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fellas im about to join a writing competition for my school, but currently have no ideas. Suggestions?

the theme is Stories for Strange Times

<reasonably achievable thing> is cool but have you ever considered <endlessly talking on social media about dismantling an entire societal system, a process that will likely take decades and/or be a brutal revolution in which you, yes you, could die, while never actually instigating said revolution, and meanwhile shooting down anything short of total upheaval thus permitting yourself to wallow in ideological purity and complete inaction without doing a single thing to improve the lives of others in a small tangible way>

girl i saw someone on tiktok talking about the whole “christianity just stole their story from the ancient egyptian’s religion” and at one point the dude said that horus and jesus would’ve had the same birthday and ugh its so stupid cause the egyptians didn’t even have the same calendar as us, how did that even come to be?

Ohhh that old bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit as Egyptians don’t even seem to have documented birthdays, but I digress. It makes a mockery of both Egyptian religion, and Christianity, and I usually see it touted by a certain type of atheist as a ‘gotcha’. I don’t know where it came from, but it seems to have been around for a long while, much like the Ishtar/Easter thing which is equally bullshit. It usually stems from people who want to actively discredit someone’s religious beliefs by ‘oh you guys just stole everything from X religion’ so by extension you’re an idiot. None of the things listed as similarities are even true:

Virgin birth? Nope Isis and Osiris banged to get Horus. Admittedly postmortem as a bird and a reassembled dead guy, but it was definitely sex. Plus the Egyptians didn’t believe in virginity.

Same birthday? Even Jesus’ birthday isn’t December 25th. Egyptians don’t have birthdays, and gods certainly don’t. Feast days, sure. Not birthdays.

Born in a cave, heralded by a star? Nope. Horus was born and grew up amongst Papyrus reeds to hide from Seth who was trying to kill him because Seth was ‘king’

Horus was baptised? Lol no. Egyptians have no such thing

12 disciples? Nope. He did have 4 sons though

Performed miracles and exorcised demons? Well he can do miracles…he’s a god. But demons? Not really unless you deal with duat stuff. Even then it’s not exorcising them. The most documented thing he killed was a Hippo in a boat race with Seth. 

Horus referred to as a Holy Child? ahahahahaha that’s not even a phrase in the Egyptian language. Great god is, but not ‘holy child’. There is ‘divine child’ but that refers to any child of the gods, and also the pharaoh. 

Horus was crucified and resurrected? NOPE. It’s literally forbidden in Egyptian religion to talk about or portray a god dying or being dead. Even Osiris, who is a resurrected dead guy, isn’t referred to as being dead. Horus doesn’t die in any mythology, though I should note that in Egyptian religion gods *can* die. 

So y’know. It’s all bullshit. Elements and motifs of previous religions can make their way into newer religions purely due to the gradual change from old to new over the centuries. Some things just hold over. Is the ‘divine mother and child’ motif unique to either Christianity or Egyptian religion? Nope. Does that invalidate either of them? Also nope. Cultures can have similarities without them having ‘copied’ from each other. 

hey handsome…………of that money to me

bunch of stalker scientists found me in my cave

Hold still. This creature was recorded going 2,569 days without moving.

Salamanders play the long game, with many species living surprisingly long lives. But among these enduring amphibians, there is one outlier – the olm, also known as the proteus.

It has been well documented that these small white cave-dwelling salamanders can live well into their hundreds, but scientists have now gained new insight into the creatures’ glacial pace of life.

In a study which makes sloths look recklessly hyperactive, divers documenting the movements of olms in Herzegovinian caves found that over a decade, individuals tended to move less than 10 metres in total.

However, one extraordinarily inert individual was found not to have bothered moving once in over seven years.

Olms have no predators, are highly resistant to starvation – able to go without food for several years – are blind and live in complete darkness underground and underwater.

They are apparently only compelled to move in order to mate, which they do on average around once every 12.5 years.

In the caves in which they dwell food is typically scarce, but when they are able, olms feed on small crustaceans such as small shrimps, snails and occasionally insects.

Read the full article here.

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Cassian giving love advice to Rhys

Rhys: 

Cassian: 

Chan: everyone is always like ”I have top energy” or ”I have bottom energy” Bitch I got no energy, I’m in bed all day

destroy the idea that i will ever calm down