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Greek influence did far far more than the Jews at this point.

They wouldn't have considered sex to be degeneracy. Before early modernity or so, there wasn't much sense of privacy. People in medieval towns would walk naked to go bathe
People shared beds with other people, strangers or family depending on the situation. People would have sex and use the bathroom in front of other people. This only started to change 300 years ago, a bit earlier in some places. Among the wealthier first, who could afford it.
Medieval courts of say, the 11th century had dogs running around and men fighting duels to the death. 17th century palaces like Versailles had courtiers and servants alike shitting out in the open
Weddings had people witness the consumation of the marriage meaning they watched the newlyweds have sex or at least listened outside a curtain. This very custom is mentioned by Jesus in one of his allusions to himself as bridegroom. The best man watches.
It's also expected in the Bible that bloody sheets will be kept to prove the woman was a virgin. Yes they'd be kept and her parents could be asked to present them publicly.
All this should be kept in mind when discussing the manners of the ancients. Their sense of humor was also very often blunt and crass. Satyr plays are a great example of this. In a way not so different from people of any other time.
There's a tendency to see them as words on a page or statues rather than real people.

The Romans considered things like effeminacy in men and cowardice and impiety to be degeneracy. There's little worry about sex except insofar as it impacts those...
They had a notion that sex drains vital energy from men and so men shouldn't overindulge. And their views on marriage were strict enough that it was limited. But sex itself wasn't bad.

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Aug 8
Before the 2nd Punic War there were no marble temples or villas in Rome. In the 180s bce the first marble temple was dedicated. It wasn't until decades later the first citizen built a like mansion. The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus was a wooden structure until...
...the 80s bce. To put this on a timeline, Julius Caesar was a young man by then and this was the most important religious site in Rome. Greek style statuary came in around the same time frame, and until then most temples had clay or wood images of the gods.
Roman society in general was devoid of most arts like theater, poetry, and sculpture. No literature, they had writing but didn't write things for entertainment. The first theater ever built in Rome was after 200 bce, and the Senate had it demolished as a threat to morality.
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May 27
The new testament is full of gnosticism and often looks like something gnostic that later got edited by mora rabbinic leaning Jews. Paul's epistles go back and forth with numerous contractions even within the same text because of this editing.
For example he says eating meat sacrificed to idols is okay and can't hurt you...then goes on to say absolutely don't do it or God may kill you. You had an editor trying to make it more rabbinic. Paul also calls the Torah a ministry of death graven in stone...
...and denies that God gave the Torah(he says angels gave it to Moses, in line with gnosticism) and certainly doesn't have Jesus as the source of the law.

But then we get the editor again trying to dial all this back.
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Oct 30, 2022
I've seen this so many times from various angles. Starting in high school where I beat the fuck out of a guy and his gf was hitting on me a day later. I was disgusted at the time. Something about her complete lack of loyalty. I figured she'd feel bad about it all. Nope.
Even at my most cold and violent I always did understand basic loyalty. I wouldn't turn on my bro or my gf like that, I guess I thought back then women were similar to to that. She says she loves the guy, surely that counts for at least as much as it would for me.
You might tell me that it's just a phase. No, I've seen the pattern recur. In college a guy lost his gf of several years because he got punched in a drunken fight at a house party. Laid out in front of her, left him 3 days later.
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Oct 29, 2022
Roger II King of Sicily. From the St. Mary of the Admiral cathedral in Palermo. Norman era artwork from the 12th century. The Normans(Frenchy Vikings) came down there as warlords and ended up taking to the local Greek, Italian cultures.
Roger II was Roman Catholic but also liked the Byzantine aesthetic. He depicted himself like a Byzantine ruler and had himself addressed as a Roman emperor. And the local artstyle was taken right off the Byzantines.
The Normans never had the best relationship with the Roman Pope. The Byzantine idea of the emperor over the church and receiving his authority directly from God, seems to be what this says here. Similar disputes with the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire took place as well.
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Oct 29, 2022
You don't know the first thing about Hindoos or Pajeets(the other major ethnic group in India).

She ain't intentionally appealing to them, I doubt she knows much about Indian politics. I ended up getting tons of them without intending it.
Hindoos engage like crazy and one when reacts to something more come in. They are very supportive and like to retweet.

Pajeets also engage a lot. They also come one then another then a swarm, but usually to argue in your comments with each other or go on about stupid shit.
Aside from all that though this dumbfuck commie is attributing some cunning dogwhistle plan where it isn't needed. You don't need a secret scheme to appeal to Hindoo Nazis when it's basic shit she's saying. Islam wipes out polytheism, really damn obvious to all people.
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Oct 28, 2022
Similar situations are found in India. An elite that far surpasses the average iq of the masses.

Consider that the average European iq, in a country like England or France is apparently comparable to elites iqs from China or India.
We also see from studies that in western Europe the upper class(from at least the 14th century) had double the children of the lower classes and naturally replaced the lower class every few generations. This seems to have resulted in a more evenly distributed population iq wise.
Now really think about this. Modern western egalitarian drive makes a bit more sense. And it also tells something else. For all the talk about western compassion or whatever our comfortable condition and the power that made it possible...
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