[text] serious questions from serious people (aka hey look it's a shitpost)

[redotiertwo]

Posted: June 14th
From: Davesprite

ok so
ive been thinking about this for a while but how exactly the fuck does this whole belief to god system work here anyway
i mean we have gods here that nobody except ancient history nerd basement cultists should be worshipping
riding high when some of the big names are spectacular only in their absence
and then theres the question of what bar you have to pass to be considered a god
like where the fuck are our incarnations of the flying spaghetti monster and ceiling cat
or less tragically dated memes
come on people they have religious texts too

[He's been relearning meme culture since he rediscovered it, someone stop him.]

i guess im not that faithful a person because the whole thing seems like grade a spun bullshit to me
but maybe someone can make more sense out of this most gordian of knots

discuss

Comments

[reformedsinner]

How interesting. I hadn't heard of the Flying Spaghetti Monster before.

I'll have to consider a word of thanks the next time I'm making ramen.

[redotiertwo]

i mean being real
given the actual choice of what god you could be here
who wouldnt want to be the patron god of noodly appendages
if its the patron of ramen as well then thats got to be worth prayers aplenty from broke college students everywhere

[reformedsinner]

Ramen must be a part of its domain. Why, it's even named after the noodles.

I'm not so sure about the divinity of Ceiling Cat, who appears to have unorthodox hobbies.

From: Aidos

[fullcowl]

It's pretty weird that there are so many gods that shouldn't be that well known in Japan. Aidos sounded like a really obscure goddess when I looked into it.

But I'm not sure something like ceiling cat has anybody believing in it in a religious context.

[redotiertwo]

yeah but you kinda have my entire problem with this there in a nutshell
how many people these days would believe in aidos in a religious context if theyre obscure even by obscure ancient goddess standards

id prefer ceiling cat to some of the ones we do have here
the heavens demand more presence from our feline meme overlords

[fullcowl]

Honestly, I don't think even people who look that far into Greek goddesses actually believe in them anymore.

Actually, everything about this is pretty weird, huh?

From: Bastet

[shortprogram]

don't gods have different aspects and shit?
maybe i'm ceiling cat

[redotiertwo]

im
im going to give you a minute to just
go to your image search bar
and type in ceiling cat
and tell me the first thing that shows up

ill make some popcorn while you do

[shortprogram]

that meme is older than i am

trust me i've seen shit i'll never unsee

do you know what international sporting events are like

it's a miracle i'm not blind

[birdstheword]

Maybe not enough people believe in them? But I'd never heard of Neith before I got here either. Hmmmmmm Food for thought! I wanna meet a cieling cat god!

[redotiertwo]

yeah thats the thing
the not enough believers argument would work better if we didnt have gods here that probably shouldve gone extinct around the time the pyramids were big

i mean if youre asking to meet a cat god
ceiling cat probably isnt going to be your top option
do we have any other cat gods here because if we dont then we should

video

[theunluckygirl]

[She looks utterly baffled]

I haven't the faintest clue what you're talking about.

What is a 'meme'? [Jennifer No. She also pronounces it like 'me-me'.]

video

[redotiertwo]

[Jennifer, at least, has met Davesprite before, so he doesn't feel too weird about replying in video-kind. He looks like he's making a pretty mighty effort to contain himself right now, though.]

It's pronounced "meem", just going to get that out of the way before someone assumes you're trolling. Hells of common mispronounciation, don't feel too bad, but it's been done so many times that some people just kind of leap on people who use it.

And this is probably going to sound stupid as fuck, but a meme is basically when someone posts a dumb funny thing on the internet that's easy to adapt and then a bunch of people copy it and turn it into a massive in-joke for a hot ten minutes before it gets old and they move on to the next one.

[very_goodman]

[redotiertwo]

fuck yes
lets get this tragic outdated meme game rolling
memes for the meme god

Text; From: Yoon

[handsome_genius]

I'm not convinced that the gods would tell us how any of this works even if they do know a thing about it.

[Trust issues up the wazoo.]

[redotiertwo]

if youre talking the ones upstairs then probably not
but thats why im opening it for discussion among us plebians
worst case scenario we get a laugh out of it and nothing else

Text - From: Kairi

[pure_radiantics]

Flying spaghetti monster and ceiling cat? Those are real god names?

[She has no idea what a meme is.]

Are you saying there are books in the library about the gods the shinki serve here?

[redotiertwo]

i mean theyre the names of gods who have religious texts of their own
however unserious and literal rewrite of the bible they might be

should be
most of them havent been worshipped widely since fuck million years ago but thats why history exists

[nopixiedust]

first arent gods really weird and stuff so there could be like any answer liek maybe a prophet started giving the good word of some random old god and now theyre onot dead anymore

seoncd what is a meme

third how do dyou make your text like that

[redotiertwo]

this is true
but then i am fishing for some spectacularly off the wall conspiracy theory answers here

a meme is someone making a funny internet thing and then the collective internet running it into the ground through reuse within the next hour before moving on to the next funny internet thing
its a vicious cycle

go to your search bar and type in html text color tag
ive done the eldritch majjyks joke on here already it stops being funny when you meet enough people who havent even seen a computer in their life

From: Athena

[adventurology]

You forgot Raptor Jesus, speaking of dated memes.

That said, I don't think it's really a terribly Gordian knot, but if you'd like I'll cut it for you.

The people here who are given "godhood" aren't actually gods. They're just people that were given powers and a role to play in some grand theatrical production. I certainly don't see myself turning anyone into spiders or smashing free from dad's skull, at any rate.

[redotiertwo]

would jesus be considered a god though
wasnt that half the point of him
that he was mortal enough to die for our sins and then immediately gets respawned because this fakeout death cliche shit is so much older than modern hollywood

we were given a role that was apparently taken by a more equipped candidate before us
for that role to even be a thing thats a thing the gods need to exist in the first place for us to take over for
unless youre suggesting some serious toke up and ride on down the rabbit hole conspiracy shenanigans in which case go on

[hontobakabaka]

I'm not entirely certain what the divine connection is, perhaps it is based on the belief that the collective subconscious of mankind can create something simply through belief and it doesn't necessarily go away when mankind stops believing in it. Or this could all be some sort of crazy psychological experiment involving VR. I'm not 100% sure. Nor am I certain why standard text isn't good enough for you so I have decided to reply in kind.

[redotiertwo]

holy shit is that comic sans
well played now i cant tell if youre legit oblivious or youre actually just fucking with me

yeah the thing about the subconscious of mankind creating something through belief is that wed have more than gods if that was actually a thing
unless were arguing that cryptids are all secretly ayakashi and so already exist
which is skirting take the red pill territory but then you did just propose a crazy psychological experiment involving vr as a theory