Altin DeRenart

this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Green flag—he falls asleep with NPR on (he donates)

By the time of the book’s composition, all three traditions were occupying different strata in the same Mediterranean polities; there would have been cross pollination. Nevertheless, Judaism beats everyone to the punch by centuries, articulating a God named Wisdom, among other transcendentals.

It’s a complex “yeah most likely” but, it was less a merger and more an organic fit/syncretism? The Jewish tradition’s wisdom literature, which antedates both Platonism and Christianity, is replete with named emanations of God, though these transcendentals are not named systematically. It’s poetic.

Anyhow, the current system of transcendentals doesn’t get… a lot of acknowledgement, unless your sect of Christian belief is really quite eastern and Neo-Platonic. An educated Catholic, Orthodox, or Sufi could look at this text and immediately see its a statement on the unity-from-diversity of God.

The Greek system of transcendentals were integrated into Christian thought. The One, the Good, the Just, The Nous, Beauty, Truth, Justice, the virtues, the All.. became commonplace in the metaphysics of the Christian high Middle Ages—the set of transcendentals became viewed as angels proper.

Of course, the tradition itself will have significances for the letters that transcend their status as signifiers. We perhaps then might consider them “iconic.” Anyhow, Christianity did not have a singularly unique Divine naming tradition (beyond the Trinity) even though Judaism did. But then…..

(1/a few) Ah, yes. So it does mesh, but in an *extremely* round about way. What you are are looking at is a kind of encoding that maps transcendentals (that is, forms/emanations of God) onto particular letters and their sounds—if I had to guess, for the purpose of memorization.

This State of the Union Address… is categorically evil. Watching the weaponization of hurt by the far right to fuel political animus in real time is like bearing witness to an unholy blood alchemy so unclean that its existence ought not be known even in pure theory.

But, hey. What’s new.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

The fox is ill. The fox is denning. Lent came in like a lion; what can I say 😭?

I could be the little guy they are “torturing” to keep society running 😸 sure, why knot 🦊🦊

Have any practicing Hellenists out there attempted reconstructions of the Eleusinian rites yet? I know they were shrouded in secrecy—so as much is not easily attainable. But I am curious if anyone has given it a go.

We need a loose network of interlocking furred societies to essentially do what unions did at the bottom of the 20th century:

Everything from legal defense to mutual aid to housing to skilled mentoring. We need autocephalous community leadership that effectively parallels state functions.

Now.

Can we just acknowledge this dude is a psyop to steer suburban youth culture further conservative?

Low key half of us are service economy, and like… every sub-sector therein two. When not doing school stuff, I’m literally the grocery self-scan attendant 🤭

Heavy midwestern accent:
“Good afternoon ma’am! Lane four’s open for you! We’ll get that beer scanned-in and approved right away.”

It was you, I believe who said something (loosely) to the effect that life’s privations, constitute a proper Mystery… it is the saint then, who likely spends a lifetime responding to and making sense of the world’s inequities and disproportionalities. Good prayer isn’t just Ora, but Labora as well.

Prince of a thousand enemies!
Prince with the swift warning!

Yes, it is! That is why I got it. To my mind, the line encodes an odd bit of resistance politics. Hope against all hope. It’s hard for me to spell out why? but when I watched the film, it felt like I was watching an epic narrative espousing an ecologic liberation theology. Naturally, I was pleased.

A fake boxer with sad, fake gym muscles who’s denigrating the sport is now trying to be a fake activist? Gimma a break.

The utility of faith beyond the expression of our ludos is perhaps to remind us of this: That we cannot but maintain epistemic humility in the face of a scientific understanding that is fundamentally incapable of deriving a univocal, totalizing theory of our reality from a truly objective ground.

Let’s also.. remember that, in the end, our best scientific theories mediate reality to us. They manage to do so with near univocity, which is their power and beauty. By the same token, they are also still mediants. Even in his most abstract games, man cannot cease to be a measure of his world.

I am sending this comic to five people tho hehe

OR:

Religion, for those who accept and radically comprehend their play drives 😌🦊 It would be perhaps to our collective benefit to consider it useful to us with respect to our animal ethology. Or should we pretend we aren’t also ethologic subjects of analysis? Faith as ludos has built worlds.

The yiff has, quite literally, remade my mode of comportment. I am ready to receive this excellent wolf of man, when and wherever he should pass by, and he will be able to read it in my gaze and affect and appearance.

I stare through the images of my wolfmen, gazing below their aspect, time and again, awaiting such a one here in this world who can to me, at least, embody that form and sensuous reality, and mediate it. I am now ready to receive him when he passes by, and my desires are intelligible to him.

All art does the work of conditioning the life-mind and body to either materialize something or receive something already materialized. To that end, does the porn help you see what you wish to externalize, and does it prepare you to synthesize it’s existence in the world?

It makes sense in the context of trumpy always pretending he’s ending wars. Half his presidency is pretending to do foreign policy that creates peace and stability… bro even got the bogus FIFA world peace award or some garbage. He is quite literally Satan making the pretense of being a peacemaker..

I’m definitely going into the garage and finding my one Grieg vinyl now.