• BovineUniversity@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Unironically more rational than most religions, no? At least he’s trying to interact with something that’s actually there.

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      The sun is definitely the most rational thing to worship in general. It literally gives us life. With the exception of some really deep sea life, pretty much all energy used to sustain life on Earth ultimately comes from sunlight.

      praise-it

      But thinking the sun is conscious is pretty dumb.

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        I think the sun is up there, but there’s also something to be said for worshipping the Earth or the air, as well as the ocean and/or the moon if you live on a coast or island or something. The cool thing about those four is that none of them reliably cause cancer like the sun does unless you go digging for radioactive elements or whatever.

        The Sun is probably what most resembles the Abrahamic God (complete with not being able to look at its face), but I think the other options more resemble other religious ethea, plus the moon sometimes eclipses the sun, which means it’s way less scary to worship the moon (lunar eclipses are whatever).

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      kind of fails at “there’s no evidence it ain’t”

      YMMV on the interaction part. The sun acts on you pretty regularly, not sure I act on the sun much

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        It’s still complete nonsense to talk to it, but if you’ve got to pick a god there’s not really a better choice than the titanic ball of fire in the sky that deeply affects pretty much all aspects of life on our planet.

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          There’s also the much smaller ball of rock that deeply affects many aspects of life but doesn’t give you cancer, there is the air that permeates everything the vast majority of humans interact with (and we can only survive for minutes without), there is the ocean from which we came, get food, and travel on, and also just the planet itself or the earthy bits specifically, which are the literal foundation of all human existence (fuck seasteading). I’m just saying you have other choices that are p valid.

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        you do tug on it a lil bit as far as gravity goes, i think. like about as much as it tugs on you. its just that the earth tugs way harder cause you’re so much closer to it

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Believing a ghost that I can’t see has superpowers makes more sense than believing that my kitchen table, which I can see, has superpowers. The invisibility is part of the superpowers. Why would my table be alive and have powers and just fucking sit there?