Age of Enlightenment Puns

Other than Gladiator, Spartacus, Kingdom of Heaven, Barry Lyndon, Amadeus, Elizabeth...

I was gonna ask literature, but they seem a bit to serious.

I don't care for the history of literature, my teacher allowed me to make the essay about edgelords, like how Dante yeets to hell, Hamlet speaks with dead people, Faust makes a deal with the devil etc.

I can't think of any edgelords from the age of enlightenment, can you? I'm specifically talking about a fictional character.

Someone from another thread wondered about the possibility of BSV reaching prices of $1 and $1000. He correctly realized that even prices as low as $100 are unrealistic, because he knows that there are a lot of very rich people in the world. This premise however does assume a-prioi that Bitcoin is fundamentally valuable. Which is of course correct, but the error in his logic occurs when he suggests that levels of $1000 are UNrealistic, because there wouldn't be enough demand from speculators to support that price level.

Speculative value is one thing, utility value is another. Market speculation can drive the price very high in a short amount of time, but like he said, there is not enough speculative demand for that price to be stable. If however, BSV reaches $1000 through demand for it's utility (i.e. people are buying it to use it) there is potentially unbounded demand! If you need to buy bitcoin to use awesome technologies that are built on top of it, there is an ongoing and continuously replenishing demand for bitcoin. Bitcoin has MASSIVE potential utility that has yet to be realized!

In free market economics, speculation is a price finding mechanism. If prices are not pegged to something, or set by central authorities, then the market needs to work out what the price should be. Speculators probe the maximum and the minimum price range that any market traded good can be exchanged for. The price goes up and it reveals the amount of demand that emerges at particular price points, and then these levels become support and resistance. Similarly to the downside, the price gets sold to outrageously oversold levels by speculators, to see where the support levels exist. Then they trade within these ranges.

Volume is key. Like the OP of the thread in question said, Bitcoin couldn't realistically be sold to levels where a small amount of speculators would realize the profit opportunity outweighs the risk. So $5 BSV is impossible because enough volume would emerge well before then that it would never be able to actually reach that price point. The same is true in the opposite when it comes to ridiculous valuations like $1,000,000. Yes, price COULD theoretically reach this level over a short period of time, but no volume would exist because speculators would immediately see the opportunity to sell and rebuy much lower. But UTILITY value is far more powerful tha

I'm trying to understand how evolving perspectives on knowledge influenced the shift from one era to another.

Is it safe to say that modernism was a move from rationalism to empiricism?

In context of art, it was rejection of traditional elements of art and downplaying importance of the intellect while emphasizing sense experience and freedom of expression. Art is often on the verge of absurd like in the case of dada, surrealism, expressionism etc.

In context of philosophy, it was rejection of rationalist and idealist tradition and skeptical attitudes towards reason and emphasizing empirical verification instead as in the case of logical positivism.

I’m writing an essay on Blake and having some problems understanding, would love to talk to some people that understand his mythology/philosophy

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)

> Baba Ram Dass, who epitomized the 1960s of legend by popularizing psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary, a fellow Harvard academic, before finding spiritual inspiration in India, died on Sunday at his home on Maui.

> Having returned from India as a bushy-bearded, barefoot, white-robed guru, Ram Dass became a peripatetic lecturer on New Age possibilities and a popular author of more than a dozen inspirational books.

> Over the years, Ram Dass had alternately been Mr. Leary's disciple, enemy and, at the end, friend.

> In a film clip of the two men preparing for Mr. Leary's death, Ram Dass turns to Leary, hugs him and says, "It's been a hell of a dance, hasn't it?".

> Ram Dass gave Maharajji some LSD, but it had no effect.

> In 1968, Maharajji told Ram Dass to return to the United States.

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Chapter Six - The Age of Enlightenment

Inner conflict

During the election campaigns of 2008, one concept particularly caught my attention. The subject of marriage and family values stirred up much controversy in the state of California, in the form of “Proposition 8.” People in the state seemed not only divided along political lines, but among religious beliefs as well. Several faith-based groups embedded themselves in the campaign, through activism.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints played one of the most visible roles in the battle. Thousands of church members throughout the western United States donated their time and money to recruit for the cause of preserving the sanctity of marriage.

Same-sex couples and their protagonists had long sought an equal footing with their heterosexual counterparts. By fall 2008, a handful of states had already passed bills acknowledging marriage or unions of gay and lesbian couples. A few communities in California – San Francisco, most notably – had already practiced performing weddings for homosexual partners. Now the people of California were attempting to set the record straight (no pun intended) for the entire state. Would everyone be allowed the same rights and privileges, or would traditional family unions prevail?

As Election Day drew closer, I wrote the following essay of my opinions on the subject, and sent to my family and friends:

Thoughts on Politics, Religion, and Proposition 8 (October 2008)

"I have always been the type that’s not afraid to voice my opinion on matters important to me. I typically don’t make a habit of sugar-coating my speech just for the sake of sparing others’ feelings, often to my own detriment. One thing I don’t often do is make political declarations one way or another. I do not affiliate myself with any political party, nor do I ever intend to at any point in the future. I prefer to keep an independent, open minded view, and try to avoid the biases of either side of the aisle.

"With that said, and with the elections now less than a week away, I’ve found a topic which has not only stirred up a great deal of controversy, but has stirred up a great deal of conflict within my own personal value and belief system.

"Many of you may be

The Age of Reason could just as easily be called the Age of Revolution: the scientific revolution, the American revolution, the French revolution, the Industrial Revolution; there were revolutions in thought, politics, and religion; and more cultural and societal changes that took place between 1600 and 1850 than at any other time in history.

The relevant point which I'll focus on is its impact on biblical criticism.

• In the middle ages, the authority of the Bible was unquestioned, then in the Age of Reason, biblical criticism began. The modern view of the Bible has had to adapt accordingly.

Aristotle’s cosmology had been the accepted cosmology for 2000 years when the scientific revolution that overturned his model began. Even when many of his writings were lost to the West, it was still the accepted view of how the cosmos worked: the earth is at the center of the universe.

Once Copernicus and Galileo demonstrated that the sun is the center of our universe, it changed our understanding of everything. Because Aristotle and other ancient thinkers were shown to be in error on some key points—like where the sun is—scholars of the enlightenment age were inclined to question all other beliefs received from the past.

This led to an upsurge in skepticism. By the end of the age, nearly everything in Western culture was being subjected to systematic doubt—including the Bible. The new “scientific method” and skepticism began to be applied to the Bible itself and to the historical Jesus and historical biblical criticism began.

The first form of biblical criticism was source criticism which is the search for the original sources. Its most famous product is Julius Wellhausen’s Prologue to the History of Israel, written in 1878.

Wellhausen correlated the history and development of the Bible’s first five books, known as the Pentateuch, with the development of the Jewish faith and formed the Documentary hypothesis, also known as the JEDP theory, or the Wellhausen theory. Basically, this theory says the Pentateuch was not written by Moses, but instead evolved over time.

For a while, it seemed this had thoroughly undermined the validity and dependability of the Pentateuch—but by the end of the 1970s and into the 1990s, "[one major study after another, like a series of hammer blows, ... rejected the main claims of the Documentary theory, and the criteria on ... which those claims are grounded](https://en.wikipedia.o

Dear Historian's how much did the Mongols shape the world as we know it.

To my understanding the world before the Mongols invasions had 3 most advanced human civilization/regions where Persia, India and China. With European technology, science and culture lagging behind.

Now one could argue that only by the invasion and destruction of these regions the Europeans had time to catch up and shape the world as we know it today.

I am thinking about the book burning of Baghdad or the weekend Hindu Indians paving the way for a Muslim takeover in modernday Pakistan/north India. But also about the defeat of the Georgian army, from which the region never really recovered (in terms of world influence).

What is your much more profound opinion of the more long-term holistic impact of the Mongol invasion? Do I miss some important points? Where the Europeans actually behind or is that my misconception.

Please enlighten me and everybody interested.

We were inspired by Civilization's age progression and wanted to bring something similar to Rust.

We created a server configuration that restricts blueprint spawns, item spawns and crafting to certain items specific to that age. The Stone Age, Bronze Age, Enlightenment Age, Industrial Age, and Modernity are all working "ages" that provide their own unique gameplay. The server progresses to the next age every 3-4 days until Modernity. At the end of Modernity we wipe and restart the progression.

Take a look at this graphic for the progression details: http://imgur.com/krpHwVZ

Let me know what you guys think and check my post history if you want to hop on our server.

EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback. This is exactly what I needed. When you have to lump 50-100 items into different categories, you can lose track of whats important for balance. I'll be taking your suggestions and looking at the item distribution this week before the forced map wipe.

A note on raiding: You will still be able to tool raid against wood doors in the Stone Age, and in the Bronze Age, you have to find the key :) The Enlightenment Age is really the only age where raiding will be very difficult, as you'll be forced to tool through walls.

Helicopters drop rockets/explosives during any age. If you are skilled enough to take one down early, so be it!

Things are beginning to die down from Generic CONference, so I figured I'd resume my story.

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Chapter Six - The Age of Enlightenment

Brand New Life: No Problem… continued

When the Stake President delayed my temple approval, this setback was the final straw that broke Sue’s desire to ever receive covenants in a Mormon Temple. She shared with me two prior experiences on the subject that had turned her off to the concept of Temple worship. In her first year of college, Sue mentioned to a bishop her desire to obtain a recommend and receive her endowment. This church official informed her that she would not be permitted a recommend, unless she was actively preparing for missionary service or marriage.

About three years later, she approached another bishop, with the same desire to enter the Temple. Again, the bishop gave her the same routine about mission or marriage. Unfortunately for Sue, in the years that elapsed from her previous encounter, she had developed a health condition which prevented her from church missionary service. Unless marriage loomed on the near horizon, under no circumstances would the church allow Sue to receive a recommend.

“But I’m worthy and ready, and I feel like this is the right thing for me to do now,” Sue pleaded with her bishop.

“I know you are, but I’m sorry, that’s just the way it is.”

The cold reply from this supposed man of God brought no consolation to a young lady striving in all ways to make her life conform to the will of the Lord. To Sue, this man had no right to tell her she couldn’t partake in all the church had to offer. Apparently in Mormonism, being of age and completely worthy still isn’t enough. There’s always something more that must be done, and no matter how many steps you take, that carrot remains dangling from the stick just out of reach.

After my experience with the stake president, Sue decided she had enough of ever trying to make it inside a Temple. If we wanted to get married, a civil ceremony would have to suffice.

Frankly speaking, that prospect didn’t bother me in the slightest. For one, I had plenty of family and friends who, if they desired to attend my wedding, would not be admitted into a Temple anyway. Two, I was never particularly blown away by any of the

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Chapter Six - The Age of Enlightenment

Further Light and Knowledge

Following election season, in November 2008, I decided I would seek out other subjects that interested me, research and write about them, as well. With my new found freedom to question anything and everything, I wanted to learn about those ideas and doctrines that always struck me as curious or suspicious.

As the winter holidays approached, I thought I might tackle the subject of Christmas. The traditions surrounding the birth of Christ had always been an enigma to me. Why do we set up an evergreen tree in our house, and then string lights around it each year? What’s up with Santa Claus and the flying reindeer? How did the writers of the New Testament gospels know the story of Jesus’ birth if they weren’t around when it happened?

I wanted to go back in time and discover the origins of some of the customs that baffled me. This project turned out to be much longer than I had originally anticipated; therefore, I broke it down into seven different subjects. Some of the sections discussed Santa, Christmas trees, Carols, and other traditions. I wrote the series of essays over a five-week period, starting a week or two before Thanksgiving Day, and concluding a few days before Christmas Eve. The following is an excerpt of the two sections that were specifically centered on the religious aspects of the holiday.

(content removed for purposes of telling my story on this site. The essays are rather lengthy, and don’t really move the story along. If anyone is interested in my Christmas Unwrapped articles, send a message, and I’ll be happy to email them to you.)

For the first time, I had doubts in my mind whether the Bible was really “the word of God.” How could the authors of the gospels confuse historic events by more than ten years? Wouldn’t the reign of certain kings and political leaders still have been fresh in the minds of the people of that country? It would have been as if I had written the story of my mother’s life, describing her birth as having happened during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, but that it occurred after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The only logical conclusion I could make from this dilemma was that whoever wrote the gosp

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Continued

Are portions of the Bible human inventions, or is the whole thing made up, altogether?

By late February, my wife and I made regular weekend visits to various bookstores within our vicinity. Sue looked for gifts for friends and family, and any inspirational works that might aid her own writing projects. Meanwhile, I needed more information to clear up my confusion and doubt over the Bible. I spent most of my time in the religion section.

One large volume caught my attention and sparked a personal interest on three different levels. The Atlas of World Religions allowed me to study maps of various regions of the earth, learn more about major events in world history, and understand the origins of religious texts. As I flipped through the pages, I encountered the following curious passage about something known as the Epic of Gilgamesh:

“The epic tells the story of Gilgamesh, a harsh but intrepid king, one part human and two parts god, as he fights monsters and seeks for the tree of life. The epic includes a narrative of a catastrophic flood that destroyed the city of Shurippak, on the bank of the Euphrates. Only Utnapashtim, warned by the (water) god Ea, survives the flood, after building a great vessel to carry “the seed of all living things,” Utnapashtim’s kinfolk, and chosen craftsmen, as well as animals, wild and domesticated.”

At first glance, I noticed some striking similarities to stories in the book of Genesis. The tree of life can be found in the Garden of Eden tale of Adam and Eve. Then, just a handful of chapters later, God is seen warning Noah of an impending flood, for which a vessel must be built to save a chosen selection of living things of the world.

I wondered if there was some connection between these two texts. Perhaps Gilgamesh simply borrowed from Genesis to create a tale for his own people. My next quest would be to learn of the origins of these stories, and eventually the foundation of religious beliefs that grew out of such stories.

Over the next two months I searched for books, internet websites, and any source of information I could find that would help me learn more about religion and the scriptures. In our regular book store excursions, and

I am someone who has been forced into the government sector, although I'm a child of the actually-free market, or plain "the only actual market there is", who has no respect for government-as-existing bcz the only reason that a government ever exists is bcz its people are unable to compete and thus can't survive on an actual market, as can be so clearly observed amongst all people of government, all their children and all the people they govern, bcz any system in which the employees are forced to abide by the decisions and personal opinions of millions or billions of voters, who are much less educated and qualified for everything than the employees but still consider themselves allowed to boss the employees around, will always send every last hard-working, competent individual running like the wind and never looking back, for reasons that should be perfectly clear to everyone.

Why is it the case that every country that opted for democracy always ends up poor, overpopulated, ill and living in a Nazi-Islamist caste-system, drowning in filth, violence and rape, in a chronically uneducated, social-worker absolute welfare dump? - Because democracy is the already-poor man's governance of choice. At the time of robbing the net producers of everything that they have worked for, paid for and earned, the masses were already poor and overpopulated bcz they don't prioritize production, but instead they are the consumer civilization.

E.g. has the Nazi-Islamist dump (the Western World) that I'm currently stuck on only recently reached the scientific revolution or the age of enlightenment. Just like the pattern exhibited by the people who went through it in the 1700's, they are amazed and baffled by the utter self-assessed brilliance of themselves and violently demand that there is no right or wrong in science and are adamant that theirs is the one, true knowledge-intensive civilization, although they're not reaching any solid conclusions about anything while being increasingly weighed down by the exploding number of their own ill and poor, and their science is severely and dangerously inaccurate and flawed, and they spend endless amounts of income and tax-money that they don't produce or actually-have on one project after another that doesn't lead to anything of value, as though they were in lifelong high school, at the expense of us peoples who had to pay out of our own pockets for our own scientific revolution and thus were forced to get it right/produce or go under