Post Az2UxXRYfT4dYOv7NQ by shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network
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(DIR) Post #Ay6nvoO6NTgdqF2NAO by augustus@shitposter.world
2025-09-11T21:16:35.914160Z
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We need this blue skinned invisible son of a bitch now more than ever
(DIR) Post #Ay6sUXxHrgFypTJU92 by augustus@shitposter.world
2025-09-11T22:07:40.297821Z
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One day in 1500 BC citizens of Lower Egypt woke up to discover they had a new ruling class of Semitic speaking merchant shepherds. A ruling class which defied Egyptian gods and customs and defaced their statues and temples and elevated strange Canaanite gods and the worship of giant evil snakes. These people were called the Hyksos, they ruled from their capital seat of Avaris (cognate with 'avarice') and they are the historical people behind the story of Exodus from the bible. They would have taken over all of Egypt too, if not for Ahmose I who rode north and conquered them and expelled every Hyksos member back into the Levant where they came from. The political magnitude of this victory was so great, that the patron deity of Ahmose I's home, Amun, the god of Thebes, became the most powerful god in the Egyptian pantheon. Amun was taken to be responsible for the Egyptian victory and his position in Egyptian theology was elevated to that of a supreme deity.
(DIR) Post #Ay6xY3CEfQL6MSnNTc by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-09-11T23:04:21.512069Z
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@augustus And to this day the Jews' entire identity revolves around whining about it.
(DIR) Post #Ay6xlXJZzywzXKf2zQ by augustus@shitposter.world
2025-09-11T23:06:47.296886Z
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@toiletpaper I don't want people to think I like Egypt just because they pwned proto-Jews. I was fascinated in them and their golden age long before I knew what the Hyksos were, it's just a very amusing sidefact that somehow parallels to a lot of things in modern day, which was unexpected. and I kinda regret that their pantheon is the one that got mainlined in Europe and the more interesting Egyptian-Greek-Roman one got left behind.
(DIR) Post #Ay6yFuKP05SDbAWnCK by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-09-11T23:12:16.945472Z
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@augustus I don't want people to think I hate Jews per se either, but when you take a closer look, all the Abrahamic so-called religions (ideology being distinct from ethnic background) are pretty thoroughly predicated on whining about being the poor victims when the historical record demonstrates they were terrorists. In the instances they were (and are) genuinely persecuted, it's been primarily due to reprisals consequent from their own violent and bigoted rhetoric and behaviour.
(DIR) Post #Ay79dZQ9U38FCYheoy by hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info
2025-09-12T01:19:45.880042Z
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@augustus >named their capital after avariceextremely lazy worldbuilding
(DIR) Post #Ay79uZ9FkZsnHMu2oS by augustus@shitposter.world
2025-09-12T01:22:52.342352Z
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@hakui it isn't really cognate, it was only a coincidence, i just made that bit up hehe
(DIR) Post #Ay7KpnuWXGEJ6zwftA by lain@lain.com
2025-09-12T03:25:14.159802Z
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@hakui @augustus yeah, like Bangkok
(DIR) Post #Ay7KuuN9wCtgbJm0OW by hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info
2025-09-12T03:26:08.121689Z
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@lain @augustus don't walk sideways into the airport sliding door then dummy
(DIR) Post #AyuEYY0UHcoXWwdkyO by Ergo@shitposter.world
2025-10-05T17:35:46.123678Z
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@toiletpaper @augustus "terrorist" means person who won't be submissive to the powers that be in this context.
(DIR) Post #AyuKoTDATodn12XzM0 by shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network
2025-10-05T18:30:14Z
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@augustus @toiletpaper Another piece of information about Hysos. You may have heard the story of Moses(peace be upon him) and the "Pharaoh". In Judaism and Christianity, the story is about Israelites versus Egyptians, where the King of Egyptians is the tyrant. In Islaam, the king is not an Egyptian king, but an Arab one. Here are some references, if you want to know more.https://www.islammoses.com/im/articles/dxpmolyxw-the-firaun-of-musa-was-a-tyrant-from-the-amaliq-tribe--of-arabs.cfmAnd, if prefer videos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPd0ufKigIhttps://youtu.be/9FiwF9qzxjk?si=yYsvaK7CvnreDTGi
(DIR) Post #AyuQqWGCiLkumBKNIu by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-10-05T19:53:28.914578Z
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@Ergo @augustus > won't be submissive to the powers that beThat's one way to put it, but also stuff like the Sicarii, the Parabalani, the Hashshashin, etc.On the state level, here's the type of behaviour the religion of love and compassion (ie. Christinanity) got up to the moment they had temporal power (ie. when they were "the powers that be").https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/06/christian-atrocities-three-centuries-of-pagan-persecution/The above is obviously just a tiny selection of examples, and specific only to the Greco-Roman Christian context. It certainly didn't end there. If people are to be judged on their actions rather than just their saccharine platitudes, then it doesn't look good for them. Even their martyrs, when you look deeper, were either fictitious (eg. St. Catherine of Alexandria, aka: Hypatia), or actual terrorists who's story was white washed afterward by the church authorities.You can pretty well pick any of the Abrahamic superstitions, and find a similar pattern of conduct, always scripturally sanctified. I can cite plenty more examples if necessary to drive the point home. It's no less true today with the rise of Christian nationalism/fundamentalism at the state and cultural level in the US. Whatever their rhetoric, on the ground their actual behaviour doesn't reflect well on their cries for tolerance much less their supposed victimhood.
(DIR) Post #AyuRiA9T86cRqRkxZQ by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-10-05T20:03:11.348005Z
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@shakil_tcs @augustus > ...the story is about Israelites versus Egyptians...It never happened. At least not the way it's described in Exodus. The archaeological record demonstrates the opposite. The Hyksos were the foreign aggressors who dominated the native Egyptians, and probably following the Minoan eruption of the volcano on the island of Santorini (aka: Thera) in 1,600 BCE, they were expelled. Not because they were slaves (they were the ruling class). And not all at once, but over the course of centuries, largely due to unrest resulting from widespread agricultural devastation and famine, etc.Yet this fairy tale about the poor Israelite victims is how the Jews have twisted the story to make themselves look like victims, and continue to celebrate anti-Egyptian rhetoric to this day as part of their core religious identity.Also there were no Torah observant Jews until about 150 BCE at the earliest. That's backed up by archaeology and literary accounts from Elephantine, including letters to/from the Pagan/polytheist Israelites in Egypt to their counterparts in Jerusalem at the time.
(DIR) Post #Az2UxXRYfT4dYOv7NQ by shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network
2025-10-09T14:56:07Z
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@toiletpaper @augustus I mean, that's what I have said. It was not between Israelites and Coptics, but an intra-Semitic tussle between the former and Amalekites.I don't agree with the last paragraph, though.
(DIR) Post #Az2UxYufCjww6xXsNk by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-10-09T17:17:14.356875Z
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@shakil_tcs @augustus > I don't agree with the last paragraph, though.You can believe what you like, but you'll need to back it up if you want others to take it seriously.The Elephantine papyri and ostraca indicate that in the mid 300's BCE, both the Judeans in Egypt and Palestine were practising polytheists. In fact there's no evidence of widespread Torah observance until about 150 BCE. You can find a scholarly analysis of the archaeology and textual evidence below. There's more I can offer to that effect also if you're still unconvinced.https://annas-archive.org/md5/1dab22d5f6f399e5fb569e5da859e92dhttps://youtu.be/xnZahlZJIgc
(DIR) Post #Az2Vr8TsfI4wLnW93o by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
2025-10-09T17:27:18.964657Z
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@shakil_tcs @augustus Another thing to bear in mind is that there are two different Torahs, the Jewish and the Samaritan. When you put legend and mythology aside, the likelihood is that the Samaritan Torah also came about in the mid to late 2nd century during the rein of the Hasmoneans, well into the Hellenistic era, in the century leading up to the Roman conquest.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Pentateuch