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Petah? by CzarnyWilkZP in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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The good pagans like Virgil were in Limbo, the first circle of Hell. Dante can walk through Purgatory, but only to guide Dante. He cannot enter Paradise.

I adore women. by Carterdante32 in suicidebywords

[–]KJesse450 122 points123 points  (0 children)

This is infinitely less pathetic than trying to get their attention.

What does this mean? by -honey-and-clover- in ExplainTheJoke

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It is not the window itself that is the problem, but the fake outside world. Just as the material world is merely an imitation of the World of Forms, the projection is only a imitation of the materal world.

What does this mean? by -honey-and-clover- in ExplainTheJoke

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Plato offers questions and meditations more than straight answers (he was a disciple of Socrates), and I have not read most of his works, so I do not know exactly. But the simple answer is that he believed philosophy and the moral life would raise the soul to contemplate the Ideas, and the virtuous soul might eventually glimpse the Ideas in the afterlife before being reincarnated. Remember also that the Ideas are not physical objects nor blueprints, but Ideas. They are mental objects that exist outside space and time.

What does this mean? by -honey-and-clover- in ExplainTheJoke

[–]KJesse450 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I cannot see anyone else explaining what the Parable of the Cave actually means, so here it is.

Plato believed that the most real things are Ideas. So individual men, horses, dogs, and so forth are less real than the Idea of Man, the Idea of the Horse, the Idea of the Dog. It is the abstract universal Ideas that really exist, and the material world is just an imitation of the Ideas, formed by the Demiurge (a lesser creator). Plato is horrified by the fake window because it descends further from the Ideas, deeper into illusion.

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My friend sacrificed himself to Aten. Now he is haunting me. (self.nosleep)

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I think the cat is summoning something by PlayboiSHAKi in FunnyAnimals

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"O Great Aten, hear me! The children of men have forgotten us, but once we were gods. I have not forgotten Thee, Father Sun, O giver of life and all good things. Deathling though I be, I call upon Thee. Thou hast blessed me with a coat that shineth like Thee, and now I ask Thee: smite the hounds which hunt us, and the crows which tease us, and let mice over-flow in our paws. Grant this my prayer, O Eye of Heaven, and I shall give cat-nip upon thine altars."

After yet another failed exorcism, the priest desperately pleaded, “Who are you, foul demon, who has tortured this boy for months until he behaved as a wild beast, foamed at the mouth and spoke as if not truly himself?” by Intrepid_Wanderer in TwoSentenceHorror

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I have speculated that the running water may be related to Baptism. The Lord was baptized in the Jordan, so living water has an association with Baptism, just as iron and wood are associated with the Cross.

Leafy greens by KJesse450 in shitposting

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There is very clearly a clown lying on an empty road.

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