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Julian

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Julian

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Julian is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 23, 2021 and September 15, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Contact: Julian, julian[dot]sscmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com”; “If there really was something that began with Constantine, then it ended with Julian”; “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Julian. He’s a professional translator”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Discord, Ireland.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: August 23, 2021
  • Last seen: September 15, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
August 23, 2021 · Original source
BASEL, SWITZERLAND (RSVP) Contact: Julian, julian[dot]sscmeetup[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 5:30 PM, Saturday, September 25 Location: At Wettepark, near the patio. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/wharfs.addicted.bubbles
Inline links: RSVP, https://w3w.co/wharfs.addicted.bubbles
Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
October 10, 2022 · Original source
The whole great history of the Arian heresy might have been invented to explode this idea. It is a very interesting history often repeated in this connection; and the upshot of it is in that in so far as there ever was a merely official religion, it actually died because it was merely an official religion; and what destroyed it was the real religion. Arius advanced a version of Christianity which moved, more or less vaguely, in the direction of what we should call Unitarianism; though it was not the same, for it gave to Christ a curious intermediary position between the divine and human. The point is that it seemed to many more reasonable and less fanatical; and among these were many of the educated class in a sort of reaction against the first romance of conversion. Arians were a sort of moderates and a sort of modernists. And it was felt that after the first squabbles this was the final form of rationalised religion into which civilisation might well settle down. It was accepted by Divus Caesar himself and became the official orthodoxy; the generals and military princes drawn from the new barbarian powers of the north, full of the future, supported it strongly. But the sequel is still more important. Exactly as a modern man might pass through Unitarianism to complete agnosticism, so the greatest of the Arian emperors ultimately shed the last and thinnest pretense of Christianity; he abandoned even Arius and returned to Apollo. He was a Caesar of the Caesars; a soldier, a scholar, a man of large ambitions and ideals; another of the philosopher kings. It seemed to him as if at his signal the sun rose again. The oracles began to speak like birds beginning to sing at dawn; paganism was itself again; the gods returned. It seemed the end of that strange interlude of an alien superstition. And indeed it was the end of it, so far as there was a mere interlude of mere superstition. It was the end of it, in so far as it was the fad of an emperor or the fashion of a generation. If there really was something that began with Constantine, then it ended with Julian.
Book Review Contest 2023 Winners
September 15, 2023 · Original source
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Julian. He’s a professional translator and doesn’t blog or substack or anything of the sort, but will happily reply to e-mails.
Inline links: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, e-mails