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Bad Language

October 7, 2023

This morning during prayer time, I was talking to the Lord about my resolutions to do better in some specific areas of my life. One of

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Virtue

October 4, 2023

Since the first thing Peter told us to add to our faith in 2 Peter 1 was virtue, I thought I’d look at what exactly

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2 Peter 1:5-8

October 2, 2023

“5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance,

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Suffering

September 29, 2023

Was listening to a youtube video of one Orion Taraban where he discusses a prayer he used to pray every morning: ‘May all beings be free of suffering’. He

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September 2023 Reading

September 28, 2023

Rome and the Mediterranean- Livy (27-9 BC) This book contains books 31-45 from Livy’s collection of histories. They cover the years 201 BC to 167 BC. 

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dave

“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.