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Apple Vision Pro from a Young Earth Creationist's View (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got the Apple Vision Pro. It's awesome, but to be honest, it doesn't do much, yet. It's amazing hardware and software, but there are few built-in apps. It'll grow and expand, but there's just not a lot you can do with it yet.

There are two built-in experiences to sell you on how much potential it has to sell you on how incredible this thing can / will be. They both involve dinosaurs.

In one, a large dino comes into the room. It's very impressive. In the other, you're fully immersed in a scene of dinos and you can look around at all the scenery surrounding you. And this got me thinking…

What if I was a Young Earth Creationist who bought this? You know, those dummies who take the bible literally and think the earth is 5-6000 years old. The ones who think either fossils are a test of your faith by god or dinos roamed the earth with humans. How would these make such a person feel?

Personally, my first dream job, as a child, was to be an archaeologist, digging up dinos, so I loved both experiences. But if I thought this was all a lie from Satan, how let down might I feel when those are the best parts of my new, expensive toy?

This was my first thought when I awoke this morning. I'm typing it right after I woke so I don't forget, such as we forget the details of dreams. Apologies for typos. I'm not proofreading it. I'm grabbing some caffeine and getting my day going. I just wanted to capture this silly, ironic idea. Btw, the AVP is still truly awesome and I don't regret the purchase.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There are actually... or at least were actually people that refused to use Apple products...

...because the Apple With A Bite Out Of It logo signifies functionally the mark of the beast, as it represents being willing branded by the symbol of the forbidden fruit that eve took a bite out of and doomed humanity for the sake of knowledge to be able to challenge god with.

I dont personally know people like that, but i have absolutely met people who, if you put a vr helmet on them and loaded up say the most recent DOOM game, they would be so shocked and horrified they would actually think the device was a cursed unholy contraption that is an /actual/ portal to hell.

The heavy emphasis on over the top imagery and violence in early shooters is a lot more understandable when you realize the main market demo was basically nerdy white kids rebelling from their very much more normalized extremist christian worldviews in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So this is totally random and unsolicited, but I've seen you around some of the communities I'm in and I noticed you sometimes use slashes to emphasize words (e.g. /actual/). Maybe that's a personal preference, but just in case, I thought I'd let you know that Lemmy supports Markdown formatting, so you can italicize words by wrapping them in asterisks. For example, *actual* becomes actual

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Aha, youre not the first person to point this out to me, though you are by far the most polite and least rude.

I know how to do markdowns in lemmy.

I just stylistically like using / encapsulation as a form of emphasis, usually to indicate a tone shift to a more serious and louder tone if you were reading this in your head or aloud.

Ive found that italics and bold and ~~strikethrough~~ all have different sets of contextual uses that usually evoke slightly different interpretations from most readers, so i kind of just made up my own thing.

Italics usually convey either a tone shift down to a softer or near whisper, which can be used for ironic inflexion effect, or to just actually denote an actual whisper, or i often also use it if im writing basically a monologue or dialogue and then want to indicate that some kind of action happens.

Bold text ive found doesnt usually actually imply seriousness or even loudness to most people, but instead actually something more like a boastful and prideful tone.

I also use it in more serious discussions to focus on key phrases, figures or words that are pivotal to either my argument or the argument of another.

And then of course theres ALL CAPS which usually denotes basically a tone of quite loud, quite agitated, anger, when used sparringly, ... or basically that youre either insane, or very old and cant read small caps well, if its used not sparringly.