The longest deleted thread was just some guy starting off. saying fuck Trump and then complaining about the stock market in later replies, not related to the sun rise at all.
It really does. This article was written in 2019 and I come back to it every now and then and I'm always surprised how much the two match. As a non religious guy, as far as I'm concerned, he might actually be the antichrist.
Isn't that how Columbus got the natives to cooperate?
Something like they didn't want to resupply or help him. So he said his God is better than their God and if they don't help him his God would take the sun away. He told them that because he knew there would be a solar eclipse soon so he gave them that long to comply.
So the eclipse happens natives, lose their shit rightfully so, and give him whatever he wanted.
A solar eclipse happens in 2-5 times a year in America, it did back then, too. I don't see how this could be true, tbh. Even the full ones happen around once every 18 months
Total eclipses are only seen in an area though, with other parts of the world getting partial eclipses or not seeing it at all, so it's likely most or all of the natives hadn't seen one before.
Plus even if they knew of eclipses they'd probably still freak if a strange invader told them a god was going to take the sun away if they don't comply by a certain time, and then when that time was up the sun went away.
Writing is important but many non writing cultures have complex oral histories sometimes going back hundreds of years so it's not like knowledge is lost.
Columbus was an idiot and thought he was 12,000 miles from where he was. Even if he had known about an eclipse and could predict it to the day, thay eclipse would have had to have been seen equally in China and in San Salvador.
Definitely woulda been wild. It was pretty crazy even knowing what would happen, watching as everything started getting darker even though the sun still seemed to be shining just as bright, and then suddenly the sun goes out for a little bit.
Modern cultures won't take this kind of thing well.
There will be TikToks up later today telling everyone that this is The End of The World (really, this time, like for reals) or it's some "sign of a New Age/New World Order" or how this is clearly a Sign From GOD that The Rapture™ is nigh (really, this time, like for reals real) and we should all repent, etc., etc.
You aren't better than other people just because you understand that the Bible is a collection of pagan mythology that extends many thousands of years into the history of our species.
The 13th century is semi-modern relative to when the Bible was written and certainly relative to the time period it covers.
Their point was more that the devil, as that concept exists in cultures of Judeo-Christian origin today (red-skinned, beaded dude with horns, tail and cloven hooves, etc.), didn't exist in the Bible and earlier. It's more recent than that.
(And the whole devil-with-horns thing is a lot more recent than that.)
Nah. Maybe our modern view of the devil but basically going as far back as different mythologies humans had one or other version of the devil. So basically the modern "red mf with horns and a pitchfork" devil is recent but basically anything that really represents death and evil can be said to be "the devil". Just that some had horns. Some looked like humans. And some were so different from a normal human you'd be wondering if it isn't ppl just hallucinating.
In some Islamic narrations, it is mentioned that the devil (Shaitan) is active at sunrise. A hadith warns against praying exactly at sunrise because this is the time when the sun "rises between the horns of the devil"—a reference to the fact that some pagan cultures used to worship the sun at this time.
Older cultures?
How many of those waiting for and actively trying to help bring about, rapture type Americans are there?
They're probably getting pretty giddy these days.
Whichever old culture you're thinking of when you say that, you can be certain that they were saying the same thing about cultures that were old to them
Conspiracy theorists are about to say "this is a sign it came out on tariff day, it's the end of times!" I can't wait to see the weird flash art MS paint site drop 🔥😂
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u/WrongColorCollar 19h ago
MAN I bet some older cultures didn't take this kinda thing well.