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>The full initiation is reported to start with members of the tribe being removed from their mothers at the age of nine.[6] This process is not always voluntary and can involve threats of death.[6] The children are then beaten and stabbed in their nostrils with sticks to make them bleed.[6] In the next stage the children are hit with stinging nettles.[6] The boys are then dressed in ritual clothing and an attempt is made to force them to suck on ritual flutes.[6] The boys are then taken to a cult house and older boys dance in front of them making sexual gestures.[6] Once it gets darker the younger boys are taken to the dancing ground where they are expected to perform fellatio on the older boys.[6]
>Pre-pubescent boys are required to perform fellatio on older males and swallow the semen because it is believed that "without this 'male milk' they will fail to mature properly."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambia_people

>>19760581

>mfw John Milton and Thomas Hobbes both visited Galileo

>The full initiation is reported to start with members of the tribe being removed from their mothers at the age of nine.[6] This process is not always voluntary and can involve threats of death.[6] The children are then beaten and stabbed in their nostrils with sticks to make them bleed.[6] In the next stage the children are hit with stinging nettles.[6] The boys are then dressed in ritual clothing and an attempt is made to force them to suck on ritual flutes.[6] The boys are then taken to a cult house and older boys dance in front of them making sexual gestures.[6] Once it gets darker the younger boys are taken to the dancing ground where they are expected to perform fellatio on the older boys.[6]
>Pre-pubescent boys are required to perform fellatio on older males and swallow the semen because it is believed that "without this 'male milk' they will fail to mature properly."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambia_people

>I shall speak first about Homer, whom we rank among the oldest and wisest of the poets. He mentions Patroklos and Achilles in many places, but he keeps their erotic love hidden and the proper name of their friendship, thinking that the exceptional extent of their affection made things clear to the educated members of his audience.
Aeschines, Against Timarchos 142-3

>Aeschylus talks nonsense in claiming that Achilles was in love with Patroclus (rather than the other way around), for Achilles was more beautiful than not only Patroclus but all the other heroes as well; and besides, he was unbearded, and thirdly, far younger than Patroclus, as Homer says.7 Well, anyhow, though the gods really hold in very high esteem that virtue which concerns love, they wonder, admire, band confer benefits even more when the beloved has affection for the lover than when the lover has it for the beloved.
Plato, Symposium 179E-180B

>No, pleasure was the mediator even of their friendship. At any rate, when Achilles was lamenting the death of Patroclus, his unrestrained feelings made him burst out with the truth and say "The converse of our thighs my tears do mourn with duteous piety."
Ps-Lucian, Amores 54

>...love affairs were such an open and everyday matter that the great poet Aeschylus, and Sophocles too, put sexual themes on the stage in their tragedies, Aeschylus showing Achilles’ love for Patroclus.
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae

>And you did not respect the chaste consecration of the thighs, oh ungrateful that you were for those countless kisses!
Aeschylus, Myrmidons, Fragment 135

>I honored the intimacy of your thighs by bewailing you
Aeschylus, Myrmidons, Fragment 136

>Alexander laid a wreath on Achilles' tomb and Hephaestion on Patroclus', hinting that he was Alexander's erômenos, as Patroclus was of Achilles.
—Aelian, Varia Historia 12.7

Achilles bros...

>A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23921675/

>Confirming previous conclusions, the new analysis showed that the correlation between intelligence and religious beliefs in college and noncollege samples ranged from -.20 to -.23.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31610740/

>The negative association between cognitive intelligence (CI) and religiosity has been widely studied and is now well documented.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31748923/

>Recent research has indicated a negative relation between the propensity for analytic reasoning and religious beliefs and practices.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23784742/

>Participants more willing to engage in analytic reasoning were less likely to endorse supernatural beliefs. Further, an association between analytic cognitive style and religious engagement was mediated by religious beliefs, suggesting that an analytic cognitive style negatively affects religious engagement via lower acceptance of conventional religious beliefs.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22481051/

>Our results indicate that the association between analytic thinking and religious disbelief is not caused by a simple order effect. There is good evidence that atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27054566/

>What age or period of life is the most addicted to superstition? The weakest and most timid. What sex? The same answer must be given.
—David Hume, Natural History of Religion

>On this question, the pronouncements of highly learned men are so varied and so much at odds with each other that inevitably they strongly suggest that the explanation is human ignorance, and that the Academics have been wise to withhold assent on matters of such uncertainty; for what can be more degrading than rash judgement, and what can be so rash and unworthy of the serious and sustained attention of a philosopher, as either to hold a false opinion or to defend without hesitation propositions inadequately examined and grasped?
—Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, 1.1

I don’t feel so good religious bros…

Imagine building up a collection of antique literature and it gets inherited by a sub 100 IQ /pol/tard

>>19363661
>Anima Priori
>MINA (CONT'D) You wanna talk about Amogus

>1 night left to deliver a 200 word essay

>Book of Daniel
>written in 2nd century BC larping as a story from 6th century BC
>"prophecy" is completely accurate until it starts talking about events supposed to occur after the date of composition
>predicts a war between the Egyptians and Syrians that never happened
>says Antiochus will die in Palestine when he died in Persia
This unironically ruined the religion for me. How the fuck do Christians even cope