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the origins of christianity are unlikely to be what you'd initially think. the ancient israelites used to conceive of god as a physical, embodied, emotional deity - who originally belonged to a larger pantheon of gods who ruled over separate areas and engaged in competition with one another. this book is super readable, but it doesn't sacrifice technicality for the sake of its wider scope of appeal. if you're interested in the origins and evolution of abrahamic religion, i can think of no better place to start.
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compelling history of how god went from being someone with an actual body you could see and measure to a disembodied concept
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not even in a true believer way but to read it evolve from centuries ago is so cool
Jan 26, 2024
i’m not a religious person but it is fascinating to dive into the mind of someone who seemed to be so ahead of the curve of agnosticism and faith. so much of this book is scientifically and mathematically dense that it is mindboggling to think this guy wrote it in the 1400’s. a supremely difficult but greatly intriguing read.
“Not-other is not other; nor is it other than other; nor is it other in an other. [These points are true] for no other reason than that [Not-other is] Not-other, which cannot in any way be an other— as if something were lacking to it, as to an other. Because other is other than something, it lacks that than which it is other. But because Not-other is not other than anything, it does not lack anything, nor can anything exist outside of it. Hence, without Not-other no thing can be spoken of or thought of, because it would not be spoken of or thought of through that without which, since it precedes all things, no thing can exist or be known. Accordingly, in itself Not-other is seen antecedently and as absolutely no other than itself; and in an other it is seen as not other than this other.”
love ya!
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if you start zooming in on a pattern, and the pattern doesn't seem to get more simple as you close in, there's a very good chance you're looking at a fractal shape. my new computer hobby is going on google earth (clean setting - no borders or labels) and zooming into random places to see if i can find these patterns. and they are everywhere. in rivers, mountains, deserts, forests, coastlines and on and on. its genuinely stunning, and a little bit frightening, how the same shapes appear over and over again. the beating heart of iterative processes is plastered all over the globe at every scale. from above, the shape of a forest can look like a leaf, or a neuron, or a blood vessel.
great place to have a zoom is at the bottom of tibet, where theres a sharp cutoff between the icy mountain range and the grassy forests of nepal and bhutan. pic below is of the nile river in southern egypt. happy travels everyone
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i feel like im learning a lot abt u guys.
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