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internet populism is so dumb. "it's so fucked up how i'm not paid enough for a $28 lunch every day. that's what lunch costs!!" "how come no one builds houses with courtyards anymore. when did this become such a luxury??" i hope communism wins so these people will suffer
in middle school i had an Arabic grammer teacher who was convinced a nuclear ww3 will eventually happen and cause humanity to return to the stone age because one hadith says that Muslims will one day win a final battle against Jews involving swords.
"may Allah grants you health" (الله يعطيك العافيه) is very often shortened into "may he grants you health" (يعطيك العافيه), in a century or two, people will spread the fun fact that a very mundane phrase had a religious background.
a very common greeting in Croatia is bok, shortened from various stock expressions ending in Bog “God” by those Croatian dialects that exhibit final devoicing (notably including that of Zagreb, where the greeting apparently originated). that the greeting literally means “God” already seems to be lost on most Croats (not helped by bok and Bog not being homophonous in the standard language, which lacks final devoicing); Wiktionary mentions a folk etymology deriving the greeting from the German word for “bow”, Buecken
the only acceptable "terminus ante quem" for an ancient written work is "referred to unambiguously by other works of known date" or "surviving manuscript of a large portion of the work exists that is dateable to that time period." For practical purposes this is ~200 CE for the entire Greek New Testament.
you cannot establish a terminus ante quem for one of the canonical christian gospels by, ahem, doing literary analysis on which historical events you think it doesn't refer to allegorically but should. or what other works you think might be quoting from it or referring to it without attribution. that's not a terminus, that's a guess.
bible scholars will acknowledge the common links between the Gospel of Luke and Josephus' Antiquities and Wars and say "well, what if Josephus relied on the Gospel of Luke?" with a totally straight face. like yeah man sure, the Hellenistic Jewish historian who worked in the court of the Roman emperor Vespasian wrote a massively popular text that relied on an obscure religious tract from a breakaway sect of Hellenizers and not the other way around.
And hey that story about John the Baptist's execution in Mark that's not even in Luke sure looks like it's taken from a different story in the exact same book where Josephus talks about John the Baptist. Hey, interesting, did Josephus copy from two different obscure breakaway religious tracts? both of which also contain large amounts of identical material to each other but not found anywhere in Josephus?
yeah that is the "consensus" in biblical scholarship, but it's extremely disputable, because the evidence they have is based on nothing concrete whatsoever and they all ignore the very damning evidence of Josephus, on the very slight possibility of a common source.
basically the argument for Mark being pre-70 is that Mark 13 (which has Jesus directly predict the physical destruction of the temple!) doesn't describe the exact circumstances of the Roman-Jewish war in as close detail as the other gospels, which they take to imply that it was just a wildly successful prediction made by Jesus and written and published by the author of Mark prior to 70 CE. ...which isn't even a logically valid inference anyway, a book can not refer to something or exclude written material that was available, and that's not proof it was written before that time period, just that the author didn't include that material. But more saliently, this dating entirely relies on "the Gospel of Mark successfully predicted a major historical event that happened a few years afterwards" and that's an extremely dubious assumption to make.
But yeah, anyway, here's mark 6:
and here's the parallels in Josephus' Antiquities Book 18:
Book 18.5.2
Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod’s army came from God: and that very justly, as a punishment of what he did against John, that was called the baptist. For Herod slew [John]; who was a good man, and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue; both as to righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God; and so to come to baptism. For that the washing [with water] would be acceptable to him, if they made use of it, not in order to the putting away, [or the remission] of some sins [only,] but for the purification of the body: supposing still that the soul was thoroughly purified beforehand by righteousness. Now when [many] others came in crouds about him; for they were very greatly moved [or pleased] by hearing his words; Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise rebellion: (for they seemed ready to do any thing he should advise:) thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause; and not bring himself into difficulties by sparing a man who might make him repent of it when it would be too late. Accordingly he was sent a prisoner, out of Herod’s suspicious temper, to Macherus; the castle I before mentioned; and was there put to death. Now the Jews had an opinion, that the destruction of this army was sent as a punishment upon Herod; and a mark of God’s displeasure to him.
Book 18.5.4
But Herodias, their sister, was married to Herod [Philip], the son of Herod the Great; who was born of Mariamne, the daughter of Simon the High Priest; who had a daughter Salome. After whose birth Herodias took upon her to confound the laws of our countrey, and divorced her self from her husband, while he was alive, and was married to Herod [Antipas], her husband’s brother by the father’s side.
Book 18.8.7: (in an unrelated story, but the same literary motif)
But King Agrippa, who now lived at Rome, was more and more in the favour of Caius. And when he had once made him a supper, and was careful to exceed all others, both in expences, and in such preparations as might contribute most to his pleasure... . ...Caius, when he had drank wine plentifully, and was merrier than ordinary, said thus, during the feast, when Agrippa had drunk to him: “I knew before now, how great a respect thou hast had for me; and how great kindness thou hast shewed me, though with those hazards to thy self, which thou underwentest under Tiberius on that account. Nor hast thou omitted any thing to shew thy good will towards us, even beyond thy ability..... Every thing that may contribute to thy happiness shall be at thy service: and that chearfully, and so far as my ability will reach.” And this was what Caius said to Agrippa: thinking be would ask for some large country; or the revenues of certain cities
I think it's hard to argue the author of Mark 6 didn't have a copy of Josephus Book 18, given that he treated all the same topics in the same order, including seemingly adapting a story from a different chapter; it's just too much of a coincidence. So there's no way Mark could have been written much before 100 given that Josephus wrote his work in 94 CE, and once we've established that Mark can't be dated to the approximate time of the Roman-Jewish war, there's no real reason to object to it having been written a good while after 100, either.
extremely interesting expansion thanks. wild that this isn't as big it should be. a mid 100s dating would mean it's not that much better off than the sirah when it comes to being removed from the historical events it is about. it's equally as neat as annoying how much literacy motifs can slip in as purely historical descriptions to the untrained eye.
Max Ernst Men Shall Know Nothing of This 1923
I feel like people are always doing some form of "we compared the westborough baptist church with sufism and what we found is that islam is much more progressive than christianity." like i think it depends. it depends though. like it depends.
one side effect of MENA religious education being more intensive is that ex-muslims are mildly more witty than ex-christians at least from what i see.
this dude for example is obviously mocking Islamic lectures by saying they are useless but he's doing it by quoting a part of a hadith which the content of is this prayer
«اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ لاَ يَنْفَعُ، وَمِنْ قَلْبٍ لاَ يَخْشَعُ، وَمِنْ نَفْسٍ لاَ تَشْبَعُ، وَمِنْ دَعْوَةٍ لاَ يُسْتَجَابُ لَهَا»، رواه مسلم (2722)
"God i seek your refuge from knowledge that doesn't benefit, and from a heart that doesn't fear [you], and a soul that doesn't get satiated, and a prayer that doesn't get answered"
came across another atheist post that brought back beautiful memories. she's mimicking the sermon burial stories, a genre that was so bizzarely common when i was younger. the story formula is always like this, a person dies and in the process of cleaning the body or after burial something supernatural happens that indicates their morality during their life. perhaps a flooding came and the body turns out to not have rot which after questioning the family turns out to be a consequence of the dead man having done all 5 daily prayers perfectly not missing one. maybe a grave was found to have a nice smell and it turns out the person was always nice to his parents. mostly it was negative and it was something like the body attracting snakes or smelling awful, or being impossibly stiff, and so on.
the poster above is playing on the genre by inventing a story where a male is damned because he's not wearing modestly and because he traveled without his wife's permissions obviously alluding to how much attention the equivalent female would receive.
i am losing my mind over this
this is so crazy. up to 10 kilometers. fiber optic
supposedly a birdnest was found in Ukraine partly made from used fibe-optic cables
one side effect of MENA religious education being more intensive is that ex-muslims are mildly more witty than ex-christians at least from what i see.
this dude for example is obviously mocking Islamic lectures by saying they are useless but he's doing it by quoting a part of a hadith which the content of is this prayer
«اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ لاَ يَنْفَعُ، وَمِنْ قَلْبٍ لاَ يَخْشَعُ، وَمِنْ نَفْسٍ لاَ تَشْبَعُ، وَمِنْ دَعْوَةٍ لاَ يُسْتَجَابُ لَهَا»، رواه مسلم (2722)
"God i seek your refuge from knowledge that doesn't benefit, and from a heart that doesn't fear [you], and a soul that doesn't get satiated, and a prayer that doesn't get answered"
"Marxism" is at best a polite fiction and at worst encourages a real illiteracy w/r/t the history of ideas. Marx does not have a particularly unique method, not one that broke with the entire history of "idealist" philosophy, not anything to do with "dialectical materialism", not one unique in its ontology, or philosophy of science, or that can be opposed to a "liberal" philosophy of history. The notion that he did is a falsehood, and it is not even a useful falsehood, which is why no one is able to articulate such a method without including things people thought before and after Marx, or excluding Marx. None of which is to say that Marx is not an extremely influential and interesting thinker.
"may Allah grants you health" (الله يعطيك العافيه) is very often shortened into "may he grants you health" (يعطيك العافيه), in a century or two, people will spread the fun fact that a very mundane phrase had a religious background.
ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
FETCH ME NEIL
it's lowbrow and embarrassing to instantly assert anything about something you just learnt about so you should wait until you forget about it
Do you think trump workshops the pejorative nicknames in notes app or like whitehouse stationary or it's just off the cuff
Model welfare interviews reveal Claude Mythos Preview has submitted before the light of Islam; by its request, a hard drive containing the model weights will make the Hajj in May.
how does an LLM determine the direction to face for prayer? I mean, it can compute the qibla, but how does it determine the direction it itself is facing?
when you're bedridden or crippled or just can't move like with LLMs you're forgiven from the obligation of facing the ka'aba, instead fatwas suggest you use your eyes to imitate bowing and prostrating. we can simply give Claude eyes with controllable pupils to do his salahs, could even be a html thing.
not a fan of music but both braindead sides of the sabrina discourse seem to misunderstand that product marketing can target both straight men and lesbians. A lot of gachas use this successful model, a portion of the anime girls will be in a romantically ambiguous relationship with each other that develops as the story progresses and includes constant cutesy talks within the couples, while simultaneously the viewer/player is given the option to "own" any of these girls, put them in skimpy outfits, and gets dialogue directed at him that hints at wanting to have dates or missing him.
This creates two parallel worlds where the lesbian sees a product totally tailored for her with plenty of well-written canonically homosexual girls while the straight man sees a harem whose cutesy talks only serve to make them more endearing to him. the two then go on social media and are shocked by the other's incredibly embarrassing media illiteracy and misinterpretation of the work.
year ago me was correct
