Posts by neofugue@annihilation.social
(DIR) Post #AuQSJuiHIRE0Ob1hnk by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-05-24T17:20:14.508915Z
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@plotinus_enjoyer On the subject of simplicity, and in particular the Western Thomistic view of absolute divine simplicity:In response to the analogy comparing God’s simplicity to the inseparability of a circle’s radius and circumference, this analogy falls short when applied to divine simplicity. God’s simplicity is not analogous to physical or geometric simplicity, rather Orthodox tradition upholds that God is simple in essence but reveals Himself through uncreated energies which are distinct yet not separate from His essence, allowing for real communion with God without compromising His transcendence. The problem with ADS is that it conflates God’s essence with His actions and attributes, resulting in a form of modalism (God creating the world is not synonymous with the Divine Essence, as it would mean God is eternally creating the world). Regarding Dionysius the Areopagite, while Dionysius emphasizes God’s simplicity, he also acknowledges the multiplicity of divine names and energies, which supports the idea that God’s essence remains transcendent and unknowable while His energies are the means by which He manifests.Within the Orthodox framework, the divine logoi (forms) are understood as uncreated energies that exist within the divine mind—this aligns with the Eastern Fathers who saw the logoi as the principles through which God creates and sustains the world, allowing for a participatory relationship between the Creator and Creation.Side note unrelated to what @plotinus_enjoyer mentioned, “uniformitarianism” is not one of the logoi, so all unjustified sciences can be rejected a priori of their false claims.You were partially correct in sensing that Dyer sees the Platonic forms as having a participatory relationship with a higher essence—but in Dyer’s reading (following St. Maximos), the forms exist within the divine Logos—Plato approximated the Orthodox understanding albeit lacking full revelation. Dyer’s interpretation of Plato points towards a metaphysical Logos that finds its fulfillment in Orthodox Christian theology, not that he endorses autonomous philosophical systems. Plato anticipates elements of the Logos—that the logoi are not abstracted impersonal principles but are rooted in a higher unifying reality akin to the Logos of St. John and the Cappadocians.To say Dyer is a secular coherentist is a category error as he rejects the autonomy of human reason, the Enlightenment project—the false idea that man's gifts are independent of God's beneficence. Plato gestures towards an intelligible world structured by logoi but lacks the full light of revelation, which the Orthodox Church uniquely preserves through the essence-energies distinction. Plato approximates a participatory metaphysic where the many are rooted in the One, alter fulfilled in Christ the Logos. The Orthodox reading of the logoi with the divine energies preserves divine simplicity without collapsing God’s will and essence into indistinct identity as we see in the West.Regarding Plato’s sun metaphor from the Republic Book VI, the “absence” of the One from the divided line is deliberate, showing its radical transcendence—something that Orthodox theology preserves by distinguishing between the the One or Good and in this case truth, beauty, justice et cetera. Thus Plato’s Good prefigures the Orthodox doctrine that we partake in God without ever comprehending the divine essence.RT: https://poa.st/objects/d970294b-0f8d-40ab-8406-35b398817743
(DIR) Post #AuQUf0f8ZVyipwkDrc by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-05-24T17:46:28.582419Z
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@Starprophet If you can handle the griefer swarm, block him if you wish. Remember that Fedi has the memory of a goldfish so as long as your opponent isn't the Admin or a Moderator it should be fine.Calumny is a sin, so he cannot claim moral superiority.
(DIR) Post #AuVUWVTcs8kvgnlSzo by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-05-27T03:38:29.833248Z
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@plotinus_enjoyer To reduce divine simplicity to mere inseparability would be insufficient as reducing divine personhood to function, but Thomist actus purus is not what Orthodoxy teaches. Orthodoxy teaches simplicity without confusion or fusion, without collapsing distinctions, that protects apophaticism and personal communion.We uphold divine simplicity; God has no composition or created parts, but we reject the Thomist model that all divine attributes are identified with the essence. Real distinctions between the divine energies are necessary for coherent theology, liturgical worship, and the theophanies in Scripture.Western models confuse metaphysical simplicity with metaphysical identity, collapsing God's acts into the divine essence. Regarding Dionysius, and later Maximos and Palamas, these names are not merely conceptual descriptions but real manifestations—energies—of God. These are uncreated and truly God, yet distinct from the essence which remains absolutely unknowable.The names do not refer to the exact same content because that would collapse God's love, justice, power, et cetera, into a monadic simplicity devoid of actual distinctions—which ironically enough—this is rooted in Neoplatonism, not Orthodox theosis, where the divine names are merely conceptual "aspects" of the essence, reducing the names to mental constructs rather than affirming them as real divine activities.To put this into layman's terms, God's divine providence and love are not identical to God's wrath and judgment, God's eternal nature is not identical to His act of creation (the former example distinct uncreated energies, in the latter example His will is an uncreated energy).RT: https://poa.st/objects/928a00c0-55c4-4fe7-8f0b-7100005b6235
(DIR) Post #AuXBdIgvIUU5FYQjAm by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-05-27T23:16:15.827475Z
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@plotinus_enjoyer Your concern for safeguarding divine unity is fine, but the problem is assuming simplicity means every divine name must refer to one indivisible act or content. Assuming a Thomistic definition of simplicity, that “all God’s attributes are really identical,” and then restating it as if we somehow agree on this definition, is the problem, because that is precisely what Palamas, the Cappadocians Fathers and Dionysius rejected—it is Neoplatonic fatalism dressed in Latin terminology.Regarding Dionysius and the Cappadocians, in DN 1.6-1.9 he refers to the divine names as the divine processions, not the essence itself, unified in their source, plural in manifestation. Translations of the Cappadocians into English vary by the perspective of the translator, but the word used by the Fathers is “energeia.” Other translations from a non-Orthodox standpoint generally use the word “operations” to uphold Thomism.Barlaam’s error is separating creation from God by reducing divine action to created effects, whereas the Fathers taught that God is really present in His energies without the essence undergoing division or change. If you collapse everything into the essence, you remove real communion and turn God into a static monad. Names like “merciful,” “just,” and “creator” describe not simply concepts of the essence but real uncreated energies, ways in which God is present and acts in the world without compromising His transcendent essence. Barlaam’s mistake is him separating creation from God because he reduced divine action to create effects while the Fathers taught that God is really present in His energies without the essence undergoing division or change.RT: https://poa.st/objects/c97a6d45-9247-43ea-9729-4237e5bf5ab2
(DIR) Post #AuoCOv5P8F1zcB5miG by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-06-05T04:14:55.808387Z
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@KingOfWhiteAmerica Brief extreme oversimplification of the Absolute Divine Simplicity (ADS) debate for laymen without basic knowledge of theology in terms as simple as I can make them (with some academic terms):Catholicism goes with Aristotle, Orthodoxy goes with Plato.With Western Christianity, God created the natural world with matter as fundamental (academic term is hylomorphic dualism). In Eastern Christianity, God sustains the universe through his energies with information or consciousness as fundamental (academic term is panentheism). In other words, in Western Christianity, the material world is fundamental, whereas in Eastern Christianity, the world operates more as God’s quantum computer.If ADS is true, then Western Christianity’s position of matter being fundamental is true, and Orthodoxy is false. If ADS is false, then Orthodoxy’s position of consciousness being fundamental is true, and Western Christianity is false.If matter is fundamental, and thus matter has fundamental rules, Christianity is proven false by modern science (academic term is Uniformitarian Science). If consciousness is fundamental, and thus matter can be altered through changing information, most models of Uniformitarian Science can be rejected as scientific myths.So, is it possible to view the universe as in fact a quantum computer?To answer this question, it all depends on pulling away the film before the photons hit the wall.And what do you know!https:// youtube .com/watch?v= 6xKUass7G8wThe referenced paper in question:https:// arxiv .org/pdf/quant-ph/9903047As an important and critical disclaimer, I am not saying that the information in the above video and experiments means that one must by necessity accept Christianity as a matter of fact against his willing. Instead, I am in fact saying is that by adopting the Orthodox model, it allows me to reject the entirety of Uniformitarian Science, which has been the basis for the destruction of Christianity since the Enlightenment.I cannot simplify the above any further.However, there is another important point that must be discussed—competing worldviews are not about whether or not they are “true,” they are about whether or not the claims they make and the system itself is “coherent” and resistant to outside systems. If an Orthodox Christian can look at Uniformitarian Science and spit on it in disgust the same way he spits on the Pagan idols, it is proof that the system works and can eventually be adopted as a complete unitary political and ideological system (academic term is weltanschauung). The destruction of Democracy on the basis of the Open Society and the implementation of Orthodox Christianity on the basis of Canon Law (Nomocanon) is the stated purpose of this account.RT: https://poa.st/objects/6d1979e2-f188-422d-81b7-9915ad46941c
(DIR) Post #AuxeiOR2mcVtHRvYYq by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-06-09T17:44:37.356839Z
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@KingOfWhiteAmerica Men make unprincipled exceptions to their thinking, but civilizations always end up down the slippery slope. I have always maintained that the slippery slope is and never was a fallacy if all modus ponens are correct (given X ∴ Y, Y ∴ Z, Z ∴ A, A ∴ B, if all true, X ∴ B). Thomism and later Roman Catholic/Protestant systems fail because all assume some form of Materialism which eventually leads down the slippery slope to atheism.Regarding politics, on one side, assuming all men are created equal, then women, then negroes, then homosexuals, then transvestites, and so on and so forth. Conversely, men such as William Luther Pierce and Revilo P. Oliver never gained traction despite their brilliance not only because of repression, but also because without accountability from God one’s only obligations are to himself and his immediate interests.Of all the people who I have debated with, I have known only one Roman Catholic who in fact understood the implications of my position on Uniformitarianism, let alone Modern Science and Panentheism, so these posts are mostly for like-minded travelers.My position has always been that any path to victory requires a restoration of true belief in God and a rejection of all other systems. Since Western theology and philosophy for the last millennia is poison, and since Orthodox theology and metaphysics provide a working alternative, Orthodoxy works as the only counter to the current regime despite its current position as of writing.RT: https://poa.st/objects/f4287df5-527d-408b-b6d2-b59ba365bf3c
(DIR) Post #AvGIb5h0xQYrxKTOE4 by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-06-18T17:36:18.286797Z
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Given Israel is losing its global prestige, legitimacy, and backing from its reluctant allies, the question arises as to why it continues to destabilize the Middle East instead of declaring victory and salvaging its tenuous position and dwindling support.This is because the leadership of Israel understands the main weakness of the Jewish state—that the Jews have no martial culture—and as such cannot maintain balance-of-power politics. If Israel does not maintain regional hegemony, that is, if Israel cannot divide all of its neighbors into insignificant petty states, Israel risks annihilation.In most countries, the conservative, religious rural population serves as the bedrock for military service, but in Israel, the conservative Ultra-Orthodox Haredim actively refuse to serve in the military, leaving the socially liberal and dwindling (low TFR) urban population to do most of the fighting. Because Israel cannot sustain heavy casualties in its wars, it is forced to rely on overwhelming air power and Western munitions for its regional conflicts—Israel cannot sustain the casualties required to take out Hamas’ tunnels, instead focusing on slaughtering as much of the civilian population as politically possible.As such, if Israel is ever forced to fight a regional conflict with peer adversary, Israel cannot survive a Rorke’s-Drift-type scenario, a possibility that becomes ever more likely as the United States continues to decline. Thus, the only hope Israel has of surviving is to use Orange Man to destroy Iran and divide it into several small petty states. If not, Iran can bide its time, wait for the United States to decline, wait for Israel’s urban progressive population to dwindle, and strike when the time is right.All of this is because the Jews understand they cannot compete with peer adversaries. Perhaps this should be taken into consideration regarding other matters...
(DIR) Post #AvOdCwn43cJXhJJLNY by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-06-22T18:04:56.485477Z
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What Could Go Wrong Iran.jpg
(DIR) Post #Avb94NwFuxJR5qufTs by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-06-28T18:58:28.988774Z
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@ChairmanO15 @neofugue @AuntNorma @Countermeasures @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @TrevorGoodchild I would pay good money to see some internal polling right now.
(DIR) Post #AvrmViFqz1AOQZoeGW by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-06T19:35:47.418762Z
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@StarProphet Elon needs to watch a movie:"Dr. Shylocklove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit"@Countermeasures He needs to understand the only two ways out of our debt are a) default by civil war or regime change (highly unlikely) or b) sustained ~10%-per-year inflation rate when the boomers have one foot in the grave (most likely).The only way Elon can get the swamp drained himself is if he decides to launch a million AI-powered drones and a couple hundred rods from god against DC and Northern Virginia.
(DIR) Post #AvrmkNe3tJduqt8JhQ by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-06T19:38:27.592125Z
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@StarProphet @Countermeasures Of course, not forgetting New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.
(DIR) Post #Aw1gNJdLz0RNbe1IAq by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-11T14:14:10.325995Z
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Do Nothing Win.webp
(DIR) Post #AwBvwsirEQhDOhiVIO by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-16T12:55:47.333578Z
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Latins Have Taken Over Greece.jpg
(DIR) Post #AwP5J5oGgAnp04OOOG by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-22T21:11:53.308942Z
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Miss
(DIR) Post #AwdcRf1Rvwnia8PldQ by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-07-29T21:29:09.717621Z
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Emperor Justinian Re-Entering the Palace
(DIR) Post #Awpg55OwLIsK5qVSzY by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-08-04T17:06:25.749010Z
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IQ Wojak
(DIR) Post #Awpg6qHxVB3Znl4vk8 by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-08-04T17:06:46.083394Z
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My 6 Frens
(DIR) Post #Ax6LDwTW6WVvfJLcHY by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-08-12T18:02:49.015945Z
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(DIR) Post #AxHHFZrUt89j26eDsO by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-08-18T00:40:07.286791Z
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@Dutch2Redux_Elecrtric_Boogaloo Most White Americans are mixed to some extent. My descendants are from England and Germany on both sides of my family; my father's side also has some Swiss descendants.The Irish, on the other hand, are a different group (Celts).That being said, point taken—Americans will require a different approach to achieve ultimate victory.
(DIR) Post #AxItuxd5Pt3Q2I1klE by neofugue@annihilation.social
2025-08-18T19:28:07.119650Z
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Thank you to amazing admins and mods for all of their work behind the scenes.I will be deactivating my account on Anni within the next 24 hours, but I will still be on Fedi at @neofugue@fsebugoutzone.org (FSE). I have enjoyed connecting with you all and hope to stay in touch on Fedi.