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Did you know that #Ancient #Greeks & #Romans would use an #Assyrian king to shame self-indulgence?

#Aristotles said that those in power shared the tastes of Sardanapalus - the (fictional) last king of Assyria.

He had male & female concubines, dressed in women's clothes & ate lavishly; he felt that hedonism was the purpose of life.

Due to his lack of virtue, a rival besieged his city & after some years, the king burnt his wealth, his retainers & himself on a pyre.

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My youngest, who died of non-#COVID natural causes, was a #Satanist. He didn't sacrifice animals or anything. He just thought that #god was acting like some modern-day #Christians who ask, "What would #Jesus do?" #WWJD and then, when someone does it, is all. "Not Like That!" God gives everyone #FreeWill, and when #LucIfer dares to actually /use/ it...

My view on the topic of #god and #religion:

The existence of #evil demonstrates that the omni-omni god(s) cannot exist.

I love how philosophers describe it as, "The Problem of evil." I mean, yes, evil is a problem, but not for the reasons they say it is.

The existence of god(s) is metaphorical. In coding, god(s) would be the #else condition. Anything that is not known, understood, and explainable by a person, or people as a whole, can be explained by postulating god(s). Because people want to know #Why. And asking why starts as soon as a child can communicate.

It's like how the #Greeks had to answer why #planets appear to sometimes move beckwards. They didn't know (and couldn't know) the real reason for retrograde motion because they were absolutely certain that the planets orbited around Earth. They invented epicycles, little circles planets made that caused them to appear to be going backwards. God(s) get invented the same way.

Which is why there is often #religious tension around #science. Because science is a #system for figuring things out, it sometimes figures out that previous answers for Why questions turn out to be wrong. This why Galileo was tortured. He publicly stated that the Greeks were wrong about retrograde motion.

#Religion happens when a person/group leverages collective #ignorance for personal/group gain.

Archaeoethnologica: Strategies of of Remembering
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Archaeoethnologica: Strategies of of Remembering
- Book / Estrategias da Lembrança - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/estrategias-da-lembranca-livro.html

#Archaeology #AncientHistory #Greece #greeks #Identity #Rome #culturalmemory #politics #Antiquity #ClassicalArchaeology #Religion #epigraphy #Books #openaccess #sculpture #Art #monuments

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...conquests had nothing to do with the relations between #Europe and #AsiaMinor (present-day #Türkiye.)

The #Greeks, on the other hand, settled all along #AsiaMinor's coastline, and therefore there is a strong cultural connection b/w the two continents (and let's not forget the empires that the #Macedonian genius, #Alexander the Great, left as an inheritance...)
*https://www.geni.com/people/Sviatoslav-Rurikid/6000000005407291287

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Thank-you for pointing this out, @Renegade_GDI.

I knew this comment would come. I am taking a strictly geographic point of view, though, not an ethnological.

The #Greeks settled the Mediterranean and #BlackSea coastlines, starting in the 8th century BCE, thus truly milennia.

I will add #AsiaMinor in the text to avoid confusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_colonisation

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