The reason you are being downvoted is because you’re reminding people that the internet has a lot of very young folks on it. People don’t really want to be reminded of that, they want to feel like all the hijinks that internet people get up to are with adults. But if your age cohort is here on a niche service like Lemmy, then there must be more of you elsewhere, on other services too. This is genuinely unhealthy, in many different ways, so it disturbs people.
So, they downvote you for reminding them of something they’d rather not think about. Afaik though, there is nothing wrong with this question being posted here.
Regarding the question itself, we do tend to call them urban myths for a reason. People have not yet outgrown silly, superstitious thinking from centuries ago. It’s not necessarily an age thing either, plenty of older superstitious folks too. lol
Or read up on Crowley, who was also inspired by lots of this kind of stuff.
It's all super interesting, because this kind of thing has been bubbling under the mainstream for centuries, often vestiges of pre-christian pagan religion basically, even if a lot of it is quite modern. Movies and fictional works which do their research and incorporate elements of this are also quite interesting:
Examples: Antichrist (2009), The Witch(2015) and Annihilation(2018).
Obviously, be careful with this kind of thing. Take it too seriously, spend hours reading up on it, and you start thinking "hmm, maybe there's something to this." at which point you're literally engaging in delusional thinking. It's a rabbit hole basically. And obviously you know it's all nonsense, but humans are inherently superstitious animals.
Shithead ? I have called gods more than that . And yes i am severely fucked but i don’t think its because gods exist if he did i have challenged him multiple time to fight to death why not accept that and prove it to me instead of just cursing me endlessly ?
EDIT : Why am i getting down voted this is litterally the no stupid questions sub.
Because the point is to have a place to ask questions without having them judged as "stupid". It's "we will try to treat questions like they're not stupid" and this comes across as trying very hard to make that impossible.
On the off chance you're not trolling, be advised it sure as hell looks a lot like you're trolling.
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