FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by katarn » Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:50 pm

Hwen Hoshino wrote:
California wrote:We are all Roman. Our Western Culture is defined by our shared history with Greece and Rome
Shared? They left some cool stuff and it was used as a blueprint. That's all
No. The principles of Rome especially are more than a blueprint for modern Western culture. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published under the Roman pseudonym Publius. Americans were steeped in classical literature, and Latin works like those of Cicero are still prevalent in British academia and America. De O. takes his username from one of those works of Cicero. The Romans practically invented Liberty that Hash always (rightfully) rattles on about. The classical civs of Greece and Rome are more than a vague blueprint. They created the lifeblood of Western Civ as it has been for a while: Liberty and a people's government, be it a republic or a democracy.
"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage...
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such Liberty" - Richard Lovelace

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hastur » Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:59 am

No surprises. As someone already said, the questions left a lot to be desired when it comes to nuance.

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hwen Hoshino » Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:53 am

katarn wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote:
California wrote:We are all Roman. Our Western Culture is defined by our shared history with Greece and Rome
Shared? They left some cool stuff and it was used as a blueprint. That's all
No. The principles of Rome especially are more than a blueprint for modern Western culture. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published under the Roman pseudonym Publius. Americans were steeped in classical literature, and Latin works like those of Cicero are still prevalent in British academia and America. De O. takes his username from one of those works of Cicero. The Romans practically invented Liberty that Hash always (rightfully) rattles on about. The classical civs of Greece and Rome are more than a vague blueprint. They created the lifeblood of Western Civ as it has been for a while: Liberty and a people's government, be it a republic or a democracy.
That lifeblood was cut off for a long time.

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hastur » Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:01 am

Hwen Hoshino wrote:
katarn wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote: Shared? They left some cool stuff and it was used as a blueprint. That's all
No. The principles of Rome especially are more than a blueprint for modern Western culture. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published under the Roman pseudonym Publius. Americans were steeped in classical literature, and Latin works like those of Cicero are still prevalent in British academia and America. De O. takes his username from one of those works of Cicero. The Romans practically invented Liberty that Hash always (rightfully) rattles on about. The classical civs of Greece and Rome are more than a vague blueprint. They created the lifeblood of Western Civ as it has been for a while: Liberty and a people's government, be it a republic or a democracy.
That lifeblood was cut off for a long time.
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An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna

Nie lügen die Menschen so viel wie nach einer Jagd, während eines Krieges oder vor Wahlen. - Otto von Bismarck

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Speaker to Animals » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:25 am

Marxisim, everybody.

Not even once.

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hwen Hoshino » Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:23 am

Hastur wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote:
katarn wrote:
No. The principles of Rome especially are more than a blueprint for modern Western culture. The Federalist Papers, for example, were published under the Roman pseudonym Publius. Americans were steeped in classical literature, and Latin works like those of Cicero are still prevalent in British academia and America. De O. takes his username from one of those works of Cicero. The Romans practically invented Liberty that Hash always (rightfully) rattles on about. The classical civs of Greece and Rome are more than a vague blueprint. They created the lifeblood of Western Civ as it has been for a while: Liberty and a people's government, be it a republic or a democracy.
That lifeblood was cut off for a long time.
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You think Christianity kept that blood flowing? Really??
Speaker to Animals wrote:Marxisim, everybody.

Not even once.

Elaborate.

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hastur » Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:38 am

Hwen Hoshino wrote:
Hastur wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote: That lifeblood was cut off for a long time.
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You think Christianity kept that blood flowing? Really??
Someone's been consuming too much New Atheism i suspect and bought the myth of "The Dark Ages". You need to read up on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the Medieval Synthesis. Hint: It starts with Aristotle and ends with the Renaissance.
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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hwen Hoshino » Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:40 am

Hastur wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote:
Hastur wrote: Image
You think Christianity kept that blood flowing? Really??
Someone's been consuming too much New Atheism i suspect and bought the myth of "The Dark Ages". You need to read up on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the Medieval Synthesis. Hint: It starts with Aristotle and ends with the Renaissance.
Philosophy in monasteries is one thing. The lived experience of people is an another.

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hastur » Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:59 am

Hwen Hoshino wrote:
Hastur wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote: You think Christianity kept that blood flowing? Really??
Someone's been consuming too much New Atheism i suspect and bought the myth of "The Dark Ages". You need to read up on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the Medieval Synthesis. Hint: It starts with Aristotle and ends with the Renaissance.
Philosophy in monasteries is one thing. The lived experience of people is an another.
:doh:
What's with you and these asinine oneliners?
You should move to Twitter.
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Nie lügen die Menschen so viel wie nach einer Jagd, während eines Krieges oder vor Wahlen. - Otto von Bismarck

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Re: FAQ: find out how much of an alt-nazi YOU are

Post by Hwen Hoshino » Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:30 am

Hastur wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote:
Hastur wrote:
Someone's been consuming too much New Atheism i suspect and bought the myth of "The Dark Ages". You need to read up on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the Medieval Synthesis. Hint: It starts with Aristotle and ends with the Renaissance.
Philosophy in monasteries is one thing. The lived experience of people is an another.
:doh:
What's with you and these asinine oneliners?
You should move to Twitter.
But i don't like Twitter.