Medicine in the ancient world was often combined with what we would consider magic, especially in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. In Mesopotamia, the goddess Gula who is also known as Ninkarrak and Ninisinna presided over health and healing with her consort Pabilsag, her sons Damu and Ninazu and her daughter Gunurra. Doctors were agents through which the deities worked to maintain the health of their people. As it is now, their main job was to cure people’s illnesses, and their first step was to identify the cause of it. Illness in Mesopotamia was often referred to as “The Hand of …” for example, the patient has been touched by the hand of the god Shamash, or the demon Lamashtu, and then to be cured of their suffering, the patient had to confess the sin which caused the illness and submit to the proper treatment.
Doctors could be male or female and the first known physician from Egypt is Imhotep, the architect of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, who was later deified as a god of healing and medicine. The first female doctor known by name is Merit-Ptah from the Early Dynastic Period, c. 2700 BCE, although there is evidence for a woman who ran a medical school at the Temple of Neith at Sais in circa 3000 BCE, but her name is unknown.
In Ancient Greece, illness was considered a divine punishment, and healing was a gift from the gods. However, by the fifth century BCE, there is evidence of attempts to identify physical causes for illness. They began to move away from the spiritual, but they never fully separated from it. The god Asclepius was both the god of healing and medicine and also a doctor, whose main sanctuary was at Epidaurus. Probably the best known name from Ancient Greek medicine is Hippocrates who was born in the 5th century BCE on the island of Kos where he eventually established a medical school.
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0:54 Mesopotamian Medicine
4:26 Ancient Egyptian Medicine
8:22 Ancient Greek Medicine
10:29 Ancient Roman Medicine
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But he wouldn’t have had to in the first place if he hadn’t gone out of his way to be somewhere he did not live, at places he did not work, for people he never spoke to, at a time of night when he shouldn’t have even been outside, for the sole purpose of using lethal force against people committing THEFT.
He lived 30 minutes away from that area, frequented it and was seen cleaning up graffiti and administering first aid to people regardless of their affiliation before the altrecation.
Also, like
Being stupid is not a crime
This is the same argument as “she wouldn’t be raped if she didn’t go to THAT part of town”
Do I think he should rot in jail for life? No. The three felons aren’t exactly innocent in this. The only thing I am saying is that he is not a hero by any stretch of the imagination.
When he inevitably walks free, I think his motivations desperately need to be addressed.
I wouldn’t call him a hero either
He was a kid way in over his head stuck in the middle of a civil conflict, forced to defend his life with a firearm he shouldn’t have legally had
It’s a whole complicated mess
I think it needs to be addressed that he was not “stuck” in this conflict. He went far out of his way–and with no justifiable reason–to place himself in it with intent, and that intent was not just to clean or heal, or he wouldn’t have brought a gun.
He previously admitted on camera to wanting to obtain a gun to shoot at looters. Not just thinking, but acting on that impulse is sociopathic. If he only had aid in mind, and hadn’t been walking around with a School Shooter Special™, I doubt anyone would have bothered him.
Kyle and his family also have ties to a known hate group (which the judge demanded be omitted from the trial). Given the underlying protest, I think the nation needs to start taking a far harsher stance against these groups.
Can you provide links to those, because this is literally the first time I’m hearing of those?
Sure, lemme get the judge talking about the video:
And here’s one article about his ties to the Proud Boys (last I heard, they were classified as a hate group):
And I’m not sure who you want, because no news source is really trustworthy. I figured Chicago was more local. There’s the Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today–all mention a “link” or “ties”. I can look for more, but I don’t know who’s genuinely honest. At the very least, he definitely knows them, as there are photos of him out drinking with some of them (wait, why tf was he in a bar???).
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