• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    You’re allowed to make direct eye contact with the sky orb if you want to, nobody will stop you.

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      Yep.

      IIRC: An early (pre-telescope) astronomer did for tens of minutes at a time to document sun spots, but it took weeks for his sight to return and it was likely permanently damaged because of it.

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      Look into the orb long enough, and the orb will graciously unburden you from sight, because you have done all the seeing. Very efficient.

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    This is so true. I once decided to patriotically defy the government and stare at the sky orb, and then the government stole my sight to prevent me from seeing the truth. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

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    This is where H.P. Lovecraft got it wrong. The universe is even more horrifying and incomprehensible than he imagined, but it doesn’t drive people crazy. They just say “oh cool”, then ignore it.

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    I used to immerse myself in the depths of the burning eye in the sky all the time as a kid. Stared for minutes on end. May have some permanent eye damage, but I also used to press fingers into my eyeballs at night to see the blobiverse, and gazed into the perfect red of my laser pointers. I was a dumb kid. Still am at 35. Though my hearing is perfect.

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    I do question that. In fact, I asked the orb what the deal was. The orb said [apply sun burn to face and arms] and that was the end of the discussion. I find him to be firm but fair and when I step out of line he says [apply sun burn to top of feet].

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    You are not allowed to look at it if you aren’t worthy. Unlike you all, me the chosen champion of Ra, is allowed to gaze upon its magnificent form without any repercussions. And it has enlightened me, it has elevated my consiousness and allowed me to temporarily experince a higher plane of existance, during what you lesser folk call “Sun stroke induced hallucinations”.

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    There’s a stove top surface in the kitchen that you are not allowed to make direct contact with and you don’t question that?

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    Oh no, I question that all the time. The government should not be stopping me from staring at the sky orb! First amendment and second amendment rules!

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      I heard YouTube banned videos showing that if you look at the orb through a magnifying glass you can see things the government don’t want you to see. If they’re banning videos about it they must be really scared of people finding out the truth

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        Do not believe the fabricated conspiracy spread by Big Tech! Instead, ask why they’re trying to distract us from the moon! What are they hiding?

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        I have so little faith in the average user nowadays that I am slightly anxious that someone will take you at face value and do it

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          If you think about it, free speech is about as close as you can come to a completely libertarian system. Even then it was obvious early on that having completely unrestricted free speech for all is dumb as fuck because so many people have bad intentions or are dumb as fuck. So we’re left with not being able to agree where to draw the line and with disproportionately powerful people being able to leverage all that “freedom” towards their own goals while weak and dumb people with good intentions get chewed up by their ideology influencing machines.

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    I was just recently thinking about some planet from Star Trek where there are certain limitations, like the day being too hot for humans but the night being ok. And then I recognized exactly this fact.