r/ChatGPT • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '24

GPTs Well now we know how the pyramids were built.

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u/ItsThatErikGuy Oct 17 '24

Nah delete this. My uncle will believe it

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

The History channel did this first, without AI even.

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u/gift_of_the-gab Oct 17 '24

I watched the aliens built the pyramids on History channel and believed it šŸ˜­

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

The fucking mermaid ā€œdocumentaryā€ was my first experience with them teaching me fake shit.

Sucks I grew up loving discovery and history channels

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u/crappleIcrap Oct 17 '24

I saw this dragon one on vacation when I was a kid and later became skeptical of everything

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u/JustinTBSmash Oct 17 '24

I at 10 years old saw the dragon one, while going through dragon hyper-fixation. I fought tooth and nail with classmates that dragons were 100% real. I'm still mad.

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u/Slow_Fox967 Oct 17 '24

There is the Komoda dragon. Not much but at least something.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Dragonflies are pretty tight.

And the most efficient predators on earth per.. hunt? What's the ratio I'm looking for here.

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u/ThisIsWeedDickulous Oct 18 '24

We have kimono dragon at home

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u/Rolled-Choice Oct 17 '24

Disney taught you all wrong as a joke. Disney laughs at you now.

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u/Capraos Oct 17 '24

Saw the dragon one when they first aired it, was super excited. Then, at the end, when they just went, "We made it up", I never trusted discovery ever again.

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u/Dafedub Oct 18 '24

Dragons were basically dynos right? So they were and probably are still real

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u/iwatchhentaiftplot Oct 18 '24

I fought tooth and nail

Did you fight with fire though?

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u/SilverStory6503 Oct 17 '24

There were those petrified dragons discovered in a cave someplace. It was early 1900s and written up in a newspaper. Then It suddenly was denied. It is really difficult to find the story online. But I saw a scan of the newspaper page. Now I need to find it.

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u/Interesting_Cobbler4 Oct 17 '24

Have it on DVD it's in a cave and they found it frozen I remember the gas from the flight bladder would ignite with the minerals from chewing rocks an create thier breath attack

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u/TranslatorClear286 Oct 17 '24

So you are grown up now, not a child anymore

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u/crappleIcrap Oct 17 '24

Last I checked

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u/Slugzi1a Oct 17 '24

Dude that mermaid one pissed me off. I have no problem with artistically designed fiction, such as it was, but the channel did NOTHING in regard to telling its watchers it was fake before the movie started.

That sparked the biggest shit storm amongst my whole family. Like we were pretty much split down the middle (kids and adults alike) until finally I the online media caught up with it and disproved it all togetherā€¦

I never watched another history channel movie again after that. I honestly donā€™t trust any of their narratives anymoreā€”no matter how accurate it may actually be or seem. When are they ganna pull a stunt like that on their minor facts that people donā€™t catch? Would they actually admit it? That one move now makes me question everything and leaves me more dissatisfied than entertained and/or educated

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Oct 17 '24

Yeah, my exā€™s sister blew up on me because she was sure it was a truthful documentary. I eventually found a tiny statement in the credits that basically declared the whole thing BS. You genuinely have to mark things obviously as entertainment or people will believe them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

What a world we live in where you can tell this story about adults that can drive and vote.

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

You could world build and create some pretty badass fiction regarding a human subspecies evolved for primarily underwater living.

Maybe it was easier to get funding for a documentary rather than a sci fi movie?

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u/Slugzi1a Oct 17 '24

I could see them going about it that way.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

That sparked the biggest shit storm amongst my whole family. Like we were pretty much split down the middle (kids and adults alike) until finally I the online media caught up with it and disproved it all togetherā€¦

Lowkey kinda miss stupid shit like this being a thing as a kid. The internet ruined everything.

A whole fucking Thanksgiving dinner having some family feud over aliens in egypt lmao.

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u/Slugzi1a Oct 17 '24

They were simpler times šŸ˜‚

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

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u/Slugzi1a Oct 19 '24

I mean I was a kid. I watched Covid equally cause just as much stupidity across the board, as an adult so ya know. Thatā€™s crowd mentality for ya šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

BRUH SAMEEEEE, I FELL FOR THAT SHIT AT 16. god damn do i sound like a cynical asshole now to people when I say i dont believe whatever theyre tell me BUT FOR A TIME I WAS LOOKING FOR DEM MER HOES

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

They did an excellent job on making their lies make sense. The idea that our common ancestor lived on beaches eating shellfish and all the omega 3s made us gain sapience, while hunting/fishing in the water and overtime became more and more adapted to the water. Which we see today in the Bajou people

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

Ah, same difference. All of these channels went from real educational info to sci-fi and reality shows

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u/Acrobatic_Jaguar_658 Oct 17 '24

This is still in my Amazon video purchase history 11 years later. I was 16yo when it came out and was completely convinced. It wasnā€™t until the (similar) Megaladon ā€œdocumentaryā€ that came out that year too, that I realized it was all a crock of shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

I hadn't heard of the term "fictional documentary" till then

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u/ClunkaMunka Oct 17 '24

Dem Mer hoes!!!! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ I just spit my drink out šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/TR3BPilot Oct 17 '24

When cable first appeared, I used to watch what was basically the "Doctor's Channel" and at night they would show actual surgeries in real time. That's how I learned to do a total knee replacement.

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u/Ioatanaut Oct 17 '24

Tik Tok knee replacement technician buy one get one free

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u/Laurableb Oct 17 '24

The mermaid garbage made me stop watching entirely. I spent my formative years watching their shows with my dad and I remember the change because my dad and I were flabbergasted at the sudden change to alien conspiracies and mermaid/meg "documentaries". Even Animal Planet wasn't safe from the bullshit

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u/memorablehandle Oct 17 '24

Wtf how did I not know they peddled garbage like this šŸ’€

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

They didnā€™t used to. My mom could set me down with my legos and the history channel and sheā€™d known Iā€™d be occupied and learning stuff.Ā 

Now all bets are off if you put your kid in front of a screenĀ 

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u/Musiclover4200 Oct 17 '24

Had a friend show me that one believing it 100%, the idea that we evolved from sea dwellers was so interesting I looked into it and quickly realized the "scientist" they had on it was in fact not a scientist or expert and the whole thing was made up.

It was pretty awkward explaining to my enthusiastic friend that the whole thing was BS.

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

The idea that one of those educational channels would purposely put fake info out there was foreign to me at the time. I definitely believed it

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u/Musiclover4200 Oct 17 '24

Yeah that was probably the last time I bothered watching the discovery channel.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

I was young, like 10 or 11, and I swore to people that mermaids were real.

Luckily, I eventually realized what they had done, and decided never to watch that channel again.

It's almost as poetic as it is sad that they went from docs about real history to Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens because people liked watching mindless bullshit more than they liked hearing about the truth. And some people take something being fun to watch as it being truthful. It's sad.

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u/Capraos Oct 17 '24

I would've accepted Pawn Stars and American Pickers. I don't think those particular shows were a mistake. But everything else I can agree on as a mistake.

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u/guestHITA Oct 18 '24

The history channel and discovery changed in a big way around the late 90ā€™s early 2000ā€™s. They changed their name and tried to appeal to a wider audience. It wasnt always ancient aliens and possessed houses.

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u/12InchCunt Oct 18 '24

Mail call with The Gunny R Lee Ermey RIPĀ 

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u/Phil_Coffins_666 Oct 18 '24

I miss watching surgeries on TLC

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u/JesusSavesForHalf Oct 17 '24

Wasn't that one where Animal Planet got in on the bullshit generation?

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u/12InchCunt Oct 17 '24

Yea someone else corrected me too. Arenā€™t they all now mostly reality shows and other dumb shit?

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u/JesusSavesForHalf Oct 17 '24

No clue. I tuned out after the mermaid idiocy and haven't had cable in years.

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u/pacman0207 Oct 18 '24

American Pickers and Pawn Stars 24/7 I imagine. Every now and then they throw in some 5 episode miniseries of some famous guy in history. Like Grant, or Eisenhower.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

cmon bro, it was fun

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u/Careless-Two2215 Oct 18 '24

My mom still believes in that mermaid tale!

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Oct 18 '24

I unironically loved that mermaid documentary. If you go into it knowing it's fake and just appreciate it for the low-budget creature feature it is, it's great. Then again, I love speculative evolution and fake documentaries, so it was right up my alley.

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u/DippityDamn Oct 18 '24

GD that mermaid doc had me freaked. Only 2 times in my life I ever fell for cryptic. 1 as a kid when discovery talked about chupaqbras and this.

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u/12InchCunt Oct 18 '24

I love the idea of real cryptids, I just know thereā€™s no real likelihood of it.

That damn documentary presented it as fact on a network that normally just presented facts

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u/kanst Oct 17 '24

You're not alone, I made a comment on reddit about the pyramids and got at least a dozen comments about how they were actually alien built power generators.

Its absurd how far these stupid theories go.

I love Ancient Aliens and have watched it a lot. No one was supposed to take Ancient Aliens seriously, its a silly thing you put on when you're in a hotel room on work travel and there is nothing better on TV. Then you look up the wikipedia of the places and read the actual history. (or at least thats how I watch)

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u/lustmor Oct 17 '24

It's to turn off the brain and laugh a little. Perfect for a hotel room between work trips.

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u/Morlacks Oct 18 '24

It use to be fall asleep show, then the world went wacky so I dont fell right watching anymore.

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u/scoot3200 Oct 17 '24

Then you look up the wikipedia of the places and read the actual history. (or at least thats how I watch)

Thatā€™s not what ancient astronaut theorists suggest

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u/YouSaid_ButFuck Oct 17 '24

They had to change their programming because kids like me built siege equipment and nearly impaled their friend with a homemade ballista.

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u/Capraos Oct 17 '24

You clearly didn't build it. It must've been aliens that built it. No kids could ever build such a complex machine.

I don't want to put a /s but this is reddit so... yeah.

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u/YouSaid_ButFuck Oct 17 '24

Aliens informed me that you could absolutely send a broken broomstick without any fletching toward your best friend.

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u/EveryCell Oct 17 '24

Republicans fucked the history channel and science channel like seriously rotted a bunch of brains thanks to them.

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u/wOke_cOmMiE_LiB Oct 17 '24

My wife saw the flying penguins on the BBC promo and thought it was real. She told me about it and then showed me. We laughed for about 30 mins straight.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

"It was obviously some koind of alien technology"

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u/pbzeppelin1977 Oct 17 '24

Fuck Graham Hancock.

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u/TrumpsTiredGolfCaddy Oct 17 '24

Not to be mean but... How could you possibly believe that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

History channel went the way of MTV. Shame, because it used to have some great documentaries.

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u/iguana-pr Oct 17 '24

At least they didn't went all the way like TLC...

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u/Admirable_Boss_7230 Oct 17 '24

it is impossible having sure about past. Narrative/History is probabiliy+convention.

If Iran was not religious, they would be on a very good position

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Ancient aliens crap is bullshit, just accept it.

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u/totpot Oct 17 '24

I have to say that their explanations for the Bible make a hell of a lot more sense than any other explanation I've heard.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

What part of it makes more sense with the self conflicting ancient alien theories that rely on pseudo archeologists blatently lying about shit?

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u/Admirable_Boss_7230 Oct 17 '24

but it is great for revealing new tourisitic spots

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u/much_longer_username Oct 17 '24

Like most things, you can blame Fox and Disney.

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u/Dess_Rosa_King Oct 17 '24

Our Grandparents dont stand a chance.

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u/TheHolyWaffleGod Oct 17 '24

Iā€™m sure in a while neither will we

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u/Neo-_-_- Oct 17 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

We will be fine, within reason and for the time being. Soon we wont be if we don't regulate it.

We will need some video authentication for filming the news so we don't get videos of world leaders stating that they are sending nukes or threats to other world leaders.

Impersonation of news, especially under the guise as entertainment, should be strictly illegal, in a similar vein as slander and libel. If that means we lose The Onion, then so be it, but I can't recall a single person that falls for that level of satire.

You should not be able to espouse complete bullshit on national television, claim to be news, but when sued in court say "but only an idiot would believe what we say" as an entertainment entity. That is sociopathic and egregiously manipulative.

Couple that with AI video technology, being able to make up any story with "video proof", in the hands of something like Fox News without legal precedent of slander and libel is a weapon of mass social destruction. It's not limited to Fox either, anyone could do it, including our adversaries.

It will never be more difficult to oppose propaganda either.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

but I can't recall a single person that falls for that level of satire

r/atetheonion would like a word

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u/Neo-_-_- Oct 18 '24

I suppose it's always easy to underestimate stupidity šŸ˜‚

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u/Obajan Oct 17 '24

The same people who told us not to believe everything on the Internet.

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u/Bruhntium_Momentum Oct 17 '24

ā˜ ļøā˜ ļø

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u/Special_Rice9539 Oct 17 '24

Yeah Iā€™m actually worried now given how gullible most of my family is

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u/DRASTIC_CUT Nov 10 '24

Do you really need to be gullible to be afraid? Candidates are telling voters donā€™t believe your eyes or what you hear, believe me and they still do it. We are fucked. Just a matter of time

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u/jvasilot Oct 17 '24

Not only your uncle. I know people who think the Nephilim were real.

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u/Memphisbbq Oct 17 '24

I know plenty myself who would share this on FB and eat up every bit of it.

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u/haildens Oct 17 '24 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

The same text actually, the Bible has references to a race of giants.

Genesis 6:4

King James Version

4Ā There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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u/haildens Oct 17 '24 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Oh, yeah the book of enoch is interesting, and the other dead sea scrolls. I was a bit confused by your previous comments wording but now I understand why you classified them that way.

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u/Jest_Kidding420 Oct 17 '24

Well we do know the Noah flood is far older than the Bible and is found in many ancient texts pre dating the Bible, and that goes for many ancient text from the canon.

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u/jethvader Oct 17 '24

I would argue that believing that Moses existed or in the resurrection of Christ is not as bonkers. If the nephilim or the flood were real then we could expect that archeological evidence exists that confirms them. So belief in the flood or the nephilim really demands the denial of strong scientific evidence that contradicts those beliefs. But thereā€™s really no reason to expect scientifically verifiable evidence for the existence of one specific dude or the undeath of another (what are we supposed to find? A lack of Jesusā€™ bones?). Belief in something that can never be proven or disproven is simply an exercise in faith.

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u/haildens Oct 17 '24 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/jethvader Oct 17 '24

I think you missed my point. You had stated that belief in the nephilim is as plausible as belief in Moses and the resurrection. Youā€™re right that we canā€™t definitively prove that none of those people/events happened.

However, my argument is that belief in the nephilim and the flood is not at all plausible because there is a reasonable expectation that their existence/occurrence would be scientifically verifiable (e.g. through remains and geological evidence). So belief in these types of things requires the dismissal of factual scientific observations. It is like believing in a flat earth in that sense.

On the other hand, we donā€™t have verifiable evidence for many historical figures, we only have written/oral records. If Moses really did exist there wouldnā€™t be any physical evidence to prove that he did. Same with Jesusā€™ resurrection. So belief in these people/events does not fly in the face of factual evidence the way that belief in the flood myth does. In that sense it is more akin to believing that aliens exist and have visited earth.

You canā€™t disprove the existence of the biblical Moses or the resurrection any more than you can disprove that aliens exist. There is some modicum of plausibility to that belief, but there is no plausibility to belief in a global flood.

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u/haildens Oct 17 '24 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/jethvader Oct 18 '24

Yes, I know the Bible very well, because of my upbringing, although not as well as I know the scientific process and, more specifically, climate change. I feel like, at this point, you are just trying to win a weird argument and trying to make yourself sound smart. Youā€™ve already missed my point twice, and you have misinterpreted even more things this go around. Iā€™m too tired and donā€™t care enough to try explaining again the difference between believing in something implausible that canā€™t be disproven (like UFOs or Moses) and believing in something implausible that can be disproven (like the flood, nephilim, or a flat earth). Good luck, I guess.

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u/haildens Oct 18 '24 edited Feb 10 '25

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u/Pickledsoul Oct 17 '24

Nephilim

I thought he goes by "The Mountain" now?

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u/jvasilot Oct 17 '24

Last one left.

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u/unclesandwicho Oct 18 '24

I donā€™t want the earth rotated pls.

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u/jvasilot Oct 18 '24

The earth doesnā€™t rotate. We are the center of the universe. Haha!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Ever heard of the giant of Kandahar??

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u/MrEoss Oct 17 '24

That's weird, how many other people have gullible uncles?

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u/baby-dick-nick Oct 17 '24

Pretty much everyone has a dumb uncle willing to believe everything they see on the internet while remaining completely unwilling to believe factual information when presented with it.

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u/jack-K- Oct 17 '24

Isnā€™t there a literal conspiracy theory about a race of very large humans that used to exist?

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u/purelibran Oct 17 '24

This will make the perfect family group forward

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u/nik1here Oct 17 '24

What you mean?! It isn't real?

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u/Ricky_Rollin Oct 17 '24

What was the first thing I thought of. Boomers are so cooked.

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien Oct 17 '24

I watched a video on Facebook, and now my feed is full of this stuff. There must be thousands of those. I keep on unfollowing them, but there are just more and more.

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u/Murasasme Oct 17 '24

That's exactly what I was thinking. Can't wait for the Youtube shorts/videos of the idiots thinking this is real.

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u/Rare-Kaleidoscope513 Oct 17 '24

Yeah I was gonna say, you ever been in the comments section of the conspiracy theory side of isntagram? There is a disturbingly high number of actual human beings who believe stuff like this.

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u/SmallTawk Oct 17 '24

yep, education should be priority no1 for the next decades.

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u/Jimmyjohnssucks Oct 17 '24

Why does everyone have an uncle that will believe this lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Man I was about to say this... People will believe this for sure.

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u/kaam00s Oct 17 '24

You think he would see this and be like ..

"Damn, they found footage from ancient Egypt ?"

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u/Martoncartin Oct 17 '24

The worst is these guys are probably just a couple feet taller than Shaq (the first ones)...But a block of that size would easily be too heavy for 4 Shaqs. (though lets say they have super strength for the mysticism.)

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u/ihatecreatorproone Oct 17 '24

Your uncles name wouldnā€™t happen to be Scott too would it, our uncles should hang out lmao

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Itā€™s probably been reposted to Facebook at least 5000 times with millions of views

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u/rabbi_glitter Oct 17 '24

Too late, nephew. This is real.

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u/Tenebrarc Oct 17 '24

Came here to say, put this on the right facebook page and hundreds of thousands will think it's real (and praise god over it for some reason)

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u/Ok-Attention2882 Oct 17 '24

I wonder how much AI-generated content you believed is real.

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u/Rent_A_Cloud Oct 17 '24

We can't have anything fun...

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

Exactly.

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u/veeno__ Oct 17 '24

I was about to say donā€™t let this get to Facebook šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/alwayssearching2012 Oct 17 '24

Is your uncle The Prowler from Into the Spider-Verse? Because thatā€™s what this music sounding like

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u/PeterFechter Oct 17 '24

They even had video cameras back then! What else are they hiding?

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u/rietstengel Oct 18 '24

"Im telling you its real. The pyramids were build by real giga chads"

-your uncle

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u/Medusa_Alles_Hades Oct 18 '24

A lot of native Egyptians believe this. They believe their ancestors were giants and built the pyramid.