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New environments will spawn new religions, or new iterations of old religions.

That's why I don't really spend time mocking Mormon magic underwear, and Joseph Smith's "translation" of the "Book of Abraham" (which was a fragment of an Egyptian burial manual).

#Bible #Christianity

If introduced today would Popeye become an iconic character?

Could his popularity ever be revived to equal his status in the 1930s and 40s?

If you agree 'no' and 'no'... that's what I mean by memetic attrition.
Memetic attrition is the inevitable salience decline as the original context - cultural, technical, economic, theological and political - in which a meme evolved changes or disappears.

Consider the horse. All those equestrian tropes familiar to any gentleman for centuries went to the glue factory with his faithful old mount, replaced by the motorcar.
My memetic attrition theory is just a novelty take, I can't prove that the collapse of agrarian society and rise of industry and now information technology have rendered all holy documents alien and nearly incomprehensible to modern man, but I believe it.

You can't start archeological expeditions using the LOTR books. But you can start archeological expeditions using the Bible (Genesis mentioning the Hittites, for example).

#Bible #Christianity

@EvilSandmich Plus I know why he did it - to cover for Israel. And that is something which I have no sympathy for whatsoever, particularly in this case.

What can an illegitimate government rely on to stay in power?

Well, it can rely on pure force, that is, until it starts suffering humiliating military losses.

#Afghanistan #Ukraine #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ZOG #ZOG_Bots

American wifeguys are total simps. That's why 90% of OnlyFans subscribers are mcmarried men.

#women

Academic Agent hopes that Tucker Carlson is CIA because if he is it means elements of the elite have had enough of the kikes' middle east nonsense.
Nationalists who hate Trump have nothing but liquid nitrogen challenges to offer.

'We form a BASED group and everyone ignores it or, if it gets a tiny bit of attention, we all get arrested.'

That's it. Those are the BASED options.
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