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Alexandria and the New-Age of Enlightenment


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There are times when human civilization makes great advances in intellectual and philosophical movements that define an era. The last recorded period of magnificence is commonly estimated to be initiated with Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620) and ending with Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Descartes, Locke, Espinoza, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Diderot, Madison, Jefferson are but some of the giants that marked the era.

We are now entering a new era of greatness. Names like Taleggio, Stilton, Limburger, Roquefort, Brie de Meaux, Epoisses , Muenster, Camembert, Pont L'Eveque are but a few of the names associated with the movement that are not popularly known. One who is popularly known is referred  simply as Alexandria. A giant among intellectuals, she epitomizes all the grandeur of the era.

However, steps must be taken to collect in real time all the wonders of her sayings. For posterity, for future generations. Nevertheless, mindful of Plato's man-in-the-cave story, effort must be taken not to blind the reader with too much data at the same time.

So here's one tidbit that future generations will cherish until the end of the world:

"Is this the train to Hawaii?"

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On ‎2‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 10:32 AM, Ricordo said:

There are times when human civilization makes great advances in intellectual and philosophical movements that define an era. The last recorded period of magnificence is commonly estimated to be initiated with Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620) and ending with Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Descartes, Locke, Espinoza, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Diderot, Madison, Jefferson are but some of the giants that marked the era.

We are now entering a new era of greatness. Names like Taleggio, Stilton, Limburger, Roquefort, Brie de Meaux, Epoisses , Muenster, Camembert, Pont L'Eveque are but a few of the names associated with the movement that are not popularly known. One who is popularly known is referred  simply as Alexandria. A giant among intellectuals, she epitomizes all the grandeur of the era.

However, steps must be taken to collect in real time all the wonders of her sayings. For posterity, for future generations. Nevertheless, mindful of Plato's man-in-the-cave story, effort must be taken not to blind the reader with too much data at the same time.

So here's one tidbit that future generations will cherish until the end of the world:

"Is this the train to Hawaii?"

I have a divergent perspective that is a bit like Plato's illusion perspective.  You will find when Israel was instructed to make a very specific mobile tabernacle that was a shadow of the one that already exists.  However, for the most part I found his "Republic" to be rubbish.  The closest philosopher I agree with is Kant, that there is an immutable independent morality.

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...when Israel was instructed to make a very specific mobile tabernacle that was a shadow of the one that already exists.

I gather---the Ark? If not kindly excuse my ignorance, I'm usually 82% Catholic.

 

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Kant... an immutable independent morality.

The categorical imperatives. I am disturbed by Kant's assertion that “the Jewish religion is not really a religion at all, but merely a community of a mass of men of one tribe.” After that, it's but a small step for him then to propose "the euthanasia of Judaism”, which Hitler and his ilk appropriated and ran with.

If reduced to a calculation I could with agree his methodology but not necessarily with his definitions and even less, outcomes.

 

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8 hours ago, Ricordo said:

I gather---the Ark? If not kindly excuse my ignorance, I'm usually 82% Catholic.

 

The categorical imperatives. I am disturbed by Kant's assertion that “the Jewish religion is not really a religion at all, but merely a community of a mass of men of one tribe.” After that, it's but a small step for him then to propose "the euthanasia of Judaism”, which Hitler and his ilk appropriated and ran with.

If reduced to a calculation I could with agree his methodology but not necessarily with his definitions and even less, outcomes.

 

Well, for Kant, I said the closest, not the best.  As far as the Sanctuary the Ark of the Covenant would have been found in the Most Holy place of the earthly shadow of the Actual.  Followed by the Holy Place with the lampstand, the shew bread, all having their own symbolic representations.  The out court where sacrifices were conducted and all that was quite symbolic as well.

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"If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this (Amazon) deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways. We can put a lot of people to work for that money, if we wanted to."

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2 hours ago, Ricordo said:

"If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this (Amazon) deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways. We can put a lot of people to work for that money, if we wanted to."

Well, I am by no means a socialist, but it seems absurd, to be the richest person in the world, pay no taxes, give your workers minimum wage, from which they and the consumers have to pay taxes.  This life is temporary.  You don't get to take your toys with you.  But, someday there will be an accounting and I would on the side of the sheep on that day than the goats.  Whatever you do for the least you have done for Yeshua.

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On ‎2‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 9:11 AM, Ricordo said:

"...like no matter how you feel about the wall, you know I think it's a moral abomination. I think it's like the Berlin wall."

The Berlin wall was to keep people in.  The American border wall is to keep people out.  I suspect the difference between these two concepts is too complicated for some too ignorant to understand.

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On 2/18/2019 at 5:12 PM, Belt Fed said:

How in the Sam hill did she get elected anyway?  What a maroon. she is part of the reason Amazon didn't build there. she cost NY a ton of jobs.

 

 

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Best guess - in some ways it's kind of like how Trump got elected but the other side.  She was an outsider and not part of the political machine.

Unfortunately for her constituents, she's also an idiot.

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