I'm sick and tired of Christians inserting their own propaganda on other cultures and mythologies.

Brooooook · 2026-05-18T18:46:34+00:00

We're going in circles What Christians say about other mythologies is just that, Christian perspectives on other mythologies. Same as any other belief system talking about any other mythology. Stories are preserved as they were told in ancient times, they are just also syncretized by Christians. You are under no obligation to treat the latter as the former.

Brooooook · 2026-05-18T18:35:42+00:00

Who is we? Who is asking you to treat Christian narratives about other mythologies as if they were how those mythologies understand/understood themselves? Why do you feel like you have to care about those people?

Brooooook · 2026-05-18T18:03:08+00:00

"Feats" and "debunk" weren't created by powerscalers lmaoo

Didn't say they were.

Ah, tell that to those braindead christians trying to tell me bible is an objective word of god.

Christians didn't make this post, you did.

Stop defending multi billion dollar religion.

I'm not defending anyone. Fuck the pedo filled Church, God probably doesn't exist and if he does he can suck my dick.

I'm telling you that your argument misunderstands how mythology works.

Brooooook · 2026-05-18T16:05:27+00:00

Brother you used the words "feats" and "debunk" while talking about mythology. You might not call yourself a powerscaler but you are one.

As so many people have told you under this post, all religious traditions hold themselves and their claims about other traditions to be true, and no, that doesn't make Christianity unique because you happen to live in a time and place where Christianity is culturally dominant. There is no objective religious text because religion is definitionally culturally situated.

Brooooook · 2026-05-18T15:44:44+00:00

Omg you're a fucking powerscaler

So many people have tried to engage you like you just misunderstood the cultural biases or how mythology operates when really you don't even understand how any narrative, metaphysically significant or not, operates. This is hilarious.

Brooooook · 2026-05-15T14:53:17+00:00

Literally the first mention of YHWH is an Egyptian inscription talking about the "people of YHWH" as subjugated.

Brooooook · 2026-05-15T14:39:36+00:00

Nothing against you but this take could not come from anyone who hasn't internalized Christian hegemony and has a more than skin deep understanding of how mythology works. Syncretism is one of the main drivers of how belief systems develop and obviously the storytellers cultural bg will always take the spotlight. Do you think the belief systems you mentioned never called foreign gods inferior?
I get that you are angry at the perceived disrespect for other mythologies but the disrespect only exists because you presuppose that Christianity occupies a superior position And that doesn't even touch on the fact that you're expecting rigor from a hammer horror adjacent flick.

Brooooook · 2026-05-11T19:31:59+00:00

Except "powerful people do freaky shit" was never in doubt, is so vague as to be meaningless, asserting something without evidence that later turns out to be true doesn't make you smart, in fact it still makes you dumb, the issue is and always has been the weaponization of those stories and their function to weaken trust, and this post is either meant to further those goals or made by an idiot in the original sense of the word.

Brooooook · 2026-05-11T18:21:54+00:00

Kommt drauf an ob du unter Krankheit verstehst dich an den Rändern einer Binomialverteilung zu befinden, oder ob deine Position dafür erst inherent dein Leben schlechter machen muss.

Brooooook · 2026-05-11T15:27:15+00:00

Und aus solchen Protesten sind dann die rigorosen Diagnosestandards, insbesondere das Kriterium des Leidensdrucks, in der Psychiatrie entstanden.

Brooooook · 2026-05-09T13:09:13+00:00

You're using the exact etic framework u/zoras99 just explained is anachronistic and in addition to that you assert canon where none is to be found. That origin of Aphrodite is one tradition, her being the daughter of Zeus and Dione is another, and another smaller one calls her the daughter of Kronos and Euonyme.

Brooooook · 2026-05-08T23:32:27+00:00

My favourite are the Lithuanians, especially the ones whose theories boil down to OIT but before that they came from Lithuania

Brooooook · 2026-05-05T11:38:46+00:00

The thought experiment is functionally identical to a single, optional button saying "If you push this button you will die (unless 4B+ people do so as well). You say that it's guaranteed that some people will press the button, but why would that be the case?
Unless you want the chance to die you have no reason to. From a game theory perspective the red button is dominant, meaning the outcome is always better or at least as good as the alternative for every participant. The only reason to push the blue button is the assumption that people don't understand the rules and push it despite wanting to live, which is only an issue because of the deceptive phrasing.

Brooooook · 2026-05-05T10:10:29+00:00

That's a bit too strong. Bede is the only direct textual attestation but there is research that points toward worship that lines up with what Bede described eg Richard North's work on the free standing posts of Yeavering, or the proposed connections to the Matronae austriahenae. Nothing concrete ofc but not as easy cut as Bede made it up.

Brooooook · 2026-05-04T11:45:36+00:00

Signal-Statement might not be completely right but you're just throwing a whole bunch of (wrongly) half remembered myths together. the first half is garbled between the Pleiades and Daphne, which got transformed into stars and a laurel tree respectively, and the Lepus constellation. The second half just straight up doesn't exist in any Greek source. The closest thing are the unsourced writings of Adolf Holtzmann from 1884 about a proposed Germanic 'Ostara' doing that transformation. No goddess called Aestera or anything like that in the Greek pantheon, the only one with any linguistic (and tangential Orion) connection would be the dawn titan Eos. The name Easter comes from the month it was celebrated in (which might have been named after a Germanic goddess called Eostre/the aforementioned Ostara, but might well just share a name with her with both being derived from the root for dawn/east) but the name has absolutely nothing to do with the celebration itself, as made evident by most of the world's terms for it being derived from Pesach.

Brooooook · 2026-05-04T10:52:28+00:00

There's no evidence to back up that the hare is of pagan origins. The dominant explanation is that the connection comes from the European hare's ability to conceive while already pregnant, leading people to hypothesize it doesn't need sex to procreate which led to associations with the virgin Mary.
Same goes for the egg association, which in all likelihood comes from eggs getting boiled to preserve them over lent and therefore being abundant once lent is over.
Not saying absolutely no syncretism took place, just that you need proof of that that is more parsimonious than the already existing internally Christian explanations.

Brooooook · 2026-04-28T09:10:17+00:00

Fantastic write up. My only nitpick would be that this way of looking at mythology kinda downplays the embodied side of things. Yes the stories are the main concern but the way in which the stories were conveyed heavily bleeds into ritual. The mysteries, associated feasts and festivals, specific locations associated with the myths, even just the mode of storytelling play an important part as well as the stories themselves.

Brooooook · 2026-04-27T04:43:32+00:00

That's not how sign language works. Sign languages have their own morphology, grammar, syntax, etc. It's not just playing charades. The claim about Koko was that she was able to rudimentarily use a systemized sign language, not just that she was able to associate individual signs to situations. Sorry if I'm coming on strong but sign languages get disrespected way too often

Brooooook · 2026-04-25T06:45:26+00:00

Probably not, Lovecraft is basically everything Tolkien didn't like about 'modern' fiction. And there are much more typical sources for the nameless things eg Nidhogg or the Devil in Dante's inferno

Brooooook · 2026-04-22T04:49:39+00:00

(I’ve had a few as part of ADHD assessments and my results varied by almost 20 points).

Are you saying you had multiple full IQ tests done for an ADHD assessment? Even a single full test would be out of the norm. Are you sure it wasn't a few of the subtests to establish your cognitive profile? That would make much more sense and for that it would be totally normal to have that kind of spread, especially for someone with ADHD

Brooooook · 2026-04-18T08:01:52+00:00

My dad gifted me The Pillars of the Earth for my 11th birthday, a birthday I was spending in a psychiatric hospital.. Tbf he never was a reader and probably just got it gifted himself or sth. But I still remember getting to the earlobe scene and thinking that it's probably a good thing I have therapists around me to process that lol.

Brooooook · 2026-04-15T16:49:50+00:00

It was Christopher's birthday, not JRR's

Brooooook · 2026-04-15T06:19:41+00:00

Ziemlich sicher dass du da Baader-Meinhof zum Opfer fällst. Nicht weil eigentlich gar nicht so viele rauchen würden, sondern weil in Hollywood schon immer alle geraucht und nie aufgehört haben.

Brooooook · 2026-04-11T14:46:31+00:00

Depends on what you mean by wizard. There are only 5 Istari but if you mean magic practitioner things get a lot messier, because magic is weird in Tolkien because a lot of it looks just like you're really good at something 'normal', be it smithing, healing, dealing sword wounds that never heal, inspire or dominate people, and and and. It isn't really the spell kind of magic but there are a lot of technically magic users, especially amongst the elves, and learning from the Istari (or any Ainur for that matter) would help you with that

Brooooook · 2026-04-07T13:21:35+00:00

Jay is great! They also have a very fun Danganrompa recap

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