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>>23395474
>Prometheus was a jew

>Pandora gets tempted by a jar, she opens it and releases suffering on mankind
>Eve grts tempted by the forbidden fruit, she eats it and releases suffering on mankind
Was it just received wisdom in the ancient world that women ruin everything?

What was the point of this story?
That women ruin everything?

>>15593023
>your argument is wrong
So you say. You've done a very poor job of demonstrating it.

But hey, I'll acknowledge possibility that liberalism+capitalism are essentially an open Pandora's box. I just don't see any choice but to at least try to restrain those forces for the good of my people. It's always better to be an aspirant than a fatalist.

>>14505687
I said they aren' the only good pets, that does not mean that they are not the best. Just as many artist can be good, and one be the greatest, does not belittle the value of the others.

So if Pandora was created during at least the Silver Age (under Zeus' Rule) then how did people under Kronos' Rule in the Golden Age reproduce?

It's usually over-exaggerated how misogynistic ancient literature is, but Hesiod legitimately seems to hate women, so it makes sense that he's saying women didn't exist during mankind's best period of time, but that still leaves the question about how more humans were being made then.

Also was Plato making up lies about the Hellenistic religion when he said that lovers used to share a single body with 4 arms, 4 legs, and 2 heads and such? because that seems to contradict Hesiod. And if it doesn't it means that in the golden age all of the couples were men.