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Another week is upon us. Already halfway through the month. Fuuuuuck. I wish I could make it seem like things aren’t going so fast. I feel like I’m just barely keeping up. This must be why so many politicians are on cocaine. They’re trying to keep up with the insane pace the world is on seemingly.
I’ve gotten into the habit of listening to youtube at 2X speed so I don’t have to take an hour to experience a video. People on youtube usually talk so fucking slow it seems like they are actively trying not to talk fast a lot of the time. I wonder if that’s contributing to my perception of time moving so fast.
I’ve been saving my pennies in hopes of getting a Switch 2 when they release the version that comes after this first one. I’ve realized that it’s better to let game companies test out their unfinished stuff on the impatient first and get the second, fixed, version of things. Since they didn’t launch with Animal Crossing or Splatoon 4 I didn’t feel the need to get in on the first run. They announced Splatoon Raiders though and I’m gonna have to play whatever that is. It looks like maybe an open world kind of thing. I didn’t watch the teaser very closely so I may be very wrong about that. I got distracted by the unexpected Splatoon 3 update. They put back in an old map from the first game so I was on a nostalgia high for a bit. Hopefully I can wait out the Switch 2 for a while and build up some savings. It seems like there’s no new mainline splatoon game on the horizon so I won’t have to deal with FOMO for a while at least.
Anyway, I hope you have a nice Monday. I’ll see you on Wednesday with more of whatever it is that I do. Until then, ring of light, magic might!
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Raiders of the Lost Splat?
My favorite example of whiplash is Genesis 6:3
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God [angels] went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time
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Its just… blah blah, era of angels, the flood.
Excuse me. What. Era of angels. There was a periods of hundreds of years where angel-human hybrids (Nephilim) roamed the earth and were dope ass heroes.
Its literally just two lines Genesis 6:1 and 6:4 and one line in Numbers 13:33. And that’s it for the coolest, raddest, most untapped narrative possible. Then God just kills everyone with The Flood which is definitively not rad.
This comment is twice as long as all content about angels banging humans and having rad hybrids with super powers who fight evil.
My own take is that these angels were fallen, and rebels against God. Maybe they produced heroes, but the seed of evil was there, and it kept getting stronger, until…..
Your take is neat and all but its basically just “read my fanfic”. Nothing says they were fallen and they can’t have been that bad of parents since their kids became famous heroes.
Other translations for Nephilim itself means “comic down” “thrown down” which I guess is akin to fallen but all the translations just say that the angels are just there. Not that they are cast out.
I guess they could have become evil later.
Again, its so short and vague its hard to even get a hint as to what is going on.
Hmm, but the Nephilim didn’t fight evil, they WERE evil and they fought against god and his followers. They were “great” in the old sense of the word meaning “powerful,” not morally good–the very fact that angels pursued mortals out of lust made them born of sin, basically an abomination. They are also called “demons” in some translations.
What is interesting is that there is far more than what’s in the bible if you look at the various books, and even older traditions, that didn’t make it into the Bible. It wasn’t until well after the time of Jesus that a singular Bible was compiled from the many religious books and letters that were floating around the community, and it’s almost like the compilers intended to remove the story of the Nephilim entirely but forgot a few references, or felt they couldn’t remove them because they were embedded in other books they wanted. But the idea was a major influence on early thinkers and widely believed, before the story was mostly excised and forgotten. The Book of Giants and books of Enoch are some examples. It’s funny because it means Genesis really is like a cliff-notes version of all that history, or at least what the ancient Hebrews believed was their history.
Every single translation on Biblehub has them shown positively as “heroes” or neutral-positive with “men of renown” or “mighty men”. Literally none of them use negative words. And they never fight against Yahweh or his followers in Genesis. Not that that is really possible what with Yahweh only having like 5 followers at the time. I guess other outside, non-canon material can have them translated as evil but I go only by canon.
Outside material has entire novels that (seem to) explain the era of angels, why humanity fell to evil, etc. TOO BAD it isn’t in the Bible which actually matters. If its in the Bible its canon and thus 100% true, and it its not then its non-canon and thus considered false.
In Numbers the Israelites find them and are so scared of them that they choose to run away and not fight them. The Nephilim never fight them at all.
The Nephilim are an interesting question in the Bible, and the theory I subscribe to is well described in this video by Religion For Breakfast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4o5PY8kgU]. In it, he talks about various possibilities and notes that in the early days of Christianity the Abrahamic religions had many other faiths they were peer to.
They were thus part of the wider religious landscape of the region, and so their earlier documents were written with that in mind. He goes on to point out that lots of faiths had children with divine parents, like Heracles and Gilgamesh, and it’s possible that these were the Nephilim the Bible is referencing.
I’m not sure that’s even a “theory” because I think some versions literally take names from the Epic of Gilgamesh, so I’d argue it’s pretty indisputable that there’s a crossover. It’d make sense as a way to demonize those other religions, although it’d be amusing to badmouth Gilgamesh while taking his story.
It sounds like Christianity explaining away the greek gods of the early classical age that they new lasted hundreds of years before even Judaism during the period of Mycenaean Greece.
They weren’t gods they were the half human children of angels that lived 500+ years ago during the late Bronze age.
Even the great flood could have been an event during the bronze age collapse or the greek dark ages wheere a big flood either hit Egypt or Mesopotamia.
Imagine a huge flood hitting both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers at the same time that’s half of humanity during the Bronze age affected.
Religions are living things that change and adapt look at how Ishtar (4000-3100BC) became Astarte (3300-1200BC) then Aphrodite/Venus who the Romans later merged with Eve and then the Virgin Mary.
It always amazes me when different cultures and timelines having similar stories makes a lot of people consider them less true. 100 witnesses will tell you a hundred stories, and over a few centuries, the timelines will be a little vague. I believe the Bible was inspired by God, but the writing, translation, and deciding of what was and was not to be considered canon was done by man. And we learn in the first (canon) chapter that he occasionally makes poor decisions.
Hmm is it the Darwin Fish or the Flying Spaghetti Monster Pirate Fish they are talking about
Keep in mind, there were no Christians until Jesus. Followers of God and the nation of Israel, but not yet Christians. Michael Heiser (believe he’s deceased) has some interesting videos on Youtube.
And (ironically) there shouldn’t be any Christians after Jesus. Jesus just wanted to remind everyone of Yahweh, not borderline replace him. Jesus was supposed to be just a prophet like Moses.
If Jesus shows up tomorrow he will be so mad that Christians keep killing people of the Jewish faith (well, anyone, but especially Jewish people). Also that people worship him. And that those people are in Rome. Gross. Romans are bad!
Did you read the textbook? (Hint-the answers are in red.)
There is a certain president of a certain country whose very existence essentially proves that prayer does not work and that god does not exist.
No, it just proves that a party of communist atheists can’t rely on the divine for help.