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StevieSmall999 t1_je0xxb8 wrote

Reply to TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, This is most likely why the Chinese consider Guan Yu (from the 3 kingdoms era) the God of War.

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Cool!

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Pay08 t1_je0xvs8 wrote

Reply to comment by IactaEstoAlea in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Did he achieve CHIM? I find it far more likely he just used Numidium to become a god. Besides, isn't achieving CHIM means he's above a god? Does he even have a planet?

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LillyPip t1_je0xobq wrote

Reply to comment by Shoopdawoop993 in TIL that the red lights on top of tall buildings in cities are called “aviation obstruction lighting,” and are used to help pilots of low-flying aircraft avoid collisions with otherwise hard-to-see structures. by bearjew64

I asked my dad as a child what the lights on towers were for, too. He said ‘so planes don’t hit the towers’. Then I asked what the towers were for, and he said ‘to hold up the lights’. That messed with my head for years.

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tkdyo t1_je0v7dd wrote

Reply to comment by fistfullofnoodle2 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Let's be real how can you not worship such an amazing beard paired with a powerful guandao?

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that_baddest_dude t1_je0uxyz wrote

Reply to comment by machina99 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Zeus getting around so much could also be a retcon. See Hercules.

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yg2522 t1_je0udeh wrote

Reply to TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Buddha is the prime example. Even to this day there are two denominations of Buddhism: those that worship Buddha a diety and those that just reverie him as a great philosopher.

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Nuklear132 t1_je0tjqg wrote

Reply to TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Pretty common idea in a lot of old religions and pantheons. A god’s power and influence is directly related to the size and conviction of his/her congregations

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MtchMConnelsDeadHand t1_je0rmix wrote

Reply to comment by ctn91 in TIL that eating food containing poppy seeds really can cause you to fail a drug test for opiates by Lupercali

It’s pretty outdated now anyways, isn’t it? If I recall correctly, the answer was yes but you’d have to eat a TON of poppy seeds for it to make your test positive. I think that now the screening tests they use are much more sensitive and can pick up false positives from poppy seeds more easily.

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IactaEstoAlea t1_je0ri1c wrote

Reply to comment by SexyOldManSpaceJudo in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

Actually no, that is what the elves believe and that is in part because of their hatred of humanity and mortality

Talos achieved CHIM which makes him divine by his (or rather "their") own merit

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Regular_Dick t1_je0rhry wrote

Reply to TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys

If only I was the only one with a cell phone and the rest of you just had to watch… meh heh heh heh heh.

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