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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hitting someone square in the forehead with a rock, in the Bronze Age, was a quick way to kill them regardless of size. There's a reason this image

is both iconic and incredibly triggering to the IDF. You whip that thing around hard and fast enough, and you're going to crack a head.

So the whole biblical story might be based on something that actually happened

I don't find the story of a young, spry soldier with a bit of luck and some good aim thwacking a rival warlord with a rock implausible in the slightest. Its all the propaganda packed in around the story, what with David having some sort of euphoric epiphany and the rock being magicked by God to score the killing blow, that causes folks to roll their eyes in disbelief.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Also he totally fought a lion before he went up against Goliath. David was a bigger badass than Goliath the entire time

Can you tell me more about that picture?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also, I think I've heard that shepards would be skilled with a sling.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It makes sense, hanging out in a field all day with nothing to do but flip rocks at stuff, you'd git gud quick.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It was a pretty common peasant weapon purely because you could make one super easy, and it fired a thing you could literally pick off the ground. Sling a rock at a wolf or a bear and it'll probably either be dead or get the hint of "ah shit that guy hurts to fight, I'll go find some other bastard."

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn that picture is SICK

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It really is an incredibly powerful image. I’m a bit shocked I somehow hadn’t come across it before.