“We’re not gonna make it!” “We’ll make it.”

Fun note: In the late 1st c., Plutarch wrote that the pagan oracles had stopped working and giving answers. Likewise, Jewish writings noted that 40 years b/f the destruction of the Temple , a red cloth stopped turning white at the high priest's prayers. What changed, I wonder?

Makes sense that the piñata would come from Aztec culture

“no theological term is adequate to the thought of the speaker, or the want of the questioner, because language is of natural necessity too weak to act in the service of objects of thought.” St. Basil the Great

The Linguistic Reduction of Ecclesiology — a case study in Protestant nominalism. 🧵 Protestant reductionism always begins in language. When the ecclesiology of the Fathers becomes an exercise in Greek semantics, you’ve already replaced theology with philology.

Grandma’s back in town, and I stopped by my parents’ house to see her reading St. Paisios talk about demons. Good times…

They are working on a startup

K 🦅🌲 this is how it feels in your body when you drink milk

Eggnog is a tartarian battery

Math is made up, totally fake. 1+1=2 in the same way that zep glob zep de glorp

Here, take this, you’re gonna need it.

St Nektarios: “Greek philosophy is fundamental beginning of true development and education; it is the tutor of man, a guide that leads to piety.”

St. Anthony and the cobbler

What did Ray peat say about chocolate covered coffee beans?

“If a king wishes to seize control of a city, he first withholds water and food. Thus the enemy, at risk of starvation, submits to him. The same goes for sexual passions. If a man lives by fasting and hunger, the enemies that are in his soul lose their power.” St. John the Dwarf