How do you guys view Roman and Greek Mythology? Does it promote good things like work ethic and overcoming hardship? What are your opinions on modern interpretations like the Percy Jackson books Rick Riordan? Discuss.
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>>2459282
>How do you guys view Roman and Greek Mythology?
They are useful to historians and writers in addition to be enjoyable.
>Does it promote good things like work ethic and overcoming hardship?
It gets you to work in a team and accept that shit happens, but things like the idea of honor in the Iliad are simply foreign.
>What are your opinions on modern interpretations like the Percy Jackson books Rick Riordan?
My opinion is "read the Greeks and Romans"
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>>2459314
Sorry if I'm wrong but I believe the Romans had a very good sense of work ethic and honor, if the Greeks did not.
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Religion wasn't a guide for morality, barring a few exceptions (like not eating your children or cannibalism in general). The gods were sacrificed to and venerated because they protected the state, not because they guide human lives to be moral. This is why Jews had to have a special work-around in order to be permitted to sacrifice in the Temple of Jerusalem: They must sacrifice to God in the name of Rome and the Imperial family, in order to ensure good divine insurance policy.
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Why did humans stop building pyramids?
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We call them skyscrapers now, we have steel so we make them straight up.
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Cause they learned how to make more complex buildings
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>>2459243
Because they were stupid looking
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Is there a term for when a historical person becomes a fictional character, like Jesus, Muhammed, etc.?
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Mythologization?
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It's called atheists being butthurt, coming up with pseudo-history in an attempt to write off God.
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>>2459238
Pseudohistocharacterization
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>Jesus was a pacifist
When will this meme end?
Jesus teaches love and forgiveness, not tolerance, even forgiveness should only be given to those who seek it
the "turn the other cheek" is about patience towards personal attacks and trying to reach dialogue, not bowing down when injusticebefalls you or your family
Jesus was a revolutionary, true we are not God, so we must always have in mind that we can be wrong and sin, but not facing evil is cowardice not Christendom
there was a Orthodox Patriarch that said "any good christrian should be furious when injustice is commited upon him"
the Catholic Church has been completely destroyed by the Jesuits, Orthodoxy is filled with slavic mysticism, Protestants with their predestination/determinism can't even be considered christians
is there hope?
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>>2458999
>Orthodoxy is filled with slavic mysticism
Elaborate.
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Jesus is anti-statist, do you think he would care about immigrants and jews ruining muh country ?
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>>2458999
Arminius.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpVJzLFQ9ro
Is this the nail in the coffin for the "WE WUZ KANGZ" idiots?
I don't want to ever hear "WE" from black folk again because it's been thoroughly debunked.
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But portraying them as blonde Nordics is okay because...?
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>>2459071
Nobody does that.
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Was he a beta male?
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>>2458502
Define what a so called beta man is, then we can discuss.
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If he had truly been a beta he would have bent over to Eva Braun's wishes for a public relationship instead of keeping her hidden.
He existed outside the male social hierarchy.
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>still applying the Alpha-Beta dynamic to people
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Does living and working in a modern industrial society go against human nature and evolutionary biology?
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Yes we should have never left the trees
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You mean huts?
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Yes. Sitting down, stationary, hour after hour, day after day alone reeks havoc on our metabolism.
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Ask questions relating to art history.
What is your favorite painting from the Northern Renaissance (in other words, non-Italian artists during the Renaissance period)?
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>>2457914
Any good introductory reading material on art history friend?
My favourite movement is Art Nouveau
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>>2457934
>Any good introductory reading material on art history friend?
Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History. Can be pretty pricey though.
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>>2457914
I like Holbein's Thomas More. It reminds me of Raphael's Pope Julius II.
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Was there any way for WWI to not be The Great War?
Certainly it was going to be a major war no matter what, by could it have ended earlier/differently such that it doesn't become the turning point of modern history and is rather just another war like the Franco-Prussian War or the Crimean War?
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>>2457822
Yes. If Germany basically let Austria and the Turks duke it out with Russi, instead of getting involved which brought in France and the UK
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>>2458513
But that would have resulted in AH being crushed and partitioned into several Russian client kingdoms. Why would Germany agree with that?
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>>2458544
Without the UK and France entering the war the turks would have focused their forces on the Russians. So it may not have ended like that.
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Is Keynesianism consumerism? If so, in what sense, and is that bad or good?
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Kenyesianism is trash.
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Keynesianism is a input-output way of looking at economics. Anytime you view economics through the lens of the quantity theory, you are objectively viewing it in a simplistic way.
He has dependent and independent variables for his system as well. Read his work, it's unbelievably well mapped out. It is consumption based, so in a way yes I would agree. That's what makes his economic system interesting, it is based on increasing consumption, to a lower degree the more you invest.
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>>2457482
Its the only method that has ever worked
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> Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. - Matthew 24:34 (NRSV)
>Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. - Luke 21:32 (NRSV)
What did he mean by this?
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>>2457323
IT WAS A METAPHOR!
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He was talking about his crucifixion
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He never defined how long the generation would be, now did he?
Oh ho ho, it looks like Christianity wins again! Repent!
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Why Is It Always Germans Who Ruined Everything?
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>>2457309
You should have the EU as the last pic
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at first glance you might think it's narcissism/envy but the reality is that it's just pure autism
or krautism, as scholars and academics today call it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
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Do you ever feel sad there will never be anything as exciting as the second world war again?
I did cameras were now assisted in WWII do we had better footage imagine if everyone had smart phone cameras back then!
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I remember being a puber
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>>2457190
I disagree. Think about all the cool war stuff possible now and in the future:
the total annihilation of the human species through nuclear war
space battles
battles in underwater domes
battles on a moon of Titan, Europa
interplanetary colonial war
war between interplanetary leagues
war between intergalaxy leagues
literally creating suns
war with aliens
literally blowing up suns
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The US' next civil war will be intense
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>yfw you realize everything really is just water
don't read anything beyond Thales
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Lol.
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>>2457050
I don't know why, but I want to kill you for some reason.
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>>2457052
You can't. I'm just water bro.
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Inform me about indigenous sub-Saharan religions. 2017-03-05 02:27:35 Post No.2456997
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Inform me about indigenous sub-Saharan religions.
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For instance, your religion probably doesn't have a water goddess who is also a mermaid.
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>>2456997
West African religions are pretty fuckin interesting senpai
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Forgot pic
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