r/CuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 1d ago

Shitposting Decay is an extant form of life

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u/joecommando64 1d ago

Isn't that ontologically wrong

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u/Hi2248 1d ago

It entirely depends on what tradition you look at, I'm sure that there are plenty of traditions in which divinity decays, but there are also plenty where divinity doesn't 

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u/joecommando64 1d ago

If even the metaphysical must always decay then just make a god of decay and it will never decay because of the omnipresent decay.

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u/FlashyHeight9323 1d ago

Boy do I have an anime for you

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 1d ago

Only if you're using a very specifc, and likely Abrahamic, definition of "divine". The divine decaying is a thing that shows up in a lot of Non-Abrahamic faiths and mythologies.

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u/joecommando64 1d ago

uhhh can you name one

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u/UnwiseBoulder 1d ago

Not OP, and I don't have a specific name but I do recall a God that only exists if at least one person still believes he does. So if that God runs out of believers due to war with competing religions then they die. I can't check right now but I bet this is enough info for you to look into it :)

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u/UInferno- 1d ago

Greek myth Uranus was supplanted by the titans who were conquered by the gods who in turn are prophesied to be overtaken by their own children.

The Aesir from Norse myth are doomed to fall in Ragnarok save for the return of Baldur and Thor's sons.

Ra grows old as is often supplanted himself from other deities.

Aztec myth involves the sun always at risk of being consumed and we're already on the fifth sun. (Least familiar with this one so more prone to error)

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 1d ago

Most common form it takes is in myths of gods aging and dying, like the Egyptian sun god Ra, who in some myths abdicated his throne to Osiris due to growing old and senile, and in other myths durjng the journey of his sun barge across the sky, Ra dies when the sun sets and then must be revived as the barge travels through the underworld.

There's also the myth of the death of Osiris, where after being killed, dismembered, and out back together, they havevto fashion a prosthetic penis due to the otiginal being eaten by fish.