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"Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'" Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Marcus Aurelius would have loved Buddhism.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 months ago

    Funny enough, there was some contact between the Empire and Eastern religions in the 2nd century AD, including this sculpture of a Roman soldier whose hairstyle is suggested to imply conversion to Buddhism.

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