ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
3d ago
Touche.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
3d ago
To be fair, I’m avoiding checking the source in this case due to the gruesome nature of it. I think in this situation folks can be excused a bit for not actually watching the clip.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
3d ago
LOL this made me laugh almost the whole time reading it. Amazing. I was dying at the mouthful of ketchup part. And the Powerade!!! Ahahaha.
You forgot to add that he sighed contentedly with strong emotion after wreaking such havoc, though!
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
3d ago
Dude yeah I've been playing a lot of Silksong but I totally agree that it's stressful. Not like the original Hollow Knight where I was able to just braindead run at a boss over and over until I beat it.
It's still fun but yeah, a different approach needed.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
3d ago
Strongly agree here. In general there's a sort of chaotic mindset where nothing is real or serious and everything becomes increasingly abstracted, as @CrispyFriedBarnacles said above. I think disembodiment is the real problem.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
I saw it recommended but idk man! Wanted something a bit more serious. Perhaps I could check it out.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
What are the best completed cultivation novels in your mind? I started reverend insanity off the rec of @self_made_human but wasn’t feeling the evil MC vibe.
I’ve read coiling dragon, I shall seal the heavens, cradle, and mother of learning and liked em all. Tried out Warlock of magus world but it’s a little too silly for me so far.
Any thoughts?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
I agree though that act 2 is great compared to act 1 so far lol.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
I am very lost on choral chambers. Explored everywhere I saw and am kinda stuck. ALAS! I want to look stuff up but would hate to spoil more.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
I stopped playing Silksong after I bought a 5070 Ti last Sunday. Thought it would be weird not to play something 3D. Clair Obscur has been bought, downloaded, but I haven't launched it yet.
Clair Obscur is amazing. Cyberpunk was kinda cool I guess, but idk I couldn't get that into it. Played it for a while but never finished it.
Clair Obscur though, that game is a work of art man. Seriously once in a generation. Do it.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
The first upgrade barely changes anything. You still take the same amount of hits to kill most enemies. Kind of a let down compared to hollow knight.
Idk about the second upgrade, you have to finish act 1 to get it and im still working on the last boss.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
Still playing Silksong. Still getting rekt. I'm now stuck at the Last Judge, but at least there's more to explore now than when I was stuck on Moorwing. That was horrible hah.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
dude yes!!! YES YES YES I literally bought some last night. love you for this.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
Though it must be frustrating for you mods, I have to admit I find it kind of fun that there's a sort of game of subterfuge going on with old banned posters re-emerging under aliases. Like a classic spy novel.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
4d ago
What's your favorite comfort food when you have a cold? I have a cold.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
5d ago
For what it’s worth, regardless of current Catholic teachings, the early Christians (pre Constantine) would never have advocated for political violence whatsoever. They were martyred in the hundreds and saw it as a gift to be martyred for Christ.
Personally while I’m not sure I ascribe to that level of extremity, I am confident that we are far, far from morally justifying any political violence in the U.S.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
6d ago
Thanks for the clarification. I’ll admit I get pretty heated on this topic. I’m still a relatively new convert so I have some of the zeal alive in me, forgive me for using it improperly.
We do agree a lot more than I originally thought! I suppose your optimism clouded my judgment into thinking you were saying the task was easy, but upon a re read I can tell that’s something I simply projected onto your reply.
I also agree that traditional values and just a general focus on integrity and virtue would go a looooong way towards solving modern dysfunction.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
6d ago
The sad conclusion of all this seems to be: the romantic notion that Science™ can be trusted as a process seems to completely wrong. Science is only as a good as the people doing, and the people doing it at the moment don't seem much good. If a conflict between their scientific principles, and their political principles arises, scientists seem to reliably choose politics.
The central myth and in my view issue of modern discourse is this idea that science, more specifically empiricism, has metaphysical and moral value, and can be used to make claims in such fields. It absolutely can't. Empiricism cannot make value judgements and be used as a cudgel to force metaphysical arguments about what a man or woman is. The second you begin to cross that line, your vaunted neutral, empirical viewpoint falls apart.
Unfortunately if we truly accepted this as a society, we would basically have to rewrite our institutions from the ground up anyway, a truly harrowing task. We'll see if empiricism is defeated anytime soon.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
6d ago
I strongly disagree. Technology very dramatically alters the ways societies can be shaped. While values perhaps can be neutrally separated from technology in a completely arbitrary sense, at the very least society must be arranged far differently than it was in the past.
For instance, in the past the Church and various monarchies relied on the fact that information flow was far more easily controlled amongst the peoples they governed, and indeed in history itself. With modern technology, that is no longer the case. Or even if you can re institute that picture, it would be far less secure and stable than it was in the past.
It may indeed be easier to learn about a trad society and traditional ways of living with modern technology, but that does not mean that overall social stability or status hierarchies can simply be reimposed with a trivial change in values. I believe @coffee_enjoyer understands this as well as @Tretiak, @MayorofOysterville, and others who commented on this post.
This type of response, blithely asserting that a return to traditional values with modern technology without a serious understanding (or at least discussion around) the history and the ways societal configuration has dramatically changed, is a large part of what makes me frustrated with the RETVRN movement as a whole. After all, we largely share values and want the same thing, I simply think that instrumentally we need far more intellectual prowess brought to bear on the problem.
Again, I think our core disagreement here is that "values" can somehow be instilled and kept in a society completely separated and in a vacuum from technology. There are many great writers like Ellul, Heidegger, McLuhan, and others who have persuasively argued that this is in no way the case.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
6d ago
The 'traditional' view of Tradition is that of a seed which is slowly growing into a tree.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7d ago
The guy I quoted, Ross Arlen Tiekne, Yoshi Matsumoto, David Armstrong, just to name a few off the top of my head.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7d ago
Not sure what you consider semi-prominent, but frankly yeah a lot of the left at least try to display it and often do convincingly, despite the fact that they're wrong. For instance I think Ezra Klein, while he is disastrously wrong on many fronts, does display charity and love.
Many Christian writers on substack with smaller followings display charity and love, though I'll admit they aren't necessarily prominent or even semi-prominent. I suppose anger and fear do sell.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7d ago
I agree and I think this is my point. The average person wants this, but instead of trying to ask the questions which need to be answered to achieve a truly stable liberal culture with a traditionalist bent, they are focused on fear mongering and such.
In general I think we’re aligned, I suppose this is more of a critique of the popular traditionalist intellectual than it is the movement as a whole. Im extremely sympathetic myself.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7d ago
I think this is true of the average believer as well. Perhaps because of perverse dynamics, it does not seem to be true of the average public intellectual or writer who represents the traditional view.
What kind of activity or day truly relaxes you?
For me it's sitting down with a good old entertaining fantasy novel. Taking lots of hot baths helps too.
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