Origin of Logos

One Greek word that has never been translated well into English—in my limited understanding—is eudaimonia. It is typically translated as happiness but that word has connotations that don’t fully capture the original Greek. Eudaimonia means to be in possession of a good daimon, to house a good spirit, to live well. And in the Anglophone world, happiness is such a fleeting experience or state. It’s one of the many reasons it’s difficult to measure happiness because of how the complexities of the modern world infect and influence one’s state of being. People are lucky to feel happy or fulfilled a few times a day during the hurly burly of this technological and attention diverting dystopia. Having to pay bills, not having the money to cover said bills or being so detracted by news that does not immediately affect us unavoidably dampens our moods. And moods, which happiness happens to be one of, are sporadic and transient. We often forget that we are living beings who are lucky to be breathing in the first place. And I would argue that eudaimonia has to be embodied and nourished by the human spirit. It cannot be so easily blunted by the so called “advancement” of humanity. Just a thought.

@tweetsfromstar @jstlk_ He doesnt want you UNTIL you’ve slept with Destiny first. You know this 😉

Can someone please ask @jstlk_ if he's trying to do what he did with 🍒 to me? I'm scared 🥺

@CollegeDems There’s a rumor that you both prevented Destiny and his fans from entering the recent convention because Hasan was petrified of them AND that there was also a planned walk out of Hasan’s speech that you prohibited from taking place. If these are true, it would mean you both kept people out of the convention and forbade people from leaving for unethical—some may say undemocratic—reasons. Care to explain?

@faceuh8 You’re just wrong. David Lynch doesnt have a worst movie.

The thing about LOST HIGHWAY is that it might be Lynch's worst movie, which means it's really really good. Some tremendously effective and deeply unsettling moments and images.

After marinating over this for a few days, I’m now positively convinced that Tenet is Nolan’s worst film. Why? Because it is all empty mechanics with no heart. No soul. In a way, Tenet is Inception without the human motive driving it: both movies are made up mostly of exposition describing the rules of the world and the goal of its “protagonists.” However, Inception works because we are given reasons to care for Cobb’s quest to reunite with his children. We also see into his past revealing why he is prohibited from being with them and it’s emotional and human. In Tenet, however, there are no characters to care about. The main character—literally called The Protagonist—is a blank slate with no history or background. The only character with any semblance of a human connection is Kat but her story and character are so undercooked we are given no time to fully care about her circumstance. Because Nolan needs to spend more time having the “Protagonist” jumping from country to country meeting other blank slate characters or hammering us with confusing and pointless exposition dumps.  In the beginning one of the film’s NPCs—in a way the movie unravels like a bad video game—tells the “Protagonist” not to understand the rules, but feel them. Even this demand is completely thrown out the window. The film is all explaining, no feeling.

youtube.com/shorts/4q0FRS9… One of those rare masterpieces

David is ultimately a more dynamic and deceitful person. Arguably the first true Machiavellian in literature. A movie about his rise and struggle with power—made by an auteur and not some hack religious filmmaker—would put most films to shame.

@Zhugarite I’m just here to warn you some unsavory and loathsome people will be commenting on how you’re just temu Erudite. I dont believe it, but it’s good to preempt what the lunatics will say

does this mog or nah

Cormac McCarthy would have turned 93 today. R.I.P. to the GOAT!

@tweetsfromstar Probably because you were out having fun in the real world and socializing. You know, normal human things lol

We went to karaoke last night. Why are people mad?

@PhilipDBunn @WhickTv @JayDyer Why did you hurt his feelings??? Did you conflate relativism with subjectivism or confuse absolutism with objectivism with him?? 😉

Today on his stream @JayDyer said he’s having trouble getting people to step up to debate him on these topics. I would gladly debate him on monarchy vs republicanism, but he blocked me after our little tiff about Hegel. If someone can convince him to unblock me, I’m here.

@bernardtjoy I hope you’re not referring to me because qualia is taken seriously by Plato although he didnt call it that 😉

The way we believe in subjectivity today is frighteningly close to how the pre-Socratic Sophists thought of similar issues and I consider that to be a serious regression.

@PhilipDBunn @PartySammael No point arguing. Cognitive dissonance cant be reasoned with lol

@PartySammael I know reading is hard for commies still in middle school, so can I suggest Wikipedia as a good starting point?

'a commie suit'

@bernardtjoy Hell, even Faulkner would like a word with you lol

@LogosOrigin That’s a complex word.

Nothing is subjective.

@PhilipDBunn The standing ovation got me 😂😂😂

No conservative could possibly have come up with a self-parody of the left this good. College Democrats invite an openly socialist China simp as a speaker, and he shows up in a commie suit. Incredible.

@colditioner Sorry, but there are weak spots here: Insomnia, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, Tenet are weak movies.

Which director has the longest run of masterpieces?

@bernardtjoy Oh, so you did see it.

@LogosOrigin I can. I did.

Anyone who tells you they enjoyed Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is telling you lies. This is not an opinion. You can take this to the bank. It is not open for debate.

@bernardtjoy Cant spout an absolute statement like that if you havent even seen the film.

@LogosOrigin That's my authentic opinion.