Drinking lots of whine makes you feel catholic

[Dreckssau]

I think my pet just drinks too much. A little less and he's the ee Aquinas.

[Altruist]

funny you say this considering i think aquinas is the only cuckolic-leaning "intellectual" i can at least half-appreciate

[Altruist]

inb4 retards who think einstein was religious in the same sense as their prokaryote asses quoting me

[Dreckssau]

funny you say this considering i think aquinas is the only cuckolic-leaning "intellectual" i can at least half-appreciate

What about Augustine?

[Honest]

cuckolic-leaning

bit of an understatement

[Altruist]

What about Augustine?

irrelevant

[RuudVanNistelrooy]

He should drink more beer to become a Benedictine monk.

[Altruist]

bit of an understatement

it would be unfair to hold his affiliation to christianity against him considering the era and place he lived in, so i meant it as a compliment. living when and where he lived and displaying that much detachment in his thought from the average baseline npc worldview is commendable

no matter how exceptional as an individual you are (intellectually, spiritually, you name it), you're still heavily bound by the environment you were born in. the other side of the same coin that newton's framing of his own  work as the antichrist's one is

[Ropium]

it would be unfair to hold his affiliation to christianity against him considering the era and place he lived in, so i meant it as a compliment. living when and where he lived and displaying that much detachment in his thought from the average baseline npc worldview is commendable

no matter how exceptional as an individual you are (intellectually, spiritually, you name it), you're still heavily bound by the environment you were born in. the other side of the same coin that newton's framing of his own  work as the antichrist's one is

How do you explain intellectual behemoths like chris langan, rowan williams et al who are religious deist and theists. Obviously there's something there that speaks to the high iq