Ancient Greek Philosophy

Stage: -3

"The pre-Socratics” or
“The Physicists”
[“phusikoi”; Aristotle’s term]
Ancient Greek Philosophy

Stage: -2

“The Sages”; “The Thinkers” [Heidegger’s term]

Heracleitus and Parmenides
Ancient Greek Philosophy

Stage: -1

"The Sophists”
Ancient Greek Philosophy

Stage: GROUND ZERO

Socrates, the Father of Philosophy

Philosophy proper begins HERE.
Ancient Greek Philosophy

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29 Jan
Sin has 5 stages:

1 The Thought shows up/presents itself
2 One engages with/entertains/dialogues with the Thought
3 One commits/assents to the Thought [One SINS here]
4 One Acts on the Thought
5 One is Enslaved to/Oppressed by the Thought by repeated Action/Habituation
Even Christ was tempted in stage 1, by Satan in the desert for example. But He was not tempted in the sense of giving in to temptation. As far as I can tell He never reached stage 2, and stage 3 is where one first sins. Stage 2 is bad because one is rationalizing the evil.
EVERYONE, even Christ, is liable to evil/tempting THOUGHTS [λογίσμοι/logismoi], (although it took direct action from Satan to do even *this* much to Christ).

But evil Thoughts/λογίσμοι sometimes just “show up” in our minds. Perhaps they are whispered into our ears.
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28 Jan
This presupposes the falsehood that falsifiability is a necessary condition for a proposition to be rationally held. It is not. Popper attempted to use falsifiability as a criterion for SCIENTIFIC statements, and failed. Midwits try to use it for ALL statements.
They are unaware how limited falsificationsism was AND that it failed at its limited task. If it can’t work as a test to make scientific statements acceptable, it certainly can’t be the test to make ANY statement acceptable.
Falsificationism is also famously self-defeating.

No coherent statement of the necessity of falsifiability can be made which is falsifiable.

Popper was okay because he was making a philosophical claim about science. The one who applies falsificationism to everything isn’t.
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28 Jan
“Ethnic Studies is about people whose cultures, hxrstories, and social positionalities are forever changing and evolving. Thus, Ethnic Studies also examines borders, borderlands, mixtures, hybridities, nepantlas, double consciousness, and reconfigured articulations. …”
TMW liberal Jews learn that Wokeness is NOT THEIR FRIEND.
Capitalism is a form of oppression, so the Communist atrocities must be excused as fighting oppression, but Anti-Semitism isn’t even a thing, so the Nazis did nothing ... ?
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28 Jan
Fixed Marcuse with 2 changes.

1 Gave ‘the Establishment’ its better name ‘the Cathedral’
2 Corrected Marcuse’s basic error of thinking the few hands in which wealth, power, and technology are concentrated are also (somehow) “the conservative majority.” Hogwash.
@ConceptualJames
@ConceptualJames At least this excerpt now says something that is true.
@ConceptualJames Now we reach the INDEFENSIBLE, the HEGELIAN notion that EVIL is magically transmuted into GOOD (even though it is admittedly EVIL) — if it serves “the right side of history.”

He defends the Guillotine and the Nazis' 12 million being worse than the Communists' 100+ millions.
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27 Jan
Yes they do.

1 Reality is known to have a cause-effect structure.
2 There cannot be an infinite regress of causes.
3 So there is a first cause.
4 This is what is called “God.”

3 validly follows from 1 & 2.
4 is just a term stipulation. If you want to admit there is God, but you personally won’t call God “God”, that’s changes nothing in reality. Not calling something by its proper designation doesn’t alter reality. So go nuts with *that* one.
If you deny 1, cause and effect, you undercut not just that argument, but all arguments, since you are implicitly denying any connection between reasons and evidence and what they show. If you want to deny reason, just to avoid God, good luck with that one.
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26 Jan
But your screenshots *didn’t* prove that. The fact you *think* they did is why you are in error. You mistakenly think you’ve made a successful case but you haven’t.
I don’t see any reason to doubt that someone on 4Chan had this idea in 2014 or whenever it was.

This is in no way proof than someone else putting forward the same or similar ideas is *also* trolling.

Let’s PROVE that point: ⬇︎
As most people know the idea to say the OK hand sign👌🏼is a white supremacy sign was also a 4Chan op. That doesn’t mean either (1) lots of people sincerely came to believe it was a white supremacy sign, or (2) it wasn’t adopted by actual white supremacists.
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