So, Dr Justin Sledge posted his video about the 'hidden teachings of Plato.'
It's good stuff because it opens up a whole field of investigation for stoopid li'l kids, who think they are going to be the Bruce Lee of philosophy one day.
In fact Dr Justin (I call him 'Dr Justin,' never Dr Sledge...), even opened up the can of worms about 'causation at a distance!' ...And he implicated the Arabic writer Al-Kindi into the affray, suggesting he was making translations of some ancient dangerous and occult Pythagorean texts about 'mystical Cosmic rays.' LOL
Chicken soup, herbs of Provence, and truffles. Simple. |
This 'Al-Kindi' by the way, is not the same 'Al-Kindi' the poet who was literally a prince of the Kind tribe: Imru al-Qais; we shall talk about him in a moment here...
Anyway, Dr Justin waded into some very dangerous territory and went so far as to suggest that young students, new to this whole business, should read the Timaeus first.
And so I quickly commented: 'Well, if you want the Reptilians to come and take you away and lock you up forever, well then you are certainly going the right way about it.'
In traditional academic circles, the controversy about whether or not there is a 'Platonic occult teaching' is called the 'Agrapha Dogmata.' And all the existing literature about the subject is just another echo-chamber of stupid nonsense - as so much of academia consistently is.
After all, they even stole the very word 'academia' in order to insinuate themselves into, this very 'occult' Platonic school (which does not exist). Why they would want to do that, since it never existed in the first place and had no point and no meaning in history, I have no idea.
The challenge within the modern 'Quran' is that no one could compose such verses, and therefore the book had to be written by God: 'For who could compose even just one verse like it?'
The Ten Commandments of Moses, are nakedly stolen from the Laws of Hammurabi,
At the bottom of this post, is a YT video of one of the poems of the other Al-Kindi, the poet 'Al-Kindi' - Imru Al-Qais - whose verses are widely thieved from and inserted into the Holy Quran.
Moses lied, Jehovah lied (claimed to have made up these laws and clearly plagiarized them), and both Muhammad and Allah also lied.
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And 'academia' misrepresents that they are or ever were Plato's Academy.
In the authentic original records themselves, it says that Muhammad instructed all his followers to use the Quran version transmitted from ibn Mas'ud.
Instead, Muslims all follow the Quran versions from Hafs or Warsh - which are completely opposite in many verses, to what is in the ibn Mas'ud version.
So, everyone lies. Where do we go?
...And then we get a bunch of idiots, who say that there is no god. Well how would they know? Going by the moronic books and ideas taught and pushed by criminals everywhere. Or are they the very people, insistent on hiding truth and facts from innocent minds - a mindset, a type of individual, that has been with us for a very long time?
Plato never hid truth from inquiring minds. He made sure they were responsible individuals first, before he imparted it.
And they managed to keep the secrets down through the ages.
Here is a line whose sentiments though not the actual words - because the poet managed to never repeat himself in his verses - are repeated several times throughout his work:
"I stand before the ruins of..."
LOLOLOLOL
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Have I not said that here, many many times?
When the targets all fall, I am claiming them.
None of you had even heard of Covid when I posted here and elsewhere 'I see a vision of myself, running across a square, in front of libraries and museums, with books under my cloak, as fires burns in large metal drums, and the people are wandering around in a daze, and walls are fallen down, like some old ruined place.'
Somebody's voice is laughing in the shadows, but it is not Satan's.
Anyway the show ain't even properly begun yet. I have to stick something in the tin drums and really burn them.
(The English transcript of the poem is posted underneath the actual YouTube channel's video version of this below, if you wish to see that).
Interesting remark toward the end of his "5 misconceptions about alchemy," that the ethical qualities of the agent were thought to effect the outcomes of actions in the natural world.
ReplyDeleteHow would seeing someone do magic on screen allow you to assess whether that person had some real bit of esoteric knowledge in hand?
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should take what he said seriously, that at one time there was some "esoteric knowledge" regarding an apparent connection between agency and the ethical nature of the agent? Just for some fun.
DeleteIt was a joke, dude. Obviously!
DeleteYes I understand he has a strange sense of humor. But let's think about this one. So then, I was saying that things like Lee Sedol playing Alpha Go might provide support for the concept that "agency" is better thought of as a flow in a network. Leaving aside the aspect of this where "agents" and "persons" could be different things, a bit of time spent on wikipedia reading about ethics, and.... ethics becomes a question of "flow of value" within the "network of agency." That's a pretty simple step to take, for starters.
DeleteOh but WAIT! We can also say now what magic is. Thanks to scientists. Magic is some sort of manifestation of Bell's Inequality. It is that which is not computational about the "machinery of the universe."
DeleteLook I think that is right, in one sense that taken from the outside, agency when it is functioning truly, IS a flow in a network; that is true. Even 'flow of value' within a 'network of agency' works as far as I can see. But this is much like saying there is a building in which there are fire trucks and firemen, and there is a building in Brooklyn where there are Sicilian guys with trucks who start fires... The underlying principals of what and why, are still to be considered, apart from just the outside appearances.
ReplyDeleteYes. It's just a slight change in perspective. So far!
DeleteOf course if you had played through "Senua's Sacrifice" (not saying it's worth it) then you would have a sense for how a slight change in perspective can reveal the things being hidden ;)
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