@paulhoard.bsky.social
Counselor, Associate Professor, Board game enthusiast, author https://paulhoard.substack.com/
Today I am dropping the first of my brother @paulhoard.bsky.social 's Essay in his Lacanian Virtue Ethics Series. I plan to post Paul's essays (with a little additional commentary from me at the end) as my Friday posts for a while.
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A short essay on Lacan and humility
New essay on fidelity and friendship just dropped.
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Thanks for having us!!! Fun to talk with you
14.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had a couple of really good conversations now with @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social regarding their new book, Eucontamination. This one is focused more on the Bible and theology.
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09.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“For if we ever fully belonged—if we were completed—we would lose the very condition that makes love possible.”
A thoughtful, provocative essay.
It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.
Thanks!!
06.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
03.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 8876 🔁 3223 💬 231 📌 135Eucontamination Ch. 2
(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)
"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."
All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.
29.09.2025 05:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Likewise. Fee free to reach out with any questions or further thoughts!
28.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much for diving in. So appreciate your thoughts and where’s the book takes you!
28.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh my gosh I love this so much!
28.09.2025 12:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0For the record, the technical term for language spoken or written without regard for the truth, designed only to shape the listener's/reader's imagined reality in a particular way is "bullshit".
@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.
If you wait to decide until the federal government calls the question, the temptation to justify making the "safe" decision will be overwhelming.
As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.
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"Authoritarianism treats critique not as feedback, but as infection."
This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....
"Courage is the risk of fidelity when fantasy fails—the act that carries us further than fear would allow, without any guarantee that it will make us whole."
Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.
Thanks, Billie!!!!
11.09.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In our book "Eucontamination" @paulhoard.bsky.social and I talk about the Disgust cycle [nausea—trigger—vomit—rationalize] which drives social expulsion at every level from stigma to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
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Such a fun collaboration!
10.09.2025 23:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!
10.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Oh wow! Thank you so much!!!
10.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yay! Trans woman interviewing another trans woman (and my "token cis" brother @paulhoard.bsky.social ) about our scholarship! Check it out!
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