Josiah Watson

@PAHoyeck This is the craziest thing I've ever read. A pro is that I could finish The Brothers Karamazov in an hour

Sorry, people on Booktok do WHAT??

@PAHoyeck I'm at like 25 books this year but only 4 of those are philosophy. It's impossible to breeze through analytic philosophy books.

Reminds me of the CS Lewis quote on chivalry: “The word chivalry has meant at different times a good many different things, from heavy cavalry to giving a woman a seat in a train. But if we want to understand chivalry as an ideal distinct from other ideals, if we want to isolate that particular conception of the man, comme il faut (as it should be), which was the special contribution of the Middle Ages to our culture, we cannot do better than turn to the words addressed to the greatest of all the imaginary knights in Malory's Morte D'arthur. 'Thou wert the meekest man', says Sir Ector to the dead Launcelot. 'Thou were the meekest man that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.' The important thing about this ideal is, of course, the double demand it makes on human nature. The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. When Launcelot heard himself pronounced the best knight in the world, 'he wept as he had been a child that had been beaten'...The medieval ideal brought together two things which have no natural tendency to gravitate towards one another. It brought them together for that very reason. It taught humility and forbearance to the great warrior because everyone knew by experience how much he usually needed that lesson. It demanded valour of the urbane and modest man because everyone knew that he was as likely as not to be a milksop. In so doing, the Middle Ages fixed on the one hope of the world. It may or may not be possible to produce by the thousand men who combine the two sides of Launcelot's character. But if it is not possible, then all talk of any lasting happiness or dignity in human society is pure moonshine.”

@JoshRainerGold Conrad is quite a bit leaner than the others.

These people were not skinny they were lean and athletic with good muscle tone, bone structure, and posture. They don’t really exist anymore due to modern food and weightlifting trends so people now are either very muscular, very skinny, or fat. This is normal and healthy.

@BayouHuguenot That was a very solid book. Once you understand the DCW, you realize the early church was highly attuned to it.

From McDermott

@RachelXReads It really is a powerful reminder. Thanks for sharing

@josiahwatson99 I don't know about a favorite wise saying, but my favorite psalm is 34. It has gotten me through some ugly times.

Does anyone else have any? Here is one of my favorite verses in the Psalms. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. (Ps. 90:12)

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

I will say I try to be pretty healthy and don't drink whatsoever. But I think we are much more resilient than that. There is something about telling yourself that you are well rested after getting two hours of sleep that night, and automatically responding better. We tend to put arbitrary limits on ourselves. While we should make bad decisions a habit, we can overcome a bad night's sleep or drinking 3 glasses of wine.

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

Thanks to him, I've started my own common place books. My favorite thing about starting is that you serendipitously start memorizing your favorite poems or passages from a book. My handwriting is slowly improving too, which is not saying much lol.

@JohnnyWatson3 @blurayangel I checked out during season 2

@blurayangel Correct. Power scaling was so off as well. It made the show incoherent.

The Problem With Homelander’s Writing in The Boys Finale 🤔

@HistoryWJacob Jackson was a baller.

Before becoming President, Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel for insulting his wife. The man shot first and hit Jackson near the heart. Jackson calmly took aim and fired back. "If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him."

@stanbrown32 @JosephRardin Hemming's* spell check has been evil lately lol

@stanbrown32 @JosephRardin I still don't really believe in Thomas Jefferson and the Hemingses' relationship. I think Randolph Jefferson is a more plausible candidate, for it seems to fit his character more.

Imagine being one of the top historians of the War for Independence and writing this downer for the 250th. Some historians in America just love being negative about our country, don't they.

@JosephRardin @stanbrown32 Also, my memory could be faulty... I could be confusing him with someone else.

@JosephRardin @stanbrown32 In his appendix of "American Spinx," if memory serves me correctly, he rendered the relationship implausible. Where did he say otherwise?

Gerald McDermott in *God's Rivals* was writing about the Divine Council in 2007, almost ten years before Heiser. Yet Heiser invented this.

Michael Heiser on why he was never going to debate James White on Psalm 82, and I think he makes a really good point that exposes White’s scholarship.

@DPGBehler One of White's tactics has to hold his expertise of Semitic languages over people. He got real quite after this because he obviously was not even in the same league in regards of Heiser. It was a pretty amusing thing to watch.

@pxrasite_ I do on Adobe.

Who reads pdf omg