#impiety

[ironstringlikesmetal]

𝔭𝔥𝔬𝔱𝔬𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔨𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣!!! 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝟏/𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 #𝟓

𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔬𝔭 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔪

𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔯

𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔯

𝔟𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔶

𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔲𝔨

𝔟𝔢𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔥

𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔱𝔶

[illustratus]

Phryne before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterward, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. 'But,' says one, 'I am a busy man; I have no time for the long course of study which would be necessary to make me in any degree a competent judge of certain questions, or even able to understand the nature of the arguments.' Then he should have no time to believe." -- William Kingdon Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief"

[drondskaath]

Sekt | Expiate In Purgatory | 2023

Australian Black Metal

A homage to 90's Australian Black Metal featuring Ex members of Tyrant, Dybbuk, Samain & Pagan.

[painiac]

[tmarshconnors]

The Trial of Socrates

The Trial of Socrates is one of the most famous legal cases in ancient history. Socrates, a classical Greek philosopher, was put on trial in 399 BCE in Athens. He was charged with two main offenses:

Corrupting the youth of Athens: Socrates was accused of leading the younger generation astray by encouraging them to question established norms and authority, particularly the Athenian democracy.

Impiety (asebeia): He was also charged with disrespecting the gods of the city and introducing new deities. This accusation arose from his criticism of traditional religious beliefs and his promotion of more abstract philosophical ideas about divinity, including the concept of a singular, higher moral being or force.

The Context:

Athens had recently undergone political upheaval, including the fall of the Thirty Tyrants, a pro-Spartan oligarchy that briefly ruled the city before democracy was restored. Some of Socrates' followers, like Critias and Alcibiades, had connections to this oligarchic regime. This made him a controversial figure, even though he himself avoided political involvement.

The Trial:

The trial was held in front of 501 jurors, a large jury by modern standards. Socrates defended himself, but his defense was more of a philosophical discourse than an attempt to win the favor of the jury. He argued that he had done nothing wrong, suggesting that his mission of questioning others and seeking wisdom was a service to the city, not a crime. He even referred to himself as a "gadfly," a figure meant to stimulate the city to self-examination.

Rather than appeal to the jurors' emotions, Socrates remained defiant, claiming he had a divine duty to seek and speak the truth. His unwillingness to pander to the court likely contributed to his conviction.

The Death Sentence:

Socrates was found guilty by a narrow margin. After the guilty verdict, there was a second phase of the trial to determine his punishment. He sarcastically proposed that he should be rewarded with free meals for life, as a benefactor of the city. When pressed for a serious proposal, he suggested a small fine, which the jury found insufficient.

The jury ultimately sentenced him to death by drinking hemlock, a poison that induces paralysis and death. Despite offers from his friends to help him escape, Socrates accepted his fate, choosing to abide by the law even though he believed it to be unjust. His calm acceptance of death is famously depicted in Plato's Phaedo, where he engages in philosophical discussion with his friends until the moment of his death.

Socrates' trial and execution are often seen as a pivotal moment in Western philosophy, marking the conflict between free thought and democratic governance. His death also serves as a symbol of the risks involved in challenging societal norms and authority.

[ragingsteel666-blog]

"Skullfucking Armageddon"IMPIETY

シンガポールの悪魔と謳われるIMPIETYなんだけど、アルバム幾枚か聴いた感じでは大したことがないものも多い。ただ某メタル辞典のレビューと照らし合わせてみると、どうも自分はたまたま不調のアルバムばかりを引いてる嫌いもあるので、そのうち他のアルバム群もちゃんと聴いていかなければならない。例えば今回紹介するこの2ndアルバムなどは、素晴らしい部類に入る。ベスチャルウォーブラックの文脈で語られることの多いバンドだが、これはぶっちゃけ初期IMMORTALだろう。しかし原典が欠いている生々しさを併せ持っているのがこちらの最大の強みであり、ゆえにベスチャルウォーとして括られているものと捉えている。そしてオーラスに待ち受けているメタルパンク"Torment in Fire"は、全メタルヘッズ必聴の大名曲。ブルータルで生々しくとも、とてもキャッチー。灼熱の夏こそこういうメタルで乗り切りたい。大推薦盤。

[jackalspine]

I can’t think of anything as impious as killing yourself whenever you feel like it lol

@surelysilly

[calitsnow]

{La princesse de La Manchaland}

[justneury]

FINALLY IM DONE WITH SOME NEW ELSEN OCS REFS... HERE THEY ARE :D

More about them below!!! (it's not fully done tho, is just some idea of how they are)

Mariel: Psychologist in zone 2. Her job is somewhat stressful, as she sometimes (though rarely) happens that her patient becomes Burnt and she has to start the module to get rid of it. She has became somewhat used to it, though she has become somewhat more irritable.

Personality: Reserved, Professional, easily annoyed/not very patient, somewhat traumatized, straight to the point, high chance of becoming Burnt.

Mimo: Elsen without mouth that is totally mute, but, always looking to bring out a smile and happiness. He has a happy attitude. Still, many times it doesn't work and he gets silently depressed :(. He is from zone 2, and knows sign language.

Personality: Silly, curious, wants to make people laugh, mute, can get into trouble accidentally, somewhat depressed.

Selsen: Joke character. Don't know where he was born or appeared. He is a round-headed Elsen who is almost the opposite of all elsen. He is hyperactive and chubby, plus he doesn't pay much attention to the guardians. For some reason, he is able to go from zone to zone and always gets into/stuck in places he isn't meant to be. His body is very squishy and he is very silly.

Do NOT give him sugar please

Meriam: Spectre who is unable to leave her dead body after drowning. Defensive and easily upset, she also seems to forget things easily, so she is constantly lost. Still, she is mostly docile...

Personality: Skittish, defensive, ashamed, easily stressed, lost, forgets easily.

The gardener: Elsen from Zone 3 who got stuck in Zone 4 [IMPIETY AU THING]. He believes that all spectres are good thanks to the idea that Enoch implanted in him in Zone 3. A Ghoul took advantage of it to get new victims, so he only asks "favors" to the Elsen to grow his flowers (which is some purple ones), and give it to some Elsen who comes by where they are, and then bring them to the ghoul afterwards. The flower has a highly deadly disease that literally makes flowers grow rapidly on Elsen's body, extracting their energy, so the ghoul has an easy prey. The ghoul rewards him with sugar. He is very dependent on sugar.

Personality: Manipulative, pretends to be cool, delusional, meticulous, transtornated

[figofswords]

owl house au where belos goes through the portal successfully but he doesn’t know to look both ways when crossing the road so he immediately gets hit by a fucking bus and dies

[greenvertumna]

You know who else will be dead soon enough? Your son.

[isatoru]

me and my socratic dialogue about oliver aiku on the dash

[iliyad]

to nobody's surprise, i am yet again on my academic antigone bullshit

ok i wrote an entire essay on this for class but i keep thinking about it and i really need to get off my chest how utterly devastating it is that antigone truly is doomed by the narrative.

a lot of academics look at her story as an example of athenian literature which opposes the normative gender ideology of their society because antigone is a woman inserting herself into a political sphere with no conventional place for women, especially as it was often held in athenian society that obedience to men was a feminine virtue, which antigone directly subverts by not only standing against creon but doing so publicly.

but, antigone's actions were driven by her will to adhere to the social norm of surviving women in a family performing funerary rites for the deceased men. this isn't really touched upon in sophocles from what i remember, but antigone isn't just determined to complete polynices' funerary rites because he's her brother—the completion of these rites was a position normally held by women of a family, and the responsibilities of daughters to their families wasn't considered extinguished by marriage or any such thing, so even if antigone had been married to haimon by this point the responsibility still would have fallen to her—but she would have felt a duty imposed by the societal norms placed upon women to honour polynices. this therefore obviously creates a conflict — on one hand (μὲν) society expects her to honour her brother's funerary rights, but on the other hand (δὲ) if she does so she's not only publicly disobeying a male authority figure but in a way which threatens to prevent her from marrying and preserving her family line, which was also considered a daughter's responsibility.

in choosing to disobey creon, antigone has been rendered useless as a bride in his eyes, because this rejection of the status quo has resulted in her trespass of the societal boundaries of her gender and she's therefore no longer considered able to serve the expectations of women, so creon declares that she's to die. but if she hadn't disobeyed him, socially she's still failed to uphold the familial responsibilities demanded of her following the normative gender ideology, and so even if no one would have spoken up directly about it because she's followed creon's command, either by wilful perception or subconscious judgment she likely would have been seen as a traitor to her family on some level regardless.

what this means is that not only is antigone truly doomed by the narrative, where her choices render her a servant to social expectations of women whether she outright defies authority or unwillingly defies her womanly responsibilities, but that her entire narrative is ingrained with the very gender ideology that dooms her to begin with.

[thethcministry]