154: Herding cats the right way according to Milton

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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As the archangel Michael boots Adam and Eve from Paradise, he gives Adam a vision of the future to, you know, make him feel better. Adam then says that he knows what is right now, and that man only has to obey. Was Milton making a statement about the ways in which we should conduct ourselves in regard to curiosity? I mean, probs.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to classical stuff you should know. This is a podcast about classical things,
0:15.4	old books, old paintings, old stuff, and mostly old thinkers. And our goal is to educate all of you folks
0:23.5	in a way that's not terrible. Then that's mostly what we're trying to do here. Sometimes we
0:29.0	succeed. Sometimes it's terrible. My name is A.J. Hanenberg. I am here with my compatriots,
0:34.4	Graham Donaldson. Hello. And Thomas Magby. Hi. And we all teach at a classical school in Austin,
0:39.1	Texas, called Veritas Academy. And you can check us out online at patreon.com slash classical stuff.
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1:00.9	classical stuff.net. Same, same website I mentioned before. And so today, uh, well,
1:06.3	welcome back, right? I mean, it's been, you all thought out, boys? Yeah, I mean, a little bit. We finally have power and water, so I can't complain, but...
1:12.4	Yeah, there was a little delay there.
1:13.5	We kind of got snowed in, and then our school fell to pieces, and so we weren't allowed
1:17.8	in for a little while, and that's where all our recording equipment is.
1:20.6	True.
1:21.2	Yeah.
1:21.4	Poor Thomas got the worst of it. You lost power for like 30 minutes and you had rolling blackouts, but 30 minutes is a stretch.
1:28.0	Well, it wasn't even that.
1:29.2	Maybe.
1:29.5	Yeah, I'm so sorry.
1:30.1	I think it was like, I was like, hey, I think power just went out.
1:33.2	And everyone's like, oh, really?
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