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@thebandGHOST #Nostalgia 🖤🤴🏻

Heard some people talking about trying to catch me and put me a tank at the zoo. NEVER!

pushed a dime under the fridge in 2024. i visit it sometimes

Roman Pagan who’s read the Roman Pagans here. Sorry, no. Roman patricians gave alms to the poor not to show off their virtue for all the world to see or to pave their way to heaven, but because it was their duty to the res publica. In what was called the sportula, the poor would show up to a patrons house at a certain time of day and receive alms or ask for a favor (legal help, etc.). Then there was the cura annonae, a kind of empire-wide food pantry program where any citizen could receive grain (and later also oil, and pork). The Roman Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus preached to his followers to give their money to others rather than live lives of luxury. (Discourse 19) Seneca the Younger advocated that the rational and wise man would give alms to beggars and food to the starving because that is what Nature created us to do (On Anger1.9.2; On Clemency 2.6.2; On Benefits 3.8.3, 4.10-11, 4.29.2-3, 5.11.5; and Moral Epistles 120.2) and that those who refused to do so ought to be condemned. His father Seneca the Elder said we should give alms to beggars just as we give our bodies back to the Earth. Then we have Julian the Apostate, the last Pagan emperor who had shelters be built for the poor and justified it on the grounds of a line from the Odyssey, “Beggers and strangers come from Zeus and a gift however small is precious”. (Letter 22. To Arsacius, High-priest of Galatia) Cicero also advocated for helping those in need, but to help them overcome their circumstances, to raise them above their previous deprivation, rather than simply to throw them some scraps and pat yourself on the back for being virtuous. (De Officiis 2.62-63) The Pagan view of human relations was based on the concept of “do ut des”, that the world was one of a web of mutual obligations, held together by goodwill and human affection. The only charity Pagans outright condemned was giving to criminals, fraudsters, flatterers, and condemned giving only for virtue signaling. Poverty actually increased during the fourth century, the time of the Christian takeover of the Roman Empire. (“Poverty and Population in Roman Egypt,” Poverty in the Roman World, pp. 100-14) Inequality is higher in the US, arguably the most self-identified Christian society in the West, than it was in the Roman Empire. According to a 2009 study by Sheidel and Friesen, the wealthiest 1% controlled only 16% of the economy at the height of the Roman Empire when it was Pagan. In the US, it's 40%.

Now humans are trying to look like us?! @Alpacaincrisis get your boy!

10 must have meant something different 66 million years ago

I got reminded of the old days , teared me up 🥲 I remember how momma used to train us to hunt. This is a pic of my first catch ! A giraffe !

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Hi this is my cousin Sergio, give him a huge tip thank you 😊

@IRANinSWEDEN Folke Bernadotte was the godfather of our current King. Here Zionist terrorists laugh about murdering him before one of them became the prime minister of Israel. No Swedish royal has set foot in occupied Palestine.

There’s no such thing as a labor shortage. You have exactly as much labor in your country as it is specialized for. If you don’t have enough farm workers, you’re exporting too much food, if you don’t have enough factory workers, you’re exporting stuff people don’t want at home.

"Lec, saulīte" - Rise, O Sun! ☀️ Latvian folk song about nature & the Gods. Pure European soul. Let the sun rise and the old ways awaken 🔥

Gray cat couldn’t believe that the black cat can also make that ekekekekek sound

@wylfcen @PopcultureMech1

We actually know what Anglo-Saxons would’ve called second breakfast. Breakfast was morgenmete or “morning food.” Sometimes people ate another meal around 9:00 a.m., called undernmete or “mid-morning food.” It so happens that this is precisely when hobbits eat second breakfast.

Fatasses ?

Women too :)

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@zookeeperIsHere i don't think zoos are good

Teaching these lazy dump farm animals how to hunt

Working on Grandpa Stallard now! (Page 8) Whatcha think? The toughest grandfather around! LOL

YUGE CIRCLES #34 This is about as full frontally funny as it gets... The road to the Republic of Alberta's 1st comic! Starts at 2 pm Eastern - 11 am Pacific youtube.com/live/LbBXdtaB3…