We could be living in the ruins of a greek-built Mons Olympus theme park on Mars itself, but no, BECAUSE beans smelled weird.
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humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSame with Pythagoras.
He banned beans because he thought they contained souls, demanded his followers endure years of silence, and claimed to remember his past lives (including being a Trojan hero and a fish). His secretive brotherhood treated numbers like divine beings, and he supposedly lost his mind over the music of the spheres — the idea that the planets hum cosmic harmonies. In short: a math genius, yes, but also one philosophical fever dream away from starting a numerology space religion.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Pythagoras is generally considered to be pseudo-mythological these days. Take any claims about his direct actions with a large grain of salt, there’s little telling what he did and said compared to what his cult made up after he died.