Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil to most English-speaking places, was an ancient Roman poet and author who lived in the time of Augustus. Three of the most famous Latin poems were composed by him: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic the Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in a work known as teh Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but nowadays many scholars doubt it.
Rome has traditionally been considered Rome's greatest poet, with his Aeneid being called the greatest Latin poem and a national epic (which I disagree with because it's way too derivative of the Odyssey, but whatever.)
The works of Virgil have had a wide influence in Western literature, most notably in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, in which he appears to guide Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
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Wrote this one up real quick, hope that's okay! :stalin-approval:
Also consider this an unofficial sequel to my Dante megathread, lol
Doing alright I guess, better than yesterday, which was better than the day before, and so on
I have been blocking every single account that promotes a tweet, and the more I block, the more twitter shows me promoted tweets but I know one day that I will win, I will conquer the capital owners on this one, for there is only a finite amount of brands and my tendency to not log off is infinite
I managed to beat the youtube algorithm into submission so well it almost only shows me things I'm actually interested in including lots of good lefty content, that's how I found Vicki1999 for example.
Bruh same, I had it down specifically only to show me video game video essays, but then I fucked it up by listening to a couple podcast episodes and now I’ve given up
Mash that not interested button. That's actually how I woke up to a chapo clip one morning on autoplay, and then being on reddit part of why I found the sub.
I was watching breadtube shit before it had become widely known as breadtube trying to understand the resurgent far right movement after the whole gamergate shitshow and one night I decided to go all Stalin on my recommendations. I had been in to video games and a lot of new atheist shit which had (unsurprisingly in hindsight) filled my recommendations with fash shit.
We must hone our rhetorical edge on shitposting and struggle sessions. We must sharpen ourselves endlessly in pursuit of the final shape.
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Hey, I love all my :og-hex-bear: comrades. Life's hard and I know you're all doing the best you can. Keep it up!
I'm feeling really rudderless lately. Can't work, no friends I can see, nothing to do most days except play Destiny and rot.
No friends. ✔️ Can't work. ✔️ Rudderless. ✔️ Rotting. ✔️ Me too. I'm really really scared about where things are headed for me. You too?
It comes and goes in waves. I'm disabled, but I've got enough money to live for a while at least. And I go back and forth between existential horror, defeated ambivalence, and playing hundreds of hours of Destiny. When the games don't work as a distraction is the worst. Nothing to think about and too much mind to think.
You're right, it definitely comes in waves for me too. Things can feel almost optimistic for short-lived crests even, but man those troughs, like you said, of defeat and horror, they feel like they last fucking forever. My condolences about your disability. I'm currently applying for SSI, but I still feel like I don't deserve it since it's a personality disorder and PTSD. My physical problems aren't bad enough yet to prevent me from working. I play games too, open world and puzzles here and there but I always feel guilty for doing so. Keep telling myself I need to either be creative or help people somehow, not sit and checkout for hours every day. But I tell myself I'll do what I should do as soon as I get in a better emotional space. But that never comes and I know it never will, so I realize I'm just fooling myself. But I also hear you about when the distractions don't work... and you're just stuck with your own iniquities and all those regrets and... yeah, I'm just talking about myself here, I don't know how it is for you. Sorry.
You know, I'm trying to express solidarity and just share some common ground, similar shitty experience, etc. But I re-read it and it just sounds like I'm ranting about my own shit. So I don't know. I feel for you, comrade. And I hope things start getting better for you. I'll just stfu beyond that. Fwiw, I really enjoy your insightful posts/comments. Thanks.
We should build a society where people aren't told "You have to work or you're worthless and deserve to starve" but also "You have to manage everything individually and we will not aid you in any way".
Margaret Mead, one of the great Anthropologists, used to tell a story about a broken bone. A femur. They found the skeleton of an ancient person from 15,000 years ago who broke their femur very badly, but it had healed and they lived for many many years afterwards.
In nature, if a creature breaks it's femur, it dies. It's almost an immutable law. If you break your femur badly then you can't walk. If you can't walk you can't get to food, and more importantly you can't get to water, so you die very quickly.
But this ancient person survived. They survived for the months the break would need to heal, and then for many years after that. The only way that's possible is if other people helped them. 15,000 years ago people who were likely nomadic or semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers said "We're going to transport, feed, and protect this person for months and months because they can't transport, feed, and protect themselves right now". Dr. Mead says that she views that broken bone as the beginning of human civilization. The act of kindness and compassion, to take care of someone, knowing they could still die, knowing they won't be able to contribute to some meager notion of survival that counts every calorie.
It hasn't always been like this, where people who have difficulty are simply abandoned. It doesn't need to be like this. We didn't do anything to deserve misery and neglect. Playing games, solving puzzles, we're trying to keep our minds engaged and occupied in a situation where we've been largely abandoned by society because we can't labor to eek out another penny of profit for some capitalist monster far away.
And it hurts to be excluded from work. Even if work is horrible, it's the only social outlet most people have. it's the only engaging activity most people have. doubly so if you have mental health problems that make other social outlets more difficult.
Idk, I'm rambling now. But it doesn't have to be this way. It can be better.
That feeling of drowning in time contrasted with the masculine urge not to pull anyone down with you.
I kinda like how this site goes through weird posting phases, like with this AI art thing or when we were a Shrek fansite for a day
I go to sleep for 4 hours and suddenly the roommates have fucked up the plumbing???
When I ask one of them what the hell happened, they tell me "oh this is why I went to use a shower last night at my parents -- they (our other roommate) showered this morning and stuff started coming up my shower"
When I ask why the fuck they didn't call a plumber earlier or give anyone a heads up-- if they've apparently known about it since at least yesterday, given the fact that they just said that was why they went to shower at their parents last night??? :shrug-outta-hecks:
holy fuck i'm going to murder one of them
This overlong rambling video that looks kinda pretty was dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.
Would you mind explaining it (and probably ruining it - sorry) for any other dolts like me who don't get it?
Thank you! Yes, I know who the Contras were, and I know who Contrapoints is, I just wasn't making the connection. I was assuming Contrapoints had made another dumb tweet or something. Smh.
i hate subscription for software.
immersed is probably my favorite productivty app for vr but ill be fucked before i pay 15 bucks a month
I do not care comrades. I will never stop using paragraph long run on sentences to express myself. I will not.
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