朱熹研究天理
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Confucian scholar, graduate student of Chinese philosophy
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朱熹研究天理
@iacobusstudies.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Redownloaded the app and I’m immediately hit with the reminder of most leftists being as dumb as Trump supporters.
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The President Isn’t Even Trying to Sound Coherent Anymore - Esquire
January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The President Isn’t Even Trying to Sound Coherent Anymore - Esquire
lib-pilled Zhangzai be like:
all men who believe in freedom are my brothers :)
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 AM
lib-pilled Zhangzai be like:
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Notice that though Bach made significant intellectual ("ideal") contributions, to the extent he is the "godfather" of Western Music, it is due to his institutional ("material") influence.
Compare, then, to Zhu Zaiyu (1593–1611): same "ideal" achievement, but no cultural impact
Compare, then, to Zhu Zaiyu (1593–1611): same "ideal" achievement, but no cultural impact
![Zhu wrote on music theory and temperament (five treatises survive), music history (two treatises survive), dance and dance music (five treatises survive), and several other works. Three music theory works in particular are associated with the ideas of equal temperament, the Lü Xue Xin Shuo
「律學新說」('on the equal temperament', 1584)，LiiLiZheng 了「律呂精義」(A clear explanation
of that which concerns the equal temperament",
1595/96), and Suan Xue Xin Shuo 「算學新說」
("Reflection on mathematics", 1603). His work has been described as "the crowning achievement of two millennia of acoustical experiment and research" (Robinson 1962:224)13] and he is described as "one of the most important historians of his nation's music" [4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7zttrwglryfssyh2yycb5fr/bafkreihpcukqyxcrfq7rtlyqt3kxsso4q536lefnee776d4ey724p2leam@jpeg)
![Zhu's work on equal temperament did not get any official recognition during his lifetime nor during the Qing dynasty. This was due to the Ming and Qing emphasis on classical scholarship and discouragement of ideas based on empirical observation rather than textual interpretations. [5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7zttrwglryfssyh2yycb5fr/bafkreic3ocjgfcwtsh537liag45rmxvtu2wyezhbdhsjlpkafump6z5yve@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Notice that though Bach made significant intellectual ("ideal") contributions, to the extent he is the "godfather" of Western Music, it is due to his institutional ("material") influence.
Compare, then, to Zhu Zaiyu (1593–1611): same "ideal" achievement, but no cultural impact
Compare, then, to Zhu Zaiyu (1593–1611): same "ideal" achievement, but no cultural impact
whos with me?
I'm not gonna tell the Catholic left what to do, but they need a version of these kinds of things, one that makes different claims about culture and the arts, the organizes Catholicism around them distinctively, etc. www.colosseuminstitute.com/about.html
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January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
whos with me?
Resisting the urge to organize a conference in Beijing that lasts around two months.
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Resisting the urge to organize a conference in Beijing that lasts around two months.
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Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
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So much of current popular online history discourse is really just an aesthetic exercise urging us to reconsider modernity, by people who think homeschooling their kids in Latin would magically unlock the ability to interpret both cuneiform and the Almagest
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
So much of current popular online history discourse is really just an aesthetic exercise urging us to reconsider modernity, by people who think homeschooling their kids in Latin would magically unlock the ability to interpret both cuneiform and the Almagest
You know, for someone who identifies with communism and Confucianism, I really have a huge dislike of Chinese ideology.
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
You know, for someone who identifies with communism and Confucianism, I really have a huge dislike of Chinese ideology.
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They failed to understand the Japanese concept of "Measuring Piss" as translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
December 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
They failed to understand the Japanese concept of "Measuring Piss" as translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
Why would a Confucian like America more than China? Because America actually has a sense of shame.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Why would a Confucian like America more than China? Because America actually has a sense of shame.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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There is a weird strain of leftist American exceptionalism insisting that, no, America is the worst country in the world actually, which is visibly untrue.
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There is a weird strain of leftist American exceptionalism insisting that, no, America is the worst country in the world actually, which is visibly untrue.
Bowling alone part 2
this is just anecdotal but among my social circle like 90% of regularly scheduled in-person hangouts simply imploded over COVID and never returned. it's way, way harder to start these things than end them.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Bowling alone part 2
曰：「庖有肥肉，廐有肥馬，民有飢色，野有餓莩，此率獸而食人也。獸相食，且人惡之。為民父母，行政不免於率獸而食人。惡在其為民父母也？仲尼曰：『始作俑者，其無後乎！』為其象人而用之也。如之何其使斯民飢而死也？」
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
November 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
曰：「庖有肥肉，廐有肥馬，民有飢色，野有餓莩，此率獸而食人也。獸相食，且人惡之。為民父母，行政不免於率獸而食人。惡在其為民父母也？仲尼曰：『始作俑者，其無後乎！』為其象人而用之也。如之何其使斯民飢而死也？」
Redownloaded the app and I’m immediately hit with the reminder of most leftists being as dumb as Trump supporters.
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Redownloaded the app and I’m immediately hit with the reminder of most leftists being as dumb as Trump supporters.
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may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
June 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
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y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
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we really do not need to be eating the amount of meat that we do
June 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
we really do not need to be eating the amount of meat that we do
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When cruelty is seen as patriotic, compassion is seen as treasonous.
June 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When cruelty is seen as patriotic, compassion is seen as treasonous.
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Using this site reminds me of this scene from the three amigos. I’m sure everything I said is going to be equally misunderstood.
Using this site reminds me of this scene from the three amigos. I’m sure everything I said is going to be equally misunderstood.
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June 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Using this site reminds me of this scene from the three amigos. I’m sure everything I said is going to be equally misunderstood.
Using this site reminds me of this scene from the three amigos. I’m sure everything I said is going to be equally misunderstood.
中国突然掌握美国精神文化。
June 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
中国突然掌握美国精神文化。
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People on this website really say "liberal" withe same sneering tone of Rush Limbaugh and I think it would reward them to reflect on that fact and what it might imply more broadly.
June 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
People on this website really say "liberal" withe same sneering tone of Rush Limbaugh and I think it would reward them to reflect on that fact and what it might imply more broadly.
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This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution
June 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution