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wait are you in Egypt??

No! I'm on a little trip out in the Mojave. My friends and I learned that there was a Coptic monastery out here, and we decided to visit!

Unfortunately we arrived a bit late and nobody was working the gift shop, so we are planning on returning later to get some crafts.

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it's fucking COPTIC

Come to the monastery of St. Antony if you want an ass kicking

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Come to the monastery of St. Antony if you want an ass kicking

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visiting the Vatican next week do you have any requests

I need you to steal the ark of the covenant

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Before I talk about what happened to your barrel of gasoline and dog I want to say that I am a fundamentally pure and righteous individual.

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BIG NEWS FOR WEBCOMIC FANS: The Bible is being translated into vernacular and distributed to the laypeople

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Doing shit is cringe. There's always shit you gotta do before you can do what you want, and by the time you do your shit, you're a different person and you want different shit.

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Malones introduction in the second half of Molloy is maybe on of the funniest character introductions I've ever seen. One of the first things he says to you is

"DONT WORRY, I've modified my boater hat with a chin strap so it doesn't fall off when I vigorously beat my son. I know you were probably curious about that. But I've got every angle covered. I am a methodical and intelligent man. God I love beating my son."

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get my money up get my yucky up

NEVER STOP THE GRINDSET

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Bigweed is their gargamel. Okay.

Did the snorks have their own gargamel or were they privileged

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Did the snorks have their own gargamel or were they privileged

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We smoking the wound at the heart of the world

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So you’re saying that all of modern culture can be traced back to a single society that was active in India centuries ago?

"Indo-European" refers to Madame Helena Blavatsky. It's her. The Indo-European.

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What are your thoughts on the application of modern psychiatric vocabulary to historical mystics/religious figures? I ask because I heard a very annoying man insisting that "Catherine of Siena was just a teenager with anorexia, it's not complicated." And I felt like the guy was both correct and deeply missing the point, but I could figure out how to articulate what point he was missing.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, as long as it deepens our understanding of history rather than flattening it.

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lowkey what is the point in delving so deep into old religions. do u do it for fun because i struggle to see how a like idk 400 year old monastic sect relates to modern understanding of religions. this isn't an attack btw i get delving into stuff that interests u but like. is there any more behind it? also you are cool and smart

Little more than 400 years ago, in the 1500s, in what is now Germany there was a guy named Phillipis Aurelius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Honenhiem. But he was a big asshole, so his classmates at university called him "Cacaophrastus" which literally means shit-talker.

He hated how medicine worked. See, even up until 1600, medicine hasn't changed much since the ancient world. The most up-to-date medical textbook, the core of physicians teachings in the 1600s, was a book by Galen. Galen was from Rome. People had invented guns, but they hadn't really improved on how Galen thought medicine worked.

Theophrastus, who called himself Paracelsus, was a bit of a rebel. He saw alchemists doing all this fantastic stuff with manufacturing new types of dyes and cosmetics and metal alloys, and he thought, why not use all that stuff for medicine? So he got to using cutting edge knowledge for the purpose of healing the sick. Which he did.

Do you know what the pre-paracelcian prescription for a musket wound was? A poultice made of cow shit and feathers. Paracelsus said to keep the wound clean, and let the body do it's thing. This saved uncounted lives.

He performed experiments, giving the same substance, in the same dose, to different people, and even testing on animals with different phyiologies, and observing how the same amount of the same substance can affect bodies didferently. He wrote "The dose makes the poison" thus inventing the occidental science to toxicology. Every time you go to the doctor, and don't get poisoned, you have this 1500s wizard to thank.

And he was a wizard. Medical knowledge at that time involved the construction of astrological talismans, made of magically imbued metals which counteracted the astral forces thought to cause illnesses. Along with inventing the foundations of modern medicine, he also engaged in the construction of magical amulets and potions, the theories of which all informed his work. Work which formed the foundations of modern medicine.

It's important to know that ideas don't just manifest out of thin air. Everything you do and think is built on vast ziggurats of human ingenuity and failure, and shaped by the history entombed within. I've just decided to learn about my favorite few bricks.

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Love what’s going on at the Vatican

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Let's kill this ass hole

People talk about Paul ruining Christianity like the guys before Paul didn't also have bad opinions.