I’m reading De Divisione Naturae by John Scotus Eriugena, an 8th century Irish monk. Mad bastard. He’s trying to prove that we live in a type of videogame programmed by God, and there’s no possible way to understand or visualise whatever reality God lives in.
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What I do know is his face used to get me 2 cans (sucked through a hole made with the back of your earring!)A ticket into the disco and enough to buy a bag of chips on the way home 😁
"Here lies Hincmar, crook.
But savage deeds aside,
He did one truly noble thing: he died."
I feel the right one ended up on the fiver. A token of the globalist, neoliberal capitalism we were easing our way into.
I think we levelled up when this happened. God has a sense humour.
https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost09/Eriugena/eri_intr.html
Outrageously, he speaks with a French accent.
(It's weird how little Ireland features in the show given it was filmed in Wicklow, and Ireland was pretty important in their world).
It's great. Will melt your head, but very satisfying once you get it.
Made by the same fella who made hyperbolica.
We aren't gods and we often create worlds governed by rules unlike our own.
Why would it be like us? 🙃
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00001-00030/7
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/publication/1233213/manual
Talks about his time at the court of Charles the Bald, the Carolingian Emperor.