While I'm offline camping medieval style with @britbenjamin and 10,000 other historical re-enactors at the Pennsic War, which my dad conveniently started 47 years ago, here are some deep articles to ponder for the week. http://www.pennsicwar.org/penn47/
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"Do you like the funny man with the strange hairdo, or the mean grandmother for president in the United States? These are common sense things that people should be able to debate. And if you are not allowed to, then you should probably not be allowed to think about anything."
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On identity: "Identity is a very strange concept. It can mean two opposite things. It can mean that which makes you unique and it can mean that which makes you identical...You don’t want to pretend that it does not exist and you don’t want to make it all-important..."
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"It is very hard for us to find the right way to talk about this. As a gay person I don’t want to be in the closet, but I also don’t want to be in the ghetto. The closet and the ghetto are exclusive, but I hope they are not exhaustive, those are not the only two."
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Finally, if you're interested in the West's roots,
@britbenjamin & I are thinking of leading an Ancient Greek/Early Roman camp next year. If you're not just an armchair Stoics but a true philosopher interested in living for a week as Epictetus would have, DM me for info.Show this thread
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