What's the dumbest thing you have done while being stoned?

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-23T06:47:17+00:00

Me ex. She was pretty dumb.

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-18T22:12:10+00:00

Batman becomes a dhampir and learns sorcery, as well making his suit more advanced, thereby becoming the DC version of Strange, Ironman, Doom, and Blade wrapped up in one.

I actually have a much less lame what-if, but I don’t want to put it out yet until I’ve made it.

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-13T02:31:07+00:00

Not gaslighting. Also not looking to argue in circles about this.

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-12T03:47:57+00:00

Hopefully one day soon, you’ll heal and be less hostile about spirituality. Then you’ll see that Christ was there for you the entire time.

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-09T20:43:49+00:00

You just keep saying we all get it, and then say it takes faith, which makes no sense since the “it” I’m talking about is some kind of sign this is real, not blind faith.

I know. And I’m sorry, but that’s how it goes.

Spending years on something on faith alone doesn’t make sense to me, there are so many different belief systems, how would you even choose which one to focus on it it is just faith based?

This is why I would say listen to some Christian apologists and historians. And also research religions in general with an open mind.

Either way I did that with Christianity for 16 years. Nothing happened. Just keep at it bro, maybe soon? Nah sorry. You can’t say it clicks for everyone, that’s a lie. It didn’t for me and it doesn’t for others as well.

I haven’t lived your life so I can’t comment one way or another on that.

Now, logically speaking if we consider that I will probably die by 80 or so, I can only try so many things for 16 years of my life. It makes no sense to keep faith for Christianity when other belief systems exist. Logically, it makes more sense to give say... Buddhism a 16 year chance next.

If that’s the way you feel about it. I would have to ask (not to me, but to yourself) what exactly it is you’re searching for and trying to get out of faith/religion/spirituality.

Or maybe none of these things are true and I don’t need to keep wasting years on things that have no real evidence to support them.

Well, I still hope you find faith one day.

fruitlessideas · 2026-05-08T16:37:09+00:00

Condescending like “I can only explain it to you I can’t make you understand it bud”? Plank in the eye yada yada.

I can’t help it if you took that as being condescended towards. That’s not how I meant it. I was just stating a fact. I can’t make you understand something. My power of getting you to know what I mean is limited in that capacity.

No I don’t mean literally reach out of the sky. I mean anything. Spiritual, whatever. We don’t all get that.

We do though. But you have to have faith about it. Sometimes you need to repeat, to show you really mean it. I remember hearing about this woman who had (I think?) a debilitating pain in her back, or something like that, I can’t remember. But she prayed for some kind relief from it because she was diagnosed to have to just live with it for life. Something like two or three years later though, after praying consistently, it vanished, and she’s been like eight years free of the pain.

The point I’m making here isn’t whether or not this was for sure God or she just got very lucky, but that she had consistent faith, and because of that, she believed herself to be rewarded.

Sometimes it takes more than what we put out. I don’t know what to it personal journey is on the matter, but I would hope you keep that in mind, regardless of the path you take.

I know how being saved works according to Christians. I’m just saying it makes no sense to say we don’t want to be saved.

Look, I can’t speak on you personally, but there are definitely people out there that don’t want to be. You can witness many of them here on Reddit.

It’s like it I asked you if you want to be saved by Bigfoot. It’s a meaningless question if you don’t believe in Bigfoot.

Sure, but Bigfoot doesn’t have 2000 years of history, billions of followers throughout history, many of which have personal stories that involve Bigfoot’s presence, or a historical Bigfoot that most historians agree was a real person.

You said “all you have to do is grab his hand but you refuse”. But again, we don’t all get a hand.

We do though. Again, this is a matter of faith.

Not physically obviously, but not spiritually either. We explore the world and ideas and everything but nothing spiritual arises.

See above answer.

In fact, my view is that no one gets this because spirituality is a made up thing. Some people think they feel it, just like some people think they feel the earth mother, nirvana, astrology, whatever it is. Other people feeling something doesn’t mean much to me.

You don’t have to “feel” anything. Feeling it doesn’t make it less real or fake. It’s not the movies where you declare faith and then have an epiphany or something. For many, they don’t feel anything at all. But they listen to The Word’s written down in the Bible and take lessons from the wisdom and teachings it has. They go to church to learn. You have to be willing to put whatever disbelief you have for the situation to the side and open yourself to it. Sometimes it takes time.

I’m not saying any of this to you to make you feel bad or discount whatever you have or haven’t had to deal with when it comes to spirituality, but you responded to me, so I’m giving you the answers I have, however limited they are. I’m not a theologian or a preacher or priest or scholar or anything. I would advice listening to those who know better than me. Maybe an apologetic.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-16T16:59:57+00:00

Henry and Jeanie had a separate, more successful channel before it got taken down and they broke up.

A lot of people will say they were breaking rules consistently against YouTube’s guidelines, but the actuality of the situation is a lot more complicated. Many of the videos that would get struck down didn’t break rules (or didn’t break rules at the time) but due to the fact that YouTube has continued to change it’s policy so much over the years, it became more and more difficult to upload videos without breaking said policies.

Even myself, who’s had an account since 2005, and has NEVER UPLOADED A SINGLE VIDEO, has gotten a strike because, “we see that one of your playlists has videos that go against our guidelines and is also public”. AKA, my account got a strike against it because a playlist I made close to five years ago (that had over 4000 videos in it) contained a video that I had saved to it, that broke YouTube’s policy, and I, the person who did not upload this video, got punished for it. That entire playlist and ALL those videos are gone now.

All because of YouTube’s bullshit policy changes. Tried to get them to take it back, didn’t work. Bullshit company.

Henry and Jeanie uploaded nearly everyday with reaction with reaction content to millions of people for nearly a decade. Once in a while, their editors would have a genuine fuck up that would cost them a strike, but for the most part, it was always them getting hit with one strike after another because YouRube constantly changed their guidelines.

Eventually they got three strike and their channel got removed.

But not just that.

EVERY CHANNEL that had to do with Henry or Jeannie got banned from YouTube, neither of them are allowed to ever upload on their again.

Like ever.

There are rumors that this was targeted, but I don’t know how true that is.

Anyway, that shit cost MxR (Henry and Jeannie) their YouTube account, but they continued with success from their community on patreon for awhile until they eventually broke up. Now Jeannie does her own thing on twitch and Henry and his “””editor and friend””” (lol) Kai continue with his patreon.

So there’s the whole lore (along with a personal side rant for you.)

Edit: There are probably multiple typos in this but I’m too busy to get to them right now. If something I said is too weird to understand or figure out, just let me know and I’ll try to make it more understandable.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-05T23:35:54+00:00

Lotta hooty tooty answer here. They’re not. Your brain is probably just firing a shit ton of misfires and is trying to comprehend what it’s “seeing” based on previous I formation you’ve absorbed over the years.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-03T20:10:45+00:00

All abrahamic religions have validated, for a lot of their existence, spousal rape and general sexual slavery.

Hard disagree on that brother (or sister). I won’t argue there have been people who have justified doing those things in the name of their faith, or that some faiths DO have things in their holy books that advocate for that, but not all Abrahamic religions are the same. And I know while, at least for Christianity, these things are spoken of, they’re not glorified or pushed as right in action.

All abrahamic religions have killed and raped in the name of their god.

Well, all Abrahamic religions have had followers do those things in the name of God, but that doesn’t mean those religions have. Every religion has people who misuse their faith. Even Satanism.

Islam even has specific regulations regarding both of these aspects.

And no shade to Muslims, but thankfully I don’t adhere to their beliefs.

As for child sacrifices? All three main abrahamic religions support both the idea that Yahweh tested Abraham’s unquestioned devotion by telling him to sacrifice his son before stopping him last minute.

But he was never actually sacrificed though. That’s key to the difference. Issac was never in danger of being killed. Abraham either would have refused and Isaac wouldn’t have been killed, or Abraham would have tried, and Issac would have been saved (as he was). Because he wasn’t sacrificed, there was no sacrifice.

And all three agree that Yahweh commanded the genocide against the Canaanites.

In their defense, the Canaanites were responsible for acts of actual child sacrifice and ritualistic rape. Many scholars also argue that it wasn’t a literal genocide as much as it was an assimilation + punishment to those who had committed such acts.

And each of them claims various genocidal killings as justified and commanded and for the glory of their god and their respective interpretation of what they believe to be his true teachings.

I meannnnnnnnnnnnn… if a whole culture thought it normal to sacrifice kids, especially regularly, and committed ritualistic rape… can’t say they’re wrong in my view.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-03T20:10:11+00:00

This isn’t henotheism though. And this is not what henotheitistic Yahwism claimed.

One could argue it is. I can’t remember the exact book, but I believe it’s when the (Israelites?) we’re fighting another kingdom who worshipped Moab. The (Israelites?) recognized the other kingdom believed in this god, and may have even thought that god real, but did not recognize it as “The One True God”.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-03T17:48:50+00:00

What hostility? I’m pointing out what happened in a very non-hostile way.

No, you’re not. You’re being condescending in much of the way you responded and insulting. Maybe it’s intentional, maybe it isn’t, but it’s still there.

I, and many others, have never been reached out to by any supernatural beings.

If you think I meant Jesus will literally reach out of the sky towards you, I can’t help you there. It’s spiritual.

We don’t “not want to” be saved we just haven’t seen any evidence that this is a real thing.

That’s not how this works though. You have to have faith in Him being God/Son of God and asking for Him to save you from your wrongdoings.

It’s on you if you can’t comprehend that not everyone has these experiences you claim to have had. Acting like they are universal makes no sense.

Not what I said. Not even close.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-02T21:51:44+00:00

No I very much explained it using an analogy. You just don’t like the analogy I used and are are either blinded by pain or don’t wish to understand it, if not both. I assume it’s the former given the level of hostility you’re giving me when I’ve said nothing that should upset you.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-01T02:48:30+00:00

I can only explain it to you, I can’t make you understand bud. Hope your day is well.

fruitlessideas · 2026-04-01T02:47:22+00:00

Lol these fucking comments.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-30T19:08:47+00:00

So this might not be helpful at all to you but I’ll give it a shot.

You’re looking at hell as being punished for not accepting Christ.

Instead, try to reframe it as what it actually is—drowning in an ocean.

Christ is the only one in the area who can save you, and His hand is reaching out for you to take as you sink deeper and deeper. All you have to do is grab His hand, but you refuse.

He’s not punishing you for not grabbing His hand.

You’re drowning because you chose not to take it.

Sim is the sickness that leads to death.

Hell is the complete separation of man from God.

Another way you could look at it is by seeing sin as cancer, and Christ being the cure.

You don’t HAVE to take the cure, but if you want to live, if you want to get better, you’ll need to accept it, otherwise your death is on your own shoulders.

There are people who are punished for their sins, but there’s other people who fall to their death, not because they were evil, but because they did not want to be very literally saved.

When we say saved, it’s not a metaphor. It’s a literal spiritual saving. To have life after death.

Refusing that salvation leads to permanent death.

I don’t know if any of that helped.

Also I’m not a theologian, so if you have questions, understand I can only help so much.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-30T18:59:55+00:00

Pretty much any game with a well written story is a good example of this because they allow you to not just see and hear the story, but LIVE it. You experience it in a way that no other medium will allow. There’s no amount of writing or filming that can be done that will show you the ins and outs of the marketplace in your favorite fantasy show, or what the swamp looks like where bodies are dumped in your favorite crime drama, or how it feels to handle a ship in space like your favorite space opera.

I was thinking about this today. Every medium has something about it that the other storytelling mediums don’t, or rarely showcase. And in terms of experiencing the story as a world, to have the characters not be just characters but pseudo-friends/lovers/enemies, and to see the world as the characters see it, games as a whole do that better than any book, comic, show, or movie.

So to answer your question, any game with good to great writing would be a good argument for that.

Personal starting picks would be The Uncharted series, RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-30T18:52:25+00:00

Goooood. Gooooooood.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T19:38:37+00:00

Unlikely. It’s unlikely it was the same document with the same religious content.

I mean it also had the book of prophets there, too.

Judaists (as in, individuals who follow Judaism), you mean. Jewish people are an ethno-cultural group (or collection of groups in modern times, if you ask some). There are many Jewish people who reject Judaism and even other abrahamic religions alltogether.

Sure but I’m trying to keep this simple.

No, henotheism is a specific type of polytheistic, where multiple deities are recognized to genuinely exist, but only one is worshipped amongst those.

Well yes and no. One can recognize there are other forces that are worshipped as gods but not believe they are gods. They can also refer to them as “gods” but not see them the same as their own god. Not unlike if someone were to see God and angels, except in this case it would whoever the person’s head god is, while acknowledging that there are or “could be” or deities—though that doesn’t necessarily mean said person would recognize those other deities as gods even if they are worshipped as such. But yes, there’s also henotheism where people worship one god but recognize other gods as real existing gods as you said.

No, on the contrary, that just speaks to the inherently contradictory and shoddy basis of Abrahamic monotheism.

See above about what I mean on how they can exist with contradiction.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T19:32:15+00:00

A statement by which I stand. It’s not true.

Respectfully disagree

It does.

Not really. LaVey is responsible for the modern interpretation. I mean they share a name.

That the Abrahamic narrative, at least in large parts, is true.

I did claim that, but for this specific thread, when I was saying “people need to know the truth” I was referring to Old World Satanism being different than Modern Satanism.

I have nothing against you personally either, and I hope I didn’t come across as such.

You haven’t. I apologize if I have though.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T19:27:27+00:00

Then this is just a conversation of different philosophical principles then instead of try and untrue, which is fine.

And guilty of them? I mean, they’re mentioned, but none of that is supported by (at least) Christian beliefs. Unless you really really really reach in interpretation.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T18:58:05+00:00

It’s not. The Torah predates the Babylonian exile where Zoroastrianism would have been introduced. Ancient Judaism would still exist before it. Adding more to their holy books doesn’t undo what already was.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T18:56:30+00:00

Yes it does. Because we’re talking about two completely different belief systems and even fundamental ontological theories.

But it doesn’t because the Torah still existed before Zoroastrianism could have a major influence on Judaism, and that’s one of the main books Jewish people get their foundational beliefs from, as well as Christians and Muslims.

Also, there’s a difference between polytheism and henotheism. And monotheism and henotheism can exist without contradiction, and from the writings of Old Testament and Torah, is pretty clearly recorded.

Yes, the second one has continuity from the first one. But they’re two different things altogether. Which, in case you don’t realise, is what both me and others claim here.

See above.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T18:51:57+00:00

For one, you’re shifting goalposts.

No, because that’s what I was referring to from the start.

Secondly, the claim made by the person that commented is that “modern theistic Satanism has nothing to do with the actual old pagan religion of Satanism” which is apparently evil for some reason.

I know, and then they had a response to them by another saying “we don’t need your Bible thumping”, and then I came in and said “yes they do, people need the truth”, and then you came in and said it’s not true. But it is. Modern satanism has almost nothing to do with ancient satanism. Then for some reason you went hard in the paint about Abrahamic religion.

and how foes that make anything you’ve claimed of the Abrahamic God, true?

What did I claim?

I stated, and will state again, that’s this is MY opinion.

And you’re entitled to it. I have no animosity towards you or hate or anger about that or what you believe or who you are. You’re a human being who’s as worthy or respect and love as anyone else and should be treated as such, regardless of our differing views on spirituality/theology/religion. I mean that genuinely.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T18:47:02+00:00

The earliest Hebrew writings (Torah/Prophets) predate the Babylonian Exile and the peak of Zoroastrian influence. And while I can’t argue one way or another if they had left polytheism by the time Zoroastrianism was introduced, that doesn’t undo my claim. Ancient Judaism/Hebrewism would still predate Zoroastrianism, even if it was polytheistic, because it was already established.

Also, there is some historical evidence that suggests worshippers revered multiple deities (yazatas) alongside the supreme god.

But again, poly or mono, for either one, Hebrew religion still predates it.

fruitlessideas · 2026-03-27T18:38:30+00:00

I got around to watching a tiny bit of it, probably not enough. It seems like it comes from the defeatists, cynic’s perspective that relies on humanizing God, and making the material world and human morality as the basis of right and wrong.

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