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Cake day: February 19th, 2025

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  • I’m assuming by “minister” you are referring to some manner or Protestantism. That would make sense - the Protestant Reform was fairly recent compared to the Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysus, and happened after the printing press and during the Renaissance. People were much more disposed to leave behind that sort of mythological baggage when starting their new religion.

    It’s pretty wild shit, honestly. Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno are both theological classics and they honestly read like high fantasy works at times.


  • I think that’s like, Thomas Aquinas level stuff and older. I think Aquinas systematized the beliefs, but they originated earlier with Pseudo-Dionysus and others.

    That means it’s old school Catholic. But like, really old school, like 5th century Early Church stuff, hundred of years before the Great Schism. Seems likely that the ideas maybe were borrowed or influenced from even older religious ideas, but that’s just speculation on my part.






  • I don’t celebrate Christmas. Neither as a religious holiday nor a secular holiday.

    Honestly, I don’t know how you people do it. Aside from the social aspect which would kill me, how do you all just have hundreds of extra dollars every year to buy stuff for people, like… regardless if they need or want something? It baffles me, to be honest. The whole culture for 1/4 of the year in this country just baffles me.