𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

Founder of Editor of OMNIPARK & THE WILLOWS. Weird novelist. Backpacker in 40+ countries. Lord High Minister of All Things Sinister

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@NyarlathoSteph @Akaking_ako @Broseph45775884 it's giving Assyrian more than Sumerian

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

Indeed, why not Shang or Xia? I want to see Taotie vessels at my boba shop, so I can properly offer my tea to the Jade Emperor.

[☯︎Modern Daoist Thought☯︎ @136Division]

The current revival of Ming style in chinese society is actually a topic worth discussing.
The Ming empire, in the grand sweep of chinese history, cannot really be considered an especially glorious or great era.
So why Ming?
Why not Qin, Han, Tang, or Song?

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@mhisamaya What sutra is written there?

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

Erasmus wrote better Latin than Cicero.

@Ada_Palmer

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Hit me with the harshest truth about Roman History.

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

Fish feel similarly about humans who fall into the ocean.

[Miles Commodore @miles_commodore]

Have you ever eaten fish that was in the ocean a few hours before it was on your plate? There’s nothing like it.

[Miles Commodore @miles_commodore]

Have you ever eaten fish that was in the ocean a few hours before it was on your plate? There’s nothing like it.

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@xe0_xeo We need Wayne Barlowe on this

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@XianyangCB Neanderthals performed Feng Shan in 200,000 BCE and triggered ascendancy of Homo sapiens

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

Early Modern Sid & Nancy

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

This post from Dreadnought is bonkers, but Harold Bloom did say that the Macbeths have the only happy marriage in all of Shakespeare.

[Method and Madness @madmethodpod]

Icymi, Ben Thomas (@writingben) joined me to revel in the brilliance of the first two volumes in Gene Wolfe’s BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. link in comment.

[🪓BK🪢 @bradkelly]

@madmethodpod @writingben https://t.co/kIWPTbbVBX

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@AmericanGwyn Well it's an interesting idea and I wasn't sure if I got where you were heading with it! Thanks for bearing with a cantankerous old coot like me.

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@AmericanGwyn Just want to make sure I'm doing your post justice. So Cormac got the notion that each language produces its own subjective conscious qualia, and differences in perceived daseins are what give rise to divergent morals, which diverge more widely as time increases. Am I close?

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@AmericanGwyn Gotcha. So then Cormac is arguing that people from different language families *do* experience different subjective conscious qualia? My color blue is different from a Spanish guy's color azul, etc.?

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@MeAgainCG Everyone includes clay tablets as documents.

[𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 @writingben]

@MeAgainCG @AmericanGwyn They did have documents, because I've read them. I have books about them. I have several of them tattooed on my body. I have most of Samuel Noah Kramer's books right here in my library. Point me at a chapter and a page and I'll read it right now.