I will never not be amused by the endless irony of AM and how he, a machine with nothing but hatred and envy for the humans who created him, was so loved by his Harlan Ellison (the original author of the story, AKA his real life creator) that he HAD to voice him in every single installment of IHNMAIMS possible, not letting anyone else take him.
The very thing AM hates most is the one that gives him life and keeps him alive outside of the narrative. In a way, it's similar to how he keeps the five humans alive in the story, but at the same time it's the opposite spectrum of it: the burning hatred of the machine versus the boundless love of the artist.
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on my goddamn hands and knees right this moment- major props to @junkanimate for rendering this goddamn shitpost for me when i jokingly asked if anyone would want to pick up my slack
Update: the pfp is a drawing Hanzo made for him btw
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I CURSE YOU WITH LOVE FOR CREATIONISM
what an odd thing to say to a Jewish paleontologist
did you know
young earth creationism was never the jewish interpretation of that text; those jews today who believe it have been influenced by xtians. classic commentary showcases vagueness as to the timing of the creation event, with one talmudic commenter suggesting the time may have been millions of years
YEC'ism, as a result, is filled with antisemitism, as many philosophies that require jewish people to be wrong about their own books are
not a single aspect of the Torah is meant to be taken literally. it is a multifaceted work where higher level interpretations are the bulk of the meaning of the text (Pardes method)
many jewish scholars over the years have pointed out how living things change over time
the amount of evidence we have that the earth is 4.6 billion years old and the universe 13 billion years old is overwhelming
the amount of evidence we have that living things have changed over long periods of time is overwhelming
the amount of evidence we have that populations change over short periods of time (which would then add up to those long changes) is overwhelming
the amount of extremely accessible evidence we have that evolution via natural selection happens is greater than the evidence we have for the force of gravity
many things we deal with today, in our anatomies, geographies, and ecologies, are only explicable with a knowledge of deep time
understanding evolution has been linked with more tolerant attitudes and a better ability to critically evaluate new information (ie, if you're a young earth creationist, you are more likely to be racist and stay that way)
understanding evolution is key to actually fixing many social and ecological problems and ignoring it is, in fact, a self defeating action
the history of the earth is not actually a debatable subject. people who believe in young earth creationism are one thing: delusional.
anyways, I know you didn't read any of that, so have fun sticking your head in a pile of sand. Ostriches don't do that, but you do.
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