/lit/ - Literature

>>20729427
Anon, you're still just insulting me instead of making a case. Look at yourself, you manchild baby. This is all your type ever does at any time of the day.. thanks for showing off what Christianity is all about.

roma invicta.

>>20562232
Yes. If Germanicus had gone a little further into Germany and stabbed more German babies to death, our society would be fine today.

Next time when the eagle crosses the rhone we wont be held back by notions of pity against the tiny eyed northern barbarian animal. roma invicta.

>>20501237
there is a certain resemblance.. trump looks a bit like marius for that matter. hmm

Each Temple held a monopoly on each respective sector, enabling the collection of tax on trade to come to through them into the state coffers thereby, and were also responsible for the issuing of licenses, as we would consider the trade or practitioners license today, permitting advanced training in the field to take place under the auspices of genuine experts with a lifetimes worth of experience and enabling also the lawful regulation and highest quality of the practise of the trade to ensure that people could not merely pretend to be XYZ and cause problems through ineptitude or con-artistry. This state of affairs was never actually recreated since the ‘Fall of Rome’ and even the notion of regulation on, for instance, sex workers or medicine, have only relatively recently been things adopted by certain states for their own reasoning: a governmental Ministry (or Department) of Health, for example, is essentially the closest real-world example that we would be describing when we talk about the Temple of Aesculapius, although one notices right away that a civic governmental ministry has no chief framework forcing total obedience ‘to’ the trade or craft itself so that, for instance, it would otherwise be entirely staffed by practitioners in the respective fields and constitute a massive knowledgebase to contribute in everyday problem-solving and not instead staffed, as these ministries so often are, by bean-counter types or the so-called career civil servant types who possess no knowledge in the specific field whilst claiming the highest office in the state ‘in’ that specific field; essentially cutting off the flow of knowledge from the field into the mechanics and operations of the presiding government which would otherwise be informed and guided by it.

In other words, to put it somewhat humorously:

If one has some terrible plague in their society it is chiefly because one does not have a Temple of Aesculapius and this is a True Statement. The meaning of the How and Why (i.e. how and why the statement is true) differ considerably from the literalist monotheists comprehension of the nature ‘of’ a God and ‘of’ a religious organization to the ‘material actualist’ polytheists comprehension as it is, of course, ‘not’ true that the God Aesculapius exists and is flattered by having a Temple built for him and that he then will by magic ‘cure the plague’ because he has been flattered and worshipped, but instead it ‘is’ true ‘because’ his Temple constitutes an advanced scientific college of experienced surgical and medical practitioners who are the most skilled, whilst being unfettered in their operations, and therefore are the only persons most likely and able to quickly solve the cause of and thusly remedy; that is: cure, the plague.
from "what a temple is not and what a temple is"