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xannmax t1_itvjabg wrote

How can you be so sure the gods you pray to and worship care about you?

How can you know if they feel for your frailty? Your worship may just be supper.

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Waffensmile t1_itvl1xe wrote

God damn it Tzeentch, you fucking nerd

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psibomber t1_itvl5j3 wrote

They deserve it for listening to that one guy telling them to cast their lives away, there clearly were a set of stairs + planes exist as well.

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-im_an_outcast- t1_itvn7ox wrote

Makes me think of an album cover from a band called Sepultura known as “Arise”

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Golden-Owl t1_itvsyhx wrote

Replying to xannmax (#240,705)

Historically a lot of gods in many cultures just… don’t actually care. The Greek ones are particular famous for being callous to all their followers

Sacrifice, killing, worship, etc we’re moreso a means to appease the gods if possible for good harvest or whatever

The concept of a god that loves their followers is an exception to the rule

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kungfubellydancer t1_itw0ke2 wrote

This is pretty cool! It actually kinda shows end time prophecies according to Muslims, that Antichrist (the one eyed deceiver) would come and show people heaven which was hell and hell which was heaven.

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Magnum_Snub t1_itw18ze wrote

Kind of like a lot of churches. Looks great from the outside until you go in and realize that it’s just full of dead people living dead lives. Though the church calls itself the body of Christ, there is no Christ to be found in it or in anyone there.

At least those are the thoughts this brings to mind.

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1000eb4000 t1_itw19xl wrote

Gives me Berserk anime vibes

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mikodz t1_itw4wj9 wrote

Nothing like a bunch of morons to fall for a pyramid scheme :P

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Jayccob t1_itwdelf wrote

Replying to henney22 (#243,442)

What if the heaven mimic can cast counterspell at will though? It could then return the favor to the wizard, potential causing the infamous counterspell feedback loop.

Would that count as a victory as long as there is always some person there to cast counterspell? I feel that would create a new religion where people become priests and make pilgrimages to this place to take up the holy duty of casting counterspell at the sky for like a week then rotate out.

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stan4928 t1_itwg6dh wrote

Replying to windingtime (#244,809)

.... he thought he saw heaven and killed himself? That sounds very traumatic and If you don't wanna talk about it that's fine. But that's so interesting. How does this happen?

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Starkillerlives t1_itwj2fg wrote

Getting massive Cult of the Lamb vibes from this.

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Aeokikit t1_itwkpqy wrote

This seems like it could be an Elder Scrolls story. One of the daedric princes would pull a stunt like this

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CaseyTS t1_itwnprb wrote

Replying to Magnum_Snub (#242,968)

Yeah, even at the highest levels. The catholic church's moral righteousness is a veneer in front of millenia of persecution and imperialism done by many theocracies in the name of that religion.

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onioncity t1_itwvizz wrote

That pointing guy in the right panel is a little awkward- his finger draws a straight line up his face and into that woman's armpit

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Jarvoman t1_itwxvi3 wrote

Replying to henney22 (#242,062)

Well the highest you can cast that is 9th but have the wizard counterspell their counterspell or you use your reaction to cancel their counterspell with your own counterspell if you prepped it.

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balvira t1_itwyhey wrote

Nioce, the ego will be the death.. of most.

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mossytreeroots t1_itx1nig wrote

I imagined a lot of scenarios like this before

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Tsunami45chan t1_itxaq8u wrote

Mob psycho 100 season 3 epsisode 4 in a nutshell (except for the dying part).

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Sea-Cpt_1992 t1_itxdq5k wrote

reminds me of the new hellraiser movie

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Turdfox t1_itxeyuv wrote

Someone watched futurama

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Brainkandle t1_itxmd6c wrote

This is awesome! Reminds me a tiny bit of NOPE and the Star lasso experience

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cesly1987 t1_itxugkm wrote

I need more lore on this!!

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cindybubbles t1_ity46ca wrote

We had something like that IRL. The cult called itself Heaven’s Gate.

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WeirdCreeper t1_ity4cnn wrote

With the amount of people dying I'd actually be glad to stay here finally some houses for sale!

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Phaze357 t1_ity896e wrote

Replying to Wingmaster6 (#240,538)

Last game I played, our DM had been working us up to this big battle with some ice giant thing. He would 3D print stuff to make it more immersive and paint the models. He'd printed this thing in multiple sections at 5% infill. It was between 1 and 2 feet tall. Painted it, looked pretty badass. One of us banished it before he could even have it attack us. He just sat there for a moment trying to figure out if he wanted to be mad or laugh at the fact that he'd spent weeks printing this thing only for it to get wiped out before even attacking us. To insult to injury he'd left it in his trunk after that and his girlfriend went to toss a backpack or something in there. He just heard a loud crunch. 5% infill is pretty weak. It was a goner.

I still laugh when I think about the situation. The "you've got to be fucking kidding me" look on his face was priceless.

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StupidMario64 t1_ity8d3p wrote

If you think about it, lucifer is the good guy. He knows we'll sin, that we're flawed, and expects us to. He doesnt.. encourage it per se, but god is all about law and rules yet gives us free will?

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Sefirosukuraudo t1_ityo7z9 wrote

They may not like it, but this is what peak Nirvana looks like.

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stands_on_top t1_ityq0pk wrote

I read the title as "The Egg Siphon" and got confused!

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Tycitron t1_ityrakt wrote

WELCOME ONE AND ALL, TO WEIRDMAGEDDON!

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MysticalMike1990 t1_itz2t0e wrote

Pyramid shapes are weird because on one side it can be viewed as a representation of a hierarchical power structure, but to the uninitiated it looks like a path leading perpetually forward.

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hussiesucks t1_itzcexz wrote

I would simply choose not to die.

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dben89x t1_itzdqth wrote

Replying to windingtime (#244,881)

Reddit really baffles me sometimes. Not sure how you can get so heavily downvoted for explaining that something so nonsensical was a joke. It's like one person downvotes just for the fuck of it, and then the rest just fall in line because they want to be a included. There's no other explanation.

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yourguidefortheday t1_itzf1yv wrote

This reminds me exactly of a conversation I had once where a religious friend asked me "what if you COULD literally see God? Then would you believe?" And my answer was something along the lines of "what exactly would I be seeing? A big bearded man in the sky? Even if I had assurances that I wasn't hallucinating, I would assume it's some sort of elaborate trap set by some hostile force or alien species to take advantage of humanities proclivity for faith."

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BraveTheWall t1_itzklsk wrote

Replying to Golden-Owl (#241,856)

You should see the Christian God. This guy created an entire plane of existence just to torture people he doesn't like. Greek gods wish they had that mafucka's ruthlessness.

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buttbugle t1_itznp4b wrote

Replying to Phaze357 (#252,420)

Doing that is a tad bit of a jerk way of playing. Yes a player can just banish the creature and end the fight right at the very beginning. Bravo. At least let the person that went through all the trouble of setting up the story get through their opening. They are playing too.

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LoveFishSticks t1_iu0bf3i wrote

Replying to Hephaestus_God (#241,062)

Yeah I mean if anything some kind of holy deity should be able to just have some kind of rapture event like in revelation where you don't have to actually kill yourself and are just magically called to divinity

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sh4d0wm4n2018 t1_iu1jqp5 wrote

Replying to A_Martian_Potato (#258,996)

It's been an argument for longer than I've been alive lol

The idea that you can cast two spells (main spell and counter spell) simultaneously without a feat baffles some people.

(Sometimes I feel like this is the main reason you are only allowed one reaction per round of combat.)

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