Jason Rheins
@DrJasonRheins
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Former prof. of ancient Greek philosophy *Embarrassing friend *Hapless romantic *Mildly amusing Views mine, at most. RT≠agree
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I was down at the Piraeus, casually vibing with Glaucon, son of Ariston, when he looked at his phone and exclaimed, "See what this man has tweeted, Socrates! Have you not expressed this many times?"
"Zeus no!" I replied. "I love *framed stories*. Paintings are lying imitations."
Forgot how much I love frame stores
Little workshops for perfectly optimizing home aesthetics with design microdecisions and custom crafting by hand
Custom frames are an excellent way to spend money
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@TheRickWilson
He meant "I want BLOW jobs from a glory HOLE"... It just came out as "I want BLOWHOLES".
Honest mistake.
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@cookiecarver
You're expressing desire for a life that is more single dude, and she's saying, "oh, you want to be single?"
Could be she's wondering/hurt if it seems like you don't want commitment, etc.
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@Aella_Girl
Just their life story. Early memories, relationships, jobs, friends, family. I wish I had asked my father about more of those things.
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@janecoaston
I am sick and tired of being at a bar, or a restaurant, or the grocery store and hearing group after group of young women just blaspheming the heck against god's only begotten son.
Every. darn. time.
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@TheAtlantic
@gtconway3d
@SarahLongwell25
"Have come to believe" is a gloss for "have been endlessly sold the narrative by mainstream media"
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@sevensixfive
That sounds good in theory, but won't I have to spring for the Carryall too if I want to keep my newborn from being devoured by Shai Hulud? I'm not made of money, you know.
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@eigenrobot
The Pentateuch is full of doublet and even triplet stories like this. It's a key piece of evidence that led Wellhausen to the Documentary Hypothesis.
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@BretDevereaux
No, it's worse! I'm saying, we're not even at the point where we can be confident a history teacher has been taught or trained by historians.
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@talmonsmith
If only it were someone's job to explain financial instruments or events and policies of economic significance to the general public.
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On a recent episode of the Yaron Brook show, I was asked why antisemitism was on the rise. I said irrationality (thus barbarity) was ascendant, and antisemitism was "the lowest hanging fruit on the tree of human depravity". This is a complementary account.
@yaronbrook
"But there are nuances to sadistic barbarity against Jews, we are told, and sometimes gang-raping Jewish women is actually a movement for human rights." From
@DaraHorn
:
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@The_Globe
Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
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@Acyn
And you know no one actually told him "lots of black people like you". So this is him trying to boast about something he made up with a racist insult.
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#ResidentAlien
Netflix: Alan Tudyk is secretly an alien...
Me: Sold!
Netflix: Wait, wait. It's like Monk meets Dexter meets Northern Expos...
Me:
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@BretDevereaux
At the primary and secondary level I think I good number of them have been trained by schools of education, not subject experts, no?
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@_danielle_carr
How are they going to read the bad grades, Danielle?! How are they going to read the bad grades?!?
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@opinonhaver
What they can't handle they won't see. They'll be like countless Germans who claimed not to know about the camps.
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@RadioFreeTom
God forbid the Biden administration allows Trump to start getting daily intelligence briefings out of some misplaced desire to retain normalcy, appear fair, etc.
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I went Dark Academia-lite, but I had to give a recorded lecture earlier in the day, and I wanted a touch of that "they-aren't-dead-languages-if-I-can-speak-them-with-the-dead" vibe.
If the ballet, Poe / A Tale of Madness, is half as interesting as the crowd, I shall be truly captivated.
The goth/ never-goth/ once-goth dynamics are not to be missed.
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@drhingram
Minuses: 12 days when it's extra sinful to kill or procreate
Pluses: 12 days when you can actively *try for* a vampire child.
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@RadioFreeTom
There's no point closing the barn door once you've already turned the horses into glue.
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@erikaishii
I like tell people that leaning D&D from
@dimension20show
or
@CriticalRole
is like learning sex from watching porn. It's never going to be like *that*.
Although, in this analogy your girlfriend is with a pornstar, so wtf do I know.
Rock on!
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@ellegist
I agree with your main idea here, but maybe it's slightly over started? The oldest parts of the old testament—eg poems/poetic fragments—are probably a few centuries older than the written composition of the Homeric Epics, and J is likely older too, though probably not as much.
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@NormOrnstein
From your legal expertise, what's most indicative that this is bad intentions and not just profound incompetence+ handling it defensively etc. The security risks in her latest decision?
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@Samantharhill
Speaking as a poetic-depressive type myself, I can relate that this is very seldom true.
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@WrongthinkJake
@james_o_photo
@senatorshoshana
"What are you wearing, Jake from Hate Farm?"
Guesses:
* His mother's dress... and face.
* Chastity cage
* A red baseball cap
* Something starting with an s and maybe ending with a wastika?
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
Will think of this adorable bb every time I play Risk, now.
(Realizing that is the entirety of my knowledge of Yakutsk)
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Here are some love poems I've written over the years. Feel free to give them to your special someone tonight, Cyrano d'Bergerac style. Somebody should get something out of them if possible. 1/
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@RadioFreeTom
On behalf of the 2AM booty callers and the 2AM booty calleds of this great nation, I'd like to thank the Star Cocktail Lounge for their good works.
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IMO, the sacrilege here is to the American flag.
But yeah, Christian nationalists and their godless orange strongman are the greatest existential threats to American democracy.
Look at this blasphemy.
Does anyone seriously believe that "Christian nationalism" isn't a thing?
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A dirty, shaggy guy in a bathrobe in the middle of a park is telling a bunch of kids to come be his friends, with his arms stretched for a hug.
Look carefully. The child who filled this out chose the other path to an adorable duckling with butterfly wings.
Kid, you chose
Found my son’s Catholic preschool assignment in his backpack:
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@DrFrancisYoung
If philosophers of mind or sorcerers have to go into back alleys to generate homunculi, no one benefits. We need to decriminalize the homunculus now!
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I was super depressed reading about the memoir *Molly*, but then I found out about Elon's own "John Barron" sock puppet, Adrian Dittmann.
And just like that, the staggering possibilities of human brokenness are making me laugh.
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Tomorrow PM I'll be recording on zoom,
"Throw Yourself the Perfect Funeral
Pt 1: The Paradox of the Funeral".
20~30min
I'd love a live audience reacting to the talk and asking impromptu, unscripted questions after. Your face/real name need not be on screen.
DM if interested.
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This is phenomenal.
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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Who was Socrates, really? Why is still synonymous with philosophy after more than 2400 years?
On Jan. 21, join me for an
@interintellect_
salon on the Socratic problem and the meaning of Socrates today.
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@d0llp4rtsz
Tfw: she says she doesn't want to sleep with you 'cause her current body count is a mersenne prime.
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@NorthstarBrain
@sama
Chatgpt gets it wrong (maybe?) Other sources suggest it's nostalgia not for the present but for things which one never experienced at all.
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The Stoic: Disciplined or Disconnected?
@Gena_I_Gorlin
and I will discuss with you the Moral
#Philosophy
and Psychological Reality of
#Stoicism
, Friday, Dec. 8, on
@interintellect_
!
#Ethics
#Serenity
#Resilience
#Virtue
#Motivation
#Happiness
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@RadioFreeTom
Maybe In the way which Oscar Wilde defined "fashion" as that which is so ugly we find it necessary to change it each season.
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Socrates wrote nothing, but even before he died an *entire literary genre* of Socratic dialogues had emerged w/ many different authors and povs!
Let's talk about one of the most interesting and influential people of all time!
Jan. 21
@interintellect_
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@BillPascrell
You'll sooner find 10 righteous men in Sodom and Gemorrah than a dozen Republican members of Congress with spines.
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Everyone is like omg
@sama
quoted the Bhagavad Gita... and nobody is saying "what you quoted doesn't make any sense and is downright ridiculous in light of the 'getting his company back' drama or owning IP while he tries to raise $7T."
you have a right to your actions,
but never to your actions' fruits.
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@ElieNYC
💯
Bryan Singer convinced Ian McKellan to be Magneto with this fact: the core readership/fanbase of X-Men was black, gay, and/or Jewish boys and young men.
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@sophianegativa
Lol. How much older than ~2800 years does it feel to you? "Sweat of his brow" for labor is in Genesis 3.
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The only accounts that like my posts are "hot bots". But what I'm wondering is, how do they program these bots to have such impeccable taste?
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Tonight, 7PM EST, I'll be discussing 'The Rises and Falls of Civilization' with
@yaronbrook
on the
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@Aella_Girl
Not sure they were going for this in the Fountain, but those patterns look a lot like tefillin (article of ritual accoutrement worn by many Jewish men in prayer).
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@Aella_Girl
Do you want to operationalize/define "moderate+ PMS symptoms", or are you looking for a correlation between self-perception of PMS symptomaticity and [reported] enjoyment/non-enjoyment of being catcalled?
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Here's a link to the timelines. I've uploaded a new version of the ancient one.
I’ve wanted to make a timeline-from-data generator for 17 years, since
@DrJasonRheins
showed me his magisterial timeline of Western philosophy (QTed)
@michaelcurzi
nudging me to finally get on it
I know these exist but I want one to my *exact* specs
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Think it's time to low-key quit Twitter again, at least for a while.
It's become just another addictive, numbing distraction from unbearable emotions and intolerable time.
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This Dick Strocher wants you to lend him a hand.
My name is Richard Strocher. I’m a Gen-Z Conservative who is fighting for President Trump in 2024.
Trump is the only America First candidate. I will loyally aid him in defeating the deep state, ending the border crisis, and restoring order to our nation.
Will you join me?
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@KatieMarovitch
UNBREAKABLE.
Happy birthday. You are a delightful entertainer, and you bring joy to your audience.
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Everything is awful.
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd says the future of dating is having your AI date other people's AI and recommend the best matches for you to meet
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The Barbarians aren't just inside the gates; they are holding the keys.
During a recent interview with a QAnon conspiracy theorist, the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice indicated that he is a proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” which calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life
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@_samantha_joy
But those parts of the world that do education better...don't many or even most also have public education? I'm not saying public education in the US is any good, nor that generally it's good or better than alternatives, I just don't think this particular argument works.
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3/23
-I lecture on the Greek Enlightenment
-Panel re: intellectual/cultural history w/
@gsalmieri
, Tara Smith
3/24
-workshop w/
@BenBayer
on role of ✝️ in western civ
-my workshop on metaphysics/epistemology in the 18th c. Enlightenment
We've released an (most of) the exciting program for the AynRandCon Austin 2024 conference. Note that the scholarship deadline has also been extended until February 15, so please dig in!:
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@sonnysehra
There's 0 evidence that Plato ever even started that dialogue much less wrote it. His last dialogue is traditionally and with decent reason taken to be the Laws.
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@mbateman
They interest some people on the false assumption that they tell you much about evil, but I think more people find the sheer abnormality and uncanniness of their behavior to be intriguing.
I don't know why that's something to geek out to like they were Pokemon, though.
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This is 1000% better than what they were probably going for.
David defeating the Ammonites, AI generated by ChatGPT.
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