Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

  1. I really dislike how Westerners use cultural appropriation term: people respectably dressing up in other nations clothing or adapting stories to fit local style isn't appropriation. Americans saying "we're the ones who invented pizza" is.
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  2. ​ @mikesmovingimages  Star Wars religion is a mix of Methodist Christianity that George Lucas grew up with and Mahayana Buddhism he was interested in. Force ghosts are similar to bodhisattvas, and Jedi orders are warrior monks, yet Anakin is saved right on his deathbed, which is the penitent thief story. Luke refusing to answer evil with evil (so he doesn't fall to Dark Side) is also a Christian teaching, and resisting temptation is both.
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  3. Santa Claus was literally a dude named Nicholas.
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  4. ​ @jonathonjubb6626 we have literally Paul's letters, it's funny you decided to claim one of the few actually confirmed authors wasn't real... Why not go further, let's say Buddha, LaVey and Aalewis never existed.
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  5. I actually unironically subscribe to the Emerald city concept of God: they reveals themselves in the form that's accessible to humans. Different for everyone.
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  6. ​ @unabortable5695  didn't shroud of Turin get radiocarbon dated to Renaissance? It's a shame Catholics fixate on relics so much bcause the Shroud is amazing as both earliest photography attempt, and as a genuine Christian art. It doesn't NEED to be a real funeral shroud to be glorifying Jesus, being an art object is good too.
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  7. @unabortable5695  "In 1988, radiocarbon dating by three independent laboratories established that the shroud dates back to the Middle Ages, between the years 1260 and 1390"
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  8. Many Greek Catholics are in Ukraine too, and Uniate church in Belarus, which dates back to awkward period of Latin kingdom in Constantinople.
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  9.  @highpath4776  IMO the gossiping women problem is an ever-present thing in every church, to this day, at least in Orthodox churches, more grandmas alienated young people from ever going into one than anything else. They're absolutely insufferable! What he didn't know is people complaining about old ladies having nothing to do but berate everyone over how they look, how they stand and how they breathe will be taken as a general directive to treat ALL women exactly the way we were treated in Rome, or worse, Greece.
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  10. This. It's ridiculous to expect people discussing their base beliefs in correspondence outside of a bad telenovella. You know, like when a show on TV has this awkward exposition: "Hello Timothy, my cousin on maternal's side in-law, as you remember how our teacher we went to school together in 42 AD said, back when you were living in Haifa with the missus... of course we are all members of the chess club as you surely know, which stands for unity, loyalty and cookies as stated in our motto written on the back cover of the brochure, anyway, how's your sister named Cassandra that I used to date in college we went to with Jacob doing?"
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  11. Akhenaten's "heresy" is an EXTREMELY important event in Egyptian history, they didn't just "not record it on stone", they went out of their way to erase all mentions of him. Damnatio memoriae.
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  12.  @annepoitrineau5650  Yeah, people should stop taking ancient numbers literally, not only methodology is always questionable and hyperbole ruled the day, there's also multiple cultures using a a large numeral to mean "a lot", good example is Japanese Banzai, it means "10 000 years", but the meaning is "long live the Emperor". So "millions", "myriads" and other "aeons" often really just meant "a f&$kton".
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  13. He converted to Judaism. But the date conventions have nothing to do with people's religion. There's plenty of non-Christians who use CE and plenty of Christians who use AD, it's irrelevant.
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  14. Is that like memes with separate bottom text?
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  15. We do have depictions of SOME figures mentioned in the Bible dating to their time, mostly kings... But true, images are always artistic.
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  16.  @charlesbrowne9590  whut?! Torture chambers?.. My country had those ran by KGB and they threw priests, nuns and religious activists there because they were dangerous to the atheist state. Almost as if Entire Europe isn't ran by the Spanish Inquisition. Not to mention most people those hurt were actually believing in religion just "wrong way", i.e. forcibly converted Jews.
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  17.  @StanTorrent  irrelevant, almost no kings wrote their decrees personally, and definitely not in stone, scribes and carvers were a thing. Most people were illiterate until 20th century and in some backwards countries like USA, many still are.
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  18. 15k+ years ago neither Jerusalem nor atheism existed.
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  19.  @zigadabooga  no, I am limiting atheist time to atheism actually existing.))) Or you think people who made Venus statues and idols with lion heads were somehow euphoric?
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  20.  @zigadabooga  Why are atheists always so confidently incorrect? Hinduism isn't even the oldest religion in India, Vedic religion predates it by millenia. Both are still newer than Pyramids. But organized religion obviously predates Jerusalem, Karahan Tepe is a religious site from more than 12k years ago, and people made idol figurines tens of thousands of years before them.
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  21. Just don't translate wormwood to Ukrainian.
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  22. ​ @proverbalizer  in what universe Iset having sex with Osiris is "virgin birth"? This "theory" was popularized by a conspiracy movie Zeitgeist that also says 911 was an I side job and nobody went to the Moon, they do very bad mistakes in Egyptian mythology like claiming that Horus was resurrected and had 12 disciples, which isn't in any Egyptian source at all.
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  23.  @qasdrf  it's YouTube videos, what else could we expect? Even if doing decent research, any author will color the end result with personal touch. I noticed that modern Judaist position is often so vitriolic to Christianity, they are willing to attack their own credibility AND religion if Christians have a chance to be caught in the crossfire. It's actually perfectly summarized by conflicts between Jesus and Pharisees, which were BOTH the sect closest to Christians AND served as basis of modern Judaism as Sadducees, Zealots and Essenes dispersed after Jerusalem's destruction... yet, decided to rat out the more popular teaching to the occupying force.
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  24. 15:34 This is a rather strange statement, do unbiased sources on any pharaoh, or someone like Socrates, exist? Obviosuly in this case, some are sympathetic (like Torah), others are critical (i.e. Manetho), and everybody has their bias. Like many people know Caesar from Asterix comics, and he's the bad guy there, but of you watched the movie Cleopatra first, suddenly he's not that bad. Ofc any Roman account will be super biased by default. I feel it's another "no prophet in his own country" thing.
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  25.  @TheJulietteCharlie  People who say they only believe in what they have seen, or what they have proof of, are lying. I can prove that by watching them for one (1) day of their lives. See, most people are buying food and believing that shop isn't poisoning them. Everyone trusts government regulations ENOUGH to buy retail items. You believe money as legal tender without seeing the gold vaults it USED TO be backed up... fiat currency exists PURELY on faith in it. Edgy people making exceptions about needing religion to be proven while blindly trusting expiry dates and ingredients on packages are hilarious. (I am not saying shops lie to you just pointing out that SOMEHOW people put MORE faith in government, which doesn't deserve it, than religion).
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  26. Eastern part of our country was mostly populated by steppe tribes and didn't have major cities until very recently, Donetsk, for example, was founded by John Huges, from Wales, in ripe old year of 1869. The other big city, Luhansk, dates to at least 1790s and was founded by Charles Gascoigne, also a Brit. Now, southern cities had Greek, Roman, Genoan, Ottoman and even Lithuanian control, and Kyiv absolutely should be done like that, it's one of three main Holy Cities for Orthodox Christians, along with Constantinople and Jerusalem.... But also, Western part has even more fascinating history of sides changing, even within one lifetime, here's a classic joke.: "A man stands in front of Heaven's Gate. Saint Peter asks 'Where were you born?' The man thinks for a moment and says 'Austria-Hungary, Lemberg.' 'Where did you go to school?' 'Poland, Lwow.' 'Where were you married?' 'The Ukrainian S.S.R., Lviv.' Surprised, Saint Peter asks 'Where was your first child born?' 'In the German Reich.' 'And where did you die?' 'At home in Lvov, in the Soviet Union.' Astonished, Saint Peter shouts 'My, you moved around a lot!' 'What are you talking about? I never left the city!'"
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  27. It's kind of the deal with Holy Cities, you of course have Rome, then Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium that a lot of people are pining for, notably Latins, Slavs, Turks and Greeks all see it as important as the second Rome, and there's Kyiv, control of which is the next best thing to proclaim yourself a successor to Romei. These are the big ones in Christianity.
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  28.  @juhabach4802  you missed the whole Aalewis as the prophet of atheism, without whose non-professional quote making skills they won't be euphoric.
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  29. 4:20 I know many people said that, but in addition to your view of one tribe (Levi) having a smaller Exodus, the story can be an allegory to ganging autonomy/independence from Egypt, kind of like countries breaking up from USSR see it as their own little Exodus... BUT, there's also Amarna letters showing that despite de jure control of Canaan by Egypt, central govt. didn't send reinforcements as the Levant was invaded exactly at the time pharaoh Amenkhotep the IIIrd changed his name to Akhenaten and got his stint with isolationism and monotheism in a new capital he sent everyone building... So these stories are ABSOLUTELY related, and we need to dig more into what happened around that period. Especially knowing how hard Egypt tried to censor the whole Aten stuff. There's many similar motifs and Egyptian loss of control over its colonies in the Levant (even if they regained it) IS part of history. AND in addition to things happening around Amarna period, there's Hyksos invasion, Merneptah Stele, and numerous intermediate periods during which Egypt lost control of itself, let alone faraway provinces on another continent. At this point it seems like heavily romanticized version of Canaanites gaining independence from Egypt and fighting over those who wanted 1) to "return" being a vassal 2) to bring back polytheism (golden calf story). 40 years also seem to be symbolic, as in just explaining period of uncertainty and that only AFTER the generation born in Soviet Uni–Egypt passed on, true freedom could be established. People are arguing about myth vs history, completely ignoring the most obvious option of it being a parable loosely describing real events in allegorical terms. And Bible is FULL of parables and allegories, from the poor man with a single lamb to the prodigal son.
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  30. 19:50 If you combine Saladin and Fatimids with pharaohic Egypt (same country) they would be a good contender to at least top 5 and pretty sure paganism would have more years if we manage to count between city founding and rise of monotheism, but still pretty splendid work!
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  31. To answer to your final question, Ukraine should control Jerusalem. Not only Zelenskyy is the only Jewish leader who has the distinction of not being Netanyahu, but also because WE DO NOT EVEN WANT IT, we're just the only adults with sizable army on the planet. Alternative is Syria. Yes, the current govt. that deposed Assad, we need to help them against Netanyahu to reclaim MORE than just Golan heights.
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  32. 9:30 Chiton (tunic) made from whole garments and himation (mantle) with tassels are mentioned multiple times in Gospels. The translations decide to not use complex words so the bleeding woman is touching the fringe of Jesus garment, but original text mentions tassels on himation.
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  33.  @robocop4209  according to reality, Egypt didn't start in Canaan, native people already lived there before Egyptians arrived.
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  34. BDS era. Before Dim Sum.
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  35. Yeah I don't see how starting with Mark, which goes in Medias Res, would be good for a compilation.
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  36. Egypt, specifically, is FAMOUS for rarely having full control of its territories, intermediate periods and all, and even did an 180 when Ali Pasha got them an autonomy inside Ottoman Empire. Also, nailing Exodus to any specific period is ridiculous, why not set it before intermediate period or when Canaan was effectively left to its own devices during Akhenaten's reign?
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  37. ​ @countofdownable Septuagint is just a translation and it has largely same text as other Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible, and it doesn't mention years in earliest chapters outside of lifespans.
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  38.  @DanielGolding1337  Egyptians assumed almost direct control of Egypt in early 1800s (Ali Pasha had no less autonomy from Ottomans than last of Ptolemies from Rome), and then they revolted in 1952 and since then at least two more times, so Egyptians not only fully control Egypt, but also overthrow the government on regular basis if they don't like it, so they ABSOLUTELY have more control over their country than, say, murricans.
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  39. ​ @deborahdean8867 they also tried to stone Him for heresy like healing on Sabbath so we don't even know how observant Jesus was of other tradition.
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  40.  @tschulia2817  there are many images of her, and many of them have a pretty nose (it's broken off in like half).
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  41. It's amazing how people keep joking about British museum stealing everything but the Pyramids, but ignoring Leningrad and Moscow absolutely robbing half the world of their culture
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  42. Orthodox here. Canon Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books, his point of view is really important to understanding how ambition is pointless. SIRACH's "ecclesiastes", however, is... strange. So is Enoch. They read more like an occult thing.
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  43. @NoCommentForAWhile  how so? I think it's more fun researching works and philosophies used as inspiration for media.
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  44. Ironically, it was atheists who participated in biggest purge of Orthodox Christianity in history, from 1917 to 1991, but by that time the biggest church (moscow patriarchate) had ALL clergy of high rank working for KGB, officially... when Constantinople patriarch (Orhtodox Pope with less power) gave us Tomos and recognized the newly-unified Kyiv Metropoly as legitimate, in the ancient year of 2018, one of the conditions was to depose Filaret, the Kyiv Patriarch, and elect a new guy. Epiphanius won the elections. He studied in seminary AFTER the USSR's collapse (dude finished school in 1990s), so our current leader has no ties to KGB (now FSB), which still leads the russian church with agent Mikhailov working as patriarch Kirill Gundiayev (they literally bless missiles and ish).
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  45. Seth's animal is unknown actually, could be donkey could be aardvark for all we know. Egyptians also kinda assimilated and stopped following their religion around that time. THAT SAID, Seth WAS associated with foreigners, specifically semites, it didn't help Egypt leading god being sun deity and for Middle Easterners and Greeks, a storm one.
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  46. If you look at footage from Syria, Israel or Palestine (most of which is reused Syrian footage), you can see people there are extremely diverse, and picturing entire Middle East looking the same is a Western stereotype. Reality is, we didn't know. And it doesn't matter.
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  47.  @tomhalla426  ...no? Japan is a very homogeneous country, Middle East is the world's melting pot region with more than a dozen countries. It's more like saying someone "looks American"... Which tells you nothing.
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  48. @ for example, both Scarlett Johannson and Salma Hayek have Middle-Eastern ancestry. Do they look anything alike? Aside from being hot.
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  49. Really great video, one thing, we can probably reasonably assume there were a few centuries of paganism at the start before formation of Judaism, it's just impossible to count right now since there isn't concrete information at what year the house of David started. If you can, please make one like this about Kyiv, second Holy City in Orthodoxy, and possibly Odesa and Lviv. Which changed owners a lot in Eastern Europe. Just count Soviets separately from ru empire because those were mortal enemies.
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  50.  @hisbeaconlight  yes, doctors were required to read and write because they needed to understand recipes. That's how it worked in ancient Egypt too.
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