Nathaniel Smith

Christian; Aspiring Thomist who Enjoys Medieval History, Flannery O'Connor, and Savonarola Paintings

[Nathaniel Smith @smith20_nathan]

"I suppose I read Aristotle in college but not to know I was doing it; the same with Plato. I don’t have the kind of mind that can carry such beyond the actual reading, i.e., total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. So I couldn’t make any judgment on

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@NathanielPolley Flannery O'Connor gang lock in.

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@ChiefGalaska lives of our saints every time you come back to twitter.

[Nathaniel Smith @smith20_nathan]

@ChiefGalaska Like I get that you don't like Catholicism. I ain't fond of it, but let things be what they are.

What I don't get is why you incessantly feel the need to raise any and all complaints about Rome, from everything to the primacy of the Pope to weird spergy critiques about the

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@umbraboethii That battle over anime you had with him was awesome.

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@umbraboethii All my classes are being moved to online as well. We were supposed to have awesome presentations were we reenacted scenes from Dante's Inferno for Renaissance Lit. But alas it's not so.

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@umbraboethii From what I've read of the Theodrama he has a weird idea of the descent into hell idea where he think that God punished Jesus by making him experience hell as an expression of solidarity with sinners.

[Nathaniel Smith @smith20_nathan]

@ChiefGalaska I come back after almost a month of absence and Miko's goin' off twitter. 😔

You'll still be on telegram, yeah?

[Balthazar Tauler @BalthazarTauler]

Friends, I must ask, is Hyl-morphism spelled with an E or an O?

[Nathaniel Smith @smith20_nathan]

@AristotlesStgra @Aristoteleos That changes over time.

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@AristotlesStgra @Aristoteleos From what I understand of personhood from your servant Boethius, person is a Individual Substance of a Rational Nature, which we can account for under a hylemorphic account of anthropology. Under bundle theories and empiricist claims, our self is simply a collection of accidents.

[Nathaniel Smith @smith20_nathan]

@ArnoNightshade That was a really emotional part of the movie for me. 😰

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@TJBreed I can literally tell them that it was a different person who made that tweet. 😉

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@NathanielPolley "Particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickly become one of the family. " 🤣

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@Keskron @ArnoNightshade follow her lead. :)

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@Keskron You've returned Keskron! 😍

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@NathanielPolley Twitter was a mistake.

Catho-Orthodox twitter was an even bigger one.

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@tradcatboy 🎵Boe's breaking free🎶🎶

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@NathanielPolley I doubt God's gonna condemn them to eternal fire at the gates of heaven for it, but I'm no Catherine of Siena, so I can't quite read the interior disposition of his soul. :)

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@TheTFDuck @HolyFamily1935 @Topeka_RR @Freddy_Pheasant Congratulations!