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User:hortensio (5311887)
the secular arm
Name:a good doctor of souls
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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this LiveJournal and under this handle in other LiveJournals and communities are those of [info]hortensio in his personal and unaffiliated capacity only. In no case should they be understood as statements made on behalf of any institution or body, whether connected with [info]hortensio or not, even if they are incidentally coincident with that body's official stance.

Update: I am no longer friending new people. If you have me on your f-list and are waiting for reciprocation, you ain't gonna get it. Even if I like you and we've gotten shmoozy in a community. Sorry - it's not personal.


Courtesy of [info]green_ink comes this definition of [info]hortensio:
    ...a nit-picking moron who can't stick with the topic at hand and chooses to focus on insignficant details so [he] do[es]n't have to exercise [his] brain past the point of its usual exertion[.]
And indeed, this journal features nit-picks, moronism, off-topic ungluings, focusings on insignificant things, minimal brainwork, and pettiness like the kind seen in this model exchange between an inquisitor and a heretic:
    H: I believe.
    I: Do you believe in Christ, born of the Virgin?
    H: [briskly] I believe.
    I: Do you believe in Transubstantiation?
    H: Ought I not to believe?
    I: I don't ask if you ought to believe, but if you do believe.
    H: I believe whatever you and other good doctors order me to believe.
    I: Those 'good doctors' are the masters of your sect; if I accord with them, you believe with me; if not, not.
    H: I willingly believe with you if you teach what is good to me.
    I: Ah, but you consider it good to you if I teach what your other masters teach.
    H: ...?!
    I: Say, then, do you believe that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ is in the altar?
    H: [promptly] I believe that a body is there, and that all bodies are of our Lord...
    I: [interrupting] I ask whether the body there is the body of our Lord.
    H: And you, sir, do you not believe it?
    I: I believe it wholly.
    H: I believe likewise.
    I: You believe that I believe it, which is not what I ask; I ask whether you believe it.
Paraphrased [and shortened] from Bernard Gui's Practica Inquisitionis, c. 1325. An excellent work, if (occasionally) a bit naive. Bernard Gui is the inquisitor who appears - or misappears - in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which you should read. [There are monks. And robes. And books. And homoeroticism and mysteries.] And a quote!:
    If men could see what is beneath the skin, as with the Lynx of Boeotia, they would shudder at the sight of a woman. All that grace consists of mucus and blood, humors and bile. If you think what is hidden in the nostrils, in the throat, and in the belly, you will find only filth. And
    if it revolts you to touch mucus or dung with your fingertip, how could we desire to embrace the sack that contains that dung?
There is a rejoinder if you're interested, but for our purposes this will suffice.



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