Shamash is the one true god. : atheistmemes

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

Religion is a control mechanism. It helps people feel better about things they can't control, mysterious ways and all that, but it is always about control and power. Ea is gonna get you, be scared

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's weird to me that some atheists here are seeing this as evidence that religious people are dumb. What makes anyone think that they wouldn't also be worshipping whatever god their parents and culture taught them to worship if they grew up in Babylonia 6000 years ago? This meme points out that we are the product of our upbringing. Calling religious folks stupid in this thread lacks the very self awareness that it criticises, and isn't going to win any arguments anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Many of us here know what it's like to be religious. To grow up not knowing better. We know how short-sighted, guillible and hypocritical religion makes people.

[+] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also considering:

Older than recorded history; was here longer than any of us and will be here long after we leave. Has a finite beginning and end but is still incomprehensibly ancient

Burns itself into your vision instantly and can blind you if you look for too long

Further prolonged exposure can cause cancerous growths

Non-humanoid shape floating through space; colossal flaming tentacles angrily lash out on occasion

Sort of just appeared one day and is now surrounded by the corpses of its stillborn children

People used to sacrifice other people to appease it

Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes

From this post

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

In 4.5 billion years, the sun will begin the fusion of iron.

At this time, the sun will become a red dwarf, swelling in size, and swallowing the earth.

Or at least, burning us to a crisp.

Even a built-in apocalypse conclusion!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We actually have only have 0.5 billion years left before the earth becomes uninhabitable for life.

I think this is relevant, because evolution thus doesn't have that much time left. Sure, 0.5 billion years ago there were no real land-dwellers, but still. As a layperson, I'm sceptical that evolution could create a spacefaring species in that timespan again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I leave you with the wisdom of the late great philosopher, George Carlin:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmo8sh77G6Y

TLDW: The Earth wanted plastic. The Earth made Humans. Now that the Earth has plastic, it doesn't need Humans!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

(not) ok boomer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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Poe's Law + evenwithcontext + forwardsfromgrandma

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

Oh look, an internet edgelord.

Is this you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, disagreement on lemmy! Quick, call them tankie while ignoring actual tankies!

Posting climate denial without context is still climate denial and those dictatorships have to deal with the reality of climate change mid-term as well.

Framing opposition to climate denial as red-auth is naive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you think that George Carlin was promoting climate denial then you're really uninformed.

Here is a reddit thread I found that discusses the nuance of his take, which was cinically that the earth will endure. It would gladly be rid of us and we won't leave a trace. Ie we can fix it or we can ignore it, until nature solves the problem. US. We're the problem.

Here's another boomer link

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeorgeCarlin/comments/vnhc8g/george_carlin_on_climate_changeglobal_warming/

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

Unless we could escape the Sun before then!

Like if we flew away in a rocket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Like if we invested in NASA!?

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And by funding NASA, you mean defying our lord and savior? THE SUN?!?!? /S

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

Yes. We can already build simple rockets. We just need to encode more data in similar ways.

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

The sun.... OF GOD! OOOOOOHHH

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

time traveler story where a mormon travels to 2000 BC on mission and ends up accidentally creating mithraism

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

No, this may seem true, but no, if you read Lucian, adepts of many of those polytheistic religions would treat their deities like some piece of magic or even like a good aesthetic.

There were cults which required "defending the faith", but, well, not all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

many of those polytheistic religions would treat their deities like some piece of magic or even like a good aesthetic

Just like today's believers in Allah, Vishnu, Jesus, or Yahweh. Your observation doesn't really contradict the meme. At its simplest, a reader of the meme could expect to have the same degree of faith they have today just directed towards Shamash. This would include the "good aestheticians" you mention as well as today's true believers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

No, I don't mean that. I mean - like Krishnaites, or Star Wars fans, or Star Trek fans, or superstitious people with plenty of amulets, or hippies, or UFO believers.

It was a more competitive and free religious ecosystem, so to say.

For real, read Lucian, you won't regret it.

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