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[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

A lone soldier admires the beauty of the Alps on the Italian Front of World War I, 1914-1918.

[Michael Millerman @millerman]

"Calculative thinking computes. It computes ever new, ever more promising and at the same time more economical possibilities. Calculative thinking races from one prospect to the next. Calculative thinking never stops, never collects itself. Calculative thinking is not meditative thinking, not thinking which contemplates the meaning which reigns in everything that is...

There are, then, two kinds of thinking, each justified and needed in its own way: calculative thinking and meditative thinking.

This meditative thinking is what we have in mind when we say that contemporary man is in flight-from-thinking." -Martin Heidegger

[pwc @biographyofred]

@RyanHaecker Since I first saw that clip over a decade ago I have been wondering if this is a joke about his A/C model in WCB

[pwc @biographyofred]

@RyanHaecker At least he's honest

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

The very best way to conclude your dissertation:

"If [my] statements do not coincide with the teachings of Plato, it must be supposed that they are consistent with those of some other great and powerful man, such as Pythagoras."

- Numenius of Apamea, Fr. 7, 16L

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“The movement from Iliad to Odyssey is from tragic to comic, from epic to romance, from the rage of Achilles against mortality to the prudence of Odysseus in recovering wife, son, father, home, and kingdom. The Iliad, in fierce agon with the Bible, has set our standards for sublimity, but the Odyssey has been the more fecund work, particularly in modern literature. Joyce did not write a novel called Achilles, nor did Pound and Stevens devote poems to the hero of the Iliad. Like Dante and Tennyson before them, they became obsessed with Ulysses, whose quest for home contrasts oddly with the role of anti-Aeneas assigned to him by Dante and, more uneasily, by Tennyson.”

—Harold Bloom, The Epic

[pwc @biographyofred]

@Lucretean @RyanHaecker The most underrated issue in Heidegger studies

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“Schelling represents the general course of human history … [as] the plot of a double Homeric epic.”

—M.H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism

“History is an epic composed in the mind of God. Its two main parts are, first, that which represents the departure of humanity from its center out to its furthest alienation [Entfernung] from this center, and second, that which represents the return. The first part is, as it were, the Iliad, the second the Odyssey of history. In the first part the movement was centrifugal, in the second it becomes centripetal. ... Ideas, spirits, had to fall away from their center and introduce themselves into separateness in nature, the general sphere of the fall, in order that afterward, as separates, they might return into the Undifferentiated and, reconciled with it, remain in it without disturbing it.”

—Friedrich Schelling (Qtd. in Abrams)

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

"Such was the condition, as Aristotle used often to relate, of most of the audience that attended Plato’s lectures on the Good. They came, he used to say, every one of them, in the conviction that they would get from the lectures some one or other of the things that the world calls good; riches or health, or strength, in fine, some extraordinary gift of fortune. But when they found that Plato’s reasonings were of sciences and numbers, and geometry, and astronomy, and of good and unity as predicates of the finite, methinks their disenchantment was complete. The result was that some of them sneered at the thing, while others vilified it. Now to what was all this trouble due? To the fact that they had not waited to inform themselves of the nature of the subject, but after the manner of the sect of word-catchers had flocked round open-mouthed, attracted by the mere title ‘good’ in itself."

- Aristoxenus, Harmonics, ed. trans. Henry S. Macran, p. 187, Book II, Sections 30-31.

[Erik Rostad (Books of Titans) @booksoftitans]

“It would awaken a terribly powerful love if an image of wisdom came through our sight as clearly as beauty does.”

~ Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus

[pwc @biographyofred]

@VvorticVvertere @RyanHaecker Berserk is a worth mention

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

Let us pity those who have never felt the flame rise within them upon reading Plato and Plotinus.
- Jacques Maritain

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Director Christopher Nolan brought 60 Minutes to Fotokem in Burbank, California, to watch their artists assemble and color correct final release prints of “The Odyssey.” It's the only motion picture film lab in the world that still produces 70 millimeter prints. https://t.co/ohFEeNvO9N

[Lola Salem @SalemLola]

One of the utmost tragic ironies of postmodernism is that, with the collapse of aesthetics into culture and culture into society, the only thing left for art to do is register its own utter pointlessness - except, perhaps, as a marketing tool.

[Catholic Images That Go Hard @hardflics]

Catholic philosopher @FeserEdward spiking the cortisol of Protestant philosopher William Lane Craig.

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) dir. John Carpenter

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

The Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century codex written in an undeciphered script that has never been deciphered.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan says the battle for shooting on film is being won.

“When we were finishing ‘Interstellar’, film almost disappeared. It was weeks away from stopping manufacture…

As we stand here, Kodak’s film division is thriving. They have young film-makers using it all the time. The sales are massively up.”

(Source: https://t.co/h1mlLhPjrq)

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

"True Image of the Father whether thron'd /In the bosom of bliss... or remote from Heaven, enshrin'd / In fleshly Tabernacle... Still expressing /The Son of God."
From the angelic chorus near the end of Paradise Regained.