Psychedral

[Psychedral @psychedral]

Ruskin’s romantic defence of Gothic from critics such as Vasari – who believed Gothic was “imperfect” because of its non-classical proportions – misses the mark because Gothic actually follows strict geometric principles. It isn’t “disorderly” OR “a symbol of liberty”. 🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

And, even more importantly, Ruskin argued that the very imperfection of Gothic Architecture represented the creative freedom of the people who had made it — a freedom which workers in the 19th century did not have.

Gothic imperfection is a symbol of liberty.

[Psychedral @psychedral]

@wydna777 I demand a children’s reading list!

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@abcdentminded How did you feel? That happened to me one time and I just felt an overwhelming sense of relief – then I woke up.

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I have finished this project. I can recall something – usually an outline, but often a key verse, phrase, or lesson – from every chapter of the Bible.

[Psychedral @psychedral]

I’m trying to build a series of memory palaces for the entire Bible, where each book is represented by a building containing loci that correspond to a chapter outline or key moment. I then test myself on them using Anki spaced repetition.

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@wydna777 You should make a baby reading list

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@luther_snell @giantgio Yeah but variety increases your recoverable volume/intensity threshold for a given muscle

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@luther_snell @giantgio Variety is about avoiding overuse and, if you care about aesthetics, targeting muscles that compounds don’t hit well (e.g. triceps long head) or are lagging

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@giantgio Not necessarily – I’d like the stack for overhead cable extensions and especially rowing variations for back – but there are many tricep extension variations for long and short heads with those, especially if you have an adjustable bench.

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@abcdentminded This is a tweet from 2013

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@CosinChristian Gm

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@LandsharkRides In a world of pole climbing treachery, fake CVs, fake achievements, the one thing you can’t fake is looking like a menacing Chinese supervillain goon. So this makes sense.

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@MilkAnd15244 The full quote is quite interesting. He talks about “the necessary step of faith” and of philosophers “worshiping the elements of this world.”

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Augustine describes God’s enemies as “all who forbid belief in things unknown and promise certain knowledge” – today’s naive scientific realism in a nutshell

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@MilkAnd15244 Augustine didn���t say ALL things unknown. But it is in theory possible to defend the position that Christian theism is our best scientific theory – this I think is essentially what @InspiringPhilos does. But it isn’t the route I’d take.

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@CalebDixonSmith Deuteronomy 23? “If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master“

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@sapphireexpanse Bulgarian

[Psychedral @psychedral]

I’m also experimenting with AI to help draft 50-word chapter outlines. I’m mostly doing this on my phone, so I read the chapter on Catena, get the summary from ChatGPT, paste into Notes to edit, add the image/loci, and paste into Anki. I can do about 5 chapters in 30 minutes.

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Update: I have now completed Genesis–Judges. I am hoping to finish by Christmas. The major difficulty isn’t remembering the information encoded by each loci/image, it’s getting to the right place in the memory palace – especially larger ones.

[Psychedral @psychedral]

I’m trying to build a series of memory palaces for the entire Bible, where each book is represented by a building containing loci that correspond to a chapter outline or key moment. I then test myself on them using Anki spaced repetition.

[Psychedral @psychedral]

I may experiment with adding additional images using Major System every 5 chapters so that I can immediately access chapters furthest from the beginning, middle, and end of each book. But I haven’t mastered Major yet, and it may make the system unnecessarily complicated.

[Andrew 🏵️⚓️ @CosinChristian]

🧵Here they all are

[wydna @wydna777]

Jacob Jehuda Leon's ultra accurate model of king solomon's temple.