What about the lil drummer boy? Lol

Aurther is discarded by academia because of his apparent life span of hundreds of years, having fought both the Romans AND Saxons. PROBLEM IS, there were two Aurthers. Aurther the 1st. Who DID fight the Romans, and Aurther the 2nd. who fought the Saxons. Both were Welsh, and high king(pendragon) at war. Both were decended from the mighty house of the Silures. They were, in point of fact, blood relatives. Academia is largely willfully ignorant of the facts. For proof and an excellent body of research, check out the books and KZbin videos by Wilson and Blacket.

Christ can still save those sinners, can I get a prayer!

The view that the material world is evil is heresy. The Christian view is that nothing in this world , even sufferings, is evil. The only evil thing is not living up to your virtuous potential and straying from God. Just like stoicism. This world is indifferent. Human actions COULD be evil.

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I think when you waive off the hydration thing as silly you do yourself and your viewers a disservice. They were not stupid people, there was deep thought as to WHY water and hydration exacerbates sexual over activity. It may be easy for some to view asceticism in a lense of “status” and social hierarchy, which would be akin to a goldfish seeing a fan and thinking it a simple circle. This idea that modern “scientism” is more advanced and more importantly “more WISE” than the people back then is just childishly solipsistic.

Beauty standards for various people around the world have always been different, even now. This is a medieval west europeanbeaury standard

Just discovered your channel today. Your content is fantastic. I really think you have something here. I hope you find the energy to keep going.

Your explanation muddies and denigrates humans and asceticism as it was practiced by early church. The created world is NOT inherently evil( the world religion of what you speak is heresy- a confuser.) God is Creator- everything He created was Good. The Evil one chose- with his gift of free will - to turn away from goodness, thus evil entered the world. Each of us have same choice: aim towards a higher, better version of ourselves that we were created to be... Or, step farther away from the perfection we were meant to achieve/ ascend to. That "climbing the Ladder of Ascent" is our highest goal- that is what true Asceticism is all about.

Great video, very enjoyable! Is a higher quality microphone/ audio setup feasible? Im hearing a lot of compression. I'm also hearing some clicks that could be from a slide deck tool?

Thank you for this video. I wanted to hear more about this subject and your video is fascinating and the quality of your voice and editing too. Immediately subscribed

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People who hate Saint Paul: Jews Judaizers Gnostics Muslims Philosophers like Nietzsche Hitler Feminists The presenter of this video apparently. Such a diverse group of people 😂 God bless him.

Genesis 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." The whole the material world is bad and we want to escape it thing is closer to the gnostic heresies than Christianity proper. Whatever influence manichaeism had on Christianity (and I'm sure it must have had some sort of influence) are probably either so defuse so as to be insignificant or negative in the sense that Christianity developed explicitly to avoid affirming its doctrines but even then gnosticism already had this influence before manichaeism even existed (which was just Mani's attempt to fuse gnosticism with Zoroastriansim and later half a dozen other religions like Buddhism into one cult). Regardless, St. Augustine multiple times explicitly affirmed the goodness of creation. I have no idea if you're overstating your point or if it was just malconcieved to begin with but please nust reavaluate it because historically speaking it makes no sense. Christians arguing against gnosticism and Augustine himself who was taught gnostic beliefs and who was therefore interested in refuting them all his life, attacked the material world is bad atgiment over and over again as well as the Gnostic Marcionist heresy it smacks of.

once again the victorians ruin everything

As a new subscriber, I hope you are doing well, but... as an Australian.... "swears in Australian" had me choking on my drink and helpless with laughter so much I had to rewatch the rest of the video HAHA Can't deny the truth of it though. Keep up the great work, I love your content

Hope you make another video soon, really love this channel

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I wonder whether or not some of the more extreme beliefs against the physical body were influenced gnosticism (which included the beliefs of an evil god creating the material world). By contrast the new testament and most orthodox Christian doctrines teach that the material world is good because God created it and will redeem it in the world to come. I assume the early christians were aware of this, and I wonder how they distinguished their beliefs of ascetism from gnosticism and manichaeism.

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This is a great lecture! You see a lot of offshoots of these in modern fantasy and science fiction/space opera. Very much enjoyed this!

So the practice of shaving pubic hair was introduced to European society by the Crusades. It is hot in Outremer, and the crusaders did indeed find it much cooler and more hygienic to shave it. There is an Islamic anecdote saying that a Muslim barber was in a bath house in the crusader states, plying his trade. A French knight and his wife were bathing there. The knight saw the barber and got one of those nether shaves, then demanded the barber do this for his wife as well. The barber, being a Muslim, declared it haram for him to shave a woman, but the knight pressed him to do so, and watched carefully as it was done. This anecdote may or may not be true, but it was circulated among Muslims to say "Look how barbaric the Franks are, they dont have any propriety about women!"

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Excellent lecture!

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The wish to have a big forehead was so strong that many medieval women also bleached or even shaved their eyebrows entirely.

What I love about that translation question is how it informs us not only on the time period of the original text, but also on the time period of the translator ! Also you're still hilarious and I like how your passion for the Middle-Ages shines through these videos. Also it would make a lot of sense for s3x workers to have shaven even back then. They really didn't want to catch crotch fleas and were much more exposed to these than the average person. Also if I remember correctly, shaving the entire body except for the head was a common practice in the Middle-Eastern harems, and we know how much Europeans (especially southern) had a craze for anything from the Middle-East in the Middle-Ages and early Renaissance.

Aaarrrgghh!! I love the distinctions you highlighted between mysticism and scholastic motives. I’d love for you to make videos about foolishness, madness and education!

Check out Michaela Stark, she’s a fashion designer and she does a lot of lower belly pooch stuff which is very sexy 😂 they were onto something!

David Goggins is our modern day ascetic. I just found your video after learning from Andrew Huberman that our Anterior Mid-cingulate Cortex grows when you do things you don't want to do. Wanted to learn how to lean into the pain so looked up asceticism and found you. Really enjoyed this thank you!

Great video but it's very difficult to understand your accent when you keep swallowing your consonants, even as a native speaker. Even the subtitles were struggling to understand you. Could you please provide your own subtitles next time?

Loved this video, especially how you just could not keep a straight face as you told and retold the punch lines of these jokes! Thanks for brightening my day!

The video recalls old Doonesbury cartoons of the translator Honey.

Can we date "Why did the chicken cross the road?" back to him?

I love this topic! I heard a similar argument made in a lecture about early Rome. Historians always struggle when there are few corroborating sources. This, IMHO, is an excellent example of the difficulties even the best historians face. Great video.

I read the title as Squire and was very concenred at first.

by the way, belly pooches were considered attractive for all sexes, not just for women, but for men as well. so it might be just a general beauty ideal - a well-fed human being:)

Man. Have you seen Gaudi's archetecture. I love it. I love it so much. Secondly, Russian and orthadox cathedrals are still colorful. I'l kinda jealous of all the color.

Great video. Learned a lot of important fundamental details. Thanks for your channel!

Dante was inferring that all the other diners were dogs that had eaten their bones but he the (only) human there had not. He was slamming them. Winston Churchill was famously seated next to a posh lady who told him that of she were his wife she would poison him, he responded with "Madam, if I were you husband, I would drink it." It's a turn around.

The medieval period is my favorite period of history. It was the flowering of art, architecture, and literature. We have nothing to compare to them today. Our art, architecture, and literature today is closer to the neolithic in content and style.

Too fast--set to 75%

One thing that always bothers me about these is that we get like tiny samples of the paint and then we paint these sculptures and statues in completely flat colors. I find it incredibly hard to believe that anyone would go that far out of their way to make sure that statues get their shading *just* right with the paint stripped and architecture was so sophisticated to the point that buildings were constructed with perspective tricks in mind far ahead of time, that they'd just slap one shade of paint across a wide range of it. That seems so weird to me, especially if we look at the paintings. My problem with these reconstructions isn't that they're gaudy. My problem is that they're not gaudy enough. They immediately leave the impression of being an unfinished statue or piece of architecture.

Modern medicine hasfound some evidence that there is definite advantage to passing through the birth canal. Without it, the child misses need microflora and there is evidence that it also causes neurological deficits. Apparently, the pressure is needed.

Microphone, camera, chair, table and glasses you are using are made by Chinese slave labor today

Mary's separation from original sin wasn't because of her virginity but because of her immaculate conception--another good medieval controversy.

always appreciate your videos😊

Thank you for making this video 😊

Such a fascinating investigation and so entertainingly and engagingly presented, what a treat this was - you mention certain details, such as the aged Joseph and the youthful Balthasar, that I've noticed and wondered about myself , how gratifying to now know more - great work!