• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    In the days immediately after my dad’s death, I had the house to myself and had retreated to my basement/office space to have a stress-relieving wank. Just outside of my space was my daughter’s battery-operated activity table that was known to play jingles at random. What it was not well known for was playing the giggling sound effect at random. So imagine how quickly I put my dick away when that table laughed at me not once, not twice, but three times in the span of a minute.

    If that wasn’t my dad’s ghost making fun of me, I don’t know what it was.

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        Humans are apes, and therefore we’re all ape furries. Since catgirls are girls, and girls are human, and humans are all ape furries, catgirls are furries.

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        Well there’s a spectrum isn’t there and everybody puts their marker just slightly ahead of what they like. Unless you go full furry, in which case I guess you don’t have any use for the marker

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        I’ll accept that argument as long as they are normal women who wear cat themed accessories and act like a cats. But if we’re talking full anime cat human hybrids, then I’m afraid you’re in furry town.

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        i mean, technically by the most barebones definition of the word, they are anthropomorphic, and do technically count as “furry”

        if you’re looking for a “harkness” test here, e621 allows humanoid characters, i.e. catgirls, therefore catgirls are in fact, furry.

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        Gambling is bad because of the consequences of gambling when you have finite resources to lose. I assume that any form of heaven is post-scarcity so betting is done just for recreational purposes.

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            There’s as much evidence of that as for any other idea of heaven or the existence of an heaven at all

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            Similar to how they think god is like a father or king but nice, plus obviously the smartest and strongest and best at everything and can totally beat up YOUR dad?

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          One could argue that any form of addiction ought to be avoided on principle if your goal is to remain “pure”

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            Look, all I’m saying is: if Jesus died for our sins and you aren’t committing any, then I guess I just want to know why you insist on making his death be in vain? I mean, I know if I was to go through a whole ass crucifixion and everything I would like to think it was at least worth it

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        Man I called that, along with probably a ton of others, from the very first episode. Still, the writers did such a good job with it I was not disappointed that the very obvious twist indeed was the twist.

        Also for some reason, not sure if it’s just my app (Sync) but your spoiler tags didn’t work right. Idk why you have >!spoiler and not just >! Like if it’s my app making it display wrong or that breaks the tag beats me.

        Could also, maybe more likely, be the end tag being --!< That might fuck up the syntax.

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          I use Sync, and have learned that our spoilers don’t work for other users and their spoilers don’t work for us.

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            That’s kind of wild I wonder what is going on in the code for that to be the case. I don’t know how that works under the hood as far as that goes.

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    I have a theory that when people go to church, they go for the intention to change their privacy settings, and the priest just reads out each setting and people do the cross to agree with each setting.

    I have gotten no evidence of the contrary so it must be true! /s

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    Fun fact:

    The Bible says everyone goes to heaven at the same time. So I guess the souls just chill out until the rapture happens?

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      heaven is not a place you go. it’s a state of you, your surroundings and the world. we create it not get taken to it. that’s the hard part people don’t get. NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US, WE WILL NOT BE MAGICALLY TELEPORTED ANYWHERE

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        As much as this sounds negative, the optimistic nihilist in me sees it as a beautiful liberating realization.

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            Yeah that’s what I was getting at. But so many people are conditioned to think the opposite. Say those last couple sentences to a random Christian in my town and they will think it’s the darkest and possibly most hateful shit they’ve heard in a long time.

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        Of course I won’t be teleported, I’ll just slowly ascend into the sky, where the oxygen thins out, and I eventually freeze solid in the vacuum of space.

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      A plain reading suggests that everyone is dead and stays that way until the eschaton when they’re resurrected. So the only people in heaven would be the Jewish souls that Jesus directly put there that had been dwelling in the gloomy underground afterlife.

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      The Bible says everyone goes to heaven at the same time.

      I don’t think that’s clear in the text, and that’s historically been a major point of theological contention. I think the debate in the US 1800s over “soul sleep” and the affiliated quasi-cults that sprung up after the Millerite movement (Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovahs Witnesses) had very strong opinions on whether you go to heaven immediately, stay “asleep” in the ground until God starts resurrecting people, wait in some kind of cosmic waiting room for the resurrections, or if you are just flat out dead until God wakes you up. (Of course, JW’s are so committed to bad exegesis that they’ll die rather than receive a blood infusion, because “don’t eat animal blood” in the ritual purity laws of course means “don’t receive human blood infusions.”)

      Think about Mormon baptism for the dead. Those people aren’t in heaven or hell (because at least the lower kingdoms of heaven aren’t even set up yet - all of us non-Mormons are going to be hanging out on Earth 2.0 when we die). Mormons are experts at genealogy because they’re trying to make sure that every great-great-great-great-grandparent they have gets a chance at salvation.

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        hard pill to swallow but we get reincarnated over and over again there are no souls in the ground or “cosmic waiting room”. we are forced back until we “build heaven on earth”

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          That might be your belief system, but it has little to do with the text of the Bible and historical/modern ideas of its interpretation.

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              How did you arrive at your belief system? I don’t really see any textual support for your beliefs in the Bible (which is fine, but it seemed like you were making claims based in a Christian framework from context). Are you on here to proselytize?

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      Yeah, they hadn’t figured out relativity yet back then. The soul departs the body at the speed of light, meaning everyone who does reaches heaven instantly. Since it’s so far away, from our perspective, it takes essentially forever thanks to time dilation.

      You can trust me, I have a PhD in bullshit.

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      I think that’s the Dispensationalist view, but I’m not sure how much of that is explicitly supported by Biblical text. Someone could correct me if I’m wrong.

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          John of Patmos would like a word with you:

          And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

          • Revelation 21:21, KJV

          Here’s the full chapter for context. There may be some room for arguing whether the “new Jerusalem” is Heaven. But since it’s pretty clear that God lives there, I think it fulfills the same general purpose.

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            Well shit lol.

            I guess I was conflating the pearly gates with the idea of St. Peter, and a queue of people - that part isn’t in there.

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    Don’t give up now Amanda! He’s so close! Stay the course! Keep fighting soldier you’re almost there!!! FUCK YEAH!!! Look at him squirt! I saw his butthole pucker! ~Grandma in Heaven

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        I just figure no one cares about most people on earth already, if heaven were really why would they care about them then? They have an eternity to plan, what’s 60 years of fucking up and winding up dead in a gutter compared to that

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    I think there’s nuance to this.

    Any family deceased family member of yours who belongs in heaven is going to give you privacy when you need it

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      Or once you see the private lives of every person, all the time, you quickly understand that everyone does weird shit in private and voyeurism just loses its novelty entirely. People fucking or picking their nose will be no more interesting that someone walking down the street.

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        People fucking or picking their nose will be no more interesting that someone walking down the street.

        Hell it barely is now…

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      How do they know when that time is without having first witnessed some ball gobbling?

      Do we just have ancestors popping in for a check and immediately turning away embarrassed all the time?

      Maybe they have to ask permission at the family spying desk and the attendant will just shake their head and say “umm… Nows really not the best time. Gobble gobble if you catch my drift.”

      I can’t imagine how many embarrassing reunions there would be in heaven, or maybe hell is just filling to the brim lol

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        It’s kinda like a Facebook birthday reminder, for whatever kind of things they would want to see. As long as heaven can design a good algorithm, there’s no big issues.

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        Do we just have ancestors popping in for a check and immediately turning away embarrassed all the time?

        Probably

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      Yeah but my grandmother was 104 when she died. She married my grandfather when she was in her twenties and I really don’t think she was really all that bothered about him it was just the done thing back then.

      She definitely would take the opportunity to be judgy, while at the same time technically passing the requirements by her own standards to be in heaven.

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      people don’t have omniscience to just peer through the veil and watch a “family member” or anyone else for that matter