Connor_Creegan

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by Connor_Creegan 4y ago
I'm not sure I would class de Maistre as a "Christian nationalist", certainly not if we are opening that term up to Protestants. The authority of the Church is essential to the whole of his theopolitical conception. I was int
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'Human and Divine Nomenclature', by Joseph-Marie Comte de Maistre(archive.org)
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by Connor_Creegan 4y ago
In my own experience, yes. Very early in my adulthood I lost interest in working in software design in any conventional capacity entirely because of the kinds of people I was surrounded by and the ludicrous beliefs that they had which led t
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by Connor_Creegan 4y ago
It is upsetting to me that the adjective "traditional" so often carries the connotation of some particular point or period (e.g. 1950s) when particularity of point or period is precisely the antithesis of tradition. Evoking the 19
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
The values assumed by the author of this essay are so far removed from my own that it would be useless to attempt to engage it on its own terms in this forum, but I do find this piece interesting from the perspective of an anthropological s
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
Victory of civilian militias, guerilla groups, etc. against imperial powers is usually because occupation of the former's territory is a sunk cost for the latter. America, Haiti, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. are not really comparable to this pr
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
I don't really doubt the connection, I doubt the reduction. There is no reason to isolate the phylogenetic march as the primary efficient cause of its own change through time in opposition to the claim that it is a register of that cha
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
>Biologically romantic love between same sex partners is more or less equivalent to love with an infertile partner. I am uncertain as to the intention of the adjective "biologically" is in this sentence, but it seems to me that
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
While this is true, the interviewee Anne Machin clarifies that she is referring to the phenomenon of romantic love (Ἔρως). That said, I find it interesting that there is no mention of the phenomenon of same-sex romance. This exception alone
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
Ah, keen observation, young grasshopper! But nota bene: just as man cannot live on bread alone, one's understanding does not arrive merely from the consideration of a collection of atoms.
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by Connor_Creegan 5y ago
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