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- Comment on Block chain to stop AI scams. 21 hours ago:
And you can’t ever post process images.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel? 1 day ago:
If you want to self host, rent some cheap server somewhere (I use Hetzner) the will act as a proxy and then configure frp.
It’s basically what Cloudflare tunnel does, except you need to provide the public server instead of Cloudflare giving you one for “free.”
- Comment on Turns out a relatively important plot point in The Witcher games shouldn't exist at all, so says the books' author 5 days ago:
The “important plot point” is Witcher schools. And I’ve been saying it for over a decade they’ve overblown them in the games.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 6 days ago:
I meant the character, not the name, I perhaps worded it poorly. Satan in this context is meant in the “accuser” sense. As in it’s a role in a divine court, not an entity. Anyone could be the “satan” for the specific case, it’s not a person, but a role.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
You might find my top level comment on this post interesting.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Because it’s all fake. Everyone who actually reads it finds way too many inconsistencies.
That’s because it underwent some serious transformations across the millennia. Yahweh started as a storm god (basically Thor of Canaanite religion). Back then each nation in the religion had their own patron god and guess which god did the Israelites happen to have? Good old storm god Yahweh.
Over centuries the religion evolved and among Israelites Yahweh slowly took on attributes of other gods, mostly El (the all-father and creator of the universe) and Baal. First the other gods were degraded and monotheism was required, even though other gods were known to exist (you might remember the whole “jealous of other gods shtick” even though the rest of the Bible says there’s only one god).
Then the other gods were slowly edited out of the Bible, though some remains persevere (the aforementioned jealousy of other gods, some gods are even mentioned by name). If the gods couldn’t be removed because the story wouldn’t make sense, they were mostly changed into angels or other mythical beings.
It’s pretty funny rereading the Bible with this knowledge, you can clearly recognise which parts were the original Yahweh-the-storm-god and which used to be El-the-actual-creator by how he behaves in the story. When he’s all jealous, rageful and angry, it’s mostly based on the original Yahweh.
Anyway, that’s basically what Old Testament is - a bunch of edits of much older religions. IIRC Yahweh precedes even the Canaanite religion, so it’s a really old and grumpy storm god.
Now, New Testament is something else entirely, that was basically just slapped onto Judaism to have some legitimate and widely recognised vessel. Unlike the other edits, it didn’t evolve naturally over time, it was just violently slapped onto the Old Testament.
Fun fact: try finding Satan anywhere in the old testament. You won’t. Satan has been retrofit on multiple characters, but neither is mentioned directly as Satan, devil or really anything. The most famous one, the snake in the garden? Just a snake (which checks out with older religions where animals had a lot of influence). Then some morons come and say “actually, that snake was the grand adversary.” The concept of a grand adversary wasn’t really common in older religions, there usually wasn’t a Satan-like figure. Compare for example with Greek, Roman or Norse gods.
So, in conclusion, the Bible is a horrible mess of edits that were made so the religion would serve the needs of the time they were introduced in. IIRC the Israelites were having some trouble with their neighbours back when Yahweh got the promotion, so having a strong sense of nationality would really help in keeping the nation together. New Testament is even more obvious because it didn’t even really try to fit with the rest. They just tried to retrofit a few things and called it a day.
Well, this got longer than I planned, but I really like the topic and I don’t think you can do it justice in two paragraphs. If anyone’s interested, do some research, it’s honestly fascinating! For example, what’s the connection between Dionysus and Yahweh? That would be a homework for ya!
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 1 week ago:
Driftland: The Magic Revival is pretty unique with the tiny shattered islands you have to connect to be part of your empire.
- Comment on ‘If Anyone Runs, Shoot Them’ – Russian Commander Heard Ordering Execution of Deserters 1 week ago:
Many people think that propaganda means it’s a lie. Often it is, but propaganda can be true while still being propaganda. Which is this case.
So, yeah, obviously it’s a propaganda. Doesn’t make Russian inhuman shooting of their own troops any better.
How delusional do you have to be to ignore that they’ve done so throughout history and even did so in this exact war? This is merely someone giving the order, it’s not like we didn’t know they did it.
- Comment on ‘If Anyone Runs, Shoot Them’ – Russian Commander Heard Ordering Execution of Deserters 1 week ago:
How shocking, who would’ve expected such behaviour from Russia?
- Comment on Apple asks EU to scrap landmark digital competition law 1 week ago:
Oh no, the anti consumer company can’t do whatever it wants anymore! How will the leaders ever recover their egos?
Apple says it must undertake further engineering work to ensure users’ privacy in the EU
I guess they don’t see the irony in complaining about this, huh?
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
IIRC it was other people abusing temples to set up markets there, he didn’t have problems with the church itself.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
So, we made it, thus it exists? Or did we somehow manage to create a year system but it still doesn’t exist?
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
Fun fact: year 0 does not exist.
- Comment on Golden Rule is flawed 2 weeks ago:
That’s very naive. Your way leads to bad actors doing whatever they want while good actors suffer and are not able to fight back.
That beautiful world you dream of doesn’t exist, never did and never will.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Not in my book. Disney shot Mulan next to a concentration camp, for fuck’s sake.
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 2 weeks ago:
I literally finally started watching it two weeks ago. I thought I maybe wouldn’t enjoy it because it’s been overhyped by everyone online, turns out it’s been hyped just about right, love the show.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Mengele had positive effect on medicine, doesn’t make him a bad guy with some redeeming qualities. Same with the people deciding stuff in huge corporations.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
In a company with their money? When their service is made to handle huge amounts of data for streaming? Yeah, pretty crazy.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
neither of them are completely diabolically evil
You sure? I don’t see any redeeming qualities in Disney nor Nintendo.
- Comment on Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump's UK state banquet 2 weeks ago:
Not all is green in the EU, we’re fighting yet another attempt to read our private messages.
- Comment on Will I become a bad person in a year? 2 weeks ago:
Time very much isn’t a human construct, it’s a physical existing thing.
- Comment on Will I become a bad person in a year? 2 weeks ago:
Is it? Granted, I don’t know where OP is from, but in my country 18 doesn’t change much. High school for most ends when they’re 19 or 20, so life does speed up after that, but 18 doesn’t really change anything except being allowed to drive and drink alcohol (not at the same time).
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 weeks ago:
They said “honestly” didn’t they?
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like no one really tried. Like, sure, you’ll get bullshit occasionally, but in the code you know exactly what the NPC is doing, so crafting a prompt based on that is not really that hard and will work most of the time, especially for the simple NPCs.
- Comment on Russia, Belarus to stage military drills as West watches warily 3 weeks ago:
Totally not aimed at the west. Fun fact: “Zapad” literally means “west”.
- Comment on Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials 3 weeks ago:
What would you expect out of Russia?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
In that sense yes, but IMO it falls a little bit short on multiple fronts.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
The first Witcher definitely has clunky controls. But 3 is a masterpiece. 2 falls somewhere in between.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 4 weeks ago:
Could be. Though for me it was always about how you live:
- lower class: has to work, barely survives
- middle class: has to work, survives comfortably
- upper class: doesn’t have to work to survive
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 4 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s blatantly not true. I’m a middle class, I don’t think I’ll ever be rich. Sure, some people dream of being the next billionaires, but most of middle class doesn’t.