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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This man is a true servant of The Emperor, the touch of Chaos must be resisted at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You know about Chaos? Time to exterminatus the planet to make sure this forbidden knowledge doesn't spread.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This is just a high effort version of "...Then may God strike me dead!" but targeting a spiritual minority instead if the hegemonic national religion. Shouldn't the amount of un-smited politicians indicate that there is no God?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shouldn't the amount of any un-smited politicians prove any spiritual group that claims to have the ability to harm people wrong? I mean why are witches so mad that they can't hurt a random guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I can only actually name one politician that was smited

There's this one Turkish politician that got smited right after he said that Allah will judge Israel

https://youtu.be/B17R9vBOwlQ

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's a risky thing to do,

the vast majority of cases, you'll be right. but no one will care.

however, in the unlikely event where you suffer a immediate tragedy, like trip and break your nose, stroke, bird shits on you. you might start a new religion

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I got taken in like this for a while.

I grew up religious and one time prayed for a friend who was going to go though a couple of surgeries and would have to eat through a straw for a few months. I prayed that I could take some of the pain for him if needed. Turned out that I had a small accident and got my first stitches the next day and my friend was able to avoid additional months of recovery because the surgeon was able to do both operations at once. I took that as a sign that my prayer had worked and believed more strongly in God. For a while until I realized that coincidences can happen and that believing in God is pretty stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

imagine there was a Messiah, god incarnate born on earth, but he didn't believe any religious nonsense, and every one in a while he accidentally does some miracles. which he dismisses.

that's you

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And squander your magical talents for substitutional atonement??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Strangely enough, I could never get it to work again. Must've been my fault though, not God's.

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 3 days ago (37 children)

Reminder that there used to be a $1,000,000 prize available for anyone who could display any sort of supernatural powers that remained unclaimed for 20 years. The challenge rules required that both parties agree upon the test setup, and several people actually tried to claim it and all failed. It astounds me that anyone still believes in this nonsense and that it seems to be becoming even more popular to believe in literal magic and other supernatural idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was that guy who could make almost anyone forget almost anything, he won the prize many times. :D

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[+] [email protected] -25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I have an interesting opinion on this. If someone displays "supernatural powers", then those powers are not supernatural--just unknown. Therefore, it is an impossible prize to claim.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There’s a term for this idea, “preternatural”. It means a phenomenon that is the result of the natural world, not magic or divine, but still unexplainable with our current understanding.

James Randi’s prize didn’t require proof of the supernatural, it was open to preternatural phenomena as well. Someone just had to prove it was a REAL phenomenon and not a hoax or random chance.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If you read the article, the rules were only that both parties have to agree on a test and if someone passed the test they won the prize. There wasn't a "gotcha" clause like "Oh since you did it it's clearly allowed by physics and we don't have to pay up!" So like if someone showed they had psychic powers sufficient to pass an agreed upon test it doesn't matter if there's a natural explanation for it, they would have still won the prize.

[+] [email protected] -28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Well, in seriousness, and more interestingly, I'm not really willing to call supernatural powers real or fake, currently. There exist some stories I've come across, which are likely real, which contain absolutely unexplainable phenomenon. Just this morning, someone in a Discord I'm in (who wouldn't just fake stories) was explaining how someone they knew had a psychotic break on psychedelics, and, in the ambulance, narrated the paramedics' childhoods with disturbing accuracy. A trusted moderator of that space responded to my skepticism with "psychics absolutely exist, but the vast majority are just grifters".

Note: Without getting into all the context, this moderator is not the kind of person to simply believe in conspiracy theories.

I used to be a Reddit atheist (ew), and I've gone from thinking I know everything, to being very serious about accepting different views--no matter how absurd. We're unaware of so many more things than we're aware of.

I'm of the opinion that if psychic abilities exist, they can not be on command. They might. They might not. I would rather be honest than claim to be factual--I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most of that is just mentalism, which is effective and useful but works off a psychological and stochastic approach but is absolutely explainable and not supernatural despite its applications in manipulating people. See: Jacob Wysocki in the one year later episode of game changer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I probably will watch that. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just this morning, someone in a Discord I'm in (who wouldn't just fake stories) was explaining how someone they knew had a psychotic break on psychedelics, and, in the ambulance, narrated the paramedics' childhoods with disturbing accuracy

I think it’s entirely possible this person is being honest while also just not having a firm grasp over what actually happened, due to having a psychotic break from psychedelics. The paramedic simply agreeing to whatever they said (if the conversation did happen—I’ve been unsure whether a conversation I thought I had was real or not just from smoking too much weed) could have been interpreted as much deeper and more profound than it was.

None of this requires ill intent. The mind is just incredibly bad at making and retrieving memories in the way we want (infallible, like a video) even when you aren’t on drugs.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

I mean no one even managed to display "unknown" powers either.

They were all explainable

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Everyone should read about James Randi he was a brilliant skeptic.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And he did special effects for Alice Cooper!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Also friend of Penn and Teller. Just a great guy all around.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of this classic: https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hvy31q/witchcraft_hexing_the_moon/

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