Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)S

snoons

@ snoons @lemmy.ca

Posts
27
Comments
861
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • What do you do when you can't sleep?

    Jump

  • Ur looking at it.

    If I don't have a book to read. Just finished Rendezvous with Rama which was sooo good.

  • Sencha asleep on my belly

    Jump

  • One of my cats did this every night and more than a few times she would push her paws right up into my mouth. Did you know that beans taste like dust and cat litter?

  • Animal Parents

    Jump

  • TIL my parents are birds

  • Been a while since I posted a Sencha

    Jump

  • He must've bought their allegiance.

  • Been a while since I posted a Sencha

    Jump

  • Wow. That's a nice Sencha.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Ge' fuck away from me bish

  • Can someone explain the hexbear community?

    Jump

  • Personal growth is always good, but don't blame yourself for getting pissed at a tankie.

  • AMD will finally add HDMI 2.1 support to Linux

    Jump

  • don wan it

  • What song are you listening to RIGHT NOW, and would you recommend it?

    Jump

  • Same lol.

  • What's your go-to shower snack?

    Jump

  • but what if you have to participate in an impromptu kart race

  • Why are churches in Europe almost always built on top of Pagan ritual sites?

    Jump

  • I think most misunderstood. I had no idea what your were talking about until your edit lol.

  • What song are you listening to RIGHT NOW, and would you recommend it?

    Jump

  • What's your go-to shower snack?

    Jump

  • Orange juice for the orange juice god! Orange peels for the compost pile orange peel throne!

  • What does an ideal society look like to you personally? Economic, governmental and/or social.

    Jump

  • Okay?

  • What does an ideal society look like to you personally? Economic, governmental and/or social.

    Jump

  • Yes, you should read the book. ;)

  • Why are churches in Europe almost always built on top of Pagan ritual sites?

    Jump

  • It was due to a direct order from a pope (George/Gregory #??) to not destroy “high places” but to use them to gain more traction from the locals. There’s actually a still intact letter written by him, sent to the guy in charge of converting the pagans in scandinavia. There is no known better representation of this than Norways(?) oldest stave church. It is a christian church, built/ordered to be built by christians yet the inside is full of pagan themes. There is even a tiny one-eyed Odin a top one of the pillars. *The stave church, IIRC, is Borgund. Really famous one. If you go, bring a flashlight and maybe binoculars and look at all the tiny carvings not usually seen by people up high in the ceiling and pillars.

    It was a strategy of conversion from “respect”. As if to say both religions are the same; Odin is just a ‘mask’ for god. Our religion is closer to the truth. It worked very well.

    Sauce: I did a whole course on this because a bunch of historians asked the same question.

    *Found the letter! It was by Pope Gregory I, directing abbot Mellitus c. 597 CE:

    https://my.tlu.edu/ICS/icsfs/ConversionSourcesBritFrnRussia8pg.pdf?target=e1cd546f-6a9a-4124-b399-08930007d2aa

    Tell Augustine that he should be no means destroy the temples of the gods but rather the idols within those temples. Let him, after he has purified them with holy water, place altars and relics of the saints in them. For, if those temples are well built, they should be converted from the worship of demons to the service of the true God. Thus, seeing that their places of worship are not destroyed, the people will banish error from their hearts and come to places familiar and dear to them in acknowledgement and worship of the true God.

  • What does an ideal society look like to you personally? Economic, governmental and/or social.

    Jump

  • Something like the world in A Psalm for the Wild Built and A Prayer for the Crown Shy (Monk and Robot series) by Becky Chambers.

    Half the world is left to nature, the other half is used by people in various self-sufficient villages. Walking off the path is strongly discouraged. Beaches are similarly something to be appreciated from afar.

    *They all almost died because they were close to completely destroying their planet with unchecked industrialism. This society is after that, having learned from their previous mistakes. They know there must be a balance. It's a reflection on what's happening right now.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • It was due to a direct order from a pope (George/Gregory #??) to not destroy "high places" but to use them to gain more traction from the locals. There's actually a still intact letter written by him, sent to the guy in charge of converting the pagans in scandinavia. There is no known better representation of this than Norways(?) oldest stave church. It is a christian church, built/ordered to be built by christians yet the inside is full of pagan themes. There is even a tiny one-eyed Odin a top one of the pillars.

    It was a strategy of conversion from "respect". As if to say both religions are the same; Odin is just a 'mask' for god. Our religion is closer to the truth. It worked very well.

    Sauce: I did a whole course on this because a bunch of historians asked the same question.

  • Work on any good projects lately?

    Jump

  • Excellent work.