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and it works

american government : no taxes for churches
shitposters : what if we made a church about satan
american government : surprised pikachu face

No it's serious

it's just not theistic

Some people suspect it's all a DMT trip, because acacia contains it like ayahuasca.

Moses and the burning bush

@Ayylmao @randomNPCno3 Here we go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer#Background

So basically in that text someone metaphorically calls the babylonian king "the shining one", personified from Venus (which was common in ancient religions) and then someone mangled the translation several times.

The word Haylel happens only once in the bible <:smugon:512048583806025739>

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And later, christianity used the Venus personification as a shortcut to call the constructed adversary a Lucifer

at least christfags dont pretend the bible is a legit 100% unedited work from the original draft *cough* kuran *cough*

boom, instant belivers

a very roman thing to do

instant boom

they wanted a trickster like being

just like their greek animes

hitler was a roman god right?

hitlers plans were not convoluted enough to be a roman god

ow

@Ayylmao On the note of talking to gods like they were there, some psychologist had this bonkers theory that a few thousand years earlier, the human brain wasn't fully developed in regards to self-awareness, so the past experiences and memories were stored in the unconsciousness and presented to the conscious mind as hallucinations and voices.

The trickster is a mainstay of religion, but all it ever represents is the questioning of the narrative. Plenty of religions don't demonize this character though, they simply caution wariness when dealing with them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

This thing. I regard it as Däniken level shit, since this is nothing you can prove, but it's fun to think about.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/364380393152970753/602643620700356639/image-1.png

oh daniken

@Ayylmao Well, daniken-level of credibility. This dude was called Jaynes. Actually a pretty nice theory explaining ancient myths and why miracles and divine manifestations seem to stop being common as you go towards antiquity

Is that that whole everyone has two consciences?

i dont think ancient brains were much different than we have now

First sight and second thoughts

were just jaded and more informed now

In this case you'd react to something and whatever deeper non-immediate knowledge you had would be manifested to you from your brain indirectly

Which, as I said, sounds pretty bonkers, but it's fun to imagine the concept

there's also the interesting thing about two hemisphere
https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8

Let's all just go smooth brain, the koala got it right, if you can't care, you don't even know what to care about

Koalas are also basically meth heads

They probably got smooth brain from doing nothing but eating all day

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