>Nets guard David Duke Jr. on sharing a name w/ the convicted felon & Grand Wizard of the Klan: “If anybody should change his name, it should be him. I should be the one keep it…One day I'm just hoping that when you look it up, it won't be so much negative around it.”
So I was reading a fun little article asking what people thought the most scary philosophical ideas were, and one person mentioned the above paper. My question is, what is the thesis?
I've read through the thing about 3 times already and I cant seem to totally grasp what the author is trying to say, so any help is appreciated!
>The Pelicans have found their next head coach, and New Orleans is expected to formally announce Phoenix Suns assistant Willie Green as the franchise's play-caller shortly after the Finals conclude, sources confirmed to Bleacher Report.
>It does appear that Green was not Pelicans executive vice president David Griffin's first choice, just as Stan Van Gundy, whom New Orleans fired in June after one season, was hired after New Orleans could not land Tyronn Lue a summer ago. Yet Green is widely acclaimed around the NBA for his leadership and humility, something that once garnered great respect as a player, and has only blossomed, sources said, during his five years on championship-contending benches in Golden State and Phoenix.
>Green was also someone Griffin's predecessor, former Pelicans general manager Dell Demps, had sought to hire as a New Orleans assistant and Griffin himself once eyed to bring on to Cleveland's coaching staff, sources said. In that light, perhaps Green leading the franchise he played for in 2010-11 was always meant to be.
>This marriage, however, would not have been possible without Brooklyn assistant Jacque Vaughn removing his name from consideration for New Orleans' vacancy. And while the appeal of keeping one's kids in the same location plays a factor in many NBA parents' career planning, league sources told B/R it was Vaughn's negotiations with Griffin that derailed the Nets coach from joining the Pelicans.
>In those talks, which included a dinner in Chicago, Griffin previewed the same level of influence he has utilized throughout the executive's tenure in New Orleans, where members of Van Gundy's coaching staff and Alvin Gentry's before his often mentioned Griffin's preferred involvement in areas such as minutes, rotations and skill development, primarily for the players he has drafted since 2019. With Vaughn, sources said, Griffin had specific ideas to fill out the coach's entire assistant group, envisioning Bucks assistant Charles Lee as the associate head coach, plus a starting backcourt of Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Kira Lewis.
>"He wants to have some level of involvement in every decision," one Pelicans voice said.
An excellent write-up of the case and extensive discussion can be found here:
Having read it all I've stumbled upon a weird coincidence which to the best of knowledge has not been mentioned anywhere. I apologize if this has already been looked into.
Turns out the highway spot outside Yakima in the middle of nowhere, where David Lewis' body was found was 10-15 miles away from Hanford site (https://www.hanford.gov/) where they had produced weapon-grade plutonium for nuclear warheads during Cold War. Since 1987 they have been cleaning up the place apparently.
On the other hand there is a company called Pantex (https://pantex.energy.gov/). It was the biggest manufacturer of nuclear missiles during Cold War, and since the late 1980's it has been disarming them. As a result a lot of plutonium has been buried on their production site. This company and their production facility are located in Amarillo, TX. Which had been, of course, the home of David Lewis, which he left so suddenly. Apparently, Pantex and its enviromental impact was a major issue in Amarillo in the early 1990's. Local authorities had even launched a major PR campaign to keep them in business. Here's a documentary on the subject produced by an Amarillo journalist in 1994, a year after David Lewis went missing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-085q_GK5E
That's basically all I've got at the moment. Far from any conclusions. But it is a fascinating case, and one of the major mysteries has been a complete absence of connection between the place where David Lewis' body was found and anything else related to him. Now there's a tentative one. Of course it can be just a weird coincidence. That's why I wanted to share with the community and would appreciate any input.
Like he obviously did it, but god damn, death penalty? No fucking way. Dude is intellectually disabled, never got the support he needed and coped with illicit substances and alcohol which probably impaired his reaction when Myrtle walked in on him. Looking for reason or whatever in that case is just stupid. Especially considering how many idiots go hunting drunk, and the amount of accidents happen because of that. Capital punishment is just fucking irrational. Also his uncle seems like a piece of shit that abused the lack of understanding reality Lewis had. Dude needs a stable positive surrounding and he could be decent. This one infuriates me this much because it’s so possible to turn the guy around. Like so many others are lost causes and deserve help but within the confines of prison, but this guy probably could still be able to be a decent dude??
Edit: my reasoning being, if he’s that easily manipulated then through therapy and positive reinforcement it could literally go the complete opposite direction (under supervision of someone deemed a „good influence“, which is admittedly hard to define)
For instance if knowledge is factive, how can we consider what we know to be sets of possible worlds?
I just read this book and found it totally fascinating and eye-opening. I don't know anything about anthropology, rock art, neuroscience, etc, and I'm curious how experts evaluate his conclusions.
Though he was Protestant, he loved this Catholic teaching.
Funny that a man so Protestant pushed the value of Purgatory. You don’t expect it. But there C.S. Lewis is, saying in one of his last books, “I believe in Purgatory.” Lewis explains why in Letters to Malcolm, a book of letters to a fictitious friend published just after Lewis died. He liked Dante’s picture in the Purgatory section of his Divine Comedy. He didn’t like the way some later writers presented Purgatory as what he called “temporary Hell.” He took that to be “the Romish doctrine,” because he didn’t understand the difference between the Church’s teaching and the way some people present it. No, he said, not that, and most of us would agree. Those writers really are grim compared with, say, Pope Benidict XVI inSpe Salvi.
Lewis liked the idea of Purgatory as a place of purification. John Henry Newman’s long poem “The dream of Gerontius” helped him make sense of it. This gets at one of the things that make his books so powerful, and so useful for Catholics despite their being so Protestant. Lewis had a Catholic sense that you must be what God made you to be. The Church doesn’t just want you saved from your sins. She wants you to be made holy. In fact, God making you holy is the way He saves you from your sins. The Church knows that making you holy isn’t magic, that you’ll need reshaping and that will hurt. It’s not just a matter of wiping away your debt. It’s a matter of making you a person who doesn’t go into debt. Lewis’ sense of this is why even though a Protestant, he liked the Catholic promise of Purgatory.
Our souls demand Purgatory
“Our souls demand Purgatory,” Lewis writes Malcolm. “Would it not break the heart if God said to us, ‘It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy’?” Yes, he believes, it would break the heart. We would tell God that we’d rather be cleaned up first, he said, even if it hurt. We want Purgatory because we know we need purging. We look at Jesus who is perfect Goodness and desperately want to be perfectly good ourselves, no matter what it costs, no matter how long it takes. We want to be just like our hero. It won’t be easy, though. “I assume that the process of purification will normally involve suffering,” Lewis says. The Christian tradition tells him this, but he also knows it from his own life. “Most real go
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A very long post where some of the ‘how’ is known but none of the ‘why’. There aren't a huge number of sources available for this convoluted case so I hope everything is accurate. There’s some jumping between timelines and investigations but fingers crossed it’s still possible to follow. Disclaimer: I’m not American and am unfamiliar with all places involved in this case. I’ve done searches to familiarise myself with distances/travel possibilities but any further insight would be great!
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When David Glenn Lewis’ wife and 9 year old daughter returned home from a weekend shopping trip to Dallas on January 31st 1993 and found David missing with freshly made sandwiches in the fridge, they had no idea that across the country David was hours away from being found as an unidentified John Doe. The man had been seen walking down a Washington highway before being killed in a hit-and-run.
Though the hit-and-run victim’s identity is now known and his cause of death well-established, questions remain surrounding why David Glenn Lewis headed to Washington that weekend, and several other puzzle pieces regarding David’s last movements continue to be up in the air.
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Background
David Glenn Lewis was born in Borger, Texas in 1953, the second of two children to Hershel and Esther Lewis. David graduated from high school in 1972 and from there went to Texas Tech University, where he was an Honours student and graduated with a degree in political science. David continued on to Texas Tech University Law School, gaining a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1979.
David practiced as an attorney in Amarillo, Texas, and was a member of the American Bar Association. He married his wife Karen in 1981 and their only child, a daughter, was born a couple of years later. David was a member of a local church, a Sunday School teacher, a member of the director’s board for the Dumas Community Education Advisory Council and a district chairman involved in the Boy Scouts of America. David was said to be a dedicated family man and charity volunteer who was close to his parents and brother.
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David goes missing
Super Bowl weekend of 1993, David’s wife and daughter headed from their home in Amarillo to Dallas, around 400 miles away, for a weekend of shopping. They departed Amarillo on the 28th of January, leaving
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