Tristan S. Rapp
@Hieraaetus
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⚓Nimis Audax Mundo, Nimis Stultus Caelo. Master's in biology at Aarhus University & Co-founder of @theextinctions
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Joined July 2011
It's funny how ppl get so confused over this, though it's understandable: No, Santa was not a green spirit of midwinter feasting "before" he became Santa, because Santa and Father Christmas have *separate, independent origins*
Before he became the jolly figure in red, Father Christmas was a spirit of midwinter feasting, a tall, green-robed wanderer who encouraged generosity, good cheer, and a full table for all. #FolkyFriday
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Genuinely, *what do statements like this even mean*? Traced through what? Textual evidence? Archaeological evidence? The fevered imaginings of 19th-century folklorists?
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"[B]ut the celebration of light during the darkest time of the year can be traced back to ancient Norse winter solstice celebrations." Is this traced lineage in the room with us right now?
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You see ppl pull this all the time online, be they atheists, theists, conservatives, progressives, whatever: "I don't believe anyone actually disagrees with me" ...okay? What are you supposed to do with that? It's a complete conversation terminator.
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Otherwise intelligent people completely lacking a theory of mind for each other is one of the most interesting aspects of the internet to me
I’m convinced atheists went extinct in 2012. Everyone calling themselves an ‘atheist’ now is just running on the leftover Reddit memes of the era.
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Can ppl explain to me the thing some Americans clearly have for the Grinch? Like, it's a fine story. Original movie is a classic, the Carrey version is enjoyable too. But some of the stuff you see is a bit... much? Is it an ironic thing? Why do this
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Even asserting that "Pretending Santa exists is a lie" implies that young children experience reality in the same propositional manner as adults, rather than in a much more holistic, symbolism-infused way that can readily incorporate and shrug off childhood make-believe.
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It is a literal none-issue, a case of self-conscious over-applied principles imposed over basic human nature (and failing to understand how children think and experience the world regardless).
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The Santa mythos is an example of the broader sort of mythmaking parents have always engaged in with their children - conjuring stories about fairies in the fields, trolls in the woods, the tooth fairy etc - which have never been sources of harm to kids. A forced, tiring debate.
If you tell your kids there's a Santa, you're lying to them, and they are going to later find out that you lied to them and realize that you may again lie to them in the future. I don't know why parents do this (although mine didn't), but it's a good indicator of bad parenting
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A sizeable chunk of Western Europe's governing elite have convinced themselves that a structural inability to govern decisively is actually a feature, not a bug, and a sign of a moral superiority that doesn't dirty itself with hard decisions or unsavoury trade-offs.
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No lies detected, but one might add that most of Europe's smaller states, at least in the west, simply mirror or participate in these same problems in miniature. Ireland is a microcosm of Britain's troubles, Scandinavia is somewhere between France and Germany's mindsets.
Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover". First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.
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So as a European you'll be nodding along to Caleb and Adelaide going to a college prom on the St. John's Centenary Campus, or Caleb's dad being the reverend this or that, but Caleb has a Jewish friend Simon, and suddenly we are expected to know about bar mitzvahs, Sukkot, seder
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What I mean is, mainstream American culture is an Anglophone, British-derived civilization, which is intelligible and familiar to the European observer. Yet America also contains largely and culturally prominent minority strains which are *not* very familiar to Europeans.
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One of the most interesting/funny things about American media, as a Northern European, is the frequent sudden intrusion of Jewish and Hispanic terms and concepts, with the expectation of familiarity. It's striking precisely because all the "heritage Americana" up to then was easy
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Headlines from the Táin Bó Cúailnge
Gardaí recover 18 cattle taken by rustlers in west Cork
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Europe as a block has probably never been in a worse overall geopolitical situation, this is more or less entirely due to the inveterate thick-headedness of our elite and the anemia of our populations, and yet we have the temerity to sneer at the Yankees from beneath their boot
Europeans were always smug about Americans being dumb and uneducated. And the last 3 days have definitely proved Europeans were always right.
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Happy St. Nick's day. Random, partially related anecdote, but one of my strongest cases of the mandela effect was my absolute conviction that CK2 featured Arianism as a religion, with a blueish purple cross as its icon. But no. False, implanted memory.
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