@sympractical This line, more than any other in the book, kept rattling around in my head for years after I read it for the first time. I think because it was when I was first reading Plato that I read Moby Dick.
Hercules set up a pillar at Gibraltar, blocking entrance to the wider Waters that men could not handle. It's this that Odysseus literally [sic] or figuratively goes through killing his whole crew. Scylla and Charybdis were the dialectic, Helios an infirm metaphor for monotheism above the dialectic. The ubermensch is also an infirm metaphor.
With the Hebrews 1 key, which uses the ultra rare polytropos water mark, you can deduce perhaps, using this old math, that Jesus found a way to select or fish for a picked crew to begin the full assault on the metaphorical Atlantic, with people that could survive. And it worked. Instead of Jesus getting a few through, it might be easier to count the people who didn't make it by using the middle age hole.
Rome beat Greece the first time, but Greece beat Rome in the second. And if you take Troy's testimony, they say that the Greeks and the Jews are the same lol.
Anyways we've been turning hard to Rome again: a shallow culture that values the material world. Time soon for another respiration. Maybe AI will make stem ppl flock to the humanities, those tired and poor huddled masses, tempest tossed, etc.
Christianity is as far right as it gets: I personally am an adopted divine right monarchical heir of God.
It's as far left as it gets: In Jesus' name and in his name only, I can throw this inheritance to you also, freely, as candy from a parade float.
You can be something other than Christian, but all your base are belong to us.
>But I'm an atheist.
>Why do you think Jesus said "Why have you forsaken me?" on the cross. Why did he love the solder who said "I believe, help me with my unbelief?"
All your base are belong to us.
@saturnine_grace Oh wow. People too tired to have react or interact with stuff so they experience them vicariously. Never really been able to understand the appeal of streamers until now
@miltonappl3 Looking through old tweets while reading Apollodorus, I’ve noted that the first thing that happens after the Argonauts make it into the black sea is two guys whose names mean “knowing” and “pool of water” immediately die.
@NoVa_Jacksonian He absolutely said that with his tounge in his cheek. “Why would I help a gentile?” With a sly smile and stare at the camera/fourth wall/witness