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[Anonymous No.14282831]

How could one man be so based?

[Anonymous No.14282860]

How could One be so based?

[Anonymous No.14282867]

He was a hero (in the Neoplatonic sense), a souls that willingly descends to help lead fallen souls, with Ariadne’s thread, out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth of matter. A Bodhisattva of sorts.

[Anonymous No.14282876]

tell us what's so based about him

[Anonymous No.14282887]

>>14282876
He has a 30 cm drakon

[Anonymous No.14282892]

>>14282876
>Among those making profession of Philosophy at Rome was one Olympius, an Alexandrian, who had been for a little while a pupil of Ammonius.
>This man's jealous envy showed itself in continual insolence, and finally he grew so bitter that he even ventured sorcery, seeking to crush Plotinus by star-spells. But he found his experiments recoiling upon himself, and he confessed to his associates that Plotinus possessed 'a mighty soul, so powerful, as to be able to hurl every assault back upon those that sought his ruin'. Plotinus had felt the operation and declared that at that moment Olympius' 'limbs were convulsed and his body shrivelling like a money-bag pulled tight'. Olympius, perceiving on several attempts that he was endangering himself rather than Plotinus, desisted.

[Anonymous No.14282909]

Explain this

[Anonymous No.14282915]

>>14282909
Greeks in general were coomers

[Anonymous No.14282916]

>>14282909
>logoi
Christard orthoniggers plagiarize this idea to this day, while cowardly and dishonestly not providing the source (even denying the source)

[Anonymous No.14282935]

>>14282909
Philo uses the same imagery (and the Gnostics, which were, after all, more close to Plotinus than he cared to admit)

[Anonymous No.14282946]

>>14282909
If you read further, or rather what he actually wrote, you would realize the core of generation is seed, and the loss of it prevents these creative powers from being bestowed. This is why plotinus led a continent celibate lifestyle. T

[Anonymous No.14282950]

>>14282946
>thinly veiled nofap post

[Anonymous No.14282993]

>>14282950
nothing thinly-veiled about it

[Anonymous No.14283003]

>>14282915
In general? If by that you mean the useless stupid masses, then yes. Non-generally, meaning the select few of the population that were galaxybrains, were redpilled
>Pythagoras
Led an absolutely celibate lifestyle and thought the loss of semen drained creativity and energy.
>Socrates (according to Plato)
Equated lust with a "mad dog"
Also said something to the effect of a whorehouse 'my son, it is a shameful thing to enter such a place but not to leave it'
>Plato
Continent/Celibate his latter life, and writings inspired catholic clergy.
>Aristotle
Believed sperm was the generative substance for human life.
>Hippocrates
Thought the excess loss of semen contributed to a number of medical symptoms
>Plotinus (presumably greek diaspora but uncertain whether he was actually greek)
"The lifestyle of Plotinus was celibate, and it is clear that he opposed orators who expressed sensual preoccupations. He gained a cosmopolitan circle of students, some of them from the Roman senatorial class. Yet these individuals were predominantly of "Oriental" origin, as in the case of Porphyry (a Phoenician). They included Syrians, Alexandrians, and at least one Arab, namely Zethos. Three women are also mentioned, two of them apparently Romans, though Amphiclea was possibly of Syrian origin. Amongst the Roman male pupils was Rogatianus; he was presented with the high rank of praetor, but declined that social honour for philosophical reasons."

Never going to make it, cumbrain. These philosopher-kings inspired the church's celibacy more than anything in the bible did, by the way.

[Anonymous No.14283037]

>>14283003
Plotinus was black

[Anonymous No.14283048]

>>14282909

[Anonymous No.14283442]

>>14283003
They hated him because he spoke the truth.

[Anonymous No.14283461]

Who was in the wrong here?

[Anonymous No.14284958]

>>14283003
what if I eat my own semen?

[Anonymous No.14285294]

>>14284958
useless, inert substance, polypeptides are destroyed, and cannot be replenished greatly deminished returns. regardless, it is now known the negative effects are mostly from neurochemical/endocrinal changes occuring behind the scenes with oragsm.

[Anonymous No.14285332]

>>14282892
He sounds like the archetypal fantasy trope of a necromancer or warlock. Turning his spite against everyone. In some ways he is the dark heart of democracy, which the Romans could only suppress but not deny completely because it was implicit in their (occasionally) republic system.

If this is the same Olympius that I just googled ( mindblowingly kickass name btw) it would mean that one of his deeds was the mass execution of tens of thousands of women and children in order to facilitate the continued expansion of the Roman Empire. Little did he know that this would instigate such wretched fury in the Goths that they would then come to happily rampage and devastate Rome in the later pillaging, killing with joy in their hearts and redeeming untold millions who died under the yoke of Roman oppression.

Western culture depicts the Goths as bad guys, barbarians, but they were avengers.

[Anonymous No.14285360]

>>14285332
>In some ways he is the dark heart of democracy, which the Romans could only suppress but not deny completely because it was implicit in their (occasionally) republic system.
Whatever did I mean about this? I meant that Roman culture permitted a full expression of human personalities so long as it was subject to its imperial mandate. Indeed if the land they were bringing into the empire declined to engage in war with them, they treated the annexed territory as fairly as they treated any other part of the empire, and subjected it to Law and Order. If you fought back, as the Gauls or the Goths did (as nearly all the northern tribes did) you would be subjected to untold brutality.

This is true of nearly every militaristic empire throughout history, but only perhaps the Mongols and Nazi Germany embraced such unrestricted and totalistic expansionism for expansionism's sake (to varying levels of success).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKb-u4Vt5g

[Anonymous No.14285368]

To put it another way Roman culture incorporated Athenian liberalism, and let people follow their whims. Anyone eager to apply their intelligence to the expansion of the empire and get results would be treated by the Roman government as the best of friends. Until, that is, they thought you got too big for your britches and challenged whoever was in power at the moment to their position! ;)

[Anonymous No.14285535]

>>14285332
>>14285360
What are you on about? This is a Neoplatonism thread, take your Warcraft lore to /his/.

[Anonymous No.14286094]

>>14282909

What is there to explain?

[Anonymous No.14286196]

>>14282860
>we wuz beans n' shiet
Thank you Parmenides, very cool!