Mega64 posted:

I'm glad we're slowly learning more details about a lost society's dongs.

The Voice of Labor posted:

the gently caress kind of manual labor do you have to be enslaved to for it to completely gently caress your back by age 18-23?

The Voice of Labor posted:

if our dongs are studied so intently by future archeologists and historians it will be a form of immortality

Jose posted:

Tiny dick and a slave talk about owned

The Voice of Labor posted:

if our dongs are studied so intently by future archeologists and historians it will be a form of immortality

Puppy Time posted:

Tiny dicks were actually considered good back then- they thought if you had a big ol' dong you were basically a big dumb animal and not a cool human with brains and civilization. That's why all the old statues are hung like a hedgehog.

Olewithmilk posted:

Would you like to be mummified by a pyroclastic blast with your outer genetalia visible or invisible? Please, please let me know.

Fat Albert in a can posted:

Well since you asked, after careful consideration I would be ok with my boobs captured for posterity in a pyroclastic medium bc I think it would be pretty cool to have people 2000 years after I died be like, "drat, she had a nice rack."

Randarkman posted:

I mean they did. Gods did poo poo like volcano eruoptions, storms and droughts, because the gods were fickle and you had to do your best to appease them through ritual and sacrifice. Natural disasters happening didn't make people question the existence of the gods or whether they had abandoned them, stuff like that happening was more in the vein, "oh poo poo, here come the gods again", and you didn't abandon people to the mercy of gods' anger, you'd probably try to help and do your best to keep the gods as happy as possible going forwards, but you always knew that you just couldn't totally know what would work and what wouldn't, because you know, fickle.

Saying people "didn't turn to theism" is also pretty ignorant I think, when you're talking about societies that did not really distinguish that strongly between the mortal world and the divine, people probably didn't even really think question the gods, because as they saw it they were evident in everything happening around them.

edit: The ancient Romans were even remarked upon by others for how religious they were (and the Romans saw this as a mark of pride), but you have to realize that you aren't really talking about belief, dogma and disciplines, it's pretty much all ritual, sacrifice and reverence, that's the important part, belief is completely inconsequential (and taken for granted as noted above, if you didn't believe "what you could plainly see" you'd be a fool).
This fact is basically why the Romans came to see the Christians as such a threat to the established order, because they denied the existence of the gods, they were atheists, who refused to partake in the rituals giving sacrifice and reverence to the gods and therefore could potentially put their whole society at risk. The Jews did the same, but since Judaism was so old, the Romans figured they could tolerate them (and Jews would often agree to sacrifice to the emperor's spirit or some such compromise in place of the gods), because that made it good in their book, anything old had to be some degree of good.

Chief McHeath posted:

Until there's a fossil of a man prone on his stomach with his small dick in his hand and a fossilized fart/poo poo cloud emerging from his rear end, I will not believe Pompeii happened, because you void your bowels when you die.

Robo Reagan posted:

its a big risk because what if the standard for nice tits changes so archaeologists always have to be like "they were good at the time"

Big Beef City posted:

hey thanks for calling me 'pretty ignorant' when the end result of your pointless drivel was exactly the same as the point I was making; that they didn't run home crying to the gods about it because they realized that in one way or another the gods weren't helping or had/had not abandoned them. Dick.

Furnok Dorn posted:

Rutibex posted:

ahem, only the ancient greeks liked tiny dongs. it might have something to do with them being pedophiles. the chad ancient romans loved big dongs

Rutibex posted:

ahem, only the ancient greeks liked tiny dongs. it might have something to do with them being pedophiles. the chad ancient romans loved big dongs

Bula Vinaka posted:

Skratte posted:

Priapus was a Greek figure as well, man. He hated donkeys because one's braying made him lose his boner once, and was cursed with impotence and stupid dirty thoughts by Hera.

Bula Vinaka posted:

Gladiator barracks: On April 19th, I made bread

Big Beef City posted:

The best part is, we'll never know and that wonder is the fun of it.

Most likely though that one is literal. In Roman cities they had numerous public 'stations' of ovens where you'd come and, literally, make your bread for the day/week/what have you. So there's a pretty drat good chance that person actually just made a note saying "Hey, this is the last time I made bread over here".

The reason they had these was not only for a general public service, but because the apartment complexes that the general urban poor lived in were exceptionally prone to burning the gently caress down constantly, so it seemed a better idea to just make specific places made for public baking and use rather than have Joe Dipshitius constantly burning his entire neighborhood to death because he wanted a sandwich.

Big Beef City posted:

hey thanks for calling me 'pretty ignorant' when the end result of your pointless drivel was exactly the same as the point I was making; that they didn't run home crying to the gods about it because they realized that in one way or another the gods weren't helping or had/had not abandoned them. Dick.

Pliny the Younger in his letter to Tacitus posted:

People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore. (...) I could boast that not a groan or cry of fear escaped me in these perils, but I admit that I derived some poor consolation in my mortal lot from the belief that the whole world was dying with me and I with it."

kecske posted:

Big Beef City posted:

hey thanks for calling me 'pretty ignorant' when the end result of your pointless drivel was exactly the same as the point I was making; that they didn't run home crying to the gods about it because they realized that in one way or another the gods weren't helping or had/had not abandoned them. Dick.