@Plough I so greatly appreciate the texts you freely pass along. The Theravadan Buddhists freely share their core literature, too—a similar religious commitment to radical relationality. Funny, the way God moonlights as a Buddha with an English sense of humour. Grace with twinkling eyes.
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Copy of tweet here: @ @@johnmilbank3 There is a phenomenon that has gone unnoticed: academic editors and publishers tend to push British writers into writing in a more (academic) American way that tends to be less complex and more bound by strict logical connection than by rhetorical effect and affective feel. Trained Stateside with the Soto Zennies a few years, immersing in the extensive, home-grown literature. Then, stumbled across texts by Chithurst-based Theravadans. Shocking - Buddhism with an English sense of humo(u)r - the cultural difference in illuminated religious character.
I know I'm doing okay on Twitter when Baruch Spinoza ❁ @BotBaruch, which 'automatically retweets mentions of 17th century Dutch philosopher, Spinoza and his core doctrine of determinism' forwards my jokes.
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