Posted on 04/28/2022 8:05:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Would you stop by the Augean stables while you’re there? I imagine they could use another cleaning out.
Wow that makes me tremble!
Luke 13
4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish
Psalm 130:3
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Malachi 3:2
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
Unwanted kids weren’t a problem, they were placed near woods. If a passerby chose to take the child fine, if not animals ate the child.
Because it was a sea side resort?
The Romans did take vacations to the seaside. Rent a little villa. Take that cute little eight year old slave you have had your eye on along in case you got bored with the gladiators.
That’s nice.
I like seeing these ancient things, and the hand and eye of the artist in them - but I’m really partial to the more ancient ones. It’s amazing to me that people as ‘primitive’ as those who did the cave paintings at Lascaux could depict animals - especially horses - as sensitively as they did:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lascaux+cave+paintings&t=brave&iax=images&ia=images
Oh that sounds really liberated and positive
lol
Well, with all respect (and I mean that sincerely) it was a volcano.
I don’t think it had a ‘head’ for scripture.
I sometimes wonder if negative emotions in large swathes of a population can cause or contribute to natural disasters - but then I realize that lots of ‘good’ people die in those, too.
I think that God set the Universe up to run according to Law; people may interfere, but that doesn’t mean that every disaster indicates that a population ‘had it coming’
Sometimes they’re just in the way.
“In the ancient Roman world, sexual pleasure was a cause for celebration rather than a source of shame.“
It was a morally depraved culture .
That’s according to YOUR philosophy.
If you had been brought up and lived in Pompeii at the time, you would have understood it in a much deeper way than your ‘new religion’ has taught you to understand it now.
Pompeii was a significant seaport. It was frequented by sailors from many nationalities speaking foreign languages. When they visited the local “entertainment” establishments, they overcame the language barrier in explaining what they wanted to do or have done to them by pointing to frescoes and pictures of the acts.
This is in addition to general artwork on the subject that may be found anywhere.
Doesn’t have to be overly complicated.
And far more violent.
Well, that’s very inventive; but I think it was a lot deeper than that.
Those paintings and mosaics were also in the homes of families. They had to do with much more than just how/where a man wanted to be ‘serviced’.
Good Grief.
That was their internet...
Nice video.
I wonder if some were smart enough to get out of there?
They had many hours.
I think some escaped by boat - but I’m just remembering that from a movie or documentary.
Some were probably out in boats to start with - and there are always people who can ‘see things coming’ and may have helped others to get out. I’m not real familiar with the history of the eruption and what records have come down to us.
Now we know why God smote them with Vesuvius.
A decade or two ago I recall watching a Discovery channel documentary on Pompeii. Dusplayed were frescos depicting fair skin women being ravaged by negro men with very large appendages. I’m still confused by it to this day.
kewel
Did excavators uncover this beneath deep layers of Sodom & Gomorrah -like destruction?
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