Commodus killed the empire, CMV

“ERM actually their strategy was perfect they-”

Cites a YouTube video that cites a historian who made it the fuck up

Source: It felt right to me and I rolled with it

I mean what was the Forum but an Image board made of stone

Currently following a seminar on Middle Platonist’s and thus I’m rereading some Plato and reading new Plato.

I forgot how much he used Socrates as his Fact-kin

I mean… Usually the Forestry and Animal control folks have yo put down deer who will approach people anyways.

So…

Turns out I am

1. quite allergic to Bad Dragon Cum Lube

2. disgusting and I get it all over me and not just my hands since hand and dick washing didn’t save me

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I always wondered how these guys make it through life.

I understand its a position of authority and an air of confidence is necessary at all times, but gods damned dude

“You had a phone in your right hand”

shows a complete lack of a right hand

“…You sure you don’t have a hand?”

Is the lesson not

“Don’t be mean to god’s prophets or he’ll send a bear to maul you”

Because that’s pretty wrathful. Quite “you should fear me” messaging, ya know? Not really the cosmic love Jesus is trying to convince us of.

Don’t you see how patriotic and serious they are? They did the very patriotic and very serious walk and everything!

Damn, that’s overt.

“I met a guy who says he might have been there as either a cook or a soldier, he can’t remember. He says there’s between 10,000 and 100,000 soldiers and also gave me the generals speech verbatum.” -Greek Historian

Chicago style supremacist here. MLA? APA? Psyops!

Strange how, despite creating the universe, god only has a 500 BC Jewish Man’s understanding of the human body.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence though.

There’s some really funny coping about Adam and Eves death.

I’ve read one claim that, to god, a day is actually a thousand years. So god saying they will die a day later is true because Adam lived to 999 and 364 days or something.

Eventually, god figures out time, but before that he struggles and that’s why oldtest figures are hundreds of years old.

There are rabbinic writings claiming that Abraham actually did kill Isaac, just not the full sacrifice. Apparently the type of sacrifice that would have been done includes plunging a knife into the heart of the sacrificial animal while its burning. Abraham was already at the last step which means Isaacs body was on fire.

Also only Abraham returns from the mountain. Isaac isn’t mentioned.

The Rabbinic writings claim Isaac was revived though. I think they brought his ashes to the Temple, and God reconstituted him. I need to find the reference.

Favorite example of OT God being a wrathful bitch go!

Mines the bears that kill the kids.

Explanation:

After the death of Jesus and the destruction of Jerusalem, Christianity as we know it was beginning to take off amongst Greek and Roman Gentiles thanks to the efforts of people like Paul.

However, this created a problem amongst early Christians because a lot of them had simply never read the Torah or Old Testament. They were just convinced purely by the teachings of Jesus and had been heavily influenced by Platonism as a base philosophy. And when Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and Palestine met these converts, they tried to teach them about the “Old Testament”.

Unfortunately, the Gentile Christians often refused to believe the god of Jesus and the god of the Jews was the same god because they thought the Old Testament god was wraithful and evil (my favorite example is when god let bears kill some kids for making fun of a bald guy 2 Kings:23-25).

One such group of Christians were the Marcionites founded by Marcion of Sinope. It claimed the god of the old testament was the Creator deity, the Demiurge. They aren’t a gnostic sect because Marcion was using what would become canon such as the writings of Paul and a source of Jesus sayings. This is opposed to the Valentinians who used revealed or gnostic information to form their theology.

Unfortunately, we mostly know about these early so called “gnostic” sects of Christians through condemnations from early church fathers. We have a good portion of Marcions cannon texts, but not a complete picture of their church. But they were significant at the time. Early Catholics had official instructions for their congregation to ask for a “Catholic Christian Church” when they travelled because a Gnostic church was just as likely to be in the town as a Catholic one.

be me

work at grocery store

being human I must eat food

buy groceries at the store I work at

Some commenter on Lemmy

“Erm… This is effectively slavery!”

whatthefuck.webp

Why are people like this.

Reply to reply since you blocked me lol:

Look I’m as lefty as the next lemmite, but we have to turn money into goods. That’s how money works. Its just a representation of useful goods as currency.

If I have to lose the money either way to eat, then it really doesn’t matter where the money goes. And generally an employee gets a discount. To your point, they’re probably still making a profit off food purchases but its still a better deal than without it.

My mom works at Walmart and always bought most of our groceries there because she got a 15% employee discount. I’m sure Walmart was still making money off groceries (minus produce) unless they gave like a 50% discount.

My current job offers an employee discount of “cost plus 6%” so they aren’t making money off me buying our own products, but they’re not losing anything either.