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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 157 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a story that Wong Wifu, the great Chinese martial artist... had a fight with a guy and beat him. Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died.

Then and there?

No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Statistically if you're born, at some point you will die. Being born is deadly.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

planning for a busy weekend?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

When did we run out of unique souls and added in NPCs?

[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's more than that... I know you were joking but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population

Yeah it's estimated but it's a shit ton of people so it's more like 99.9%

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You underestimate the effects of population growth. There was a lot of time in prehistory but the population at any given point was tiny compared to today.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those people were alive and died it doesn't matter... There have been more people dead than are currently living by a lot.

We don't care how many people were alive back than compared to today. It's the total amount to how many have died...

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No your right, my bad I'm terrible at math and sick

[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that's like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you're basing the 99.9% off?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 week ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago

Tendies for the tendie throne.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can I take a moment to talk to you about our one true lord and saviour, Satan?

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is Jehovah witness Satan different from regular Christian Satan?

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, in such a way that neither of those denominations represent Satan correctly.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You've got me curious. Care to elaborate?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Satan seems to be the good guy in the Bible, given there's scant evidence of a literal hell of eternal damnation. Even if any of this were real, god created hell, not Satan.

Satan never destroyed the entire world or nuked cities or anything like that. I can't think of a bad thing he does in the Bible except maybe the Job bet. And even then god is worse on that one.

Here are the tenets of the Satanic Temple. You decide.

Eh, the concept of hell really varies a lot by denomination, from the classic burning hell in Catholicism to a more "internal" hell of separation from God in Eastern Orthodoxy. I personally subscribe a bit more to the latter than the former, because I don't understand why a loving god would punish his children who disobey for eternity. In this latter view, Satan is merely an angel who rebelled and was kicked out of God's presence, and thus his only goal is to ruin things for the rest of us.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've seen the tenets and absolutely agree with them. Don't think they seriously represent Satan though. I think the name is purely for shock. Religious types couldn't fathom a satanist being a decent person.

[–] Flax_vert 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Blood for the blood god. Khorne loves him

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

It's Greentext