what were the Etruscan influences on roman art .... i understand that the Romans copied the greek artistic genius but given that the Etruscans were an indigenous Italian civilization there must have been etruscan influences that survived their culture
>>1506687
The Etruscans got everything from Greece to, so any Etruscan influence on Roman art is basically Greek influence.
>>1506903
really?... i admit im not expert but even the image in op suggests that they had their own style ... the have the archaic smile and everything but the subject matter, never would have come from greece
>>1506903
What? No they didn't.
Their statuary for one is far more "active" than archaic greek statuary (notice how dramatised their gestures are)
I really like Christianity. I have been going to my local Anglican church recently and doing a lot of good work, helping keeping the graveyard well kept and working in a soup kitchen for the homeless.
I'm really struggling with the metaphysical claims though.
What is the difference between a prayer and a spell? Or between miracles and magic?
> What is the difference between a prayer and a spell? Or between miracles and magic?
None.
But well done for doing good for the world.
>>1506666
A prayer is a request whereas a spell is a command.
A miracle is performed by God whereas magic is performed by the magician.
Nice get btw.
>>1506666
I know this feel. I think I would've been a great Christian a century or more ago but I'm too fedora for my own good.
Do drugs open our perception to ideas or are they just another way humans destroy themselves?
>>1506648
depends on the drug.
>Hallucinogens
Genuinely useful for coming up with fresh ideas
>opiates and amphetamines
Simply give you a shortcut to getting the feel good chemical rushes you normally get from doing healthy, sociable human things, making you stop doing those healthy, sociable human things and instead bend all your efforts to collecting more of the drug, and ruining your life.
>>1506659
>opiates
Wasn't this a drug used by philosophers and politicians during the turn of the century, however?
>>1506648
I've done acid like 17 times. It made me more creative, sure, but I'm a bit slow now a days. Everything else I've dons, coke, amphetamines, xanax, oxycontin are all shit and do very few goods for society as a whole. Coke is the shit at the strip club though.
Needless to say I'm sober now, don't even drink soda anymore.
>ywn be a member of cool religions like Sikhism or Druze because you weren't born into it
I don't know about Druze, but you can totally convert to Sikhsm. Every religion expands because people who weren't born into it took it up.
>>1506540
Maybe you should follow the religion of your own ancestors and not some foreign cult?
American style protestants have tried their best to ruin Christianity. But it's still the coolest.
So /his/, I have this theory that Rome fell due to Christianity. Jesus anted to get back at the Romans for killing him so he created Christianity as a method of destruction to not only dismantle the empire, but prevent Italy from ever being great again.
I think you have a point there..
Jesus also followed the Jews and made their lives a living hell too.
Maybe Jesus isn't as forgiving as we tend to think.
Rome was destroyed by Gianni Alemanno
>Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil's brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou a son of a bitch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, go fuck thy mother.
Thou art the Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian villain, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, a fool before our God, a grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Thou wilt not even be herding Christian pigs. Now we shall conclude, for we don't know the date and don't have a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year in the book, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
What exactly did they mean by this?
>>1506492
Fucked up the greentext. Ignore please
>>1506492
>catamite of Tartary
l-lewd.
>>1506492
they meant
"Fizzle yizzay we dizzon't have time ta be part of yo' sizzy empire"
Why did the mid-evil Christians love Plato and Aristotle so much? Was it because they were the more popular philosophers in ancient times or did they saw they rest as blasphemous?
Who else had such expansive philosophical systems?
Epicurean philosophy is at odds with Christian ethics
Stoicism is gay, therefore against Christian ethical
Cynicism was too edgy and intellectually incomplete
Scepticism wasn't adopted for obvious reasons
>>1506453
>mid-evil
>>1506467
>Stoicism is gay
Explain
Post all your questions here.
First Question: If you are a good person, are you obliged to involve yourself in politics, even if it isn't your job?
>>1506438
Not, not everyone is suited to every job. A good person could still wind up a bad politician and wind up making things worse.
Is it immoral to feign religiousness in order to justify your views on a political issue?
>>1506438
Not, if you can cause more of an effect doing something else like Bill Gates.
My question
How do you separate mortality from the human condition.
We are, as on my subject, in a time in which we talk a lot about rape but probably do it much less than before.
Which period was plagued by rape the most ? How common was it ? Did only low soldiers raped or even princes and kings did it ? How young was too young to be raped ?
How did the wife at home reacted when the soldier husband came back with a teenage sex slave ?
>>1506416
>>1506416
>How did the wife at home reacted when the soldier husband came back with a teenage sex slave ?
Ancient marriages weren't really done out of love though, but for money reasons. And there are things called concubines senpai.
>>1506416
Ancient Greeks would go on raids and steal the women from other cities/towns
In fact, part of the main conflict of the Iliad is over who owns which stolen girl
We're Viking women front line warriors like the men, or simply defenders of the home and hearth?
>wehavethistheadeveryday.jpeg
>>1506415
Everything you've ever heard about viking women is a meme.
>>1506423
Then what is the truth?
https://youtu.be/T65SwzHAbes
Protip: you can't
Yeah
>>1506398
slickly produced, but using communism to justify russian nationalism is hypocritical and dumb.
>>1506398
Yeah I'm not believing this is Russian, Putin himself would be against some of this.
pretty good editing desu
Protestantism was to Catholicism what communism was to capitalism.
True or false?
All Christians are communists.
Pantheism was the true capitalist belief system.
>>1506336
Sauce?
>>1506336
I guess that's accurate if the crude comparison you're making is "mistaken deviation" --> "OG tried and true system."
hello, /his/
is anybody here acknowledgeable in mayan mythology?
how did the mayan peoples react to the rise of christianity and downfall of their own religion?
what are some good reads when it comes to mayan mythology and its first contacts with christianity?
Read this, it´s literature but will help
Asturias was half maya quiche
Aren't there still maya people practising their old spirituality.
>>1506322
They still practice their religion. Did you mean /Aztecs/?
Why was Blood Libel even a thing? Did the "great" Church theologians never arrive to the conclusion that in order for the Christ to have "died for man's sins", he first needed to be killed? As such, why were Jews considered 'at fault', if they were the vehicle that allowed for Christ to supposedly save mankind? Christian theology makes it exceedingly clear that his execution was NECESSARY - they deify the instrument on which he was killed, but not the people who supposedly ordered it?
In any case, the blood libel legend is completely inaccurate, for it was the Roman authorities in Judea who killed Jesus, and not the Jews. There was no tradition of "releasing prisoners at Passover"; Barabbas is an invented character, born of a mistranslation, and when the Jewish crowd in the Biblical narrative cried out "Barabbas!", they were in actuality yelling for Jesus - even the oldest manuscript of Mark tells that Jesus was called 'Barabbas' by the people.
Rather, the blood libel and Christian hatred for Jews seems to have sprung up from the frustration arising from the conflict between Paul and James/Peter, and the refusal of the Jews at large to convert to Christianity, despite its claim at being the "continuation". The legend of the Jews choosing a criminal Barabbas over Jesus is simply a nice story that serves to cement this as having a scriptural basis while conveniently absolving the Romans (both their host and their main source of converts early on) of any fault.
>>1506298
Wait, I'm sorry, but I thought "Blood libel" referred to the notion that Jews used Christian baby blood to make Matza. Still really stupid, and contradicted by the part in the bible where it tells Jews not to eat blood, but I thought the whole Passion sequence was something else.
>monotheism
>horseshit
Pick two
>>1506303
You are correct: I was being somewhat liberal and used the term blood libel to refer to instances of Christian anti-semitism, which manifested quite strongly on various occasions over accusations of "drinking blood" and "host desecration" as well as the more usual "God-killers"
Is it a crime to kill oneself?
No.
>>1506278
Yes.
>>1506278
Depends