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@ChazakielDoremi Gnosticism was popular on 4chan like in 2016-2017, the comparison being fake world=lib media true world=based trump. It's where the le demiurge pic comes from. Very surface deep aesthetic interest though, no one actually knew what it was beyond the redpill analogy.

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@RevolverJerm Is that the entire Diary of a Wimpy Kid series in the background?

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@Is_Not_Brian He’s drunk

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@DeliriousWit @airbent_ bro it’s a Kanye music video

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@_bonaventurian Just ask a uni friend to borrow or download them for you lol

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@RedMaistre And Eriugena, and Nicholas of Cusa, and Bohme, and Hegel, and etc etc etc

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@Iamblichos32 If you live in Dan Brown world and think Dante was a Knight Templar, sure. Might as well read his sources (Eugène Aroux & Gabriele Rossetti) and Lima de Freitas instead.

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@suchnerve People who wear suits all the time are usually fedora tippers insisting they’re “serious smart & charming” and no one takes them seriously because That’s Embarrassing. Not sure where this idea came from beyond some debris from the last Hasan drama

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@BeguinePilled American

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@maiamindel *is problematic in of itself and not for Nolan’s blockbuster

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@maiamindel The Emily Wilson translation is a problem though. There’s a reason the most significant translations of Homer were made by poets and not classicists. If I wanted a ~literal~ translation of the Odyssey I’d commission a grad student, use Google Translate, or just read the Greek.

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@ducktales2020 @maiamindel My problem isn’t with Nolan using it for reference, it’s reasonable to use an approachable translation for the bare essentials. I was talking about the translation generally, as it relates to translation as an art form.

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@maiamindel Like there’s a non-psychotic way of engaging with Wilson’s work and it has everything to do with translation as the conveyance of artistry rather than the “simple meaning” of a text (in which case a prose translation in Dover Thrift would have been more fitting)

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@hyoctane_ @1440noscope @quirked_up_anzu He’s still engaging when he stays in his lane, yeah

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@hyoctane_ @1440noscope @quirked_up_anzu His politics are soft. “Uhh the Nuremberg trials didn’t work so we gotta find Another Way (please don’t nuke Tel Aviv)” “Uhh you can’t use 1984 to criticize doctors bc they’re not the government (I am willfully ignorant of Marx, Foucault, Agamben, Latour, etc etc)”

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My jaw HIT the floor

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What would you say is the most evil movie ever made? Not "ohh it's so bad it's a crime" I mean movies with actively malicious messages, people or production cycles

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@PervertGuide This was (generously) thrown together in the last two episodes, which I bet were written a couple months before airing.

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@catt_real @redrummarts Lightning Thief was 2005, Red Pyramid was 2010