Yeah, that makes sense. I wish I could track down where I read this to figure out if it’s a bad source or I’m misremembering it. I may be mistaking Tacitus’ reference to Christ, but I don’t think it’s that. I distinctly remember reading about some sort of population record of a Rabbi named Jesus and thinking, “Wow, I’m surprised a record like that survived.” The problem is this was 10+ years ago, and search engines suck now, so I’ll never find it again.
LOL, basically, yeah.
Interesting, what kind of records do we have from Alexander’s time? And yeah, I agree, the early gospels and the later Roman references probably indicate Rabbi named Jesus was crucified, but I don’t think that a secondary source or religious texts really meet OP’s criteria for, “physical proof.” (Although we probably don’t have, “physical proof,” for a lot of historical events we generally accept have happened).
Yeah, but the odds of census records surviving that long are pretty low. Apparently, there are references to Jesus from some Roman historians that scholars think corroborate his existence, but they come about 100 years after Jesus supposedly lived, so they’re not exactly evidence.
I had read that there were Roman census records that proved a Rabbi named Jesus did live at about the right time, but now I can’t find a source to back that up, so that’s probably bunk.
Relics are almost always fake, and there are usually multiples of them at any given time. A lot of people have had Jesus’ foreskin throughout the years, and I think there are 5 or 6 heads of John the Baptist floating around right now.
Yeah, I vote fatherverse, not only for the active mod but it has the best name.
Oh no, did they? I haven’t had one in a while…
I’m a Mucho Mango man myself, but they’re all good choices.
Arizona Iced Tea.
In the original The Dark Knight Returns, Superman gets hit by a nuke and can’t reach sunlight to recover. Instead, he absorbs a rainforest’s worth of photosynthesis. That’s probably not considered cannon, but it kind of backs up the idea that they’re both using photosynthesis.
Thank you, this is a very good explanation of something I failed to mention.
Well, the essay is a pretty breezy read, it’s only 10 pages. It’s called Ur-Fascism, here’s the full text. If you’re looking for something lighter (and lighter is an extremely relative term here), Cody Johnston is a comedian and video essayist that delves into right-wing extremism on his show Some More News. These two videos are older, but they do a great job putting Trump and conservatives in context using Eco’s definition of fascism.
Edit: Whoops, forgot the video links: https://youtu.be/CcklYVR5I-I?feature=shared https://youtu.be/fIN8oxnw__I?feature=shared
Because conservatism is no longer a set of political beliefs. In the modern conservative movement (basically starting in the 80s, liberals and conservatives were much different before that) conservatives had social beliefs, like preserving cultural norms, promoting religion, and maintaining the nuclear family, as well as fiscal beliefs, like limited government, individual liberty, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and a whole lot of other bullshit that basically boiled down to, “we don’t want to pay taxes.”
Now, conservatism is really only about establishing an in-group and othering their opponents. Oppositions to trans rights may seem like an attempt to preserve cultural norms, but it’s real goal is to create outrage and panic over trans, “groomers.” Objections go CRT and DEI serve a similar role in othering people of color. “Wokeness,” is just a meaningless catch-all for, “enemies.” Similarly, fiscal policy is meaningless, and can be picked up and discarded whenever convenient; corporations can be deregulated and given tax breaks in service of the free market, but subsidized or bailed out whenever needed.
This is because modern conservatism isn’t a political ideology, it’s a fascist movement. I mean that literally, and while the meaning fascism is notoriously hard to pin down, I use Umberto Eco’s 14 properties of fascism. And, to bring this back around to your original question, fascists hate liberals because hating a group is very important to a fascist movement. The modern conservative hate for liberals is especially clear in Eco’s 4th, 5th, and 7th properties of fascism (disagreement as treason, fear of differences, and obsession with plots, respectively).
So, tl;dr: the one-sided hate that conservatives have for liberals is because conservatism is no longer a coherent political ideology, it’s a fascist movement.
I grew up in a densely populated city, and there was a large 5 story building that had been converted into a stable. From the outside it just looked like a normal building, but they gutted the inside and replaced the walls and stairs with ramps so the horses could travel between floors. Every now and then, on warm days, you’d look over and see a horse sticking it’s head out of a 3rd or 4th story window. It was probably jarring for a lot of people.
I mean, that’s an aspect of the song, but I wouldn’t say that’s what it’s about. The first two verses are full of religious imagery, mostly about David (playing music for the angels, creating the word Hallelujah, Bathsheba) but also Sampson being betrayed by Delilah (“she cut your hair”). Then the rest of the song shifts to first person narration, and while there are still some religious allusions (the holy dove and the Lord of Song verse that no one remembers because it’s not in the John Cale version), it’s just about two people who’ve fallen out of love.
The shift from third-person description of David to the first person narration implies that David is not the subject of the song. The author is just using elements of David’s story (and Sampson’s I guess) to recount how his own love, which was once an expression of joy like Hallelujah, has fallen apart (“It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah”). That’s my read anyway.
Yeah, that was decent of them. I was expecting some sort of dark pattern bullshit to make exporting to a third-party extra hard, but it was actually pretty simple.
Yeah, this was the only Google product that I really liked, and of course they’re killing it just to force people to use YouTube Music. AntennaPod is an open-source alternative that functions very similarly, I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and I’m very happy with it.
“[sigh]…it’s a living!”