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Picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, with an arrow pointing towards earth. The text for the arrow reads: “YOU ARE HERE”. And the bottom text reads: “AND GOD IS EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR PEE PEE!”
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Picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, with an arrow pointing towards earth. The text for the arrow reads: “YOU ARE HERE”. And the bottom text reads: “AND GOD IS EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR PEE PEE!”
That couldn’t be a picture of Andromeda though, since that is not the perspective you get from our galaxy. Andromeda is facing us more with the edge than being broadside like in this image.
I’m not complaining though. Thanks for including the alt-text!
Thanks for the correction :) glad there are space nerds.
I’m guessing it’s an image of some other galaxy then right? So the arrow is pointing to some alien planet and is actually an alien meme leaking to planet earth?
E: I’m genuinely grateful, not trying to be cynical; just being a bit silly with the further analysis :)
Jesus is coming!
open your mouth…
Sometimes I like to think that the reason a god isn’t around to help fix things is that they are constantly seeding new civilizations around the universe, and ours just didn’t work out.
That’s the spoiler of a recent popular film.
Which one?
It’s a spoiler, I’m not saying. Just watch every movie that came out in 2025. Hint: It’s not One Battle After Another, but see that one anyway.
If he didn’t want me touching it, he shouldn’t have given it to me. Kinda his fault I whack it.
We were made in his image, so God loves it too.
That also implies God likes to murder people at least a bit… oh wait nevermind.
Or shorter arms
Tyrannosaur arms solved.
Or at least he would have made it less convenient to touch with your hands, like placing it in the middle of your back or something
That would be a weird bikini.
The only place I can’t reach on my body is my right shoulder blade. God should’ve put my genitals there.
Setting aside the ins and outs of religious-based sexual morality, the galaxy being very big does not negate the consequences of your behaviors on your immediate neighbors, your peers, or your descendants.
Epstein was still a bad dude, despite the vastness of the universe.
Sir, we’re talking about masturbation
How big was Ghislaine Maxwell’s dick?
The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns. I agree morality exists, but it is an entirely human construct. We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. So don’t be a dick, but do whatever you want with your own dick so long as it doesn’t impose on others.
The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns.
The clock-maker is not concerned exclusively with the largest gears.
We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
“God doesn’t care about small things” is the antithesis of Biblical teaching. Both the Old and the New Testaments go through great pains to convey how the most humble individuals in the most basic circumstances still receive Divine Attention.
If you’re arguing with a Christian on these terms, you’re queuing yourself up for an ass kicking. They’ve got much better poetry than a grainy photo of a galaxy that isn’t even the Milky Way, btw.
Mate I’m not arguing with a Christian. And I’ve been one, trust me they ain’t got any poetry that compares with the awe inspired by the existence of galaxies. And lol at certain animals on a particular planet doing particular things with their genitals be vital gears in the machine. On this planet alone there are (and have been) so many different forms of sexual reproduction that the idea that the human way is somehow more important than any of them is laughable. The clockmaker has made an incomprehensible number of gear types. What you do with your dick isn’t going to impact the time in anyway. The clock ticks on regardless.
Side note. The absolute incomprehensible scale of the universe is part of what helped me see through the cult bullshit I grew up in. Hearing the poetry of Carl Sagan spoke more to me than any patriarch. Just because you’re not inspired by the Cosmos doesn’t mean others aren’t either
in the stripped club. straight up “jorking it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My God.
I genuinely don’t see how religious zealots could possibly believe half the shit they believe unless they truly think space is fake and only the solar system, specifically Earth, exists and matters.
There’s entire branches of theology undermining every major world religion that dedicate themselves to rationalizing the Divine Bureaucracy. “God doesn’t care, because he is big and I am small” is as true as “The American President doesn’t care what I’m up to in Venezuela, because he’s very far away and I’m not that important in the grand scheme of geopolitics”.
What zealots are inclined to believe in is the Angelic Delta Force and its capacity to inflict sudden, horrifying, and indiscriminate violence on the wrong kind of person. If you study the history of Cargo Cults you’ll discover people who experience traumatizing, inexplainable phenomena can often build up superstitious rituals in an effort to control things that are fundamentally beyond their grasp.
It isn’t that “space is fake” nearly so much as “There are things beyond my grasp that bother me, so I’m changing my personal behavior in the vain hope it will protect me from these anxiety-inducing events”.
Generally speaking it rests on “god” or “gods” being beyond our comprehension. The whole “biblically accurate angel” thing isn’t just a meme, to some degree it’s also best effort attempts at making images of something described in a way that most people nowadays would consider borderline lovecraftian.
So it kinda follows that if those things are supposed to be the approachable messengers, than anything remotely human-like can’t map well to the “form” of the god over them.
Also, biblically there’s already arguments for time not being a thing for the Christian god.
If omniscience is truly what it says on the tin, there’s no reason that a being with it couldn’t care about what every creature in the universe is doing with their respective reproductive bits, as well as caring about every single more important thing everywhere, simultaneously. The whole point of omni-* in terms of gods is to be limitless.
I genuinely don’t get how you could possibly think that’s somehow mutually exclusive with believing in space/the universe. The universe is so incomprehensibly big compared to what any of us will get to directly experience in our lifetime. If anything I would think it would make it easier to believe in a being similarly incomprehensibly outside the scope of human existence, experience, and understanding. Like you’re perfectly fine with the cosmic infinities, but you can’t bring yourself to imagine some being one more level hierarchally above that?
You think that someone could look at all the amazing and wildly weird shit in this world, think that some god being made it all happen, but then also think “yeah, it definitely stopped there, no more”?
Like, I’m sure there’s plenty of people that do. There absolutely were over the course of history. But to me it just seems kind of like a huge conceptual schism to believe in some sort of god being and not believe in space/the universe/etc.
God is the intrusive thoughts telling you to stick your pee pee into industrial machinery
that pickle slicing bitch had it coming!
Well I’m extremely concerned with what I do with my peepee, so it makes sense the creator of the universe should be, too. I’m not a narcissist, btw.
Me: doing my thing
God, visibly sweating and white-knuckling his desk as he watches on the computer monitor: No, no! Stop! Don’t stretch it like that! I didn’t design the desmosomes to last under that kind of pressure! Oh goooooood, stoooooop! Not the ammo box!
things are so fucked up that i bought a 300mm aperture telescope, so i can look at deep sky objects and tell myself “at least we’re insignificant”
It doesn’t matter for GOD what we do, it is important for us. The rules of the religion is for OUR life not GOD’s.
What religion are you talking about? Because in most of them the God figure cares a great deal about what we do.
The religion tells us what does God say about our living. God says the right way to live is this; the way is best for US and God does not need us to live in the way.
I think you’re intentionally leaving the “or else you’ll be punished for all eternity,” part out.
It’s never just a suggestion with organized religion.
You’re totally right. We should be stoning women to death that show their ankles in public. The whores.
A lot of the early stigmas and taboos about diet, clothing, and hygiene emerged from ritualized practices intended to prevent disease and promote human health. The lack of understanding meant the ritual divorced itself from the real best practices over time. But prohibitions on eating shellfish and chopping off the foreskin of your dick and keeping menstruating women out of the house were ultimately primitive efforts at avoiding food poisoning, curbing the spread of STIs, and managing the bloody mess of periodic period flow.
You mean a woman menstruating in the house makes the milk sour? Any scientific studies proving this? God is just misogynistic old wanker. Fuck him! Hail Satan!
if you’re not in public and no one’s around who didn’t consent, then there are literally ZERO negative effects of masturbation.
It is another problem. I did say what God says is for OUR life, for US, not himself.
how does living an entire life filled with guilt, fear, and shame help us?
The life should be with love not things you said, love of God. I think you have understood religion wrong; you think the religion is like a cruel dictator which punishes you if you do something wrong in its opinion. The religion is “I do this because I love God”. If I do something God told me to do, my life will get better; not only my “life”, even my after life. I think I cannot describe better in comments of a lemmy post. This is something we should talk about in a physical meeting.
That sounds real great, till you reach the parts where god will viciously punish you, your family and anyone in the vicinity just because you didn’t do what he told you to do.
If even half the shit in the old testament is true, I would rather have god as an absent father(or ideally nowhere close) then whatever the fuck he was going for.
ok, good. god tells me to jerk off abundantly and frequently
The comments are disgusting me dude
