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Marx and Abstraction

June 10, 2023

Marx makes a lot of how others ‘abstract’ concepts. This is something I’ve been struggling with in Marx, so I found this article, which does

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Isaiah 1

June 10, 2023

I started reading through Isaiah today. The first chapter starts with a condemnation of Israel’s rebellion. Israel had rebelled against the Lord, forsaken Him, turned

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Friends Coming

June 3, 2023

We are having some friends come to stay with us for two weeks this month. This couple currently lives in Cambodia, but they come back

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New Glasses

June 1, 2023

I got some new, much needed, glasses yesterday. My old ones weren’t quite keeping up with where my eyesight is, and as soon as I

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Leukemia Update

May 31, 2023

So I just completed my second month off of the Leukemia meds. The results of the blood test show that I’m still under the level

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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.