Youtube comments of ALLHEART (@ALLHEART_).
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All this being said, the university system is massively fucked and the price for higher education is artificially high (for the reasons Styx went over, in part), to a back-breaking degree, especially when you consider that most the non-STEM fields worth studying are little more than Critical Theory indoctrination centers. A bunch of demographics of people who don't need higher ed of this sort have been sold on it as the only way, thus making the whole affair from A to Z artificially bloated and cumbersome for those who actually want to study what universities classically taught. Plus, tenure is damn near impossible to get, and is withheld arbitrarily from those who should have it by cabals of curmudgeons and ideologues. Jordan Peterson, amongst others, is right: the whole education system will likely see major changes, if not a complete overhaul, within the next 10-20 years.
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35:24 It's not entirely accurate to say Plato wasn't very influential in the Middle Ages. 1) Plato was the teacher of Aristotle, and there is plenty of Plato in Aristotle (and in Thomas Aquinas, for that matter), 2) the Isogogue, a widely read introduction to Aristotle's categories at the time, was a commentary by Porphyry, a Neoplatonist from late antiquity (this also illustrates how Neoplatonist philosophers saw Plato and Aristotle as largely saying complementary things, rather than contrary things). This contributed to the people of the Middle Ages understanding Aristotle through a Neoplatonic lense/framework. 3) The lack of access to the complete works of Plato in the Middle Ages can only be really true of the Latin West. The Eastern Roman Empire continued to have full access to all of Plato (and Aristotle, and all the rest), in the original language, throughout the Middle Ages. 4) What little Plato the Latin West did have access to was highly influential throughout the period. 5) St. Dionysius the Areopagite was widely read in the Latin West and the Roman East, and his thought shares many commonalities with Neoplatonism.
The Middle Ages were highly influenced by Plato.
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E Michael Jones has critiqued currencies grounded in precious metals because they effectively and historically put a cap on productivity and output (note: he does not mean GDP here, but actual production and material provisioning and advancement of society), because there is only a finite amount of them and that amount cannot grow, and historically this has been a problem for countries whose currencies are grounded in precious metals. He has proposed instead tethering the money supply to the amount of labor in a given nation, which would also be a form of hard currency (at least potentially, at least harder than fiat, which is grounded in nothing, for sure). His book, "Barren Metal: Capitalism as the Conflict Between Labor and Usury", goes into more depth. I'd like to read it. He draws on German economists like Heinrich Pesch. He might not be correct here, but he has a lot of cool economic ideas.
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8:25 No Christian would say Satan is a "deity", and they probably wouldn't say he is a "powerful adversary to God" either, because, especially in the context in which you use the phrase, having just previously called him a "deity", it implies a kind of dualism or equality between God and Satan that would be abhorrent to any Christian. Christianity is not dualistic. In fact, the conception of Satan you cast as the Islamic one, as a king of evil ones who incites mankind to wrongdoing, is a much better synopsis of the Christian view than the one you previously gave just before. Also, the two aren't technically mutually exclusive, so phrasing them as of they were opposites or perpendicular in some way sounded a bit strange. Anyway, this comment is too long. God bless.
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Pat Ashley Simply pointing out a shared pattern is not the same proving Christianity invalid. We call this concept in Christianity "Logos spermatikos". The seeds on the truth are found in all the religions, but they find their fulfillment in Christ. The reason Christianity couldn't simply view it's story as exclusively allegorical is because it wasn't like the pagan stories. It wasn't about a far off mythical age and realm that wasn't really meant to be taken literally, it was about real events in real human history. Christ's Incarnation is not pure allegory, it is allegory and real history. The story doesn't make any sense otherwise. As for Christianity making people less literate, that's total nonsense. Western Europe did see a decline in literacy, but it didn't have to do with Christianity. It was due to the collapse of centralized civilization. We know this because, in the Byzantine Empire, the Christian Roman Empire, literacy was higher than anywhere else almost, even among the poor and those in the provinces, due to Church schools.
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Become Orthodox Christian. Sufism is just neoplatonism, unfiltered and cast in an Islamic mold. This will be more or less true for pretty much every world religion. There are indeed truths in the other religions and philosophies, but only because they, their adherents, and all of reality have their grounding in, whether they acknowledge it or not, the Divine Logos, the Person of Jesus Christ. Only Orthodoxy has a truly unique system of thought and way of being, which is revealed from on high, and not from the minds of man. But, it is rather what all the insights of man's mind has pointed to across time.
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@marcusanthony9322 That's more correct, yes. "The LORD is a consuming fire", as the verse goes. But, in addition, it's worth noting that, one of the words most used by Christ for hell is Gehenna, which is an allusion to an area, the Valley of Hinnom, that used to be used for pagan Baal worship (cannibalism, human sacrifice) and was later used as a garbage dumb where waste would be left and burned, and elsewhere, such as by St. John the Baptist, fire is mentioned in the context of alluding to ultimate rejection of God and what that experience is like. So, "fires of Hell" isn't an entirely unbiblical way of speaking, although you're also correct, and, additionally, Dante's portrayal of Hell as cold captures an important aspect of Hell beatifully. The idea of being frozen in place, bound down, chained, lacking the freedom that comes with knowing God.
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@Wajid Raza 1) Not sure what you mean about those from Jesus' bloodline accepting Islam. Jesus' bloodline was Jewish, and in general Jews did not accept Islam. But, even if I did, the Bible predicts that Jesus' own people would reject them, which they did, by and large, so why would we trust the people who rejected Jesus to guide us to the truth about Jesus? That is not sensible. 2) As for St. Paul, your own best tafsir list him as amongst the righteous followers and apostles of Jesus. Muslim hatred for St. Paul is a modern development. Historically, in Muslim countries, if you spoke of Paul the way you did, calling him satanic, you would've been charged with insulting the righteous followers of one of the prophets and would have been punished.
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