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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

That is one of the most meaningless platitudes I've ever heard. Right up there with, "it is what it is."

aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 9 0

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generalburkhalter.bsky.social @generalburkhalter.bsky.social

Not to be too calloused, practically speaking that is exactly what it has been. Kind of tired of the same playbook.

aug 28, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

It’s just stupid. Good is good, even in the absence of any evil.

aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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generalburkhalter.bsky.social @generalburkhalter.bsky.social

Okay, have it your way.

aug 28, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

It’s not “my way.” It’s just the way it is.

aug 29, 2025, 1:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.social

The way it is for you. You are unique. So forgive me for thinking that you have a unique way to be who you are. Another old Jewish story (of course) is about Rabbi Zusya, who was asked if he was worried that when he died, God would ask him why he was not Moses." He said, "No,

aug 29, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.social

I am worried that God will ask me why I was not Zusya." Anthony de Mello wrote that "the shortest distance between a human being and truth is story." Telling and listening to stories brings me great joy.

aug 29, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

That reads like LLM nonsense. We’re not talking about using fiction to reveal a greater truth about human nature. We’re literally talking about people who claim there’s some man who sent his son… who was also him, to earth and then let him die because another imaginary woman disobeyed him.

aug 29, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.social

Frankly, and I hope I'm not offending anyone, stories are not about facts. They are meant to help spark thinking and feeling, and if they are only thought valuable by a few people, they are still doing their job. Even science tells stories. I recommend a book by George Ellis, who was

aug 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.social

Stephen Hawking's co-author on "The Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time." The book Ellis wrote is called "Before the Beginning."

aug 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
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OTownKim @otownkim.bsky.social

You know what's Crazy? Every time I read your statements, I hear it in Alex Skarsgard's voice from MurderBot 🤣🤣

aug 28, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

😂

aug 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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OTownKim @otownkim.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I love that Guy!

aug 28, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social

It’s funny, I read all the audiobooks, and in my head, that narrator is Murderbot, and he is profoundly different from Skarsgård, so it took me a bit to get used to.

aug 28, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view