• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    22·
    4 months ago

    There is so much weird shit like that from the Bible (or the apocrypha). And so many people who eat it up.

    “-im” is a Hebrew plural morpheme. The root “nephil” means something like bully or tyrant. Take from that what you will.

    But, most of these crazies don’t care what the original text said. They read something that is a translation of a translation of a translation, and then they still think it is infallible, and plenty of ridiculous antics ensue. The understanding of Nephilim as angels or giants or whatever comes from one particular game of telephone played over thousands of years.

  • odium@programming.dev
    19·
    4 months ago

    We need to get the mutually incompatible conspiracy theorists to argue with each other and waste their own time instead of arguing with sane ppl and wasting their time.

    • Dojan@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 months ago

      It doesn’t work because either they find a way to make their theories compatible; there can still be logical inconsistencies, because ultimately the theories aren’t logically sound anyway.

      Alternatively, they write one another off as delusional. A person who doesn’t believe in any conspiracy theories can still be “saved”, but someone who believes another incompatible theory is beyond redemption.

      • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        It’s like the story with the three Jesuses. Lock three people who believe they’re literally Jesus into a room, all of them walk out still believing that they’re Jesus, and convinced that you just locked them into a room with two madmen.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    This has me going down some rabbit holes on Wikipedia.

    Basically so far, I’ve read about Cain and Able and how God favored Able over Cane, which made Cain jealous enough to kill his brother. To which God curses Cain with a “mark” - which incidentally was used against darker skinned folks by the Christian church to justify racism because dark skin was seen as the “mark” of Cain.

    It was because of “human sin and the Nephilim” that the world became corrupted, and this made God want to wipe out humankind for it. Noah being the only good guy left was the chosen one of course. He had to get seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals - my Southern Baptist upbringing always taught one pair of each.

    After the flood, God didn’t like that humanity was getting along with each other and didn’t like that they were working together to build the Tower of Babel, so he decides it’s better to divide humanity with different languages and “sets them apart with confusion.”

    That’s as far as I’ve gotten so far. It’s really interesting given what Ive been taught, compared to what the stories really say. Not to mention, God is truly the OG troll and a huge asshole.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        Manipulative and abusive is more like it. A grade-A narcissist, who delights in gaslighting and overpromising to garner control over those he feels are far inferior to him.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      No no, what’s actually going on here is it’s a bunch of blizzard fanboys. The aliens they’re talking about are the Naaru and the person talking about the nephalim are blaming diablo 3 players implying they were sucking to many company resources away from WoW.