Jack

SJC Santa Fe 2024

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@Morgan_Anastasi If you get lucky with the particular job like I did, it can be really nice. I got to read for hours on the clock every day some weeks, then the next week I was working 10 hours overtime. It was easier work than fast food or retail, and the pay was better.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@Morgan_Anastasi If you just need a job and don't care about it being particularly career advancing, warehouse jobs are easy to come by in my experience.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@dnduplessie I always found it fun, especially when disagreeing with someone, to call them Mr./Ms. In other words, it is goofy, but I like it nonetheless.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@JoshuaLWatson This makes sense of the context what Spinoza is saying. St. Thomas is arguing that will is operational not only in wanting the good but also in taking pleasure in maintaining something good. Spinoza notes this distinction but is not convinced.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@JoshuaLWatson I believe it is this distinction, here formulated by St. Thomas in ST I q.19 a.2 (but also found in other places): "For natural things have a natural inclination not only towards their own proper good, to acquire it if not possessed, and, if possessed, to rest therein".

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@CTrefugees @Tawadros15 This chapel is not even in regular use and the Archbishop says it was caused by "downed drones", presumably targeting the coalition air base which is in the direction the drones came from. My source is that I live in this building.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@williamofdallas Oh yeah well I'm in the group lol

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@shagbark_hick @CSandbatch How do you live in New Orleans without a job? (I am from there and would enjoy details!)

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@Aristocles69183 The use of 5+7 is a reference to the Theaetetus, where Socrates uses the same sum as an example

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@FrTotleben92742 @ThaddeusPapist How is the pain of *corporeal* fire, (not to mention an incorporeal worm, darkness, and weeping) an *intrinsic* consequence of sin? I ask sincerely, as I don't know how to reconcile what you say with the more physical descriptions found in, say, Supplement Q.97.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@DobskiBJ I highly recommend all of his other essays on Dante! He has some brillliant interpretations of particular scenes.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@augustiniser @parhypostates @UntoldFortune Just look at ad. 2 to q. 23, a. 3. God is not the cause of sin in the reprobate, but he is the cause of grace in the predestined.

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@UntoldFortune I think ad. 2 is enough to distinguish St. Thomas' position from the view that God is the cause of sin, which I understand to be a corollary to "double predestination". (Whether or not you agree with the distinction St. Thomas makes in ad. 2.)

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@W_Poulos @Kulambq Fair. For myself, I'd still choose all of it for my top 5, even if it took up 3 of my picks!

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@Kulambq 1. Burnt Norton
2. East Coker
3. The Dry Salvages
4. Little Gidding
5. The Waste Land, I guess??

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@W_Poulos @Kulambq No Divine Comedy???

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@amish_chud @Kulambq I'd be tempted to choose Pound's Canto I, but perhaps if I was stranded on an island it wouldn't be good to be thinking too much about getting on a ship

[Jack @TheFifthSquare]

@SocratesNose Very interesting, thanks for setting the scene. I wish I could have been there!

I haven't heard anything about this event apart from your post, but I am amused that I was apparently right to ask about Mr. Levy's reaction to a Plato lecture in Santa Fe!