Alpha and Omega are actually very close
A girl goes into casual sex looking for a relationship?
When boys and girls fight, girls win.
Women’s natural role
My depiction of a healthy relationship
Relationships as a business
Be yourself. Do what matters.
No, women can’t live without men
8) I don’t think it’s right to say that we’ve been incessantly striving for 10,000 years. The gospel of progress is a hallmark of modernity and once accepted there is a tendency to see the whole past through the lens of “progress” as if all that came before was merely preparation for … us. It’s a kind of self-congratulation, really. From Homer’s time to the Antonines, for instance, there was by the standards of today negligible technological progress. And then regress after that. But the key point here is that technological progress is not necessarily simply good for man, for the soul. Hence not all progress is truly progress.
9) I think there is a soul and the ancients proved this as well as it can possibly be proven without recourse to faith (and I am definitely not disparaging recourse to faith). The worst aspect of modernity is its denigration and the forgetting of the soul. It is not an accident that in Machiavelli’s major works he does not use the word even once. It is the soul that must be recovered, or to say better the idea of the soul, since the thing in itself has not gone away, we’ve just forgotten about it and lived our lives as if it didn’t exist, but it does.
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Virtus says:
June 19, 2013 at 8:26 pm
I lived in Brazil for a while…
@HanSolo: Do you read and understand well in Portuguese? I have some material in Brazilian Portuguese language which might be helpful to you.
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Virtus says:
June 19, 2013 at 8:33 pm
A girl goes into casual sex looking for a relationship?
When boys and girls fight, girls win.
Women’s natural role
My depiction of a healthy relationship
Relationships as a business
Be yourself. Do what matters.
No, women can’t live without men
8) I don’t think it’s right to say that we’ve been incessantly striving for 10,000 years. The gospel of progress is a hallmark of modernity and once accepted there is a tendency to see the whole past through the lens of “progress” as if all that came before was merely preparation for … us. It’s a kind of self-congratulation, really. From Homer’s time to the Antonines, for instance, there was by the standards of today negligible technological progress. And then regress after that. But the key point here is that technological progress is not necessarily simply good for man, for the soul. Hence not all progress is truly progress.
9) I think there is a soul and the ancients proved this as well as it can possibly be proven without recourse to faith (and I am definitely not disparaging recourse to faith). The worst aspect of modernity is its denigration and the forgetting of the soul. It is not an accident that in Machiavelli’s major works he does not use the word even once. It is the soul that must be recovered, or to say better the idea of the soul, since the thing in itself has not gone away, we’ve just forgotten about it and lived our lives as if it didn’t exist, but it does.
122
Virtus says:
June 19, 2013 at 8:26 pm
I lived in Brazil for a while…
@HanSolo: Do you read and understand well in Portuguese? I have some material in Brazilian Portuguese language which might be helpful to you.
123
Virtus says:
June 19, 2013 at 8:33 pm