Everyone Loves Larry

Materialism, Machines, and Motivation

June 29, 2022

Reading From Here to Eternity by James Jones and there was an interesting conversation about authority in the modern world. There is a discussion among

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844- Karl Marx

June 17, 2022

These early writings of Marx give insight into the Philosophy of Communism. For Marx, the enemy of being is having. Private property, not the land

Lies

June 2, 2022

I get into political debates frequently enough with someone I disagree with, but we have enough respect for each other to listen. One of the

Expanding Bookshelf

May 30, 2022

I had to add another shelf to my book wall at home. The top shelf I have for my Bible study tools, and the History

Rights and Freedom

May 19, 2022

I was listening to a podcast episode of the Ezra Klein show the other day, where he interviews Patrick Deneen. Patrick Deneen is a right-wing

Psalm 106 musings

May 17, 2022

This psalm, one of the longer, starts with the injunction to Praise the Lord for his goodness. The Psalmist then declares the mighty acts of

GoodReads

May 14, 2022

I have been seeing the site GoodReads pop up frequently. Back in February I checked it out and liked it, so I signed up and

The Romanoffs- Expectation episode

May 3, 2022

I have been watching a show on Prime called the Romanoffs. Each of the episodes concerns some aspect of one of their supposed descendants in

Il Piacere- Gabriele D’Anunzio (1889)

April 30, 2022

“La sensibilità de’ suoi nervi era così acuta che ogni minima sensazione a lui data dalle cose esteriori pareva una ferita profonda. Egli aveva tutto

Shame Culture vs Guilt Culture

April 25, 2022

I am reading the Iliad right now. The intro discusses the difference between an honor/shame culture and a guilt culture. The standard Greek culture was

“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.

EVERYONE LOVES LARRY

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