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  • Aedis@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBoop
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    1 month ago

    There’s some mentioning of angels rebelling in the Jewish Bible and the book of Enoch as well. Which Aquinas attributes to it being very early in the creation of angels and that they weren’t perfect beings yet.

    It’s kinda obvious that when we go deeper into the study of texts referencing angels, there’s all sorts of tellings of these stories.

    In that sense I think you’re right and the idea of angels having a will of their own has existed for a long time before Milton’s Paradise Lost.

    Mythology is really hard to follow and is definitely not clear cut as history.

    I remember a teacher, a priest from the order of mercy, told me on a course I took ages ago: “You’d be a fool to take religious texts literally and as an accurate account of what happened.”

    The one example he used was that according to customs that were common in the region and things that were told of Jesus of what he did or saw happen. He’d be roughly 300 years old to have experienced them all not 30.






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    1 month ago

    Probably not a serious answer, but as a tangent, iirc St. Thomas Aquinas believed that angels were not actual beings or messengers and didn’t posses a soul. They are direct extensions of god, as we would have arms and legs as extensions or apendages, angels are the “arms and legs” of god.

    Edit: because some people have shown interest, the idea that angels at some point rebelled against god and Lucifer became their leader is from a 1667 poem called Paradise Lost by John Milton.

    Its an amazing work of fiction that ties in to some already existing mythos at the time (like the hierarchy of angels, from cherubs to seraphim) but it has nothing to do with what’s in religious texts, either Jewish, Christian or Muslim.


  • If your mobo has an efi bootloader, which now-a-days almost all are, make sure grub is also an efi image and don’t allow the early boot to take control of the frame buffer.

    Setting these flags for the bootloader, grub in your case, should make sure the monitor only does a single initialize.

    GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=gfxterm
    GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
    

    Source: just went through something similar and was annoyed that the monitor would take forever to start.