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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...

Last post by chaotic neutral observer - Today at 02:26:18 PM

I just ate an entire block of cheese.

He who was ears to hear, let him hear.  He who has butt to poop, let him poop.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...

Last post by chaotic neutral observer - Today at 02:21:51 PM

The entire time, the farming, agricultural class, was forced to adhere to the religiously aligned scholarly class which would tell them when to plant and when to harvest, else they would plant too early and wait too late to harvest.

Nonsense.  The farmers harvest when the crops are ready.  That doesn't happen on a fixed schedule.  Calendars sometimes come in helpful for determining when to plant, but the current year's conditions matters more.  Anything the "scholarly class" knows about farming they learned from the farmers.

The progression from cave people to modern people was not linear as we have all been brought up to believe.

I wasn't brought up to believe any such damn fool thing.  I perceive that you are full of shit.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade

Last post by Abbot Mythos - Today at 09:09:09 AM

For decades, my rule of thumb has been that no matter how bad a 'Merican president is at his job, his approval ratings will not drop below 33.3%, or roughly 1/3 of the people polled. (I freely admit, my rule of thumb is little more than my opinion, based upon my observation of 'Merican politics.)

Still, given how unimaginably bad this POSOTUS is at his job, his aggregate approval rating has yet to drop to that level.

So, while I don't doubt there are a few members, here and there, who are becoming disillusioned enough to distance themselves from the Republicult™, I'm not optimistic there will ever be anything resembling a mass exodus. I'm more inclined to believe this cult will simply rebrand itself. Again.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade

Last post by Pergamos - Yesterday at 04:34:21 PM

My roommate is a magat, he's loved Trump all the way, until he started driving up the gas prices with this foolish adventure in Iran.  I don't think the inflation statement is something he noticed, it's pretty typical senile Trump rambling, but I can definitely see him alienating even his die hard fans at this point.

[Trump has a new, surprising take on the higher cost of living: 'I love the inflation']

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade

Last post by Abbot Mythos - Yesterday at 05:57:13 AM

I think the Republicult™ would have reacted much differently to this statement, if a Democratic President had made it:

Trump has a new, surprising take on the higher cost of living: 'I love the inflation'

As per this article:

"Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn't dismiss the affordability issue as a "hoax" that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.

Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.

"You know what I really love?" Trump said. "I love the inflation.""

However, I'm not seeing any outrage among the brain-dead faithful. So, I'm taking the lack of it as just more proof that the Republicult™ really is a cult, in every sense of the word.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...

Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 11, 2026, 08:48:37 AM

Before the dark ages, empires controlled the flow of knowledge, until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. These non-interesting parts of History between the well documented established orders contained unbroken lineages of familial bloodlines and religious orders which absolutely kept secrets from the rest of us.

Conspiracy theories are a defining feature of our Discordian mythology. It's one of the things that drew me to this religion, as I find many popular conspiracy theories to be highly amusing.

However, those of us who, for our amusement, occasionally claim the be members of the Illuminati, The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria (A.I.S.B.) - the World's Oldest and Most Successful Conspiracy, need to be aware that not every force that drives civilization originally sprung from a conscious, organized conspiracy. I submit that describing how our various previous civilizations operated, and how our current one operates, is more difficult than that. And, believing in conspiracy theories can lead to paranoia.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: UNLIMITED Trump thread, 20...

Last post by Doktor Howl - June 11, 2026, 03:45:00 AM

Thanks to DOGE, we have screw worms in our cattle again.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...

Last post by Doktor Howl - June 11, 2026, 03:44:12 AM

I just ate an entire block of cheese.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Scientific Proof of Republ...

Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 10, 2026, 07:49:52 AM

In the Republicult™, belief Trumps facts.

#10

Techmology and Scientism / Re: Ancient Astronomy

Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 09, 2026, 09:17:45 AM

  Valid, thanks.
Focusing more on the Ancient Astronomy.

I'm dumbfounded by the Antikythera Mechanism. The mathematics and raw data collection involved in that must have been quite a feat.

It's ironic that it was the disaster of a shipwreck that brought this ancient device to the attention of posterity. Only a fraction of what we humans achieve survives for any length of time.