nagaram
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- Comment on I know this is more Historiography than history, but roll with it 15 hours ago:
A Plato ass move
Context: Plato’s conception of gods was that they couldn’t lie because they were actually necessarily good.and things that were wholly good have no reason to decieve. They don’t even shape shift!
In the Republic, Plato says we should rewrite myths so that this truth was pushed and not the slander of poets. Further we should restrict what poets can write in his ideal republic (though this is more of a metaphor for how to live a good life than a literal outline of his ideal republic, its still kinda shitty of him and I’m not really sure if there’s a better interpenetration).
- Comment on Reading how he came up is like watching Johnny Rotten advertise butter, if advertising butter was as bad as debasing currency 1 day ago:
To consider debasement of currency as bad I must first respect the concept of cash capital.
Therefore, Diogenes is based.
- Comment on Cats are the best 1 day ago:
I love my cats, but I’d rather my neighborhood have birds.
- Comment on Fym you use leavened bread? 4 days ago:
That, the relationship to mysticism, giving sermons in Greek instead of Latin, translation disagreements with the bible
It was a few things, but I also want to believe it was the bread.
Also I was raised by Catholics but in hindsight the eastern Orthodox seems much more based and I say they were in the right