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👁️👁️ Evolution 👁️👁️ (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or to attract mates ;)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Great, now the angels be boning. Look what you've done!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do not be afraid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

An Angel visited Mary and then she has a "virgin birth", what do you think happened?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, whenever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?" -Thomas Daggett, the Prophecy

And something out there preys on them?!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Probably some ancient human with power armor or a flying aircraft. There's not too much to think about when picturing angels

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Realizing angels and God are evil is what made me come to the conclusion it's all a lie and leave Islam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

the ever present fact that satan punishes evildoers, yet he's called evil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Excrucians!

[+] [email protected] -21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

no, actually they never existed and it's just a stupid story
(i just hate the "biblically accurate angels" thing... it wasn't that interesting 5 years ago either)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where is your proof? Hah, checkmate atheists :^)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

well, you got me there.
absence of evidence is evidence

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, at least.

I on the other hand have evidence for my religion, the good word of "Bob" is the only evidence I need. He was told by JHVH-1 himself after being zapped while working on a TV set of his own design in 1953.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PRA'BOB

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like the idea of the Church of Subgenius, but tbh they're so good at schizoposting on their website that I can't make heads or tails about what they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Write to "Bob" at PO Box 807 Glen Rose TX, 76043, include like $3-5 bucks and you'll receive all the knowledge ye seek in return.

That or listen to the 30+yr of radio archives on www.subgenius.com, or grab a Book of the SubGenius from the site (signed by Rev. Ivan Stang no less), the site itself is easier to parse after reading the books or listening to the shows.

And you can always find SubGeniuses directly on mastodon on our instance dobbs.town, though they may not be the best source of knowledge about anything at all, depending on a few factors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It is in cases where the thing in question should have evidence. If someone tells me they have a dragon in their garage, the absence of evidence when I go in their garage and don't find a dragon is evidence of the absence of a dragon.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I have never thought about the possibility of fried angel before

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The answer I needed 📔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Si it was the orphanim?*

If only autocorrect would evolve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The implication being that this isn't your first thought on eating angels.

Been watching Hasbin Hotel? They have that whole Surprisingly hopeful song that veers into them.

Charlie tries so hard.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason why every encounter with an Angel starts with them saying "Do not be afraid."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Oh! It’s like when you’re scared af but you gotta do it anyway, so you tell yourself “I can do this. Deep breaths. I can do this!” It’s just angels calming themselves down. I get it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a neat trick to get evangelicals to believe in evolution.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

You mean it's canon among evangelicals that humans prey on angels?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

"Be not hungry... PLEASE be not hungry."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ok wanna hear my theory on angels?

First, this presumes all accounts are true, so if you can't get by that, stop here.

The people on record of having seen angels describe them as having "wings" and "eyes", however as these people were very likely agricultural in nature (farmers, herders, etc.) they may have simply described what they saw with the closest analogies they had. What they actually saw could have been something much different, but so far beyond their experience that they couldn't describe them any other way.

Hypothesis: angels are actually higher dimensional beings that exist in more than 3 dimensions, and intersect part of their being to our 3 dimensions in order to interact with us. "Wings" and "eyes", along with "wheels within wheels" could be undulations, harmonics, ripples, echoes, sympathetic frequencies of their actual presence that we interpret as best we can. It's like when the sphere visits Flatland, we are seeing multidimensional cross sections of them, which give them such an otherworldly appearance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Their appearance is pretty consistent into the present, IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine#Reported_encounters_with_external_entities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So Dune is right, Spice exists, and that's how we access other dimensions? WILD.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Something something all art is derivative.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2021-03-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/was-moses-high-studies-linking-religion-and-drugs-gain-traction/0000017f-f52e-d887-a7ff-fdee87120000

Animals like drugs; it's not just humans. I remember watching birds get drunk on our pear tree as a kid. How true our assumptions are that they were stoned when these various concepts formed is another matter. There are a number of theories, but it's hard to "prove" and usually need to be looked at case by case. Often, there's no way to really tell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We need to get stoned. In a controlled manner. For science!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Maps takes volunteers lol https://maps.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I prefer Nope's version of angel lore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's partly what my novel is about. I'd list it, but I've changed my writing style to make it more accessible, and I plan to make a 2nd edition soon that hopefully my relatives can read. English isn't their first language.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

There's always a bigger fish

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, uhm, who or what is an angel predator?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone or something that prays on angels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Please do pray on them!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If it's intimidating to us... are we the predators?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Why else would the descriptions of angels largely end as humanity exploded in population? just like with aliens, we fucking ate them all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There's always a bigger fish.