#Hermeneutics
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1t2ls.bsky.social
me, freshly showered, arguing with strangers about biblical hermeneutics.

happy friday.
March 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
bkmacd.bsky.social
RIP Roland Barthes you would have loved adversarial hermeneutics
lincolnhello.bsky.social lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · Apr 23
Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:
pcgamer.com PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · Apr 23
The study's authors said they tried to inform LLM providers about the vulnerabilities exposed in their research, but they didn't receive a response.
April 23, 2026 at 5:29 AM
shengokai.blacksky.app
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
medievaliste.bsky.social
ChatGPT-ass hermeneutics
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Feb 4
Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.
Speaker Mike Johnson • • Follow ... X 8h • 0 In the press gaggle following today's vote, I was asked to defend the Biblical case for border security and immigration enforcement. I did so, and then promised to post a longer explanation that I drafted during the Biden Administration. Here it is, and I hope it's helpful: Despite the insistence of the progressive Left, people of all religious faiths should support a strong national border-and Christians CERTAINLY should. Critics are fond of citing particular Bible verses out of context to claim that Christians and Jews are being "unfaithful" if we oppose their radical open borders agenda. It has become increasingly important for us to set this record straight. Perhaps the verse most often cited by the Left is Leviticus 19:34. Whether they know it or not, that passage happens to be from the instructions Moses delivered to the Israelites when they were on their journey through the wilderness in Sinai, before they reached their own Promised Land. The verse reads as follows: "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." (KJV) CONTEXT IS CRITICAL It is, of course, a central premise of Judeo-Christian teaching that strangers should be treated with kindness and hospitality. We are each called to love God first and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Deut. 6:5, Lev. 19:18, Matt. 22:36-40, KJV). However, that "Greatest Commandment" was never directed to the government, but to INDIVIDUAL believers.
February 4, 2026 at 5:15 AM
stevenmazie.bsky.social
The wonder of Trumpian hermeneutics
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
bcdreyer.social
hermeneutics
Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster.
January 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
anyaustin.bsky.social
I did a podcast about the hermeneutics of video games (I do NOT know what that word means and I don't want to) with the wonderful Tyler Cowen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOYj...
Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games | Conversations with Tyler
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June 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
maiamindel.bsky.social
Hermeneutics and its consequences
January 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
bcdreyer.social
hermeneutics

epistemological
September 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
lincolnhello.bsky.social
Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:
April 23, 2026 at 1:23 AM
snowden.st
may I humbly suggest that Woke 2 has a hermeneutics of…generosity?
snowden.st Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 18
The web is thoroughly coated in a “hermeneutics of suspicion” (from folks like Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, etc), but imo the superior choice in a LOT of situations is a “hermeneutics of generosity”
Here's one: we can practice a "hermeneutics of generosity." It's a phrase coined by Dr. Paul Farmer who was a Harvard trained physician who dedicated his life to curing infectious disease in some of the world's poorest countries. He also was a founder of Partners in Health (A book about his life, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," is available). Basically, a hermeneutics of generosity demands that we initially interpret the words, statements and deeds of others in a positive light. "But wait a minute," I can hear someone say, some stuff that people do/say is just wrong." Or, "isn't this the same as 'give everyone the benefit of the doubt?'" Yes, and... "An H of G," as Farmer called it, demands that we remain curious about a person's actions or statements. Because a hermeneutics of generosity is also tethered to a relentless search for the truth, it doesn't let bad actors off the hook. What it does is change our initial posture toward those whose deeds or actions we try to write off as wrong or evil or mean-spirited. We presume they have good intentions, and seek to understand what those intentions are. In the process, we strengthen the relationship, and often guide that other person to a more enlightened perspective, even as we in turn learn from them. Parshat Mishpatim is truly remarkable in the way it juxtaposes the legal, ritual and moral spheres. It seems to tell us that you can't separate out justice from compassion, and that both need to be guided by a spiritual dimension that teaches us we are all connected.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
nakedpastor.bsky.social
When we say "Jesus said...", what we should mean is "Someone said Jesus said."

Basic hermeneutics.
March 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
bakoon.bsky.social
are you people seriously letting an app grip your boner and direct it places. are you honestly granting tech backend teams and software hermeneutics root access to your pussy
May 14, 2026 at 11:53 PM
noiserockdad.bsky.social
"Well well well, look who suddenly wants to do Biblical hermeneutics!"
September 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
mjraskob.bsky.social
the "hermeneutics of suspicion" for politicians' press releases continues to suck.
January 24, 2026 at 9:51 PM
shannonmattern.bsky.social
*hermeneutics!! 🤦‍♀️
May 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
jonathanbfine.bsky.social
I’m adept at hermeneutics and household electrical projects
March 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
louisevans.bsky.social
*nodding* hermeneutics talks about this
gracekind.net Grace @gracekind.net · 25d
Cybernetics is really useful for saying things like "cybernetics talks about this" without providing further insight
September 3, 2026 at 4:48 AM
krausebambo.bsky.social
Love, peace and hermeneutics?
February 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
"you're not supposed to favor the rich or the poor"

ben's hermeneutics here are quite interesting
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 16
I do find Shapiro's understanding of both Nietzsche and Judaism/Christianity to be utterly fascinating (in that I think it's a *really* poor understanding of both):
I actually thought that the weirdest part of the book to me, the part that was the most striking when I got to it, was when you quote Nietzsche on Judaism. And you say this is an incorrect interpretation of Judaism, but you quote Nietzsche writing: It was the Jews who, with awe-inspiring consistency, dared to invert the aristocratic value equation: Good equals noble, equals powerful, equals beautiful, equals happy, equals beloved of God. And to hang on to the inversion with their teeth, saying: The wretched alone or the good. The poor, impotent, lonely alone are the good. The suffering, deprived, sick, ugly, alone or pious, alone or blessed by God. And you disagree with Nietzsche that’s the right interpretation of Judaism and then ultimately of Christianity. And I also think that it’s an immoral view of the world. Right. This is what I want to get at. I do not think that poverty somehow creates value in humans more than riches create value in humans. What you do in the world is what makes you a good or a bad person. I agree with that, actually. I both understand that and agree with that. And that’s why I say that Nietzsche is wrong, by the way. Because the Bible explicitly says you’re not supposed to favor the rich or the poor.
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
it's cool that everyone has to have Straussian hermeneutics to understand politics now
abeardedpanda.bsky.social Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Aug 27
Another great (actually awful) aspect of the right being products of 4chan and qanon is that they use obscure memes and hide 1488 references in social media releases and if you try to explain that everyone looks at you like a crazy person because "no normal person would use hidden code like this"
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 26
i don't think it's great that DHS is posting obscure New Right memes
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
maiamindel.bsky.social
the pope is the world's most prominent practitioner of hermeneutics it seems
ryankturnbull.bsky.social RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · May 25
Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:
May 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM
lollardfish.bsky.social
Listen philosopher! No one wants your Ontology today! Peddle your hermeneutics somewhere else!
April 17, 2024 at 12:31 PM
teyaric.bsky.social
"ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS"

What A Phrase.
April 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM
shengokai.blacksky.app
Quick definition: hermeneutics are the ways we engage in interpretation of a text. The texts in question here are user posts and the TOS. On this view, hermeneutics are essential to the task of moderation and are (in my view) why we shouldn't hand moderation over to a machine.
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM