Walrus Aurelius

@GravesRegi8782 @bvrakvs The name Ba'al is primarily associated with Hadad and would often be used interchangeably with his name, only occasionally used together (Ba'al Hadad). It would be proper to specify which Ba'al if it weren't Hadad, though.

@Walrusaurelius @bvrakvs Baal just means Lord

Tired of this silly meme about Romans "stealing" myths and gods from the Greeks. In reality, most of the similarities come from a common Proto-Indo-European belief system that created these parallels from India to Persia to Germania to Britannia. Many other similarities were the result of syncretization, which was common in polytheistic religions. The Romans weren't the only ones who did this, every culture did. For example, the Greeks adopted Anatolian, Near Eastern, and Egyptian concepts and made them their own, often merging foreign gods with similar local versions to create new syncretized deities. Egyptians, Anatolians, and Near Eastern cultures did the same. Everyone did this. When will this meme finally become stale?

@echetus So how are Red Chamber and Journey, any thoughts?

In Chinese literature there's a canonical Four Great Novels (Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms). It turns out they've also made up the idea of Four Great Western Novels, a concept none of us were aware of

@KAlberich90831 @CharlesHenryLe3 @echetus @MesoAnglic Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh) is the 4th book.

@CharlesHenryLe3 @echetus @MesoAnglic Oh its the name of the book?

@WarlordRapst88 @trad_west_ How about you try conquering the steps out of the basement first buddy?

@trad_west_ We would conquer the entire planet SO EASILY if not for this hippie slave jew religion. If we go extinct, it’s undoubtedly the fault of the Christians

>Red Dead Redemption >Choose to be a good guy and max out honor by defending the weak, sparing lives, and helping strangers >Hit maximum honor >Game doesn't reward you with a bigger gun or a pile of cash >Instead, you are rewarded with an encounter with a Catholic nun >She hands you the Rosary of Saint Andrew as a gift for your righteous deeds >It literally acts as a shield, decreasing the accuracy of enemy fire against you >Teaches you that a man actively seeking redemption operates under divine protection >The ultimate reward for a virtuous life isn't worldly loot, it's a blessed symbol of faith Unfathomably based

No. That's the latter group. Most of the former group(myself included, when I've said it to people) are saying "vote for shit you want, but you need to be getting prepared for what's coming". Voting is a tactic, and I still doubt you're gonna vote harder and somehow the system will be fixed. Still willing to try it in the meantime.

@Walrusaurelius @MrBeigeShiba They are both “if we inflict voter suppression, the most effective vote shaping strategy in US politics, on ourselves, we will somehow win (a moral victory)”. Breathtakingly stupid, unless one’s actual goal is for the left to win.

They weren't the people going to UtR. That sentiment only started to really catch on with the TRS crowd after Cville. Everyone knew that rallies and protests/demonstrations were democratic political expressions at their base. It's worth noting that "we aren't gonna vote or way out" and "voting is pointless" are two separate positions.

@Walrusaurelius @MrBeigeShiba “We are not voting our way out of this my fellow righties” has been around forever. I absolutely guarantee people were saying it at the time.

@OVTweetmarck Why do the call it gerrymandering when you gerry man the in and out the dering

@MrBeigeShiba My guess is Kessler

@SmokingWR3CK4G3 @MrBeigeShiba Nobody was saying not to vote when UtR happened, Trump had been in office for like 6 months most of the speakers had been telling their audiences to vote for him.

@MrBeigeShiba Vote in everything, vote all the time, do not show up at rallies, is anyone fucking learning yet? How many ops saying HURR DURR WE NOT VOTE WAY OUT ALSO ME GO RALLY are the left going to OPENLY PAY FOR before people FUCKING GET A CLUE furthermore in this essay I will

People forget that Walter went into that gang den with the gun set up, ready to kill all of them, including Jesse. The only reason he grabbed Jesse was because he realized that Jesse was imprisoned, not their friend. There's no grand plan, and once Jesse ran off he probably didn't think about him again.

@PlebeuOcioso @bvrakvs Yes. Hence the syncretism.

@Walrusaurelius @bvrakvs Both were gods of lightning and were depicted wielding a lightning bolt.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool. You will never be a woman.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater I’m not mad about that. I don’t concern myself with Homo sapiens’ arbitrary societal traditions. And if these norms were so solid, and everlasting, would you be so quick to defend them against one like me who challenges them? Regie Satanas. Ave Satanas. Hail Satan!

Just tell me how tall the hallways were

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool. Sorry you're mad that you aren't actually a woman.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Yeah yeah, get outta here with your bedtime stories and plothole-ridden book. In 2 billion years, when this planet becomes completely inhospitable, no one will remember. No one will care. No one will pray. From dust we came, and from dust we will return, all by ourselves, no God.

@DrierMyGoat @spaceshark23 It's the perfect image. Vostroyans are the goodest guys

@spaceshark23 Im not sure artwork showing the Imperium killing people who strive towards "the greater good" is the best to use for this opinion.

The Imperium are the good guys.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Well, personally, I think the flood water came from beyond the ice wall surrounding Flat Earth, in fact, pre-flood, there was NO water within the ice walls!

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater No, Hare-krishnas. At least on night shift.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater I thought 7/11 was Buddhist scripture.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Genesis 1:7, Genesis 7:11. So you could say that Seven-Eleven supplied the water...

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Ok but do you think @dasaniwater supplied the water for the flood?

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Well sorry to tell you you should scroll up more then. Might wanna try @dasaniwater

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 I thought this was a discussion about the Dasani water bottle company

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 We're literally discussing a Biblical narrative and what's contained in it. What did you think this was about?

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Passages from what book? If it’s anything but the Bible I don’t want to hear about it.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 I can refer you to the passages that talk about this if you're just confused. If you're being deliberately obtuse I can't help you.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 All water is in the water cycle, that’s why it’s called the water cycle. Otherwise we’d call it the some-water cycle.