Aristotle

I think that is how it traditionally used to be.

I mean, most of the ancient Greek philosophers, like Plato, Aristotle, Plato was the one who formulated the cosmological argument for the existence of God, to show that God exists.

But it's quite sad that in contemporary philosophy, many philosophers, they begin to focus on very narrow things, especially in the analytic tradition, for example.

They begin to think about how people use language, philosophical language, and they become I think that they lost the big picture.

He argues that Plato was describing something remarkably close to what Jews and Christians meant by God, but without any influence either way.

In Plato's Timaeus, we meet a supremely good divine intelligence who creates the ordered universe because he wants everything to be drawn toward his own goodness.

Plato's student Aristotle went further in his books, Physics and Metaphysics.

He wasn't so sure about his teacher's eternal forms, but he did argue that everything undergoing change must be being changed by something else.

So they knew it was possible.

So that, you know, Aristotle sat and watched the bugs and the birds fly by.

So they knew it was possible, that flight was possible, that there was something going on with that.

And you could breathe air, but they just didn't understand it beyond that.

There's no idea of stable category except in in an Aristotelian mind.

Aristotle is no good lesson here.

The idea that categories are binary, they don't really make much sense, and we know they don't make much sense, but we totally believe in the nonsense.

So this to say, yeah, that this uttering of the Russian, it's like I said, it's like it's the uttering not of the Russian, but the uttering also of the mask of the Russian.

Yeah, well, Blake, you're 100% right.

In the old way of viewing families and a nation and everything, like Aristotle talks about this, where human beings are created, and then they come in a pair, and a pair requires a home for a family, family requires a village, a village requires a polis, and it goes on and on and on, where you need a nation, and then you need a civilization.

Where Democrats go wrong is they flip that.

So it used to be that the entire political system would revolve around the family.

I don't know a lot about him, but he doesn't sound like a perfect candidate.

But compared to El-Sayed, he towers like Aristotle.

I don't know enough about Mike Rogers to refute that statement.

It's almost hard to

When we look at standard school textbooks, we often see narrative structure broken down into three distinct steps, exposition, complication, and resolution.

And what's really fascinating is how this aligns perfectly with the ancient philosopher Aristotle's idea in his classic work, The Poetics.

Aristotle basically argued that a plot has to be a complete whole, meaning it requires a clear beginning, middle, and end.

But an ending isn't just, you know, the last page of a book.

It's the natural destination that follows everything that came before it by necessity.

Which brings us to a very famous term you might have heard of, deus ex machina, which literally translates to God from the machine.

This is basically defined as an intervention from a force entirely outside the plot.

And this brilliantly illustrates Aristotle's critique of the ancient playwright Euripides and his play Medea.

Nobody's free.

I think it was Aristotle who said real power is to be and let be.

Just be yourself and let others be.

Why the heck are you? The real question is, why are you so freaking bothered by somebody else's behavior? Like if you are absolutely living in alignment with your values and your truth, not inherited stuff from society and your family, why do you need other people to have agreeance with you? If you're so sure, why do you need other people to agree with you to be accepted by you?

Asylum was worth something, right?

Well, yeah, you know, it's like the great Aristotle quote, knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

And it starts at that self-knowledge base.

And like, you need time, you need space, you need a break from all the distractions, from all the painkillers in order to even come to that place of understanding yourself on some level.

God is a husband.

That is far more powerful than the unmoved mover from Aristotle that got baked into Christian thinking.

So that's first thought.

The second one is what is going on? Why would he call out Ephraim? Here's my thought.