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@LukeySulz You were injured, perhaps permanently, by a product that was fraudulently misrepresented and has serious dangers you were not told of, thereby violating all bioethics concerning informed consent, yet you're worried about an anti-vaxx moniker?? The brainwashing is amazing.

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The Platonic philosophical conception of the Deity, has always come closest to ours. It's amazing how much was grasped via pure philosophy. Here is Plotinus' model. That such history lies buried today is a travesty. St. Clement was right, philosophy was Providential.

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The Laws by Plato is one of the greatest masterworks of philosophy. It's Plato's last and longest work. I'm curious if anyone out there has even heard of it? It seems to have been thoroughly excised from Western consciousness. I suspect this is not by accident.

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"Plato was not ignorant of the truth. He had the knowledge of the only begotten Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit, whom he styles as Psyche." - Saint Clement of Alexandria

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"God then, as the old tradition says, holdeth the beginning and the end and middle of all things that exist, passes straight through while travelling round in nature's course. Justice is ever His companion, taking vengeance on those who depart from the Divine Law." - Plato, Laws

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@disclosetv Orders coming straight from the WEF meeting.

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@Leftylockdowns1 Well that sounds a lot like hell to me.

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@akheriaty The Darwin Family was heavily involved in Eugenics with Sir Francis Gaulton, Charles Darwin's cousin inventing the 'science' of Eugenics and Darwin's children and grandchildren heading up the British Eugenics Society. Facts not allowed to be reported.

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@simonateba He can just change his name fo Chelsea and he'll get a pardon.

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@TexasLindsay_ @stkirsch @LTCTheresaLong It is data driven. The data says they damaged pilots' hearts, but they can only perpetuate the lies for so long. One day the jig will be up.

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@luckytran Pandemic ended over a year ago.

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@stkirsch Young vaxxed friend just got cancer.

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@RichardCityNews 1 in 5000 heart damage is catastrophic risk and social outcomes. Stop it now.

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@FeserEdward The most terrifying scene for me is when Fr Karras is celebrating the new 1969 Rite and you can see him losing his faith. The new rubrics + his Jesuit education. This horror played out for so many clergy.

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@elisawine14 The city feels like it's under siege. The magic and vitality is gone. The glimmers of hope in May and November were both swiftly crushed.

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The critics agree.

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@DiedSuddenly_ Never heard of a young women dying of a heart attacks until it started last year

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@AlyParm @ajlamesa We've wiped out about 125 years of scientific knowledge. They this type of superstitious activity belongs in the 1600s. Total ignorance of respiratory spread.

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Just read Plato. Don't rely on the armies of academics who knew nothing of Plato. "But if he only knew that the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator." - CS Lewis

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My interlocutors like to use "Demiurge" because it makes Plato sound weird. It's Greek for craftsman or even carpenter. It's a remarkably humble description of the Deity: God as Craftsman of the cosmos. Imagine portraying God as a carpenter?

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Lessons from Life: The center of Catholic philosophy was Alexandria not Paris. The language was Greek not Latin. The Masters were the Church Fathers not the Medievals. The foundation was built on Plato not Aristotle. History is your friend not your enemy.

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I'm a.proud anti-Aristotelian. There is an ancient and most venerable tradition of anti-Aristotelianism in the Roman Church. 🏛️

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@Nutmegbunny9 @jeffreyatucker @ToddEBear They didn't make them run around a track or play sports with them on. Or do any physical activity aside from standing in one spot and concentrating.

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@ShaneSchaetzel JFK was perhaps not a great Catholic but he was certainly practicing. When they swore in LBJ they went into JFK's desk on AF1 and found a Roman Missal. LBJ was sworn in on a Roman Missal. Jackie always teased JFK about his "childlike" faith and saying his prayers.

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Pythagoras was right. 🏛️

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Nice book that touches on a lot of our themes. water-chaos, space-time, microcosm-macrocosm, and others. Quite original take. Moderns can't grasp Genesis, not because it's primitive, but because it's too sophisticated. Its themes and layers are complex and culturally alien. 🏛️

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I long for that golden age when the scholastics were Platonists.

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@MementoMori_JMJ We were in Savannah once and a local friend said. "That there is the Cathedral of St.John the Baptist. See? Down here even the Catholics are Baptist!"

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Some people, to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Note it. Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. - St. Augustine, Sermon 126

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@ProtecttheFaith 300 years of hagiography and clericalism that taught them that fatalistic resignation is the holiest pathway. The Protestant effect on the Church and loss of civilization was much more damaging than people realize.

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"By fate too, philosophy was given to the Greeks directly and primarily, until the Lord should call the Greeks. For it was a schoolmaster to bring the Hellenic mind (as the Law for the Hebrews) to Christ. Philosophy was therefore a preparation." - St. Clement of Alexandria

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For Plato, the hierarchy of the human body perfectly expressed the hierarchy of our nature. The intellect, seated above all as an embodied sphere, governs the actions, emotions, passions, and appetites of the self-moving soul, as seen in the body's explanatory hierarchy.

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When I was a Thomist for many years I thought that philosophy WAS argument. That's what we Thomists did, beginning in college and then on every platform. Making the most didactic constructs and then arguing over the most pedantic details. Then I discovered Philosophy. 🏛️

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@FinanceLancelot @narrative_hole If they can jam GPS it's not a huge leap to jam Starlink.

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Do you reject Aristotle and all of his empty promises? - I do. 🏛️

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I term Nicomachean Ethics "Boomer Ethics", because it enjoyed such a strong renaissance in 1970s psychology: scaling levels of happiness and "self-actualization" etc. Many Boomers adopted Aristotle at a practical level, sharing a natural affinity for godless materialism.

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@MacArthur369 @MAVERIC68078049 You can find lots of footage of poorly built Chinese towers that have literally been burnt to a shell from top to bottom and never collapsed.

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@MateoLL10 @narrative_hole Galicia never experienced any Holodomor.

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Plato's Explanatory Hierarchy of Being

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@ggreenwald Been the same modus operandi since Operation Rolling Thunder.

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Never go full Aristotle. Like many ill effects of the 13th Century, Aristotle's views on slavery were largely imbibed by Aquinas who very much provided the theological justification Pius IX references. Aquinas taught that slavery was in accord with Natural and Divine Law.

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"God made heaven and earth, but the very earth which God made was invisible and 'without form' before God arranged the Forms of all things by ordering and distinguishing them in their places and ranks." - Saint Augustine

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In our eyes God will be "the measure of all things" in the highest degree-a degree much higher than any "man" they may speak of. He, then, who would become dear to such an one must become, so far as he possibly can, of a like character. - Plato, Laws.

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@jasonjamesbnn

Chrystia Freeland’s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation

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God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. - Paul Dirac

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Plato rightly understood that the individuality of the soul could never be predicted on matter. The matter of the body changes throughout life yet the person remains. So too knowledge and tastes. We know now that the cells in our body completely regenerate about every 7-15 years.

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...the intelligible precedes the sensible...since the corporeal is formed from the incorporeal by the combination with the intelligible, and the sensible is formed from the intelligible. For nothing hinders, according to Pythagoras and Plato. - St. Athenagoras of Athens 176AD

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John Scotus Eriugena, the great Irish scholar, and the most significant Latin philosopher between Boethius and Anselm, developed a Platonic Christian philosophy, largely without having direct access to Plato or the NeoPlatonists. It's always been our "natural" philosophy.

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The basis of Catholic thought is Apostolic Tradition. You can't take a school of thought that dates to 1200 years later and claim that it's Apostolic Tradition. The irony of Lagrange skewering Ressourcement as "Nouvelle Theology" was that Thomism itself was Nouvelle Theology.

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@rubiconcapital_ They know it's garbage

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God is a Platonist. Corinthians 4:18 : “We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

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And the world was without form and void.

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@SussexHenryVIII Christmas decor in March???

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Christ in the Eucharist is based on Platonic metaphysics. There's no other way to grasp it. A Platonist could accept it, an Aristotelian, never. Even the Transubstantiation Dogma is Platonic, as the definition predates the Aristotelian invasion. "Accidents" are absent.

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Origen was the first Christian to speak of three “hypostases” in the Trinity and to use the term "homoousios." Both terms of course come from Plotinus. St. Augustine himself believed that the NeoPlatonists had a rational idea of the Trinity (Confessions VIII.3; City X.23).

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"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul in Plato differs not at all in opinion from Moses. For Moses was the first to define the soul in man as being an immortal essence, when he said that it is originally an image of God." - St. Clement of Alexandria

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@Psuforever_1980 @DC_Draino No they will blame Christians and say they deserved it.

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Serious Physicists reference Plato. Yet we're told that he was an anti-science mystic? Aristotelianism prided itself on being rooted in science. This was proven bogus in the 1600s, a fact so devastating it destroyed Scholasticism. Plato stands much closer to modern science.

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Creation is a bible whose letters and syllables are the particular aspects of all creatures and whose words are the more universal aspects of Creation. - St. Maximus the Confessor

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@FrDaveNix My local parish has Fr. James Martin as its associate pastor. No thanks.

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The Cube is an Archetype of the Earth itself. 🏛️

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2160 and the Holy of Holies The Temple Sanctuary was ordained as a perfect hexahedron. The cube comprises a total of 2160°. 360 x 6 A geometric Axis Mundi.

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The Music Encoded into Gothic Architecture "Did such escape the observation of Plato and Pythagoras, those wise men, who have been a wall and a fortress of philosophy to us?" - St. Justin Martyr 150 AD 🏛️🌐

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(What) is the knowledge of that which always is, and not of something which...comes into being and passes away... Geometry is the knowledge of the eternally existent...drawing the soul to truth, directing upward those faculties now wrongly turned earthward. - Plato, Republic

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Our Cathedrals, like Plato, always point upwards to the heavens.

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Recovering a Platonic Civilization. It's hard to face how many, particularly Catholics, disparage Plato. I hope that I've been able to somewhat dispel some myths and let the real Plato, and the historic philosophy at the basis of our civilization, speak. It's helped me. 🏛️

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It's always been our Philosophy. "God from God, of Light from Light." - Philo of Alexandria "God from God, Light from Light." - Nicene-Constantinoplian Creed 🏛️

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"The soul neither exists without a body nor is a body of some sort. For it is not a body, but it belongs to a body..." - Aristotle. De Anima 🏛️

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@FeserEdward It's been 58 years now. I think Catholics have had the patience of Job tbh. We see total autodemolition in Rome now. It's beyond farce. We're not to blame for Rome nuking itself into irrelevance (and not only that, but now taking on the mantle of an active persecutor).

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From Justin onward, the "prophecy of the Cross" in Plato, together with the connection of cosmos and history that it reveals, was one of the fundamental ideas in patristic theology...(an) overwhelming discovery... of the cross as a seal imprinted on the universe. - J. Ratzinger

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"The days of men shall be, it is said, '120 years.' And the sum is made up of the numbers from 1 to 15 added together. And the Moon at 15 days is full. On another principle, 120 is a triangular number, and consists of the equality of the number 64." -St. Clement of Alexandria

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@DiedSuddenly_ Instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna look you right in the face Better get yourself together darlin' Join the human race How in the world you gonna see Laughin' at fools like me Who in the hell d'you think you are A super star Well, right you are

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Cosmic Musical Proportion

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Philosophically, Christianity is a Platonic religion. One can no more remove Platonism from Christianity then he can remove Hellenism from Plato. Three Hypostases Homoousion Logos Divine Archetypes Immortality of the soul Heaven and Hell Providential Platonic ideas.

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People ask why the obsession with geometry? Geometry means "Earth-measure." Geometry is a transcendent thing. One of the pathways of the Quadrivium. A pastime of the angels. 🏛️

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*Let the testimony of geometry be the tabernacle that was constructed, and the ark that was fashioned, ...in most regular proportions, through divine ideas, by the gift of understanding, which leads us from things of sense to intellectual objects..." - St. Clement of Alexandria

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"So also those who lived before Christ and did not live by the Logos were ungracious enemies of Christ, and murderers of those who lived by the Logos. But those who lived by the Logos, and those who so live now, are Christians, fearless and unperturbed." - St. Justin Martyr

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Concerning the Son of God...Plato says, "He placed him crosswise in the universe," he borrowed in like manner from Moses; for in the writings of Moses...which things reading...(Plato) said that the power next to the first God was placed crosswise. - St. Justin Martyr

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"The Good is the Beautiful." - Plato "The beautiful is the same as the good, and they differ in aspect only." - St. Thomas Aquinas

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"The reckoning of numbers ought not to be despised, for in many passages of sacred writings it elucidates how great a mystery they hold." St. Isidore of Seville Etymologies.

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Plato was right. When animators create 3D graphic representations, everything we see in that virtual environment is made up of triangles. Triangles make the visual illusion possible.

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"We behold then by the sight of the mind, in that eternal truth from which all things temporal are made, the Form according to which we are, and according to which we do anything by true and right reason, either in ourselves or in things corporeal.” - St. Augustine, De Trinitate

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The pinnacle of Aquinas's Platonic thought is his use of participatory being or participation. A concept utterly anathema to Aristotle. Neoscholastics still obsess over the Five Ways, an introductory exercise for freshmen, carrying no real weight in Aquinas's actual philosophy.

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The Hortus Deliciarum Or "Garden of Delights" by Herrad von Landsbergis. 12th century manuscript on the Seven Liberal Arts. Trivium and Quadrivium encircle Plato, Socrates and Philosophy herself.

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Egypt, not Greece, is the Mother of philosophy. Even Plato's most famous work, The Republic (perhaps the most famous in Western philosophy) portrays, for the most part, an idealized vision of Egyptian civilization.

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"But the true and highest good, according to Plato, is God. Therefore he would call him a lover of wisdom who loves God; for philosophy is directed to the obtaining of the blessed life, and he who loves God is blessed in the enjoyment of God." - Saint Augustine, City of God.

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εἰκὼν τοῦ νοητοῦ θεὸς

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What's your philosophy? I'm a Platonist. "But I thought you were Catholic." 😆

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Although they had nothing...the earth gave them fruits in abundance, which grew on trees and shrubs unbidden, and these were not planted by the hand of man. And they dwelt naked, and mostly in the open air, for the temperature of their seasons was mild. - Plato, Statesman

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Epochal Mistakes Even atheist Bertrand Russell was perplexed at the Roman Church ditching Plato-a higher-thinking, religious man, for the ideosyncratic, clinical deism of Aristotle, especially when Plato had so greatly contributed to the foundations of Christian philosophy. 🏛️

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Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it...as a reality more real than our actual experience. - Erwin Schrödinger.

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"Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tones of that harmony." - St. Isidore of Seville

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The Greek word "image/icon" in the Bible really conveys the Platonic idea of a "prototype" more than a modern idea of a "reproduction" or photograph. This is carried over into Byzantine iconography where the essence of the subject is being conveyed as it is in eternity.

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“To me the world of perfect forms is primary (as was Plato's own belief) its existence being almost a logical necessity-and both the other two worlds are its shadows.” - Sir Roger Penrose

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As Ratzinger noted, Aristotelian Catholicism had created an almost entirely different religion from what had come before. Our perception of the relationship between the material and the spiritual itself had changed.

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I think it is the mark of rationality to believe in transcendent Truth and Goodness. Otherwise there would be no point to existing.

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Thomism is for the French. 😎 My medieval English ancestors wanted nothing to do with it. The Archbishop of Canterbury even excommunicated them. One Dominican had appealed to Rome to overturn it. Not only did Pope Nicholas IV not overturn it, he silenced the Dominican in 1288.

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Plato and Aristotle are not having a friendly conversation, two camps are opposing each other. Plato dressed humbly, Aristotle dressed as a wealthy aristocrat. Aristotle-ocrat? Same root. The vanishing point is Plato's left hand: Timaeus. Plato wears red: spiritual awakening.

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