Every morning I am the god emperor of the known universe until I open my bedroom door.
[Object permanence? What Object permanence? None of you are real when I close my eyes.]
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What is this guy supposed to be doing in this pic? He wanted to show off his abs but not actually take his shirt off but also not actually put any effort into just lifting up his shirt?
And his biceps are so big he has to use handicapable assistance straps due to rotator cuff injuries?
these are the sorts of things you can get away with once you’ve conquered 2 villages
Turns out every successful empire is actually just a successful cult.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Following the same logic, killing all those people isn’t that bad since they are small
This doesn’t hold up.
Depends on how you want to look at it
You can also look at it from the point of view that life is a miraculous event in an unbelievably large universe and that we should treat every person and every living thing on this tiny planet with all the care and humanity we can achieve. Because as far as we know at the moment, it’s the only life we know of.
This is a good comment. Thank you for your perspective !
It’s basically the philosophical perspective I learned from reading the writing of Carl Sagan.
If we all just began thinking that there is no mystical religion or magical realm beyond this life but instead realize that this existence is the only reality we will ever know … that it is just a completely random miracle that we even exist and are aware of it … than maybe we would look at each other and every living thing in a completely different way. If we knew that this is the only time we have, we’d probably treat each other a lot differently than the way we are now.
Think of it on a smaller scale: kids who treat their classmates like shit in order to be “the best” in a small town. The achievement isn’t great, but the cruelty is still significant.
Well, when did you last conquer two villages, hm? See…!
Is this a different guy edited to look like a Chad? Weren’t the original photos an art piece?
The photos were edited by the guy’s girlfriend, who is a visual artist
And yet ALESTROM LIVES
Actual God Emperor of Mankind just chilling in the meantime going “pfft, filthy casuals” to himself.
Dude sits in his ass doing nothing for 30,000 years thinking he’s tough shit.
The fun part is that he expressly didn’t want to be worshipped
Sounds like heresy
The even more fun part is that there’s like a 90% chance that if they would let him die, he would respawn and be able to fix shit with another crusade.
I should really read these books, WH40K lore is great
The actual writing is pretty weak, though.
Maybe just more YouTube video essays lol
