juliana ong
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juliana ong
I think all romance is an enduring curiosity for another person.
Nix đ ⢠valley of things unsaid
It reveals that as a woman in the world, if you donât decide your needs, they will be decided for you. That without a value system, you can be convinced of anything. That you can get engaged before youâre ready, married before youâve settled on a world-view. That there is a series of misleading narratives and patriarchal pressures that can, if... See more
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, weâre really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, weâre really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg ⢠The Original Sin of Everything
âThere is nothing either good or bad,â as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, âbut thinking makes it so.
Pico Iyer ⢠The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
The theologian Paul Tillich declared that faith is âthe state of being ultimately concerned.â He argued that because each person has something of ultimate concern that defines their life and identity, all people are religiousâeven the atheist. Every person has something in their life that functions as their god. For some, this god-function is
... See moreus2.campaign-archive.com ⢠WITH GOD DAILY - "We Are All Idolaters"
The irony of American TikTok refugees flooding Xiaohongshu in 2025 underscored a deeper reality: that the US internet had become much more like Chinaâs, not the other way around. âIn trying to âprotectâ Americans from China, our gripped-by-moral-panic political class has made us just like China. The government has decided that the only way to... See more
To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet
It is very tempting to believe that because you are twenty-something and struggling, the world is conspiring against you. But sometimes, the pain we feel in life is not from people holding us back, but our own inability to deal with their indifference.3 In other words: no one is out to get you. They just donât care that much. This is both a little... See more
When we make space for the unseen dynamics within relationship, we welcome relational nothingness. We acknowledge that we might not need to know what is the âproblemâ to ask, what is truly present here?