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benjojo posted 11 Nov 2024 10:53 +0000

Those "biblically accurate angels" right? How many eyes are we talking?

I tried to look it up and stumbled upon /r/AcademicBiblical with a surprisingly in depth debate thread, and this incredible comment from the mod team.

My conclusion is that, they are arguably not angels (boo!) and “full of eyes in front and behind” leaves a lot to the imagination

A reddit comment that says "So, there is a lot of great conversation happening in this thread. But there is also an incredible amount of rule violations. Please continue to be mindful of staying within the realm of academic biblical studies, and keep source requirements in mind. Thank you."

benjojo replied 11 Nov 2024 10:55 +0000
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I weirdly appreciate the accumulated amount of time humanity has put into a small(ish) set of religious books, but it's also terrifying that there are people who know this stuff down to the word in many places, and across all of the different translations!

dee@social.treehouse.. replied 11 Nov 2024 10:56 +0000
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@benjojo there are people like that for the C programming language as well

benjojo replied 11 Nov 2024 10:59 +0000
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@dee I was going to say there isnt as much undefined behaviour in the bible, but thinking about it, the bible has just been adapted to cover a lot of the "undefined behaviour" that exists today.

The best thing about the C people is that you can pit them against each other based on the 3 compilers MSVC/GCC/LLVM, and have them debate for days like rabbis while someone writes their 4th out of bounds bug in some critical national infrastructure

jesopo@chaos.social replied 11 Nov 2024 11:15 +0000
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@benjojo @dee i have been summoned

benjojo replied 11 Nov 2024 11:17 +0000
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@jesopo jess wake up, bible study chat goin on

also them biblically accurate angels are not angels right?

jesopo@chaos.social replied 11 Nov 2024 11:24 +0000
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@benjojo they sort of are. angels are described as having multiple different possible forms. i think people tend to be specifically talking about the Ophanim when they do the "Biblically accurate angels" thing

dee@social.treehouse.. replied 11 Nov 2024 11:00 +0000
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@benjojo so exactly like religious people then :blobfoxangrylaugh:

jesopo@chaos.social replied 11 Nov 2024 11:16 +0000
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@benjojo @dee abortion is an undefined behaviour given there are conflicting passages that could be considered to pertain to it, for example

benjojo replied 11 Nov 2024 10:56 +0000
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Reddit, the place where you have /r/FurryYiff perfectly co-exist with /r/AcademicBiblical , all together training the next LLM chatbot to be somehow deeply knowledgeable at both subjects

DanielRThomas@social.. replied 11 Nov 2024 11:01 +0000
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@benjojo I like the depiction of angels in Chris Walley's "Lamb among the Stars" which is trying to be biblically accurate while being set in the distant future. Great sci-fi