@fakecelsimp@WalmartThomist (1) So firstly, the quiddity of a term or object is the “whatness of the thing,” which is why Wolter says essence is called quiddity (Summala Metaphysicae, VII.1.59). I’ll work with an example that Burgersdijk gives, that being a natural body. A first mode per se predicate …
At the risk of pettiness, I've tired of seeing "Thomists" on the internet who only know of Gilson, Maritain, G-L
Unless your IQ is 170+, a serious study of St. Thomas's metaphysics cannot be made w/o studying at least 2 of the medieval and 2 of the modern indispensable commentators:
✅Domingo Banez
✅Cornelio Fabro
✅John of St. Thomas
✅John Capreolus
✅Cajetan
Modernly:
✅Lawrence Dewan
✅Joseph Owens
✅Msgr. Wippel
✅Tommaso Zigliara
✅Steven Long
For intelligent folks wanting to take the next step in this most difficult subject, I recommend Msgr. Wippel's "The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas" (and for Medieval commentators, Banez is #1 in metaphysical clarity imo, notwithstanding that all will tell yoi to read Caj first)
@TheEthanExpress@SteelTanker777@real_dreamr@Sola_Requiem Many cases much earlier. Pope Zosimus tried to reinstate a priest in North Africa since he believed the canons of Sardica were the canons of Nicaea, so he could hear appeals from all of the Church. Pope Leo I tried to settle the Monophysite heresy merely with papal condemnation.
@TheEthanExpress@real_dreamr@Sola_Requiem That’s not even what branch theory is. It’s the belief in state churches (the standard in the primitive Church), each that have different theology, but are united in the basics of the faith, that being the ecumenical creeds.
@SteelTanker777@real_dreamr@TheEthanExpress@Sola_Requiem Unfortunately for you, the primitive Church consistently rejected the notion that the Roman See has immediate, universal jurisdiction. Every time the Pope tried to claim it, the rest of the Church said no. Cope and seethe retarded Papist.
It's no secret that the IDF operates by different ethical standards than the civilized world, has refused to sign treaties regarding war crimes that all Western nations have ratified, and has a civilian kill rate of genocidal proportions. War criminals caught sodomizing prisoners on camera, snipers who've shot female journalists in the head, and Israelis who are on video lobbing grenades into crowds of unarmed civilians are treated as heroes, while whistleblowers are arrested. What gives?
You might think that it's because Israel has refused to sign on to the international treaties that all Christian and Western nations have agreed to in regard to war crimes. For example, just as Israel refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (which technically makes it illegal for the U.S. to support Israel by our own American laws), Israel not only refused to affirm the Geneva Convention's 1977 addition on requiring distinctions between civilians and combatants, but it's also classified as a "persistent objector" to it, refusing to treat innocent civilians differently from terrorists. But that's not the only reason for Israel's next-level war crime history.
The reason is religious.
The first thing you need to grasp is that we've been lied to about Israel being a Western-style liberal democracy that shares our cultural values and governing traditions. In reality, Israel has more in common with Iran than the U.S. Both Israel and Iran have powerful religious establishments (clerics in one, rabbis in the other) that exert enormous influence over military policy. Iran has Sharia. Israel has Halakha. Because Israel is the only "democracy" in the world that lacks a Constitution, the power the Rabbinate has over its government and military is hard for Americans to comprehend.
Israel has the office of the "Kohen Mashuach Milchama," or "War Priests." The War Priests are military rabbis, serving under the Chief Military Rabbi, who don't help IDF soldiers with their spiritual struggles or personal needs, like U.S. Army chaplains. The War Priests are, by law, in every IDF unit, and exist to consecrate the bloodshed and bless the killing, absolving the IDF soldier from all blood guilt. These Rabbis use Rabbinic teaching to reinforce Halakha over international law, and, in some cases, against the official policy of the IDF.
Rabbinic Judaism's "shared religious heritage" is almost completely fabricated, and its Talmudic teachings on warfare, denials of the Imago Dei, the categorization of Gentiles as "human animals," and Rabbinic teaching authorizing the murder of women and children in wartime are all reinforced by the War Priests on the battlefield, instructing IDF soldiers that not only do they not have to show mercy to civilians, it's a SIN to do so, and Yahweh will be angry with them.
The current Chief Military Rabbi, Eyal Karim, ruled in 2002 that IDF soldiers could rape "attractive gentile women" on the battlefield.
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, ruled that the IDF should engage in "indiscriminate killing of civilians" during the Gaza offensive. His ruling was published in the Jerusalem Post.
Rabbi Dov Lior, the Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council, issued a letter informing IDF soldiers that Gentiles have no sanctity of life in war time.
Remember when I mentioned someone throwing grenades into crowds of innocent civilians, being treated like a hero? That was Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, who lobbed them into crowds of civilians - on video. He was rewarded by being chosen to light the torch at Israel's independence celebration.
And for the last 40 years, these War Priests have been putting their hand-selected appointees through the Bnei David pre-army officers' training academy, indoctrinating the IDF's future commanders with this theology. Today, roughly 80% of IDF commanders have been put through this religious brainwashing, and the War Priests have fundamentally changed the face of the IDF. The results are as shown in the War Crime documentation.
Read more at Insight to Incite. Link in bio. Audio available.
So much to unpack here. I had to listen to this twice.
Basically this all boils down to Christian men being white knights who cuck themselves for female validation and who have to juggle between their Christian programming and their kinky sexually repressed desires; and these white "trad" women being pedestalized by these men but who in fact are the most promiscuous and dirty fucking sluts the world has seen and will just play the dual mating strategy like crazy.
Just some really eye opening shit here. The situation is truly fucked beyond any salvation.