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Communist Thoughts posted:found a weird/great book about ancient chinese sexuality from some translations of some sex handbooks seems like pretty good advice
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twoday posted:I saw some very flat-looking ducks in the park the other day
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 I found the prayer which is related to the pose which is common to the "flat" positioning of many figures in traditional Egyptian art  The positioning is a representation to the way the Ka (one element of the soul) flanks and surrounds a person in a protective manner. So, it was very much an intentional mode of depicting someone, and if it did not mean this originally, then this way of drawing someone was later imbued with this meaning, so then at least it took on and retained this significance later on. Also, I'm just gonna take a moment to point out the hieroglyphic character which means "front" 
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Real hurthling! posted:i don't know any history after 600 CE this is all very upsetting boil wine to get superwine use the steam to convert heat to motion
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look it says in thoth's style guide the dick gotta be dripping
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platzapS posted:boil wine to get superwine this is magic and you will be punished for knowing it
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Azathoth posted:
Wow I had heard the tale of Pope Joan before but had totally forgotten it. I was raised Catholic and was given a book called Pope Fiction and in the middle of boring stuff about what papal infallibility meant or how apostolic succession works was a chapter about Joan recounting all the purile details of the story with some serious invective against those disingenuous proddies who would do anything to slander the Vicar of Christ lol.
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twoday posted:Computer - zoom, enhance
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twoday posted:
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Tulip posted:this rules never stop
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twoday posted:I saw some very flat-looking ducks in the park the other day
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Ghostlight posted:look it says in thoth's style guide the dick gotta be dripping
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Nebakenezzer posted:He was a man of the system What I meant by myriad theories is that some people points to its location in the mediteranean, others spain, of the cost of north america, south america etc etc.. and then there's the truly crackpot theories saying they're actually aliens or hyper advanced civilization. I used to have this site that was basically a collection of all the different Atlantis theories that had been brought forth over the years. As for Herodotus, i'm torn about the guy. On one hand his description of things are hosed up, but if I recall he doesn't make claims that he's seen these things himself, but that people described them. On the other hand, I believe there's been many things he spoke about that people thought was crazy, and ended up being more realistic than we believed so  *edit: quote:why would you then treat this entirely hypothetical situation as having real, meaningful truth in it? It's contradictory. That's where my disagreement with real archeologist and philosopher begins. While I believe you are most likely correct that Plato was only making poo poo up, the argument "Plato was only making poo poo up" is in and of itself, not provable by either side. The amount of people who have told me "Plato even says so in its text" as their main argument has always baffled me because he absolutely does not, yet mentions something like 20+ times. For what its worth, I don't mean to say "He says its true therefore it must be!" I only mean to say that people can't claim he said something he did and use this as their argument, yet dismiss what he actually said and claim its made up. To me, people who say categorically: "Atlantis does not exist period" fall in the same trap that so Schliemann's detractors did, the hubris that they know something so surefly that they're unwilling to entertain the possibility they are wrong. Present any evidence to a serious archeologue and he won't even entertain the notion because of his certainty and I believe that is the wrong mindset to have. So while I don't actually believe in it, I don't close my eyes to these hypothesis. They often make me smile or laugh. But this one (the one I linked) is the only one that made me go "Uhhh.... that's not as crazy as I first thought" because believe me, the first time I heard "Atlantis was in Bolivia" I had the very same reaction that anyone SHOULD have upon hearing it. Dalael has issued a correction as of 14:55 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Personally I think what inspired Plato to make up Atlantis might have been the Persian empire. Instead of a massive empire in the East overtaking all of Asia and also Egypt before being heroically stopped by Athens, you have almost the same thing except in the distant past and this time it's a massive empire in the West.
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Also if I ever find that site again with all the Atlantis theories, I will link it here for those interested in the real crazy stories out there because some are loving wild
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https://taiwanenglishnews.com/chinese-professor-there-were-no-ancient-western-civilizations-just-modern-fakes-made-to-demean-china/
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Oh man I love me some flat (pressed) duck. Sure, it’s a 19 th century thing, but it’s astonishing. https://youtu.be/PQQKCVLvdls
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Plutonis posted:https://taiwanenglishnews.com/chinese-professor-there-were-no-ancient-western-civilizations-just-modern-fakes-made-to-demean-china/ https://www.theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808
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it’s flat duck friday you duckin’ losers
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Yadoppsi posted:Pope Fiction Damasus I: Did you know that in syria they call it a Homoousis with cheese? Ambrose: hosed up man...
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Bob Socko posted:it’s flat duck friday you duckin’ losers Roll the clip
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twoday posted:From the oldest temple complex in the world at Gobekli Tepe: no ring, voted 1
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Tulip posted:e: There's a very Marxist book about the revolutionary reading of Paul by Alain Badiou, surprised that one hasn't come up yet what are some of its points? Some Guy TT posted:is there reason to believe paul was originally an undercover roman cop or is that a conspiracy theory he was just a schizophrenic OP Plutonis posted:https://taiwanenglishnews.com/chinese-professor-there-were-no-ancient-western-civilizations-just-modern-fakes-made-to-demean-china/ this owns
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For those that listen, new episode of "Fall of Civilizations" is out
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Is fall of civilizations better than patrick wyman? He’s alright but he gets on my nerves, particularly this latest season
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Benagain posted:The Cartoon History of the World is not perfect and definitely shows its age in a few places, but I will forever remember it for the bit where all the Romans go "Salvation AND foreskins?! Halleluah!" Yeah I really enjoyed reading the books when I was a young man and you just gotta keep in mind that the author explicitly says that he prefers to tell legends as opposed to facts because legends are clear, even if they're not true. Also I guess the later books suffer in that everything becomes a metaphor for why the second invasion of Iraq was a horrible mistake. I mean, yeah, that was true, but what does it have to do with the French invasion of Naples?
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sullat posted:legends are clear this isn’t true at all!!!
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indigi posted:this isn’t true at all!!! Sure it is, saying "Servius Tullius became king because the queen saw flames shooting out of his head" is easier than figuring out who really was king and why he was really picked.
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an eagle stole my husbands hat when he crossed the pomerium. one lord reagency please!
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flavius scorpus and his fuckin whuore motha should have dere kneecaps broken in da back of a chariot. lets go Greens baby love da Greens
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not to get all actually on you but vitellius is a die hard blues guy and owes his rise to the throne to military connections he made because of blues fandom. he wouldnt stand any disrespect of the blues in his earshot and ordered a few executions of greens supporters specifically for their allegiance
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Domitian is the other big blues guy the julio claudians were all in on green as part of their populist persona as were most emperors cause it was the plebs favorite team Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 00:40 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Real hurthling! posted:Domitian is the other big blues guy If I didn't know anything about Rome I'd guess "big blues guy" would mean he was one of the blues brothers Surely that's a monomyth that transcends cultures, like the drug use of John Belushi
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Real hurthling! posted:not to get all actually on you but vitellius is a die hard blues guy and owes his rise to the throne to military connections he made because of blues fandom. he wouldnt stand any disrespect of the blues in his earshot and ordered a few executions of greens supporters specifically for their allegiance Real hurthling! posted:Domitian is the other big blues guy thank you for these posts
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