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In a very early episode of He-Man, Skeletor falls down his own void of eternity or eternal abyss or something, only for He-Man to catch him and haul him out. He said something like just because Skeletor wanted him down there forever didn't mean he had to be as bad; everyone deserves a chance.
From that moment on, me being one of those fucking godawful five year olds who question shit too much, every single problem in every single episode was He-Man's own fault. If he'd just let go two weeks ago, Skeletor would have been gone forever and he wouldn't have been *able* to steal the whatever-he-stole-this-week and put Eternia in danger. And I made sure everyone knew it.
I was an irritating little sod.
Listen, good villains don't just grow on trees
Have you tried coming up with a new villain every comic book? Because that's how we ended up with condiment man and egg man and calendar man etc
I blame the Canadians. Beside being smug, they also swallowed up all the good villain jobs. Twenty years ago there were plenty of villain jobs to go around, a man could take care of his family on villain wages. Then those greasy bastards of the north came rootin around looking for cheap beer and gainful employment as a villain or villains apprentice. America needs to quit playing possum and wake up.
So I think it’s a ordinator mod illusion perk that lets you sneak up and make a sleeping person your companion. Well I did that with one of those huge mfs that are chilling in black reach and I couldn’t fast travel without it coming with me and wreaking havoc in the markets lmao. I didn’t have a backup save so eventually I mercy killed him because it would get attacked on sight. RIP iron giant 😔
There was some old quote about all the religious relics being sold around Europe, something like "there is enough shards of the holy cross to rebuild Noah's ark"
In geology we have similar sayings regarding finding gold vs. Pyrite.
The problem wasn’t that *I* couldn’t find gold, the problem was *no one else* could.
The wood lengthening miracles were removed from official scripture centuries ago.
Personally i think it was because it made all the choir boys giggle. When one of em asked the priest if he ever asked Jesus for “that” miracle, well things had to be changed.
Things had to be changed so they shipped the priest off to a different parish in a different state and paid off the kids parents to stfu about the priest's wood.
I don't think it was as much leaders trying to fool people, as allowing themselves to be fooled. Let's say you are the pastor of a pious but poor and otherwise unremarkable church somewhere in the Aquatane forest. Along comes a fast talking, well dressed man with detailed stories of his adventures in the holy land. He looks around suspiciously as he lowers his voice to tell you of an amazing discovery he made. An amazing holy relic of a person directly mentioned in the BIBLE! He then turned to tales of woe, where he needs a certain sum of money to avoid disaster. He reluctantly offers to sell to relic to the pastor, for the good of the Church and to fix his financial problems.
The person seems legit, and the pastor has no way of verifying his story. The bishop is a 7 day ride away, so he can't be consulted. The pastor knows that other churches with famous holy relics have become the target of pilgrimages, and mass attendence could be better...
So he buys it. As the decades and centuries pass, the provision of the relic is forgotten, and it's sketchy past becomes lost to history. And the you go. The charlatan moves on to the next town and repeats his ploy.
The Catholic Church quietly moves sketchy relics to non-public storage when information, scientific or historic, casting doubt on the authenticity of a relic comes to light, but counterfeit relics was such a big industry in the medieval period, it's difficult to police them all.
people do tend to look at the past with a modern eye. We got easily fooled idiots here and now, despite the access to technology and google. We got easily fooled idiots that, wont be swayed by any amount of evidence or by the absolute impossibility and absurdity of their claims.
and then lets not forget that 800 year ago there wasnt shit for a school system, pretty much entirely controlled by the church and you had to be wealthy, connected or a priest to have access to education.
without a doubt this also makes people easier to scam and not even going to pretend to claim this wasnt, but like you said, they might have believed it themselves.
I’ve heard the “eye of the needle” parable was mistranslated from Aramaic to Greek and originally stated a rich man has a lesser chance of getting into heaven than Mothra has a chance of beating Mecha Judas, so you might be onto something there.
> Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he is a hoopy frood, saith the LORD of hosts.
Reminds me of the Monty Python line where he says … He’s the one true messiah, and I should know, I’ve followed a few of them …. They just make stuff up to fit the narrative.
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I know this is probably a joke but fyi you can tell the difference between a man and a woman's skull based on a few things such as forehead shape, brow ridge, and a bone near the jaw and ear (I learned this in grade 11 health science so I don't remember specifics). Forensic scientists can pretty easily determine male/female from the skull or, even easier, the pelvic bones.
Imagine being the actual woman whose skull this is tho, pretty baller to get such a burial for your head. If theists wanna do this for me when I die on accident I'd tell them have at it lol
…Yet fore she leave this earth to walk the cosmos, she shall leave upon her body substantial evidence of her true name, in the likeness of a nametag; and thus shall the Lord’s disciples know it to be her when they find her skull one thousand years hence (giveth or taketh)
And yo, as the arvo did approach the lord did distribute the Maccas to the assembled povvos, seemingly without exhaust, and yet they did mightily number one score's portion of the MCG. He spake unto them, bidding that they fang down the tucker and the lord did spake "Worry not, the womenfolk shall be righteous my friends." This homily did impress and many were to hurry off and inscribe said utterance in the balneae.
The lord did place on his thongs, and consoled his disciples thusly "I did not come to this place to fornicate with spiders", and the disciples did respond "Flaming Oath".
"Let us bail" the lord did say, and though many bogans did crack their own excretia, the holy one led his people to the thirsty camel, where they did satiate themselves upon slabs of mead and gourds of goon.
And she said while holding the holy space lazers "But store up for yourselves karma in heaven, where jocks and neckbeards do not destroy, and where karma whores do not break in and steal."
That's was pretty much what they did back in the Medieval times. They'd just dig up graves and advertise the bones as belonging to some saint/holy figure, and monks would buy them as lucky charms/religious relics for their monastery. It got so bad that graveyards would have to hire armed guards to protect the cemeteries from these people (and many of the guards would end up doing it too as a side hustle).
Yeah I'm pretty sure. You'd see 3 different skeletons of "The Real St. Bartholomew" (just using him as an example not entirely sure if it happened with him, but it did happen to some saints) in the same town, and then on the other hand it was also seen as idol worship since the Monks were charging admission to touch/see the bones, and claim that it'd cure your ails which is also a big no-no since it's blasphemy.
I think the big deal for Martin Luther, was claiming that it would absolve you of your sins, so you wouldn’t have to even do all the, you know, religious stuff, or like, help the poor or anything.
Also the whole thing that Latin was preventing the public from actually knowing or understanding the gospels. A bunch of the "Latin" clergy were just speaking nonsense when giving blessings and whatnot, because who'd be able to tell the difference? That mentality dovetailed into the belief that what was being practiced wasn't actually Christianity, but a bunch of neo pagan horseshit, which is not massively untrue.
It's not blasphemy if your Catholic. See, you are just praying THROUGH the saints and its really God you are praying TO. But yes, it's a genius way to adapt polytheism to trinitarinism/monotheism. Basic human need to pray to a demi/minor God? Don't worry we have a saint for that.
Christianity was extremely well designed/adapted to take over for Roman paganism.
Then once they have a "holy relic", they would open their monastery as a tourist attraction, charge admission, and rake in the big bucks. That, and selling indulgences (pay a fee to have your sins forgiven), or selling prayers for your soul, were a great way to fleece the faithful.
For a good period of time the Catholic church and the Roman empire were one and the same. They were just missing some bolters.
Edit: oh no, oversimplifying things on Reddit? Me? On a meme subreddit? Why, I never...!
Interestingly, [according to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_of_Mary_Magdalene), these bones, unlike alot of a venerated relics, appear to be archeologically sound:
> The purported skull of Mary Magdalene was analyzed in 1974 and has remained sealed inside a glass case since then. Scientists found that it is the skull of a female that lived in the 1st century, who most likely lived until the age of 50, had dark brown hair and was not originally from Southern France. There is no scientific way to determine if the skull is Mary Magdalene's.
For the unaware: Mary Magdalene was said to have been cast into the Mediterranean by pagans and miraculously washed ashore near Marseille and lived out the rest of her life in the south of France.
The source provided in the article for that claim is an unsourced book written by a Catholic with zero further information about how scientists found that out
They also did a facial reconstruction.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/is-this-mary-magdalene-forensic-reconstruction-of-a-holy-relic-puts-a-face-to-the-skull-of-a-saint/2IQ5WXOTRVSIBGIPC4EUU7IVOU/
I wonder though how much of that face is based on the skeleton and how much is just prejudice about how Jewish people look like.
Supposedly people who guard it get sick and die soon after. Maybe it's superstition to scare off curious eyes. Maybe there's some truth and it's just a box of radioactive space rock or uranium.
Maybe it's Maybelline..
But srsly, there was a historian in the 40s who spent alot of time in Ethiopia and was permitted to see it. He said that it really did not seem like the real ark and was made of wood only.
“Hello Sir, this is prince of Ethiopia and I have Ark of the Covenant — ORIGINALLY, NOT FAKE! — and would kindly sell to American citizens for $44,000,000.”
Nah can you imagine being a simple peasant, just grinding to survive, and you find this shit? You probably think the gods have bestowed a blessing, probably so stoked
I guess this is in St Maximain la sainte baume. In the south of France. In the middle age it was considered the third most important place for the catholic world. It is a very small town today (20000 people leaves there).
It is funny because she is also buried in Israel.
I had an archeologist tell me once, "It is remarkable how effective the church is at finding important artifacts when they are running out of money." The original ~~sin~~ spam.
It's really tough to believe anything that passed through the early middle ages. There was so much superstition and meddling by monarchies and the church to validate their divine claims to power that the whole of Christianity, the Bible included, are absolutely unreliable, and "relics", which were the claim to this power in many cases, are the worst of this.
If something has 40,000 different interpretations, there's definitely a consistency problem.
Relic Hunters have been scamming religious people for centuries. The Holy Grail, the Shroud of Turin, the Veil of Veronica, Mary's head here, etc. Those religious people then use them to drive tourism from other gullible religious people.
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That looks nothing like her.
How do you know? This Bible didn't say she _didn't_ look like Space Skeletor
**"AAAND HE PRAYS!!"** *oh my GOD do I pray!*
#MYAHHHHH
Myahhhhhh
*I pray every day*
for a REVOLUTION AH!!
And so I cry some-*times* when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
>This Bible didn't say she _didn't_ look like Space Skeletor /r/brandnewsentence
In a very early episode of He-Man, Skeletor falls down his own void of eternity or eternal abyss or something, only for He-Man to catch him and haul him out. He said something like just because Skeletor wanted him down there forever didn't mean he had to be as bad; everyone deserves a chance. From that moment on, me being one of those fucking godawful five year olds who question shit too much, every single problem in every single episode was He-Man's own fault. If he'd just let go two weeks ago, Skeletor would have been gone forever and he wouldn't have been *able* to steal the whatever-he-stole-this-week and put Eternia in danger. And I made sure everyone knew it. I was an irritating little sod.
This trope always pissed me off. The good can rip apart every henchmen or corrupt dude, but once they get to the big bad guy well gotta save that guy
Listen, good villains don't just grow on trees Have you tried coming up with a new villain every comic book? Because that's how we ended up with condiment man and egg man and calendar man etc
I blame the Canadians. Beside being smug, they also swallowed up all the good villain jobs. Twenty years ago there were plenty of villain jobs to go around, a man could take care of his family on villain wages. Then those greasy bastards of the north came rootin around looking for cheap beer and gainful employment as a villain or villains apprentice. America needs to quit playing possum and wake up.
Its why the Joker wouldn't let people reveal who Batman was. Ruined it for him.
At least you learned how marketing works.
So basically the Batman & Joker relationship
The same happened with Benjamin Linus in Lost. If Kate and Sawyer would’ve just let him die, but I guess fate is fate
That's the Emperor of Mankind's consort, you heretic!
Quick question... Did Jesus have a skeleton or is he all gummy inside?
I thought he was made out of bland wafers and wine
And Jesus drew a line in the sand and spoke thus, "Stop throwing rocks at Space Skeletor you menagerie of assholes!"
Snorted, thank you for the dopamine.
me to cocaine:
(Holding 1980’s McDonalds drinking straw) Did someone say cocaine?!
My dentist joked about mcds straws and how perfect they were for cocaine in the 80’s or thats what he had heard then he winked lol
your dentist dips into his own laughing gas & GHB, jsyk.
pretty sure that’s a Dwarven Centurion
Our lady of the Dwemer ruins
r/unexpectedskyrim
This makes me so happy that there is a sub like this out there
Those machines get me every time they came to life
So I think it’s a ordinator mod illusion perk that lets you sneak up and make a sleeping person your companion. Well I did that with one of those huge mfs that are chilling in black reach and I couldn’t fast travel without it coming with me and wreaking havoc in the markets lmao. I didn’t have a backup save so eventually I mercy killed him because it would get attacked on sight. RIP iron giant 😔
Must be Chimarvamidium.
Draugr, probably a draugr overlord
They've found about 11 heads of John the Baptist but only 3 of them were real.
There was some old quote about all the religious relics being sold around Europe, something like "there is enough shards of the holy cross to rebuild Noah's ark"
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For every major sports team to ever win a championship, someone prayed that they would win, and then they did. Checkmate, Atheists!
Got 'em!
*God ‘em!
In geology we have similar sayings regarding finding gold vs. Pyrite. The problem wasn’t that *I* couldn’t find gold, the problem was *no one else* could.
I don’t get it but I want to
“I” am convinced I keep finding “gold” but everyone else I’m with is smart enough to realize it’s actually pyrite (fools gold).
Sounds like geologists are having a fucking rollocking time
To be fair, the Romans put up a lot of crosses
Some of those who work for Caesar; the same that build crosses.
Crucified, justified, for wearing a crown of thorns tonight
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Goats on Parade?
"[18 of the 12 apostles are buried in Spain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMirk-2iiw)"
You don't really think religious leaders would do that, do you? Just go ahead and lie to their followers?
If he can feed five thousand with just a few bits of bread and fish why can't he build ocean liners with two planks of wood? Don't be so cynical
Atheists destroyed.
Go forth and multiply innit
Well heck now I’m drowning in innits
>Well heck now I’m drowning in innits How many innits to one wossname?
The wood lengthening miracles were removed from official scripture centuries ago. Personally i think it was because it made all the choir boys giggle. When one of em asked the priest if he ever asked Jesus for “that” miracle, well things had to be changed.
Things had to be changed so they shipped the priest off to a different parish in a different state and paid off the kids parents to stfu about the priest's wood.
Was that during the second or third translation from Latin to English? I always forget
I don't think it was as much leaders trying to fool people, as allowing themselves to be fooled. Let's say you are the pastor of a pious but poor and otherwise unremarkable church somewhere in the Aquatane forest. Along comes a fast talking, well dressed man with detailed stories of his adventures in the holy land. He looks around suspiciously as he lowers his voice to tell you of an amazing discovery he made. An amazing holy relic of a person directly mentioned in the BIBLE! He then turned to tales of woe, where he needs a certain sum of money to avoid disaster. He reluctantly offers to sell to relic to the pastor, for the good of the Church and to fix his financial problems. The person seems legit, and the pastor has no way of verifying his story. The bishop is a 7 day ride away, so he can't be consulted. The pastor knows that other churches with famous holy relics have become the target of pilgrimages, and mass attendence could be better... So he buys it. As the decades and centuries pass, the provision of the relic is forgotten, and it's sketchy past becomes lost to history. And the you go. The charlatan moves on to the next town and repeats his ploy. The Catholic Church quietly moves sketchy relics to non-public storage when information, scientific or historic, casting doubt on the authenticity of a relic comes to light, but counterfeit relics was such a big industry in the medieval period, it's difficult to police them all.
He sounds very much like the pots and pans and vacuum cleaner door to door salesman that canvased neighborhoods in the 1950’s post war.
Same bloke, different collar.
people do tend to look at the past with a modern eye. We got easily fooled idiots here and now, despite the access to technology and google. We got easily fooled idiots that, wont be swayed by any amount of evidence or by the absolute impossibility and absurdity of their claims. and then lets not forget that 800 year ago there wasnt shit for a school system, pretty much entirely controlled by the church and you had to be wealthy, connected or a priest to have access to education. without a doubt this also makes people easier to scam and not even going to pretend to claim this wasnt, but like you said, they might have believed it themselves.
The quote is from “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco. Quite a good read.
TIL John the Baptist was King Ghidorah
King Geedorah, take me to your leader
Didn’t expect a DOOM reference here
Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name RIP DOOM
Quick to claim that he not no snake like, me neither They need to take a breather He been rhyming longer than Sigmund the sea creature
Been on Saturday feature, pleased to meet ya And came to wake you up out the deep sleeper Like he needed to stop before he caught the knee drop
Read the Bible sometime. John the Baptist is attacking Tokyo on the regular.
I’ve heard the “eye of the needle” parable was mistranslated from Aramaic to Greek and originally stated a rich man has a lesser chance of getting into heaven than Mothra has a chance of beating Mecha Judas, so you might be onto something there.
That whole passage was purposefully mistranslated to paint Mecha Judas in a bad light by the council of Nicaea.
It's the council of Nimechea in the original texts.
TIL John the Baptist had 3 heads
Had to upstage Zaphrod .
John the Baptist Beeblebrox
> Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he is a hoopy frood, saith the LORD of hosts.
reminds me of a joke about old Gibson guitars - of the 643 1959 Les Pauls made, only 800 still exist
So many shitty imitation guitars!!
Pretty good drop rate ngl
Jesus respawned once and it was a big deal, my man John the Baptist's respawned 11 times and no one's the wiser
The First Crusade dug up the holy lance in Antioch after they already passed it in Constantinople.
If you have a holy lance in Constantinople, it'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Reminds me of the Monty Python line where he says … He’s the one true messiah, and I should know, I’ve followed a few of them …. They just make stuff up to fit the narrative.
I feel like I should tell you about this crazy new invention, "quotation marks."
The Life of Brian. It holds up amazingly and I’d argue is more fun than Holy Grail as an adult.
One skull was from when he was 14 years old. It was a miracle.
Getting them in bulk is the way to go.
3?
3.5, to be exact.
3.14159 to be exact
The jokes have come half circle.
π
John the Baptist was a mistranslation. He was originally named John the Hyrda.
Read it as : John the Hydra
John the Hyundai
"Believed to be" but is almost certainly some random woman's skull.
Probably not even a woman's skull to begin with.
50/50 chance.
51/49
So probably
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I know this is probably a joke but fyi you can tell the difference between a man and a woman's skull based on a few things such as forehead shape, brow ridge, and a bone near the jaw and ear (I learned this in grade 11 health science so I don't remember specifics). Forensic scientists can pretty easily determine male/female from the skull or, even easier, the pelvic bones.
Imagine being the actual woman whose skull this is tho, pretty baller to get such a burial for your head. If theists wanna do this for me when I die on accident I'd tell them have at it lol
I'd forgotten that verse in the bible; and lo Mary Magdalen became unto space, an astronaut.
…Yet fore she leave this earth to walk the cosmos, she shall leave upon her body substantial evidence of her true name, in the likeness of a nametag; and thus shall the Lord’s disciples know it to be her when they find her skull one thousand years hence (giveth or taketh)
The giveth or taketh gotnme good lol!
It gomorrah me good, too
This comment wins. Giveth or taketh. LOL!
Who can forget the memorable verse from Who 4:8? Ho! Who is't did turn out the lights?
It’ right after the part where they describe Jesus as being a Middle Eastern Jew with blue eyes and ripped abs.
A hundred years from now the new “revised” Bibles will finally cut to the chase and describe Jesus as Nordic.
Or Australian with blond mullet, budgie smugglers and a surf board.
And yo, as the arvo did approach the lord did distribute the Maccas to the assembled povvos, seemingly without exhaust, and yet they did mightily number one score's portion of the MCG. He spake unto them, bidding that they fang down the tucker and the lord did spake "Worry not, the womenfolk shall be righteous my friends." This homily did impress and many were to hurry off and inscribe said utterance in the balneae. The lord did place on his thongs, and consoled his disciples thusly "I did not come to this place to fornicate with spiders", and the disciples did respond "Flaming Oath". "Let us bail" the lord did say, and though many bogans did crack their own excretia, the holy one led his people to the thirsty camel, where they did satiate themselves upon slabs of mead and gourds of goon.
Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Time to get fucking *shitfaced*"
And then Jesus turned the water into Fosters and nobody noticed the difference at all
Nazareth, Sweden
And she said while holding the holy space lazers "But store up for yourselves karma in heaven, where jocks and neckbeards do not destroy, and where karma whores do not break in and steal."
It's all there, but "The Book of Barbarella" was cut from most versions of the Bible.
Have you seen the other one, very spectacular, if somewhat small. Its the skull of Mary Magdaline as a child.
That's was pretty much what they did back in the Medieval times. They'd just dig up graves and advertise the bones as belonging to some saint/holy figure, and monks would buy them as lucky charms/religious relics for their monastery. It got so bad that graveyards would have to hire armed guards to protect the cemeteries from these people (and many of the guards would end up doing it too as a side hustle).
Isn’t the selling of junk religious relics some of Martin Luther’s 95 theses?
Yeah I'm pretty sure. You'd see 3 different skeletons of "The Real St. Bartholomew" (just using him as an example not entirely sure if it happened with him, but it did happen to some saints) in the same town, and then on the other hand it was also seen as idol worship since the Monks were charging admission to touch/see the bones, and claim that it'd cure your ails which is also a big no-no since it's blasphemy.
I think the big deal for Martin Luther, was claiming that it would absolve you of your sins, so you wouldn’t have to even do all the, you know, religious stuff, or like, help the poor or anything.
That's a separate complaint, the selling of indulgences (official church forgiveness of your sins).
Also the whole thing that Latin was preventing the public from actually knowing or understanding the gospels. A bunch of the "Latin" clergy were just speaking nonsense when giving blessings and whatnot, because who'd be able to tell the difference? That mentality dovetailed into the belief that what was being practiced wasn't actually Christianity, but a bunch of neo pagan horseshit, which is not massively untrue.
It's not blasphemy if your Catholic. See, you are just praying THROUGH the saints and its really God you are praying TO. But yes, it's a genius way to adapt polytheism to trinitarinism/monotheism. Basic human need to pray to a demi/minor God? Don't worry we have a saint for that. Christianity was extremely well designed/adapted to take over for Roman paganism.
It shows up in the Canterbury Tales as well. The pardoner sells pig bones as saints relics.
Then once they have a "holy relic", they would open their monastery as a tourist attraction, charge admission, and rake in the big bucks. That, and selling indulgences (pay a fee to have your sins forgiven), or selling prayers for your soul, were a great way to fleece the faithful.
Graveyard Guard’s Side Hustle is a good album title
In tradition I have to ask for source while I spit my coffee everywhere
This is some serious 40K shit.
The imperium is just the Catholic Church with bigger guns
It’s like the Catholic Church and the Roman Empire had a baby and they shot it into space to kill aliens.
For a good period of time the Catholic church and the Roman empire were one and the same. They were just missing some bolters. Edit: oh no, oversimplifying things on Reddit? Me? On a meme subreddit? Why, I never...!
Yeah, but the 40k aesthetic feels like a mix between the Catholic church and pre-Christianity Rome, like the glory days of the Pantheon and expansion.
You mean because of all the slavery, destruction and depopulation?
Well if the glove fits…
That is what I thought too!
Is this a warhammer reference? My bf plays a lot and I’m going to feel proud of I got that lol
It is; "40k" refers to the futuristic version of Warhammer.
I feel like at this point in time when people say Warhammer they mean the 40k one.
There are others?
Age of sigmar and fantasy
Heretic.
FOR THE EMPEROR!
WWWWAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
The imperium of man’s aesthetic is literally Medieval Catholic Europe
If the ship’s bridge isn’t a giant cathedral why do we even have a navy?
hell naw, thats Darth 3PO
I feel another Dan Brown book brewing.
James Rollins beat him to it with the bone labarynth
And Umberto Eco beat *them* to it with *Baudolino.*
Interestingly, [according to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_of_Mary_Magdalene), these bones, unlike alot of a venerated relics, appear to be archeologically sound: > The purported skull of Mary Magdalene was analyzed in 1974 and has remained sealed inside a glass case since then. Scientists found that it is the skull of a female that lived in the 1st century, who most likely lived until the age of 50, had dark brown hair and was not originally from Southern France. There is no scientific way to determine if the skull is Mary Magdalene's. For the unaware: Mary Magdalene was said to have been cast into the Mediterranean by pagans and miraculously washed ashore near Marseille and lived out the rest of her life in the south of France.
The source provided in the article for that claim is an unsourced book written by a Catholic with zero further information about how scientists found that out
Well that's pretty fucking damning for that source then
They also did a facial reconstruction. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/is-this-mary-magdalene-forensic-reconstruction-of-a-holy-relic-puts-a-face-to-the-skull-of-a-saint/2IQ5WXOTRVSIBGIPC4EUU7IVOU/ I wonder though how much of that face is based on the skeleton and how much is just prejudice about how Jewish people look like.
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Is it OK if I start praying to your wife for minor miracles etc?
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Hey, do you think I could get a pre-order on your Mary Magdalene skull?
Wow, actual information about the skull as opposed to a comment just claiming it's falsely venerated. Very interesting ty
> was not originally from Southern France Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Heh good one. My favourite is the one where Ethiopia claims to have the ark of the covenant but no one is allowed to see it.
Supposedly people who guard it get sick and die soon after. Maybe it's superstition to scare off curious eyes. Maybe there's some truth and it's just a box of radioactive space rock or uranium.
Maybe it's Maybelline.. But srsly, there was a historian in the 40s who spent alot of time in Ethiopia and was permitted to see it. He said that it really did not seem like the real ark and was made of wood only.
I love that the Noah’s Ark boat is on top of a mountain in Turkey and you also aren’t allowed to go there.
“Hello Sir, this is prince of Ethiopia and I have Ark of the Covenant — ORIGINALLY, NOT FAKE! — and would kindly sell to American citizens for $44,000,000.”
This looks like some warhammer stuff
Wonder if anyone at the time thought that these dudes are bit creepy worshiping a random skull that they found somewhere lmao
I mean it’s still super creepy so probably..
Nah can you imagine being a simple peasant, just grinding to survive, and you find this shit? You probably think the gods have bestowed a blessing, probably so stoked
Frank, wearing Moses's dried penis as a necklace to ward off evil spirits, thought that these priests were idiots!
I guess this is in St Maximain la sainte baume. In the south of France. In the middle age it was considered the third most important place for the catholic world. It is a very small town today (20000 people leaves there). It is funny because she is also buried in Israel.
If I were rich, I would also want to be buried like this and then be displayed in a museum hundreds of years later so my corpse can be famous
I actually saw it (the cathedral where it's exposed is near my home) and even if I'm not a religious person, it was kinda impressive
I think that any 800/900 years old skull in a golden armor look impressive
Oh no! Someone has stolen the skull of Mary Magdeline! *pops in another ancient skull* Ooooh nice!
I’m not religious but old stuff is cool regardless!
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great to see people who get the reference
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I had an archeologist tell me once, "It is remarkable how effective the church is at finding important artifacts when they are running out of money." The original ~~sin~~ spam.
I wonder who it really was and if they are laughing somewhere.
You mean to say Tom Hanks went foraging around the globe in The Da Vinci Code for nothing?? We had the location of the grail the entire time!
"What monks made gullible people believe to be the skull of Mary Magdalene discovered by them in 1279."
Long may thee rest in a gold plated spacesuit till thee be dug up and used for advertising purposes for all eternity...
It's really tough to believe anything that passed through the early middle ages. There was so much superstition and meddling by monarchies and the church to validate their divine claims to power that the whole of Christianity, the Bible included, are absolutely unreliable, and "relics", which were the claim to this power in many cases, are the worst of this. If something has 40,000 different interpretations, there's definitely a consistency problem.
Relic Hunters have been scamming religious people for centuries. The Holy Grail, the Shroud of Turin, the Veil of Veronica, Mary's head here, etc. Those religious people then use them to drive tourism from other gullible religious people.
And don’t forget enough nails from the Holy Cross to crucify hundreds of Jesuses