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@Kengetskeltikos He says in the video that they originated with the celts

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@zennospace “do magnets 🗣️🧲💯”

Anglo-Saxon Orthodox Catholic Christianity Gold mount/plaque, early 9th century. Found in 1978 prior to excavation works adjacent to the River Ouse in Brandon, Suffolk. It is thought to be one of a set of four mounts or plaques that would have been set onto a box or a cross of some kind. The plaque is high status and found on an elite site which may have been monastic. The engraving is decorated with niello inlay, with a zoo-anthropomorphic figure, eagles head with human body and hands, representing St John the Evangelist, surrounded with a Latin inscription: SCS EVANGELISTA JOHANNIS ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST Due to its quite small size (34mm x 34mm) I favour the theory that this was mounted on a cross arm - a box is possible but it would have to be really small unless all four plaques weee mounted on one side? The plaque is held at the British Museum.

@jpsrose @howlinghowler_ The Logos assumed human nature while remaining uncircumscribable and omnipresent.

@reasonable8888 Suburbanite LARPer. Your ancestors are laughing at you

The Greeks actually prove my point rather than refute it. They did not believe beauty was only an ethnocultural preference. Plato's eternal forms, Aristotle (taxis, symmetria, horismenon), Polykleitos believed that physical beauty could be deduced mathematically. Whether they were polytheists is irrelevant. They believed that reality possesses an intelligible structure that grounds objectivity. Also, the Greeks didn’t “disregard other people’s opinions from the get-go.” Greek philosophers were debating Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, and other Greeks. They wanted to glean universal truths about reality, not just “truth for the Greeks”. What you’re describing is not objective beauty, it’s just preference on different scales (race, tribe, individual). That’s still subjectivist.

If beauty is just tribal preference, there are no objectively ugly people, only people you and your tribe dislike. You can’t then say “ugly people disprove God.” That’s smuggling in metaphysical objectivity, which you’ve just denied. It collapses into “I don’t like how some people look, therefore no God.” It’s dishonest.

Without God, “ugliness” is not a real feature of reality. It would just be the product of genes and electrochemical processes in your brain. Your question only has meaning if beauty is objective and the universe should conform to it. You’re borrowing objective beauty to argue against God while simultaneously denying the metaphysical framework that would make objective beauty intelligible.

@OrthodoxPole81 The wolf who wouldn’t eat meat. The irony of romanticizing predatory beasts, yet hating the hunt… such a selective incoherent worldview

@Walkinghosteed The bodies are fake, but the heads are real. See the raised part of the floor they’re on? It’s hollow underneath, they are crouched in there with their heads exposed. This is a mock ritual, demonic nonetheless.

@clubcillian @DrewVento You invest too much in your sense of security in yourself and the quality of your character to overcompensate for your lack of physique and that’s that

@CisalpinePride Depends on what you mean by productive

How many Italians and Greeks do you see larping as British industrialists? Zero. How many Angloids do you see larping as Ancient Greeks or Romans? A lot.

@CisalpinePride We alp 💯

@Kengetskeltikos I mean, in my honest opinion, I think I frame mog even the Farnese Hercules. That still doesn’t discount how impressive the IA physiques were or that some men in the Iron Age/ancient world actually built serious muscle

1) Conan the Barbarian is set in Robert E. Howard’s fictional Hyborian Age (a prehistoric fantasy world), not the Iron Age or Viking Age. 2) Iron Age Greeks were sculpting what you’d consider bodybuilder physiques. This means that although the statues might be idealized, muscular physiques were easily conceivable and definitely admired. The existence of highly muscular individuals didn’t begin with exogenous hormones. To argue that muscular physiques are a modern invention is simply ahistorical (and cope).

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Celtic Barbarian 𖥞 @Kengetskeltikos

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No one in the Iron Age or Viking Age looked like that. They werent body builders, didn't have PEDs, and the sword is wrong. Two handed swords are more a later medieval design. The ideal natural warrior physique comes from a basic rural life with lots of sparring, not gymbro homo

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Not Hyperborean, “HYBORIAN”. It’s a fictional setting that isn’t supposed to take place in the Iron Age. You’re treating Conan as a historical reconstruction when it’s a fantasy character. Conan is supposed to be an exceptional heroic figure, not an average tribesman. One of Howard’s most famous lines is“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” Conan is called the barbarian because he embodies vigor, independence, and a life close to nature in contrast to decadent civilization. He isn’t supposed to be a reconstruction of an IA Celt. Traditional cultures such as that of the Hellenes cultivated qualities that are neglected in modernity. They encouraged athleticism, resilience, beauty ideals tied to health and vigor, and spiritual frameworks that promoted excellence. It’s likely that exceptional individuals were more common then than they are today.

Regarding the use of the word “barbarian”, you’re committing a classic word-concept fallacy. You're taking the narrow pop history meaning of "barbarian" (Iron Age Celts or Viking Age Norse raiders) and insisting that's the only valid definition. Then you apply it rigidly to a fantasy setting. That's not how words or literature work. Howard was using "barbarian" in the broad literary sense, obviously.

Are you disagreeing that Conan is set in a fantastical prehistoric golden age? You could figure out the setting of the books from a simple google search. Direct quote from the opening of the series: "Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars-Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian..."