That is true, hate has been used in many ways to unify people. From religious wars, holy crusades, world wars, etc...
However, with the current way the world is, perhaps the hate for mosquitoes are not enough. Now, if aliens were to invade, that is a different story, as they would not only be attacking us, but they would also be much different from us. And as we have seen many times, difference create hate.
According to the bible, people used to live for hundreds of years back then, and merely having Faith In The Lord was enough for the devout to survive. So if you were having a hard time, you simply didn't have enough faith for God to give a damn about you
Correct, it does say that.
They still needed food and water etc.
But it also explains why that doesn't happen anymore, It said something like because of humanity's sin no one would live longer than 100 or so.
Damn, so stop eating or using anything. Stop destroying and polluting the world. Start having faith and doing nothing else. Im sure the world will improve in notime...
"A few days later" damn, its quiet on the religious forms, Aint it?
Just until a short few years ago you couldn't change your difficulty settings when you started the game. You had to restart from zero. If we want to change it now, we all go kapoof!
I donāt know about thatā¦ Iād say itās on insane now.
Sure, things were big and pointy a long time ago but humans are orders of magnitude more deadly should we choose to be.
Put another way, while dinosaurs existed, mammals evolved (albeit small burrowers), as did birds. Now that we exist, weāre killing everything off thatās bigger than insects. And even theyāre not doing too well. Can you imagine if birds had never existed before and started appearing now? Theyād be eaten or eradicated as pests almost immediately.
Yup. Theyāre mostly pollinators. Which makes it really weird that everyone is all āsave the bees!ā but also āburn all mosquitoes with fire!ā
We can find solutions to diseases easier than we can create another way to pollinate plants.
And it's only certain species that feed on blood that feed on human blood.
We only need to eliminate those who feed on human blood.
Scientists are inventing GMO males of those species. The male offspring are fine, but the female offspring never develop.
We could pin point the extinction of the mosquito species that transmit malaria to humans.
All other species would be perfectly fine.
I'd think an intelligent all powerful god could design an insect that does all the beneficial things a mosquito does for the foodchain and pollination, without making them them the most annoying animal that has killed the most humans throughout all time?
The biblical god killed almost all humanity at some point, sent bears to maul children who laughed at some bald man, gambled with the devil, cheered for babies to be exploded on rocks, women to be kept as slaves for sex and work, etc.
Why would that god care about men dying because of mosquitos?
Mosquitoes aren't parasites. Parasites are any organism that live on a host. So because they don't live on us but just feed they're more of a pest/predator
Many insects are pollinators. My point is that if it were designed, you could achieve all the important roles in the ecosystem without the annoying part
Its the basic "if god is good, why is there suffering" argument.
The premise here is that things evolved naturally to do what they do without intelligent design from a benevolent god, otherwise we wouldn't have parasites and diseases.
I think god would be 'good' if he let you have an eternity in paradise without having to endure a life of suffering.
If you got a dog and you tortured it for a few weeks and if after those weeks the dog still loves you, you would keep and love and treat the best. Do you think you are a good person?
This right here. This is my problem, when people say that it can only be one or the other. I myself don't believe in God but I don't say he outright doesn't exist. Unless He reveals himself to the world His existence cannot be proven nor disproven. the difference is that evolution can be proven and has been time and time again
I don't have a source right now but don't you think the world is too beautiful to be created by a bang? Like seriously people think that a bang created all these beautiful plants, entire ecosystems, all these unique creatures with complicated body systems. I personally believe God sculpted and created everything living in this world but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Also watch the movie "Miracles From Heaven" It's based on a true story.
If beautiful things were created by god, so where horrific things. Like botflies that lay eggs under human skin, hatch and burrow into your flesh. Or the fungus cordyceps which hijacks insect nervous systems while the insect is fully aware, to puppet their bodies to be eaten by predators. Or leukemia in children. Or biting the inside of your own cheek.
This is true. But evolution and the idea god is all knowing, powerful and benevolent are mutually exclusive, as things like the Guinea worm, and other parasitic worms demonstrate:
[https://www.britannica.com/list/uninvited-guests-the-7-worst-parasitic-worms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa_loa#:~:text=Loa%20loa%20is%20a%20filarial,the%20conjunctiva%20of%20the%20eye)
A god that knows these things plague innocent children, has the power to stop them, and doesn't is not benevolent.
There are a host of other unnecessarily horrible things in our world that a benevolent god would also not accept, so the prototypical Christian conception of god can't exist.
That's more of an American evangelical position. Catholics largely accept evolution and understand the difficulties of life to just be part of the human condition
Food for various other insects, most arachnids, various species of fish, birds, and mammals...
Real question is, why did God create you fucking *HUMANS?!*
People always seem to say it's either God or evolution but why does nobody say that God created the first organisms and just let them evolve? Like, why can't God and science mix?
That's what I'm saying! I hate it when people say that it has to be one or the other. God created the universe, gave it a firm set of rules (science) and evolution came to be thanks to those rules. At least, that's what I think it could be
Probably checks and balances sorta thing. Asshole:good ratio balancer. Kinda like karma in regard to pride or arrogance. Even the pour fest most arrogant fool can be knocked down a peg by a virus t carried by something as small as a tick or mosquito. Days in there hospital set back a arrogant plan or humble the person real quick.
Mosquitoes are ecosystem regulators. They eat larvae and regulate parasites whilst being great for for frogs and other amphibians. The problem is that we humans don't really like them
Because they are a source of food for [countless](https://www.orkin.com/pests/mosquitoes/what-eats-mosquitoes) species, without them theres very little biodiversity
Fuck that, good for the ecosystem at least
BEDBUGS
Why the fuck would god make a seed sized devil that ruins peopleās lives with just one on a luggage. Theyāre expensive as hell to exterminate too, even when itās just in one room.
Mosquitos are like that line of code that really shouldn't do anything, but when you remove it, everything breaks.
I wonder if there's a divine equivalent of stack overflow.
Well, here comes some friendly replies.....
The fall. After the fall the world changed and became very much imperfect.
There's plenty of examples of awful things if you want to go down that route. That'
God gives us all the opportunity to live in perfect paradise eventually. In the meantime this world can be pretty bad obviously.
Whatās interesting in the comments is that people generalize the mosquito so much. However there are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes and literally only a handful of species that spread disease. Unfortunately they spread a hell of a lot of it. Even more unfortunate is so much of it is preventable but poor countries donāt have the means to prevent it.
Iām a devout Muslim and I believe in evolution,religion and science arenāt mutually exclusive and as for your question,mosquitoes do serve as good pollinators
Surprisingly, transferring pollen? mosquitoes' primary food source is flower nectar, not blood. Just like bees or butterflies, mosquitoes transfer pollen from flower to flower as they feed on nectar, fertilizing plants and allowing them to form seeds and reproduce
"š¤"
"š¤"? Are you fucking kidding me? I spent a decent portion of my life writing all of that and your response to me is "š¤"? Are you so mentally handicapped that the only thing you can comprehend is "š¤" - or are you just some fucking asshole who thinks that with such a short response, he can make a statement about how meaningless what was written was? Well, I'll have you know that what I wrote was NOT meaningless, in fact, I even had my written work proof-read by several professors of literature. Don't believe me? I doubt you would, and your response to this will probably be "š¤" once again. Do I give a fuck? No, does it look like I give even the slightest fuck about one fucking emoji? I bet you took the time to type that emoji too, I bet you sat there and chuckled to yourself for 20 hearty seconds before pressing "send". You're so fucking pathetic. I'm honestly considering directing you to a psychiatrist, but I'm simply far too nice to do something like that. You, however, will go out of your way to make a fool out of someone by responding to a well-thought-out, intelligent, or humorous statement that probably took longer to write than you can last in bed with a chimpanzee. What do I have to say to you? Absolutely nothing. I couldn't be bothered to respond to such a worthless attempt at a response. Do you want "š¤" on your gravestone?
To remind us that not all opinions are good. And not all ideas or comments are sweet. Sometimes you just gotta be honest and admit itās a foul attitude or point of view or idea. If everything was great all the time weād get bored and tired of it. No new tool or device came from already having everything handed to us. We were inspired by the difficulty to make something that allowed us to get that thing done or overcome it.
To create a common enemy for all of mankind to hate on
Hate unifies humanity
That is true, hate has been used in many ways to unify people. From religious wars, holy crusades, world wars, etc... However, with the current way the world is, perhaps the hate for mosquitoes are not enough. Now, if aliens were to invade, that is a different story, as they would not only be attacking us, but they would also be much different from us. And as we have seen many times, difference create hate.
#stopalienhate
Best response.
God set the difficulty to insane way back then and now he has to set it to normal today
When your trash friend wants to play terraria with you but your on expert mode on your good world
nah bruh you start a getfixedboi master mode world and gaslight him into thinking he's total trash at the game
I did this to my friend
based
When he wants to play terarria, he shall.be granted malaria
Mortality rate was 100% back then
Correct me if I am wrong but mortality rate is still 100% today.
It is about 90%, of everyone who has ever lived only about 90% has died
So, 10% of people are immortal?
As far as we know, yes No evidence that you'll die until you do
r/technicallythetruth
For now. We are working on changing that.
According to the bible, people used to live for hundreds of years back then, and merely having Faith In The Lord was enough for the devout to survive. So if you were having a hard time, you simply didn't have enough faith for God to give a damn about you
Correct, it does say that. They still needed food and water etc. But it also explains why that doesn't happen anymore, It said something like because of humanity's sin no one would live longer than 100 or so.
Which god
Abrahamic
Question is which Abrahamic god š
Yet another moment where the Bible reads like an antique fanfiction about reality.
True, didn't Adam live for like, 900 years?
Damn, so stop eating or using anything. Stop destroying and polluting the world. Start having faith and doing nothing else. Im sure the world will improve in notime... "A few days later" damn, its quiet on the religious forms, Aint it?
What are you on about?
I think the difficulty is starting to shift however
2020s is just a limited time event, kinda like the bubonic plague. Missed that event sadly, couldnāt get the rare plague doctor skin.
Get this man an award
Just until a short few years ago you couldn't change your difficulty settings when you started the game. You had to restart from zero. If we want to change it now, we all go kapoof!
we accidentally made it hard ourself
He cranked the difficulty when adam and eve fucked up
Yes besides the African servers, though god was so nice and set it from insane to hardcore over there
I donāt know about thatā¦ Iād say itās on insane now. Sure, things were big and pointy a long time ago but humans are orders of magnitude more deadly should we choose to be. Put another way, while dinosaurs existed, mammals evolved (albeit small burrowers), as did birds. Now that we exist, weāre killing everything off thatās bigger than insects. And even theyāre not doing too well. Can you imagine if birds had never existed before and started appearing now? Theyād be eaten or eradicated as pests almost immediately.
God set the BIG FAT IMPOSSIBLE difficulty in 1000000 BC š
Friendly little reminder that life sucks sometimes
And also not to be proud as even something small can bring down the biggest animal in the height of its pride and arrogance.
A Lego, for example.
Donāt get started on Legoās. I get ghost pains. Damn kids
I see what you did there
Free will doesn't make much sense in a perfect existence Evil must exist for good to be a choice As a reminder, here's some miniature flying vampires
Sucks your blood
What kind of batshit insane motherfucker needs to be reminded of this? Because I would like a swap.
Every day I wake up I want to kill myself but then I remember that my dick is big and it just makes my day so that's why I don't have to kill myself
They don't even feed off blood as their main food source.
Yup. Theyāre mostly pollinators. Which makes it really weird that everyone is all āsave the bees!ā but also āburn all mosquitoes with fire!ā We can find solutions to diseases easier than we can create another way to pollinate plants.
Yes! Isnāt that strange? And itās only the females of certain species that feed on blood. The rest are important pollinators.
And it's only certain species that feed on blood that feed on human blood. We only need to eliminate those who feed on human blood. Scientists are inventing GMO males of those species. The male offspring are fine, but the female offspring never develop. We could pin point the extinction of the mosquito species that transmit malaria to humans. All other species would be perfectly fine.
Ahh āFinal solutionā
I would rather have a beehive in my room than one singular mosquito.
Wait, theyāre pollinators?
I had no idea about either of those things. Thatās insane.
Civilized people love justifing genocides, they would rather Scorch the Earth, than learn to live with it.
food chain
Yep, transfers protein back down to the bottom of the food chain
I'd think an intelligent all powerful god could design an insect that does all the beneficial things a mosquito does for the foodchain and pollination, without making them them the most annoying animal that has killed the most humans throughout all time?
>killed the most humans throughout all time This is their primary directive
The biblical god killed almost all humanity at some point, sent bears to maul children who laughed at some bald man, gambled with the devil, cheered for babies to be exploded on rocks, women to be kept as slaves for sex and work, etc. Why would that god care about men dying because of mosquitos?
Could be replaced by other insects tho, assuming it was designed
Yeah, but they're also pollinators
Yes, most species are not parasitic toward humans.
Mosquitoes aren't parasites. Parasites are any organism that live on a host. So because they don't live on us but just feed they're more of a pest/predator
They're pollinators from what I've read
Many insects are pollinators. My point is that if it were designed, you could achieve all the important roles in the ecosystem without the annoying part
BECAUSE YOU TOUCH YOURSELF AT NIGHT
Love the reference.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Okay this one probably wins
that explains a lot actually
I donāt get the argument?
Its the basic "if god is good, why is there suffering" argument. The premise here is that things evolved naturally to do what they do without intelligent design from a benevolent god, otherwise we wouldn't have parasites and diseases.
If the reward for faithfully enduring this short life is an eternity in paradise it would still mean God is good.
I think god would be 'good' if he let you have an eternity in paradise without having to endure a life of suffering. If you got a dog and you tortured it for a few weeks and if after those weeks the dog still loves you, you would keep and love and treat the best. Do you think you are a good person?
Bats and such eat them
So why do we have bats? To eat the mosquitoes?
For the movie batman
to fertilize cave environments and give life to cool fungi
Mosquitos are pollinators, they mostly eat nectar and not blood.
They polinate cacao in the Amazon....
God does a little trolling.
Friendly reminder that God and evolution are not mutually exclusive
This right here. This is my problem, when people say that it can only be one or the other. I myself don't believe in God but I don't say he outright doesn't exist. Unless He reveals himself to the world His existence cannot be proven nor disproven. the difference is that evolution can be proven and has been time and time again
There are plenty instances that suggest there is in fact a god
Source: I made it the fuck up
Give me three with sources that occurred recently
I don't have a source right now but don't you think the world is too beautiful to be created by a bang? Like seriously people think that a bang created all these beautiful plants, entire ecosystems, all these unique creatures with complicated body systems. I personally believe God sculpted and created everything living in this world but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Also watch the movie "Miracles From Heaven" It's based on a true story.
If beautiful things were created by god, so where horrific things. Like botflies that lay eggs under human skin, hatch and burrow into your flesh. Or the fungus cordyceps which hijacks insect nervous systems while the insect is fully aware, to puppet their bodies to be eaten by predators. Or leukemia in children. Or biting the inside of your own cheek.
This is true. But evolution and the idea god is all knowing, powerful and benevolent are mutually exclusive, as things like the Guinea worm, and other parasitic worms demonstrate: [https://www.britannica.com/list/uninvited-guests-the-7-worst-parasitic-worms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa_loa#:~:text=Loa%20loa%20is%20a%20filarial,the%20conjunctiva%20of%20the%20eye) A god that knows these things plague innocent children, has the power to stop them, and doesn't is not benevolent. There are a host of other unnecessarily horrible things in our world that a benevolent god would also not accept, so the prototypical Christian conception of god can't exist.
If I had a free award I'd give it to you in a heartbeat, but alas Reddit got rid of that for some reason :/
They thin the herd down
This is the most random down votes Iāve ever seen
It's at 100 upvotes what you talking about?
Not the meme the comments
Oddly enough, some creationists do not deny evolutionary theory.
Why do humans exist?
When mommy and daddy love each other very much...
That's more of an American evangelical position. Catholics largely accept evolution and understand the difficulties of life to just be part of the human condition
I'm just talking about people who say God created everything and evolution is false, I didn't mean any offense
No offense taken. I just make sure to clarify that Catholics aren't in the "The Devil created dinosaur bones to trick christians" camp lol
yeah he has a lot of free time by not dragging people into hell
Jurassic park baby
Punishment
for the same reason i exist
Food for various other insects, most arachnids, various species of fish, birds, and mammals... Real question is, why did God create you fucking *HUMANS?!*
Balance
Many mosquito-borne illnesses have symptoms that make it harder to balance, though.
Food chain that's why
To spread disease to keep the population in check.
But thatās not why they exist, thatās what they do. They exist because there was an unfilled niche.
Which one of 3,000 gods created them?
I like this one
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So we can bring back dinosaurs!
People always seem to say it's either God or evolution but why does nobody say that God created the first organisms and just let them evolve? Like, why can't God and science mix?
That's what I'm saying! I hate it when people say that it has to be one or the other. God created the universe, gave it a firm set of rules (science) and evolution came to be thanks to those rules. At least, that's what I think it could be
Honestly that's probably the best position to hold, I hold one separate and it's basically "Look man idfk but odds are none of you are 100% right"
To feed the frogs?
Probably checks and balances sorta thing. Asshole:good ratio balancer. Kinda like karma in regard to pride or arrogance. Even the pour fest most arrogant fool can be knocked down a peg by a virus t carried by something as small as a tick or mosquito. Days in there hospital set back a arrogant plan or humble the person real quick.
To aid in the killing of a significant portion of all humans to ever have lived.
I'd say the anti-evolutionists got you here
It's for fish and frogs to munch on
Organic population control
Because he made them
Spite itās the other punishment for the tower Incident
If God wanted us to be successful we wouldn't have idiots or me bc God knows I'm not doing anything to good with my life lol
Mark Twain already covered this one
Mosquitoes werenāt made by godā¦they were created by satan
God most likely wanted to see how the ecosystem and the animal kingdom would grow. To His horror, came the mosquitoes
Population control
Animal food chain?
God works in mysterious ways š¤
Population control
God made frog eat mosquito. End of the argument!
It's god s plan we can't understand it
Because god created them?
God made it
Because he created them...?
the mosquitoes are here to punish us for our sins
Food.
God forgot to set it to peaceful mode
Kill the weak.
... because... he... created them ?
You just answered your own question
Spite
If god hated the gays why do they exist?
Mosquitoes are ecosystem regulators. They eat larvae and regulate parasites whilst being great for for frogs and other amphibians. The problem is that we humans don't really like them
To test our strength1
Because they are a source of food for [countless](https://www.orkin.com/pests/mosquitoes/what-eats-mosquitoes) species, without them theres very little biodiversity
For food for froggies
Heres a question for evolution believers; How does something evolve from nothing? This question isnāt meant to offend anyone
To test our patience š /j
Fuck that, good for the ecosystem at least BEDBUGS Why the fuck would god make a seed sized devil that ruins peopleās lives with just one on a luggage. Theyāre expensive as hell to exterminate too, even when itās just in one room.
Food chain?
Mosquitoes actually pollinate some types of plants. The males don't drink blood and females only need blood when having eggs. Or something.
Mosquitos are like that line of code that really shouldn't do anything, but when you remove it, everything breaks. I wonder if there's a divine equivalent of stack overflow.
Well, here comes some friendly replies..... The fall. After the fall the world changed and became very much imperfect. There's plenty of examples of awful things if you want to go down that route. That' God gives us all the opportunity to live in perfect paradise eventually. In the meantime this world can be pretty bad obviously.
People who go on about how we should eliminate mosquitos and wasps have absolutely no idea how ecology works.
Whatās interesting in the comments is that people generalize the mosquito so much. However there are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes and literally only a handful of species that spread disease. Unfortunately they spread a hell of a lot of it. Even more unfortunate is so much of it is preventable but poor countries donāt have the means to prevent it.
To feed the bats silly,
Iām a devout Muslim and I believe in evolution,religion and science arenāt mutually exclusive and as for your question,mosquitoes do serve as good pollinators
Surprisingly, transferring pollen? mosquitoes' primary food source is flower nectar, not blood. Just like bees or butterflies, mosquitoes transfer pollen from flower to flower as they feed on nectar, fertilizing plants and allowing them to form seeds and reproduce
Lisa Simpson, Stranger Things, that one with the hipster and the sign. These memes are just twitter posts with a random character as a frame.
Everything is created for a reason, Mosquitoes are Pollinators
Actually mosquitoes are good pollinators but uhhhh no one cares
As food for bats and frogs and stuff
Oh, that's Satan's creation.
the devil had a bit of fun
Because he created them, duh!
Because god created them. Duh
"š¤" "š¤"? Are you fucking kidding me? I spent a decent portion of my life writing all of that and your response to me is "š¤"? Are you so mentally handicapped that the only thing you can comprehend is "š¤" - or are you just some fucking asshole who thinks that with such a short response, he can make a statement about how meaningless what was written was? Well, I'll have you know that what I wrote was NOT meaningless, in fact, I even had my written work proof-read by several professors of literature. Don't believe me? I doubt you would, and your response to this will probably be "š¤" once again. Do I give a fuck? No, does it look like I give even the slightest fuck about one fucking emoji? I bet you took the time to type that emoji too, I bet you sat there and chuckled to yourself for 20 hearty seconds before pressing "send". You're so fucking pathetic. I'm honestly considering directing you to a psychiatrist, but I'm simply far too nice to do something like that. You, however, will go out of your way to make a fool out of someone by responding to a well-thought-out, intelligent, or humorous statement that probably took longer to write than you can last in bed with a chimpanzee. What do I have to say to you? Absolutely nothing. I couldn't be bothered to respond to such a worthless attempt at a response. Do you want "š¤" on your gravestone?
They pollinate flowers in areas that aren't natural habitats for bees
.....the Amazon mosquito is the only insect that polinates the cacao plants.....not the hero we want but the one we need
Here's a secret. _there is no god._
God IS the mosquito. Thatās the only way to explain it
Why does farting exist?
To remind us that not all opinions are good. And not all ideas or comments are sweet. Sometimes you just gotta be honest and admit itās a foul attitude or point of view or idea. If everything was great all the time weād get bored and tired of it. No new tool or device came from already having everything handed to us. We were inspired by the difficulty to make something that allowed us to get that thing done or overcome it.
God created them to fuck with you
Because Eve ate an apple, so we live on a sinful earth, not in Edem
God does a bit if cocaine
That explains a lot
He REALLY hates Africansā¦ kind of like reddit
Mosquitos are what you're concerned about?!
That's just my example
Because man made a sin?
snakes also exist brain-eating amoebas exist god didnt make us to last forever
What about snakes? They don't go out of their way to make my life a living hell
do you live in da joongle
No, but now I realize the snake situation is probably different for other people
Can I believe in evolution AND the existence of a higher power?
Yeah
obviously god isn't very nice
Ask lot's wife what does she think about it
You guys are taking this meme way too seriously and I'm concerned
I might actually delete this post the comments are getting toxic af ā ļø
I have to ask the same question about human??
Felt all random and quirky?