A good chunk of this guy's case is "look at these radical English heretics saying things that us moderns believe today, this means they were the good guys."

Wrong lesson, but still useful. Also can be used to draw the proper conclusion, which is that us moderns have gone totally insane.

"It will never be a good world," Baxter often heard men say, "while knights and gentlemen make us laws, that are chosen for fear and do but oppress us, and do not know the people's sores. It will never be well with us till we have Parliaments of countrymen like ourselves, that know our wants."

Nice

Chesterton's organ

This left winger from the 1600s was pushing ideas that infect almost everyone, even the extreme right, today. Funny how that works.

"The King and his party being conquered by the sword," White wrote, "I believe the sword may justly remove the power from him and settle it in its original fountain next under God - the people." He held that all laws made since the Norman Conquest which were contrary to equity should be abolished.... He objected not to Charles I as a person but to the kingly office.

There's essentially two metaphysical theories you can frame this in: 1) nominalism, meaning that "left" and "right" aren't real, they're just manmade names, and this shift is mere coincidence, or 2) "left" and "right" are real concepts, and the right has been ceding ground to the left for at least half a century.

Yet more of this:

"The ground of the late war between the King and you [Parliament] was a contest whether he or you should exercise the supreme power over us," declared a Leveller petition a week after the rendezvous at Ware; "so it's vain to expect a settlement of peace amongst us until that point be clearly and justly determined, that there can be no liberty in any nation where the law-giving power is not solely in the people or their representatives." "Is not all the controversy, whose slaves the poor shall be?" asked the Leveller pamphlet, The Mournfull Cries of Many Thousand Poore Tradesmen in January 1648.

These leftoids were preaching popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, religious tolerance, and equal natural rights.

These were ideas used to tear down a social order, and they are the same ideas many people on the right defend and hold today. They cling to their leftisms shouting "far enough!"

1 and 0.999... are the same number.

1/3 = 0.333... The 3s go on forever when applying division. This is a repeating fraction.

Because 1/3 = 0.333..., 1/3 + 1/3 = .333... + 0.333... and, thus, 2/3 = 0.666..., as the 3s get added to one another in each place.

Take that to a level and we realize that 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333, and so, because 3/3 = 1, 1 = 0.999....

Turning to the field of mathematics and science, and especially that twilight world of alchemy and magic which historians are more and more coming to recognize as of crucial importance in the origins of modern science...

Really now... You don't say?

A student asked me to help him understand a John Dewey essay.... This has taught me that my placement of him in this tier list is correct.

Please remember that John Dewey is not the one who invented the library system. It was actually this guy, who this channel respects.

Conversation with Dewey student:
"Do you think democracy is good and works well?"
"Yes, absolutely."
"How well do you think it would work if the average person was very stupid? Like, let's say, incapable of much beyond basic intellectual tasks?"
"It wouldn't work if most people were dumb."
"How smart is the average person?"
"Ooooooh..."

It's dat time of year again, eh

In Naples born, the crust divine,
A taste that makes the soul rejoice;
New York may boast its thin design,
But lacks the depth, the classic choice.

The wood-fired oven crafts the dough,
A kiss of flame, a tender char;
While city slices on the go,
Can't match the flavor from afar.

And what's this pie with fruit atop?
A travesty to taste and art;
Hawaiian pizza, please just stop,
You break the purist's aching heart.

So raise a slice to Naples' best,
A masterpiece in every bite;
Forget the rest, embrace the quest,
For pizza made with love and light.

Just doing my monthly budgeting

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Poor pilled wisdom from Richard Nixon

https://youtube.com/shorts/D-XIp4UC-nE?si=9xAxl9JWLcystPkr

One of my students tested positive for COVID... And... And his parents are making him wear a mask to have a digital meeting with me.

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Uhhh, based

Being weighed down by a superstitious past, men are afraid of things that can’t, or can’t yet, be explained—that is to say, of the unknown. If anyone has needs of a metaphysical nature, I can’t satisfy them with the Party’s program. Time will go by until the moment when science can answer all the questions.

So it’s not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that’s left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.

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Christianity, of course, has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that’s why one day its structure will collapse. Science has already impregnated humanity. Consequently, the more Christianity clings to its dogmas, the quicker it will decline.

- Adolf Hitler

Comes off as very strange when the same people who shout "Christ is King" get upset at someone for not liking Hitler very much.