Message from @Skellington
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It's unlikely the roman pantheon was taken over from the Etruscans rather than Etruscans getting their pantheon from the Latins
Because Etruscan is widely considered to be a pre Indo European language
The Roman gods and hellenic gods are Indo-European in origin
There might've been a period where Roman and hellenic gods were more divergent but through syncretism and an idea at the time that people just had different names for the same gods it just merged
This actually continued later too with Romans identifying Mars with the Germanic god Tyr
Also about the Roman adoption Persian gods, really just one god that being Mithras. Mithras is actually Indo-European in origin
The Egyptian thing is true though because of Alexander/Ptolemy introducing the Serapis cult. Idk what to think about it
@Mr. Nessel Yes, I understand that Mithras was Indo-European in Origin. But was adopted by the Legionnaires when the encountered Parthian and Persian peoples within Mesopotamia. Also along the footing of the Etruscan maybe those people adopted many aspects from the Greek people's ether though trade or by some by my theory of Trojans coming in and sharing there culture with the surrounding peoples. With see this as many Aspects of the Etruscans are relatable with larger Hellenic and Latin cultures of the time, Such as Weaponry which show a great deal of Indo-European and Hellenic Influence. None the less a majority of there artwork was relatable with the Hellenic peoples.
None the less i may as well ask? by any chance do you know of any Etruscan Burials being found.
I don't recall but there should be some given they were fairly urbanized
I mean we have burial mounds of people who lived in the woods with no written language so I'm pretty confident there should be graves like that
A suggestion was made at my church study group to watch a documentary that tackles some of the institutionalised racism in this country. We also capped off the night with a prayer that the carona virus won't spark racism.
It's
All
So
Tiresome
did you speak out?
Lmao find a better group
No I didn't speak out, large group, boomer-heavy, the type of people who mostly mindlessly absorb culture. Not going to marginalise myself into a corner where I have no social options. This is the challenge of the irl reactionary.
"Find a better group", yeah, like reactionaries advertise themselves freely. I'm only in this discord because I have no irl options.
At least that study group has their priorities right.
To be fair, these are isolated cases, not from leadership. If it was a trend then I'd be taking action - either leaving or interjecting that we could be doing things more relevant to spiritual growth, because it's really obvious that this crap is irrelevant to the purpose of the group.
they seem worthless as is, its better to speak out with agreeable reservations and make friends with the people who support you
"I don't really think that would be a valuable use of time, but perhaps a discussion about how anti-racism has become the new secular religion and the wisdom of Christians engaging with it"
Just not sure I want to open that pandoras box with this particular group.
Boomers supporting diversity are the worst
Revelation 17:16
based bible
How do you even argue with someone this far off the deep end
I won't argue with this person because what they're saying is objectively retarded
Take his position to the extreme
Take something that is repulsively evil. Present it to the guy and ask him if it's objectively evil
Whilst it's true there's uncertainty in morality there's a difference between walking around surrounded by fog and having your eyes gouged out
Insisting that morality isn't as precise as science is missing the point, morality isn't science, doesn't fit into the atheist clockwork type worldview where there is nothing but matter
Dave the Distributist had a good video on this
Because appeals to morality are always implicitly metaphysical and when some idiot tries to come up with a morality formula they usually fail
Say Kant's categorical imperative
Or Bentham's utilitarianism
*The Cult of Certainty* or something. Basically argued high certainty modes of thinking are extremely limited in scope, and are wrong to assume that low certainty = false.
There's no reason to try so hard to make it a precise science when just acknowledging morality is real and treating it as an intangible ideal to live by is enough
That's the one!
I mixed up 'confidence' with 'certainty'
Genocide is just one group using its resources to help it's genes win in natural selection
Steered my study group into a discussion about the insidiousness if modern culture and the way it oozes into the church. We bring it in on our boots on Sundays and it impacts all our interactions and even teaching unless we are rigorous and strong.
Much more reactionary than last week's anti racism vibe. Even had one individual expressing almost polar opposite perspectives on modern culture and pop morality.
Hopefully some will wake up, and who knows, I might find a kindred reactionary amongst them.