Be not afraid, I returned my shopping cart
Would.
… be more afraid…
Where is this fucking cool thing from?
Bible. That’s a biblically accurate angel.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-are-biblically-accurate-angels.html
Akshually, it’s a biblically accurate being but not quite a biblically accurate angel
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The art work is still cool as all fuck
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Ezekiel and Isaiah were on so many hallucinogens when they “saw” these dudes
That one is from onichild on deviant art, there’s a bunch of artists interpretations of the section from Ezekiel 1 if you search for biblically accurate angel
Ezekiel 1:15-20 15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.[a] 16 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl, and the four had the same form, their construction being something like a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without veering as they moved. 18 Their rims were tall and awesome, for the rims of all four were full of eyes all around. 19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. 20 Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.
True but the current online use of “biblically accurate angel” implies the angels we’ve been drawing are biblically inaccurate. That’s ignoring most types of angels, see Hierarchy of angels on Wikipedia.
wheel within a wheel
As an atheist, I don’t think Ezekiel actually had divine visions so his (or whoever pretended to be Ezekiel’s) texts must have been based on what he’d heard or could think of. A gyroscope might be the most mesmerizing and high-tech device he had seen. What is its equivalent today? Volumetric display? Drone show? VR?
Yeah there’s stuff in there about taking on human form & more human like subdivisions too so both are biblically accurate, I think it caught on as a phrase because most of the depictions you find are like humans with wings or halos or both. I think an equivalent today if it was inspired by tech and not just a fully imagining hallucination might be something like a drone show or something natural but not common knowledge like a lightning sprite
Thank you!
How did you add captions to the picture?
I’m on voyager, it has a link to make images where it uploads the image then gives you a line like
You can add the caption (also sometimes called alt text I think it’s used by screen readers) in the square [] braces at the beginning
So that’s what that’s for. I always thought adding text to the brackets would turn it into a link.
Omitting the exclamation point turns it into a link.
With exclamation point:
Without exclamation point: biblically accurate angel ophanim
Lies get you into heven.
makes sense ; heaven itself is a lie
But that would mean the bible is a lie. Surely a book that starts with a creation story, only for its second chapter to be a different creation story, and has 4 separate and often conflicting accounts of a Jewish, immigrant, hippy, socialist’s life could not contain a LIE!
Truth is subjective. Kindness is not.
Uhh kindness is highly subjective.
Lying is not nice.
Why ? If the only consequence of a given lie is that people will feel good and be happy and nothing else. Why would the lie be “not nice” ?
In the same way that it’s not okay to dose someone with a drug, even if you expect it to only have a pleasant effect. It is a violation of a person’s autonomy to distort their sense of reality. It takes away their ability to give informed consent and infantalizes them under your influence, placing you in the position of their superior, saying ‘I know what’s best for you.’ It might not be at the same scale as some others but the smaller scale doesn’t make it good, only less awful.
I have had many dogs in my life, all of which I loved, but only one was my best friend (fuck, I’m already crying). He was a very severe looking boy, very large, and very depressed. He was a Doberman and Rottweiler mix and he just never looked happy. Always “mean mugging”, very scary, but the kindest soul.
If ever anyone asked to pet him, I’d say yes and make a show of restraining him by gripping his leash tight. Then, as they pet him, I’d say something like “aww…I guess he likes you”. I’d love to say that I did this for the people but the truth is that it made the people who were brave enough to pet him go out of their way to come and give my boy chest scratchies (his favorite) whenever they saw us.
I miss him. He was the bestest till the very end.
