My mind is uneased Thinking abt those beavers again Also folk memories of the primordial conditions of life
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Starting to appreciate folk memories over real history tbh
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Replying to @CryptoMechanism
history should serve the living as Nietzsche said.
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Replying to @giantgio
Do you imagine stories of giants might originate from cannibals? Taller would likely have eaten lineages of shorter men, a terrible sight & grim prospect to see a towering being on the horizon. Children later spooked by the stories might be unwittingly descendents of the former.
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This passage is becoming evergreen to me, The answer is that we have changed--are changing, and we scarcely are aware of how Evolutions of man ellude our consciousness because of an ingrained sense of continuity.pic.twitter.com/33B2rqlZo6
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Replying to @CryptoMechanism
But do they really change? Is there a piece of us in the shell that remains constant? Perhaps so, maybe the liner evolutionary model of thinking about this things has some flaws in it.
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Outwardly, yes i believe so, but at the margins. Inwardly it is harder to tell, for our consciousness is intimate with culture and doctrine. I believe so even inwardly, as the soul of man is weighed down or corrupted by sin, or is lightened and blessed by virtue.
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Yes exactly, from Plato to early Christianity this line of thinking about the weight of the souls in sin has made the most sense to me.
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