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@ExetastosBios

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If the Nietzsche discourse today has proven anything, it is that no amount of reading will ever make you "get it." Nietzsche himself said this and that he was writing to a select audience of strong-willed men who would intuitively feel the power of his work. Slaves needn't apply.

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"Ermmm Nietzsche was, like, NOT a chungus grass-touching sex-haver... he disrespected women and wrote about resentment which is so friggin WEIRD man. Anyways read some real philosophers like Aquinas and Duns Scotus, they were celibate (inceldom but with Latin Mass)."

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Nietzsche was an incel. Most of his philosophy is downstream of that fact.

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Today, I am going to argue that the Pentateuch, particularly Genesis and Exodus, were written by Jewish scholars at the Library of Alexandria in approximately 272 BC.

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Women aren't even soulful enough to produce a single notable painting, let alone opine on the nature of life and who has it easier.

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Men think women have life on easy mode because men do not have souls and to them life on “easy mode” is having convenient access to sex. That is literally as far as their brains are able to expand.

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This is the type of man whom Vajrayana Buddhism was made by and designed for.

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You are such a shameless, mendacious grifter. Pointing the finger at young right-wing men—the LEAST mentally ill demographic—instead of liberal women, the most? Who has the anxieties being preyed upon by scoundrels like you? You're going back.

hasanabi

@hasanthehun

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every young male interest online from gaming, fitness to culture and self help is dominated by right wing redpilled manosphere commentary. they prey on the anxieties and insecurities of vulnerable young men.

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Steven Runciman was a supremely interesting figure, maybe one of the last true scholars who also lived as a "man of the world." With his fascination for the noble archetypes of man—the Crusader, the Byzantine philosopher, the medieval Gnostic—he would've today been a FROG!

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Why is Chyna so reluctant to do genetic analysis on Qin Shi Huang, their first emperor? Could it be because he was born in "Handan" (Scythian cognate of Medio-Persian Hagmatāna), an area known for horsemanship and several other 'foreign' customs? Why would the Han conceal this..?

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@bronzeagemantis

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In Chinese history Genghis Khan is retconned as a “Chinese general”…they have a mentality similar to what you find in Albanian vs Turk vs Serb arguments on Quora (Alexander the Great is a Serbian or Albanian “general” etc) but it’s not a guy drunk on raki it’s state policy

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@bronzeagemantis "America needs to become more like Brazil or South Africa for whites to radicalize and achieve race-consciousness, because as we all know that's exactly what happened in Brazil and South Africa."

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@ExetastosBios

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CRATYLUS & PLATO'S ESOTERICISM Plato's so-called "unwritten doctrines" are subject to great misunderstanding: some outright deny their existence, others misconstrue their content. Today, let's talk about an obscure dialogue, and what it can tell us about these secret teachings.

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Nietzsche says the greatest stumbling block in humanity's progress has been precisely this. Elite retrogression to herd instinct, losing the appetite for hypocrisy, a weakened pathos of distance. Elites then wrongly think the lower orders of man can handle aristocratic license.

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@bronzeagemantis

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This abdication of imperious paternalism in the name of soft nonjudgmentalism, hueman rights or even adulation of the lower classes is typical of elites in decay by the way…the French and Russian aristocracies before the two revolutions had a similar adulation of the muzhik etc

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Nietzsche also predicted that genuine critiques of Jewish morality would become subverted by 90 IQ plebians who unironically believe "they iz worshippin demons n sheeeit!" Seems he was proven right.

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@GiftsUngiven_

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Nietzsche is wrong about Europeans worshiping a "Jewish" god and stealing their religion. If Jesus practiced the same religion as modern Jews, who are directly related to the Ph arisees, why did he reject them, saying they were false priests "from the synagogue of S ata n"? This

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Great, we got Oaxacan-feet-washing "nationalism" and all it'll cost the right is a protracted legal battle, lowered polling with the electorate who doesn't actually want this, and downstream effects on Trump's prospect. Low-IQ cuckservatives are their own biggest saboteurs.

BNO News

@BNONews

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JUST IN: Louisiana becomes 1st U.S. state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms

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The Amerikwan political carnival has reached the point where extreme & unprecedented actions cannot make even a dent in the public mind. The violently saturated news cycle and mobilization of regime apparatchiks to persecute Trump has numbed its bite. Nietzsche predicted this.

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@bronzeagemantis

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Very weak …this whole Trump “conviction” hasn’t registered for me almost at all…neither for most Americans I think. These people shot their lame load long ago during the Russia conspiracy hysteria. What should be the culmination of their efforts feels like nothing about nothing

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Most of the 'dissident' right shares the same noble-savage romanticism of GNC apparatchiks--negroes are 'wild' and 'free' from 'authoritarian civility.' To the contrary the nomos of the shtetl/tribe is the most suffocating and authoritarian social structure in existence...

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@bronzeagemantis

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The authoritarian Iceland and Sweden vs the libertarian tribal Afreakan or Hasidic or Mexican village life …the memes of the new online dissident sphere or whatever you want to call it are now as absurd distortions as the left’s

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I myself have come across people like this: They go insane reading Nietzsche, drop into a stupor of petty nihilism, and then eventually have forgotten long enough to resume their old slavish libtarded habits. That anyone can come away from his work so unfazed sickens me.

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@ExetastosBios

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Nietzsche believed man should make lions and eagles into PETS, a milestone and testament to his apex status among beasts. Do you like this?

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In conclusion: the Pentateuch was a Hellenistic document, created by Jewish scholars at Alexandria, to reform Jewish law and legitimate Judaea's status as an ancient people. They relied upon the accounts of Berosus and Manetho, along with others, to compile this historical epic.

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@ExetastosBios

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Failure of Pythagoras & Plato to effect widespread religious change--despite their unrivaled intellective force--attests to INDIVIDUALITY & WILLPOWER of ancient Grek people, a breaking away from "rude herd instinct."

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@bronzeagemantis

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Neither Pythagoras nor Plato were successful reformers in the ancient Greek world nor did they found new religions (which they much wanted to do) that anyone but few followed. They were minority voice, it was the Sophists who were educators of Greks

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@bronzeagemantis "America's last chance was in 1760... hordes of swarthy Bavarians, the Quaker menace on the rise... Benjamin Franklin discusses this..."

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"Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" — Christopher Marlowe

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@bronzeagemantis

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This goes for both parties ofc …lovers can’t get enough of each other. This whole thing about “waiting” or gradual—love isn’t gradual.

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BAP absolutely nailed this on a recent episode: all GOP has to do is get out of their own way, not be the neurotic Nurse Ratched "we're the REAL authoritarians," and let the left adopt that role in the public eye. But they're too stupid to do even this.

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@ExetastosBios

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@SperglerAcolyte You wouldn't even be able to replicate that study today. Too few would even know who Hector and Achilles are, much less have read The Iliad.

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@ExetastosBios

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The tr00ns are being deconstructed by the ruthless efficiency of e-thot profiteering before our very eyes. Total acceleration victory. Hail Mammon.

Hazel Appleyard

@HazelAppleyard_

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I’M SCREAMING. WHAT. 😂 My gender isn’t your costume 😂

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Because the Bible narrates Bronze Age events, it's assumed that it must draw from bona fide ancient sources. The Jews at Alexandria were merely translating into Greek a scroll of national history that had long since existed. However, what if this weren't really the case?

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The foregoing analysis shows that there is NO evidence that the Hebrew Bible existed before 272 BC, when the Septuagint was made in Alexandria. This leaves the stunning possibility that the Bible was not "translated" in Alexandria, but rather written in its entirety.

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The earliest manuscripts of the Pentateuch are the Dead Sea Scrolls, which via carbon dating, epigraphy, and internal evidence, do not date earlier than the 3rd century BC. Without any further evidence, we could be looking at a Hellenistic date for the Bible!

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According to Jewish history, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek king of Egypt, commissioned a vast collection and translation of all the nations' legal codes. He invited Jewish scholars to study at the Library of Alexandria, resulting in the Septuagint (the Greek Pentateuch).

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The Vatican Library used to contain a Syriac bible whose colophon indicated it was written in 78 AD by the Apostle Thaddeus. It coincidentally "disappeared in a fire." It is of grave historical importance we use any means, up to INVADING THE HOLY SEE, to recover this document.

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@ExetastosBios

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The earliest unequivocal parallel to a passage in the Pentateuch is from a Ketef Hinnom amulet (circa. 7th c.), whose inscription parallels Numbers 6:24-26. However nobody disputes the Pentateuch incorporates genuine First Temple traditions, so its probative value is limited.

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@ExetastosBios

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@captivedreamer7 Look at the kid gloves he puts on here for bona fide anti-white third worldists, and compare that to the vehemence with which he attacks BAP and REN. Interesting set of priorities!

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@ExetastosBios

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Do you believe in the joyous science of poetry, anon? The spirit of the Provençal troubadour—singer, knight, and free spirit? Do you believe that over morality one should... dance!

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Ever since the 19th century, scholars have been applying textual criticism to biblical texts to ascertain their true provenance. However, this is a young field still moored by assumptions of biblical antiquity. When these assumptions are lifted, we get very intriguing results.

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Shakespeare talks about this.

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One of the reasons Nietzsche gives for French excellence is the propitious combination of northern and southern blood... regime of the future will breed Germanic bodybuilders with Ligurian geishas.... and then new race of Gods Is born

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@bronzeagemantis

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Nietzsche on the French cultural superiority in Yurop: includes a nice aside on Stendhal: “that remarkably prescient and pioneering man, who ran at a Napoleonic tempo through his Europe, through several centuries of the European soul, as a tracker and discoverer of this soul. It

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There are two ways to identify the latest possible date for a text: first, manuscript evidence; and second, references to the text by authors of a known time frame. We may also use other data, like archaeology, to see whether the narrative aligns with known facts about a period.

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"Kemal Atatürk was Jewish." "Sheeeit dis mofo spittin rn!" "George Washington was Jewish." "Mhmm I knew dem Anglos wuz Jooish!" "Bernard of Clairvaux was Jewish." "Well hold on now I—" "Gregory VII? Definitely Jewish." "Well no that doesn't—" "Duns Scotusberg..."

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No references to Moses, the Exodus, the Deuteronomic law, or in fact any part of the Pentateuch has thus far been found within the papyri. They celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but not the Passover. Scholars have concluded this group must have been a "heterodox isolate."

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The Elephantine papyri have perplexed scholars since their discovery. The Jews there had their own temple and altar, which manifestly violates Deuteronomy 12. They also wrote to the High Priest in Jerusalem, who too was unaware of any prohibition!

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Another fascinating enigma is solved in the Table of Nations of Genesis 10. There is only one time period when Shem, Ham, and Japeth's descendants correspond to actual political territories. It is none other than the Greek kingdoms after the First Syrian War--in 272 BC!

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For example, Herodotus in his Histories does not know of any "Jews," but he does know of Arab Dionysus-worshippers in the area of Judea. He describes a blood ritual reminiscent of Leviticus 17, and a manner of haircut the same as the Jewish payot.

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@bronzeagemantis The Jewish Temple of Onias in Egypt had female priestesses until its destruction by the Romans in 73 AD... I would like to see historical reenactment of this event: Legio XXII Deiotariana soldier named "Panthera" enters sanctuary, neoplatonic Domination by Doug ensues...

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Now, what is perhaps the most interesting evidence for a late Pentateuchal dating are some of the earliest Jewish testimonia: the Elephantine Papyri, written in the 4th and 5th centuries at a Jewish-Egyptian military colony.

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@grecoegyptian "Pellucid analysis as always Dr. Gigachad, though I must note that Egyptians are Sumerids and therefore also partially of alien lineage. It is a miracle that the pyramids were unmolested by the Finno-Korean pan-Aryan Hyperwar..."

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Another source is Theophrastus' On Piety (315/14 BC), which in talking about the Jews makes no mention of the Pentateuch or any biblical traditions. He does, however, mention astrology and burnt sacrifices, both of which the Bible polemicizes against.

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@ExetastosBios

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Women cannot be "Nietzschean."

𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐞

@stoic_sith

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It’s me, the Nietzschean Mommy Gf 💅🏻

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@jon_wunwun7 "Not beating the fakecel allegations here are we... less than one year..."

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For instance, it's always been assumed that Genesis is dependent upon Babylonian flood myths like Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish, but Canaanite myth shows no such influence. However, as Gmirkin showed, Genesis much closer parallels the creation account of Berossus, a 3rd c. BC author!

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The other way we can date the Pentateuch is via ancient historians---but these too show no familiarity with any Hebrew Bible until well into the Hellenistic era.

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Manetho's account differs significantly from the Bible's, suggesting he had no direct familiarty therewith. Therefore, it appears that the Jews at Alexandria used the Aegyptaica, along with additional sources in the Library of Alexandria, to reconstruct their national history.

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Manetho seems to be working from genuine Egyptian records, who record a "Moses" leading his co-religionists out of Egypt and into Jerusalem, at the time the capital of the previously expelled Hyksos pharoahs. (I think I know who Moses was, but that's a story for another day.)

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I advise caution re overturning of Chevron: many celebrating it are empty-suits who care about the lawgic win, and not its actual effects. Realistically, courts will use "Skidmore" deference, which retains much agency power. This may be used to stifle more radical agency reforms.

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Why is it that academy Aristotelians never talk about his views on born rulership, "slaves by nature," or the relationship between immigration and tyranny? They seem so content with vague gestures towards "da natural law," never divulging what he *actually* thinks. Wat means?

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Plato remarked that the rules of conduct between Greek(s) states shouldn't be applied to non-Greeks, for the latter are natural enemies. Aristotle went farther, building upon his thesis that some men are naturally born slaves, he asserts that Greek is born ruler of the

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One point made here that cannot be stated enough is that the shallowpate form of 'geneaologizing' so common on both the left and right is not only inaccurate, but can be completely opposite of the truth. A symbol/idea can be appropriated completely opposite its original meaning.

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@bronzeagemantis

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I do new interview with interesting @NietzscheAcadem on Nietzsche

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The earliest alleged reference to any tradition from the Pentateuch comes via Hecataeus of Abdera, writing in the 4th century BC. He is quoted by Diodorus Siculus as giving an extensive account of Jewish religion, including the Exodus. However, this account has its problems.

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@bronzeagemantis "FRANKism, the FRANKfurt School of Critical Theory, the Anglo-Bolshevist Masonry practiced by Benjamin FRANKlin... what are they hiding from us?"

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@0x49fa98 Discovering IRL friends who also happen to be twitter frogs is hitting the jackpot. All depends on the environments you move around in.

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Likewise, with the Exodus, it has always been assumed that the account of Jewish origins in Manetho's Aegyptaica (written around 285 BC) was a polemic response to the Pentateuch. But the opposite might be the case.

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A Hellenistic date for the Pentateuch opens the possibility of dependence upon later sources, and solves many of the long-standing questions of where biblical myths come from.

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@bronzeagemantis Doing insane pharisaical gestures like "fighting dem pagans" while half your empire is now ethnically Orientaloid is a perfect precedent of the modern chungus right's "strategy"... this was the son of the emperor who banned the Olympics btw

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The fragment of Diodorus in question, Book 40 of "Library," survives only via Photius, a much later Byzantine historian. Its attribution to Hecataeus has been questioned by scholars: Manetho (3rd c. BC) and Aristobulus (2nd c. BC) do not quote it, despite having read Hecataeus.

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In an exhaustive analysis of this passage, Russell Gmirkin concluded that Diodorus was actually quoting Theophanes of Mytilene, writing in 62 BC, and that the quotation was wrongly attributed by Photius. Again, Hecataeus shows no familiarity with the Pentateuch.

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If you are already pretty versed in a field, the best way to squeeze out more novel and interesting paradigms is to read low-tier schizo/conspiratorial work. Quite heterodox but not raving mad. These works tend to incorporate more exotic sources/facts and have a kernel of truth.

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One last 4th century account is the so-called "Pseudo-Hecataeus," whom Aristobulus of Alexandria quotes as saying that a scroll of Jewish law was brought to Greek attention in the court of Ptolemy I Soter. But, as Bar-Kochva definitvely proved, this too is a forgery.

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If ancient man had access to the technology we have today, you would have daily mass-casualty events, a total release of havoc upon the world. It is incredible how much our wills have shriveled in proportion to how much technology has amplified the possibility of one man to act.

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Ummm dude the Talmud is fucking GAY and it's just 6000 pages of sophistry about irrelevant nonsense... anyways check out volume four of Summa Theologica on whether holy unction has to be deprecatory or mandative it's suuuper based my guy

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Nietzsche answered the question of what is sufficient to entice men into marriage: DOMINION. Sense of indissoluble ownership; an absolute quantum of power. A man of vitality and action would deign to hang his hat up for long on the farce that is the modern marriage.

Spergler Acolyte

@SperglerAcolyte

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Not a single reply to this tweet has convinced me otherwise. What inducement is there for me to marry a foid? You don't even get reliable access to pussy since most modern women grow to detest their husbands and deny them sex anyway. Plus there's no guarantee of fidelity anymore.

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It's funny how genetic evidence has proven that basically every single 'inexplicable alien structure' (the Nazca lines, the pyramids, Stonehenge, etc.) ended up just being white people.

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The Cratylus deals with the nature of language, whether it is conventional or natural, and its limits as a tool of philosophical inquiry. However, as we shall soon see, this discussion also harbors clever subtext, which Plato uses to reveal his true beliefs.

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What is so remarkable to me about Nietzsche's analysis of Christ and his original teaching is that they seem totally vindicated by documents that were later recovered in the 20th century (especially the Gospel of Thomas). Thomas read exactly how Nietzsche says that Christ taught.

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Spengler is right that the West has basically exhausted its philosophic horizon. All attempts past Nietzsche have been derivative, and can only be derivative. What we need now are poets, scientists, and warriors to harvest the produce that has been laid before us.

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Much could be said about Plato's teachings on heredity--which I shall address in the future--but for now what is important is that he is laundering political and ethical doctrines through a very convoluted discussion on language, including a doctrine of SELECTIVE BREEDING.

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"The way of sun and steel *is* cultured polymathy mixed with violent schizophrenia. Nietzsche talks about this. Also Lord Byron talks about this too."

Rogue Scholar Press

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“I will forever be grateful to BAP for showing me the way” “The way of sun and steel?” “No, the way of serious commentary and absolute schizopoasting seamlessly flowing together”

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Yes, and in fact Nietzsche says it is the precise fact that spiritual slaves are no longer commanded by their natural superiors which foments revolt and dissension. "If the man whose boot I am under is no better than me, why should it not be me who is in change?"

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@bronzeagemantis Josephus says the most distinguished generals of the Jewish Revolt were Queen Helena's kinsmen, one of whom was called the "Only Begotten Son" and whose father was visited by an angel after his conception. Can someone pls explain wat did Josephus mean by this...?

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This is where things get very interesting... Socrates argues that names have a sort of HEREDITARY relation to their referent, and that small variations do not invalidate their genetic continuities.

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According to Chris Beckwith, Qin Shi Huang likely was IE. Both of his parents were Chaoish, which was a border territory long ruled by Scythian royalty. Its capital city, Han-Tan, is in fact a rendering of Hagmatāna, the same name as the capital of the Medes.

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IDK if the emperor was Indo-European, but the Journal of Chinese History (Cambridge University) says the emperor's necropolis and Qin culture in general had Indo-European influence from Greeks and Iranians, including Scythians.

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@AlexNowrasteh Refusing to let 85 IQ Mexicans into a country whose success is entirely contingent on being composed of 100 IQ whites is not affirmative action, it's the bare minimum of preservation. The classical liberalism you hold so dear was formulated under certain demographic assumptions.

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@ExetastosBios

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First, a note on a dramatis persona: the titular character of the dialogue, Cratylus, was a historical figure, and an early teacher of Plato. Aristotle informs us that he taught radical Heracliteanism and epistemic nihilism, ideas which Plato would adopt in his youth (and on?).

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@ExetastosBios

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@augureust "Wittgenstein said that if women could talk, we could not understand them anyways." "Women can talk and I'm pretty sure he said that about lions." "I have put into words what he meant in spirit."

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@ExetastosBios

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@0x49fa98 "And just like that, he disappeared without any further trace"

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@ExetastosBios

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@captivedreamer7 Most of these guys had ancestors going back to the Mayflower on each side. This is what a PURE phenotype looks like, and is very sensitive to adulteration. Most ancient west European phenotypes don't even exist anymore due to mixing; everywhere in Europe people look the same.

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@ExetastosBios

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Socrates joins the conversation on the side of Cratylus' naturalism. His opening rhetorical maneuver is worth close attention: he argues that the act of naming is like a technical art, e.g. weaving, and that therefore there is as much a correct way to name as there is to weave.

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@ExetastosBios

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He then goes on to argue that, like a carpenter is one who is skilled at weaving, the one who is skilled at naming is none other than the lawmaker. This conflation of politics with other 'technical' arts is a common Platonic motif, found in First Alcibiades, Republic, etc.

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@ExetastosBios

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Many of the rhetorical motifs that I outline here are used across all of his dialogues, and once you notice them you will see that Plato's irony has been VASTLY understated by academia. I hope this has been informative, and I intend to analyze more Plato in the future.

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@ExetastosBios

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The dialogue opens with Hermogenes and Cratylus arguing the 'correctness' of names. Cratylus maintains that names exist by nature--i.e., every thing has one 'true' designation--whereas Hermogenes adopts the position that all names are conventional, i.e. they exist by agreement.

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@ExetastosBios

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@CityBureaucrat I believe it was Thucydides who documented the upmost importance of "having a normal one"

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@ExetastosBios

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So, in summary: Plato's Cratylus uses language as an extended metaphor for ethics and metaphysics. He uses it to explicate a doctrine of flux, epistemic nihilism, and hereditary virtue (all of which I believe to be his actual teachings).

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@ExetastosBios

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But what is this natural purpose? Much like a shuttle is the instrument of weaving, whose purpose is to separate fabric, Socrates defines names as the instrument of naming, whose purpose is to "teach and separate reality." 'Naming' is but a veiled reference to philosophy itself!

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@ExetastosBios

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The first thing to note about this catalog is that an interesting pattern emerges: many terms, such as "wisdom" (φρόνησις), "thought" (γνώμη), and "intelligence" (νόησις), are given etymologies that pertain to "motion" (φορᾶς), "flow" (ῥοῦ), and "birth" (γονή).

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@ExetastosBios

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For those familiar with Plato's Meno and Protagoras, you might see that Socrates here is subtly contradicting the argument made against hereditary virtue in those dialogues. Both rely on the discontinuity of virtue from father to son as an argument that it comes not from nature.

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@ExetastosBios

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The centerpiece of the dialogue is an extensive catalog of etymologies pertaining to the names of Gods, virtues, natural elements, and other things. The thrust of the section is Socrates' attempting to show that Greek words have "right naming," thus proving linguistic naturalism.

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@ExetastosBios

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The greatest gift a man can have by nature is a ravenous love of knowledge. It is the only fount of joy that never depletes, it is the only thing a man can have when he has nothing. If I be blessed with worldly power, my gain is everyone's; if not, I am happy just to learn more.

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"Nooo you can't just steal my land like that! The Great Chief Pipikaka was buried under that casino!" "Who are 'indigenous Americans' anyways? The Solutreans from France? The Atlantaeans from the Azores? Kon-Tiki from Egypt? The Vikings from Scandinavia?"

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Who are ‘Indigenous British people’? Do they mean the Beaker people who came from Central Europe? The AngloSaxons from Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands? Romans? Vikings? Normans? There are no ‘Indigenous’ Brits. We are a mongrel nation built on immigration. We always have been.

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Young men should travel the continent: if nothing else to see the ruins of great former epochs, to understand viscerally how far from greatness we have fallen, to appreciate the lameness and mediocrity sold as "dignitay" and "progress."

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@ExetastosBios

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So far then, Socrates has directly equated the inquiry into the nature of language into one about philosophy and lawgiving itself. This is important; it reveals that he will use naming throughout the Cratylus as a conceit to speak about these topics, albeit surreptitiously.

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@ExetastosBios

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What appears to be happening here is that Socrates is using names to stand-in for their actual referents, and his 'etymologizing' is in fact a philosophical speculation. Therefore by saying that all words are derived from flux/motion, he is supporting Heraclitus' metaphysics!

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