The Colloquial Reader

Usually a non-fiction reader, but I dabble here and there with literature.
Philosophy | Literature | Science

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

The person who devotes himself to the life of learning should not forget, in his implacable intoxication, the life that he is supposed to live.

Learning is what adds to the living.

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

@the_book_land I love that Ray Monk's Wittgenstein. You should see his lectures too on Philosophical Landscape in 1905 if you're interested

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@SoulCultivated I note but using ballpoint😂. Idk why, but it really helps better than by using a pencil

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@SoulCultivated Posidonius :'). I would love to see the mentor of Cicero and many others

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@MrNChance I can't laugh🤣

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

@Incictus_V Hoping there's at least an Aristotle's papyrus there...

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

This line of gold was from a letter to Charlemagne (man who brought Europe out of the Dark Ages) sent from Alcuin (his famous wise monk like adviser)

[César Dorado 🏺🏛️ @CDorado75]

📢💣 ¡Descifran el primer Papiro de Herculano completo!
Ojo a esto porque gracias al Vesuvius Challenge, y mediante IA y tomografía avanzada, se ha logrado la lectura completa de un papiro carbonizado por el Vesubio sin desenrollarlo, atribuido al estoico Crisipo de Solos 🧵👇

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

I feel a sense of awe and wonder knowing I am among the first human beings in 2,000 years to read the contents of a scroll charred in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

For centuries, its contents were unreadable. The scrolls were damaged beyond repair. Ancient wisdom was in our hands, but cruelly inaccessible.

Until now.

Thanks to modern science and the brilliant work of the Vesuvius Challenge team, the contents of one of these ancient scrolls are available for us to read.

The text is fragmentary, partly due to previous attempts to open the scroll by hand. But enough has been recovered to identify it as a philosophical treatise, most likely Stoic.

Modern technology is allowing us to recover ancient wisdom for the first time in two millennia.

What a time to be alive.

One recovered fragment seems to capture the wonder of the accomplishment itself:

“Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them in any respect.”

You can read about the Vesuvius Challenge and download the recovered contents at the link below.

[Jonathan Pageau @PageauJonathan]

Individualism is repulsive. Think about it.
Taken from my talk at the Chesterton Academy of Ottawa.

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

@godspeed_aflame Real, guys

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

Read this when you can. Impossible story to comprehend, a tale of 28 men on the most treacherous sea on earth, living on the meagerest rations for 2 years, in addition to rescuing themselves to the nearest land 1.300 km apart.

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

@the_book_land CS Lewis
Kierkegaard
Montaigne
Gracian
Homer too? At least his Illiad I found profound.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

'I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.'

I've read Prufrock countless times; but few other poems make such an impression on me, again and again.

[Herald Van Der Linde @HeraldLinde]

Big milestone: the “Srivijaya” cover is done and the book is almost finished.  
This autumn, a maritime kingdom at the crossroads of China, India and the Middle East sails onto bookshelves.
I’ll share more soon but thought perhaps you like this sneak-peek. #indonesia #books

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

A weird paradox: the only way to write something that speaks to so many people is to write for yourself, for that's the way that people could relate it to themselves.

[Carlos O. Valverde @CarlosOlivoV]

EL JESÚS HISTÓRICO
El principal testimonio es el de Flavio Josefo en sus «Antigüedades Judías», que hasta ahora algunos habían acusado de falso. Schmidt, doctorado en Yale, no sólo demuestra su autenticidad, sino que Josefo obtuvo información de un círculos de testigos directos.

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

@polemoskarios Nahh, I'm okay with theosis

[The Colloquial Reader @TheColloquialR]

When you think about it, the reason why so many pagans revere Orthodoxy because Orthodoxy is Neoplatonism + God with personhood.

[polemos @polemoskarios]

@Scholarius1 Now, I feel like you Orthodox are the most pagan of the semitic faiths. You kept some of your valor. However, Zeus is my father and it's a different understanding of the world.

[CultivatedSoul @SoulCultivated]

What good is literacy if it doesn't
produce discernment?

"Has it ever struck you as odd, or
unfortunate, that today when the
proportion of literacy throughout
Western Europe is higher than it
has ever been, people should
have become susceptible to the
influence of advertisement and
mass-propaganda to an extent
hitherto unheard of and
unimagined?"

– Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning