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Umbrage or Outrage? I cannot tell which. https://149674310.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/church-ladies.jpg So far I haven't looked at this website, but now I will have to get access to it and publicise what is false and what is true. Ruairidh Bóid Dear God. Threats , while wringing ...

This is an unserious thread. Why is the alcoholic Benifer person from Cambridge (aka "The Most Handsome Man in the Universe") pictured above?

I will say that I do not buy into the mystical beliefs projected by romantic moderns, scholars or not, into Philo's work. If you insist on remaining blind, how can I make you see? (The eternal 'Lost Cause.') I am not talking about random use of words such as ousian and the terms for wealth, etc., a...

I found your 2021 post describing your beliefs about Philo, and the influence of Hermetic literature on him: ... No, that post really doesn't describe my (adopted) thesis that the Hermetica /Hermetic sub-culture influenced Philo; others do. For examples: this , this , this , this , this , especiall...

Soviet Lies are baaaaaaack ... the Neo-Soviets are book-burning the history they would erase completely. And looting everything else. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/23/russia-ukraine-cultural-genocide-looting-indoctrination-deporatation/ Russian academics have created an Orwellian 98-page glossar...

'Craving/Desire' is unspecified by character, in the List of Maladies that the Therapeutae can cure. 2. ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώμα...

Don't open your veins, and spare the hemlock. We live now. The document that survived was surely 'corrupted' in little ways by other hands. I believe that possibility is obvious for everything that came down as canon literature. That doesn't make it False to my mind, however. I remember all the talk...

What ever happened to his co-author, here?

... I am not saying that the final editor HAS to be T J Alexander, but to me he was a good candidate for the dismissive POV about excesses in entertainment prevalent at Rome. Of course <aaarrrgghhh!!> This *could* be Philo's own words, but I am aware that Philo's works circulated under various name...