tbf, a lot of Greek gods go beyond "not perfect" into "actually just petty abusive assholes"
i'm imagining a version of this with the top panel being "we're already in hell and the demiurge is deceiving us" and the bottom panel being a really deep dive into 4th century ecumenical council debates but i'm too lazy to put it together
Damn right. Praise be to our Lord His Holiness St. Bhagawan Shree Matt Christman (PBUH). He himself will smite the Demiurge and bring about total gnosis in this defiled mortal realm.
When I was in elementary school, we had behavior cards and normally we’d all be green. It goes from green, yellow, orange, then red. When the teacher got fed up with our behavior, she would start all of us on orange and we would have the end of the day to get to yellow or green, otherwise we would have to fill out a refocus form
lol must be an American thing. It’s basically timeout where you fill out a sheet describing your behavior and your parents have to sign it
Basically what I’m saying is that we were put in hell then had to gradually move out of it based on our conduct
holy shit they've outsourced writing the note to the kids?
at least here, the teacher had to do the work of writing the note...
Yes, though I can see the psychological reason behind it. Not only are you visibly in time out filing the sheet out, but you basically kind of have to be honest about it because it's your handwriting and the teacher may present it during meetings. You can put a fake signature on it but then your parents will be like "huh how come you never brought this to my attention"
core memory activated
i remember those cards, we had them in kindergarten. my crush was always orange or red and i was always green
Prometheus getting his liver ripped out for the 946th time:
"Well THAT just happened."
Biblical god is no better honestly, they just made him a really convoluted character to fit a classic tribal god into the frames of omniscient and omnipotent. Now that i think of it, Azathoth from Cthulhu mythos is direct parody of that view on god, plus ton of gnosticism.
Notice how each and every one of those arguments on the bottom panel are employed to defend capitalism.
Especially the last one, that's called "capitalist realism".
Capital Vol 1, Chapter 1, Section 4.
It’s so weird that God is somehow restricted to the human understanding of free will. Theoretically, it could be defined as anything because he’s god. Free will could be 500 sandwiches in a mineshaft. More importantly, it could be a world free of evil but people are still required to seek god on their own.
But no. God’s will conveniently matches with our understanding of philosophy.
a lot of Greek gods go beyond “not perfect” into “actually just petty abusive assholes”
The only good guy in Greek mythology was Prometheus, and look what they did to him. Though his punishment didn't actually took that long in godly terms since even Zeus finally acknowlegded Prometheus is just a great guy and ordered Heracles to free him.
Also dude from other cathegory, still douchebag but getting way too much flak was Agamemnon. It's actually a small miracle that he functioned in society somewhat considering his father was one of the evillest scum in entire mythology, his uncle rivalled father, and later he had the monstrually bad luck with gods treating him as plaything and setting him up for some really wicked shit even for a greek god standards. So much of what he did really was not even his fault (greek gods also don't give a slightest shit about concept of free will, and they have rather crude and direct, often spectacular, methods of solving that and making mortals do what they want).
tbf, a lot of Greek gods go beyond "not perfect" into "actually just petty abusive assholes"
Good thing the god of Abraham is so loving and understanding
something bad happens a couple hundred leagues from home: "the local gods must be pissed at me"
You see hundreds of ships on the horizon, heading to your city.
You know I think its kinda low key hilarious that on a certain level the moral of an overwhelming amount of mythology is: "If god(s) get personally involved in your affairs you're about to have a really REALLY bad time."
To be fair, I think we got to this point in Christianity in part due to Greek philosophers' interpretations and arguments of Christianity. Greek influence is now virtually inseparable in mainstream Christianity as it is also in mainstream Islam.
I don't even think the omnipotent, so on and so forth, perception of God that is now identified with popular Christianity after millenia of argument makes any sense Biblically speaking. It is far more idealistic, Greek philosophy than anything.
I will always be angry that Hades always gets the portrayal he does. Even in Hades him being an antagonist sucks.
Ha yeah. Sidenote my favorite thing about Hades is how they're all so stubborn- everyone refuses to move an inch. And it makes perfect sense because all of these people are immortals spending eternity in each others' proximity - having just the slightest amount of adaptability or giving anyone around them any leeway would, on a geographic time scale, basically destroy their entire identities many times over
Greek gods are basically people with incredible amounts of power and the results are as expected as far as them being assholes
Shoutout to Herakles' family
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