Submitted 6 months ago by ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few people are allowed to reside. Oh, and did I mention the abundant variety of plants and animals on the island?
Christianity stole material from everywhere else, why not an explorers report on the island
The Galapagos weren’t known to Christians until the mid 16th c. so there’s a bit of a timing problem of over a couple thousand years.
Were there people exploring the Galapagos in 1000 BCE?
You do know that Genesis wasn’t written by Christians do you
Do you really believe Jesus couldn’t travel through time?
If it’s such a paradise it wouldn’t have an absolutely spastic way of measuring the temperature
For the other 97% of the planet, the yank means 21 to 29 degrees, I had to look it up
What an absurd and intellectually inferior unit of measurement you have elected to use here. For the enlightened among us the philistine means 294 to 302 degrees Kelvin.
While the conversion is appreciated, there’s no reason to be an ass about it. OP labeled it, so it’s not like it was confusing or making unnecessary assumptions about the audience. So really you’re the one who just comes across as completely culturally insensitive.
Culturally insensitive
american culture - guns, school shootings, medical debt bankruptcy, idiotic units of measurements
The vast majority, by a fucking huuuuuuge margin, has no fuckin idea how Fahrenheit works
It’s culturally insensitive and selfish to use it on the World Wide Web
Because measuring temperature based on human body reflective saline solution’s interaction with temperature change instead of regular water definitely qualifies as “spastic.”
Then again it looks like you’re one of those euro losers who copes with us making you give up all your colonies post war for rebuilding money by redirecting all those attitudes about “the uncivilized world” onto the developed country that just happens to have a high rate of racial diversity.
BTW Mr. “American culture is racism”, how are those Roma folks doing?
how many school shootings today?
Ironic, then, that it’s also where Darwinism was born
Charles Darwin did not create the idea of social Darwinism, though. He suggested the biological evolution of species over time. People often pair the two ideas together because his last name is part of the word “Darwinism”.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
IIRC there are theories that Eden refers to a location near where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.
Something about a line mentioning three rivers and there being a river that joins the combined river shortly after it merges.
I just think it’d be funny to imagine that the legendary first home of humanity was somewhere in southern Iraq or Kuwait.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 months ago
This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:
*Ostensibly Tigris
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah, its 4 rivers, and to the best of my knowledge, biblical scholars have basically given up on trying to associate 4 rivers and the place names given with any actual real location.
Either its mythical, or some of the place names just do not linguistically connect with any of the historical record of actual locations.
Same with the 4 rivers. No conclusive evidence of dried up ancient river beds that actually fits.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
One of the most heavily edited books based on old Sumerian fables just happens to base itself around what was ancient Sumer.
Wow.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s a field that was called Gu-edin in the mid third millennium BCE that was the subject of a border war that lasted a couple centuries, between the cities of Lagash and Umma (which is right where you said), because the founder of Lagash bought an unassuming piece of land from Umma and a bunch of surrounding terrains, and then did mad irrigation work and it became crazy fertile. According to Lagash’s records, Umma got mad that it was swindled out of such great land and kept attacking Lagash over it, and kept getting its ass kicked and its kings killed. People from Umma were “allowed” to till the field for Lagash for a time, but most of the grain would still go to Lagash, causing more revolts from Umma (and more punishment).
It’s fairly agreed that this place probably gave some degree of inspiration for “Eden”, along with some rare green gardens in the region created with irrigation work. The apple bit, the woman rib bit, and the knowledge bit came from other Sumerian myths.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s no mention of apples in the biblical record, just “fruit”
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No one tell this guy about 6th grade geography.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Mesopotamia is merely the first place civilization developed, not the place humanity originated from