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[-] arymandias@feddit.de 98 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 34 points 10 months ago

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

[-] arymandias@feddit.de 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Donโ€™t threaten me with a good time

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago

"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?!

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SattaRIP@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Excrucians!

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 44 points 10 months ago

I have never thought about the possibility of fried angel before

[-] SilverMike@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The answer I needed ๐Ÿ“”

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Si it was the orphanim?*

If only autocorrect would evolve.

[-] BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 months ago

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

[-] don@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago
[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 10 months ago

I prefer Nope's version of angel lore.

[-] SattaRIP@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

[-] Chinzon@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

There's always a bigger fish

[-] victron@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] don@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Someone or something that prays on angels.

[-] Hule@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Please do pray on them!

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 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

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

There's always a bigger fish.

this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
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