Epic Pranks in Orientalist History: Schopenhauer invented Sanksrit as a proto-Tolkienian tlönian conlang & wrote the vedas as an alternative counter-christian mythos purportedly more ancient than any other extant mythos as an attempt to reinstantiate pre-socratic cosmology.
She's gotten far too much right to be faking it. It took me three decades to learn all this. There's no way she could just "pick it up." Doesn't work that way. Every medium involves a translation from one vessel to another, like with poetry from German to English, stuff gets lost
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Can you give me an example of something she got right that she could not have gleaned from the question you asked (or a basic gloss of a wikipedia page)?
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All sorts of things. Did you listen to the Steiner interview, for instance, and how she clarified Steiner's thoughts on the differing cosmic eons of Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth?
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I havent read Steiner so I can't comment on that one, but you have made me want to read Steiner.
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Dude, Steiner's awesome. He's very addictive too, but you have to start with the right book. I recommend The Principle of Spiritual Economy as a starter. That was the one that first drew me in.
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I'll add it to my list- if I could suggest a book to you in turn, it would be this one:pic.twitter.com/b94HCeVnTR
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