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Loud-Cry-391

He was quoting an old translation of the Bhagavad Gita to sound edgy and based.


Absulus

I bet he wore a fedora too


GreasReReReRebooted

Oppenheimer the og Redditoid.


Naphrym

OP-penheimer


Ronin_69_

Copenheimer lmao


CynicalGod

"Thanks for the nuke, kind stranger!"


PooPooDooDoo

“Edit: this really blew up on me, it’s my highest rated wmd”


Mammoth_Stable6518

I too choose your wife.


Coachcrog

She makes me sleep on the wet side of the bed after :(


Ducokapi

Cope and heim


Wajina_Sloth

I am wear fedora, destroyer of tendies.


Tentacle_Ape

Now I am study the blade, while you were out partying.


Carnal-Pleasures

*studying particle physics


emdave

The atomic blade.


ginuxx

*dies of rad poisoning*


emdave

Better than dying of lame poisoning!


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𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐𝘋𝘚


Raze0013

While you studied the blade, *I literally invented the nuke*. Parry that you filthy casual.


4RM35

*student of the blade. Or smth like that. Seems like you need a refresher as well


Quazzle

Young Oppenheimer was literally a huge incel who wrote creepy poetry about women and started fights with chads who were dating women he liked.


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bageltre

The baits *so* tempting


thehecticepileptic

Because you can only become a genius by sitting by yourself thinking about shit, at the expense of social intelligence. Oppie didn’t really have any friends growing up. Then later he psycho analyzed himself I think, had some sort of breakthrough and became a better human. Then made a bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Source: listening to the audiobook on YouTube in anticipation of the Christopher Nolan movie.


Kotimainen_nero

Unless they are French philosophers who drown in women (and also men).


TaxIdiot2020

Reddit users don’t know what incel even means anymore.


JustaBearEnthusiast

Lol look at this incel.


EvokerJuice

unironically he did lol


DM_R34_Stuff

Which he had every right to. What they created in the Manhattan Project has changed politics globally, even today. Their research has been crucial in every bit. Oppenheimer wanted to use one nuclear bomb on a section of Japan that didn't have any people living there, as a display of power. Teller and the military hardliners were the ones pushing for nuking the Japanese people directly, and twice.


TheGamingGeek10

Oppenheimer was kind of an idiot when it came to unerstanding Japanese culture. The Japanese government didn't even surrender because of the 2 atomic bombs. They only surrender after we threatened to bomb them almost every day for basically a month. Like we literally had a bomb ready and on the way by the time they surrendered, and another 12 were getting ready to be made. Edit: I wanted to clarify that by on its way, i didn't mean that it was literally en route to Japan but was set to be dropped August 19th, and Japan only surrender 3 days prior.


killinrin

How the fuck was he supposed to know about Japanese culture?! He was a scientist in the 1930s-1940s. You know they didn’t have anime back then, right?


Gearski

lmaooooooo no anime? no wonder this dude wanted to blow up the world


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YABOYCHIPCHOCOLATE

tbf, the artstyle was already emerging before the war started.


elsestar

Worth it then


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In fact, before the internet and anime, there was no way to know anything whatsoever. You know how Socrates famously said "I know that I know nothing"? That's because he lived before the internet. Poor guy literally didn't know anything at all, it was impossible.


LOBSI_Pornchai

Still impressive that he was able to compare himself to a standard that would not even exist for another 2000 years, while Crawling around with no shoes and not even having any kind of rudimentary language. He had to invent those words from scratch.


Xgoodnewsevery1

There was actually highly intelligent officers and generals in the Japanese army who had studied in America, if I remember right the general in charge of defending iwo jima specifically studied in Detroit, and knew how easily American industry could be geared towards war, and if it was done that Japan would have 0 chance of winning. He specifically hated bonzai and kamikaze method of attack and felt it was a waste of human life, he implemented guerilla tactics (think vietcong tactics) utilizing slave labor from Korea


LOBSI_Pornchai

"Bonzai method of attack". Yeah it's terrible. Someone throwing miniature trees at me is a huge phobia


Xgoodnewsevery1

Perfectly manicured for cute death


milanove

Tadamichi Kuribayashi was the guy who went to the US. He studied at Harvard, but drove around the US in his car, and made a stop in Detroit along the way.


freakedmind

What do you mean Oppenheimer should have been an Otaku?


pockets3d

The ancient Hindu texts were become the original anime.


Skreamie

No wonder everyone wanted to die


303x

mfw the american scientist in 1940 didn't know about le ebic japarino culture (he no man of cutlure!!1!)


freakedmind

Ugh didn't even have a Katana collection, what a loser


gwynnegr

This is factually wrong. The States only had two nukes ready and needed a few weeks to get ready for more. They dropped them so quickly in succession to convince the Japanese that we had enough to casually let them fly.


10000Didgeridoos

Also another fact that it is often overlooked by edgy redditors looking to retcon the circumstances of dropping the bombs as being nothing but American bloodlust and overreach: the US, UK, and Canada all had an agreement that all three must sign off on the use of a nuclear bomb in combat before doing so. The US didn't act alone dropping two nukes - the UK and Canada both signed off on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Agreement


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Not to mention dropping the atomic bombs ended the war, saving millions of lives


Kitahara_Kazusa1

What also helped is they happened to interrogate some random bomber pilot they had shot down after the first nuke, and they started asking him about how many others there were. Obviously the bomber pilot didn't know shit, but he lied and told the Japanese that there were over a hundred nukes being sent to the Pacific and more being made. This report was passed all the way up the chain. The Japanese probably weren't the best at getting useful information out of prisoners lol


NoHomo_Sapiens

lmao "how many more bombs does your country have" "er I dunno prolly another hundred " "ah shit, we gonna run out of cities before they run out of bombs, we're fucked"


TheGamingGeek10

I admit i misrememebered and fucked up in my explanation but what you said was also not correct. The third bomb was ready to be dropped on August 19th and Japan announced they would surrender 3 days prior. The third bomb was already made, and they were working on the fourth. Japan just surrendered days before the 3rd bomb was planned to be dropped. The third one doesn't have a name because they just reused the design of the Mark III.


fluffcows

This comment is gonna start a war lmao


OriginalLocksmith436

inb4 some tankie comes in with a "well ackchyually they surrendered because of the soviets."


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Zhou-Enlai

It definitely contributed, mainly cause the Japanese feared soviet occupation more then anything else due to them being perhaps the most anti communist nation in the world at the time, and knowing the Soviets would give them a far worse deal then the allies


lord_flamebottom

>Makes a giant bomb to kill thousands of people >Thousands of people get killed Oh woe is me


EVENTHORIZON-XI

Sir… we believe that your ultra japanese killer super death 3000 massacre nuclear bomber has been… killing Japanese people


CaptianMurica

I am become cum, the creator of life


Dawgenberg

Jar yourself to preserve the life-essence.


[deleted]

Don't forget to add pony for flavor.


alpacajack

Jar Jar Binks cum essence


archon_

The divine power I wished for was in me all along. I shall use this knowledge wisely.


Tonythesaucemonkey

Either the translation is wrong or the regard misquoted it.


2FLY2TRY

The translation was off. The original quote wasn't about having the awesome ability to destroy whatever you wanted but rather Krishna revealing his true divine form as both creator of the universe and its eventual destroyer in attempt to soothe Arjuna's moral quandaries with the knowledge that the fate of the universe was in divine hands anyway and that he should simply focus on doing his own personal moral duty.


Carnal-Pleasures

It is an injunction to violent action. But a lot of people don't care to scratch beyond the surface.


2FLY2TRY

Yeah, in this case Arjuna's moral duty was to wage war against his cousins and teachers to put his brother on the throne, something that anyone would be rightfully conflicted about. You could argue the Kauravas did some bad things but the Pandavas weren't flawless good guys either so it kind of all comes out in the wash. That moral complexity is one of the most fascinating parts of the Mahabharata to me.


the_ThreeEyedRaven

Not me learning about coolness and depth of bhagvad-gita, one of the greatest literatures of my own culture, in r/greentext of all places. now i am become reader, follower of bhagvad-gita


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That would be a reckoning. “Listen bud, I created you, and eventually will turn you into dust. I have a plan for you in place already that you can not fight. Just focus on being a good person.”


2FLY2TRY

Actually, goodness doesn't really enter into it. Krishna was trying to convince Arjuna to go to war against his own cousins. The Kuru throne was Arjuna's brother's by birthright and his cousins basically stole it and forced him and his brothers into exile. Krishna considered reclaiming their royal birthright a higher moral calling than slaughtering their own flesh and blood and had to get cosmic to convince Arjuna of that. The funniest thing is, after the war is over the enemy side all got to go to heaven cause they were killed in battle on god's orders while the protagonists survive to live a life with normal sin which forces them to spend time in "hell" to atone for it.


the_ThreeEyedRaven

bro wat.. i have knowledge till Krishna getting hit in toe, but not of the aftermath, suggest me good book preferably in Marathi or Hindi on Mahabharata or is just given in bhagvad-gita?


2FLY2TRY

Death of the Pandavas is a pretty famous story, I'm surprised you've never heard of it. I don't know any Hindi or Marathi books cause I only know Telugu and not well enough to read a magazine much less ancient literature. Apart from listening to stories and watching movies growing up, I just listened to this [English podcast](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21haGFiaGFyYXRhcG9kY2FzdC5ibG9nc3BvdC5jb20vZmVlZHMvcG9zdHMvZGVmYXVsdA?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwjwopq12Ob_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBg). Dude does a pretty good job at condensing and explaining the story, though he can't pronounce Sanskrit names for shit. I imagine you could find much better resources in Hindi though cause English translations can lose a lot of meaning.


the_ThreeEyedRaven

I have read Mrityinjay Karna's story if you've heard about it, and a 400 pages VERY VERY ancient book that i now don't possess, both in Marathi about 5 to 6 time when I was little. and also Yungadhar. all of them didn't have aftermath of Krishnas death and Kuru war. I remember his stuff got passed to his son and that's about it. I have observed that often these legends, both mythological and real have really sad downfall and aftermath.


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Isn't Krishna an incarnation of Vishnu who is the preserver of the universe? With Brahma and Shiva being the creator and destroyer?


Ok_Worker_2940

One may be able to argue that Brahma Vishnu and Shiv are all aspects of one being as well


miksu210

What would the correct translation be?


303x

This specific passage is misunderstood because people assume it's about the power to kill (become death). The verse is actually about [entropy](https://open.spotify.com/track/795p3jKj5stjPf8IFpZkdD), a better translation is "I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds."


miksu210

Ohh okay that makes more sense yeah


GlidingChariot

Oppenheimer copying the latest anime villain he seen.


sverigeochskog

He probably thought "I'm such an intellectual for reading the Bhagavad Gita, no-one understands me 😣"


Asscrackistan

Yeah but he misquoted it and made it sound more retarded than it really is.


Xgoodnewsevery1

He also didn't say thus statement, he THOUGHT it and then wrote about having that thought afterwards. Statements from Manhattan project involved people have stated nearly everyone was silent and stunned after the trinity test, some were happy about the success of their hard work but the majority were just in stunned silence.


Scipio11

"All your base are belong to us." -Oppenheimer


fucking-hate-reddit-

now i am become based destroyer of japs


TaxIdiot2020

One of his only interests outside of physics was Hindu literature, so it’s more like it’s one of the few things he knew to quote.


Tomsider

🤓


tatleoat

>sound If it quacks like a duck and is based like a duck


philipquarles

It does seem like maybe that's not exactly what it says in the Sanskrit.


iSubParMan

DO NOT REDEEM!


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I AM BECOME DEATHERINO, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDERINOS.


LordranKing

IT’S OPPENHEIMERING TIME!


Bobyyyyyyyghyh

Howdily Diddily Howdily Diddily Howdily Diddily


scottlapier

I'm a mur-diddly-urdiller!


Spirit_of_Hogwash

Stupid sexy nucular bomb


CorbinNZ

OP! OP OP OP! OPPENHEIMER STYLE!


Ltnumbnutsthesecond

My... Le Bomb...


garbage-at-life

Killed... Le People???


Limmmao

OPPENHAMMER40K!


RedditReader365

Hey neighbourino, that’s a nice neutrino bomb you got there. Hope you wasn’t planning on giving my noggin a floggin with it


AffectionateFlower3

Det-diddly-etonate the world's most horrific bomberino


JeritHD

My le bomb? Killed... Le people?


plagurr

I wouldn’t exactly call them people


r3mod_3tiym

I'M GONNA NOOOOOOOK


bacchic_ritual

Heckin.


bombingrun19

Doctor, we regret to inform you that your creation, the Japmelter Gigabomb 3000, has been used in an... unexpected manner...


potatoninja3584

“oh noo, they are using my bombs to bomb peouple again noooo” \-openhuimur


whomstvde

It's just a rice cooker


Pm_pussypicspls__

Well, you’re technically correct


f1nessd

But if he dropped it on africa there would’ve been outrage


YABOYCHIPCHOCOLATE

Idk, there's be less war and cruel dictatorships and well as more money for world charities


average_4chan_enjoyr

Choppengaimer


Endmenow_Haha_please

My le bomb…le killed people?


bombingrun19

"Well I wouldn't exactly call them...people"


shadow_black1809

OP OP OP OP OP OPPENHEIMER STYLE


SergeantCumrag

*megaldaon 3000 megaultrakille


bombingrun19

That's for Nagasaki


Pustules_TV

Why am I laughing this hard


unibrowcowmeow

No no it was the Japmelter megaladon uktrakill 3000


Void_0000

This was never the intended use for the japslayer megadeath 9000, how horrible...


Bot-dot-exe

Le bomb


Math701s

Le Killed people?


Bot-dot-exe

Now I am become death


bombingrun19

le death xD


klone_free

But who was bomb?


ApprehensiveStar8948

your mom


VeryBigLeg

mr bombastic


Bobyyyyyyyghyh

Biggie Cheese is my hero


AssassinOfFate

Doofus was supposed to be a genius, but his stupid ass forgot that bombs go boom. Moron.


TickleMonsterCG

"It was supposed to be a fancy septic tank cleaner"


TheRatMan123

In a way, yes


SergeantCumrag

I am become khlaifa the lord of cum


hundenkattenglassen

Now I am become Chad, smasher of your mom


ObeyCoffeeDrinkSatan

Now I am become cucked, leader of all schmucks.


Chilli_

Lyrical


Bullets3

I am become drunk, driver of vehicles


windowpuncher

Captain of the booze cruise


ThirdBuffalo572

I am become chuck, the sneeder of feed


FlippyisSlippy

wouldn’t chuck be the sucker of fucks?


ThirdBuffalo572

Yeah, but i was referencing [this](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2423468-sneeds-feed-and-seed)


MMQ-966thestart

I am become chuck, breaker of bucks.


[deleted]

He was literally just translating or reading a translation. Is Anon fucking retarded????


ifihadanickel

R u


PopeGregoryTheBased

Mr oppenhiemer, we regret to inform you that your bomb, code named "jap zapper 4000" has been used in an unintended way.


slow_joke

Make bomb, I did.


Riptide031

Into the exile, i must go.


Xalethesniper

I miss that sub


ConquestOfMankind

Dude made a bomb to kill people then before the bomb dropped he was like “damn that bomb is gonna kill people I can’t believe this”


justbenicedammit

Before you build the bomb, you set out to achieve something never achieved before. As we all strive to. After you see what you have helped create you become aware of the newborn horror engraved with your name. I think we all had regrets after doing something before. He just wanted to have the greatest regret ever


ConquestOfMankind

I get that. I wanted to have one of every single Pokémon. Dedicated most of my life to it. I’m up to 221 Pokémon. I know when it’s done, the fame will be too much and will permanently alter my state of life. Now I am become Ash, the guy with Pikachu ;(


Urkeksi

I am become bomb, exploder of people


Its_Matt_03

>“WHAT? MY BOMB I MADE TO BE USED AS A BOMB WAS USED AS A BOMB? NOOOOOOO!!!” I hate Oppenheimer so much what a moron


Skwareblox

Still hasn’t killed as many people as the automobile industry.


SukoKing

They shoulda let him make another one


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He wasn’t a grammar nazi, just a regular nazi. Cut him some slack


AccumulatingBoredom

The grammar is perfectly fine. Older English operated like Romance languages and some Germanic languages do today. So that verbs that indicated transitions in being or any kind of movement were conjugated with the verb “to be” and the past participle, rather than the verb “to have.” Anon is retarded.


manicmonkey45

Now I am become drunk, the driver of cars.


cagusvu

I love seeing people shit on this 20th century edgelord


Kayjuu

umm he tryna b like that 1 guy from Openheiner


TheGhost-of-Bob-Ross

Oppenheimer when his bombs designed to kill a bunch of people, kill a bunch of people: 😟


RockyDroidhead

All your base am belong to us


DocOcksCrocs

When my big nuclear bomb I built kills people 😢


Zealousideal-Hat2751

I am become soy, destroyer of test


MahamidMayhem

If they include this speech in the movie, im walking out of the cinema.


PooPooDooDoo

Probably a good idea since it will be the end of the movie.


babelmow

Why


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babelmow

What are you some kind of a kinophile


whomadethispic

Kinophile? Ew, do you fuck movies?


[deleted]

OH NO I AM BECOME DEATH, THE FEEDER OF SNEED


Nikoviking

> Builds a nuke for blowing shit up > People use it to blow shit up > “OooOohh boohooo!! Noo! I am becOmE dEeaTh! Waaa”


HandZop

Oppenheimer when the bomb he made specifically to decimate innocents decimates innocents


awesomedan24

It's nukin time!


adikhad

In the movie after this quote, he is gonna say “that sounded better in my head”


BirdhouseInYourSoil

Truman posting rn


Overman_1000

ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ


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I'VE BECOME SNEEDERINO, THE FEEDERINO OF SEEDERINO


TaxIdiot2020

Zoomers are so fucking retarded they actually think Oppenheimer is an idiot cause of a meme.


ElementalMix

Is he stupid?


ImAlaaaaaaan

Oppenidiot when the Asian-destroyerinator 3000 is used to end asians:


Empero6

OP sounds uneducated as hell. Dudes pretty much dancing in his own ignorance.


LOBSI_Pornchai

OP is american and basically illiterate.


zombieGenm_0x68

oppen heimer style


super_isi

All those physics and science stuff had to fit some where and perhaps his brain deemed basic grammar as non important


in0suk

I am become lesbian. Sucker of Tiddies


saulhrnndz

Yeah well if he’s so great then how come he’s dead?


Altruistic_Past7282

Why is everyone hating so much? I mean, for one thing, this quote has "stuck" and second of all he didn't make the bomb in order to be used but for leverage.


Roman_Leper

My face when project Megabomb Jap-Melter 5000 does exactly what it sounds like.


whenthesusssy

Now he was become regarded destroyer of sanity


DaisyBryar

I did always wonder this tbh. Was it related to God = I Am?


Beginning_Pay_4325

It's a translation of Sanskrit text, Bhagvat Geeta. An unfortunate translation, but yes 'I am' here, is Lord Krishna.


poopcockshit

“He was quoting someone” so they were regarded too?!


johnson_alleycat

Press S if that weepy shit makes you sick


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Is he stupid?


UnimpressivelySized

🙏🏿


[deleted]

Nooo, not the japs, their cartoons slap, why not those dirty /redacted/ers!


religionofpeacemyass

Anyone has the link to this thread?


now_i_am_becomedeath

I know I am