• SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      10 months ago

      Honestly, with all the biblically accurate angel memes that have been floating around I feel like they’re becoming banal. At this point if I saw one my reaction would be “yawn you guys need to come up with a more original corporeal form.”

      Maybe this is why they’re being posted? Angels getting tired of repeating themselves and being feared.

  • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 months ago

    If an angel appears before you in human form, they come bearing good news. If they appear before you in their true form, they come bearing responsibility.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Fuck that I’m carrying a helo just in case. Toss on the meatball with wings at first sight. I need me some good news.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      Angels came to Lot in human form. They told him to GTFO of the city. Things happen, and his wife ends up a pillar of salt.

      This is also when a crowd gathered up outside his house wanting to rape his guests, and Lot’s response was to offer his daughters to be raped instead. This demonstrates that Lot showed proper hospitality to his guests, or something.

  • Seudo@lemmy.world
    251·
    10 months ago

    Straight up description of an entity thousands report seeing while on DMT tho.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      311·
      10 months ago

      Which indicates that it is

      1. A failure state the human brain goes into. Like how certain optical illusions work on nearly everyone

      2. Humans build narratives off senses. If there is already a cultural narrative and you have weird data will put it in there. You got a round peg and your culture gave you a round hole.

      3. A physical chemical allows you to outwit infinitely powerful infinitely higher beings and they are powerless to stop it.

      3 doesn’t seem very likely.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        10 months ago

        Where does outwitting come into the equation in the first place? By all accounts, the interaction is reported as being entirely consensual.

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
              91·
              10 months ago

              Inference. Being invisible to us and complex is going to take a lot of effort to deceive us. You can’t see with an invisible eye. You can’t avoid sinking into the core of the earth unless you have some density, which makes you wonder why we never see their footprints. So if all our senses and technology has failed to find them they must be actively working towards that goal.

                • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
                  5·
                  10 months ago

                  As I point out it doesn’t end there. Even if somehow some way humans just naturally couldn’t see them we have other senses we have other sensing technology we have inference. Mud and dust that show no footprints, radio site surveys that show no interference, radar, infrared, lidar…A lot of this stuff you can see for yourself

                  https://youtu.be/nXlqv_k4P8Q?si=HM3a8uUWbdlBc-TE

                  Heck how do they pass thru buildings to get in and out with density? Would we not all notice random doors and windows opening and closing? How many secure sites on earth where you need to badge in to a every room.

          • Patches@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            10 months ago

            Does that mean outsmart everything you see in a telescope, or a magnifying glass?

            Are we outsmarting birds every time we go bird watching?

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
              61·
              10 months ago

              Are birds watching our minds and suppressing out ability to see them? Are they making sure that they are never recorded by every single camera and instrument?

              Look this has been fun but you can drop the gag now. You don’t really believe in shadow beings. That are all-powerful all-knowing and will only talk to you when you put a hallucinating producing chemical in yourself. It is just so much freaken easier to understand that humans, a super social species, will imagine talking things when their brain is busted for a little while. Compared to Uber-beings who roll nat-20s on every stealth check.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    163·
    10 months ago

    Bible: Angels visit earth and have consensual relations with human women. Angels also visit Abe and Sarah appearing to be humans. Angels visit Lot and appear to be human.

    Also Bible: be not afraid of me despite being a lovecraftian nightmare!

    Can’t even keep their lies straight

  • Codex@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 months ago

    It helps to be tripping absolute balls on mushrooms, peyote, or other hallucinogens. Well “helps” in the sense that while the angel will seem normal, ordinary rocks will now terrify you.

  • -RJ-@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Always makes me laugh when at kids nativities they have a sweet little girl in a white dress saying meekly “Don’t be afraid”. Tough shepherds would take a LOT to freak out!