Talking IDW, Classics. Miracles and Christianity in Rural Friesland

Marten lands a randos slot and our conversation traverses far and wide. 
24 years old, University of Groningen
Bachelors in classics, major interest in ancient history

Masters in theology and religion, masters in early Christianity

Montanism

Applied to the research masters and was accepted

Hopefully find a use for it

Very difficult to find a decent career in this stuff. 

PhD if I find any interesting internships later on in the program

The most rural part of Friesland

Bret Weinstein

Douglas Murray

Rural vs urban

Permanence of occupation

Pentecostal are people who believe in miracles

At the age of 8 had an intensive meaning crisis. Finitude and Infinitude, one way or the other and both were quite terrifying. 

Evangelical church occupied with apocalyptic thinking

At a young age afflicted with these crisis? Why isn't the rest of the world making a big deal out of these crisis

Living in an entirely different world from the other people about him

Autism, all along

Watching apocalyptic movies, different from Lord of the Rings

Primary school very popular and very social, sensitivity for authority. 

Appreciated authority and eager to submit to it. 

Especially in hindsight that was exceptional. 

There were two kinds of Reformed not getting along, tensions became too hot, things not going well. Exodus of some to another school. 

Set his world upside down. Able to get along with almost anyone. 

Parents became associated with more Charismatic types. 

Charismatic renewal. Made quite an impact on him. See miracles. Is this supposed to be normal? 

Rigoristic things like fasting, piety, 

Sense of authority damaged. 

Distinction between reverence due to people of authority and what he thought of the persons themselves. 

Transition to secondary education, not as seriously Christian. Very secularized. Not pietistic. 

Found it very difficult to take church seriously. Very very very religious in his own right. Not able to find anything solid in the Evangelical church. No room to develop himself. Due to the fact that his Bible knowledge was beyond his peers. 

Names and facts about the Bible. Very lengthy sentences to write over from the book. 

Felt like a pariah. Didn't feel like I had a home. Wander for quite some years in that regard. 

Bouts of the meaning crisis, panic attacks over social situations, declined over 2 or 3 years

Didn't effect personal devotion. 

Resentment crept in and he knew about it. Festering in the corner. 

Began praying to God for humility. Wasn't involved in church. Deeply within Frisian culture. 

Are you still going to church. Rock music made by Christians. Switchfoot. Reliant K, House of Heroes. Falling Up

Just looking for God in almost any media, any book. Came into contact with Socrates. Love with classical languages began. Contributed to the reason he still believes. 

Uncertainty, darkness, Voth, Sally, doubts, back of your mind, 

Don’t want to sow seeds of doubt and fear. 

Why do I believe. He's pre-modern. Living in an enchanted world, 

You're arguments might be right but you don't speak with authority.

Very apprehensive of sophism. 

Rhetoric, Cicero and Augustine. 

Rhetorical argument and the aesthetical argument. Reading Latin and Greek conveys rational and aesthetic knowledge. Middle voice. 

Pascal idea. Always enough light, always enough shadow. 

Frisian charismatic, classics, meaning crisis, 

Argument of simplicity: embodied by Socrates

Calvinist root of self-examination. 

Known unknows and unknown unknowns. Master of knowing what I do not know a lot. 

Peterson's combination with the dragon of chaos: Socrates, Augustine, Calvin, Nietzsche: Abyss, 

Humanist side of Calvin. Overlap between Calvin, Nietzsche and Peterson

This is not like propaganda. 

Augustine has this commentary on Psalm 41: Deep unto deep, abyss unto abyss

Compares to God and people as abysses. 

Speaking into the void. 

Take these elements and synthesize them. 

Lord Huron: how they speak about the void. Is Calvin speaking here? Is JBP speaking here? Am an bsing myself…

The Discarded Image. 

Nature gives most of her evidence to the questions we ask her

Rationality. We are not rational, but we participate in, or inhabit rationality. Stay in my logos if you want to believe. 

Retranslate Logos

Ratio. 

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