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    realization that it’s like a toddler’s story….
    “yeah, it had like… millions of eyes and wings!”

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      Or maybe a desert villager named Ezekiel with literally zero education and world experiences who was high on drugs saw a peacock which likely escaped from a local traveling merchant cage because those animals come from a fucking jungle, and the idiot couldn’t explain what he saw and just attributed it to an angel because he and his religious buddies are all fucking stupid.

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      And the walls were made of a mile thick of gold, and the gates were made of diamond, and, and, and then they started eating the scrolls…

      Yep, definitely happened and wasn’t the product of funny mushrooms. /s

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    Turns out we were the predators. They say “be not afraid” because they actually want to talk to that person, not frighten them away from a tasty meal.

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      What? Does this make sense or am I unwell?

      Why would the angel say “be not afraid” because he wants the predator to chill out and…eat them? Are angels piloted by suicidal, parasitic organisms forcing them to be eaten in order for the predator to spread more parasites?

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        because they actually want to talk to that person

        Perhaps you missed part of my comment.

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            I think the last 4 words of the top comment are throwing us off.

            Here’s my best recounting:

            Angels have eye spots to avoid becoming a tasty meal for a human. When an angel meets a human, the angel’s eye spots will scare the human, causing them to flee. In order to talk to a human, it was necessary for the angel to reassure them, “be not afraid”.

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              Yes, often it requires taking in an entire comment, and not just the final part to understand it.

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                The first half of your comment made sense in isolation. The second half also made sense in isolation. It was the whole thing put together that didn’t make sense.

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    Or maybe the biblically accurate angels all have really good eye spots as well that we just assumed were eyes and they are trying to scare off something even worse.

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    Well you know what they say, god’s all seeing.

    So if you want to slip out and really get crazy with those Canaanites you got to be able to cover your 6, and your 180, and your 278, might as well also cover your 112 too.