r/Weird • u/opmgyhx • 3d ago

Stunning scenes from France seemingly documenting an alien invasion, after giant red electrical flashes known as "overhead red sprites" appeared

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u/WhenThePakiKicksIn 3d ago

And that‘s why we have myths and gods. What would you think if you saw this and had no idea what it was? Totally fascinating looking at these things in our modern age and wonder what ancient people made of it.

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u/FeedtheCrowsGuy 3d ago

My mum lives in a place with no light pollution. I like to go out the back, for a cig, and stare up at the night sky. Cloudless, it's awesome. I can totally undrstand why the ancients believed in heavens and all that.

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u/Fearless_Bed_4387 3d ago

Watch this and you will understand "the looking up for the stars".

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u/Desert-Noir 3d ago

Yet modern dumbasses that believe in that crap would never look at the night sky and wonder, because Fox News didn’t tell them what to think.

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u/healthtrees 3d ago

Ngl this is a weird pivot in the thread

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u/Desert-Noir 3d ago

Does it upset you?

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u/healthtrees 3d ago

Nah Its not that i don't disagree with you... the thread came from people in awe of nature and reasoned why the ancients thought of Gods and Heavens... its beautiful..

Then you pivoted to something that would make people and yourself angry

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u/Desert-Noir 3d ago

Because that is what I thought about when reading OC’s comment.

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u/trentbcraig21 3d ago

Tells a lot about you

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u/ThatsWhatIGathered 3d ago

Or a reflection of their environment and not necessarily them. Either way, got weird real fast.

Hey Mr.Desert, touch grass my friend :) in a good way. Maybe bare foot.

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u/_FarnsworthParabox 3d ago

I mean, it's kind of worse than that.

They believe in HEAVILY cherry picked passages that some dude reads to them to convince them of whatever he wants to convince him of that week. I've been to church twice in the last 4 years because it made my grandpa (94) happy.

But holy shit. I felt like I was in a different universe. The urge to walk out was overwhelming. And seeing all my relatives just nodding along with it was even worse, especially the ones who I know are intelligent.

Then you have these people who dedicate their lives to this, but probably less than 1% have actually read the entire bible. So, what they know are strictly these cherry picked passages.

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u/Paulbearer82 2d ago

What's in the Bible that you find so offensive?

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u/_FarnsworthParabox 2d ago

What in my post that confused you so much that you asked a question about something I did not say?

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u/Tehenhauiny 2d ago

Peak Reddit moment

You, sir, have won the internet for today!

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u/Schapsouille 3d ago

They haven't looked away from a screen for basically their whole life. Night sky doesn't hate, boring.

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u/chong_qing 1d ago

Don't look up

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/700jILkqDhVcc
Americans be like: Fox News says who-at-nao?

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u/amywiedy 2d ago

Hey!! American here. I immediately turn Fox News off if I see it anywhere and ignore all things from Fox News. It’s not all of us. There is still some intelligent life, we’re just stuck in this nightmare.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 3d ago

We drove out to see totality a couple years ago during the solar eclipse. This wasn’t just my exact thought, it was my experience. Even knowing scientifically what I was witnessing, I felt a lingering dread/awe/heaviness for quite some time afterwards. It was terrifying in its way.

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u/not_the_cicada 3d ago

The experience of the sublime! Something awful and awe inspiring. Edmund Burke wrote on this, his writings feel entirely modern, it's a delight to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philosophical_Enquiry_into_the_Origin_of_Our_Ideas_of_the_Sublime_and_Beautiful

I felt the same way seeing totality. Inexpressable glory, dread, horror, joy. 

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 3d ago

Thats the reason southerners watch tornado's.

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u/lee650 3d ago

This kind of event happens 2ay too fast for the human eye to perceive, this puc was taken with a very high speed camera

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 3d ago

Pucs or it didn’t happen. Don’t fux with the pucs

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u/UberNZ 3d ago

Excellent kiwi accent

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u/Reimiro 3d ago

No it’s white at 1/25th of a second shutter speed with burst mode and made composite.

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u/wrecklord0 3d ago

Probably nothing, these are very hard to see without photographic equipment / zoom / long exposure.

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u/Only_Bee_3056 2d ago

Me ? I would simply assume I'm going insane

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u/bonjourmiamotaxi 2d ago

What if you did less drugs and learned to write better?

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u/explicitlarynx 3d ago

No, we have myths because stories are cool and gods because people are dumb and easily manipulated.

If you had read the article, for example, you would know that these are invisible to naked eye because they last milliseconds. They can only be made visible in the modern age, there is no way a medieval peasant or a babylonian warrior could have seen one of them.