Embracing medieval peasant brain

there is no good evidence that it is not conscious

incredible line of reasoning, just foolproof logic right there

The sun is an eldrich horror and constantly screaming into the void in ways that both sustain us and kill us. While we can't prove it isn't conscious we should try to kill it anyway just to be sure.
It's less of a leap than "there is no proof god don't exist" because Sun at least does exist.
Russell's teapot

Medieval peasants were smarter than this

no evidence that it is not

positivists in shambles

People will go to amazing lengths to justify tanning their butthole.

Imagine sunbathing the one place on your body that's quite literally biologically evolved to not get sunbathed.
Imagine getting basal cell carcinoma on your forbidden strip
- forbidden strip
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- You don't goatse the sun? I enjoy tanning my rectum.
I want to look and feel my best, that's all the justification I need
T-T-T-TAINT TANNING

if only I could be so grossly incandescent

There's no documented evidence of the little rock troll that lives in my colon and flattens my turds either but i know he's there.

If your turds are always flat, it might be time for a colonoscopy

Marble bust guys will see this and be like

, but try telling them capital is an inhuman malevolent pseudo-intelligence and see how fast you hear the words "econ 101"

Listen I'm on board but you're gonna have to tell me how you think the sun communicates its wishes

Esoteric fascism. It's the myth of the noble savage, but white people are the noble savage this time.
White supremacists are doing all the things they make fun of both indigenous and black people for doing, but it's classy because whites are doing it.
If an indigenous person says they worship the sun with a straight face, they're a "dumb savage". If a white person claims their white ancestry makes them a magical demigod, we're all supposed to take that seriously or risk being socially ostracized for being 'woke'.
- nah nah nah im just asking for the method of communication. like how do we know what it wants us to do. what language does it speak? if there's a big solar flare did we piss it off or did we make it happy
- The sun is about as anti-White as an inanimate object can get.

What no vegetables does to a mf

Everyone online is trying to outdo each other in saying the most insane shit.

Honestly, I think the left should double down on its "I fucking love science" branding. Of course they're going to call us nerds for believing in science, those idiots think they have superpowers and that they need to sacrifice women or else the magic will be sad.
That, and Soviet scientific aesthetics go hard.
The more outrageous the thing, the higher the likelihood someone will screenshot it, spread it to mock it and of course other cranks will see and agree, while also getting the next unhinged view ready to print.
It's less insane than most of religions because Sun at least does exist, but we somehow don't react like this on everything they say based on unproven premise.
The Sun did 9/11

Unironically more rational than most religions, no? At least he's trying to interact with something that's actually there.

The sun is definitely the most rational thing to worship in general. It literally gives us life. With the exception of some really deep sea life, pretty much all energy used to sustain life on Earth ultimately comes from sunlight.
But thinking the sun is conscious is pretty dumb.
- I think the sun is up there, but there's also something to be said for worshipping the Earth or the air, as well as the ocean and/or the moon if you live on a coast or island or something. The cool thing about those four is that none of them reliably cause cancer like the sun does unless you go digging for radioactive elements or whatever.
  The Sun is probably what most resembles the Abrahamic God (complete with not being able to look at its face), but I think the other options more resemble other religious ethea, plus the moon sometimes eclipses the sun, which means it's way less scary to worship the moon (lunar eclipses are whatever).
kind of fails at "there's no evidence it ain't"
YMMV on the interaction part. The sun acts on you pretty regularly, not sure I act on the sun much
- It's still complete nonsense to talk to it, but if you've got to pick a god there's not really a better choice than the titanic ball of fire in the sky that deeply affects pretty much all aspects of life on our planet.
- you do tug on it a lil bit as far as gravity goes, i think. like about as much as it tugs on you. its just that the earth tugs way harder cause you're so much closer to it
Believing a ghost that I can’t see has superpowers makes more sense than believing that my kitchen table, which I can see, has superpowers. The invisibility is part of the superpowers. Why would my table be alive and have powers and just fucking sit there?

It demands blood.

I will sacrifice a filet of fish to the sun.

But even if you could communicate with the sun, why would the sun want to communicate with you? A little flesh blob filled with those gross heavier elements instead of much nicer hydrogen and helium?

This is something I've never understood about all this woo pseudo-pagan "mother gaia" type stuff, why would the earth itself, or the sun or universe or whatever, care about a single tiny person within it?

But the sun does communicate with me. Everytime I look at it, my eyes burn terribly. This is the sun communicating to me that it does not wish to be directly observed
They are perfectly happy ascribing them a number of other superhuman and supernatural abilities. Why not the superhuman ability to care?
- I guess it just confuses me, because it's one thing to ascribe superhuman traits to an invisible deity, entirely another to give them to an actual, tangible object we can interact with and know a lot about.
it'd be like caring about a single cell on your skin
- You've put to words very well what I've felt strongly for a while now, that we are all the same liquid decanted into different containers, the same light refracting into different prisms
Panpsychism is a kind of cosmic horror mythos.
how much do any of us think about the cells of our own body? must be rough, being a skin cell in the fingertip
I think the idea is that the magical force - the earth, the sun, the universe, god, whatever - cares about every single tiny person and every single tiny being, so yes of course it cares about you too.
I think the preponderance of the evidence suggests that nobody gives much of a fuck about anyone else, let alone any magical forces caring about everyone and everything.
I'd like to think that ineffable something that can be glimpsed at the heights of love, ecstasy, psychedelics, etc, is a kind of magical force that could affect change through the power of tremendous collective care.

Yeah, sure, I can stare at it and it can give me cancer. That's an interaction.

The sun is conscious... and malevolent
- UN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN T

[We're in fuckin 1320 motherfucker, you are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fucking lord the grain.

Your fucking children? You've had 15 children. You've never taken a bath. You've, literally, never washed your penis. You've never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You've had 40 children; three of them are alive. Two of them are child soldiers in the Duke's army. Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the ripe age of 36. You fucking can't read. You don't know what TV is. You are literally, if you are transported to today, the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit. You literally probably don't know what the direction left is.

I'm sure some medieval guy is gonna get mad at me. Bitch, I've been to the renaissance fair. I have eaten a large turkey wing (which the juggalos call 'bitch beaters'; which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them). Motherfucker, you gotta recognise where you are and then you gotta get past that. You gotta be unemotional and, I know I'm not being a great display of that myself, but you gotta. You can't sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette, you need to climb up that ladder motherfucker. You live in the hole! You're in the hole! You are a rat, and a rat when he's in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole. You know what, you need to eat a body and you need to carry the plague. You need to carry a plague around this whole world that will change this whole fucking world and all your enemies will vomit black bile and they will choke on blood and grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other rats and you come up with some kind of super plague to fucking end your enemies and end this nightmare.](https://soundcloud.com/distantdreamz/were-in-fuckin-1320-motherfucker)

"Why not worship the ctan" -people about to have a bad time

statue twitter having a normal one

How does a human brain get like this?

sun worship is fairly logical, it's a real material thing that provides benefits and you plan your life around.
the 'it's conscious and wants to communicate with me' is just how we get the haruspex
- It's real sure, I don't see how the worship part is logical.
My friend's ex-wife stares at the sun for extended periods because there's a conspiracy telling us not to do that and she's going to get to the bottom of it and unlock her glaucoma chakra or something.
Parasites from raw meat probably lol
White people have this weird quirk where they all talk like vampires from any RPG ever.
Listen to this quote from Lord Harkon and you can easily imagine a CHUD offering a brown person the chance to become white.
- Crackers of Coldharbour

This is a George Carlin bit

"Spooky incompetent father-figure who doesn't give a shit" is a good description, I am now a believer that that is our god.

Can't believe roman statue guys are engaging in the religion of Rome's sworn enemy. (Zoroastrianism)

??? The final form of state Roman religion pre-christianity was literally a solar cult.
zoroastrianism is not a sun cult

“Interacting” with the sun is just skin cancer, especially for mayos.

taking care not to eat the sun because i'm vegan

It's a pretty picture tho

Ikr - like, I know somebody did some fuckery with the colors and whatnot, but it looks good. They did a great job. I find it mesmerizing.
- It might not be fucked with tooo much, I've seen the sun look similar when there was wildfire smoke nearby, with the right zoom and perspective you can get a view like this. It's too compressed to tell how realistic of a photo it is though.
- Back during the California wildfires I actually saw the sun look like this. You could look right at it and not even have retina burn.

Ngl I really Hexbear hating on people like this

What
- Making fun of people like this is mean and y'all shouldn't do it
He's not just some dude, though. At MINIMUM, 70% of classical or neo-classical statue PFPs with more than 1000 followers are crypto-fascist, and they are all openly western chauvanists. Same goes for Western European architecture PFPs.
As soon as someone told me this, I couldn't unsee it.
- He's a RETVRN guy hawking collagen peptides (made from cows) with 320k followers that denies most modern science, is a hardliner anti-vegan anti-feminist anti-communist.

There is no good evidence that my scrotum isn't filled with pepperonis and diamonds

I demand empirical testing

Can someone please explain to me what the thought process is behind having a statue as your profile pic? What exactly are they trying to get across here?

they're a nazi
zero historical materialism
What exactly are they trying to get across here?
"I have extremely stupid views about contemporary politics based on my deep and extensive misunderstanding of the Roman empire."
The white marble of the statue is beautiful. Thus whiteness is beautiful. It is a call back to good old fashioned British rascism. They see modern rascism as too ugly want the good stuff back. It is a weird way too online ideology
"Stupid girls of today listen to The Backstreet Boys"

He probably thinks sun screen makes you gay or something so this may literally be true.
- it probably does give u cancer tho. Also maybe alzheimer's.

No good evidence it is conscious either lol. Hate this dumb logic people use. That which can be stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

Abrahamic Deus: homophobic, warlike, misogynist, racist, nationalist, child-killer, can't even save you from curable disease, will torture His own most loyal subjects out of paranoid jealousy ('testing their faith'), either intentionally created Satan to plague mortals or allowed him to come into existence through lack of oversight

The Sun: life-sustaining, allows for vision, created all or most heavy elements in the solar system, sustains planetary gravity and solar system structure, will never call you slurs or ask you to sacrifice your child

you forgot to mention ... weak against Iron.
- yes, guy can't even handle a few canannites with chariots, even taken less literally the dude is weak to bronze age military might

Panpsychism is now reactionary.

This isn't panpsychism, this is at most animism, theoretically just sun worship, but in all probability just some strain of niche consumer-lifestyle bullshit.

I’d be happy to believe that the sun is conscious, but there’s no way it wants to or is even capable of communicating with an ant living on a pebble a trillion miles away.

Sun's only about ~100 million miles away.
- And yet the sun still won’t return my texts

liberals are not conscious and its pointless to communicate with them

Is it just me or is this image flashing a little bit. I don't know, I'm getting some flashes around the sun. Probably something to do with the colour of it. Promise I'm fully sober lol.

It's that optical illusion with a color dot that will make a grey scale image colored.

The burden of proof, etc etc etc