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"I suppose you're right," Socrates said.
"Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said.
(Symp. 206e)
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Pymander's ghost
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Pymander's ghost
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@AkhilKumarSaho8 Incorrect, this is not the modern town but the archaeological site; visible here are the pillars of the 4th c pronaos. The Castalian spring is a 5 minute walk from the sacred way which led here. Read Scott’s Delphi
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Today’s view from Delphi.
“Looking therefore at God, we should make use of him as the most beautiful mirror, and among human concerns we should look at the virtue of the soul; and thus, by so doing, shall we not especially see and know our very selves?” (1 Alc. 133c)
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@Curious_Rum It rained just enough to provide a rainbow, most auspiciously
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@pymandersghost Hope it wasn't raining. Zeus has been fucking with us the past month
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“Apollo is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel (ὀμφαλοῦ) of the earth, and he is the interpreter (ἐξηγητής) of religion for all mankind.” (Rep. 427b)
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Today’s view from Delphi. “Looking therefore at God, we should make use of him as the most beautiful mirror, and among human concerns we should look at the virtue of the soul; and thus, by so doing, shall we not especially see and know our very selves?” (1 Alc. 133c)
'He himself is both that which is, and that which is not...'
(Corpus Hermeticum, V.9)
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“OK, so you know this wonderful Sufi joke, *schniff*. A guy goes to a master and says proudly, ‘I have realized the truth—I am nothing.’ And the master replies, ‘Look who is saying he is nothing!’
Here, *shirtpull* you have the entire problem of ideology.
But, but how? You see,
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The master, he knows this trick of selfhood, you know. He is not saying the man is still too much of a self.
He is saying something *schniff* much more terrifying.
The subject is nothing already—and the problem is that we try to turn this nothingness into a positive identity.
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@cappadocianisms Ah but if O'Connell is correct (as I suspect he is) Augustine's foray into allegorical commentary on Genesis was done when he still believed in pre-existence.
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allegorical reading of genesis naturally follows from any logically consistent rejection of preexistence of souls.
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We are also the most over-taxed, over-legislated, and mass-surveilled population in history and people will look you dead in the eye and express their sincere belief that man under conditions of democracy has never been so free. Progress is the founding myth of modernity.
Edmund@Kulambq
It's difficult not to see it as a kind of dystopia. What's truly remarkable is how reflexively people defend it by saying, 'but you have to make a living,' as though that somehow ends the discussion. At some point, quietly and without much debate, 'making a living' came to mean little more than submitting to corporate authority for most of one's waking hours. The really strange part is how completely we've been persuaded this arrangement is simply common sense.
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“And therefore restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superanuated peece of folly.”
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A visit to Thomas Browne in Norfolk today. Something immensely fitting about the degradation surrounding the monument to his memory.
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To renounce external attainment is relatively simple, even and often facilitated by circumstance. But to renounce internal attainment, that is the ultimate trial.
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@Bozartian @StarkConor Such a tendency, namely the collapse of the first to the second, is basically prompted, in my view, by the identification of Christ as Nous on the one hand and then the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity on the other working in concert.
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@Bozartian @StarkConor … and one I alluded to originally is what Victorinus does with the intelligible triad and applying it to the Trinity; the Platonic reader might find this a baffling move and it is, but one upshot is that Victorinus’ God looks more like the second hypostasis than the first.
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Both Beierwaltes and Gersh think that what is distinctive about Christian (Dionysius’s) theology, viewed from a Platonic perspective, is the effective Trinitarian collapse of the first and second hypotheses from Plato’s Parmenides.
This seems plausible to me.
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@lordofjingles The Watson translation of Linji just came in the mail today
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@pymandersghost "Linji came up to Mount Huangbo in the middle of the summer session.
Seeing Huangbo reading a sutra, he said, “I always used to think you were
a man. Now I see you’re just a black-bean-eating old priest!”
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Morning book, book for language practice, and actual read. More than this is too much at once.
Edmund@Kulambq
I used to read several books at once (add to this PDF documents, essays, poems, etc.); my desk was always strewn with volumes, it still is, to be frank. I could never quite resist the temptation to begin another before finishing the last. Something was always beckoning from the corner of the table, another voice waiting to be heard. Yet I began to notice my attention slipping, my thoughts straying toward the next book, leaving me elsewhere, faintly restless. Lately, I've tried to limit myself to just a few books at a time and have found that this narrowing fosters a steadier attention and, with it, a deeper and more enduring imaginative pleasure in the act of reading.
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"Thus the priests, acting like angels, remove all that obstructs us in our perception of higher reality, while the sophists, by exercising us in contradictory refutations, excise in the fashion of daemons the injury caused by the false conceit of knowledge."
- Proclus
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"During your daily activities twenty-four hours a day, you shouldn't hold to birth and death and the Buddha Path as existent, nor should you deny them as nonexistent. Just contemplate this: A monk asked Chao Chou, "Does a dog have Buddha-nature or not?" Chao Chu said, "No.""
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"This one word "no" is a knife to sunder the doubting mind of birth and death. The handle of this knife is in one's own hand alone: you can't have anyone else wield it for you..."
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