Appetitive-Soul

I see that blocking a Deviant means you can't see their work or their account. Ideally it would be the reverse, to someone from seeing your account and posts. But this isn't the only thing DA does backwards.

One of the Atheists Youtubers posted a video critiquing a Christian's argument that his religion was responsible for the scientific revolution. The critiquer's response included the counter argument that Christianity was responsible for destroying (burning) classical literature and Christians were notorious for burning libraries. Now, I don't generally talk about this since I want to keep my On-line and real world lives quite separate, but I have a PhD in Classics and my specialization is in the intersection of Philosophy, Religion, and magic in late antiquity, specifically the engagement of the Christian movement with middle and Neoplatonism. So This is exactly the kind of thing I know about and everything the critiquer said was wrong. In my response I said I could tell he was referring to the internet myth that Christians burned down the library of Alexandria (propagated by that horrible Hypatia film). I pointed out how this idea is completely wrong and summarized and referred to

So one the Gerhard Riebicke phots I've posted has been taken down. They won't tell me which one (the file name is truncated and the way my files are organized, they are only different at the end). The phot was taken about 100 years ago and has been widely published and Riebicke is recognized as a significant artist. They want to see a model release. Some troll denounced it as violating community guidelines. There is no process of adjudication--they just took it down on the troll's say so. this is another instance where my expertise is completely useless against barbaric attack. Hey troll, why don't you go sunbathing.