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The fact that Python is Apollo's greatest enemy and snake is Asclepius' sacred animal will always be funny

Part 2

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I’m kinda on the fence over wether or not Circe assaulted Odysseus, I mean she swore an oath to never do him harm so I’m not sure he only had sex with her so she wouldn’t turn him into a pig (tho I do remember her turning a guy into a bird bc he was loyal to his wife but I can’t find the source rn).

Tho I’m less interested in Circe and Odysseus specifically and more about the Pandora’s box of implications over wether ANY god/mortal relationship is actually consensual, like ppl argue that there is no way Odysseus had any real agency bc if he refused Circe would turn him into a pig but if that’s the case why not apply this to Cadmus and Harmonia? Apollo and Hyacinth? Eros and Psyche? Or even Minos and Pasiphaë? The gods in each of these relationships have infinitely more power than their mortal partners but I don’t really see anyone talking about these power imbalances.

I’m not trying to argue one way or the other I just wanna know ppl’s thoughts on this subject bc I think it’s very interesting.

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Listening to Wouldn’t You Like isn’t enough.

I need to SCREAM THE LYRICS UNTIL MY THROAT HURTS. I need it to be the ONLY SONG EVER. I need it to be ANIMATED, STAGED, and LIVED!

I LOVE IT.

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I hate, hate, HATE the term “affordable housing.” I hate that we’ve normalized it. I hate that we just accept that the majority of housing, a basic human right, is unaffordable to much of the population. Housing should be affordable as a baseline. If rich people want to add arcades and gold-plated hot tubs on top so be it, but everyone, everyone, regardless of income level, should have access to a clean, comfortable home with enough light and space to make life worth living.

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Download them, use them, they are for you.

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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.

My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.

I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.

There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.

I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.

You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

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‼️🇵🇸🎓 Students at Yale University set up new protest camp

🔸 Sources: Al Jazeera and Thomas Birmingham

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Another thought about Greek myths. The story of Icarus is a tragedy. Not only because of what happened to him but also because he has become known as a symbol for hubris. He had been imprisoned his whole life, and finally got to taste freedom. He flew higher and higher to see more of the world that had been kept from him, an action of joy not pride.

#greek tragedy #mythology #greek gods #ancient greek #icarus and the sun

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So.

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Odysseus : -and if i have to drop another infant from a wall in an instant so we all dont die, then I'll become the monster!

his men, watching him slip into madness and admit to infanticide :

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Can we talk about how amazing Jorge’s mom can sing? Cause not only was it a heartbreaking moment, but her voice is so pretty too?!

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The thing about Monster that I'm currently obsessed with: the way Odysseus humanizes his enemies as he dehumanizes himself. He correctly describes the motivations of the Cyclops, Circe, and even Poseidon which takes a level of understanding that people struggle with under the best circumstances. But then in the same verse he describes himself from the view of the Trojans. ("Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping soldiers because he is vile?")

and of course the whole song is "Monster". If Odysseus can't stop seeing his enemies as people (seeing his own son in the Trojan infant), if that is what is killing his men and if there is no future where he makes it home as the person he is, then of course he has no choice but to stop being a person.

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the underworld in a nutshell