#greeks and hebrews

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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[grecoromanyaoi]

actually the most important thing u can learn in any language n the first thing u should learn tbh is swear words. grammar n shit comes second to swear words

[sophiejanefostersilver]

I just want to reread the odyssey in English, because I read in my first language, but it's super hard to be serious while reading when Odysseus called himself one nose (nobody in Hebrew)

[momhowell]

i'm not a Catholic but i think it's way too funny that "Daniel" was the prophet to escape a lion's den. meanwhile our Dan made the lion's den his literal home

ooooh yes the Daniel lion connection I never would have thought of that -- it's really interesting if you look at the original story:

basically king darius of persia made a law that anyone who worships another god but him has to be thrown in the lions den, and then daniel from judeah shows up and darius likes him a lot but unfortunately he worships another god, and the law is law so daniel must be thrown to the lions and this makes king darius extremely upset

but daniel doesn't escape -- no, he survives. he is not maimed by the lions at all because of the faith that he has -- so in a way, daniel (that is, the daniel of The Bible) also makes a lion's den his own.

i don't totally know what to make of it if certain theories are to be believed and daniel also is the lion aka ran the philslion twitter account

i know people's lives are not stories they don't have biblical references BUT dan and phil are the main characters of the universe so if anyone's life would it would be theirs.

[anistarrose]

went so far down the wikipedia rabbit hole that I found a paper that I think can only be read in the voice of Jonathan Frakes Asking You Things

[ID: a screenshot reading:

"... precise features or to have specific relationships with other models. Would you like to live in a universe where CH holds, but (diamond symbol) fails? Or where (2 to the aleph sub n = aleph sub n plus 2) for every natural number n? Would you like to have rigid Suslin trees? Would you like every Aronszajn tree to be special? Do you want a weakly compact cardinal kappa for which (diamond sub kappa) REG fails? Set theorists build models to order."

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[silverskye13]

Had the thought of Joel smallishbeans hels being almost like a version of narcissus or some other Greek hero. He's tall, almost too tall, he's handsome, almost too handsome. He's often spoken about like he's a gift from the gods, but it's a death sentence. Respect turns to jealously quickly in hels after all

Hels!Joel is Junji Ito's Tomie confirmed?

No but I do really like this Narcissus/Adonis style paragon of beauty and perfection, and he is doomed to walk a fine line between needing attention to thrive, and too much attention inevitably leading to downfall. It's like when Hamlet recognizes he's in a tragedy, but he has the will to break the fourth wall and fight it. He can't fully predict how everyone else will act though, and will always have mixed success. Doomed By The Narrative vibes in a self aware character who's trying to beat the allegations.

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Do you know what I want for Christmas? The ability to read/speak every language on the Earth. Yes, even dead ones.

[gideonnah]

[la-galaxie-langblr]

today on random languages my brain is going 👀 at is biblical hebrew and biblical greek

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[grecoromanyaoi]

the 'dont ~claim~/create w greek mythology/hellenism if ur not greek' ppl r the most annoying ppl omg. like yes those english aristocrats were thieving assholes n american kids today acting like they "own" greek mythology is cringe. u can even argue that greek voices r not heard enough nor is any other era of greek history but cmon. the ~cultural appropriation~ angle is a bit much. remember when those beloved ancestors conquered like half of asia, settled there n enforced their culture on the region?

[i-am-trans-gwender]

"None of those words are in the Bible."

The Bible was written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic! None of the English language is in the Bible you dumb fuck!

[whatsthatmagiccard]

To follow up the full art, how about a full name?

[ace-hell]

Pro palestinians be like "DECOLONIZE BALESTINE" but then use every name for the land and cities besides the native ones

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Okay, I just found out that historically Mary was between fourteen and fiteen yo when the archangel Gabriel gave her the pregnancy news. My whole Jesus is somewhat real on Good Omens so how did THAT conversation went made me actually more curious now because it's not only Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a human but Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a teenager.