Spyke

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

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shalafi
lemmy.world

"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?!

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

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SattaRIPreply
kbin.social

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

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ArcaneSlimereply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

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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.

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iiGxCreply

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.

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Maevereply

Si it was the orphanim?*

If only autocorrect would evolve.

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yannic
lemmy.ca

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

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donreply

Oh! Itโ€™s like when youโ€™re scared af but you gotta do it anyway, so you tell yourself โ€œI can do this. Deep breaths. I can do this!โ€ Itโ€™s just angels calming themselves down. I get it.

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

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sh.itjust.works

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.

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Smuuthbranereply
sh.itjust.works

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

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fossilesquereply
mander.xyz

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.

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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.

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donreply
lemm.ee

Someone or something that prays on angels.

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Zorque
kbin.social

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

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

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