Alas, the last two volumes of this work are very tough going, not least because Voegelin felt the need to develop a specialized vocabulary all his own, using terms like “eristics,” “metaleptic consciousness,” “metastatic faith,” “pneumatic theophany,” and “egophanic history,” as if they were transparent.

RULE # 57: There are 3 types of people or/and personalities, with 2 variations of/for each of the 3 basic types, different combination of the 3 basic types may overlap with each other for different segments of the population, giving a total of 6 types of people, where one these types is troll(s), whose only purpose is to limit # of souls that inhabit reality by creating troubles & problems, in doing so, trolls act as gatekeepers to reality.

Plato, writing under Pythagorean influences, seems really to have supposed that the well-being of the city depended almost as much on the number 5040 as on justice and moderation.

However, when a Space Slug creature is present at the related Big One sector, the location slides next to the Space Slug and becomes a space slug belly (creature site).

Brainiac has a destiny of pi. If you are confused about how to use this destiny number, listen to the words of Brainiac himself: “One cannot do less than is required, nor more than is allowed.”

“These are the most beautiful phones I’ve ever used in my life,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone interview Tuesday evening.

“The world’s most secure system,” he added, laughing. “The words just explode in the air.”

You’re not a great man and you’re not a genius either.  But, nonetheless, you have one characteristic that sets you quite apart: you have no trace whatever of willpower.

In my experience there is no extant philosophical system than that of Aquinas that better fits with the new findings in nonlinear brain dynamics.

This scene is deeply unrealistic and not just because of the pigs’ architectural competence, the wolf’s implausible lung capacity, and everyone’s ability to talk.

The thing is: Pigs don’t have chins.

I have just finished my Contemporary Civilization paper on “The Abbot of Benedict’s Regula vs. Plato’s Philosopher King.” Five and a half hours producing a mammoth compost heap, a putrid dung-mound.