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risorgimento- Lucy Riall

October 31, 2023

This is a recap of the first chapter of the book risorgimento By Lucy Riall. Risorgimento is the Italian word for resurrection, and it’s the Italian term

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Israel and Palestine

October 31, 2023

Problems in the pro-Palestinian portrayals There is a currently, at least in the posts I run across, a heavily skewed bias in favor of the Palestinian

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Romans 12:9-19 Virtues

October 31, 2023

In my reading through the bible, I went through Romans 12, where there is a pretty good sized list of ‘virtues’ that I found. Working

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“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.