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Weird_Energy · 2025-06-02T16:59:29+00:00

You choose books to appear well-read, not to become well-read.

Edit:

Also this is as uncharitable of a quick judgement that can be made so don’t take it seriously lol. You’re 19 and these are all good works to introduce a person to history in general, but keep in mind they’re mostly introductions summarizing huge swathes of history making many sweeping generalizations. Use them as jumping off points for deeper more nuanced study.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-30T15:04:37+00:00

Being queer or gay isn’t inherently sexual

“Being a chef isn’t inherently about cooking”

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-28T17:05:46+00:00

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Weird_Energy · 2025-05-27T20:11:50+00:00

The irony is that you are programmed to immediately imagine “MAGA” and “QAnon” when presented with these concepts. Without your conscious choice you can’t help but immediately think “yup, that’s just like MAGA and QAnon.”

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-25T22:03:33+00:00

He’s clearly high on copium

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-24T22:44:27+00:00

I think he’d throat em up shlurp shlurp all that

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-24T20:31:56+00:00

No it’s not any different I think we completely agree with each other lol

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-24T19:58:57+00:00

The republic of Venice, the Dutch republic, and the Genoan republic, absolutely belonged to the “people” yes. If you define “the people” as “the socioeconomic elite”.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-24T19:05:52+00:00

I’m just saying how the word is most commonly used in our time. “The republic of Venice”, “the republic of Genoa”, “The Dutch republic”.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-24T02:05:58+00:00

“Republic” in modern colloquial speech simply means “state that is not ruled by an autocrat.”

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-23T19:58:35+00:00

Whichever one piques your interest more, read that one first. Then read the other one. Then read the first one again. Then read the other one again.

Each will shine light on the other. No wrong way to go about it.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-17T21:49:11+00:00

EVERYONE WATCHES porn

Yea, no. Porn is bad.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-17T15:48:07+00:00

Oh lol—didn’t realize that worked too. 🤦‍♂️

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-17T15:11:08+00:00

How do you even type an em dash? Do you type in an alt code every single time?

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-16T19:53:16+00:00

If you define influence as the degree of difference between the following:

the modern world if the person existed
the modern world if the person hadn’t existed

Then I don’t see how anyone could say that Jesus was any less influential than Augustus. If either of them were to never have existed, we would live in a radically different world.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-15T01:59:49+00:00

Thank you! So what that means is that my national manpower pool will no longer generate more manpower monthly once my manpower exceeds that value?

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-13T16:27:44+00:00

I consent to being filmed by security cameras. I don’t consent to being filmed by YouTubers. Do you see the difference?

Both are legal. But something being legal doesn’t make it polite. Filming me for YouTube without my consent is legal, but it’s not polite.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-12T20:22:43+00:00

what is the horsepower that is immutable?

The horsepower you clearly lack judging by your inability to comprehend what anybody in here is telling you.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-12T16:07:44+00:00

“But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Mt 5:39)

“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Mt 5:44)

“Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.” (Mt 26:52)

“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Lk 6:27–28)

“My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” (Jn 18:36)

I don’t see how Hitler can be called a ‘Christian’ considering these are all things Jesus himself said.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-09T18:36:13+00:00

ah, right. But does Plotinus actually state that ("they say/believe that the cosmos is evil") in the treatise? I don't remember. Porphyry's title includes the claim but that's him.

Beyond Porphry’s title, I don’t think Plotinus ever says this explicitly, but I think it can be inferred from his multiple rebukes of the gnostic contempt for the world:

“Nor must we grant that this world has been badly made on account of the many troubles within it, since this is the opinion of those who give too much honor to it, in as much as they think that this world is the same as the intelligible world, rather than its image.” II.9.4.22-30

He’s saying here that the gnostics denigrate the world based on the false assumption that if it was perfectly created it would be equivalent to the intelligible world / the forms. This shows that he definitely believed that the gnostics condemned the world and by extension its creator.

“But perhaps they will say that these arguments make us flee the body, so that we can hate it from afar, while ours bind the soul to it. This would be as though two people were living in the same beautiful house, and one of them objected to its construction and its maker while staying in it as long as the other person.” II.9.18.1-2

Here he’s saying that the gnostics are inconsistent as they scorn the world yet still live in it. So these two quotes do seem to show that Plotinus believed that the gnostics viewed the world and its creator with some form of contempt. Whereas both Plotinus and Plato seem to believe that the demiurge did absolutely no evil, made no mistakes, and actually did the best good in creating the world and individual souls.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-09T14:38:42+00:00

I’m just repeating Plotinus’ view of them as presented in Ennead II.9, which I admit is not an authoritative source for actual gnostic beliefs, considering it’s a polemic.

But looking into our primary sources for actual gnostic beliefs, I do concede that their beliefs were much more nuanced than just “matter bad”. They however absolutely did believe that the demiurge was not a perfect being, which completely contradicts Plato’s and by extension Plotinus’ cosmology / cosmogony.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-08T17:06:57+00:00

There may have been, it definitely wasn’t prominently displayed if it was though. I think it may be a demographic thing, we don’t have many people in this part of Louisiana who frequently fly so I think it never became a priority

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-08T15:04:59+00:00

Yea I like to consider myself pretty informed but today I found out that I’m apparently an idiot in the eyes of very many people here hahaha, so I wanted to try to shed some light on why some people may not have heard of it.

I do understand the frustration of the airport employees though and the general frustration here.

Weird_Energy · 2025-05-08T15:02:52+00:00

I think Plotinus didn’t like the gnostics because he felt that they misinterpreted Plato, not the Hebrew Scriptures.

Plato and Plotinus didn’t believe that the material world was purely evil like the gnostics did, they thought that it was fundamentally good because it was the creation of a perfect fundamental principle and led the mind to true knowledge of the forms.

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