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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing "crosses" in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they're profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite was the one who claimed to have converted to christianity after seeing 3 waterfalls and because he saw three of something one time that means the trinity is real.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Imagine what wild beliefs he'd be lurching into if that story were remotely true. Wild that people seem to be into it

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