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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

@kingsepp

Catholic Homeschool Dad. Classics, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Saxons, Theology, Philosophy, Languages, Tolkien, D&D, Africa, Baltics, 🇩🇪🇪🇪🇱🇻🇮🇪–🇺🇸, pro🇺🇦

Washington, DC–ish Katılım Nisan 2008
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
The media cycle is an invention of modernity, as is its corollary: the lie that you are obligated to express an opinion about every news item. There is more legitimate outrage in the world than it is healthy for you to be outraged about. Turn off the spigot and read Books.
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Joshua D Phillips
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
“Oh. You want to be an English major?!” “Yes.” “Great! Here’s some books to read.” “No.” 🙄
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@OurLadyofAntifa Seems reasonable. :-) I try to read aloud anything that seems to care about its own sound (e.g. poetry, but also prose like Tolkien), but even when I cant, I tend to read at least part of it to myself in the author's dialect, to get the sound they were going for.
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Stan of Cleves
Stan of Cleves@OurLadyofAntifa·
@kingsepp Very possibly the dorkiest thing about me: I used to read aloud to myself a lot, and when I was reading British authors I would do an RP accent, and when I would go on long tears reading C. S. Lewis (as I often did), RP pronunciations would start to tinge my normal speech
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
I memorized a mere 20 or so lines from Beowulf many years ago, and even that made the poem land differently. Reciting from memory gives you a surprisingly different experience of what a poem is saying than merely reading it on a page. Even reading aloud > reading quietly.
Grǣġhama@grahamscheper

A year ago today, I achieved my goal of being able to recite 1,000 lines of Beowulf from memory: youtube.com/watch?v=ymkK9j… These days, because of my pigritia and signifigantly busier life, I can only get to about line 750 before I have to reference a book, so hopefully I can reconquer some lost territory in that regard in the coming months. Either way, I'm extremely grateful to my past self for brute-forcing through it; the experience permanently transformed my ability to understand Beowulf and the rhythm of Old English verse in a totally unique and irreplicable way. Memorize poetry!!

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@JesusHeals247 You work 7 days a week? Every church I know has daily mass in the morning, and Mass on Saturday.
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Jesus Heals
Jesus Heals@JesusHeals247·
For daily Mass please make the times accessible to people who have jobs. I hear so often the “there’s such low attendance” but the mass times are 9:00am, 11:30am, noon, 5:00pm If someone works from 8-5 with noon lunch none of those times work. #EarlyMorningMassPlease
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Joshua Charles🇻🇦
Joshua Charles🇻🇦@JoshuaTCharles·
The latest in the Eternal Christendom Typology series. This time: the Old and New Covenant Priesthoods!
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@AviWoolf Hear hear. The modern trend of anti-traditionalism is a fad. It has done a grave disservice to many, but it won't survive.
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Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺
Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺@AviWoolf·
Tradition and traditional living should never be a fad. Fads die out much faster than traditions. Live traditionally and embody it, attention or no.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@BrianCerv1 @AviWoolf For sure. And Enlightenment thinkers and (dare I say) "influencers" were much more comfortable with their debt to classical thought than medieval. Better to credit the ancient pagans than those benighted papists!
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BCerv@BrianCerv1·
@kingsepp @AviWoolf One of Peter Gay's volumes on the Enlightenment is called The Rise of Modern Paganism. It emphasizes the classical roots of Enlightenment thought.
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Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺
Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺@AviWoolf·
Is it just me or are the classically inclined not fans of the Enlightenment thinkers? I don't think I've ever seen a discussion of Kant, for instance, in that discourse. Maybe Hegel.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@AviWoolf In the same spirit, you get urban legends like medieval witch trials, which, akshually, were an Enlightenment-era Protestant thing, not a medieval thing. Or the nonsense about medievals thinking the world was flat. Everyone knew the Greeks had done the math to prove it's round.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@AviWoolf E.g.: the scientific method didn't spring, Athena-like, fully formed from Enlightenment thinkers. It was worked out over centuries by trial and error, by medieval polymaths, a striking number of which were Catholic priests or monks.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@AviWoolf Having said that, there's real insight to be found in every age, and some of the most exciting discussions I've had involved integrating insights from classical and modern thought. Like, imagining where modern psychology would fit into Aristotle's Ethics.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@AviWoolf I'm generally a fan of classical and medieval thought. There was a lot of good in the Enlightenment, but most of it was a continuation, not a break, from the middle ages, and the very name is propaganda against medieval learning (and mainly against Catholics).
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@JoshuaTCharles @DcnCharlie Cool. Visualization is always harder than it looks, and you don't always know if something will work until you see it, and even then everyone sees things differently. It's still a useful image that I'll use in my homeschool.
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Joshua Charles🇻🇦
Joshua Charles🇻🇦@JoshuaTCharles·
@kingsepp @DcnCharlie I appreciate it. We experimented with multiple arrangements, each of which had their upsides and downsides. Will probably provide several versions in the future.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp·
@JoshuaTCharles @DcnCharlie I love your work, so take this as brotherly brainstorming: Maybe you could put the priests slightly higher than the Levites/deacons so they're all in kind of mirrored scalene triangles. I definitely didn't notice which way everyone was facing until it was pointed out. :-)
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Joshua Charles🇻🇦
Joshua Charles🇻🇦@JoshuaTCharles·
@kingsepp @DcnCharlie I figured the direction of their faces would make it obvious. :) The types and the fulfillments looking at each other in a fruitful gaze. We’ve done that with past illustrations as well.
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Joshua Charles🇻🇦
Joshua Charles🇻🇦@JoshuaTCharles·
Not 100% sure what you are saying. But no, the bottom row is not backward. Levites were the lowest grade of the Levitical clergy, aligning with deacons in the Catholic clergy. They were known as “Levites,” which yes, every member of the tribe of Levi could also be called a “Levite.” The term was used in both ways.
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Ed@EdsSpambaitDeux·
@JoshuaTCharles @cancelwok3 Does the type still work as permanent deacons disappeared in the west until the past few decades? I’m guessing yes since transitional deacons still existed. This came up in class recently.
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Giorgis SR
Giorgis SR@GeorgeR64520·
@JoshuaTCharles The true typology is High Priest -> Jesus Priests -> All believers ...in the order of Melchizedek, not Aaron.
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Michael Glowacki
Michael Glowacki@MichaelGlowacki·
@JoshuaTCharles Nice! I want to see that document. Just asking as a somewhat unlearned person… Where do the scribe, rabbi, or Pharisee fit in the typology?
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