Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Three days of typing led to this. Dropping tomorrow. 010
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Oops. Forgot to post here. Happy Revenge of the Fifth And a happy birthday to me. Very happy about this lightsaber lol. 130
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I have so many thoughts, but they will have to come out in full as I think them over. What I am struck by is how prescient it is for me as I think over what it means for Gods to not be "subjects" or "subjectivities", and how to understand myth in a non-reductionist manner. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I did not expect to write this much on this but it became something else. It's been scheduled for Saturday. 010
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Aristotle as proto-Race theorist. I wonder if this is a necessary part of his ontologizing project. Can there be an Aristotelian Pros-hen based ontology that doesn't produce (proto)racist logic? 130
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 06/01/2025To celebrate this, my first post of the year will be free! Tomorrow 4pm WAT. I have been thinking about this topic for quite a while. 010
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Challenge: Taking a cue from platonic readings of the Odyssey, read the story of Luffy and his crew as a story about transmigration and the journey of the soul. pin.it/4nydsd4hL 000
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Done with this. Probably as relevant as ever given the questions being asked. They come up all the time in Phil. Rel., whether academic or amateur. 010
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 25/12/2024night in day thomas blackshear www.pinterest.com/pin/18929260... 0171
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 14/12/2024E.T. Prop. 1-6, but articulated by Plotinus. I've read this twice and I'm stressed lol. Stressed in a good way. Plotinus' essays are seriously dense. 000
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024The "UFO" people will seize on this if they found out lmfao 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I generally do not know how this is possible in today's understanding of physics. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I also wonder why substantial finitude must translate to spatial finitude. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Present not qua hyparxis, but present qua activity. One wonders how this "presence" is not just the very existence of that environment qua some aspect of existence. Aquinas famously denies God creating through the Angels. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024This is the "aeviternity" Wolfgang Smith talks about. I sometimes wonder if this applies to infra-intellective hypercosmic souls. This might also just be "mythical" time. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I think this makes a lot more sense of what @epbutler.bsky.social says about even the highest Gods being immediately present here even qua activity. If this is some of the fruit of engagement with the Neoplatonists, Aquinas is a very attentive reader. 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I'm very shocked. This is Aquinas' parallel to Proclus' Proposition 177 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Aquinas deftly makes intellect and will accidental to Angelic essences because if they were essential to Angelic substances, they'd be "Infinite", "unique and divine". A key difference with respect to the Henads. 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Is he riding on the fact if cause and effect were equal, the chain of causes won't end, and yet it does end, hence by reductio, cause is superior to effect? That's the best I can make of the argument. This part in particular is kicking my ass. 000
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This argument stresses me. He's clearly setting up the entirety of what comes next. Without this, all else is naught. But the argument against a cause producing its equal does not seem complete. Something seems missing. 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 24/11/2024See the strange distinction he makes that can make it seem like double talk if one didn't have the Platonic Theology where he mentions the Henads being "connascent" with Unity itself. The henads don't have unity "by participation", and yet the henads are the "first participant" of Unity. 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Proclus can be incredibly confusing sometimes though. He seems to lump the Henads with Beings here, but then distinguishes them in Prop. 6 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Put these two together and you can already see the Henads. The unity of the manifold in Prop. 2 is "due to a 'one' which has entered into them" 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 24/11/2024One wonders what to think of Proclus' argument in light of cantorian infinities. It is certainly true that everything in some way participates unity, but is it true that such a unity cannot be considered an "infinity of infinities"? 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I played this song so much it's become an anthem of my melancholy. 000
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024If you haven't played this yet, here's your prompt ❤️ 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Seems like @philoantonio.bsky.social was really spot on in his recommendation: "God is what is in itself and is understood only from itself; what is finite, however, is necessarily in another and can only be understood from this other." - Schelling, describing Spinoza's God in his Freedom Essay 141
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 10/11/2024@philoantonio.bsky.social do you still hold to this? I forgot about it, but reading it again it makes me wonder how such a God (is it a God?) might be "evil". Maybe less in our sense of evil and more of a providential sense of a "destroyer"? (a la Kali?) 110
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Proclus wouldn't agree with this formulation as he tries to argue, but I always like to read Steinhart's adoption of this weird polytheism. 100
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 03/11/2024This is the best thing Marvel has released so far this year. 010
Timileyin @timmodryoid.bsky.social · 19/10/2024An Ontology of Ògún - He Who Goes Forth Where Other Gods Have Turned A Short Platonic Appraisal symmetria.substack.com/p/he-who-goe... 020
