Ya and if memory serves i think he clawed his own eyes out and committed suicide after finding out.

Thank you shepherd.com, i hadn’t heard of the single most famous sci-fi writer of the last decade.

I’ll check those out! I find the subject super interesting.

Just in case you didn’t know, there was a big cache of gnostic texts found in Nag Hammadi but the discovery got overshadowed by the dead sea scrolls. They were very cool to look into and shed a lot of light on pre-romanized Christianity.

I wish i had something off the top of my head but I’m mostly basing this off what i remember from uni lectures.

That being said if you look up early Christianity you’ll see that women filled the roles of priests and were often responsible for spreading and maintaining the faith before its roman adoption. You can even even see this in the bible where the earliest chronological chapters are extremely sympathetic to women, then become less and less so as time goes on.

I’ll see if i can find a specific reference for you later today.

Exactly. In keeping with my other comments, that’s why some early christian sects actually viewed Eve as a hero in the story, because she freed them from ignorance… You know, back when christianity was driven by women and wasn’t just roman ideology wearing a Jesus skin mask.

I think thats a pretty solid interpretation. The gnostics have other points too though, like the vast difference in personality between the vengeful old testament god (which they claim is a separate entity) and the loving new testament god.

I wrote an essay about that once. Adam and Eve were meant to chill in the garden for literally all of eternity but were still created as curious, fallible beings with no knowledge of evil. Ergo it was logically impossible that they wouldn’t have eaten the fruit eventually, whether that was in 3 days or 3 million years.

Only kinda related but one of the reasons the early christian gnostics gave for questioning the identity of the old testament god is this exact thing. God is supposed to be omniscient but for some reason is confused about what happened with the apple and doesn’t know where Adam is hiding… Interesting to think about… Maybe. Idk.

Thats awesome! Do they offer the whole catalogue?

You bet! It’s even better if you have a braindead job like I do, then you can spend all day learning and getting paid for it.

Paying the subscription for The Great Courses is absolutely insane value if its something you use regularly. Its not a credit system like Audible, its literally unlimited streaming of university level courses for 20$ a month (or like 12$ if you pay annually). The individual courses can cost upwards of 100$ so even if you only take one course every two months you still haven’t lost money.

It’s infinite learning, i cant shill hard enough.

Tiber Septim using Neilmidium the brass titan

While Jesus himself is overwhelmingly sympathetic to women, the bible’s later chapters (specifically those written by Paul) are pretty clear on how women ought to be treated. So while you could technically interpret it as exalting women, any religious leader turning to the bible with a specific question of how to behave will be more likely to find those later chapters with direct answers more appealing.

Extremely well said, thank you.

Wow! I wonder if it will have the exact same obvious plot twist as the last two?

Well i didn’t really want to but just for you, Skaffi, I looked it up on YouTube and copied the link

https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=uZD_kFQFQFEqEiWo

My guy that already happens. Didn’t you see the hbomberguy video?

1. Create environment actively hostile to remain in for long periods of time
2. Expect people to work and be productive in said environment for hours on end

They’ll probably kill off his character in the first scene then leave us with the cheaper actors for the rest smh