@AccolonsMetal It was a major cult in the Roman Empire in the same way that Freemasonry was a major cult in 1700-1900. Not a mass movement but every big player was a member.
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@VarangianDancer
Prayer from under the ice · Ísland fyrir Íslendinga, út með útlendinga
شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2023
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The distribution of this map should tell anyone the obvious that the Mithras cult was in no way a major cult and was confined almost entirely to military officers on the frontiers of retired to Rome proper
LiorLefineder@lefineder
Sites with evidence for the cult of Mithras. Starting from the late 1st century, it rapidly spread, becoming one of the most popular cults in the Roman Empire before the rise of Christianity. "At present, approximately 140 Mithraic temples over the entire area of the Imperium Romanum have been archeologically verified, and evidence for the cult itself – with its normally rather small cult communities – exists in more than 500 locations. Evidence can be found from almost all provinces: about 700 relief representations of the bull-slaying Mithras are known, plus a further 500 reliefs in connection with the cult. To date, more than 1,000 inscriptions provide information concerning the cult, its members, distinct rituals, cult buildings and foundations. These form the basis of an at least rudimentary analysis of the social composition of almost 500 small cult communities... Among the followers of the cult are senators, men of the equestrian rank, decuriones (members of the local city–council, ordo decurionum), soldiers of all types, full Roman citizens, freedmen and slaves."
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@seichigylgeiol @Agapiy_ @Civixplorer You get used to it. Younger Fuþark is not as bad as abjads, and those are used by millions of people.
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@Agapiy_ @Civixplorer only younger futhark sucked (and even then it remained as a vernacular script for centuries in scandinavia), elder futhark and anglo-frisian futhorc were pretty good
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@einsce @PlanXL_ @Civixplorer They did historically. The Mozarabs (Christian Spaniards living under Andalus) used a modified version of the Arabic script for their Romance language.
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@PlanXL_ @Civixplorer Hard to believe Christian Iberians would adopt the script spread by Muslims.
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@Civixplorer 1) The Reconquista was inevitable, Arabs are stupid
2) West Slavs wouldn't have used the runic alphabet. What is more likely is that they would've used Slavonic, so similar to cyrilic.
3) Why on earth would Wales use Ogham? They were romanized, they should use Latin.
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@rulesofchinese King Philippe can be the sub-king of the French province of Wallonia.
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A lot of modern ethnic and national neurosis stems from the decision to cast aside history and cultural institutions, foremost among these being monarchy.
✍️ 🇦🇱@10blended
why does Belgium even exist as a country what’s their purpose in this life
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@TOldbittie46750 @x3notrope If you don't teach your kids, someone else will.
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@x3notrope Because we're not obsessed with indoctrinating children in the same way the left are.
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"I never talk politics with my kids, they don't know my views."
Why are conservatives like this?
Dan 🏴@Kingbingo_
I never talk politics with my kids, they don't know my views. But I just mentioned to my 8yo and 11yo that the Labour government is going to ban them from YouTube and they are now in a cold rage calling for the destruction of Labour party for all time.
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@BharatX_Dev @Globalstats11 If 97% of the population are atheists , then that 2% is the majority religion
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Largest Religions in China by Province 🇨🇳
🟩 Islam
🟧 Buddhism
🟥 Catholicism
🟦 Protestantism
Română
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@3ncrypt10nb0y @GreenTextRepost Like Harry Flashman torturing someone and calling it "showing him the fruits of a British public school education."
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@GreenTextRepost The book starts making sense when you realize how it wasn't about "humanity" is awful, but specifically about how British schoolchildren are awful.
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@Tonmoy39060660 @huajitou @SecondRingSZN The European 'merchant class' were burghers. Europe only had two 'castes': nobles and commoners.
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@huajitou @SecondRingSZN Their position in society is what matters. Jews were the merchant caste in Europe and yet they were looked down upon and discriminated against.
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The Roman gentry of Africa (modern Tunisia) survived through both the Vandal & Byzantine periods. It wasn't until the 11th century that they were fully swept away in an act of spite by the Fatimids.
Nemets@Peter_Nimitz
While Iran’s high nobility lost power to the Arabs, the local gentry remained Persian. They & their descendants would preserve, synthesize, and advance Persianate culture. By contrast the old Roman gentry of Levant & Egypt seems to have been wiped out in the 602-628 bloodletting.
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@clearfails Why did the western version have X for yes and O for no in the first place?
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Just goes to show how westernised sony is that they have swapped O and X to match the west in japan
守田@morita_xxxxx
PS5キショすぎる
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people think Judaism is older than Christianity, but ironically every extant Jewish sect is created in reaction to the OG Christian churches
realistically, Orthodox Christianity is closer to the ancient second temple Jewish rituals than any modern Jewish sect
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@Austin_G_Wilson @SPhenson83475 @fleshsimulator The church almost always gave sanctuary to criminals fleeing execution or mutilation.
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@SPhenson83475 @fleshsimulator Monarchs and nobility used to execute people and the clergy justified it to the laity.
It's not a coincidence that the democratization of Christian societies led to forgiveness taking precedence over justice. They don't really believe in earthly justice.
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Genuinely: what is the steelman for NOT summarily executing someone who pushes a stranger in front of a subway train?
Like, can anyone point to a singular positive contribution made by someone who does this
☉rthonormalist🧭✡️@orthonormalist
Just found out a mutual of mine (who many of you know but I won't identify on the TL) was shoved in front of a NYC Subway train early Saturday morning by a disadvantaged urban citizen, was nearly killed, and is in the ICU. luckily in one piece
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@xcnikahd @Katapetasma2 The Emperor can declare what is legal to say, as well as appoint and dismiss bishops.
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@VarangianDancer @Katapetasma2 Where do you get that just what an emperor support determines what the churches orthodox doctrine is? 💀💀
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The semi-Arian Gothic kingdoms were not concerned with the Platonic disputes regarding the substance of Christ in relation to the substance of God. They were concerned with their Germanic aristocratic moral order in which sons and vassals owed absolute fealty to fathers and lords. Unflinching obedience to master was their heroic ideal, and they saw this kind of heroism in the divine Son of God. The Goths thus rejected the homoousian framing because it subverted the hierarchical realities of their society. The notion of equality between the Father and the Son must have struck them as a most dangerous sacrilege.
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@xcnikahd @Katapetasma2 Are you not familiar with Constantine, Constantius II and Valens? They supported Homoian Arianism as church doctrine, while Constantine II, Julian, Jovian, and Valentinian all favored imperial neutrality on church matters. Your church doctrine did not sprout out fully formed.
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@VarangianDancer @Katapetasma2 Arianism was not the official doctrine of the “imperial church”. You’re just making shit up.
Now you’re just showing that you’re ignorant of the language nuances and old nicene terminology.
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@xcnikahd @Katapetasma2 Arianism was the official doctrine of the Imperial Church for circa half a century, and was therefore orthodox.
The original council of Nicaea declared the son and the father to be same in hypostasis and ousia. Modern Neo-Nicene christianity claims one ousia and three hypostases.
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@VarangianDancer @Katapetasma2 No it was not the orthodox doctrine, homoousios was already the orthodox doctrine in the 3rd century and was reaffirmed and dogmatized at Nicaea. The Goths received tradition from Arians, that doesn’t mean Arianism is the true position
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@xcnikahd @Katapetasma2 It was the tradition they received, because from 328-379, Homoian Arianism was the orthodox christian doctrine of the Roman Empire.
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@Katapetasma2 The reason the semi Arian goths were Arian was because they were converted by Arians, that is the tradition they received. It’s a false tradition. But it’s irrelevant they weren’t concerned with Platonic problems when who they received it from were.
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@Rjrasva "A one armed mangaka? Now this is what I've been looking for in a son-in-law!"
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Marriage of Shigeru Mizuki of GeGeGe no Kitaro fame in 1960 to his wife
No laws passed in Japan to make this disappear, it disappeared on its own as the economy grew rapidly with increase in energy use & all the social changes that entails
Spatel@Rjrasva
x.com/patralekha2011… Japan, Taiwan, SK all far richer than PRC without such virtue signaling laws, liberal brains explode. So is most of EU Arranged marriage dies out not by virtue signaling but through industrial revolution driven by increased per capita energy consumption
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