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Diary of Anaïs Nin, December 16, 1930
Diary of Anaïs Nin, December 16, 1930
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Mindy Nettifee, "This is the Nonsense of Love"
Mindy Nettifee, "This is the Nonsense o…
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James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Ta…

The concept of pure Christian love is a funny one. Charles Grandison Finney, an evangelist working in the 1700s, advocated the idea of God as a “disinterested spectator.” Finney’s version of God borrows from the Aristotelian notion of a God who is content only to gaze into His own navel, wholly disengaged from humankind’s insipidness. Finney adapted Aristotle’s idea, preaching instead a “benevolent complacency.” Perfect love, Finney argued, is objective, unselfish, unbiased. He believed in a loving God who is also impersonal – like a high school guidance counselor, sort of.

Jenn Frank, "Diablo III is Adorable"

Jenn Frank, "Diablo III is Adorable"
∆ bell hooks, from all about love
∆ bell hooks, from all about love
Louisa Davies on Twitter: "just witnessed an ice cream man's funeral and all the ice cream vans came and followed in solidar...
Louisa Davies on Twitter: "just witness…
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