Matthaeus Tomasevici 🥨 馬太

Matthaeus Tomasevici 🥨 馬太

@covrig.bsky.social

Historian of Chinese religions Religion, philosophy, West Europe, East Asia and everything in between. Mostly dad jokes, bad humor and memes - mostly memes. Curious, asking questions and using this platform to know more people.

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Is it only me, or Discover feed is tittier than the usual. Not that I complain. Tits are great. But I come here for historical stuff, philosophical discussions, see content that leave mark in my brain. On a second thought, I'm sick and my head aches. Don't want anything to touch my brain right now.

I used to be that strict guy who aspires for law and order. As I got older, I started to admire some sorts of chaos. I am still somewhat conservative, but I used to be much more conservative as a youth. Whatever Ukraine did today in Russia, is exactly the kind of chaos I admire.

I just read a book taking place in the Byzantine era. One of the characters was described as wearing "an arctic smile". I assume the author meant "a cold smile", but given the fact it's a Greek speaking era, I couldn't but interpret that as a bear-smile 🐻.

I love how words travel and mutate. 🇬🇷 Μηλοπέπων 🍈 🇬🇷 Πεπόνι 🍈 🇮🇱 Melafefon מלפפון 🥒 🇻🇦 Pepo 🍈 🍉 🇷🇴 Pepene 🍉 🍈 🇲🇩 Harbuz 🍉 🇹🇷 Karpuz 🍉 🇬🇷 Καρπούζι 🍉

Full context in the original thread. Devil in the Bible is a fascinating topic. No Satan nor Messiah in the Early scriptures. Zechariah is a post-exile scripture, after Judean tradition had absorbed Iranian concepts of Devil, hell, paradise and Messiah. Which would pave the path to New Testament.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim.bsky.social

The one in Zechariah 3:1–2 is also pretty Satany. That second verse got used in a lot of amulets etc.

Last Tuesday for this lunar month. This Ghost Month started with a solar eclipse, at its peak, Ghost Festival, we experienced a lunar eclipse, and only few days left. It basically shouts INAUSPICIOUS! Stay safe everyone. 🛑🔴🧄🪬🧿🍀🔴🟥🧄🤞🏼 #badlucktuesday

So many AI generated pictures, calling for prayer to Nepal. How do we explain to people that the massive use of AI generated photos is one of the reasons to this disaster, without sounding like assholes preaching to people in distress?

I think Dolly Parton was one of my introductions to country music as a child. I loved her and her music, but I must admit she wasn't on my top 10 list. More than a great singer, she was a great human. I don't know how many people remember she donated a lot of money for COVID vaccination development.

Remember the Colossus of Rhodes? So, I got some existing news for you...

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

My friend: “Did you see that video of Kacey Musgraves performing while seated on disco truck nuts?” Me: “…what?” [looks up video] Me: “You know, I honestly I don’t know what I was expecting.”

Great god of football, please don't give us Portugal - Argentina final match. And France, we definitely don't want France in the final match. Let it be anyone but these 3. We are tired of them. Let it be Norway, Mexico, Egypt whatever... Oh, and no Brazil, how did I forget Brazil? We had enough.