Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

Catholic Homeschool Dad. Classics, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Saxons, Theology, Philosophy, Languages, Tolkien, D&D, Africa, Baltics, 🇩🇪🇪🇪🇱🇻🇮🇪–🇺🇸, pro🇺🇦

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

The media cycle is an invention of modernity, as is its corollary: the lie that you are obligated to express an opinion about every news item.

There is more legitimate outrage in the world than it is healthy for you to be outraged about. Turn off the spigot and read Books.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

"Two of the six sermons are previously undiscovered writings by Augustine," says Professor Tornau, delighted with the unexpected find. He is currently working with Professor Dorothea Weber and Dr Clemens Weidmann from the edition company CSEL (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum) on an edition of the two Latin sermons."

https://t.co/L3UqFE4h8q

[Matt Lieberman @social_brains]

This is a canary in the coal mine ofr the rest of academia. Its going to be a hard decade. https://t.co/rTBXVAPHus

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

A person who knows how to code but does not know what man is has received an incomplete education.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Terrible scenes here as the majestic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra- the Monastery of the Caves - burns, deliberately struck by missiles sent by Russia under Putin who presents himself as the leader of a Christian Civilisation and Russian World.
The attack is a sign of desperation - a nihilistic attempt to destroy Ukraine's own history culture and religion, the ugly rage that if Russia cannot have it then nor can Ukraine. The Caves are older than Russia, much older since Russia was in part invented by Peter the Great but even a century older than the earliest foundation of Moscow as a minor fortress. Indeed it is not just ironic but revealing that the founder of Moscow itself, the Rurikid Prince Yuri I Vladimirovich known as Yuri the Long-Armed, Dolgorukiy, is buried there. Founded when Russia did not exist, when Moscow was a forest, it was initially ruled by the fissiparous Rurikid princes of Kievan Rus and built by priests from Mount Athos around the 1050s. It was sacked several times by Mongol invaders and the Mongol rulers of Russia the Genghizid khans of the Golden Horde - echoes of today - and later ruled by a succession of realms including the huge Grand Duchy of Lithuania.... And then swallwed into the Principality of Muscovy by Peter the Great's father Alexei.
In 1787, when Catherine the Great progressed down towards the newly conquered Crimea, she rendez-voused with her co-ruler Prince Potemkin in Kyiv. He was half sybarite half coenobite and while he was waiting for her, he moved into the Caves and lived there for months, holding court for ambassadors and adventuresses - in between spasms of prayer and scourging. Putin identifies with Catherine and Potemkin who conquered Crimea and south Ukraine and he stole the body of Potemkin during this war. But Potemkin loved the Lavra... As the Red Army retreated in 1941, the Soviets blew up parts of the Lavra and it was rebuilt after the war.... Now its destruction is heartbreaking - it semaphores the barbarism and bankruptcy and nihilism of the Russian war - it may just mark a new low in a bloodcurdled spiral of brutality that is this unnecessary imperial conflict but one can only hope that the vandal madness of this attack marks another stage in the road to the realization that Putin's war has failed ....

https://t.co/gwYWdaMtt0

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Quarterly reminder that James Garfield’s (President #20) great great grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic: The Gathering

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

Update: Aristotle Reader Project v. 0.6! https://t.co/VvWLUiDgS3…

Please RT and share!

Changes:

• Added De Anima, Metaphysics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics.
• Added Night Mode.
• Fixed EN bekker numbers for Ross.

If you like it, please RT!

(Full Feature list in reply)

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

@johnbyronkuhner My daughter did the same thing and I'm grateful to Rick Riordan for providing that on-ramp. (She's read the Iliad and will read the Odyssey this summer. She's also read all of Hamilton's Mythology.)

[Br. Chris Garcia, OFM Conv @friarchrisg]

I'll be making a Holy Hour at 7 pm CT. How can I pray for y'all? Comment or DM. #CatholicTwitter

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

A good use of AI: getting tech *out* of the way of learning.

[Brian Kemple @realbriankemple]

I have always found digital bibliography/note-taking/research organization software to fall short of what I want... So I'm trying to see if I can get OpenAI's Codex to build me the app I have always wanted.

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

@nexta_tv Well OK but you make it sound like they just dispersed spontaneously b/c of the red light. But in the video they're dispersed by authorities.

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

@OurLadyofAntifa @pureMetatron The 4-years-off thing annoys me too. I've decided to let it be a reminder to me that moderns fetishize over-appropriate levels of precision in a way that becomes an obstacle to seeing other realities.

[Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.) @kingsepp]

@palestrina_gp @FeserEdward "Too much" was never the point, he simply said it was unjust. B/c since Trump didn't hold himself restrained by that, he was (from his own perspective) free to keep his word. His failure to do so is still a personal fault (or else making the promise was).

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

How did a Christian worldview give positive inspiration for science?

A well-known science writer named Loren Eiseley points out that many great civilizations have risen and fallen without developing the scientific method--which implies that that it requires some kind of "unique soil in which to flourish."

And what is that unique soil? To his own surprise, Eiseley discovered that: "It is the Christian world which finally gave birth in a clear, articulate fashion to the experimental method of science."

Why is that? Eiseley goes on to explain that "Science began its discoveries . . .in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a Creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation."

He is using the term "faith" not to say it was irrational but in the sense that it had to PRECEDE actual scientific investigation. Before science can get off the ground, certain tacit assumptions have to be in place--for example, that there is an intelligible order in nature, what we call "laws" of nature.

Here's how one historian put it:
"The use of the word ‘law’ in such contexts [in talking about nature] would have been unintelligible in antiquity, whereas the Hebraic and Christian belief in a deity who was at once Creator and Law-giver rendered it valid. (A. R. Hall, The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800)

[Dissident Teacher @educatedandfree]

No, America. Your best and brightest are no longer at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and the like.

Your best and brightest are kids like my tenth graders coming up through mission-aligned classical schools with teachers who know American kids in particular hunger for that which is True, Good, and Beautiful and are willing to GRIND for it, as Americans do.

The kids are here, in every town and city. We can all help build them.

This is what my tenth graders read this year:
The Symposium
The Apology
The Phaedo
The Death of Ivan Ilych
1984
Brave New World
The New Organon
The New Atlantis
Gulliver’s Travels
The Abolition of Man

Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Purgatorio
Inferno
King Lear
Pride and Prejudice
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

@O_TooleKathleen @CLT_Exam @JeremyTate41 @soren_schwab @Jordan_C_Adams

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

Plan is to host the Aristotle reader project at @LyceumInstitute (which is so appropriate). Join today!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

A huge factor in the collapse of our collective mental health is the decline in reading for pleasure. Reading lessens loneliness, builds community, sharpens the intellect. It brings joy. You will be shocked at how much better you feel if you begin to read regularly.

[Annie Crawford @annielcrawford]

“In a world where no one believes in an actual "better," "longer" and "more" rush in to take its place.” - James M. Wilson

Very true. Beware the hidden false hierarchies.

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

Please check out the Aristotle Reader Project v. 0.5 https://t.co/dP4UaW8seE

Going to expand corpus offerings. Suggestions and bug reports in replies please!

If you like it, please RT!