Generally skeptical of foreign military engagements but never particularly.

Groyper monkey

Gage got converted into a bonafide philosemite by sustained contact with your average internet antisemite.

Even selflessness has become a selfishness.

God does not gain Himself from creating (ie He does not possess the perfection of "creator"--there is no such perfection). God does not even gain the perfection of 'not gaining' Himself from creating (or freely creating), for this perfection is already always eternally obtained in the Trinity (and is thus never gained). If God obtained his selflessness from creating the world, then he could not create selflessly.

Let's see the architecture before making judgements

Heidegger on Hölderlin and the poem’s self‑showing:

The obsoletion of man.

Why do my worst tweets perform the best?

Genuinely disturbing.

Existence is either no real predicate or the only real predicate.

The Holocaust had the strange effect of preserving Jewry.

I think we will be sad when Trump dies.

We have exchanged “freedom and law” for “power and might” in our propaganda. We don’t need ideas; we have aircraft carriers. Not only does the White House no longer feel the need to conceal its “realist” attitudes from the American public, it will campaign on them—out in the open.

The Trinity is a stumbling block for the low IQ. I agree with Ramon Llull.

Was talking with my Protestant grandfather and one of his arguments against Catholicism was that St. Peter could not possibly be the head of the Church because he’s seen stumbling far more than St. Paul. He would then, in the same breath, argue we are elected by grace and not our works.

“I” do not properly exist in any other world. If I imagine myself under different circumstances, I do not even imagine myself. I am this self as such—not a bundle of facts uttered in the right order.

We could not be more presumptuous than to stand before God and demand “better” conditions for our existence, forgetting that it is only by such conditions that we came to exist at all. It is only this actual state of affairs, protested though it may be, that grants us the power to entertain any counterfactual. How, then, can we denounce God as unjust? Justice commands only one law: that what is owed to beings be conferred. But what is owed to non-being? Nothing.

Joseph de Maistre offers a theodicy, noting that what is demanded of men in the social order cannot be demanded of God in the general order. “What still deceives us often enough on this point is that, without our perceiving it, we cannot prevent ourselves from ascribing to God our own ideas about the dignity and importance of persons. In relation to ourselves, these ideas are quite just, since we are all subject to the order established in society.” “But when we carry them into the general order, we resemble the queen who said: ‘When it is question of damning people like us, you can well believe that God will think more than once.’” “Elizabeth of France mounted the scaffold; Robespierre followed a bit later. By coming into the world, the angel and the monster both subjected themselves to all the general laws that rule here.” “No words can describe the crime of these scoundrels who caused the purest and most august blood in the world to flow. Yet, in relation to the general order, there is no injustice; this is still a misfortune attached to the human condition, and nothing more.” Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues

How strange it is that conservatives, ever belated, rush only to the body of the last institution to fall—or rather, the last institution to be slain by their despised opponent. By the time conservatives have begun defending something, it has already died—and passed on to the next life. The most they can do is dig a grave and set a stone to mark the corpse. The world is the soil beneath a great fig tree, and conservatives chase after a harsh south wind, in each case attempting to rejoin fallen fruit to bare branches. They hope to re-attach that first fallen fruit to its branch and end man’s exile from Eden. Instead, they arrive as gravediggers: embittered angels of history, coroners of the past, and despisers of the future.