Image description: Two images. The top image is of a sign for a “Back to the Bible Holiness Church*” that reads “God created man & woman Satan made gays and transgender gen 5:2”. The bottoms image is of a women sitting on a porch wearing sunglasses, dark clothes, and smoking. The caption reads “Praise Satan.”
I know this is going to be controversial here, but I’m not a fan of religion.
That’s not controversial at this point. What’s controversial is I’m not exactly Christian but Trump is/was a perfect fit for the description of the Anti-Christ, and I’ve personally had a semi-lucid dream that apologized for being unable to stop painful life events that would only happen five years later. Anecdotal, sure. You don’t have to believe me. Just saying I have to believe my own experiences.
Guys, I mean this in the most scientifically-plausible way I can imagine… I think maybe our own unconscious minds might be railroading our conscious souls according to one great big mythological Batman Gambit. There are way too many coincidences or predictions that came true in too small a timespan for a conscious human to produce, and too much of the content of dreams is symbolic and detailed for it to be just neuron misfiring noises.
I mean, obviously real life isn’t a story, but the “Dream Land” trope is as old as Aboriginal settlement of Australia and as recent as that new Lego theme/cartoon (Dreamzzz), as lighthearted as Kirby and as dark as the Backrooms (wait, is their lore really that different?) or Changeling: The Lost, as famous as Nightmare on Elm Street or Inception and as obscure as the Tabletop RPG Dreamscape from a 24-hour creator jam back in 2004. Songs about dreams range for the vaporwave-inspired “Dreamland” by Glass Animals, to “Into the Ocean” by Blue October. In short, I can absolutely see there being some truth to the stories behind Complete Me, and the hub page for the Oneiroi Collective had a point; we hadn’t even realised it but dreams got into everything, not that shitty Minecraft streamers and a song about a breakup by Juice WRLD really count.
As for how dreams predict the future… You know how supercomputers predict the weather? Do you think a computer is aware it’s simulating a planet’s weather? If you uploaded a human mind to a hypothetical brain emulation program on some sort of hyper computer, and also ran a weather simulation program on the same super-advanced computer, would the uploaded mind necessarily be aware of the weather simulation? Yeah, something like that, except replace the weather simulation with a mental Siri/ChatGPT.
Sorry, I might have “come on too strong”; I came to the conclusions in the third and onward paragraph but I’m not trying to get anyone else to. It does sound a bit crazy when you haven’t noticed that dreams seem to play a far more important role even in pop-culture and mythology than we give them credit for. I just think it’s likely that as images, ideas and feelings created by our unconscious rather than conscious mind and experienced only by our subconscious, dreams are being drastically underestimated.
Religions are fine, it’s large organized religions with a focus on showing off that tend to be used to commit atrocities.
Afaik not much violence has been done in the name of buddha or ganesha, and the satanic temple is an officially recognized religion in the USA at least and they’re just objectively good.
Check out the Sri Lankan Civil War before you’re so quick to dismiss the idea of Hindu & Buddhist religious violence. The founder of LTTE (“Tamil Tigers”) was very explicit that he was inspired by the Bhagavad-Gita to run an organization heavily featuring suicide bombings and violent extortion of Tamil communities in other countries.
Look at Ayodhya, Amritsar, sectarian violence in Gujurat, or all of the Hindutva rhetoric from Modi. Not to mention the entire history of violent enforcement of caste privilege.
Yeah, tbh I wish I knew more about the Indian caste system so I can properly understand how horrible it is. It’s like someone who has never lived in a capitalist society, doesn’t understand what steam trains are or what mustard gas is, and has only a basic understanding of the Abrahamic religions mostly via American Christianity, trying to explain the Holocaust to themselves beyond “Nazis kill children” and “Hitler was an evil overlord who hated Jews”; It gets the general picture (slave labor, cruel oppression, etc.) but is far too vague to trigger the sadness, anger and desire to never forget or repeat it that should accompany it.
People overlook it because they’re largely ignorant of Eastern religions, and they’ve somehow embedded themselves in our culture as this kinda harmless alternative/mystical belief system that can solve all problems.
But when I saw Buddhist monks leading rampaging mobs against the Rohingya in Myanmar… let’s say the scales fell from my eyes.
These dumbfuck Christians actually belive Satan has the power to create things like a god? I thought satan was simply an angel, how did he develop the power to create life? Doesn’t that make Satan more powerful than God?
Question, tha Bible states Jesus walked the earth during the Romans occupation of Israel.During this time period there was homosexuals, transgender, and infanticide, yet not once is there a teaching against it. Does this mean God is fine with them, or Jesus did not exist and the Bible is wrong, or are modern Christians wrong?
If one actually reads abrahamic religious texts it’s actually filled with a surprising amount of like, outright socialism and tolerance in between the stoning and sanctioned rape.
…almost…almost like it was written by like hundreds of people over thousands of years…
Though jesus in specific is generally actually pretty cool, absolutely would be classed as a socialist nowadays and that whole “don’t be a massive fucking asshole” thing is pretty sensible.
Here’s the passage:
He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
I like the insinuation that they don’t believe gays or transgender are people. That’s not alarming at all.
Yeah, they are literally just making shit up.
If everything not in the Bible was untrue, the universe could not exist even if/when God DID want to create one; Contemporary people from Yeshua of Nazareth’s time considered E’l to be NIGH-Omnipotent, capable of doing anything that is logically possible I.e. non-paradoxical. God can’t rewind time, and god can’t lift a rock that he made so heavy he couldn’t lift it but CAN make that rock because he can then make the rock lighter so he can lift it because multiple-step projects are still possible if complex. Therefore, even god can’t write a guide to reality so perfect that it makes reality trivial. That, or he could, but our free will was made so free that even God cannot chain us (though we could chain ourselves and not be able to unchain ourselves) and therefore a book of rules is - while potentially true - not a legally-binding contract, and even if it was a law of reality, laws list what you can’t do, not what you have to do and therefore the bible cannot imply “guilt” on the part of those who want to be or simply are different.
Hermaphroditic babies are not sinners. Homosexuals were born with a genital structure of one gender or the other, how does that make them evil? Oh right, that’s just old-fashioned sexism. You do know Jesus/Yeshua criticized his own religion’s followers for being sexist bastards who thought “it is a woman’s place to be on her knees (and, the men implied, with her open mouth filled, because men like that are creeps)” and that gay men filling that role i n a sexual encounter somehow emasculated all men by proxy, right?
Yeah, there was an Islamic renaissance at some point in the 1200s CE, but as it is now, it was par-for-the-course in Jesus’ time to be a misogynistic asshole, yet it has never been a Christian thing to do to look down on femininity or any man that does not meet society’s standard of masculinity. Good Christians don’t hate lesbians or gay men or people who were born one gender but act like another or do not feel their gender defines them in any way, and if you are a “christian” who believes that hating someone for being a curveball to your worldview is somehow mandated by the Bible, you’re either going to hell or you will not be missed when you cease existing.
Besides, the Old Testament is literally the entire Torah and Talmud (from Judaism, if you’re too Murican Conservative to know that) translated, and Judaism/Christianity/Islam are practically the prototype writ-large of The Matrix, so clearly the Bible spent a LONG time as a work of progress if it was really written by god.
Googling the answer to if god created satan, most christian sites say something like “The Bible shows that God did not create the Devil. Instead, He created the person who became the Devil.”
Which to be honest is kind of a flimsy copout.
Either god is all knowing so he knew that this person is going to become satan, or god isn’t all knowing and failed to convince that person of his “goodness”. Like, the first person he actually gives the freedom of choice deciding against him doesn’t exactly look good.
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