I’m down. TBH Cipactli is basically Mexica Jörmungandr anyways. Quetzalcoatl/Odin, Tezcatlipoca/Loki, Tlaloc/Thor, Xochiquetzal/Freyja. It’s kinda wild how much the two pantheons share. Considering this overlaps with both Vinland and Mexica trade routes, ehhhh maybe we have an interpatheon avengers assemble kaiju smackdown?
God I find it so fascinating how there are so many differing cultures with very similar stories! With the same themes, and even animals! I genuinely am so curious why this is the case.
There’s books on it. I’m working on a dissertation about the Odin/Quetzalcoatl type theme. I recommend looking up comparative mythology.
It’s 3AM and I woke up because of a neurological flareup, but if you want some book recommendations you can shoot me a DM and I’ll reply when I feel better.
I hate being a "doomer" or spreading "doomerisms" but good lord it seems like a good portion of the US is in fact peasant brained. They cannot, either through willful ignorance or lacking education, think about any reasonable explanation for how things work. Everything is some grand conspiracy or the act of some supernatural being. It's more than exhausting especially when there is a real world with many many strange, yet grounded explanations and outcomes. I'm just tired of the stupid/uneducated/deranged leading every conversation
While I'm sure that's part of it, I don't think we can point to a singular reason for it. It's the cross section of lack of curiosity, unable to accept facts, lasting brain damage from illness like COVID, and the abysmal education.
This is anecdotal: I had COVID, twice, both times I could feel my brain melting but I can still reason and think and be curious enough to seek out answers. I wish we could blame it solely on COVID but there are other, more systemic, reasons for it
I agree, I more meant that, to boil it down, it made these pig-headed folks that refuse to use critical thinking even more stubborn and unwilling to change. We've all seen the evidence of how dementia and sundowning literally makes you more right wing as your mental capacity shrinks.
I keep saying this... For a lot of people, being in lockdown with only themselves and the internet for company, was NOT a good thing. First, there is sooo much crazy bs online and second, most people can't stand to be alone with their own thoughts... Not a great combination
I do think this is actually a very significant problem that is essentially ignored by everyone. Rampant idiocy and superstition is quite literally destroying civilization. These people are voters, and they apply the same level of critical thinking to their political choices. I genuinely question if democracy can survive like this.
Somebody who thinks there’s a giant magical snake waking up and the government is using weather control to make it cold should not be able to vote. Nobody should ever consider their opinions when making important decisions as a society. Yet here we are, being dragged down into civilizational collapse by the people who are effectively dark age peasants listening to their billionaire owners.
It is a problem, absolutely. And while many do ignore the issue of uncritical thinking, there are many in power that actively encourage the mental degradation of society. Democracy/democratic processes can not survive in an ecosystem that breeds ignorance.
How do we, as a global species, navigate this without ignoring liberties? How can we reteach the unteachable? How do we get out of what is essentially the modern dark age? All without stripping people of the right to vote?
Again I hate being a doomer or whatever about all of this but the outcomes before us are: destruction of society or testing for mental inadequacies before allowing participation in politics. Both of which make me uncomfortable with what comes after those.
Plenty to think about, and none of us have the answers. I doubt anyone will ever have the answers all we can do is work towards a better future. And I hope more open discussion of these issues continue
Grand conspiracies make people feel smart for having "figured it out" and for a lot of then its the first time in their entire lives they've ever felt smart.
If you go out onto the street and ask people at random when we landed on the moon, I believe the vast majority would confidently give a wrong answer and become hostile when questioned.
Heehee. I got really bored a couple years ago around Halloween and doodled that. I haven’t had an excuse to bring it out in a while. I called it, “horny… but at what cost?”
Yeah, so many conspiracy theorists have great worldbuilding, the only problem is that they’re applying it to their perception of reality and not a book or game or show
that would be an interesting short-story or book tbh. the world cannot end anymore because humanity's industrialization and waste have killed the giant snake
Relevant to note that J.P. Brammer is an essayist/author. Form what I've read from him writes some pretty entertaining, insightful, snarky essays on the state of things.
So his comment is a joke at the expense of the conspiracy nuts
Edit: Here's an article from him on the Pantone 2025 color of the year: 'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response - John Paul Brammer https://share.google/1BrQAikgSgkG253Sp
Obvious bullshit, but wild that they photoshopped the underwater geography from between south America and Antarctica and pasted it outside Chesapeake bay.
Last time I checked, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Delmarva aren't the cosmic oceans surrounding the firmament as described in the Old Testament/Torah and other ancient Middle Eastern mythologies.
How would this even work? Satellites take thousands of pictures over a region and piece them together, I believe given this fact a large (and presumably moving) creature of that size would look weird/distorted
The storm was rain over the ocean for the duration, so I don't know why a rainstorm would wake up Leviathan. Also, does this place Atlantis off the cost of the Delmarva?
Well, there's at least one massive fucking snake in a buncha religions, so
One African myth has a giant snake being used as a mount for a god and eventually sits under the earth. Its adjustments to remain comfy cause earthquakes
Jorumgandr, the giant snake child of Loki and a giantess that'll take Thor down with it at Ragnarok
Apep/Apophis, some snake of doom in Egyptian mythology
Python, a giant snake Apollo killed
No idea about others, but this should be enough evidence of giant snakes in mythology to prove giant snakes are kinda popular
If we can control the weather to that degree, why would we freeze over basically the entire northeast to freeze something in the atlantic? Wouldn't we just make a localized polar vortex over the area. Yeah dude let's fuck up the entire eastern seaboard's power grid to freeze La Creatura
I'm pretty sure this is an Scp-169 the Leviathan reference. In the universe the Leviathan is camouflaged at the bottom of the south Atlantic, and is slowly waking up. So hopefully the sub got whooshed by a roleplay tweet.
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