Temples, … are the soul of the countryside: they mark the beginning of its settlement, and have been passed down through many generations to the men of today. In them the farming communities rest their hopes for husbands, wives, children, for their oxen and the soil —Libanius
@Siriuszbusiness@fennobvll I have immense respect for pretty much every classically trained artist who has ever lived. Better to practice than to sit around doing nothing. I criticise Schiele because he was a degenerate freak who was trying to corrupt society through his “artwork”.
@fennobvll Who cares? I am posting random progress as an anonymous user on here. I am not trying to get accepted in an art school so I can show off drawings of myself masturbating in an art gallery. Do you really think some degenerate who raped his little sister is worth defending?
@bugmanfumigator@ththirtyththree If every Jewish-German author’s works were thrown into the pyre, I would still be able to read Voß, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, etc., and that’s just relatively modern German.
I wouldn’t be troubled.
Many of Hoxha’s enemies accused him of being a homosexual who had pretended to be a docile and servile young man, exploiting his good looks with perverted nobles to advance himself, and then mercilessly having them and his other patrons killed once in power.
@Politzania10 Kinda but I personally don’t imagine Baldr with a beard and a flowing, Byzantine/oriental sort of robe. Germanic kings are often depicted with both.
There is a rustic folkish charm to the “Jesus was white” larpers, dare I say, something very Pagan and White about it. “He was a blond Aryan gigachad suck it Jew” Like a 12th cent Germanic warrior who thinks Jesus is some Heliand guy who slays dragons & is ready to die for him
@RealestMemes_ The debate surrounds the conscious decision to abort a process which, under normal circumstances, leads to the gestation of a mature human being. That is the point. Anything else is just fluff. I think both sides of the debate have points but the “gotchas” need to end.
@RealestMemes_ The idea of debating whether a fetus “looks like a human” is midwittery of the highest order. It’s akin to arguing about the existence of God based on whether or not you can see him. It’s still described as a “human fetus” because it’s a stage of human embryonic development.
To say otherwise is naïve and I think it is based on how unfamiliar a “classical” education seems to us now. My grandma studied Latin grammar at the local Anglican school in the ’50s. This stuff was the bread and butter of education for centuries.
The Middle Ages would be utterly alien to us too. Hell, I think Early Modern times would be mostly alien to us. The Enlightenment sets the current paradigm for Western thought, but virtually everyone of note in Western history was influenced by classical antiquity.
I think the serious answer is that modern Western culture started during the Middle Ages and evolved out of Christendom. We imagine a connection to the Classical World that mostly isn’t real. Spengler got this right, the non-Christian world would be utterly alien to us
@Ur_Local_Zoomer They certainly used them during Christianisation but there were seaxes long before that. They derive from imperial Roman knives, so they probably developed continuously from the time Germanic people started serving in the Roman military.
@ththirtyththree It’s all neurotic Entartete Kunst. He strikes me as the visual equivalent of Kafka in literature. There were lots of these types in the major cities of Central Europe at the time, it seems.
@CopStalker_ They fled westward or were assumed into the Germanic population. The English population isn’t literally 100% Germanic, of course, and I’ll never claim that. Neither is the actual continental German population either. Hell, even Iceland has lots of Celtic blood.