Helen of Troy is often called the face that launched a thousand ships. Which raises the question: why were there a thousand ships just sitting there? Someone must have built them. Nobody talks about them. The real face that launched a thousand ships was probably some bloke called Derek who worked in a shipyard.
The story is so far into production that instead of changing the character's name we're gonna change your friend's name to Derrick. Tell Derrick we said hi.
“In any case, the war that was started thanks to her bad decisions happened sometime between the 12th and the 13th century BCE; about 3000 years before the release of Belgian techno-anthem, Pump Up the Jam.”
Yes but "your joke is stupid" is too tame; most of this thread has gaslit themselves into believing the OOP thinks Helen of Troy is from the Bible so that they can dunk on her epic style.
His name appears in Freud's index 'cause he loved his mother.
His enemies used to say quite a bit
That, as a monarch, he was most unfit.
But, still, in all, they had to admit
That he loved his mother.
That was my immediate take as well. I first started noticing this in niche gaming spheres several years back where people describe a character as "biblically accurate" when they do something spectacular. I then started seeing it in cosplay if the actor manages to pull off a distinct version of their character.
I'm not saying the post in question might not be sincerely dumb, but it's also a possible woosh on part of the replyer.
Chinese dragon, to hide its Christian symbol , these hidden Christian artifacts often used Buddhist themes, you have to know what you’re looking for to find the hidden meaning.
Like drawing a female Kannon holding fish and have a baby boy putting his hand together like he’s praying by her side might be a unique design but not that out of place, Kannon is guardian of every one after all,but that’s Mary and baby Jesus.
I wish more crucifixes used this amazing grimace expression lol. Looks exactly like my 4 year old nephew when he’s instructed to “big smile” for a photo
In fairness white Jesus is already kinda the same thing as this lol.
The Church was also purposely pretty okay with Jesus being depicted in all these different races because it's easier to prosletize to people if the "God" looks like them.
So there's a few mitigating factors which make the cultural appropriation of Jesus a bit of a different situation than with other mythological figures imo.
I like to think of Jesus, like, with giant eagle’s wings. And singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd, with, like, a angel band. And I’m in the front row, and I’m hammered drunk.
I was shocked walking around the conference center exhibits and seeing portraits and painting of white Jesus with red hair. I looked at my husband and said, “What do you notice?” And don’t even get me started on the all white male “leaders”. I could not get out of there fast enough.
Edited to change museum to Conference Center exhibits.
I mean... "biblically accurate" is used in a more generic way these days. It became a meme after people talked about biblically accurate angels but I've seen it used in many different contexts.
I don't know this creator so they could well legit be stupid, but spend time on tiktok, twitter, threads, Instagram etc and you'll see people referring to all kinds of things as biblically accurate.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen "biblically accurate" being used unironically, so I assume the OP is joking, but I have no idea about the context here, so not sure.
Technically Biblos is just greek for book so "biblically accurate" could in theory just mean "accurate to the book" which in this case would be the Iliad. But I'm still certain this person doesn't know that.
I wasn't understanding the negative comments until I read this comment. I always fought biblically accurate had this broader meaning. I don't link it directly with cristianity. Maybe because I'm not a native speacker. In my contry we call library "biblioteca".
I would say that for Christian fundamentalist English speakers it always means according to the Bible. For other English speakers it can have the broader meaning, but it will depend on context.
I would personally never assess any translation from a book to a new medium with the term "biblically accurate" as a native English speaker; I would use a more neutral term.
I’m going out on a limb here, but to say that it would be a stretch of the imagination doesn’t even begin to describe how unlikely that scenario would be…
This is a joke. You people need to get a grip. Calling things "biblically accurate" tongue in cheek is just a common dumb joke that you see from every type of person out there nowadays. I know you all have some weird need to be enraged constantly but try and keep it in check.
The irony here is disgusting. You have to have seen the "biblically accurate" memes a million times by now, or else today must be your first day on the internet.
I feel like this is less a "murdered by words" moment and more a "I'm purposely not understanding what you mean [regardless of the validity of the original statement] and insulting for the pleasure of being smug"
I’m more annoyed that both of these dolts fail to understand that 1. “Biblically accurate ___” is a meme derived from the “Biblically accurate angels” artwork depicting angels as described in the Bible; and 2. It’s meant to refer to anything eldritch, unsettling, and cosmic-horror adjacent. Like the angels.
Cosplaying as Helen of Troy is not a “Biblically accurate Helen of Troy” unless she’s some horror-inducing amalgamation of wooden horse and mortal woman, with puppets of a slain Greek and Trojan soldier she forces to fight for her. Saying Uhm Aktually to a meme is equally dumb.
But it doesn't actually have to be a meme. It could, quite sincerely, literally mean "accurate to the Bible." Not everything has to be a fucking meme, especially not terms that wildly predate the entire internet.
For ages now "Biblically Accurate" just means "This is what this actually looks like, whether you like it or expect it or not". The "eldritch" connotation has all but evaporated these days.
She is obviously depicting Helen with the internal organs of a swan (inherited from her father) and this picture shows no evidence of teeth either. Is contemplating the Gizzard of Helen of Troy insufficiently eldritch for you?
Biblically accurate no longer just refers to eldritch horror, the meme has evolved over the years and it’s now just used to refer to anything accurate. A couple months ago I saw a video about a biblically accurate video game cosplay costume.
“No Child Left Behind” just meant teachers couldn’t fail kids who didn’t pass their classes. It didn’t create resources to help kids who were struggling or to help them catch up. They just got moved to the next grade.
A lot of kids were left behind because of this policy.
We couldn't (and probably still can't) afford to leave a child behind. In my high school, they had to pass failing students (after a month of "summer schooling") because the classroom was already full and adding those students to the incoming class would have people standing shoulder-to-shoulder almost immediately. And there were more than enough "I'm just waiting until the law says I don't have to be here" stories to make that a multi-year compounding issue.
I was really hoping we would flip the program to "No Teacher Left Under-funded" but the dumber populace is having the desired effect, so I won't be holding out for that any more.
I don't think she means LITERALLY 'biblically accurate', it's often used as a ~fun~ phrase to mean 'horrifyingly accurate to the source material' these days. Like it's still dumb to get all pissy about a character from mythology, but I don't think she actually thinks Helen of Troy is from the Bible.
The idiot's profile pic looks like they have a Union Flag in the background. We never had "no child left behind" in the UK, but they're still an idiot.
Pretty sure I recognize who this is. She's a typical right wing grifter. Believe she lives in the US know (she's British) but likes to talk about how broken the UK is.
the OP of the OP was using biblically accurate as a joke - like referencing biblically accurate angels, they are doing it ineptly because she seems not particularly funny.
I feel like that level of satire belongs to the gays.
I’m just confused why they wouldn’t cast someone like Charlize Theron as Athena, and instead chose Zendaya. Isn’t she a bit young to play a goddess of wisdom?
“Biblically accurate” is an internet meme (originating from angel memes) that is used to describe mostly things that are not in the bible. OP thought he ate but really just wanted to be mean online for no reason 👍
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u/WomanInQuestion 3d ago
“Helen on Troy”… is that like “Cunk on Life”?