Random Thoughts

[Paraselene]

Was tired all day at work. Then I get home, and I'm not tired.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Was tired all day at work. Then I get home, and I'm not tired.

Situational exhaustion.

Boru

[awty]

I think I should feel bad about checking the news every day hoping to see news of a particular death. Instead, I just feel let down.

[Angrboda]

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who had worked for years for the Swedish crown as an administrator of mines. However, travelling around Europe while on leave, he had begun to have intense dreams about Jesus Christ, in which everyday details were shot through with mystical bliss. In one, Jesus borrowed a five-pound note from someone, and, Swedenborg recalled, “I was sorry he had not borrowed it from me.” Finally, God showed himself while Swedenborg was at dinner, taking the form of a man who told him not to eat too much.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/...ook-review

[Angrboda]

Perhaps the best-known thing about Kant as a person is that he was so regular in his habits that the people of Königsberg set their watches by his evening walk. Like many emblematic stories about famous people, this turns out to be not quite true. It was actually Kant’s good friend Joseph Green, an English merchant, who was fanatically punctual; a Königsberg wit wrote a satirical play, “The Man of the Clock,” that is thought to be based on him. Kant’s biographer Manfred Kuehn writes that “the neighbors could set their clocks in accordance with the time at which Kant left Green’s house in the evening” because Green had an ironclad rule: “at seven o’clock the visit was over.”

Ibid.

[Paraselene]

I think I should feel bad about checking the news every day hoping to see news of a particular death. Instead, I just feel let down.

Yesterday, I got this twinge of intuition that "today's the day". Guess I'm not a witch.