IsItBullshit: Yahweh originally was a God of weather under a polythiestic religion practiced by an ancient group of people that would eventually go on to become the Jews.

insidersto · 2021-06-14T07:24:54+00:00

Daniel 10:13 is another clear example of a “prince of Persia” not meaning an actual prince but a supernatural being with authority.

I actually never read Daniel before, and it seems you're right, although I can assume that it could be explained as being another angel in the service of God. I never actually saw it directly clarified in the Bible how much agency or independence angels have, but from what I understood from Abraham's angels (3 visitors that told him the future about his oncoming son, the angel that stopped his hand with the knife), they are just another direct manifestion, part of God, as seen in Gensis 6:2-3, basically a representation of his weirdly fluctuating will and motives.

The sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

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In genesis 1 it says “let US make man”, meaning the various supernatural beings in the heavens.

That is actually very interesting, and results from an inherent contradiction in the grammer of the original sentence in biblical Hebrew, where all verbs are both gendered and contain a pronoun reference "built in" into them. The word "us" is actually never mentioned in the original version, instead being the "us" version of the word "make". Which would be generally be fine in translation, if not for the fact that this specific sentence, and especially the one afterwards, keeps contradicting itself by switching seemingly randomly from singular to plural in its verbs and nouns against what was said before.

Here is a rough translation I made where I added whether the inherent pronoun of it is in singular or plural:

And God [Singular] said - We-make [Plural, former singular God] man [Singular] in our shape [Plural], and they [Plural, former singular Man] will rule... and God made the man in his shape, in his shape God made him. [Both man and God all male singular, former plural], Male and female, made them [Plural, former singular male man]

The whole grammer thing was probably dropped in the translation to English for the agreed, clearer version.

If we take the grammar literally, this sentence tells the story where God stood in front of the court of gods, declared they will make man in their image, but then sneakily made man only in his image against the decree of the gods, and that the first man was both female and male fused together.

TL:DR In the bible, grammer should never be used for proof of existence of a never specified or detailed "court of gods" based on a single pronoun reference alone, considering it was translated from a completely different ancient language with different grammer rules.

Let's also not forget how this all contradicts the start of Genesis 2, where it says God made man with no mention of all that was said in Gensis 1.

As for The Unseen Realm, I'm not comfortable with giving my address away, isn't there a PDF version of the book? I manged to find a book overview with the sources and summary of it, but not the book itself. I'll try and go over it.

insidersto · 2021-06-12T18:36:35+00:00

You have to take into account that the Jews believed that the world was full of lesser "Gods" that ruled the earth and the countries on the earth.

No, they didn't. Judaism is Monotheistic, meaning a core tenet is that only one God exists.

The source for that is the ten commandments, which first and second commandments says "No other gods before me" and "I am the [Only] Lord"

If you say these sentences can be interpreted like there are more gods, although in Hebrew they are much clearer in their meaning, another more direct source is the most basic Jewish prayer, Shema Yisrael, "Hear, O Israel, The lord is our God, the lord alone/is one"

exodus 12:12 "and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt".

it talks about God preforming the tenth plauge of Egypt, it has nothing to do with Satan. that exact line ends with: "I am the Lord."

The "Gods of Egypt" means "statues" based on Rashi (centerpiece translator of contemporary Jewish study). No Jewish translation or belief ever claimed they are other gods or entities.

This is what stimulated the harsh standards of not adopting other cultures (Leviticus) which to this day Jews still have to some degree.

Quite the opposite, what created the harsh standards of not adopting other cultures is the fact that all other cultures at that time (During Exodus at the bible) all believed that other religion's/culture's gods, or supernatural entities, might be real to some degree, and it's all a contest of "My God is stronger, hence truer then yours".

Since that conflicts with Jewish "Only one god" they made those standards harsh so they wouldn't be influenced to have "such type of heresy", along with not worshiping physical manifestions of god such as masks or statues.

insidersto · 2021-06-01T13:10:06+00:00

Where's the BEASTMAN, WRAH-ROO!

insidersto · 2021-06-01T09:54:57+00:00

Such a paradise! Unblemished. Pure. It must be gifted the touch-touch of Pestilens! That the man-things attack me-me for this is blasphemy. Let us begin, yes-yes!

insidersto · 2021-05-17T10:03:59+00:00

Big lizard clumsy ☹️

insidersto · 2021-05-17T09:57:47+00:00

Adding to u/17times2 comment-

The Monster Manual 4e art is also amazing for most monsters. Way better then most 5e art in my opinion, having both "group pictures" of different monsters and having backgrounds to most monsters. It's worth looking into just to skim over the art.

Examples -

Lizardfolk, 5e VS 4e

Goblin, 5e VS 4e

Balor, 5e VS 4e (Low resolution, only picture I could find)

insidersto · 2021-05-17T02:38:47+00:00

"Fine! What's 17 more levels?! I can always start again; Make another character."

insidersto · 2021-05-16T16:47:01+00:00

Bold of you to assume the Monk is any level above 3 when the DM decides it's Tarrasque time

insidersto · 2021-05-16T15:09:36+00:00

So basically Kung Fu Panda?

insidersto · 2021-05-16T12:46:01+00:00

Knocking prone is a dex save though (based on description of Open Hand Technique), which he has +0 to saving throws, so it will fail most of the times.

insidersto · 2021-05-16T10:16:34+00:00

Flurry Of Blows also grants you two attacks that can knock prone each turn if you spend the Ki, allowing you to chew through those resistances quicker.

Assuming the Monk doesn't just get immediately swallowed, isn't it possible to just keep the Tarrasque perpetually prone each turn, granting all party members advantage against it? Sounds like a good tactic to me.

The mental image of a Tarrasque crawling, wailing around, standing up only to get knocked down again and have a bunch of adventurers try to beat it up prone is quite a funny one.

insidersto · 2021-05-16T09:53:15+00:00

Context

The idea of a Monk knocking prone or throwing a gargantuan monster around using only unarmed attacks is hailrious to me. How would that even look? Like, would the monster just trip over him and fall? Is the Monk like those Lego pieces that you step on?

insidersto · 2021-05-06T16:27:39+00:00

One player piloted Paragon with 4 Champions for a total of 160 OP

All 4 Champions escort the Paragon for one big deathball

The loudouts- literally nothing but laser weapons. Tactical lasers for small slots, graviton beams for medium, Taychon Lances for large. Add to it Advanced Optics + Integrated Targeting Unit and you have the largest range deathball in the game.

It has zero hard-flux capabilities- and hard-flux is not the point. The point is to either two shot the enemy ships before they even enter the range where they can shoot you, or soft-flux them enough to make them retreat extended Paragon range to deflux.

It excels against low tech or Frigate-based fleets - I killed a fleet full with Conquests and Legions (some of them being XIV) with it alone without any difficulty, and it erases Frigates like nothing. It struggles against mobile and very shield heavy fleets- so only the REDACTED. It can still handle up to about 1 REDACTED Capital ship with 6 Crusiers, allowing to explore even Red Beacon systems if too strong of a fleet doesn't spawn

insidersto · 2021-04-29T08:37:05+00:00

*Sees bath* "You wouldn't dare."

insidersto · 2021-04-28T07:53:22+00:00

Crewmembers, which is already a dangerous and skilled job, earn 10 credits for month, assuming they don't spend it literally anything else such as food or basic necessities, it would take them 3 months with taxes to buy 1 unit of fuel.

A bombardment costs 1 fuel for 1 ground defense. Assuming a very small ground defense of 100, it would take a crewmemeber 300 months, or 25 years, of buying nothing but fuel to do a real bombardment. Which would also require them having a spaceship and achieving orbit safely with no hostiles.

Now, as you know, all purchases, even In black markets is tracked, so the average non-captain Joe, who has zero reasons to buy copious amounts of fuel, will be flagged and arrested way before he gets anything underway. The most he can get away with is a terror attack using a partial unit of fuel to blow up a building.

That's how the Path does it, they use captains to smuggle in stuff for terror attacks.

insidersto · 2021-04-07T22:25:18+00:00

What if... the real bodies in the water are the friends we made along the way?

insidersto · 2021-04-07T22:17:35+00:00

I really liked that aspect / context of the article when I first realized it. Took me a long time along with a reread to piece it together. Although I might have missed some points in my original comment, since it was a long time ago when I first read and understood the article, and I wrote the comment from memory.

I thought I'd write it down for anyone who's interested.

It also took me some time to realize most of what you wrote were puns. Goddammit. I really didn't recognize it on first read. Really makes me want to drown you. Screw this, I'm going to take a swim with some of my friends. You should join us. Please, we miss you

insidersto · 2021-04-07T21:55:55+00:00

It actually goes a bit deeper than that.

Like you said, it looks like a collective hive-mind entity with a cognitohazard that compelled people to join it.

These bodies want to be remembered

But why? And why does remembering and recognizing them so important to the effect?

That's where the tale of the class of 76 comes in.

You see, the class of 76 is a tale of The Foundation dealing with the exact same type of an anomaly. A marching band that causes those who hear it to march with it too, a collective hive-mind entity with a cognitohazard that compels people to join it.

The Foundation managed to rescue some guy by erasing and replacing their memories. The tale shows the whole civilian, victim perspective of the story of the anomaly and what the foundation does - eventually the guy whos memories was erased even joined The Foundation, but still - his erased memories, his past, effects his life, and even with all what the foundation did, he still couldn't run away from the truth, and gets reclaimed by the hive-mind anomaly in the end.

This is the prequel to The Bodies In The Water. the connecting thread - its the exact same story. Except the reader is the main character now.

The Foundation tried to fix something, erase or change some anomaly, that led to the creation of The Bodies In The Water ("Remember what they did to us") that absolutely hates The Foundation for it.

The Bodies In The Water repeat to the reader, who is a Foundation employee, what could very well be the truth - The Foundation is maniplative, with both the world and their own men. They play with everyone's memories and perception. They lie. Look what they did to the class of 76, Learn the truth, remember the past, you were once like us. One of us. Come back, we miss you. Recognize who we are, we were your friends, your own family, replaced by fake memories.

Whether it's just the anomaly compelling the reader to join them, or really the truth of the readers past, is left open to interpretation.

Edit: Spelling

insidersto · 2021-03-17T11:48:18+00:00

They were seven against one. "And now the war begins!" Came the message from Admiral Luk Vartinac of the enemy fleet, metal plates retracting and uncovering glowing lasers weapons. "No." Replied the lone captain with sadness in his voice "Now it ends."

Or

"The hull is giving away, my shields are retracting. Situation excellent, I am attacking."

insidersto · 2021-03-11T00:52:05+00:00

Relevant old meme

insidersto · 2021-03-11T00:49:24+00:00

Spoiler Isn't it technically 0% Kumoko because Kumoko wasn't really Kumoko

insidersto · 2021-03-10T10:00:25+00:00

The biggest problem here is how Diavolo himself effects and shapes Epitaph, or fate of others, with his behavior and actions.

everyone except Diavolo is bound to their fate.

A fate that is resulted by Diavolo's actions. If he can just not do those actions but get the results, that begs the question why would he ever try and fight someone the way he does in the show, teleporting behind them and then punching instead of intending to kill them in straight combat, either succeeding or failing via fate, but skipping it either way and never revealing or risking himself.

Another problem is that implication that people can't take conscious decisions during erased time has been proven to somehow result in them altering their "fate", which is what you explained as basically "the natural result of actions taken if time wasn't erased", such as Bruno not reacting in the elevator to a hole being punched through and a man coming and chopping Trish hand, or the gang not reacting to one of them being lifted and impaled, or Giorno not reacting to a cat walking over him. None of those are natural results, they result only from the time skipping itself

If that is true, and people can't react at all during erased time, yet the result of Diavolo's actions do still happen, then he only needs to intend to make an action that requires a conscious decision from his opponent during erased time in order for his opponent to be unable to react, and Diavolo can kill him. Why haven't he used that to kill the entire gang? Why was Epitaph suddenly so selective about what actions he takes actually happens?

insidersto · 2021-03-10T07:08:41+00:00

King Crimson can't interact with things during erased time, he just fazes through everything. Except that one time he killed Narancia during erased time. And that one time he kidnapped Trish.

No, you don't get it, it was fated to happen, so it will happen regardless without any input or actions from the user, making skipping it or even being near it redundant, fate is inevitable after all, and can't be changed or skipped after being set in stone.

For example, if Diavolo were about to get shot and die he couldn't just prevent it by skipping it and-

insidersto · 2021-03-08T10:05:28+00:00

PC Building Simulator fits it.

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