ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]

I’ve decided that Nietzsche was trans. Sadly HRT wasn’t avaliable at the time, and Nietzsche was unable to self overcome gender.

So you’re saying I have to become a trot???

They used to do that with repeat vowels for a bit like 100 years ago (like coöperation), and for some reason these people are still at it

So what you were born as a catholic? I was born as a mormon, and then I chose to leave

Also fun fact: the original language refers to Adam’s penis bone, and not his rib. The people who wrote Genesis knew people aren’t missing a rib, but that don’t have penis bones and that most other mammals do. “Rib” is a mistranslation

Not if we throw them all in a giant pit first

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, tbh.

I am all for recognizing that languages change all the time, etc. But also, isn’t the point of laying out categorical schemes like this to provide clarity? And I think clarity calls for us to, when possible, consider etymology, history of usage, etc. because that allows people to more readily understand terminology when they just encounter it in use, rather than getting it from some kinda chart like this.

So, I think it’s weird to call bi an umbrella term if the term and the terms supposedly falling under the umbrella are exclusionary. Example: “communist” is an umbrella term. You can call both Marxists and Ancoms communists, because they both fall under the umbrella. I agree that you shouldn’t call a pan person bi, but that means pan doesn’t fall under any kind of bi umbrella.

Also, pan and omni are synonymous; pan being Greek and omni Latin. I’ve never heard of this distinction of pan having no gender preference and omni having one - feels made up by this person. BTW, I identify as pan, and have a preference (though I personally wouldn’t say it’s a gender preference. I know several agender people and I am attracted to some, and not to others, though none of them have a gender, so I don’t think gender is really what my preferences are about. And I could go on about this, but that’s a whole nother post).

Lord of the Rings cosplay

I hate California so goddam much

I hold up the sphere of fixed stars

Hannah Arendt

The government sent me more money under Trump

NGE is amazing

Remember that taxation is theft, but having to pay private protection companies in order to keep your property isn’t. It’s actually just the free market at work, snd therefore freedom

There’s bad therapists, but good ones too. Psychiatrists give you meds, not talk therapy. Those are two completely different things

Like, I think even had Christianity not existed, things would have been pretty much just as bad. Everything I hate about Christianity already existed in the Roman empire. In a world without Christ we just get two thousand years of useless wank about the Monad and Dyad instead of the Trinity; hardly an improvement.

after all, Aristotle and Plato were alive at the same time, so pre-Aristotelian also doesn’t work in that regard

That’s fair. I don’t really think “pre-Aristotelian” is a particularly good categorization of philosophers though, just a funny rejection of the term “pre-Socratics”.

Really the big gap between Plato and the pre-Socratics is that we have many intact texts by Plato, while with the pre-Socratics we have only a handful of quotations preserved in later texts and some dubious paraphrase and summaries, so it’s hard to pin down exactly what was going on. But, as far as I can tell, it was really Parmenides and his followers (like Zeno) who established the need for a more rigorous approach. For example: great developments in logic were needed to defeat their arguments that motion and plurality were impossible and only an illusion.

Platonists might not have caused the cooption of Christianity, but most of the really objectionable elements of Christianity are Platonic. Like I’m 100% not a Christian of any kind, but Jesus seemed like kind of a cool dude who wanted to create the kingdom of heaven on earth: a just society were people hold all things in common and shit. All the metaphysical bullshit about souls and the trinity and hating your body and shit is from Plato, Pythagoras, Orphism, and shit like that.

Correct me if I’m wrong but pederasty wasn’t supposed to be sexual

You’re wrong, sex in the relationship was absolutely not condemned, it was very typical and expected. It is very well attested and this isn’t a controversial or conjectured position.

I agree that ancient Greece is not a good example of a society with chill views on sexuality, but there’s no reason to deny reality.

You might like Final Fantasy Tactics?

Probably, I’ll have to check it out sometime

I think so. But aren’t they all for Nintendo consoles? I guess I could emulate them sometime. IMO the greatest rpg games are by Spiderweb software, but they aren’t too well known