Zorque,

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

massive_bereavement,
massive_bereavement avatar

There's always a bigger fish.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

shalafi,

“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?!

xor, (edited )

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)

rimjob_rainer,

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

/s

xor,

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

ArcaneSlime,

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.

MossyFeathers,
ArcaneSlime,

PRA’BOB

MossyFeathers,

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.

ArcaneSlime,

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.

iiGxC,

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.

SattaRIP,
SattaRIP avatar

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

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

Harbinger01173430,

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

Grail,
@Grail@aussie.zone avatar

Excrucians!

smuuthbrane,
@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

DragonTypeWyvern,

I prefer Nope’s version of angel lore.

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Their appearance is pretty consistent into the present, IIRC.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine#Repo…

smuuthbrane,
@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

fossilesque, (edited )
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Something something all art is derivative.

haaretz.com/…/0000017f-f52e-d887-a7ff-fdee8712000…

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.

smuuthbrane,
@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Maps takes volunteers lol maps.org

SattaRIP,
SattaRIP avatar

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.

arymandias, (edited )
MajorMajormajormajor,

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

arymandias, (edited )
gravitas_deficiency,

Don’t threaten me with a good time

aeronmelon,

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

kn0wmad1c,
@kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

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

marcos,

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

victron,
@victron@programming.dev avatar

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

don,

Someone or something that prays on angels.

Hule,

Please do pray on them!

yannic,

There’s a reason why every encounter with an Angel starts with them saying “Do not be afraid.”

don,

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.

Chinzon,

There’s always a bigger fish

SubArcticTundra,
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

I have never thought about the possibility of fried angel before

BirdEnjoyer,

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.

SilverMike,

The answer I needed 📔

Maeve,

Si it was the orphanim?*

If only autocorrect would evolve.

aeronmelon,

“Be not hungry… PLEASE be not hungry.”

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