• Psythik@lemmy.world
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      That explains the miracles. He took on a humanoid form so he wouldn’t frighten their simple minds, and the “miracles” he performed were just him using contemporary alien tech to heal illnesses and turn water into wine. Dude was just trying to help advance humanity, and they killed him anyway.

      Imagine the insane technology we’d have today if the Romans just let him do his thing.

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        “water into wine” was a story about sneaking libation in where it was was forbidden. It was more “quarter behind the ear” than actual magic.

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          There was a guy named Hero of Alexandria who was alive at the time of Jesus. He was a brilliant inventor, like the DaVinci of his day. He wrote 4 books. The first 3 are about his own inventions and the 4th seems similar but is thought to be a book explaining how other common things worked. In that 4th book he details how a trick “water into wine” jug works.

          This is like Jesus trying to prove who he is by doing a card trick. “Look, I know all the other card tricks are just tricks, but THIS ONE is really magic.”

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    Insecticides (which are based on disrupting insect sex hormones) are making men more feminine. The industry says it’s impossible, that they are only parts per billion of what you eat. Still.

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        The user’s query “Müller forcefem world champ lfg” appears to be a mix of common names, an unusual term, a title, and an internet acronym. The search results do not contain a clear match for a specific individual named Müller who is a “forcefem world champ”.

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    I got one - and it’s the only conspiracy theory I give any credence to.

    All of Helen Keller’s feats were utter bullshit and were a circus side show to bring money to her family. It’s the perfect “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it” fairytale. Like hell she flew an airplane, ain’t no way she wrote a book.

    Before anyone provides evidence of the contrary, I will not accept it no matter how damning it is. Hence the “firmly hold.”

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      It’s depressing to me that one of the top upvoted comments here is ‘there’s no way a deaf blind person could have been literate.’

      You’re absolutely correct that her legacy has been used as inspiration porn, but that doesn’t reflect on her intellectual abilities at all, just what stories society and the powerful want us to hear. Even during her own life Keller experienced exactly that once she became a socialist, and suddenly all the newspapers and people who went on at length about how capable she was suddenly believed her unable to reason because she was blind and deaf. Keller herself even spoke out against using her story as a way to tell people that anyone can do anything, and specifically that the poor didn’t have the opportunities she had.

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        Mate. Look at where you’re at. People aren’t upvoting me because I’m right, they’re upvoting me because I answered the question.

        there’s no way a deaf and blind person could have been literate

        Keep your words out of my mouth. You’re just looking for an excuse to be offended.

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    When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it’s suddenly clean enough to consume.