philosopher #PeterRollins.

So, happy #Lent a week in -- but it's not too late to give up God for a season. My book can help! 😁

Links and book description following in thread!

#theism
#atheism
#pyrotheology
#RadicalTheology
#DeathOfGodTheology

1/

❗❗❗ INCOMING: a book announcement ❗❗❗

This is going to turn out either frabjously amazeballs or utterly disastrous.

https://courtcan.com/2024/09/26/incoming-a-book-announcement/

#AppetiteForParadox #WIP #PeterRollins #pyrotheology #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #MyNextRead #philosophy #theology #DeathOfGodTheology #AtheismForLent #theism #atheism #christianity #faith #doubt

@courtcan

Assuming your post is not a prank...

There is no real religious claim being made here. Only a moral one. And (if I'm reading it correctly) it casts aspersion on non-believers without any justification. #Atheists #Theists #Christians are equivalent in the argument... people either act/think with others in mind, or they don't. Religion doesn't come into it.

#Pyrotheology appears to be the creation of Peter Rollins. I can't say I understand "what he's on about" with this definition... https://peterrollins.com/pyrotheology.

This sentence makes me think of #Existentialism (which again is not a religious doctrine)...

"...revealing that we must tarry with the antagonisms of existence if we wish to see transformation in the personal and political world."

If you are interested in existentialism I suggest reading the novels by #AlbertCamus!

"The Fall" and "The Plague" are my personal favorites, plus the four page "Myth of Sysyphus"...

https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CamusA-Myth-of-Sisyphus-1942.pdf

#theist
#atheist
#church
#Christian
#deity
#belief
#faith
#exvangelical
#pyrotheology

"If you can go through life without thinking about [death], maybe more power to you -- it's just that some people can't. They're usually called artists."

--Dr. Peter Rollins,
Irish philosopher

#death
#truth
#life
#art
#artists
#artstodon
#TheArtistsWay
#PeterRollins
#pyrotheology
#ChurchOfTheContradiction

"...And then there are those of us with #anxiety and #depression. There are those of us with #ADHD. My feeling anxious and depressed when I consider the state of the universe is a natural and healthy response...."

https://courtcan.com/2024/04/27/casting-pearls-before-ostriches/

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabilityExecutiveDysfunction
#CurrentEvents
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#philosophy
#PeterRollins
#JulieReshe
#TheMatrix

Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.

#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:

https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=T9mh8hgwv5xnZ-N9

#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#agnosticism
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#lack
#GodBeyondGod
#ReligionlessChristianity
#Bonhoeffer

Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.

#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:

https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=T9mh8hgwv5xnZ-N9

#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#agnosticism
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#lack
#GodBeyondGod
#ReligionlessChristianity
#Bonhoeffer

Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.

#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:

https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=T9mh8hgwv5xnZ-N9

#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#agnosticism
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#lack
#GodBeyondGod
#ReligionlessChristianity
#Bonhoeffer

Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.

#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:

https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=T9mh8hgwv5xnZ-N9

#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#agnosticism
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#lack
#GodBeyondGod
#ReligionlessChristianity
#Bonhoeffer

Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.

#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:

https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=T9mh8hgwv5xnZ-N9

#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#agnosticism
#existentialism
#pyrotheology
#lack
#GodBeyondGod
#ReligionlessChristianity
#Bonhoeffer

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

I was taught to make God my everything, my stability, my foundation, my fullness.

In deconstructing, in delving deeper, in divesting of baggage, I -- like the poet Pádraig Ó Tuama -- have discovered God to be my favorite emptiness..

___________________

#God
#faith
#religion
#Christianity
#pyrotheology
#DeathOfGodTheology
#ASlashTheism
#theism
#atheism
#deconstruction
#exvangelical
#poet
#poetry
#PadraigOTuama

atheism for lent, day 44: deny your god to gain salvation

Final AfL'23 day.
It's been good. 😊

http://courtcan.com/2023/04/06/atheism-for-lent-day-44/

#atheism
#Lent
#God
#pyrotheology
#PeterRollins
#SimoneWeil
#Christianity
#theism
#salvation