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Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
In this dialogue, the Elean philosopher Phaidon recounts the story of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης), arguing the nature of the soul and in particular, supposing its immortality. This is a longer dialogue of approximately three hours narrated, so I mean to post it in three segments. This first hour will cover parts I-III with the introduction, discussion of the soul's relationship to the body and proper attitude of a philosopher towards these, and two arguments in favor of the immortality of the soul: the so-called Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. Next week, I'll include timestamps for parts IV and V, which will cover the Affinity argument for immortality of the soul and the first of two answers to reservations expressed by the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes. The final week will pick up with part VI and run to the end of the dialogue.
A Serious Case of Polar Bear Denial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qn6CfsFkw
CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt
On Sunday The New York Times published an explosive and very belated full admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine wartime decision-making, but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago.
Yes, everyone is wondering cui bono on this admission. Why would they publicise it now, after Putin's interview?
A few speculations:
1) It's deep state infighting.
2) It's too juicy of a story to keep under wraps any longer and they're throwing someone under the bus in a limited hangout.
3) It provides an escape valve so that NATO members can stop throwing their budgets away.
4) It's 2 and 3.
5) Donald Trump said there were no US personnel in Ukraine when I wasn't watching.
Uncontrolled Despotism: Mercy Otis Warren on the Constitution
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/02/uncontrolled-despotism-mercy-otis-warren-on-the-constitution/
In her widely-read and influential anti-federalist essay, Mercy Otis Warren warned that the Constitution would abandon the principles of the American Revolution and facilitate consolidation of the states under a powerful national government. In other words, it would lead to unlimited centralized power – similar to the system the colonists had fought to leave.
A post supporting liberty and that foremost natural right of self defense, as authored by a woman and Founding Mother, the gender of whom may sway the opinion of that hopeless feminist in one's life.
The Biggest Scandal in the History of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klSzIK4KJFs
Mr. Dapperton's "Kyle Rittenhouse Song"
https://odysee.com/@Mr.Dapperton:a/mr.-dapperton's-kyle-rittenhouse-song:7
Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts IV & V by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=3699s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
Platon's character portraying the Elean philosopher Phaidon continues his account of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης). By now, Sokrates has convinced the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes that the soul exists before birth with his Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. However, each holds out reservations against the claim that the soul survives after death, to which Sokrates replies with what is called the Affinity argument. Once more the Thebans express reservations - Simmias compares the body to a lyre and the soul to a harmony, while Kebes compares the body to a coat and the soul to weaver that may outlive multiple coats in his life but is still not immortal. These analogies trouble his friends, but Sokrates admonishes against succumbing to misology (hatred of ideas), which he likens to misanthropy. He answers Simmias first, while his reply to Kebes argues from the Form of Life and will be posted next week.
Everything You Need to Know about the Government’s Mass Censorship Campaign
https://rumble.com/v4dtxtu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-governments-mass-censorship-campaign.html
I've been meaning to watch this one for a while.
Do you ever watch Adam Curtis documentaries?
No, I'm not familiar with him.
32:00 for a little laugh on leftist incompatible coalitions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp2BzHMiCk&list=PLbPZYrS_g_At_AciykufZokPrN53wyZ0w
The Power of Nightmares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3wz-OyR1U&t=9091s
Can't Get You Out of My Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-DMH_myil8
The Century of the Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
The Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbQcqJh52U8
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I find them fascinating. He does not necessarily offer advice on how to improve things but his sociological analysis is usually very interesting.
(as with many BBC MSM staff, he did lose the mark on Trump but oh well...)
I think I remember you posting Can't Get You Out of My Head part 1 some time back. So far, I've finished all of that series through part 5 (part 6 is age restricted and YouTube wants to card me). It is definitely interesting with a bent towards viewing human society as a great bundle of neuroses.
Regarding advice, I'm not really sure that offering it would be constructive. I figure it would have more potential to alienate a (possibly large) segment of viewers from his documentaries in exchange for conveying ideas that are secondary at best. However, given his presentation, it doesn't seem too hard to trace back attributions of causality which could then be used to piece together solutions. Of course, some solutions would be easier said than done.
Google Is Programming Our Kids | 2/29/24
https://odysee.com/@AuronMacIntyre:f/google-is-programming-our-kids-2-29-24:0
Mike Benz seems to believe that the NYT article was intended to convince Republicans to fund more CIA operations.
How The 2020 Election Was REALLY Won - Mike Benz’s EXPLOSIVE Revelation - Stay Free #321
https://rumble.com/v4i04i0-how-the-2020-election-was-really-won-mike-benzs-explosive-revelation-stay-f.html
Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts VI, VII, & VIII by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=6995s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
With Simmias's concerns answered, Sokrates now addresses Kebes's analogy of the body to a coat and the soul to a weaver with the idea of the Form of Life. Afterwards, the remainder of the dialogue details Sokrates speculations on the nature of the world, the heaven, the other world, and finally is his departure.
Meet In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s Venture Capital Firm (2011)
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/flashback-inqtel:a
Publicly, In-Q-Tel markets itself as an innovative way to leverage the power of the private sector by identifying key emerging technologies and providing companies with the funding to bring those technologies to market. In reality, however, what In-Q-Tel represents is a dangerous blurring of the lines between the public and private sectors in a way that makes it difficult to tell where the American intelligence community ends and the IT sector begins.
Genesis (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning') chapters 1 - 21 by Moses (according to tradition or multiple authors according to modern textual criticism)
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFT_IxwJJY
Text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477
I think I will put classical Athens on the back burner for a while in order to get the ball rolling on what has been described as the most consequential book in human history. The first 21 chapters of Genesis should take just over an hour and thirteen minutes when read by Alexander Scourby at normal speed, and cover the first and second creation accounts, the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and much of the story of Abraham, and a some genealogies.
The King James Version used here is chosen for its special significance in the history of the English language, and perhaps for using a slightly less partisan translation than many other alternatives (of course, this is still highly subjective). Its Old Testament (Tanakh) translations are principally from the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Rabbinic Bible by Daniel Bomberg (1524/5) according to Wikipedia sourced from The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its subsequent reprints and modern representatives by Frederick Scrivener (1884), with exceptions where the text is adjusted to conform to Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate translations in passages to which Christian tradition had attached a Christological interpretation, again according to Wikipedia sourced from Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired by Benson Bobrick (2001).
The Case for Secession: How Breaking Away Maximizes Liberty | Ryan McMaken
https://odysee.com/@mises:1/the-case-for-secession-how-breaking-away:f
State Militias and the Second Amendment: Decentralizing Military Power | Ryan McMaken
https://odysee.com/@mises:1/state-militias-and-the-second-amendment:e
I'd bet that Ryan McMaken is on several government watch lists...
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version) tablets 1 - 5 by multiple authors, compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYf8AwNvKg
Text: https://archive.org/stream/TheEpicofGilgamesh_201606/eog_djvu.txt
The Epic of Gilgamesh posted here is the Standard Babylonian version that was compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni during the Kassite Dynasty of Babylon c. 1300-1000 BC. The story (or rather stories) are older still, with an Old Babylonian version that is less well preserved from around 1800 BC, and several poems recounting events in this version and others besides that are from the Sumerian Renaissance of the Neo-Sumerian Empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2100 BC, when legendary tales of old were promoted by the state and actively spread amongst the public.
As I go through various readings, it's interesting to use the events and places covered therein to segue into discussing parallels in history or other literature of contemporaneous or relevant cultures. In this case, we see mention that Abram, the common patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is said to have been born in Ur of the Chaldees (ʾŪr Kaśdīm). There is indeed a historical Ur, a major city of southern Mesopotamia, prominent during the Sumerian civilization, which eventually came to be settled by a group called the Chaldeans, although this happened relatively late in history, probably not before around 1000 BC, which might put pressure on the amount of time available between Abram's departure to Canaan and the historically identified events of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
This week is relatively short at just under 43 minutes; it covers the first 5 of 11 tablets (excluding the 12th which is an addendum that does not fit into the narrative of the first 11, but does appear to be based upon one of the oldest poems), through the events around Humbaba. I will post the remaining hour next week(?), picking up where the goddess Ishtar attempts to court Gilgamesh...
Florida Bans Kids From Social Media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrEciM_b0s
"a fusion of our physical, digital, and biological identity"
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version) tablets 6 - 11 by multiple authors, compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYf8AwNvKg&t=2566s
Text: file:///tmp/mozilla_user0/eog.pdf
Last week the legendary king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, Gilgamesh, met his match in Enkidu, whom he befriended, and together they went forth to the cedar forest and slew its giant watchman Humbaba, which enraged the god Enlil. Now, we pick up with the remainder of the story, wherein the goddess Ishtar attempts to court Gilgamesh, and the nature of the story changes.
Genesis (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning') chapters 22 - 36
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFT_IxwJJY&t=4389s
Text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477
Returning to Genesis, we left off with Abraham and Sarah finally having a promised son, Isaac, together in their old age, and we pick up with God testing Abraham. Further along is the story of the brothers Jacob, who is blessed as Israel, and Esau, father of the Edomites. This is the second of three parts, and extends an hour and ten minutes to 2:23:17 in the audio.
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