The Tetrapharmakos, or, “The four-part cure,” is the Greek philosopher Epicurus’ remedy for leading the happiest possible life. The “tetrapharmakos” was originally a compound of four drugs (wax, tallow, pitch and resin); the word has been used metaphorically by Epicurus and his disciples to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul. The Four-Part…
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Christianity as a ‘slave-morality’
The best individual, as conceived by Aristotle, is a very different person from the Christan saint. He should have proper pride, and not underestimate his own merits. He should despise whoever deserves to be despised. The description of the proud or magnanimous man is very interesting as showing the difference between pagan and Christian ethics,…
Neitzsche aka Freddy The ‘Stache’
Poster via dead-philosophers.com
Incarnation Zine–Happy Christmas!!
This year I decided to go homemade again as far as Christmas gifts are concerned. I wrote a poem and then my wife and I teamed up to create 10 little pen and ink illustrations. The poem is below, enjoy! Incarnation The beauty of night The stillness enshrine Small, humble and weak Expressed Logos Divine…
When our dull wits had so declined
“The Invisible Seen” When our dull wits had so declined as to set us mid the squalor of the merely sensible creation, the Very God consented to become a body of His own, that He as one among us might gather our dim senses to Himself, and manifest through such incommensurate occasion that He is…
When the Scriptures are used maturely
When the Scriptures are used maturely, and they become a precursor to meeting the Christ, they proceed in this order: They confront us with a bigger picture than we are used to, “God’s kingdom” that has the potential to “deconstruct” our false worldviews. They then have the power to convert us to an alternative worldview…
Grandma Got Made Over By A Reindeer
This comic is hanging in the bathroom where I work. I laughed.
It’s Not New and It’s Not Order
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
Left, Right and Nothing In Between
Very cool info graphic illustrating how our crazy ass government [doesn’t] work. Click to enlarge.
A New Language. Do you speak it?
Another Language Recently another language has grown up within the one others use. The new language has a special way: it avoids saying obvious things as if they are not so obvious; it never proclaims something that the kind of person being addressed is presumed to know already; it courteously gives credit to the needs…