Beautifully put. It is like dreams. The phenomenology of posting: You're not consciously choosing to elide this, or add that, but it sort of feels rig...
I don't think you should care about any of it. And I should check myself here. If you grew up in a problematic religious community, then I have no rig...
He is, that's the name I was grasping for - but at the end of the day, why's he doing it? I've watched many interviews with him, when I was reading th...
Old testament, & new! You know a shit ton about it, but what would be most interesting is how you organize that knowledge to put forth a novel approac...
I am interested in the relationship between pessimism and religion. It doesn't surprise me that, as a pessimist, you're into the context of Christ - w...
You've done due diligence, don't get me wrong. I"m vaguely familiar with the pre-existing idea of a 'Christ' - and its relationship to NT scripture - ...
oh ok you're doing that dude's thing. Yeah maybe jesus wan't real. What's the guy's name? I read his book a while back. Finding the Idea of a christ a...
My 'scholarly' understanding of the Old testament largely comes from a single archaeology book, and traces it to Hezekiah, rather than Ezra and the ex...
I relate a lot to this. Being broken open and humiliated sucks - and the natural move is to sweep the thing under the carpet and move on flashing the ...
(3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, '...
Yep, we both agree that the opening plays with common mystical tropes. Ok, I think I get where you're coming from. The text itself is an annoying gnat...
I'm going into pantomime mode - I only know the text presented so far, and can only work from that. Granted, it's my own idealized approach, and once ...
I don't know her, or admittedly much about any scholarship around this area. This is a new subject for me. In my first incarnation on the forums, I wa...
Well, I welcome you aboard if you have interest. I can't tell if you do. I am sure you're soberer than some people on the forum, if that helps. You wi...
Exactly ! But it's tricky- because your point is very good, & i think clarifies what comes before- but I think the one-part-at-a-time opens it up for ...
Interesting, why are you attracted to this approach to the gnostic gospels (perhaps, mysticism in general?) I notice you're using autobiographical det...
Strongly agree. I think one of the things I like about this Gospel is how it fluidly skates across a lot of different domains. Now it might be foolhar...
I'm attracted to - or interested in - the text because it's rich. It's a particularly good text for eliciting reactions, and interpretation - like a g...
Very cool - This is where I wish I wasn't bound to one language. I'd love to know the relation between what's being translated as 'All" in this text a...
Of course, the idea of bitcoin (or any crypto) obviating state-based reserve currencies is a little pie-in-the-sky. At the same time, honestly who kno...
This is definitely one of the major weak points of bitcoin. One thing that sometimes gets floated by apologists is - ok, yes, it's a lot of energy - b...
That's my favorite photo of him, for sure. It's hard to choose a poem - all his best are sort of long - but one I like a lot is A Man of Words -( In i...
Christianity, for sure, comes from strange philosophical categories of people living in bygone times. I enjoy Romans, but yeah, it's weird - just like...
Imagine a vast space - a cavern. The cavern was constructed by a man in a daze. He spent a lot of time carving this cavern out. He was driven by force...
Thanks for taking the time to post this stuff. I'm realizing more and more , recently, that I tend to over-rely on the neatness of abstractions, so th...
That's an interesting historical question - did most people have a car shortly after the model t came out? My intuition tells me no, but it depends on...
Thank you for this! I'm mentally diving back - I'm not gay, though I've had some drunken bi-sexual experiences. I didn't feel too weird after. I think...
Yeah, I feel like Dostoevsky is a really good touchstone here. In some ways Crime & Punishment is trying to stage something similar: 'what if you were...
Yeah, I think the history of the world is probably a history of disorienting technological shifts. At the same time - So, though it's a commonplace to...
I'm enjoying the mix, trying to do a chapter/section of each a day. My first time reading Crowds & Power besides a desultory flipping-through the firs...
The Taoist Body - Kristofer Schipper Crowds and Power - Elias Canetti The Dispossessed - Ursula K LeGuin (so-so, making myself continue. Kind of like ...
It really does work best if you just smoke a little and vibe out to it. The General Structure of Everything will still be there when you come back to ...
I think part of what makes this tricky is that philosophy is much closer to conversation than fishing. What we're doing here, talking about philosophy...
For sure, I get that. The 'normativity' in my post is about, like : The implicit criterion according to which one selects good approaches to philosoph...
Yeah, that's fair. I tend to get on here for the sake of arguing. I think there is something to the idea: 'leaving philosophy' is a canonical move in ...
Parting thought (which implicates me as much as anyone)- Imagine there was a fishing forum and there was a fisherman who would get on and his general ...
True, but orthogonal. I'm not saying philosophy is more useful than being good at fishing, I don't think it is. I'm saying that fishermen often get ph...
True story, I knew a fisherman who had just gotten into the Hume is/ought gap. He would keep bringing it up, in the wrong contexts. It's a funny story...
Yeah, i was being a little oblique. I should probably check myself here, recall the thread I'm on, and remember I don't know all that much about OLP. ...
I think those reccs are good &, listen, I don't want to duel you over who's read more on these subjects, but my feeling is we've both read a lot of hi...
@"Snakes Alive" @"Antony Nickles" Part of me wants to say that, if we're in the rubble, it's a good vibe to go into it just being like - what do you t...
First & foremost, a formal thing: I apologize for coming into your thread headfirst and missing the whole. What sucks about forum discussions is once ...
Yeah, exactly, that's what I was trying to get at in my first post. The need to confusedly express one's deepest feelings and desires is natural, even...
I wonder which way the cause flows, or if that question is even valid here. I know that I'm more tempted by forms of control (including addiction, whi...
Thanks for the link, I had't heard anything about the new series. Watched the first three last night. I like it a lot. (the rest of this will sound cr...
That makes sense. As someone who, in my teens and 20s, had (unconscious) power/control fantasies about philosophy, and only painfully shed them, that'...
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