Post #92972
2025-12-25 15:12 UTC
Replies (4)
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@hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 15:27
Is that what a snow angel suppose to look like?
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2025-12-25 17:41
I like that one guy’s drug trip from 2000 years ago has caused this hilarious internet meme.
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 19:14
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 19:48
So slightly off topic. But I read this book by Steven Hall, Maxwell’s Deamon. Same author as the guy who wrote The raw shark text. (A very bizarre and fantastic book). Anywho. In this fictional book,the author makes the case that the description of angels in the old biblical text is actually a description of letters/symbols, and Not creatures. If you think about the power of symbols and words, especially to a mostly illiterate population, it actually makes sense that symbols and words, shapes, drawings, would be revered and be elevated as something divine. The talk of “wings” and “eyes” could be references to comma shapes and dots. Not actual wings and eyes. I thought this was a very interesting theory.