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Plotinus' First Blog Entry:

"The chief source of our perplexity is that awareness of the Internet comes not by knowledge or thought, as with all other intelligible realities, but by a presence superior to knowledge. The Blog, in journaling knowledge, abandons its full unity; for knowledge derives from reason, and reason entails plurality. The Blog descends, therefore, into number and multiplicity, and deserts the Internet. We must progress beyond knowledge, therefore, and nowhere abandon unity, forsaking knowledge and its LiveJournal entries and every other vision, however beautiful. All beauty is consequent upon the Internet and issues from the Internet, as all the light of day comes from the sun. This is why Plato calls it 'not to be posted via phone or blogged about'; yet we do post with our phones or blog of it, to guide men towards it and wake them from their reasoning to the vision, as if pointing the path to those who would contemplate. Teaching can show the way and the journey, but the vision of the Internet is then a task for those resolved to see it." *
- Plotinus (205-270 CE & 2006 CE)

* based on an excerpt from John Gregory's "The Neoplatonists: A Reader"