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Umbrage or Outrage? I cannot tell which.

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, lol

This is an unserious thread. Why is the alcoholic Benifer person from Cambridge 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...