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lunamarya t1_je1q7e0 wrote

Reply to comment by khoabear 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

I’m not even referring to his cult of personality

He’s literally a modern-day Guan Yu — a Chinese folk hero whose wartime/peacetime exploits have been engrained to the Chinese psyche. Even if China wasn’t communist by this date I’d reckon that they’d still have him seated in their household shrines.

Up until today blue collar Chinese still jnvoke his “spirit” whenever they feel that they’re exploited lol

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khoabear t1_je1pmvv wrote

Reply to comment by lunamarya 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

Shame that you got downvoted because people don't understand the concept. Communists, like Chinese, Vietnamese and N. Koreans, love worshipping the party founders like gods.

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SuperSecretAgentMan t1_je1oroh 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

CHIM = Learning you exist in a videogame and gaining dev access.

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jingyi-ah t1_je1o9dj wrote

Reply to comment by FrostyTheSasquatch 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

Yeah reading this title was very ….. interesting? Weird? I am obviously familiar with this stuff but seeing it couched in Christian terms was bizarre. Lowkey felt like the way a missionary in the 1800s would describe it in a carrier pigeon letter to the king lol

It’s obviously an attempt to relate it to what the author is familiar with, but there is no direct equivalent and it doesnt make sense to try and explain it as the eastern version of Christian XYZ when you can just explain it as what it IS.

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conquer69 t1_je1nxhq wrote

Reply to comment by Kitselena 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

It's also likely it is fanfiction that was later added to the canon. Back then even the concept of fiction wasn't fully understood.

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Shimaru33 t1_je1n5j9 wrote

Reply to comment by Nuffsaid98 in TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by. by 0verlyAnxious

Well, trying to be objective and ignoring the topic for this thread, the answer would be yes, but probably not in a significant way. There's a lot more in play than just the size of the person.

People who go to frozen lands, like artic, have to eat a lot, lot more calories to compensate the heat loss. And obviously someone who sits playing video games all day tend to gain weight because they don't burn the calories, even if they don't eat as much as the artic explorer.

Now, assuming two persons with different sizes, similar lifestyle, living in the same weather and with similar health, and considering exclusively the necessary caloric intake to not die, in that case, yeah, the person with a smaller body would need less calories to surive. Not like it would be ethical to test it though.

You could go to r/askscience to start a thread to have a more complete answer, as I'm just some random stranger trying to wild guess.

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DistortoiseLP t1_je1n49p wrote

Reply to TIL the SL-1 was the only reactor accident in U.S. history which resulted in immediate fatalities, killing 3 military operators in 1961, pinning one of them to the ceiling. by rigorousthinker

>Four men had entered into the reactor building at 10:38 pm and found the third man.  Legg was discovered last because he was pinned to the ceiling above the reactor by a shield plug and not easily recognizable.

I get the strong impression "pinned to the ceiling" is underselling how getting blasted into the ceiling by a nuclear reactor meltdown would reduce a man into a bag of hamburger.

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