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He’s not very kind to Plato

Picking it back up after putting it down awhile ago

Moving at a breakneck pace!

There is a sentence that took me an hour to fully understand. Thucydides’s Greek is brutal.

Blazing through this one

Currently in the mire of an extended mystical interpretation of the OT 😩

Revisiting Ambiguum 7

9-hour flight to Rome

“…Afghanistan did not have to fall… Thus, in the end, the US was able to withdraw from its forever war in Afghanistan, but only by losing the conflict, allowing the country to become an extremist safe haven once again and condemning some 40 million Afghans to a future of repression, deprivation, severely circumscribed opportunities and, very likely, continued violence.” - General David Petraeus

Ambiguum 5 is 🔥

“As God, He was the motivating principle of His own humanity, and as man He was the revelatory principle of His own divinity… He experienced suffering in a divine way, since it was voluntary… and he worked miracles in a human way, since they were accomplished through the flesh…”