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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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@PunishedAbammon He mentioned an experience with Hathor (?)
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“On the way from Delphi to the summit of Parnassus… The ascent to the Corycian cave is easier for an active walker than it is for mules or horses... of all the caves I have ever seen this seemed to me the best worth seeing” (Pausanias 10.32.2)
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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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@PunishedAbammon I did not but there was a Dutchman who I met inside who had been incubating there for about two months…
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@Outisemoi Incredible. We had it much easier; it’s a stunning journey.
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@pymandersghost When I went, the snow reached up to my waist in some stretches. It was worth it.
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@SydSteyerhart “Not interested in this post” has to be used as liberally as possible
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In terms of information density per 280 characters, there's probably more value in doomscrolling Twitter than in reading most books.
The key is to curate a timeline where slop engagement is rare. Increasingly difficult but it can be done.
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Definitely indeed “the best worth seeing” but I would not characterise the ascent as “easy”.
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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.
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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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