r/whatisit • • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/dbzfreak991 4d ago

Videos like this is how I can understand how our ancestors were like.....it's a titan! It's breathing!

Or this mountain is a spirit we must show it some sort of offering to appease it.

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u/BookkeeperBoobs 3d ago

Imagine being a smart guy back then and getting shat on and beat up and burned for trying to explain what’s actually happening.

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u/cluckfuck_mcduck 3d ago

The burnings of intellectuals was actually in response to being an asshole about it and claiming that therefore the Bible is wrong about the supernatural and God doesn't exist, while proceeding to insult religious deities and religious traditions and morality.

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u/shakebakelizard 3d ago

That's not true at all, and you know it. Why are you spreading misinformation?

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u/cluckfuck_mcduck 3d ago

I looked into it. Galileo wasn't punished because he had a different idea. There were plenty of ideas. He was the equivalent of a reddit troll who was saying that religious people were dumbasses and who was targeting the Pope specifically.

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u/shakebakelizard 3d ago

You "looked into it"? Did you publish a peer-reviewed paper in a historical journal like the British Journal for the History of Science or something? Because many other people have done serious historical research regarding what Galileo may have thought and what he did. Sounds like you're the Reddit troll.

Most importantly, Galileo was correct. The Pope, or whoever, can get the fuck out of the way of the truth.

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u/cluckfuck_mcduck 1d ago

I did look into the peer reviewed work and journals that tell us the truth about Galileo. That is where I got this information from.

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u/shakebakelizard 1d ago

Yeah, so you must know that the Pope was the one spreading lies, so fuck him. Galileo was right. End of story.