Thomas James @ThomJamesF

flânerie | philosophy | via deorum Washington, DC Joined July 2020

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Thomas James @ThomJamesF

6 days ago

@Heliotrophy “We are completely defined not necessarily by Greece and Rome themselves but by our reflexive rediscovery of them and our *aspirations* towards them.” This is a great point.

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a week ago

@goodmaxxedfyre @ExotericDago I did

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2 weeks ago

@ScottMGreer James G. Blaine’s mansion in Dupont has a Le Pain Quotidien in it.

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4 weeks ago

@bennni_boi 🐐

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"Hence we must consider how one might be liberated and set free from these bonds [of necessity and fate]. There is, indeed, no way other than the knowledge of the gods." Iamblichus, DM, X.5 "This is the only salvation for man: knowledge of God. This is the ascent to the highest

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a month ago

@ancient_satyr Corpus Hermeticum

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a month ago

@True_Zenith @EClaussen "Ye are gods" Psalm 82:6

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a month ago

@BasilianThought

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a month ago

@Michaeldudufudu Gooner hands typed this.

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2 months ago

@PortoValhe Reppin’

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2 months ago

@philoantonio Did he delete it?

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2 months ago

@gwyrain

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Thomas James @ThomJamesF

2 months ago

This is probably right. A lot of the ornamental masonry on these buildings is chipping and falling off. It's expensive to maintain, increasingly so as the skills/expertise for it declines over time. This is why you see so many buildings in NYC with scaffolding and nets up for years.

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2 months ago

@philoantonio Same 😓

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Thomas James @ThomJamesF

2 months ago

@philoantonio So far they've been tense but also very... fruitful?

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2 months ago

Libra ascendant. Aries in 7th House. Am I in trouble?

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2 months ago

@petersterne Prison isn't a deterrent or even a punishment. Prison sequesters and incapacitates violent people to prevent them from victimizing the rest of us.

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2 months ago

@Nowooski It's a big, green scar that still divides the downtown district. It should have been built over to seamlessly integrate into the surrounding city.

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Thomas James @ThomJamesF

2 months ago

Modern pagans too often reify and essentialize ritual traditions, forgetting that they are media and not ends in themselves. Man's natural, spontaneous response to theophany is awe and devotion; ritual traditions emerge from and achieve regularity through continuous interface with the gods. Yet, real ritual traditions are capable of change, of obsolescence and spontaneous creation, because they mediate and emerge from the mutual encounter and participation between gods and men: the gods' essences are never fully or definitively unfolded in time, and man encounters the gods as beings in time.

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Thomas James @ThomJamesF

2 months ago

It's a silly argument that hides its own commitment to materialism and elides the question of divine agency. How can the temporal and finite determine the eternal energeia of the gods? It inverts the order of explanation and of being thereby. As Iamblichus pointed out, historical conditions underdetermine the phenomenon of cultus: it originates with and depends upon the gods' agency.