There's something to think about, here. What, I'm not sure, but something
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Construction workers nearby playing some very pleasant Spanish music. I need a glass with a little umbrella.

🤔 or was it Armenian... Somewhere in that area, there's a crazy script that looks bubbly

There's a kinda loopy font that reminds me of Georgian - that needs to be used somehow too

An unexpected place to find support for my Reformation-usury theory. That is, that the purpose of the Reformation was to make usury legal.


I'll have to track down that "Tawney" he referenced.

Excerpt from "Perennial Philosophy" p.119

#Philosophy #finance #Reformation #usury

Well I'm not asserting the serpent and Jesus are the same - I'm just saying that was a belief for a time. Beliefs evolve. Remember, the gnostics thought the Old Testament God was evil. But even that is just the outer/exoteric layer. That God was also us. We're Sabaoth, needing redemption. According to them, it was the logos that fell from grace, because it tried to reunify with the Father (the highest God, the source).

I was wrong in saying it was Jesus specifically - Jesus is the name of the man embodied logos, but that body is unimportant. A serpent is a good symbol for logos because logic/story weaves through existence, like a snake. The snake was also already a symbol in Orphism, which was Greek but originated in Egypt (a lot of Greek stuff was actually Egyptian stuff with different names). In Egyptian cosmology, the snake was the eater of worlds. The goal of their spirituality was to not be eaten by the snake - meaning to exit this cyclical world (stop being thrown into the lake of fire (rebirth)) and live eternally in Amenti. Amenti is equivalent to Barbelo, in gnosticism - forethought, aka heaven.

All of this is really just psychology. All the names are the names of stations in your own mind. Its examining the relationship between consciousness and reality. In some text, I forget which, its stated that the aeons sorted themselves according to rank and station - this is talking about the components of your mind.

Switching to Quetzalcoatl - idk much about it, but I do think it's very interesting that they have the same imagery of a man with three snakes rising up on either side if his head, for six total, or seven if you include his head - and exactly the same image can be found in carvings in south Asia - India and east of India. There's obviously some connection.

You could also tie in the Sumerian rulers, who, according to those clay tablets from Ninevah, lived for tens of thousands of years.

I hope it doesn't seem like I believe any of this. I'm partial to the snake/logos connection, but I do keep it compartmentalized from the set of truths and Truth that I've found.

Not just my region - I randomly hopped around on a VPN four times. It was Orbot, though, so idk where the exits were.

I don't think Plato would count a book as an intelligible thing. Intelligible things are forms and axioms - logic/logos is a level above that.

So my answer is No, but I'm open to correction.

Anyways, my point was only that great thinking is original thinking. Plato probably couldn't have been Plato if he had read Nietzsche first (not even counting the fact that Nietzsche hated Plato).

Ooh, I like those glasses
Also - who this?

That's the first Marcus Aurelius quote I've ever disagreed with. The universe isn't Cartesian or Newtonian. Fate is what you make it.

I like the lyrics. Since YouTube is being a butt I just imagined it was Rammstein playing it.

It could mean a lot if things, but the last part makes me think of Osiris' dead body being the world. Being simultaneously evil and God, which isn't the same as saying God is evil, is quite gnostic. They didn't say it, but I'll fill it in - the serpent in the garden is Jesus. Not all gnostics would agree.

Anyways, I hope I can that to play.

Plato never read Nietzsche.

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