Good stuff. I think that the woods and nature and God are all still out there, though. I'm still holding on in faith (faith about faith) that God extends the offer to every human life, no matter how darkened or crooked.
Agree nature is still there, even if in a diminished state in many places, its more a matter of social habits/location of daily life.
Regarding faith I definitely think it's ideal to hold onto your faith - easier to hold for those that can than for those of us struggling to reconnect at all.
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
This post reminds me of this page by someone I who, despite his boomerisms, I unironically consider to be one of the greatest philosophers of the modern age:
Good stuff. I think that the woods and nature and God are all still out there, though. I'm still holding on in faith (faith about faith) that God extends the offer to every human life, no matter how darkened or crooked.
Agree nature is still there, even if in a diminished state in many places, its more a matter of social habits/location of daily life.
Regarding faith I definitely think it's ideal to hold onto your faith - easier to hold for those that can than for those of us struggling to reconnect at all.
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
This post reminds me of this page by someone I who, despite his boomerisms, I unironically consider to be one of the greatest philosophers of the modern age:
https://www.friesian.com/virtual.htm
This is pure web 1.0 brain knot kino. Thank you for sharing - never seen this before.
A great read. Thanks for the shoutout
Anytime, I'm still wrestling with the ideas you presented to be honest. Looking forward to the book