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by Symmachus
Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:45 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Did the Ancient Greeks do religion better?
Replies: 21
Views: 1218

Re: Did the Ancient Greeks do religion better?

Connected with the absence of revelation, of scriptures, and of a professionally divinely appointed priesthood is the fact that a central category of Greek religion is unknowability, the belief that human knowledge about the divine and about the right way of behaving towards it is limited and circu...
by Symmachus
Mon Sep 19, 2022 1:33 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

I do appreciate that this has revealed you to be a Putin apologist, though. Thanks for reentering the conversation, if for only that. Yeah, I understand that you first need to establish the friend/enemy distinction before you can process what someone else says, and that you need to continually rein...
by Symmachus
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:39 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

honorentheos wrote:
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:37 pm
Symmachus wrote:
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:25 pm

Attempting to "weaken" a legitimate national leader...
Ah, I see. Putin is not the legitimate national leader of Russia in your opinion. Interesting. Who is then? And who picked him/her?
by Symmachus
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:25 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

In 2016 the American people voted a new person into office and Obama took up more writing and basketball. Obama and America are not synonymous. Point went way over your head, as usual. And here is you reverting to the core cynicism that couldn't help but be injected, inserting democratic offices in...
by Symmachus
Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:04 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

Your viewing those as synonymous is sad but revealing. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d627bfe9bb1059e6b05a5781d1bf65165a0266bf/665_78_2082_1249/master/2082.jpg?width=620&quality=85&fit=max&s=368387b95216fadac44410b8ff35c3b4 "On the one hand, America's security claims as a sovereign nation are forem...
by Symmachus
Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

Russia's security claims as a sovereign nation are foremost in our own calculations . https://64.media.tumblr.com/6ba531c9df822a0310104b9d08ad11dc/ee10e8cafbd985c0-ba/s500x750/89e743731336df648ee03a38295270fb1cc33a4e.gif Is JJM correct to believe the US ultimately sees a weakened Putin a positive a...
by Symmachus
Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:23 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

It is always disappointing to have a trick revealed for the mundane thing it always was behind the misdirections and flourishes. So, you were just trying to find “gotchas” after all. It’s hilarious but totally expected that you think you’ve won your shadow boxing match. https://c.tenor.com/A9slBvmN...
by Symmachus
Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:40 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

Ok son. Brilliant insight, that. I literally said it was a banal observation when I brought it up in service of a fairly simple point. You just wanted to reframe it to something easier to debate. Am I trying to win a debate? More that I'm finding your presentation to be largely billowing reframings...
by Symmachus
Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:35 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

If your response to practically every participant is they fail to grasp your point, and suggest it is due to their biases causing them to ignore what you have actually been saying, you are doing something wrong. So on the one hand I'm verbose, but on the other hand my only response to "practically ...
by Symmachus
Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:59 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26065

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

Stringing words together comprehensibly in a coherent whole only seems magical to those who can't do it. For example, calling me simultaneously "cynical" and "naïve" seemed to make sense to you, though I don't know what kind of black magic can do that. I could never do that. The issue isn't with fai...