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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year ago

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Thank you for your moral guidance, Mature Content.

"The best way to convince you of my imaginary space wizard is for you to be in mortal distress and abject despair... which my god with a cosmic plan set into motion in the first place," isn't the win you think it is.

"Maybe you'll believe my nonsense if you're frantic and under duress," doesn't look as good as you think it does.

This is just a subtle way of admitting that reasonable people don't believe in your unreasonable claims. You have to wait until they're at their most unreasonable, most vulnerable, most irrational moment of their lives before your unreasonable, irrational claims can find traction. Because well-adjusted people can't be convinced by the straightforward "truth" of your claims. Mostly because, as you accidentally admitted, it's obviously not true.

That's how predators work. They create or wait for vulnerabilities, something they can exploit for their own ends. Placing yourself rather proudly and overtly into "predator" territory is an odd, yet clearly on-brand, move. I'll give you props for being so open and unapologetic about sticking with old-school exploitation, rather than something novel and risky, like "show the evidence," or "explain clearly and with facts why it's true."

In any event, it doesn't matter who you call upon; there is no prayer that stops a plane from falling out of the sky, or bounces your car harmlessly off a tree. Magic spells aren't real. Even when one person crawls out of the wreckage and you celebrate the "miracle," you're celebrating, like a complete psychotic, that everybody else didn't make it.

If your delusion was true, we could trivially tell by who survives or recovers or who makes it out of a bad situation. It would be obvious because believers of the "true" belief would be more successful, recover faster or at higher proportions, get parking spots and college admission disproportionately more often. Everybody, including believers, know they do not. Believers in your delusion die at the same rate as both non-believers, and those of every other delusion. A believer dies of cancer, while the non-believer in the bed next door recovers.

The efficacy of prayer has been studied. There is exactly no difference between you crying out to your god, or crying out to Odin, Superman or Mary Poppins. Statistically, you're better off calling out to Batman. It's far more probable that a wealthy businessman is running around saving people in a bat outfit, than an invisible celestial demon is plotting bad things to happen to people so they'll be convinced that it exists and fall in love with it.

You know your belief is nonsense, because you're forced to say stupid things like you just did, instead of simply pointing to the irrefutable statistics. Except, they, like your imaginary space demon, don't exist. The reason you felt compelled to say something so idiotic at all was not even for mine or anyone else's benefit, but for your own. It's an obvious, vacuous platitude that functions as a thought-terminating cliche. It's a basic psychological trick that you play on yourself to stop you from finally having to actually contemplate your beliefs. If you say the stupid line, your brain gives you a little buzz as a reward, then goes back to what it was doing.

"Whew, that was close."

Meanwhile, worshiping the monster who sends something bad to happen to you is pretty much the definition of an abusive relationship. If that's your fetish - or, clearly, one of your many sexual perversions - then that's your business. But the sick shit you do in your bedroom with your "god" needs to stay there, not out in public for you to try and coerce others into participating in it. Your perverted lifestyle is not my business, so keep it away of my business. Stop inviting me into your sick fetish fantasies, I'm not interested.

Most well-adjusted people prefer healthy relationships with real people, rather than degrading sado-masochism with an imaginary Santa Claus knock-off.

"God. For people who are not strong enough to cope with reality."

#that was fun #religion #religion is a mental illness

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harlronica · 2 years ago

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psychic/intuitive astro placements for the planet Jupiter (pt. 2)

In Astrology, Jupiter is associated with the principles of growth, expansion, healing, prosperity, good fortune, and miracles. A Starseed origin in alignment with this planet illuminates the power one carries during this incarnation. This origin would hint at the grail line you're tied to the most. This would be the aspect of your oversoul and your higher mental masculine plane.

Jupiter is where we seek wisdom, wish to expand, and where we often have a lucky card to play. Dangers here can come from recklessness or an over optimistic attitude- wishing to get away from the routine of mundane life- where we want to experience something in its fullness. An interest in Law and Justice over the houses themes can also be found in the area of Jupiter. Mostly, this house will be full of positive vibrations and will.

*Psychic/Intuitive Astrological houses for the planet Jupiter* "I Grow"

1st house: when Jupiter is found in the house of Aries this usually signifies (of course, always take in account the chart as a whole and not just this placement) that the chart holder has a spiritually evolved soul. These people come on strong and always have a forceful first impact on those that they meet. This position is similar to having a natal Sun in 1st house.

3rd house: when Jupiter is found in the 3rd house (home to Gemini) - this house will expand your mental power. These people are very intuitive and absorbent of their surroundings/body language of others' in general. Very open-minded with an ability to speak or write better than others, and they are very imaginative people. Even poetic. They're always looking for ways to expand their knowledge and advance in their spirituality. Very knowledgeable on almost any subject. This can go for Jupiter in Gemini or Jupiter in 3rd house.

4th house: intuitive and spiritual. When Jupiter is found in the 4th house (home to Cancer) - these people are likely to be spiritually blessed and would have inherited some sort of talented characteristic from their ancestors. What this talent may be will depend on the chart as a whole. This can range from supernatural powers, advanced intuitive or psychic abilities, and the possibility of being a witch.

8th house: when Jupiter is found in the 8th house (home to Scorpio) - psychic abilities, healing capabilities, with a very intuitive/spiritual mind are quite likely. This is an aspect that signifies spiritual protection. These people are likely spiritually protected in moments of danger (of course, this would depend on their chart as a whole.) If they get close to dying, it's likely that Jupiter in the 8th house will save them. Of course, nobody can escape death and everybody has to face it eventually.. Lol. Some may say that those with this placement have nine lives. This aspect can be quite similar to someone with a natal Jupiter trine Neptune (which also serves as great spiritual protection from the spirit realm.)

9th house: when Jupiter is found in the 9th house (home to Sagittarius) - it gives for prophetic abilities and a strong intuition. Jupiter will feel most comfortable here in it's home house. Some may say that these people are born lucky. They hold a deep, spiritual wisdom and because of this they are likely to start receiving success early in life. Very intellectual people who are born spiritually enlightened.

11th house: when Jupiter is found in the 11th house (home to Aquarius) - these people have strong intuitive abilities. They are likely to easily sense danger in their community/when in a social setting while still maintaining their humanitarian composure. This allows them to easily remove themselves from the situation before danger arises or escalates. A good example would be the character in a horror movie that quickly escapes while everyone else stays back to take their chances and die... Lol. Meanwhile still encouraging others to take on the experience because they don't want to make themselves seem "better than" in a way and may be a little confused as to why they sense danger from the experience in the first place. So they don't want to discourage others. It can be similar to a Jupiter in 8th house, however, this is usually a level of intuitiveness that comes directly from within and on a personal level. Whereas Jupiter in the 8th is likely the spiritual realm itself taking over in any dangerous situation. These people seem to get what they want relatively easily because they are supported by the Universe. Jupiter in the 11th house indicates great spiritual insight and expansion and like Jupiter in the 9th, is known as a spiritual blessing.

12th house: when Jupiter is found in the 12th house (home to Pisces) - these people are likely to have a strong sense of spirit and guiding divine force. They can provide/hold profound insight and understanding about the inner and subconscious aspects of the mind. Likely to be psychic and intuitive depending on how Jupiter is positioned in the chart.

Note: not all astrological houses are listed. If your Jupiter house is not listed that does not mean that you do not have other intuitive/psychic indicators in your chart. Everybody has intuitive and psychic placements to one degree or another in their astrological chart. This is why it is important to refer to the entire astrological chart as a whole! <3

What house is your Jupiter in? Mine's in 11th! :)

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the-firebird69 · 3 years ago

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You see her son's t-shirt and people making it and people are watching intently and they want to know how long it takes to dry and the package and to send they want to see a minute and wearing it this sort of good what it means he learned from the mental hospital and it's illegal and they're wrong and they're huge problem and Matt can plants cut them out of the picture but he's not he's simply uses it for all sorts of dumb things and it's still messing everything up and harassing everybody wanting around cheesy smiles and ruining everyone's day lots of people do it technique I slept technique and it's happening during a full-blown war and there's other aspects to it and really it's about false imprisonment and grabbing people who are completely sane and saying that they're not and violating the law because he hasn't violated any laws to be in a medium security place or some of them were higher than medium security he was very pissed off the whole time you people don't know him like us you don't understand him he's a human being you can't understand anything what he's saying is if you keep doing it or trying to I'm going to fireball you it's happening to you right now that the Midwest where you guys fail to evacuate and there's still a couple hundred quadrillion of you some are running we'll say they're just going to sit there cuz I think that we're there too and we are not went through and looked at every single one of you and it hurts they say in the roasting about half the places on fire and we put it out after a Time but we let it go I'm going to rip out all the bunkers his giant bunkers underneath and mostly the ordinances out and we're going to pile up what's left and we're going to break it out fairly soon I'm going to bomb you where you are and you don't have much more stuff like comparison to what we have now cuz he took all your ordinance we have huge bombs of yours that were carving up and making it to bombs right now gigantic conventional bombs rocket raccoon and Rocky raccoon which are two lovers who love each other dearly and our leaders are two leaders have made this contraption with their kids and that giant chat that is all connected so I can carry a huge bomb about 5 ft long and the ball is 5 ft diameter and they say we're going to get you all and the whole troop is loading up they're really pretty big they have like 5 million of them globally and they're suiting up and they're all getting their Jets some of the Jets are fairly decent sized they're like half the size of it it's a half scale mig the original mig and they can carry pretty heavy bombs like 300 lb bombs and they're all heading towards your area it's in the squirrels in but it's a bit risky right now it says no they don't really know so I'm going to send squirrels in and with incendiaries now light up targets and it's going on right now.

Thor Freya

I'm laughing because it's so evil and we're playing on doing it to your people and Tommy favino can't figure it out I think she's running track you'll see these evil squirrels with this evil look on their face it looks like your face and you're mad at the hell and her face too this is like pretend to you too and rocket raccoon is coming some sort of crazy contraption all of them look rabid and they're laughing like rocket raccoon in the movie I can see them doing it I'm watching them with telescope there's a huge flock of them there must be a million of them or more this might maybe 5 million here and something around New York and DC they live a whole bunch of targets and Rocky raccoon is now flying in and rocket raccoon and they're bombing the crap out of them these bombs are hitting going very loud pow it is intense and there's millions of them it's not a huge area but it's important now they're flying out now at about Mach 3 and after them looks like real planes and jets and we send some out there to pick people up it looks like we're getting something else back huge huge bombers and they're laying into people that area is gone it's like one of Cork strongholds was starting to see what they're saying don't try to attack our people.

Mac Daddy

Wow this whole day has sucked

Garth

Yeah not for you right

Mac

No no it's kind of horrible everybody's a huge failure now they're going to go up there and try and face Galactus and we sort of got something that's what they're up there doing is protecting them

Or imprisoning them

Garyh

So you get it

Mac

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sindri42 · 2 years ago

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I think the website where the original post was made has gone down, but reposts/copies can be found at http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=658.0 or https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?266559-Tier-System-for-Classes-(Rescued-from-MinMax)

A standard party does generally need a source of arcane magic, a source of healing, somebody who specializes in technical skills, and somebody who can hold down the front line. But a fighter, a crusader, and a gish-cleric or wildshaped druid all fill the same 'front line tank' role, and the druid will always be better at it than the fighter if they're 6th level or higher. Similarly a rogue, a factotum, and a utility-specialized wizard can fill the same role in the party, but they would be appropriate to completely different parties. A Healer is tier 4 because they can provide decent healing and almost nothing else; a Cleric is tier 1 because they can provide excellent healing but they can also give themselves a dozen 24-hour buffs that make them a better fighter than any martial class out there while still having spells left over for a big pile of utility or blasting purposes, and the best minion-production magic in the game.

The classic antimagic room with barbarian scenario has a few solutions. Best answer is of course to not go into an antimagic room, but maybe you're an idiot, maybe your GM is fond of railroading, or maybe the villains are just really quite clever. Leaving aside the fact that antimagic needs a 6th level spell to set up, only lasts a few minutes, is centered on its own caster, and can't be made permanent by RAW, it's an emanation from a specific point, which means all you need to do is break the line-of-effect between that point and yourself. My favorite solution is to wear a hat which is actually extremely large, but enchanted to become smaller. The antimagic suppresses the enchantment, causing the hat to revert to its natural size, at which point it falls to the ground around the wearer, covering the wizard completely and creating a small area in which magic functions normally. You can use this to teleport out, or to create a hole in the floor that takes you out of the danger zone. Alternatively, an AMF does not actually prevent casting spells, nor does it dispel or counter anything, only nullifies active magical effects, which means that any of the conjuration-based attack spells that bypass spell resistance (like the acid arrow, or any of the orb of [x] series) will function normally if you want to inflict damage, since they just create a blob of nonmagical stuff that happens to be flying at your target. Ordinarily trying to work your way through a barbarian's HP pool while it can reach you is a terrible plan, but a Wall of Force very specifically does work inside antimagic, and the plane of it can easily be formed with a gap big enough to fire spells through but too small for a greataxe to swing.

The terminology varies, from 'powergamer' to 'optimizer' to 'munchkin' to 'minmaxxer' to 'twink' (though that last one has fallen out of favor recently), but the core always remains: there's a kind of player who, when given a box of tools, will instinctually seek out ways to use them that the designers never intended. This can cause problems if their goal is to make the most powerful character they can, because they will inevitably come up with some combination of totally legal moves that lets them output ten times as much damage as the rest of the party put together, and never give anybody else a chance to shine. And the thing is, aside from the very young or very assholish, they don't actually want to ruin the game for everybody else by steamrolling every encounter, but it's hard to restrain themselves; every time they look at the book they see another opportunity to tinker with the rules and it's difficult to go for long without trying one out. So in my experience, it's best to set them some other goal. You could give them a lower tier class and challenge them to bring it up to par with the rest of the party (though you run the risk of them finding something really broken and going much higher), or apply roleplay restrictions like 'you need to contribute as much as possible without anybody ever realizing what your actual powers are' or 'you can't directly interact with enemies, only alter the environment and boost your comrades'. Or you can challenge them to make the strangest character they can, like the classic 'awakened acid-breathing shark with enough Paladin levels to get a special mount so it can summon a gelatinous cube steed to carry it around on land'. And of course in 3.5, one of the popular pastimes among hardcore optimizers was getting the Truenamer class to actually work.

My final draft for my 5E homebrew class, the swashbuckler.

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rogue-bard · 5 years ago

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"I can't just turn the plane around!" Martin all but shouted in the general direction of Carolyn and Arthur behind him - not that Arthur did anything to warrant being yelled at, but he was so used to being on the receiving end of people's anger, he didn't question it. Most times, he didn't understand their indignation against him, either way.

"Martin," Carolyn said slowly, and somehow managed to make those two innocent syllables sound threatening. "If there's anything you've proven on this flight, it's that you can, in fact, turn this plane around."

"Well, we are heading in the wrong direction, currently," Douglas helpfully supplied and Martin glared at him for that. At least, this time around, nobody was dying - the conversation and situation seemed so eerily familiar.

"Oh! Yes!" Sarcasm dripped from Martin's words. "Let me just ignore the fuel warning and merrily press on towards Rio. I'm sure if the engine cuts out halfway through, everybody will be very happy to be getting a little exercise while swimming the rest of the way through the Atlantic Ocean!"

"No, I mean," Douglas seemed completely unimpressed, "if you really wanted to divert to Lisboa, we are heading into the wrong direction, after your last attempt at turning GERT-I into a carrusel."

"Oh, for goodness' sake!" Carolyn rolled her eyes up towards the part of the sky that was still above them, and asked any higher power she could think of, what she had done to deserve these two employers that were constantly pushing and pulling her patience over a cheese rasp for half a decade now. "Martin, turn the plane around. Again!"

"Fine," the pilot in question grumbled under his breath. "But I'm not telling the passengers."

"Scared?" Douglas grinned at him.

"Of not taking a bunch of rich people to carnival in Rio?"

"Specifically of how that elderly lady with the shrill voice will react, after she stormed the flight deck after you last two cabin addresses," Douglas clarified, not grinning any less.

Martin didn't even bother lying. "A bit."

"For all that is holy, Martin!" Carolyn said in a voice that suggested she was talking to a small child. Or to Arthur. "If you're not going to Rio, then at least go to Lisboa. Turn. The plane. Around. Now! I don't want to lose any more time than necessary!"

The captain flinched slightly as he corrected GERT-I's course, checked back with Douglas, waited for Carolyn to storm off with a satisfied huff, and shot the flight deck microphone a dreading look.

"Oh, I can do that for you, Skip!" Arthur chimed in, eager to spare his friend another cabin address when he was clearly so afraid of it. "It'll be fun!"

Martin hesitated. "I ... guess… yeah, why not?"

"First, let me pass, so I can go to the loo," Douglas asked their Steward.

Arthur immediately jumped into action and pressed himself to the back of the pilot's seat, so they could shuffle around each other in the confined space of the flight deck. "Sorry, Douglas! Didn't realize you had to go!"

"Oh, I don't!" Douglas said, reassuringly, before he left. "I just plan on not being here for Carolyn to hold accountable when this goes inevitably terribly wrong."

"I really don't see what he could do wrong during a cabin address," Martin did a verbal eye roll at him.

Douglas just nodded. "No, neither do I, and it's unsettling." The door clicked shut behind him.

Martin just huffed out a breath in annoyance at his second-in-command and handed the microphone to Arthur.

"Hello, Passengers!" Arthur boomed in an unnecessarily deep voice that probably was meant to sound like William Shatner but ended up sounding like Siri running out of batteries. Martin cringed. At least it couldn't get much worse. Or could it…?

Arthur continued: "This isn't your captain speaking. I'm afraid you won't be going to Rio today… But I'm sure you won't have any complaints to take up with the flight deck, because you're so happy not to have to swim home through the Atlantic fr-"

Anything else that Arthur might have thought could be a good idea to say, was cut off when Martin slammed the button to stop the transmission so hard that it got stuck inside the console. "Arthur, what the f-"

"WHAT in the name of-"

"What do you two think you're doing?!"

Carolyn, who had stormed the flight deck in lieu of the elderly lady from before, was interrupted by an equally put out Douglas arriving seconds after her.

"You knew this was going to happen!" Martin accused the latter in a voice that was only slightly panicked.

"I didn't know he would hijack the plane!" Douglas said incredulous and bodily pulled Arthur back from the console before he could do any more damage.

"Why is everyone so upset? Oh! Should I not have called them 'passengers'?" Arthur wondered, completely oblivious, which was Arthur's default setting. "Oh, no, 'ladies and gentlemen' way more polite, isn't it?"

"Arthur, Code Red!" Carolyn bellowed and the poor man opened his mouth, thought better of it, and slinked off into the cabin.

"...do you reckon the demon lady will come and yell at me some more?" Martin asked after a couple of seconds that you could have heard a pin drop in.

"After Arthur threatened to throw her off a flying plane and into the ocean if she came in and interrupted him holding the pilots of the very aircraft she is on hostage?" Douglas asked back. "No, for some reason, I don't think so."

"... can we maybe wait a couple more minutes to clear things up," Martin suggested guiltily.

"Well, to be completely honest, this is the first time since take-off that the service bell stopped ringing," Carolyn conceded. "Oh, what's ten more minutes?"

i was reading some of those one sentence horror stories and one of them was “hello passengers this isn’t your captain speaking” and i just thought wow that is exactly something Arthur Shappey would say and then the passengers would be startled and Carolyn would be like “good grief” and Martin would freak out and Douglas would probably cut him off like “your pilots would like to assure you that this aircraft is not being hijacked.”

#sorry I had to but then i got tired and rushed it #cabin Pressure #arthur shappey #martin crieff #douglas richardson #carolyn knapp shappey #own #own writing

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