Patrick

Aspiring medievalist

[Patrick @HelendesGeweorc]

@TalcottNYC Breaking out the Feser this term, I see...

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@jacqueboatman My understanding is that most of Williams' corpus is strange...

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@AHomelyHouse @AgitpropMaster This is an illumination waiting to be made...

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@shaunvlog_ There's a reason we call it God's Country.

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@AccentsSouthern Patriot.🫡

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Interesting that it was the Supreme Court that "settled" the question. Very much a harbinger of how so many national issues would be adjudicated and de facto legislated in the coming century and half.

[Patrick @HelendesGeweorc]

I think it speaks to the fundamentally mythic shape of the Old Testament (though I think the NT has that mythic shape as well, but that's largely confined to the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation). And I meant "mythic" in the Tolkienian and Lewisian "myth made fact" way. Post-enlightenment, we've largely lost the ability to see that mythic shape and why ancient and medieval peoples so quickly locked-on to it and allowed it to reshape their pre-Christian myths.

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@AHomelyHouse Unquestionably true. And the last bastion of the Old West. The question really is whether we have the will and fortitude to push that Old West back into ancestral lands.

[Patrick @HelendesGeweorc]

It always goes back to Troy. I'm increasingly convinced that Western civilization is a serial recapitulation of a handful of myths. Troy -- it's glory, it's fall, and the fate of its survivors -- has always been in that mix. Looking at the Shenandoah as your backdrop, that same epic is brought back to mind in its American key. Or, rather, that Americans recapitulated the core of Troy's mythological significance in the American Iliad of the 1860's and our subsequent westward expansion.

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@Chase_Steely Had a prof in college who was working to restore the American Chestnut. Never black pill.

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@BMcGrewvy Part of or one of Plato’s arguments in the Phaedrus (I think) is that beauty moves the soul to see truth in a way reason cannot. It’s something wholly missing from most “apologetics” schemas.

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@Protestia Oh... So... We're doing heresy again?

I love the vague reference to "New Testament scholars" having reached a "consensus". As though "consensus" bears at all on the truth of something. Contra consensus = the new contra mundum.

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@TolkienWonder @crwiley1962 Great book, great author.

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In many ways, Western Civilization is a serial recapitulation of the same handful of myths. The Aeneid is one of them. As a southerner, I find it easy to see the Aeneid as an American epic. Or, rather, that Americans recapitulated the core of the Aeneid in our westward expansion following the American Iliad of the 1860's.

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@bradleybirzer "... using such images as He found there..." Is this from one of Lewis' letters? I'd be interested to know how familiar Lewis was with St. Bonaventure's thought. This quote very much echoes Bonaventure's concept of exemplarity and vestiges of the Logos throughout creation.

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@RCTroutman8 @AccentsSouthern You are awesome for it! I'd drop-kick a nun for good hoe cakes. And I don't even hold any particular prejudice toward nuns!

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@AccentsSouthern So... Southern Hibachi shirt inbound?

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The Democrats are the party of decadence: a couple of generations ago, they gave up on the root that made America what it was while continuing to demand the fruits... And demanding those fruits for more and more people eschewing any of the responsibilities of liberty. Doing away with the Electoral College is just the next course before their insatiable maw. Unfortunately, I don't think they want a king or a Caesar; they'd much prefer a National Convention and a Committee of Public Safety.