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Sam Passmore
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Im Sam 28, single, Big geek for all things Fantasy or Sci-FI, 40K, Battle Star Galactica etc. Political 🇬🇧 l
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It's one year today that I joined @lotuseaters_com as a presenter.
It's the greatest privilege: working with such admirable colleagues, presenting Chronicles, writing for Islander, getting to know our splendid supporters, and being part of the battle to save England.
Thank you.

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The Podcast Of The Lotus Eaters Episode #1420 Starmer Vs Tommy, Restore Makerfield, Racism Kills x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Restore Britain's latest policy paper has just been released - abolishing inheritance tax.
For farmers, for small businesses, for everyone.
Restore Britain would abolish all inheritance tax.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Not a part of history I have explored but sounds right up my street any book recommendations
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The Assyrians have held a kind of dread fascination to me for many years because of the fundamental alienness of their worldview.
Religion wasn't something they picked up and put down, or compartmentalised in their lives. Everything about their conception of the world, state, and activities had a kind of divine ordination.
The city of Ashur and the god Ashur are, in essence, one in the same. I actually can't think of another instance of this: many cities have their proximal deity and culture centre to a particular figure (Athens, Athena, Babylon, Marduk, etc) but in Ashur these are one in the same.
The king was at once the commander in chief of the armies and high priest of the god, and Ashur the god seems to lack any kind of mythology that explains who he is and why he does what he does. Most ancient gods had mythology and epics to describe their opinions on things (Zeus in the Iliad, the Enuma Elish, etc) but Ashur is opaque and distant, unpersonable and unreadable. He has no prophet, no scripture, he just exerts his dominion over the lands controlled by Assyria (the Mat Assur), inside which there is order and godliness, and outside of which is a howling wilderness of crazed and incomprehensible barbarism.
It was the religious duty of the King of Assyria to take his army to the frontiers of the Mat Assur and expand them, increasing Ashur's divine presence on the Earth. This meant that literally every year, the Assyrian army would march out of the heartland and lay waste to anything and everything within reach, until it had either been pacified into total submission or destroyed completely.
The religious duty to engage in warfare gave Assyria the aspect of being enaged in a thousand-year crusade against everything outside of the eye of Ashur. Every battle fought, every king overthrown, every pile of skulls was a religious offering to the god of their city.
These raids and conquests brought home innumerable quantities of plunder and slaves, and Assyrian kings had a retinue of scribes with them who would document it all in painstaking detail. The Assyrian kings would occasionally write campaign reports to be sent home to the Temple of Ashur to inform the god of their good work.
Entire populations were captured and transported back into the Assyrian "triangle", the three cities of Ashur, Nineveh, and Kalhu, never to be seen again, but instead to be absorbed into the roiling mass of population: this is where the 12 Lost Tribes of Israel went, as well as many others. And this is where the Assyrians didn't just exterminate the population outright for refusing to pay their tribute.
Ashur recognised other gods, of course: they were his inferiors. The more cities the Assyrian Empire conquered, the higher Ashur rose in the Mesopotamian pantheon until Ashur took on the position of the highest god.
The Assyrians would godknap the cult idols of conquered cities and march them back to Ashur to be laid at the feet of the high god in supplication and humiliation: your gods cannot protect you from Assyria, and through his great strength are forced to bow down at his feet.
This seems to have gone on for more than a millennium with not only great success, but also not a sliver of doubt about the moral rectified of such widespread slaughter and oppression.
At the same time, the Assyrians were an extremely literate, bureaucratic, and organised people, devising provincial systems, royal roads, masters of international trade, and had an extensive body of written laws. They occupied the upper echelons of world culture and still inflicted such cruelty on those outside the Mat Assur apparently without flinching.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad It's crazy he laughing at the British public and for some strange reason this violent illegal is getting away Scot free crazy
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