Grail

Well, I do other stuff; like I’m riding my bike in the park, and this policewoman says "Oi! You can’t ride your bike on the grass!" and I go "Oh no?" And her uniform falls off, and she goes "Ahh!" and she’s trying to cover up, but I’ve seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.

House managed to be a medical drama where Greg has unlimited money and people to throw at weird diseases for some reason. Just make House in space.

Upper Decks! Upper Decks! UPPER DECKS! UPPER DECKS!

America: You have the right to bear arms

England: I better see you bearing arms or you’re in trouble

Why do you say he’s a Greek?

Because he went to Hades, and that’s where Greeks go

The same Jesus who asserts his followers must despise everyone except for him?

Nah, he said this:

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ […] “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

If you did not recognise the divinity of the least of the gods, then you did not recognise the divinity of Jesus.

Tartarus is in Hades. Anyone who goes to Tartarus goes to Hades.

Anyway, riddle Me this: If the opposite of life is death and the afterlife, then how are Christians who go to heaven getting eternal life like Jesus said? No, in this specific context where Jesus is talking about moral deserts, he’s constructing heaven’s afterlife as a form of eternal life. So why is Jesus promising eternal life, if everyone gets eternal life anyway?

My interpretation is that Hades and Sheol are two different places. Jews go to Sheol, Greeks go to Hades. The rich man in the parable is a Greek so he goes to Hades, and since he was a prick, big man H puts him in Tartarus to be tortured, probably with some kind of ironic punishment. Maybe he gets the generic Tantalus package, since he loved food and wine so much. On the other hand, the Jews Jesus is talking to in Matthew 25 are gonna be going to either Heaven or Sheol, since they’re Jewish.

If they go to Sheol, then it gets really hot and maybe they gnash their teeth for a bit, and then they finish dying. Their bodies died on Earth, and then their spirit dies in Sheol. You know, good old ka and ba metaphysics. On the other hand, the ones who were nice to Jesus (and all poor people) go to Heaven and get their bodies restored forevermore up in Jesustown.

Jesus was a really nice guy, so I’d think he’d be a polytheist and respect other religions. On the other hand, being tortured in Tartarus really sucks, so I can see him trying to convert Greek sinners to save them from that bullshit. Unfortunately, his attempts to help the Greek sinners backfired, because now there are 1.4 billion Romans following a Jewish cult that says they’re going to be tortured forever if they don’t give the Vatican money.

ngl, guy who brags about killing a million people and enslaving another million sounds like a piece of shit. Even if he’s lying, he still wanted to be seen as a genocidal oppressor of holocaustic scale. Any society which would approve of such supposed actions is evil.

I stand with the barbarians.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Matthew 25:46. The righteous go to heaven and live forever. The cruel suffer a punishment that is eternal and is not life. Id est: eternal nonexistence. That’s the rejection of the eternal torture narrative, which comes from Greek religion.

And yes, the Hellenic religion was a little under a thousand years old at that point. But the Mycenaean religion also featured an underworld presided over by a god of the dead (and, perhaps a goddess of the dead for even longer than that). In the Hellenic interpretation of this underworld, at least, everyone goes down under when they die, but one’s deeds in life and one’s funerary rites determine their place within the underworld. Those whose deeds in life violated the Hellenes’ most important moral values were tormented forever in Tartarus. Notable examples include Sisyphus and Tantalus.

Christianity always posited a very clear conception of heaven and eternal torture, with the latter reserved for everyone who did not accept Jesus Christ.

Nah. Jesus said the only path to eternal life is through Him. That implies that if you die a sinner, you go to Sheol and just burn up into nothing.

A lot of people think Christianity has eternal torture because the King James Bible translates the words Sheol and Hades both as Hell. But Jesus was saying two different words. Now, there are multiple different ways to interpret the word Hades, and My take is not a popular one. But since the Bible is polytheistic, I believe that when Jesus says Hades, he actually fucking means Hades. The Greek underworld, ruled over by the god of death. Which already had eternal torture for many thousands of years at that point.

I submit as further evidence the fable of Lazarus and the rich man. Jesus says the rich man died and went to Hades, and then asked the angel of the Lord if he could come to heaven instead. But the angel said “nah fam, can’t do it. It’s against the rules”. I think Yahweh couldn’t save the rich man after death, because he had passed into Hades’ realm.

Anyway, the point is Christianity didn’t invent the eternal torture thing, and actively rejected it in other places.

If Christianity was so virulent, why didn’t Judaism do the same thing? Christianity is just a Jewish cult, after all. I blame Rome!

Fuck Rome. They spread the plague of christianity all over Europe and exterminated nearly all the European religions

Ah, yeah, we don’t like AI here.

You’re completely right — OP’s comments do sound like an AI! Keep going, champ, and let U̸̡̢̖̜̬̐Ș̵̲̈̀̎̈́ know what project you’d like to work on next!

Why are all your comments full of em-dashes?

Damn, Catholics are dull. You can just sacrifice Jesus at the cross and get absolution for free.

Fighting the Nazis

The Hellenes had different standards for gods and mortals. If a mortal acted in a way that was acceptable for gods but not for mortals, it was called hubris, and they would be punished by Nemesis.

That’s exactly what happened to Narcissus. Although he was the son of a god and a nymph, the gens worked out so that he was socially considered mortal. Narcissus became a hunter just like Artemis, likely to get away from the city where everyone was always asking him for a fucc. When he met Echo, she got handsy and he told her to get lost. Another sex pest, Ameinias, asked Narcissus for his hand in marriage many times. Eventually he got so fed up, he gave Ameinias a sword and told him to go commit die. And while that’s a bit of an overreaction to sexualk harassment, he was 16, so I’d forgive it. But Ameinias actually did go commit die, and prayed to Nemesis for revenge. “Though he should love, let him not have what he loves”. So Nemesis made Narcissus fall in love with his reflection and starve to death.

So we have here a mortal, presumably a big fan of Artemis since most hunters were, wanting to be left alone and not be sexually harassed, and basically being called stuck-up and full of himself by the whole greek world, including the gods.

Prejudiced towards asexual and aromantic people.

The Greeks were mega aphobic

I don’t really use this community, but I ban a lot of accounts that talk like an AI, use em dashes excessively, and come to this community to promote “their” projects. 🤔

Bridget Strand wants to build bridges and connect people together. But Sam Strand doesn’t think people should be connected, so he left, became a delivery guy, and changed his name to Sam Porter.

Awww, all sold out! I guess the rocks were in high demand

There’s no way that entire cannon is only 6 kiloa

Hahahahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M

Nah, go in blind! Be shocked when Napoleon loses!

I learned about this from the Count of Monte Cristo!

They’re the original people that the Greek myths of Amazons are based on. Basically what I’m saying is, Wonder Woman is a trans stoner.

I’m a goddess and I use capitalised pronouns because fuck the patriarchy and fuck cis grammar

The legs are made of durasteel. Do you know of any munitions that can dent durasteel?