Tinfoil Hat Puritan
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Tinfoil Hat Puritan
@HatPuritan
a Bible believing, old-fashioned, red meat eating, conspiracy theory woman, and part-time fruit mule. grok summons will be punished 🩶

This is also why Aristotle, and I think he's right about this, ranks 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎 higher than 𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠. This isn't to say that the former is more important than the latter, but that it has a timeless quality to it that the latter lacks. Romantic love, or 𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠, is about shared futures and imagination, things that aren't strictly rooted in the here and now but which aren't exactly timeless either. It actually can fade as potentialities narrow. It is closer to 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒, the love of kin, than friendship is. This sounds odd to some no doubt, but think on the fact that the 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑠 of romantic love is a union that produces children and binds two families together and it makes obvious sense.




















