If anything is worthy of worship, it's the sun. It literally gives us life. All the energy you've ever had ultimately came from the sun.
this is astrology erasure
good 
Real talk I used to make fun of astrology, and later I learned to chill out about it and not be such a nerd and let people enjoy things.
But then recently I was part of a conversation that 2 people turned into a tangent about astrology and they went on and on for about 5 minutes about extremely detailed personal qualities of Scorpios, down to how they supposedly react to a long list of very specific scenarios, and how this was a good way to understand and predict the actions of a couple of specific people they knew.
I realized I wasn't actually ready to stop being really annoyed by astrology.
Astrology is just space phrenology.
This, astrology is new age calipers
If astrologists had institutional power it would be a nightmare, it’s only fun when not taken seriously at all.
If astrologists had institutional power it would be a nightmare, it’s only fun when not taken seriously at all.
Economists: Am I a joke to you?
Yeah Astrology is horrible and all superstition should be ruthlessly extinguished, and I would get on with that if I wasn't old, grey, and tired.
Sucks being in a conversation and realizing you're the only person who doesn't whole heartedly believe in magic. No, please do tell me about how the big rock out in space decides whether or not you have a shitty day at work I am good at maintaining my composure my poker face is great and my confusion and disgust definitely will not leak through when I try to decide if you are harmless or one of those people who will make decisions that harm me and the people I love because you think your inner monologue is the voice of god.
A big rock in space decides I have a shitty day at work every day it called the Earth
I am not an astrologer I am an earth scientist
5 dimensional esoteric racism
That’s just the Barnum effect
The problem comes up when astrology people start arrogantly analyzing your personality based on that shit, come to a negative opinion of you based on that, arrogantly roll their eyes and pout and smirk at the fact that you obviously are such a libra/whatever by obviously not believing it, and then spouting that utter nonsense to people around you. They are actively essentializing people and shaping their behaviour with them according to literal insanity.
Astrology should not be allowed to be published by public book publishers of any kind in a socialist society. If people want to believe insane bullshit in the privacy of their appartments, that's their problem. But the moment you start trying to spread those beliefs and use economic resources to do so in a way that can undermine people respect for scientific thought then that's definitely a problem.
I'm sorry but it's basically just phrenology for hippies.
I recently saw a hot take that being anti-astrology is actually a form of misogyny because astrology believers are predominantly women.
Typical Libra, am I right?
um actually being pro-astrology is transphobia because i am trans and i don't like it 
The consequences of postmodern liberal thought and its obliteration of critical thinking abilities to the point of excluding basic logic or how concepts function in effective empirical and scientific thought continues to make a laughing stock of modern liberal intellectual culture.
No, my plan to build a continent sized rocket booster and yeet Mercury in to Andromeda so the little fucker never retros it's grade again is Astrology erasure.
Nuclear fission/geothermal: am I a joke to you?
Have you eaten fissile material or lava?
On hexbear, nobody knows you're a crab living on a geothermal vent in the Middle Atlantic Rift, eating snails that have grazed sulfur-eating bacteria all their life 
Harkens back to those old Aleve commercials
I'm in the first or second chapter of 
's Dawn of Everything, and the unearned arrogance the Europeans display to the indigenous Americans is constantly thrown back in their faces.
"You don't feed the hungry, even when when you have food to spare?"
"The only reason your men obey you is because you compel them with fear of violence?"
He goes on to argue that "enlightenment" ideals of human freedom and equality entered the primitive European brainpan through their experiences with truly free people who actually embraced equality. It's a fun read
Dawn of Everything is the first book I would hand to a lib if I was going to try and turn them into a Marxist. Gotta shake those “west is best” and “muh human nature” brainworms first before you will get anywhere, IMO
I've been reading "The Many-Headed Hydra" and it covers a similar idea. However it is focused on the Northern Atlantic and Anglos. They go into some detail about the wreck of the ship Sea Venture and the mutiny to stay free on Bermuda rather than return to class based rule. That wreck actually inspired The Tempest
Christian missions are the indoctrination and cultural genocide that the West loves to project onto its enemies. No, teaching kids how to brush their teeth is not cultural genocide - eradicating entire religions is!
"I can see the sun. That helps for credibility."
Stop looking at the sun george
It's honestly still a mystery to me how they managed to brute force their way into hegemony, time and time again. Joyless, drab, unappealing...and yet they somehow got the numbers to pull this shit off in the first place.
Just kill everyone who disagree with you
might be a path worth pursuing
looking into this
Guns, manufactured goods, liquor, guns, sugar, medicine, guns, and guns.
One of the common tactics was to pick one ethnic group or whatever to be the "civilized" group, then give them guns and tell them that if they want to continue to get guns they'd better get the rest of the region under control, quick, or the guns would stop. YOu make one group really powerful, but not as powerful as your troops, then use them as a club to beat the rest of the region in to submission while also making your aid contingent on wearing clothes, drinking tea, producing export crops, etc.
Going back further, I wanna know how they even managed to secure enough power to pull off shit like the crusades -- How Christianity became an institution in the first place. I need to look into that at some point.
It had the advantage of the pre-existing structure of the Roman Empire. Religions catch on fast when there's a ton of money, swords, and land already associated with it. Also helped that the Roman religion didn't care too much about heresy or adopting new gods, so the average Roman citizen didn't care that Jupiter is now Jehova. A lot of early Christianity was like madlibs, just changing the names of various polytheistic deities into various Christian things.
Some early Christians in England for instance would emphasis the similarity of Jesus on the cross with Odin dying on the world tree.
Also material reasons
Immunity to smallpox is a good way to ensure you're the last one standing. Never underestimate the power of poor hygiene and living in close proximity to livestock.
Praise the Sun! The light bringer!
Don’t tell them about Sol Invicta and Jesus-Helios-son of Isis!
Those just sound like some guys the state department wants to give loot crates to tbh
The guy on the ground is holding a staff, but in the thumbnail it looks like he's pointing his thumb at the missionary "get a load of this bozo" style
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