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yeah well you generally shouldn't listen to alchemists, the ones who are wrong about things are basically scammers who buy into their own bit and the ones who are right about things frequently explode because the latter are early modern chemists
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah this. i also always liked the muslim idea of the devil where he doesn't like god but has a bunch of rules that he has to follow and is basicaly just an extreamly hosed up prosecutor who will try to entrap you into doing bad poo poo but not directly tell you to do the actions. its more interesting then the evangelical literalism horse poo poo where satan is some magic anti god. Muslim devil likes God, he's just a particularly neat take on the sin of pride. After getting humanity all set up, God ordered the angels to bow before Man and serve their interests as they serve His. Iblis got real fuckin miffed about this, because he thought the prehuman days were really pretty good, and also divine angelic beings are way better than upjumped monkeys. After a couple circuits round the carousel where he flat refused to know his place and follow orders, God went "well okay then, I'm passing judgement, enjoy being severed from the light of my divine grace". Iblis responds "hold the gently caress on, you specifically promised humanity that none of them would suffer that hell-adjacent fate until the actual Day of Judgement. Surely it's unfair to not give me the same consideration?" God: "Eh, fair enough. Sentence postponed, we'll see how things are going in a couple eons when it's time for the Kingdom of Heaven." and so Iblis, rather than getting a clue in the intervening thousands / millions of years and apologizing and getting out of this jam, decided that he would devote himself to showing God that actually Iblis was right, God was wrong, and humans are just dumb primate vermin, by tempting them and messing with them and keeping a lovingly curated scrapbook of every time a human transgressed the divine will because if only he can show God Himself that He was wrong, Iblis will be back to being the favored creation and won't be cast out He doesn't want to overthrow God, he just wants to be right on the internet.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Not everybody's Christian, FYI. For the people talking about "heretical" this and "heretical" that. I guess if you want to stretch it a bit, the various minor gods in various flavors of Hinduism are basically angels - subordinate to the Big [mumbles a Number] and also components of the Big One, limited portfolio, mostly more involved in mortal lives within that portfolio normal brain: Michael is an angel big brain: ganesh is an angel E: galaxy brain: Yahweh is an angel
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