Grail
@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 1 hour ago:
I agree that Rome sucks. In fact, I remember saying earlier that Rome sucked! One of the big reasons that Rome sucked is because they had this technique for colonisation, called syncretism.
Normally when you conquer a people, they retain their own culture and religion. And this sets them apart from you, so they’re more likely to rebel. But the Romans liked to pressure conquered peoples to convert over to Roman culture. If the oppressed native people identify as Romans, they won’t want to rebel against Rome. And they used syncretism to convert people of other pagan religions to Romanism.
Syncretism is the idea that different cultural myths are just interpretations of some deeper, shared truth. So this is like the idea that Ares and Mars are the same guy, just in two different languages. The Romans adopt all of the Ares lore into Mars and tell the Greeks that they can continue to worship Ares, and still be cultural and religious Romans. Now the Greeks don’t want to fight Rome, because they’re the same people.
But syncretism doesn’t work on heno/monotheists, like the Christians. So the Romans are saying “Can’t you just make your yearly tax offering to Jupiter? It would be really convenient for us if your kids saw you following the laws that say to worship our gods.” And the Christians are replying with “No, fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Jupiter is a fake god, probably secretly a demon, and Yahweh is gonna burn you in hell.” So everyone here sucks and is just awful to each other.
And when you put the might and manipulation of Rome together with the intolerance and self-righteousness of Christianity… you get a colonial force strong enough to destroy most of the religions of the world forever.
Those other guys you mentioned are shitheads too, but it wasn’t because of their religion, and they didn’t use their religion as a tool for evil (as far as I know). The Romans used religion for evil, and the monotheist Christians were evil because of their religion. Put those two forces together and you get the worst imperial culture in history.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 1 hour ago:
No. I know lots of people who worship the Rainbow Serpent and none of them are like that. In fact, tolerance and open mindedness are important traditional values in My corner of Australia.
It seems like you don’t hate religion, you just hate Abrahamism. And you’ve bought into the cultural erasure of every religion that isn’t Abrahamic.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 2 hours ago:
Do you also hate people who believe in Indigenous religions like the Rainbow Serpent or the Tuatha De Danaan?
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 2 hours ago:
Nah. Monotheists are assholes. Rome genocided nearly all the European religions in service of their monotheism. We don’t have any druids anymore, because of monotheism. Hellenism died out and had to be revived from scratch, with so many traditions lost forever, because of monotheism. We only have two sources on Norse mythology, because of monotheism. And then the monotheists started colonising the other continents!!
Abrahamism isn’t even originally monotheist. It used to be henotheist, which is when you worship one god, but believe in everyone else’s gods. The Bible is still henotheist. When Moses uses Elohim’s power to turn a staff into a snake, the Egyptian priests pray to the Egyptian gods and do the same thing! Any Christian who believes in only one god is a heretic who denies the Bible.
Before Rome, the norm was to worship your own culture’s gods, and to passively believe in other gods. Odin is real, he just lives all the way up north, so we don’t have anything to do with him. Hopefully the Tuatha De Danaan can protect us from those Vikings with their blessings from Odin! That’s the original polytheism. That’s what we lost. Before Rome, denying other cultures’ gods was a thing weird cults did for no reason. Like the Zoroastrians. Normal people didn’t pull that nonsense!
It’s the paradox of tolerance. You can’t be tolerant of intolerance, or the pricks will win and change the world. Which they did! But I’m fighting back by believing in every god, of every religion. And I don’t respect any monotheist.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 4 hours ago:
To be fair I’m religious, and I also hate it when people use “god” as a proper noun. It’s exclusionary. There are tons of gods, and the history of monotheist persecution of paganism means that you can’t have a god named god in good faith anymore. It’s like the swastika, it’s been ruined. Call your dog something else. Like Yahweh, or Elohim, or Quetzalcoatl, or Vishnu.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 4 hours ago:
Hello, I’m religious. I’m also trans, nonbinary, autistic, otherkin, gay, anarcho-communist, vegan, and all-around woke. This is possible due to paganism.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 4 hours ago:
Mistborn is mediaeval sci-fi
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 4 hours ago:
Han didn’t shoot first. He was the only one who shot.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 1 day ago:
You clicked on the genital licking post. You have no one to blame for this but yourself.
- Comment on Now I'm the lesson 1 day ago:
Everything is a screen now
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 1 day ago:
Nah, I don’t want any
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 1 day ago:
Nah. I had My genitals surgically removed. They’re probably decomposing in a biomedical landfill right now, so I don’t care if they’re licked.
- Comment on A small moment in gaming history 1 day ago:
These days they won’t let knights say Ni
- Comment on No worries, companies of 3d printers will find out how to scam their customers soon too 2 days ago:
Thanks, banned from our instance
- Comment on Black emoji world record 3 days ago:
It’s a cartoon where people are yellow. But they didn’t make black people yellow. They broke their own design language rules. I think it would be better art if they were consistent.
- Comment on Black emoji world record 3 days ago:
4 paragraph philosophical arguments are fun. I guess I must like talking about philosophy because I’m smart.
- Comment on Black emoji world record 3 days ago:
See, this is why I hate the way the Simpsons draws black people.
Homer Simpson doesn’t have white (peach) skin. He has yellow skin. Homer is obviously white in terms of culture, and you can make an argument that he has a white looking face shape too, even if he is a cartoon man. But he doesn’t have white skin.
So Apu and Carl should not have realistic dark skin. If the Simpsons artstyle is yellow skin, these characters should have yellow skin too. Make this a world where skin colour is not a racialised trait. Apu should still be Indian, with an Indian accent, Hindu religion, Indian facial features if you wanna go there… But no brown skin. This is a world of yellow people, and yellow skin is not a racial trait.
If the Simpsons had just made everyone yellow, then people wouldn’t be going around assuming that yellow emojis represent white people. Cartoon yellow skin would be seen as raceless.
Keep the plots around ethnicity, still have it be a world where racism exists. Hell, have the characters use the words “black” and “white” even though these characters are neither black nor white. Real people aren’t black or white either! Don’t acknowledge it and don’t change anything else. This is just a world where everyone is yellow.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 4 days ago:
Clive Palmer and Rupert Murdoch
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 4 days ago:
Obviously the answer is to imagine Margaret Thatcher
- Comment on Know the signs 5 days ago:
It went great! Now I have no genitals, just as keikaku!
Translator’s Note
Keikaku means planned.
- Comment on Know the signs 5 days ago:
Ugh, she waited until the day after I left town for bottom surgery to do it and hid her plans from everyone! This is so unfair! All I got was a goodbye hug, and I didn’t even know it was gonna be her last one forever!
My polycule had a crush on her too, and I wanted her to bone them! My partner and My girlfriend didn’t get the booty they deserved!
- Comment on Know the signs 5 days ago:
This is some bullshit. My friend killed herself last year and I didn’t get any free shit!
- Comment on Is there a ranting or venting community? 5 days ago:
If it’s a story, you can use !storytime@multiverse.soulism.net
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 5 days ago:
F150 is a huge American ute that burns tons of gasoline to get around.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
You live 50 kilometres from your workplace?? What a bunch of bourgeois decadence! Never in human history has that been a sustainable lifestyle choice, except when there was a railway.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
I’m vegan and carfree. I’m probably closer to that minimum than most people in this thread. I looked up the stats once and saw that the average American produces ten times as much CO2 as the average Congenese person. Imagine that, ten times. If you’re an average American, you can reduce way more of your emissions than that average Congenese person can! If you eat meat and drive a car, you’ve got so much opportunity for growth!
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
That’s true, if you’re in a wheelchair then I can see an argument for the necessity of cars. But if you have working legs, you don’t really need a car.
- Comment on the Pope uses his teeth to eat food 6 days ago:
If everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it too? Don’t fall for peer pressure!
- Comment on the Pope uses his teeth to eat food 6 days ago:
That guy would’ve loved pope fights
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
Well can’t we just ban Shell from selling oil, and then get in our F150s to drive to the airport?