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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis

I love that. "GOD created them that way to FOOL the unbelievers! He also created the universe to appear older than it is, but we knows better!" The laws of time, space, reason, and logic bend to fit their narrative.

[-] GamesRevolution@programming.dev 34 points 10 months ago

If that's the case god might as well have created everything last Thursday

[-] Andonno@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

It was last Tuesday you sauceless heretic!

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago

Last Thursdayists are a schism of Last Tuesdayism, and believe the universe is remade every Thursday.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I kind of subscribed to that line of thought before my deconversion. That if we believe in a god with unlimited power, he has the power to create a universe that's already 13 billion years old. But if God did that, then he'd be presenting a 6,000 year old universe as a 13 billion year old one. And doing so would make him a liar. But God doesn't tell lies? And a god capable of lying is not a god worth following. But a god that is incapable of lying is limited in his abilities. And a god limited in his capabilities is not worth following.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Why is a god simply being capable of lying not worth following? If he's capable and chooses not to, isn't that a better god than one who can't lie?

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Well this god installed thirteen billion years of red-shifted light from the furthest visible stars. Last Tuesday.

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[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Man, I sure do love it when our all-loving God does everything in his power to trick non-believers into further doubt so they burn in hell for eternity!

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

What a swell guy

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

And God did all this last Tuesday.

[-] Surdon@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I mean the "fool unbelievers" thing is stupid but also it's not really unreasonable that if you could speak things into existence and did so for cosmic entertainment or whatever that you would make it at the point that it's actually interesting. Like if I was going to make people I probably wouldn't start with infants, I would start with actual independent ones. Likewise I wouldn't start with an infant universe

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[-] Kase@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Nah god is definitely just an introvert who doesn't want us to know about him. Joke's on the thiests, they're gonna be eternally punished for not leaving him alone. Which is horrible--did I mention he's also an asshole? /s (/s because I don't believe in any god, to be clear)

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 35 points 10 months ago

I will not stand for Lilith erasure

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

neither will I

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

Not as funny as pictures of Jesus wearing a cross.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

I have a theory, but I'm betting nobody truly wants to hear it.

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

I bet it has something to do with Adam and Eve being fictional characters in the mythological texts of a bunch of hokey religions.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago
[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Then it's more of an imagining than a theory isn't it?

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[-] LazyCorvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago
[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

The labour was 7 days long. After that He invented the epidural.

[-] essellburns@beehaw.org 20 points 10 months ago

And yet when I think about it, it really doesn't seem that mad. If god is real and can make people he's certainly capable of making people with belly buttons.

[-] hrosts@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

There was actually a 19th century guy who noticed this and made up a hypothesis that the reason we see so many signs of long-term natural development of Earth's features (canyons, mountains, etc.) is because God intentionally put fake evidence there, like he did with Adam and Eve's belly buttons. I think he named his book Omphalos, which means navel in Ancient Greek.

[-] rollerbang@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Interesting, instead of acceptance, simply invent another hypothesis to "confirm" the likely uncomfirmable.

I get the "scientific" method of it though.

[-] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 10 months ago

They were beta testing them, EZ

[-] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

god must have hatched them from his vagina

[-] helmet91@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

At this point I'm kinda afraid to ask, but why the hell does nowadays almost every post title on Lemmy end with "rule"?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

Not lemmy, /c/196.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It’s just the “196” community, which already existed on Reddit. From what I understood, the only rule is you have to post something before you leave, and put “rule” in the title. As for the reason, or why is it called like that, I’m not sure either.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

the titles are tradition but not a rule. it's called 196 because it's a descendent of 195. why was it called 195? 195 was created by a college student as a social experiment, and 195 was their room number. they shut down 195 when they graduated, so 196 was created

[-] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"almost every post title on Lemmy".

I counted my feed and it was 2/30. Apparently that means "almost every" in 2023 lmao

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[-] velovix@hedge.town 4 points 10 months ago

The rule is that you have to post before you leave

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Isn't the easy answer that God just created them that way?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

The paintings? Nah, those were made by people.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Well that's even easier to explain, people are flawed and do flawed representation

[-] spicysoup@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

you know what's funny? not Charles Schulz

[-] CyberTailor@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

And Jesus Christ is caucasian on european paintings, so what?

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