Barbarian Philosophy

@ajsjohnston God bless you for this. My elderly parents are in Highlands. I'm overseas, all I can do is pray and hope I hear from them soon.

My heart's with my impacted family and friends, and yours too. You'll all be in my prayers in the coming days and through recovery. And mom...sorry for causing a ruckus on the internet. It's 'cause I love you. 💖

Not a lot of info available for the Highlands/Franklin/Dillard/Cashiers, NC areas right now, so starting a thread for anyone who might need it, and for my own organization! Feel free to use what you need :)

No clue what he's blabbering about, but this is a pro-Barbarian account and we will ALWAYS stand for Barbarian rights against the tide of anti-Barbarian hate. We strongly DENOUNCE the ethnic cleansing of Barbaria. Follow and stay tuned for philosophy from a BARBARIAN perspective

St. Pantaenus the Philosopher (L) of 200AD travelled to India where he reported that the Apostle Bartholomew (R) had preached the gospel in India. He even returned with a copy of the Gospel of Matthew, written in Hebrew, used by Bartholomew and preserved by local Christians.

This passage also has some relation to arguments in the Divine Names of St. Dionysius the Areopagite. What did St. Pantaenus know?

There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye. It reveals a high level of Christian theological sophistication in the 2nd half of the 2nd century. It implies a doctrine of creatio ex nihilo & a theological exegesis of Plato's Parmenides—a hallmark of later Neoplatonism.

@owenbroadcast Creation from preexistent matter was a fairly common idea in the ancient world (creatio ex nihilo was virtually only a Christian thing). St. Pantaenus made an airtight argument against it that has gone almost unnoticed for two millennia. I'm planning an article about it this week

one alternative is creation “ex deo”, God making the universe from himself. we will not be exploring that here. in mormonism, theres a third option, which i have generally not seen presented elsewhere. creation ex materia: God makes the universe from stuff thats … just there.

[mormon creationism and parenting] in Christian theology, God creates the universe from nothing. its called ‘creation ex nihilo’: God makes the universe ‘from scratch’ - literally from “no thing”. its basically the ultimate God like ability. its one of his defining features. …