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It is characteristic of virtue rather to do good rather than have good done to oneself, and to do noble things rather than not do shameful things. Aristotle, NE 1120a

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Mockup of how Augustus Caesar would look today.

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The fall of our civilization is so abrupt and total, we won’t even have ruins.

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Jean Paul Sartre. What does his face tell you about his philosophy?

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are two academics whose intellectual and sexual degeneracy has spread throughout the universities today. Short thread:

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@BadEmpanada Ironically, the Europe of today is turning into a latrine precisely because more Tariqs are coming in.

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Another book I guess I don't have to read.

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When many students today hear about slavery in ancient Greece, their reaction is to wonder how the Greeks got a hold of subsaharan Africans. This is an indication of the way we center black africans as the sole object of pity and oppression, and so importance.

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I gave AI the prompt "White man protecting his family." These are the four variations it gave me back.

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@realchrisrufo Also, the very top placard begins with the assumption that asking people if they "believe" there is a bias is somehow proof that there is a bias. Emotional speculation as the basis of drug-centered modern medicine.

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@swinshi I don't know who you are, but your views are repulsive to any moral being.

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The English translated as three words “I am He” is only two words in Greek “I am” ἐγώ εἶμι — there is no third person pronoun in the sentence. So many likes for a statement of utter ignorance and falsity.

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@realchrisrufo Notice that the immediate application of the 1st amendment that comes to her mind is for platforms not individuals. Platforms like legacy media.

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There is a nagging regret in men who have not learned the species names of their local trees, flowers and birds. What's in a name? Knowledge and life, even in a single word.

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Aristotle had to deal with 140 IQ midwits.

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@FischerKing64 I have thought many times, considering the increasing eruption of racial themes into every area of modern American life, that perhaps what I hate the most is being forced to think of other races daily, whereas in the past I did well enough to not think of them at all.

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@micah_erfan You're a kid, the only thing you remember is Pokemon and McDonald's Happy Meals.

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Today's advice for women:

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@ploughmansfolly Roger Ebert gave it two stars and said of the film: “It is, of course, inevitable that the brilliant teacher will eventually be fired from the school, and when his students stood on their desks to protest his dismissal, I was so moved, I wanted to throw up.”

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I told my son the Greeks and Romans did not create things to be thrown away, like cardboard boxes, packaging and cheap products, but everything they produced was designed to last forever and this was most true of their philosophy and literature just as it is least true of ours.

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@0xAlaric He’s right, and I have almost tweeted out this exact thing several times the last couple of days, with one exception: he thinks such a standard would be absurd because it would lead to mass firing, while I know it would be good precisely because it would lead to mass firings.

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When men protest, they light themselves on fire. When women protest, they take their shirts off. So basically, protesters know that it only counts if men pay attention. Men are always the audience for authority and legitimacy.

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“I would like there to be just as many thoughtless and badly written translations by women as there already are by men.” Emily Wilson reflecting on her work of Homeric translation.

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My friends, my mother is in the most dire physical condition as I write, and this is added to serious health strains my family is already experiencing. If you could, spare a prayer for her surgery, strength and soul, and that of my wife.

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Sartre refused any sexual boundaries while Simone's activities would be deemed grooming by today's standards.

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In Greek law, slave testimony was only admissible in court if taken under torture.

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@jdunwell @sknwlkrdsrspctr Your second paragraph is a wonderful expression of gnosticism and how by thinking of Christianity as a toothless abstract theory it becomes inert in practice.

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Here's the story about why Simone refused to marry Sartre, and Sartre's perverse taste for virgins.

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🧵 POISON ARROWS IN ANTIQUITY: Poison arrows in war were originally adapted from hunting. While in hunting arrows were prepared with an acute & localized poison so as to not to spoil the meat, this concern was completely absent in war. In fact, suffering was desirable. 🧵

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I never speak to children in a tone different than I do with adults. No sing-songyness or loudness or saccharine excitement, for that it is the way I would talk to an utter buffoon and I do not want my children to end up as buffoons.

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If lack of social acceptance leads to suicide, why did early Christians not committ mass suicide, since their religion was outlawed and they constantly saw fellow Christians martyred for their faith? Because social rejection has nothing to do with an increase in suicide rate.

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Is it statisically unlikely that Shakespeare, a man from centuries ago, remains the best English writer ever? Yes, but many possibilities are statistically improbable before their realizations. And this assumes the social factors and training in the profession of writing are the

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This is obviously true, and a litmus test for rationalism Only in subjective fields like literature do we see the "best" people having lived long ago. No one thinks the best athletes lived 50 years ago, we can see data showing that people are breaking records all the time.

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2 years

Incredible the debate about public school shootings never focuses on the fact that these are *public schools* and perhaps this is the very fact that explains their occurence— an indication of school's inability to instill values or even the most modest purpose in students.

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@DoctorVive Gay is unproductive (handful of articles) and unimaginative (plagiarism) in her scholarly output, and so wholly unqualified to be a university president other than possessing fashionable demographics.

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@wfyoungblood Common sense is looking at your bio and knowing you made the wrong choices.

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🧵 Aristotle on male beauty. 🧵 (translations mine) ‘Beauty is different according to each age of life.’ κάλλος δὲ ἕτερον καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡλικίαν ἐστίν. (Riace Warrior detail)

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Diversity is our strength. Who is the "our"?

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@ludwig_van_eyck That's above the normal productivity rate for women talking.

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🧵WOMEN AS BEARS IN GREEK MYTH In Greek mythology different animals are associated with women, but the most surprising is the bear, itself a symbol of Artemis, who, most relevant to this thread, was the goddess of chastity and the hunt. 🧵

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Left wing Twitter Spaces are worse than watching CNN. Right wing Spaces are better than a movie.

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5 months

If you can't read Greek and Latin you are uneducated.

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300 years ago, almost all "educated people" could read Latin and Greek. If you don't think that's a qualification to be an "educated person" today, then you have to affirm that our standards for what qualifies as "educated" can change.

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@GatorsDaily Does the gator symbolize what is mutilated or what does the mutilating?

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A close reading of the text. How close? Wait, not that close, surely?

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@realchrisrufo She has already conceded there is no truth. So her definition of "good" must be whatever serves her own interests.

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Enoch Powell translated Herodotus into the English of the King James Bible. It was work he began as a undergraduate and refined for 20 years.

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@atrupar Good. Your whole account is a joke.

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@Dies_Irae_VH Blocked because you can’t discern the difference between a question and a dogmatic statement.

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@HootenWilson Too bad. I've heard saving things is archetypal of the divine.

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Found this attached to equipment at playground. Should I be concerned? This has no functionality— it's just a big knob that sticks out— doesn't push in or spin.

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Sometimes you only have to read the first sentence of the article.

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Modern society is hard to describe in a word, but I might go with "unimpressive," a description I think applies in many ways, intellectually, morally, spiritually, artistically. What word would you pick?

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@FischerKing64 Counterpoint: journalism will not be read thousands of year from now and Herodotus will.

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How do I safely dispose of this children's book? I was thinking of burning, but also considered drowning.

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"Enhance the image"

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RW twitter has so much talent, the bench is so deep it's hard to be aware of, much less even keep track of, all the great accounts on here.

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@infamous_hippo And yet you are getting mad in return.

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@realchrisrufo Now the faculty needs to be replaced, so they cannot enact secret requirements in the hiring process. After all, this is a good first step, but the faculty who instituted is still in place.

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@bronzeagemanl3t @UpCuntryMarcher Was the mullet injured in filming this scene though?

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So were those "banging noises" from Atlantis or something?

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Kierkegaard explains the wonder and philosophical inspiration which the proper study of grammar can give. Grammar is a very philosophical enterprise, when taught by the right person. (You will not be taught by the right person.)

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These ex-library books give me an unspeakable illness. A book never checked out, never contemplated nor studied, and there are millions of fateful orphans like this one, neglected, while the masses seek after picture books and distractions supposedly meriting equal treatment as

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Reading without writing is forgetting.

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For every episode of The Bachelor she watches, a woman should have to read the slaughter of the suitors in Book XXII of the Odyssey. This is what happens to simps that emasculate themselves by catering to feminine whims to impress a single woman.

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@realchrisrufo At the end he admits that the bully pulpit of Disney movies wields more cultural influence than any DEI program. Don't watch this trash, don't support it, don't let your kids watch it.

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Christianity is a "Jewish cult" in the same way that Michelangelo's David is a chunk of marble.

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This is an incredible statistic. Did you know more than 2/3 of marriages are destroyed by women?

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Henocrates composed a treatise On Homosexuality. He would approach fellow citizens in the agora and yelling would show them his scroll. On it he had written nothing. "Such barrenness is the offspring of men who climb into bed with men. They too deliver nothing while screaming."

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@gracienorris23 We're not asking.

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You think that esoteric means staring at crystals and lighting candles instead of reading Aristotle’s Metaphysics, and that is why you will never be a true initiate.

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@toomanyspectra Women who delight in disliking children are called witches.

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@EdKrassen @mcuban @elonmusk The way you demonstrate neutrality is not by curbing your own speech in any way, but by not curbing the speech of anyone else in any way.

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This is the case for most.

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@bronzeagemantis Harvard began to go astray in the 60s. The 1660s.

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@giantgio Left wing conception of intelligence has to do with possessing the correct opinions about the correct things, so that is why they equate indoctrination through formal ed with intelligence. They have no conception of intelligence as something dynamic and creative.

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@jdunwell @sknwlkrdsrspctr You are blinded, though this four letter response actually demonstrates more thought put into it than any of your previous rationalizations.

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You cannot partake of a noble death without a noble life.

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I am about to wake my mother to tell her how many people have been praying for her, and her life-determining surgery is imminent. Please keep her in your considerate prayers for success of soul and life for at least one more day.

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Dedication to DEI is now necessary if you want an academic job. Here is the 5 point Berkeley DEI rubric, used academia-wide to grade the compliance of faculty hires. Even the lowest score requires submitting yourself to "attending DEI workshops." They want full-time activists.

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“Christianity is wokeness and Jesus is a wimp.” I take it that by and large this is an opinion of the illiterate, pushed by the spiritually homeless and embraced by the desperate. Revelation 19

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If it is a great book, a man knows more by reading that one book 10 times than 100 books once. And a man with one book in his soul is more fortified for life than with 100 books in his library.

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Thank you for your continued support. I am currently caring for my mother as she awaits surgery.

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My friends, my mother is in the most dire physical condition as I write, and this is added to serious health strains my family is already experiencing. If you could, spare a prayer for her surgery, strength and soul, and that of my wife.

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@0xAlaric Do they do the gang rape stuff before or after this?

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They are two modes of illiteracy. The first is not being taught to read. The second is possessing that basic ability and not putting it to use. We are a culture of the second kind of illiteracy. Nor is all reading alike. Put away that schlock, all of it: anime, midwit

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Always laugh at academic articles that try to use she/her examples when talking about the virtuous person in Aristotle’s Ethics. Not only does Aristotle only talk about virtue as applying to males, but he doesn’t even seem to entertain the possibility of happiness to women.

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The Latin is a little more forceful, “Common sense says that a gynaecocracy is wicked and shameful.” et sensus communis dictat, vitiosam turpemque esse gynaecocratiam.

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As a philosopher Plato has this leg up on Aristotle: Aristotle fashioned no Aristotle as a student.

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@Babygravy9 Timeless really

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The end of slavery was no moral revolution. It only came about, or appeared to come about, when technology had advanced such that it could approximate slave labor. If we had technology all of sudden wrested from our cold modern hands, we would immediately reinstitute slavery.

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Who is one thinker whose influence you wished was obliterated from contemporary thought and discussion? Mine would probably be Freud.

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No animal or god can act against their own nature, but man alone. Henocrates

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A poor understanding or explanation makes one more stupid, since it serves as the premise for further reasoning. Errors accumulate in an attempt to make sense of the increasingly absurd former committments.

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@HootenWilson That quotation does not support your point. He affirms civilization has a meaning. His point is that civilization is not worth saving unless it is put second to something more important— that’s saying it is worth saving.

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So proud of my son, was tested, and he's reading past the 100th percentile for his grade with zero mistakes in pronunciation.

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In the end a man answers for the whole of his life. To understand a life through one aspect is to misunderstand the whole. Bob Knight was loud, tempestuous, ingenious, unpredictable, and the icon of blue collar sweat and sports in the heart of blue collar middle America. Ask his

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Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are a formidable pairing, understandably revered. But I will take Christ and Plato any and every day.

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I do not — not under compulsion from any source, governmental or private, material or spiritual, demonic or human, by the temptation of personal ease or threat of public discomfort— nor will I ever, respect everyone’s right to live and love as they choose.

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Aristotle says that not all kinds of humor are to be used by a free man (eleutheros), but only some. He then says, ‘Irony befits a free man more than coarse buffoonery (bōmolochos), for irony amuses the man himself, while buffoonery is for the sake of making others laugh.’

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That's not a new fact, it's an unjustifed assumption of materialists who find it indefensible to explain intelligence as part of matter, so they appeal to the magic word, "emergence," the same way a bunny emerges out of an upturned top hat.

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Sam Altman says we have stumbled on a new fact of nature: that intelligence is an emergent property of matter

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@CamilGoy @VDAREJamesK I didn't forget. I was actually so sick from their behavior I didn't want to share any more.

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Encouraging your son to be masculine is “gender and body shaming” and “emotionally abusing” him, according to this mandatory online college training with “yes” as the “correct” answer. This has to be taken by an instructor before he can teach any class at the university.

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Time for the Based Parenting GC. The mission is to share tips, strategies & resources to raise good and noble men and women while equiping them to fight the multitude of evils found in the modern world. The perspective is broadly Christian but accepting of any who are ready.

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