
2025-07-03 15:17:47
Here's today's Human Meme podcast episode:
https://humanmeme.com/deus-ex-machina-complete-3000-year-history-from-ancient-greece-to-future-philosophy
"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course
#LGBTQ people have always existed. I collected truly ancient literature quotes from Gilgamesh and pharaohs to Sappho in ancient Greece and Martial in Rome that prove same sex love is far from a novelty:
I wish I knew how to read Linear A (writing system used in Ancient Greece, before the Greek language). I feel that this Linear A writer may have been trying to invent the spreadsheet.
https://mastodon.social/@lineara/114536979045278956