A thread for random and miscellaneous musings

[Aurelius]

American civil religion: Washington the Father, Lincoln the Son, Jefferson the Holy Spirit.

[Aurelius]

Little Free Libraries are the best example of Gresham's Law. No matter what you stock them with, a month later it'll be all James Patterson.

[Aurelius]

I agree with Aristotle a lot more than Plato, but (as a non Christian) the neo-Platonist understanding of Christianity seems a lot more appealing than the neo-Aristotelian one. This might just be that Aquinas strikes me as a spectacularly dull person.

[Aurelius]

Gomez Davila may be a forum meme, but it turns out he has a lot of interesting things to say, and his aphorisms aren't the bog-standard ones that a thousand people have said a thousand different ways.

[Aurelius]

Gomez Davila may be a forum meme, but it turns out he has a lot of interesting things to say, and his aphorisms aren't the bog-standard ones that a thousand people have said a thousand different ways.

Yes, but he never left his room, so any observation he could have on life is suspect.

GOMEZ DAVILA: The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels. 😁

[Aurelius]

I like how the French national anthem is about slitting your enemies throats, killing their wives and children, and watering your fields with their blood, and then they have a military marching song of "I like onion because it tastes good".

[Aurelius]

Just took a mandatory training that defined sexual harrassment to include flirting and asking someone out. No wonder young people are having so much less sex!