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The world isn’t going backwards; it’s just going somewhere that isn’t any life worth living. Certainly not socialism.
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I am using the word backwards in the sense that we are not moving forward toward a better societyMy first Almamater was surrounded by bookstores, and now it is surrounded by evangelical churches, pubs and porn shops.
All radios that used to broadcast classical and instrumental music are gone.
Music and good movie stores are gone too.
Buenos Aires and Mexico DF are two of the few cities that have many bookstores.
Bookbinding used to be an art in many towns, and now it is almost gone; old books are thrown away instead of being recovered
Used bookstores are gone now; everything is controlled by Amazon
We are dinosaurs
Marxist bookstores are gone, and now the red scare is coming back again
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Forums like this do not exist anymore; they join internet media to publish photos, pornography, craps, and to worship leaders.People who do not even read comic books have an opinion on everything.
Journalists must be part of the crowd; otherwise they would be laid off. Real journalism is gone, and journalists do not do any research, and they do not read books; it is just a profession to make money.
This world is going backwards; it is a bizarre world.
Young people do not find any future in this society, and they are killing themselves; suicides among youngsters are increasing
In my first alma mater, humanities and general education were the mandatory entrance courses for every student; it was a joy to study and discuss the humanities.
The humanities departments are going to be closed.
In the USA, museums on history and archaeology are being closed or modified to show brainwashing events. The minister of education is an expert on wrestling and boxing; she does not have a degree in education or pedagogy
In Iran, with the bombing, they have destroyed many historical sites, and the museum of Baghdad was vandalised, and a whole historical town was destroyed in Syria.
During the pandemic, internists ( internal medicine ) and nurses were killed based on conspiracy theories influenced by stupid religious fundamentalism. It takes years to become an internist.
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After business school, they do not read any books; they just want to be CEO and bootlickers.https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/these-colleges-have-taylor-swift-classes/. They are teaching this shit now
And the majority of academics in universities still hold that there was an historical Jesus.
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It is the opposite of what Engels said: That scientists are materialist in their laboratories and idealist in their private lives; they do not want to lose their jobs; fundamentalism has taken over our society . Two teachers were laid off because they were teaching the real fundamentals of world history; they want history based on the theological conception of history. They talk against feudal times, but this period is worse
I like to feel a book in my hands. I have been sending all my books to a bookbinding company, and they look beautiful in different colours. We were told to love our books, magazines and newspapers, and our books always carry paper covers to conserve them. We had occasional inspections of our textbooks . Now there is propaganda made by the governments to hate newspapers and journalists and to hate scientific books; religious fundamentalism is taking over our society; it is like a regression
I have a Kindle, but I only use it on rare occasions. All my books have three or four markers made out of ribbons of different colours. I am an atheist, but I have Bibles from different translations and different versions, atheist read more about the bible than theists. I grew up in a small town, but the main entertainment of the young people was the town library. Long-distance education is going to be the future of pedagogy, and many universities are implementing that system
The expansion of Christian fundamentalism has now, I see from new books and internet videos, at last sparked an academic (at least) exposure of the Jesus myth and of the biblical mythology in general.
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The whole bible, the Quran, and the Torah have been debunked and proven to be just mythologies; Christianity have been proven to be based on a myth, and that Jesus and his apostles never existed; some places that he walked did not exist in his time; churches have been exposed as business establishments attached to the capitalis,t mode of production, but people still believe in mythology.. The Odyssey movie has collected more than 1008 billion in profits; it is a sign that most people believe in mythology and wars
All Abrahamic religions are bloody and violent; the so-called crucifixion of Jesus is a bloody action. Jehovah love killing and revenge; the Old Testament is full of criminal actions. The so-called devil, compared to Jehovah, is a saint
The Haitian voodoo religion and Cuban Santeria sacrifice chickens and goats for rituals; it is syncretism, which is a combination of African and catholic rituals.
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Those who buy cannabis and other drugs from illegal sources in S. America don’t realise they are funding animal sacrifice. The smugglers are intensely superstitious and sacrifice animals to “St. Death” to ask for the success of their enterprises.A few years ago, on the US/Mexican border, they kidnapped a young US man, took him into Mexico and sacrificed him to St. Death, the skull-faced patron saint of cannabis smugglers (to whom marijuana is burnt as incense). There was later a big shooting battle between police and smugglers. At the smugglers’ hideout were found the remains of bloody animal sacrifices and also the bones of the youth.
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This society, despite all the technological advancement, is still backward and reactionary and recalcitrant nationalism is spreading all over;d the first promoters of nationalism are the Leninists and the left-wingers; there is disregard for sciences, literature, arts and reading; they want libraries to be closed to save what they call taxpayers’ money. Why do they want to burn books when nobody is reading them? They are just collecting dust in the bookshelves
People are experiencing a profound ideological retrogression, and many people do not care any more about caring for other human beings,
They inherited those rituals from the Incas and the Aztecs who sacrificed animals for agriculture, prosperity and for rain
You an see the case of the US christians nationalists, they do not care if children are killed, pregnants women in emigration jails dying, they just care about the so called homeland which does not belong to them, they do not have a job, they live in poverty, they do not have medical insurance and they supported the measures to reverse them and they support their o ers, they love the capitalist class, they do not care if peoples in others countries are bombarded and killed, it is all bread and circusses like the Roman empire.
Cortes was able to win the battle because there was class division among the natives, and he used that to gain the support of some of them. Similarly, in the USA, some natives fought along with the English and the French against the American colonisers. The black slaves fought along with the Yankees during the Civil War
https://www.leftvoice.org/primaries-progressives-threaten-democratic-establishment/
Progressives threaten the democratic establishment
The gods of the Inca and the Aztecs were different to the monotheistic god of the Jews; they were connected to nature and political dominance or to their mode of production.
The Spaniard eliminted those religious practices, but they imposed catholicism and whoever resisted was killed and burned alive.
They imposed slavery and working in the mines to extract gold and silver, and many used coca leaves to work harder and longer hours and thousands of them died.
Human sacrifice by the Inkas was a deeply sacred, highly regulated state ritual known as Capacocha (or Qhapaq Hucha), which primarily involved the offering of children to local and imperial deities.
Unlike the large-scale public executions practised by the Aztecs, Inka sacrifices were performed selectively to ensure cosmic balance, appease the gods during crises, and consolidate political control over a rapidly expanding empire.
The Inkas used human sacrifice as a dual tool for spiritual devotion and imperial dominance:
Sacrifices were triggered by major disruptions like environmental disasters (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts), epidemics, or the death of an Inka Emperor.
Offerings were made to the Sun God (Inti) and mountain deities (Apus) to secure successful harvests, steady rain, and general fertility.
The state required local conquered chiefs to provide their own children for sacrifice.
This bound peripheral regions to the capital of Cusco, transforming the victims into eternal deities that legitimised Inka rule over subject populations.
The Inkas selected physically unblemished boys and girls, typically between the ages of 4 and 14, valued for their purity.
Older girls, such as the 13-year-old Llullaillaco Maiden, were chosen from the Acllahuasi (House of Chosen Women).
They were raised as priestesses and royal wives before some were selected for sacrifice.Families viewed selection as an extraordinary honour rather than a punishment, often elevating the social and political status of the child’s family.
In the year leading up to their death, victims’ diets changed drastically to include elite foods like maize and meat.
Analysis of mummy hair suggests victims heavily consumed intoxicating coca leaves and chicha (maize alcohol) to induce altered states and sedate them during the gruelling mountain ascents
I believe it. It was reported by the Romans about Carthage, and the Carthaginians were Phoenicians, and Phoenicia was what is now Lebanon.
Bizarre though, don’t you think? Children are a society’s future.
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It is the same as in Exodus 11-29, when all the firstborn of Egypt were killed, but that event never took place. Some historians believe that a similar event took place in another region, but there was no killing. It is only a myth because the Exodus never took place
However, ritual animal sacrifice persisted in some regional Iranian traditions well into the Islamic era before largely fading out.”
Aren’t goats still sacrificed in Islam for Eid?
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That is not the issue, and the Roman and Matthew Henry are not the issue either because he tried to cover it up.The main issue is the prophet Jeremiah, who did indicate that the jews were sacrificing their children for Baal, and Yahweh punished them; again,
We come back to the issue of the gods’ defeat of that epoch: the pagan gods of the north defeated the god of the South; peoples had rejected Yahoe as they did in Sinai when Moses was on the mountain, and he killed thousands of people as a punishment.
Yahaev spent all the Biblical narratives punishing his followers to avoid defeat
There were three floods in three different places, but they were not universal; they were local, rivers overflowing that destroyed several civilisations, but it is not the same narrative as Genesis 6-9.
They were produced by climatic changes, but they were not produced by a god’s punishment, and they were transmitted by different peoples that survived those floods
The Jews learned about those floods when they were exiled to Babylon, and they took those narratives and applied them to their own world and to their own god, but merged them into one flood, and the most impressive one was the last flood because it was the one that produced more destruction
Those floods took place before they were written in the Bible; therefore, the Noah flood did not occur as mentioned in the Bible. Ironically, it was written to say that Yahev is a god of promise and a god of morality; now we can see a materialist and earthly event transformed into a religious event
