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The tombstone inscriptions of the ancient Greeks of Cyrenaica in North Africa🧵
Tomb inscription of the gladiator Antiochas:
"Antiochas formerly named Ephesios. I was not alive and [then] was born. I am no longer alive and do not mind. Hello, passers-by." https://t.co/gROii4kUjb
Snapshot of a “theoretical” life
– Loves learning for its own sake; regards wisdom as a permanent quest.
– Accepts leisure (scholē) not chiefly for recreation but for reflection.
– Feels reverence for what is permanent and overarching—nature, being, the divine—rather than for shifting public opinion.
– Skeptical of power when it threatens the
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Liberalism’s global project is not about unity. It is about uniformity. It does not celebrate diversity. It fears it. It does not cherish difference. It crushes it. It wants one world, one way, one model of existence. But the world does not need a singular order. The world needs ethnopluralism, the right of all peoples to their own paths. The West... See more
Mirian passed away today. She fought for her life in the ICU but did not survive the wounds she suffered in the massacre at Saint Elias Antiochian Greek Church in Syria.
We need no money.
We need no visas from Greece,like the thousands granted freely to Pakistanis.
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Alasdair MacIntyre has died. His classic After Virtue had a tremendous effect on me when I was an undergrad and still in my atheist days, greatly reinforcing the attraction to Aristotelian ethics I had even then. (The spine of the light mauve cover of my copy, like that of pretty much any copy printed in the 80s, has long since turned green.) It... See more
Cardinal Dolan says he spent the past week studying Charlie Kirk’s life, and the more he learned, the more he saw him as a modern-day Saint Paul.
A fearless missionary, a passionate evangelist, and a true hero.
“When I heard the tragic news, I said, ‘I wonder who he was.’ And then all of a... See more
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