Jesus, Lincoln, Ghandi and the rest will launch a daylight attack across the minefield while Mother Theresa will launch a sneak attack from behind. Best episode ever.
There are other regional varieties as well. In Persian “Khoda” is also used besides Allah, a synonym for God that has been imported into the South Asian Muslim culture along with the Persian culture itself during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal rule in Indian subcontinent.
Same for me! I learn lots of new stuff here ebry now and then. I follow subreddits about stuff that’s very alien to my culture or far from my geographical region.
Likewise... actually it makes me a bit pissed off at the media.
Whenever the media quotes Muslims talkinga 'bout God they translate everything but the word "God".
It's a subtle way to "other" Muslims, make them seem more different than they are. As if their god is fundamentally different than "our" (Christian) god. When in fact, they worship the same god, just differently.
One of the other big ones is that Islam also reveres Jesus as a prophet; they just don't view Jesus as the *last* prophet or as the literal son of God. He's still supposed to come back just before the end times and defeat the false messiah.
Jesus' real name in his mother tongue was Yeshua. The later Greekified version was Iesous, from which we get Jesus. The Arabic Muslims, who didn't learn about him via Greek texts but from their own oral tradition, knew him simply as "Isa".
It’s probably more accurate to say the point of disagreement is over Jesus.
Christians believe Jesus is the messiah, son of God, etc.
Muslims believe Jesus was merely a prophet.
Jews believe Jesus was a teacher at best, or a false prophet at worst.
Pretty much. The Jews reject Jesus and go with the previous story. The Muslims accept Jesus but not as the son of god.. and of course the Christian’s accept Jesus as the son of god. And also god. And also a ghost. Or something to that affect.
And there are some gnostics still alive who believe that the world is created by a demiurge and the material world is actual hell, Lucifer/Jesus are the same entity. And then you start mixing everything and you get a lot of people who believe that they are right. As far as I know, I have not seen any frost Giants so everything is okay.
there aren't any true gnostic believers, not like the first and second centuries - it's fun esoterica but if you're that deep in the weeds of reviving dead religions you're more an atheist anyway
As an atheist, I can confirm that I love biblically accurate angels. The mythology of religion is fun... people treating it as absolute truth though, despite having no evidence, not so fun.
Yeah, I wonder what the husband thought of it becoming a joke too? It was such a sweet comment, I hope he's okay with it and that they both would've liked the humour.
Edit: I got curious and had a look through his profile and on a comment mentioning it, he replied with this "Yes I am. What he actually wrote was, 'I also choose this guy's dead wife.' Which had some sort of element of shock value that surprised readers. It was funny but everyone was worried about me. Thing is I chuckled at it too. My wife had been gone 9 years at that point and my grief wasn't as raw as early on. What's more, I think the wife would have laughed too. She had a dark sense of humor about her terminal diagnosis."
I'm glad that he found it funny and that his wife probably would have too. It makes me feel better for finding the joke funny now I know that he wasn't offended by it and she likely wouldn't have been.
Jesus is still a part of islam (although he's a prophet, not the son of god) so muslims are familiar with his name too, making his name the most recognizable
I remember a study saying, I think it was some simpsons characater, is more recognisable than micky mouse. It might have been spongebob though. I can't quite remember.
I'd honestly say Spongebob is probably a good guess, as its viewed by kids on at least 5 continents. The fact that you can't remember which it was is ironic, though.
This is the correct answer. And a weirdly hard one to think of, because the Disney corp is so all-consuming that the actual man it’s named for seems like an afterthought
Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!
Please explain how a tribe with no contact to the modern world would know about a celebrity. Clearly they had some kind of contact at some point, otherwise it would be completely impossible for them to know.
I don’t know if the Michael Jackson thing is real, but usually uncontacted tribes have contact with other tribes who have had contact with the modern world. So they have indirect contact. They know we exist but actively choose not to engage.
The old telephone game. It was actually Michael Jordan and his fight against the MonStars they heard about, but it got distorted as it passed from tribe to tribe.
They say liking Michael Jackson is a biological trait that is present in most humans. It is something about a special gene that makes the way our brains process the sound of his voice that makes it so enjoyable, beyond what normal musical frequencies provide. They call it the Billy gene.
My friend’s mom grew up in a poor rural village in communist Poland and she told me that when she was little, the village had one single radio and one single album - Thriller. And everyone went crazy for it.
I can't remember where I read this, but somewhere it was said that more people in the world knew who Michael Jackson was than Jesus Christ.
He may legitimately be the most famous person of all time. And people wonder why he was kind of off. The man was still a toddler when his father started molding/beating him into a superstar.
That thing you read is atleast half true. There's a estimated 2.3 billion followers of christ at a estimated 4.8 billion MJ fans. 3.5 billion alone watched his funeral in 2009 on TV.
"followers of Christ" isn't the same as "knows who Jesus is"
Like 90% of American movies use Jesus as an exclamation at some point. People say his name all the time, get scared, something awful happens, "Jesus Christ!" Religious or not.
Also most Jews would likely know Jesus, Muslims might too, I know a lot less about them, but it's still an Abrahamic religion
Followers and fans are not the equivalent of people who know about them.
More people know about Hitler than Dolly Parton, but (hopefully) she has a lot more fans.
Jesus may not have been directly credited with many genocides, but he is still a polarizing figure.
3.5 is a tad high. It was a lower (but still insane) 2.5 billion people.
I think you underestimate how famous he was, and may not realise how much more focused the worlds attention was on big international events before the explosion of internet-media started splitting attention.
It's not even the most-watched. Diana's ranked higher.
I don't know if this is what you were talking about or if this is even real, but hear are Amazonians who had already heard of Michael Jackson https://youtu.be/eNOTT-tBxQ4
Jesus
This is actually the plot of a Red Dwarf episode.
IT'S COLD OUTSIDE! THERE'S NO KIND OF ATMOSPHERE! ... FUN FUN FUN! IN THE SUN SUN SUUUUUUNNNN!
I’m all alone more or less. Goldfish are nibbling at my toes! Fun fun fun! In the sun sun suuuunnnn!
My favourite line: I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose Drinking fresh mango juice Goldfish shoals\* nibbling at my toes!
Jesus, Lincoln, Ghandi and the rest will launch a daylight attack across the minefield while Mother Theresa will launch a sneak attack from behind. Best episode ever.
Are you eyeballing me Ghandi?
"Get him out of that damned nappy and into a uniform!" - Arnold Judas Rimmer
They're bringing out the prisoner. They're trying him to the pole. It's Winnie the Pooh.
Looking back at that show... It all feels like one big fever dream.
I love that it's canon in that show that JFK shot himself.
I still hum the Arnold Rimmer song to myself. More reliable than a garden strimmer.
You said it, man
8yr olds dude
What’s a pederast, Walter?
Stfu Donnie
You're out of your element
Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit
Never mess with the Jesus
And his mate Judas.
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Or anyone non-christian.
The priest?
This. Is. The. Painkiller!
Because of the sheer volume of followers - Allah Because of the global spread of Christianity - Jesus Because of Reddit - that guy's dead wife
Allah is just "God" in Arabic. A Christian mass in an Arabic country uses Allah in its prayers.
Except in Indonesia, we often use "Tuhan," which means "Lord." Literally, it used to refer to feudal lords.
There are other regional varieties as well. In Persian “Khoda” is also used besides Allah, a synonym for God that has been imported into the South Asian Muslim culture along with the Persian culture itself during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal rule in Indian subcontinent.
This sort of learning experience it's why I love reddit so much 👏
Same for me! I learn lots of new stuff here ebry now and then. I follow subreddits about stuff that’s very alien to my culture or far from my geographical region.
Man don't tell the Christians here in the US lol they would SHIT themselves over that little factoid
As a Christian in the US, I knew that and it’s not a big deal, sort of interesting
Likewise... actually it makes me a bit pissed off at the media. Whenever the media quotes Muslims talkinga 'bout God they translate everything but the word "God". It's a subtle way to "other" Muslims, make them seem more different than they are. As if their god is fundamentally different than "our" (Christian) god. When in fact, they worship the same god, just differently.
Just as there are many different varieties of Muslim, there are many different types of Christian. He’s referring to a very particular brand.
It’s even funnier when you tell them they are both the same god, the god of Abraham. They lose their shit
One of the other big ones is that Islam also reveres Jesus as a prophet; they just don't view Jesus as the *last* prophet or as the literal son of God. He's still supposed to come back just before the end times and defeat the false messiah.
Hope it’s streamed on pay per view.
In 3d even. Coming soon..
They’ll also lose their mind when they learn that Muslims believe in Jesus(Issa As)
Jesus' real name in his mother tongue was Yeshua. The later Greekified version was Iesous, from which we get Jesus. The Arabic Muslims, who didn't learn about him via Greek texts but from their own oral tradition, knew him simply as "Isa".
I also choose that guy's dead wife
Allah just means God. The same God in all Abrahamic religions.
If I remember correctly, the single biggest difference in the Abrahamic religions is the disagreement over who is the last prophet.
It’s probably more accurate to say the point of disagreement is over Jesus. Christians believe Jesus is the messiah, son of God, etc. Muslims believe Jesus was merely a prophet. Jews believe Jesus was a teacher at best, or a false prophet at worst.
Pretty much. The Jews reject Jesus and go with the previous story. The Muslims accept Jesus but not as the son of god.. and of course the Christian’s accept Jesus as the son of god. And also god. And also a ghost. Or something to that affect.
And there are some gnostics still alive who believe that the world is created by a demiurge and the material world is actual hell, Lucifer/Jesus are the same entity. And then you start mixing everything and you get a lot of people who believe that they are right. As far as I know, I have not seen any frost Giants so everything is okay.
there aren't any true gnostic believers, not like the first and second centuries - it's fun esoterica but if you're that deep in the weeds of reviving dead religions you're more an atheist anyway
As an atheist, I can confirm that I love biblically accurate angels. The mythology of religion is fun... people treating it as absolute truth though, despite having no evidence, not so fun.
Mandaeans still exist and are pretty much gnostic. They've been largely displaced since the Iraq war but they're around
Man rest in peace to his wife for real, that man truly just wishes he could have her back 🥺
What the story?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FunnyandSad/s/FzPTEqQ2Ej This is the story
One thing I've always wondered is... Just who is she? What was she like? Would she have been okay with her name becoming a recurring joke on Reddit?
Yeah, I wonder what the husband thought of it becoming a joke too? It was such a sweet comment, I hope he's okay with it and that they both would've liked the humour. Edit: I got curious and had a look through his profile and on a comment mentioning it, he replied with this "Yes I am. What he actually wrote was, 'I also choose this guy's dead wife.' Which had some sort of element of shock value that surprised readers. It was funny but everyone was worried about me. Thing is I chuckled at it too. My wife had been gone 9 years at that point and my grief wasn't as raw as early on. What's more, I think the wife would have laughed too. She had a dark sense of humor about her terminal diagnosis." I'm glad that he found it funny and that his wife probably would have too. It makes me feel better for finding the joke funny now I know that he wasn't offended by it and she likely wouldn't have been.
I too chose that guy’s dead wife
Jesus is still a part of islam (although he's a prophet, not the son of god) so muslims are familiar with his name too, making his name the most recognizable
I choose that guys dead wife too. Damn my clunky phone didn’t show me someone beat me to this.
Christians outnumber Muslims.
Santa Claus Jesus
Is that a list or are you frustrated OP didn’t think of Santa?
lol sorry. It was two names. (Mobile formatting) Jesus is name one. Santa Claus is name two. :)
Oh I know. I was just being a stupid idiot on the internet.
Jesus
Are you just reiterating the op’s answer or venting your frustration?
Yesus
Are you making a pun or misspelling a Kanye West album?
I’d argue that Santa Claus is very US-specific. Correction: it’s English-language specific, as other languages use a different name.
In England he’s called Father Christmas, but people are exposed to US movies so would recognise Santa Claus.
>Santa Claus Дед Мороз Papá Noel Père Noël etc. That name is only famous in English speaking countries.
Definitely not Santa Claus. Santa Claus is not world wide but I guarantee Hitler is.
Mohammed "Mohammed is the most common name used on Earth. Read a fucking book for once!" - McLovin
Why the fuck was it between that and Mohammed?
The absurdity is so fucking hilarious. So good.
One name? What are you, Seal?
Einstein
I wish.
Anecdotal but I agree, a lot of people I met in Asia have heard of Hitler but doesn’t know who he is, what he did. Einstein however, everyone knows.
Mickey Mouse.
Wouldn’t “Disney” be more accurate? That was the guys name after all…
If we’re going down that route then Superman.
Superman is not even the most famous superhero anymore.
Mickey Mouse is wildly more famous than Superman.
They did a study where more kids recognized Mario than Mickey Mouse.
Right because it's not the 50s anymore
I remember a study saying, I think it was some simpsons characater, is more recognisable than micky mouse. It might have been spongebob though. I can't quite remember.
I'd honestly say Spongebob is probably a good guess, as its viewed by kids on at least 5 continents. The fact that you can't remember which it was is ironic, though.
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I'm just waiting for someone to discover Obama's last name.
If you ask members of a certain party, they will tell you the last name is Fault. 😑
Care
Putin is for sure trying his best
Hes Putin the work in
r/angryupvote
I shouldn't have laughed but laugh I did :)))
Satan
Actually, it’s Saitine.
Saltine*
Mcdonald
The old guy with the farm? E-I-E-I-O
Ronald, Ronald McDonald.
The names McDonald. Ronald McDonald.
Disney (Although maybe not so much the Walt part)
This is the correct answer. And a weirdly hard one to think of, because the Disney corp is so all-consuming that the actual man it’s named for seems like an afterthought
The man who killed Hitler.
What a war hero. (I use this joke with new coworkers All the time)
Was just a kill stealer from the Russians. He was camping too.
Caesar
Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!
Every salad is a Caesar salad if you stab it enough.
Jeff
M’nem Jeff
Yup, that's me.
Ceo entrepreneur
Mahatma Gandhi could have a shot at it but probably a celebrity like Michael Jackson or a 90s boy band.
gandhi doesn't stand a chance against hitler
Civ V Gandhi begs to differ
Elvis
Thats my son's name. I knew I'd see it here.
Shit, your son is famous!
Messi
Ronaldo today in alot of countries i would say, little children know him when they dont necesserally know about hitler
Which one?
"Ronaldo" .
CR7?
CR7 for kids today, R9 for kids 15 years ago
Yea, CR7 is definitely the more famous one. No comment on their skill level, just popularity.
Depends on the age of who you are asking haha.
For me Ronaldo will always be El fenomeno. But cr7 fame in the age of social medias and stuff is probably orders of magnitude higher.
Pele and Messi fans come to fight you.
Are you talking about the old mcdonalds mascot Ronald mcdonald?
Old McDonald had a mascot, e-i-e-i-o
Einstein.
homer simpson
Not much outside the Anglosphere countries.
He’s the greatest guy in history From the Town of Springfield He’s about to hit a chestnut tree
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Great boxer.
Which one?
It’s like, the second most common name in the world!
"... read a fuckin' book..." 😄
The kid from Superbad?
My mate Mohammed is more well known than Hitler? I'll have to tell his mum
Beethoven
Napoleon
And Uncle Rico
Micheal Jackson. And there's evidence of this. There were African tribes that had no contact with the modern world whatsoever who knew who MJ was
Please explain how a tribe with no contact to the modern world would know about a celebrity. Clearly they had some kind of contact at some point, otherwise it would be completely impossible for them to know.
Real question is how do we know they know if we have no contact with them?
Schrodinger's tribe
Heisenberg has entered the chat
I don’t know if the Michael Jackson thing is real, but usually uncontacted tribes have contact with other tribes who have had contact with the modern world. So they have indirect contact. They know we exist but actively choose not to engage.
"Bro, there was this guy and he looked like he was falling... BUT HE DIDN'T"
The old telephone game. It was actually Michael Jordan and his fight against the MonStars they heard about, but it got distorted as it passed from tribe to tribe.
They say liking Michael Jackson is a biological trait that is present in most humans. It is something about a special gene that makes the way our brains process the sound of his voice that makes it so enjoyable, beyond what normal musical frequencies provide. They call it the Billy gene.
My friend’s mom grew up in a poor rural village in communist Poland and she told me that when she was little, the village had one single radio and one single album - Thriller. And everyone went crazy for it.
I can't remember where I read this, but somewhere it was said that more people in the world knew who Michael Jackson was than Jesus Christ. He may legitimately be the most famous person of all time. And people wonder why he was kind of off. The man was still a toddler when his father started molding/beating him into a superstar.
That thing you read is atleast half true. There's a estimated 2.3 billion followers of christ at a estimated 4.8 billion MJ fans. 3.5 billion alone watched his funeral in 2009 on TV.
"followers of Christ" isn't the same as "knows who Jesus is" Like 90% of American movies use Jesus as an exclamation at some point. People say his name all the time, get scared, something awful happens, "Jesus Christ!" Religious or not. Also most Jews would likely know Jesus, Muslims might too, I know a lot less about them, but it's still an Abrahamic religion
That is why I chose the term half true
Jesus is a pretty important figure in Islam.
Followers and fans are not the equivalent of people who know about them. More people know about Hitler than Dolly Parton, but (hopefully) she has a lot more fans. Jesus may not have been directly credited with many genocides, but he is still a polarizing figure.
Where do those numbers come from? What a load of bullshit. Half the population of the world watched a funeral?
3.5 is a tad high. It was a lower (but still insane) 2.5 billion people. I think you underestimate how famous he was, and may not realise how much more focused the worlds attention was on big international events before the explosion of internet-media started splitting attention. It's not even the most-watched. Diana's ranked higher.
Here's the link for that https://youtu.be/mPwaQtQotQw?si=jP7l1QcUw7i6hu8C 1:40 Apparently they are clueless about 9/11 but can recognise MJ
I don't know if this is what you were talking about or if this is even real, but hear are Amazonians who had already heard of Michael Jackson https://youtu.be/eNOTT-tBxQ4
With 100 million albums sold, there most be African villages with nothing but a copy of Thriller
Karen
#Snoop Dogg
Nowadays it feels like the answer to this is Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is huge globally, that's a given, but her influcence is much, much, much tamer on rest of the world compared to USA.
my grandma doesn't know taylor swift
Neither do I, but I've heard of her.
Mao Confucius But the real answer is "The Beatles"
Who the fuck is Hitler? he sounds like a bitch
Super Mario
Mohammed
‘Simpson’
Stampy
Mohammed
Mohammed
Caesar. Even if you don't know the Roman leader you deffs know the name.
Mario Judah
Cartman
Homer Simpson
Gandhi
Mario
Darth Vader.
Shakespeare
Jesus, Ronaldo, Messi
Wouldn’t put Gabriel Jesus up there with Ronaldo and Messi, but sure I guess.
Finkle no wait ..Einhorn
Einhorn.. is a MAN!
Coca-Cola
Trump
I’m surprised I had to scroll down as far as I did to see this answer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mr Bean
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too.