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

  1.  @samf8777  specifically, the Merneptah stele says "Israel is laid waste—its seed is no more;" which of course implies it was a known state that already existed for significant time. So when people mention it as first foreign historical record of it, they need to include the context that it (falsely) claims its total destruction. Without this context people can assume it mentions its emergence.
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  2. @Naxskyz  I'm Ukrainian, our Bibles were translated directly from Hebrew and Koine for NT, not from King James version.
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  3.  @mercy8370  Old Testament doesn't work in Christianity, that's correct. Look, quoting Judaist Bible at Christians is as much as a gotcha by quoting Roman empire laws to call out modern Italy.)))
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  4.  @CIARACEWAR  What was? Radiocarbon scans? How.
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  5. ​ @BrunoVelius  they can run modern, more sophisticated tests, but Catholic church refuses because they love to peddle their relics... Which is a shame, as a work of religious art it's much more interesting than as a legend.
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  6.  @BrunoVelius  Whatever was in your first comment, it literally doesn't show in this thread. So that might be the reason for ignoring it. We need digital 6th sense I SEE PURGED COMMENTS.
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  7. 14:38 I legit couldn't remember WHAT book is translated to English as Lamentations until you mentioned it's actually Jeremiah, as we only known it as Плач Єремії. Which also served as the game of a rock band so it's kind of a phrase that's ingrained into our heads.
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  8. Isn't this how families in Mexico work anyway? You scream Maria and half the heads look around... In Arab countries you have so many Muhammads, they go by middle name, i.e. you can see Md Ahmad al-Nusri, it means the first name Muhammad but everyone calls him just Ahmad.
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  9. ​ @ToutCQJM irrelevant. Lord of the Rings never happened, but Tolkien himself supported the applicability of situations to real life.
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  10. ​​ @missyw2088  this is one of those things where priests absolutely went ape-t and decided to combine AT LEAST THREE different characters (Mary of Bethany, Mary of Magdala and "sinful woman" from Luke) into one, AND assume she's a s3x worker. (Because no way a woman could have sinned by, say, being a thief or something)... All three are associated with anointing, but under VASTLY different circumstances. Mary the sister of Martha washed Jesus feet (common courtesy at the time tho she went a few steps further) when they all were at Lazarus place in Bethany, and her sister Martha was chastising her for lazying about instead of doing chores, which Jesus cut short by saying that her service in listening is not lesser... That's in Luke. In John, however, she used oils to anoint Jesus feet and it was Judas Iscariot who complained that they could have sold the perfume and gave the money to the poor, with a footnote that he didn't care for them, but was a thief and often stuck his hand in the cookie jar. Matthew and Mark have the anointing AND complaining, but without naming Mary OR Judas. Their stories sound second hand retold while John's sounds more private. The unnamed woman sometimes associated with her was at a party hosted by a Pharisee named Simon, he was chastising Jesus for not having a predjustice against her... It is NOT specified why she was considered "sinful", monks just can't take their minds out of the gutter. She also washed Jesus feet and anointed Him, and Pharisee got roasted with parables of the guy getting the bigger debt forgiven loving the debtor more than the one who got less written off. ^ these stories are different but thematically very similar, accepting an assertive woman who doesn't take the traditional role, getting chastized by onlookers, and the anointing of head or feet, usually with nard perfume. Technically, it could be all the same woman, but it's simpler to assume separate characters in narrative. We don't have the sources synoptic Gospels used. Magdalene, however, is described as a sponsor who traveled with them basically, so she was definitely well off, and she DIDN'T KNOW Jesus was already anointed, so she went with other women to carry myrrh to the tomb, and found it empty. If she was EITHER of previous women, she wouldn't have tried to do that. Narratively speaking, she would be there to hear "she anointed me for my burial". Anointing is a huge symbolic point as it's required for high priests and the King, that's why it's in all four gospels, though Mary of Bethany does it in one, unnamed woman in others, and Magdalene in none.
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  11.  @sexydirrtymoney  average lifespan is calculated with the fact that 50% of kids died before they reached 3 years old, so easily divided by half the age healthy people lived to IF they survived infancy.
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  12. And Armenia Jesus has bigger nose, Ethiopian Jesus has darker skin and Japanese Jesus has slanted eyes​, it's a normal thing.  @Emoji_Smiles  Yes, Judaea would be renamed Palestine a century later,.after Romans squashed Jewish revolts.
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  13. Eh... Egypt didn't always have full control of their faraway places, especially in Canaan, and depending on period they could be almost fully autonomous. In fact, a story of "escaping Egypt" kind fits as allegory to throwing down the imperial control, you know, fight for independence. Egypt collapsed so many times, any nation that suddenly had pharaoh's tax collectors not show up had their own little exodus.
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  14. 2:20 Nah, Matthew is at the start because it actually starts from the beginning instead of in medias res of Mark.
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  15. @smpark12 I want to add that Jesus brothers also could be either: Maria and Joseph's later kids, his kids from previous marriage, OR cousins. It's not clear in any point, but it's assumed he mentioned the same Jesus brothers from the Gospels, whatever familial relationship they had.
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  16. 2:04 looks the same as modern Orhodox icons. They really follow the compromise bewteen icon painters and iconoclasts that only symbolic, stylized images are to be made so the depiction hasn't changed since. That's how non-westerners imagine Jesus, in general.
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  17. It's the same with Ethiopian, Armenian or Japanese depictions of Jesus. And it makes sense, of course the image should be relatable. Catholic Jesus looks like Italian man and Orthodox lime a Greek. Only Americans made a redneck.
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  18. 9:24 Mary of Magdala and Mary of Bethany are clearly women from two different towns, look at the map, Magdala, where Magdalene comes from, is on the sea of Galilee shore, near Golan Heights in Syria, while Bethany is in West Bank, right outside of Jerusalem. Where Jesus visited Lazarus and Simon the Leper (not to be confused with the Pharisee). Magdalene was their high-ranking follower and sponsor, according to the very texts that name her. Her having a sister or brother isn't mentioned at all. They frequently get conflated with a third unnamed separate "sinful woman" because scholars for 1500 years couldn't tell apart Simon the Leper from Simon the Pharisee.
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  19. Interesting point, since there's no narrative of Paul not dying (like with Elijah or Enoch), what's the point not having the ending?
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  20.  @ou6775  Romans, Persians, Babylonians, Mongols, Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Egyptians, Israelites, so... just humans?
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  21. historical inclusivity and freedoms are irrelevant since same group isn't guaranteed to behave the same in modern day, i.e. Turkiye isn't the same as Ottomans.
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  22. FIE ON YOU! throws gauntlet (she haven't read the comment chain just wants to 'rassle)
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  23. Hey hey hey, there are many, MANY ways to make a compromise... Garfunkel and Oates wrote a song about a variation, God forgive us!
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  24. Out of ALL actually magical things in that story, the one you find most implausible is children being dropped? This literally still happens in real life.
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  25.  @StanTorrent  you missing the humor that leaving children to the elements is far more attested in history than talking bushes, staffs turning to snakes, or the sea getting parted.
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  26. We know that in late 16th and 17th centuries Japan they did exactly that, but also made Omi-E, foot icons for stepping on, to detect Christians. Curiously, a bunch of Kirishitani managed to worship in secret for 250 years of isolation, later assimilating into mainline churches. They had unique art and traditions. Soviet persecution was different in that they drew deliberately evil looking saints and Jesus as part of satire mags or movie decorations. Real icons were defaced en masse.
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  27.  @voidvector  literally here in Ukraine, we have MILLIONS of ВПО, "temporarily resettled people" whose homes are in Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk, plus smaller towns occupied after 2014 and 22, and in Syria, plenty of people fled to Jordan or Turkiye, but tons were living in Idlib until Aleppo, Damascus, and the rest of their country was freed a few months ago.
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  28. ​ @megag52  you seriously just compared the Bible with "love your neighbour as yourself" to Stallone vanity project where a guy with bad plastic surgery roasts a strawman stand in for his son?
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  29.  @mickimicki  she was 50/50 culturally, learned the language and took part in native rites like installing that holy cow whose poop you investigate for poison in Assassin's Creed Origins.
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  30.  @carolannmiles3079  Macedonian, not Caucasian, I am not sure if there were Greeks in Caucasus at that point (there were kingdoms like Georgia and Armenia in Classical era) but Ptolemy was a guy from Alexander of Macedon's army.
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  31. Moshe Dayan was singular, as was his eye.
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  32.  @SiqueScarface  Galatians were a Celtic group of people frequently hired as mercenaries by Middle Eastern, Galatia they talk about is in Anatolia, but also there are MANY places with similar name (all sharing Celt-related etymology), like Galicia in BOTH Spain and Ukraine, with over 3000km between Vigo and Lvyv.
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  33.  @Scrubermensch  there's interpretation author of this channel subscribes to that the prophecies aren't specifically about future that will happen, but warnings of what MIGHT go if people stray from God, and they're often retellings of past disasters, i.e. decisive battles in Megiddo or Jerusalem getting sacked. I love to picture apocalyptic literature not as connected to one specific date and time, but as permanent reality that keeps going in cycles, and one prophecy might be applicable to multiple situations (both past and future). But on the other hand there's some stuff that only applies to one situation, I mean, how many places named after Wormwood had a disaster with the same reaction as on the stars (nuclear)? None of the places in Japan have fitting etymology.
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  34. Ukraine should control it. Because out of all Jewish world leaders, Zelenskyy is... not Netanyahu, which is objectively the best argument and nobody can deny it.
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  35. ​ @robertt9342  Greeks and Romans did it with their deities, originally they had completely separate pantheons but syncretized them heavily later.
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  36. One of geneologies is speculated to be of Mary, as some Bible translations literally have male names with "gave birth to", and in this way, it's not Levi giving birth to Matthat, it's MRS Levi giving birth to either Matthat OR MRS Matthat. It's very confusing as women were often not in records at all, i.e. Solomon's son by Uriah's wife. Again, MRS Uriah. The poor guy David sent to war.
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  37.  @KutWrite  Dunno why you speak of titties but there's nothing clear, not only we have different line between David and Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, in Bible there's a long tradition of describing men begetting sons, and unless you have proof of mpreg, it's more likely they mentioned women. Conflict between writing down patrilineal heritage but kids obviously coming through matrilineal was very widespread in the region, and it led to 3000 years of pharaohs marrying their sisters (or brothers in case of Cleo) SO THEY DON'T HAVE TWO SEPARATE DYNASTIC TREES, and have one... family wreath. Since these two lines vary so much, and we don't have sources Either authors might have used, the two main views are that EITHER one of them describes Mary's lineage, OR that one follows legal and other biological lineage (i.e. ignoring the adoptions). But then in first option they need to be cousins, in English version of Sailor Moon sense, and in second it's complicated network of brothers dying childless. Genealogies are the most confusing part, and it doesn't help that nobody really cares so it doesn't get cleared up. Don't blame scholars: it took them 1500 years to notice that Bethany and Magdala aren't even in the same region. And not every Mary is the same and unnamed women aren't, in fact, all necessary another Mary (or the same Mary). Oy, it's like a Mexican Bat Mitzvah!
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  38. @ No idea why you speak of birds but there's nothing clear, not only we have different line between David and Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, in Bible there's a long tradition of describing men begetting sons, and unless you have proof of m-preg, it's far more likely they mean their missus (so Eve not Adam being heavy with a child). Conflict between writing down patrilineal heritage but kids obviously coming through matrilineal was very widespread in the region, and it led to 3000 years of pharaohs marrying their sisters (or brothers in case of Cleo) SO THEY DON'T HAVE TWO SEPARATE DYNASTIC TREES, and have one... family wreath. Since these two lines vary so much, and we don't have sources rither authors might have used, the two main views are that EITHER one of them describes Mary's lineage, OR that one follows legal and other biological lineage (i.e. ignoring the adoptions). But then in first option they need to be cousins, in English version of Sailor Moon sense, and in second it's complicated network of brothers kicking farm childless. Genealogies are the most confusing part, and it doesn't help that nobody really cares so it doesn't get cleared up. Don't blame scholars: it took them 1500 years to notice that Bethany and Magdala aren't even in the same region. And not every Mary is the same and unnamed women aren't, in fact, all necessary another Mary (or the same Mary). Oy, it's like a Mexican Bat Mitzvah!
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  39. 11:28 Those are my favorite stories outside of Exodus. We also learned in school that authors before recent times loved to be anonymous, or put famous person into the title for credit, which was surprising for our 21st century minds when you want to copyright your work instead of ghost-writing for some legendary figure. Also the style in Song of Songs doesn't sound like it's written by an ultra-powerful king, more like someone who's sneaking away with a vizier's wife. Nice beauty standards too, saying this unironically, he likes her nose being Cleopatra-ish.
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  40. It somehow gets overlooked by many Christians too (saying this as a Christian myself), the sheer amount of priests who side with politicians who are against migrants is insane.
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  41. In 2025, the pharaoh's name is poo tin: always given a chance to make peace and always getting his allegedly existing heart hardened. And if Greenland invasion will become real, we'll have a version from Temu.
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  42.  @Questionablexfun  I think bloody John Williams was divinely inspired writing Duel of the Fates; and I hate prequels. I don't think people understand what INSPIRATION means, Divine Spark doesn't meant opening a direct portal to the Netherrealm and channeling secrets of another universe, it means what it says, a lighbulb moment with the Spirit guiding the people to create masterpieces. And as Ganntrey pointed out, when it comes to theological texts, it means staying within lines. Great example is compilers of the Genesis Creation story being INSPIRED to remove mentions a specific model of the world, unlike Babylonian account, which, by picturing flat Earth, completely discredits itself. I would say man made out of clay is also divine inspiration telling authors to describe the primordial muck in terms familiar to ancient people. As opposed to pagan religion having outright fantastical, instead of allegorical, creation myths of sun goddess belching them out from the Moon or something.
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  43. We are in a world war already over control of Kyiv, not Jerusalem. With North Korean and Chinese troops already in Europe, and some of our troops fighting in Africa, that America didn't join yet doesn't make it less of a world war since Americans are ALWAYS too late.
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  44. 16:07 So one major differences, even if we apply SUPER-critical view on Bible, it still would have Cyrus the Great, Nebuchadnezzar II, multiple named pharahos mentioned elsewhere, cross-reference with Babylonian, Greek and Roman stuff, AND Hebrews themselves mentioned by other nations, i.e. Merneptah and Tel Dan steles, while Book of Mormon is pretty much what is known as a "forgery", i.e. a 19th century book claiming to be a Medieval poetry collection.
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  45.  @MartinWenzelYT  People forget that Magdalene literally means someone from Magdala. So Mary from Bethany and Mary from Magdala cannot be the same person because they're quite literally from different place. That's like saying Joan from Kentucky and Joan from Iowa are the same gal. Both towns still exist, Bethany is right outside of Jerusalem in West Bank and Magdala is on Sea of Galilee shores, near Golan Heights up north. Also Magdalene was one of the sponsors of the ministry, and Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha, was the one who anointed Jesus, which Magdalene didn't know since she brought oil to the tomb and found it empty. That part is significant because anointing is required for a high priest, which Messiah is supposed to be.
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  46. Netanyahu is using any religious or historical or whatever context to justify staying out of prison, it's a character problem.
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  47. Shame you bent your head for the Greek ultranationalists, it's funny that in antiquity, Macedonians were Schrodinger's Greeks: acknowledged as Hellenes when someone in Saloniki or Athens wanted to claim glory, but looked down upon in other cases as "barbaric". But now Alexander the Macedonian is their holy cow (he isn't called "the great" in other countries because there were MANY great Alexanders, this one is the Macedonian, as he was king of Macedon. Always).
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  48. who won Olympics? athletes... very punchable type of response.
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  49. 4:44 Neither do many other languages, a cousin would be "двоюрідний брат" literally second-relation brother, and "двоюрідна сестра", a second-relation sister. On the other hand, English doesn't have words for "теща", "тість", "свекр", "зять", "золовка", "шурін", etc. they're all mother-father-sister-brother-whatever-in-law. In fact, there's a different term for a husband's MiL, "теща", and wife's MiL, "свекруха". This is like with colors, you have separate words for of pink, and magenta or purple and violet etc., but "синій" і "голубий" are both "blue".
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  50.  @emilybarclay8831  we literally don't know who Cleo's mother was, and her statues were made in both Macedonian Greek (as a redhead even) and Egyptian style (in a black wig), as she took part in native rites like ceremonies installing the new holy cow the Buchis bull, and learned Egyptian language, so there's no way Cleopatra VII herself was a Greek supremacist, also I am not sure who would allow or disallow something since they spent most of the time feuding each other at that point, Cleo had her half-sister strangled by Romans in a triumph after beating her in a naval battle, and her brusband rebelled against her when he turned like 12.
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