in the biblical sense, it means “go fuck yourself”
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 hours agoI think “Know Thyself” comes from an inscription over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
I think it means something more along the lines of “examine your latent biases and underlying assumptions, know the difference between perception and reality” but “go fuck yourself” works too, I guess…
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Except it’s just “Know Yourself”, because the inscription was in ancient Greek, so when translating it to English, we’d use modern English, not centuries-old English which uses personal pronouns that haven’t been used in English in centuries.