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Fabius Minarchus's avatar

I particularly liked your takedowns of Ayn Rand, your series on militant Christianity, and your historical articles on gun rights. Some of those passages from the Federalist Papers were truly eye opening.

Some of your epistemology articles went over my head. Maybe I should think harder. (And I really do need to get a copy of that book on quantum mechanics and philosophy when time/money permits.)

I'm still waiting on you to flesh out your physiocratic political platform. (Though expect some pushback in you take the same line of Georgist reasoning that I've seen elsewhere. Abolishing all slack is a bad idea.)

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Ahnaf Ibn Qais's avatar

[4/4] “” Or, in general, any other commentary you’d like to offer. I appreciate my readership very much and will be grateful to anyone who shares their thoughts. The suffering on the Tree of Woe is more tolerable when other people are biting off vulture heads alongside me, after all. “”



I think I answered the queries posed as best I can.

The suffering will certainly get more tolerable; but this is not the end state and is nothing more than an intermediate phase that jumps to the next inevitability:

Soon, actual Demons will visit you (some in their direct form, others via avatars and in alternate forms) & try to BREAK you. Even if you succeed in slaying & warding them off (which I hope you do), the onset of Amusement, Apathy & Satiation will probably follow.

At that point "Suffering" will be a relief by comparison. ( https://www.etymonline.com/word/suffer )

Every moment meanwhile will be "Difficult to Bear" in the old school PIE sense as conveyed by the atomic of *bher-. Amusement, Apathy & Satiation are quite the vile Trio.



Good Luck on overcoming said Calamity!

You’ll be outnumbered by a very heavy margin in said Fight!

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