Lyre

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Does anyone know the name of the number with that many zeroes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I did not expect such a poetic response to something I wrote while drunk at 3 am

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

So... The lotr orcs are only "pretty orcy"?.... What exactly is this orcyness scale based on? Lotr orcs are the definitive depiction that all modern orcs are inspired by.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bro whose decision was it to put Yaddle front and center on that promo art

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'll check those out! I find the subject super interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just in case you didn't know, there was a big cache of gnostic texts found in Nag Hammadi but the discovery got overshadowed by the dead sea scrolls. They were very cool to look into and shed a lot of light on pre-romanized Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish i had something off the top of my head but I'm mostly basing this off what i remember from uni lectures.

That being said if you look up early Christianity you'll see that women filled the roles of priests and were often responsible for spreading and maintaining the faith before its roman adoption. You can even even see this in the bible where the earliest chronological chapters are extremely sympathetic to women, then become less and less so as time goes on.

I'll see if i can find a specific reference for you later today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Exactly. In keeping with my other comments, that's why some early christian sects actually viewed Eve as a hero in the story, because she freed them from ignorance... You know, back when christianity was driven by women and wasn't just roman ideology wearing a Jesus skin mask.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think thats a pretty solid interpretation. The gnostics have other points too though, like the vast difference in personality between the vengeful old testament god (which they claim is a separate entity) and the loving new testament god.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I wrote an essay about that once. Adam and Eve were meant to chill in the garden for literally all of eternity but were still created as curious, fallible beings with no knowledge of evil. Ergo it was logically impossible that they wouldn't have eaten the fruit eventually, whether that was in 3 days or 3 million years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Only kinda related but one of the reasons the early christian gnostics gave for questioning the identity of the old testament god is this exact thing. God is supposed to be omniscient but for some reason is confused about what happened with the apple and doesn't know where Adam is hiding... Interesting to think about.... Maybe. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Bro same, i was like no what did mr spock do??

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