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@pandemicroach @vikare06 those would be non-greek tribes. moreover, it’s not out of nowhere, since the cyclops doesn’t respect the laws of Zeus, hence his barbarity.

@vikare06 Calling monsters a representation of "uncivilized people" is a self report. You don't make comparisons like that out of nowhere. I'm curious. Please tell us more about this "uncivilized people" you're talking about.

Another of the many misunderstandings of this movie, Cyclops are not supposed to be monster, they represent uncivilized people. You don't reason with a monster and you don't expect a monster to follow sacred hospitality customs. But it's ok, who cares, it's a fake story, it's just like Marvel according to some people

@Whitehurst1961 @seethroughit2 since it appeals to societal outcasts and the persecuted (first converts were slaves and women), it shouldn’t surprise us that it’s still around. it appeals to the bottom of society, of which there are many, so it is only natural that it continues to plague us.

@seethroughit2 Then why your obsession with writing paragraphs to refute it. If there is nothing to it then it will go away eventually. But wait its been around 2000 years. Maybe there is something to it.

Here is my official position on Christianity: The New Testament was "written to fulfill prophecy" (i.e., fabricated or retrofitted after the fact) not a recording a historical person genuinely fulfilling Old Testament expectations They drew on existing Jewish hopes that the God of Israel would one day be worshiped by the nations, and used a Jesus figure to make that happen Jewish scriptures already contain strong themes of universal worship: - Isaiah 2:2-4, 11:10, 42:6, 49:6, 56:6-7 - Gentiles streaming to the God of Israel, the nations worshiping at the Temple, Israel as a "light to the Gentiles." - Zechariah 8:23, 14:16 - Foreigners grabbing hold of Jews to learn about God; all nations coming to Jerusalem. - Psalms 22:27, 86:9, etc. - All families of the nations worshiping the Lord. These passages created an expectation that the God of Israel would eventually draw the whole world. Gentiles (Greeks, Romans, etc.) had no reason to care about Jewish scriptures. Why trust the Jews’ prophets? Their God seemed tribal and weak - His people were conquered repeatedly, the Temple was destroyed, and many prophecies of restoration and worldwide rule looked like obvious failures or unfulfilled boasts. Dismissing Jewish prophecy as fraudulent or mythical would have been the default skeptical response. The NT Solution: Jesus as Proof That the Prophecies Are Real By centering the story on "Jesus fulfilled the prophecies," the New Testament does something very powerful: - It retroactively validates the entire Old Testament prophetic tradition in Gentile eyes: “Look these ancient Jewish writings weren’t empty promises or lies. They were accurate predictions pointing to this man. Therefore, the God behind them is the true God.” - Jesus becomes the living demonstration that the prophecies work. Every claimed fulfillment acts as evidence: “See? Micah was right about Bethlehem. Zechariah was right about the donkey. Isaiah was right about the suffering servant. Psalm 22 was right about the details of the crucifixion.” This creates a halo effect - if these prophecies came true, then the whole system is trustworthy. Some “fulfillments” are real stretches from the original context (e.g., Hosea 11:1 “Out of Egypt I called my son” applied to Jesus’ family fleeing - originally about Israel). Others appear to have no clear prior prophecy at all and are completely made up, yet the Gospels still frame events as fulfillment Why do this? Because the goal wasn’t just to tell Jesus’ story. It was to rescue and legitimize Jewish prophecy itself for outsiders. If Jesus checks enough boxes, then skeptics can’t easily write off the OT as failed or made-up. The prophecies are proven reliable and therefore the God who gave them is real and powerful. Claiming Jesus fulfilled the prophecies wasn’t mainly about documenting history - it was about saving the credibility of Jewish prophecy in the eyes of a skeptical Gentile world. And this is Paul’s Ultimate Strategy: “Saving Israel” Through the Gentiles He use the Gentiles to validate and advance Israel’s mission Christianity becomes Judaism for the world: “The prophecies are true. The God of Israel is the only God. Jesus is the proof and the door for you Gentiles.” It doesn’t replace Judaism - it spreads its core claims universally. Paul’s mission wasn’t primarily “start a new religion.” It was a strategic workaround: Get the nations to adopt the Jewish God and prophetic framework, with Jesus as the fulfillment hook By making Jesus the fulfillment (or partial fulfillment) of the prophecies: - It gives Gentiles a compelling reason to worship the Jewish God and accept Jesus as Messiah/Lord: “This ancient tradition was right all along” - It positions Christianity as the vehicle for the OT promises of Gentile inclusion (Isaiah’s “light to the nations,” etc.). This legitimization was essential. Without it, why would a Roman or Greek abandon their gods for a crucified Jewish preacher’s movement? The historical success of Christianity achieved key elements of the Jewish prophetic vision (as later summarized by thinkers like Rambam/Maimonides in his views on the nations coming to recognize the true God): -Destruction of idolatry: Pagan gods of Rome, Greece, northern Europe, etc., were systematically replaced or erased. The old idol worship of the nations largely collapsed wherever Christianity spread. -Spread of the God of Israel and Torah ethics: Gentiles adopted monotheism, the moral framework of the Hebrew Bible (Ten Commandments, etc.), and the idea of a single Creator God. Bibles (containing the Torah and Prophets) went global. -Worldwide recognition: The God of a small, repeatedly crushed people (conquered by Assyria, Babylon, Rome) became the dominant deity of empires. No other gods are seriously recognized in most of the former pagan world. -Gentiles as the carriers: Ironically, it was the Gentile converts, not the Jews themselves, who spread this faith aggressively across the Roman Empire and beyond, fulfilling the “nations streaming to the mountain of the Lord” motif in a way Paul envisioned. The Jews were often persecuted and powerless, yet their God and scriptures triumphed through this vehicle. The historical irony is that the God of a perpetually conquered people ultimately conquered His conquerors - not through military might or political power, but through a story. The God of the slaves and the vanquished won the hearts and minds of the masters

@spookyh8r @abird_not89670 @WeltgeistYT you are clearly not fit for philosophy. give it up and go put the fries in the bag

@abird_not89670 @WeltgeistYT My morality does exist in the real world, despite your protest

People say this with all the confidence in the world, then you look under the hood, and this "non-religious morality" is some kind of rebranded Christianity. Nietzsche talked about this. And it might be his most important paragraph of all, given how prevalent this sentiment is

“My brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: what is falling should also be pushed! Everything of today—it is falling, it is decaying: who would preserve it! But I—I want to push it too!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

@marshals2054 @NewPrussia1620 you’re so intellectually stunted that you think mere recognition of fictitious rights entails normativity. just put the fries in the bag and leave philosophy alone.

@nitzscheansigma @NewPrussia1620 I'm a firm 60 iq and growing every day, one day I might even achieve normalcy. Sadly, an incurious retard like yourself is stuck in middle school and won't ever break past that level

"Human rights" don't exist

@marshals2054 @NewPrussia1620 you are 50iq at best lmfao

@NewPrussia1620 Good talk dumbass

@realpatriotM “my ancestors” ur not greek bro 😭😭

@bismarkhen @realKalos Max Weber called it a religion built on resentment since the revenge is always imaginary

@realKalos Jewish eschatology is just one giant cope like the Torah "Ahh, curse the goyim!! You'll see, one day our magical king will rule over the earth and punish you for prohibiting us from mutilating our kids!!! Just not today... One day tho... Any day now...

"Eschatological Endsieg in which your race triumphs over everyone else is... LE BAD!"

@chocolatetoppi_ @SaffronSama @Miki_4_life @jeremykauffman no, he wasn’t. fascism and nazism are distinct political positions

@SaffronSama @Miki_4_life @jeremykauffman he was a fascist.??? Nigga are u stupid

every single time

@JehanLeCavalier @LAINDONNYA fat, ugly and resentful 😭

@LAINDONNYA 😭😭😭

you will never know how much i hate white ppl

@JoshuaLWatson he’s so based for this

what an asshole

@o_qxili @LocalBateman 😳

@o_qxili @LocalBateman cry more lol

@LocalBateman male humour be like : haha raping kids haha pedophile

@HellenicVibes “the entire history of human civilization” and it’s just from the Enlightenment onwards that freedom became the main theme of history. Even that is a rather Eurocentric reading, since most people weren’t concerned with such things

Progressives thought there was an inherent emancipatory potential that came with breaking from tradition (artistic or otherwise) and when that emancipation failed to appear they freaked out and lost their shit for a full century

@ANT3nn4_ @dt000509 @ArkNemesis5 wow such compelling evidence, i believe it now 😱

@dt000509 @ArkNemesis5 There’s records he’s literally a felon, pictures of him with EPSTEIN, And he’s weird in general.. but okay

Genocide and hunger across the planet but here's a cool picture from a distance so you can be proud of yourself in your meritless complicity.

@realKalos american evangalicals are worse than animals

The religious lunatics in Tehran must be prevented from having nukes.

@rllycoolfemX3 @Eurosiberian05 @blitzwave1 i’m sorry, did you just hallucinate the homophobia into that post?

@Eurosiberian05 @blitzwave1 Lowkey was gonna agree with you and then you got ableist and homophobic :/

pro tip: just don’t larp at school, like at all

The surge of energy supposedly destined for the reproduction of the species may be provoked in man by a woman’s slipper. That is where the problem lies.

@PlayedNobody @FiliRomaeAscend @landpalestine wait til you find out how many jews identify as zionists 😭

@FiliRomaeAscend @landpalestine You're dumb if you think ALL jews are evil instead of just zionist ones. Like genuinely if you believe that your vote shouldn't count. And bullshit ideas like that enable Israel to commit crimes against humanity by saying "look the people against us are literally neonazis"

Young refuseniks burn their IDF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv in Israel They refuse to serve in the Israeli Forces to kill children in Palestine and Lebanon and are willing to go to military jail for their position

@PalmyrPar cant wait for every game character to resemble tung tung tung sahur

Imagine you’re playing a game and your GPU starts pasting random Midjourney image generations onto shit I’d be so pissed LMAO