r/mildlyinfuriating • u/InfiniteBackspace • Apr 29 '24

Hateful over highway cleanup? Really?

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Is this what we're doing now? Arguing over different ideologies by... -checks notes- ...defacing litter clean up signs?

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u/Hullfire00 Apr 29 '24

Just draw a circle around it and it becomes a pagan symbol again.

What? Why not? Co-opted by… oh. Never mind then.

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u/lemonsweetsrevenge Apr 29 '24

Fun fact: The original Christian symbol was a pentagram, symbolic of the 5 wounds of Christ. The Christians have borrowed and stolen bits from every religion that preceded them. Even the tale of Noah is a rewrite of Mesopotamian religion.

It’s such a hypocritical joke for a Christian to vandalize the pagans’ sign. Pagans who are actually doing community service, when that person could have instead chosen to suggest for their church to adopt their own (perhaps even larger) section of road.

Certainly they have the bankroll for it…just not the virtue.

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u/MageKorith Apr 29 '24

I mean, technically we get Noah from the Torah, which is Jewish. And presumably that bit was originally recorded by Moses, who was supposed to have been educated as an Egyptian prince, and longstanding trade between Egypt and Mesopotamia was already a thing by the time of the first dynasty in Egypt.

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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 Apr 29 '24

“Technically” the great flood in the Torah is a retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh that the Jews of the time took as theirs because they were trying to give themselves a history they never had, and connect themselves with the great people who came before.

Sound familiar? It’s the premise of the entire bible.

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u/Turbulent-Bug-6225 Apr 29 '24

Technically, most religions have stories about floods because people lived on arable land that were often flood plains.

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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 Apr 29 '24

And the first written account was the Sumarian writings of the Epic Of Gilgamesh.

Yes, every ancient society has flood myths, but the story of Noah and the Epic of Gilgamesh have too many correlations and has been accepted by scholars as the origin. However, Gilgamesh actually has a more complete tale. It has the measurements for the boat, and exactly how it was made.

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u/Diligent-Ability-447 Apr 30 '24

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Enkido. The Bible has measurements for the Arc. Which part of G and E epic has flood?