# Thread for mundane ironists

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**Category:** Non-Philosophical Chat
**Created:** [April 27, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/thread-for-mundane-ironists/80066 "2024-04-27T21:49:01Z")
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#### Post date: [April 30, 2026, 7:31am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/thread-for-mundane-ironists/80066/1038 "2026-04-30T07:31:45Z")

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> [@iambiguous](#):
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> **“‘Demon’” means “‘knowledge’” in Greek. “‘Science’” means “‘knowledge’” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” Carl Sagan**
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> _And in a demon haunted world to boot._

It’s interesting the origin of the meaning demonstration in Latin, and that another word for demon in Latin is genius. The principalities and what not. I bet they’re just aliens and that worshiping them is like worshiping airplanes for uncontacted tribes, but also read Jude… and obey just laws (ones that do not violate consent or conscience).

I just saw greenfuse’s reply. How ironic. But note that they both had pantheons they tried to translate into each other, and the Greeks were not exactly … non-expansionist, yada. Oddly, I would leave that to greenfuse to elucidate, as I’m pretty sure he’s merely pretending his bullshit position, and he is clearly much more eloquent. Let us just note how they killed the philosophers who challenged the “tools of manipulation” of those in power—who tried to take the place of those tools. …as is the repeating theme of history.

> [@$trange ¢OINcidence](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/trange-oincidence/85337):
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> I literally have zero clue what I’m talking about here, so bear with me. Remember when the United States adopted the gold standard & like 30 years later, abandoned it? You know, like, the great depression and all that? Remember [William Jennings Bryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan), that Looney Tunes cuckoo banana birds McGee? Remember how the housing bubble blew everything up shortly after 9/11? Remember Trump and all this fiat bullshit (pardon my global public health stimulus—forget real priorities, like income based hou…

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