I missed this thread, what was the consensus?

I missed this thread, what was the consensus?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People generally said it would be worshipped

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      People would live underground

      considering it travels around the entire world, its existence probably would be semi-legendary until like the 18th or 19th century

      These and also it would be an uncommon sight to like 90% of the world anyway. Statistically, its victims would mostly be chinamen and pajeets.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The parts of the world which contained a good percentage of the population would see it appear semi-regularly, so China for instance would have more experience with it. Of course China is a big place so you would have to be part of the more educated bureaucratic class to know that it likely appears approximately once every 5 days. You might end up structuring the length of a week around how often it appears in the "civilized" world you are keeping tabs on and a change in this would be considered some kind of omen. A massive catastrophe on the other end of the world would fundamentally change the rhythm of society but people wouldn't really understand why it was changing until they had world population statistics. You could then use the historical record to estimate populations. China might be once every five days but other places might end up being once every ten days. If you end up having a perfect population for once every moon cycle they might consider this a way of being blessed and if it goes out of sync the astrology studiers would end up trying to explain it with bullshit about mars being in retrograde or whatever.

        Depending on where it's next target is the Hand could be moving at the speed of an aeroplane, or the speed of a snail. How often would the average person really witness it in their lifetime? Since most of the population is rural surely you could go your whole life and never see it? It's only one Hand

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If somebody is using modern technology to track the hand and is flying on a commercial airliner in the direction away from the hand such that they are heading towards the point that would be on the exact opposite end of the world then in theory the hand in being faster then them would have to both exceed the speed at which the person is getting away from them as well as heading the 20k km required to get to the other side of the world. Of course you wouldn't know you are next unless you are the last person on earth, or if there are sufficiently few people such that after the hand heads in a direction you can be relatively sure as to which person it is targeting. Therefore the hand must be able to travel at least as fast as the quickest a person could travel away from it in addition to the 833 km/h needed to get to the other side of the world in 24 hours.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It would be relatively well known while everyone is still hunter-gatherers I think, but after agriculture kicks off and populations really increase it wouldn't be any more evident than any cryptid or superstition. That is, unless it targets someone in a crowded city and hundreds of people can very clearly see the hand flying in and killing someone, which seems likely. Imagine the Hand doing 9/11

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            We'd probably avoid living in arrangements where people would be on top of one another. This wouldn't kill urbanization but it would kill skyscrapers and apartment buildings.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That essentially just means Europe-esque city structure, which isn't too big of a deal.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I was in the original thread. Consensus was the hand cannot kill other people as collateral damage. It kills one person, and only one person.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's ludicrous. How would it avoid the collateral damage short of being able to phase through solid matter?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You answered your own question

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So you're assuming the whole globe does nothing but hide for their entire lives because 365 people die out of 7 billion? No, people go about their lives and the hand gets them at the opportune time.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            There is a 1/3 chance that it would target someone while they asleep at home, and while most people for most of history were probably working in some field for the rest of the day there would still be some people working indoors so it would end up having to destroy a building to get to a targeted person sooner or later.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >a living asteroid chases you down and bloodily crushes you to death
            Anon stop pretending people wouldn't be afraid of this shit

            No, society wouldn't stop for it.

            Yes people would be fricking spooked and would probably monitor the Hand like the weather reports

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People would live underground

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >live underground
      >hand just burrows through rock to reach target
      >entire colony collapses in the wake of one guy needing to be HANDED

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        People would try to kill it/take it out?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wouldn't that make everyone malnourished due to lack of sunlight?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    considering it travels around the entire world, its existence probably would be semi-legendary until like the 18th or 19th century

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The parts of the world which contained a good percentage of the population would see it appear semi-regularly, so China for instance would have more experience with it. Of course China is a big place so you would have to be part of the more educated bureaucratic class to know that it likely appears approximately once every 5 days. You might end up structuring the length of a week around how often it appears in the "civilized" world you are keeping tabs on and a change in this would be considered some kind of omen. A massive catastrophe on the other end of the world would fundamentally change the rhythm of society but people wouldn't really understand why it was changing until they had world population statistics. You could then use the historical record to estimate populations. China might be once every five days but other places might end up being once every ten days. If you end up having a perfect population for once every moon cycle they might consider this a way of being blessed and if it goes out of sync the astrology studiers would end up trying to explain it with bullshit about mars being in retrograde or whatever.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The parts of the world which contained a good percentage of the population would see it appear semi-regularly
        Assuming this Hand existed for at least as long as humans, why do you suppose humanity would develop the way it did and have a large concentration of population in these areas. I would assume humanity would instead be more sparsely populated all around the world given the pressure of this phenomenon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >the pressure of this phenomenon
          It's 365 deaths per year worldwide. Bees kill way more people per year.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You don't understand probability

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yes I know that you would occasionally end up being hit less often or more often than a pure straight percentage would indicate. What I am saying is that if the rhythm is off that would be considered something that needed explanation by stuff like astrology.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Origins of The Hand have long been an area of much debate and speculation, prevailing theories suggesting that The Hand originated somewhere within the Indian subcontinent, first appearances in the Purana texts date to about 800 BC. Apocryphal accounts of what seems to be The Hand go as far back as the bronze age in Iran, though the Indian records are first first to filmy identify the hand as well as its behavior.
    The hand wasn't officially confirmed to exist until 1873 when polish photographer Crezlaw Reszke managed to capture images The Hand traveling at a moderate pace near Budapest.
    The hand was shot down by AA fire over Ypres in 1916.
    The dropoff in sightings for nearly 20 years and then the surge along with UFOs in the 50s proves the hoaxes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      People who lived in the post hand world would think it was fake
      21st century people would call it a conspiracy theory

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >TFW born into a post Hand society

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This looks like some actual short summary from an obscure history website

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The real question is, would it kill fetuses?

      The Hand has only ever been documented to kill men.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Seems dubious

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Seems dubious

        Either it didn’t kill women, or nobody cared enough to write down the women it killed

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Feels like a fusion of SCP and Wikipedia

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > The hand wasn't officially confirmed to exist until 1873 when polish photographer Crezlaw Reszke managed to capture images The Hand traveling at a moderate pace near Budapest.
      The hand would’ve been confirmed to exist prior to that. We have plenty of things that we discovered prior to having photographic evidence of it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think the photo finally conforms it without a reason of doubt. Depending on if this fricking Hand basically just kept on whizzing around parts of the world just to hand people, it would be a semi uncommon sight

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >We have plenty of things that we discovered prior to having photographic evidence of it.
        Yeah and the vast majority of people thought it was made up bullshit until they saw photos of it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >first hand (heh heh) accounts of the hand for centuries before
        >none of those count until it's actually photographed
        the photograph was just another piece on the mountain of evidence

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kino mockumentary right here.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The real question is, would it kill fetuses?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It probably wouldn't target fetuses but I'm sure it'd occasionally hit pregnant women

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How do you differentiate this?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What do you mean?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How would you be able to tell whether the Hand was targetting the fetus or the woman, it'd look the same

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It targets people, a fetus isn't a person anymore than an acorn is an oak tree

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            some day you'll wake up in the night sweating about that Choice which you and your lover Chose not to bring into this world
            you've probably done that already, at a guess
            maybe you Chose right
            [but it wasn't the choice of the fetus]

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Haha yes, I'll definitely impregnate a woman, any day now, haha...

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            > anymore than an acorn is an oak tree
            You’ve been watching a bit too much destiny buddy

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The acorn is an oak tree though. This is like arguing that a baby isn't a man. You can't "abort" an acorn because it has already been birthed. You might argue that a green undeveloped acorn is not its own organism yet but an acorn is clearly a fully developed baby that was already been born by analogy.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >the acorn is an oak tree though
            no, it's a fricking acorn you insane christcvck

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm atheist. An acorn is to an oak tree as an already born baby is to an adult human. A fetus would be a fertilized but still developing green acorn that is still attached to the parent tree. Just because a baby kind of looks like a human doesn't mean an equally dramatic transformation is occurring as it develops. The structures needed for basic animal life like lungs, a circulatory system, brain, etc are more complicated than a plant so a basic human still overall looks like a fully developed human, but you still have most of the structures present in the acorn as would be in a tree.

            Would you consider an acorn the equivalent of a baby the moment it starts to sprout tiny roots and a stem heading towards the sun? At that point you can visually identify all the parts that will merely end up getting larger the same as you would a human baby. When does the acorn become the tree? With a fetus we at least can decide when it ceases to be physically attached to the parent that it is now a "baby", but when does the acorn "become" the baby tree? It was always a baby tree, all sprouting does is confirm that it wasn't a stillbirth, but in some plants it is usually possible to determine if a seed is not going to sprout by seeing if it floats. Obviously a dead baby is not going to end up becoming an adult so the fact that a dead acorn won't turn into a tree is not a point against it. If humans popped up all wrapped up into themselves and need to "unfold" themselves and pop off their little acorn hats to sprout we probably wouldn't consider the curled up humans as not humans yet. This whole "acorn" isn't a tree thing is a "gotcha" that actually isn't that just ends up being a self-own because it is entirely based on something "looking" like the adult version of it, but guess what, a fetus "looks" like a baby quite awhile before it is born, so if "looking" like a human is a criteria for being a human for the purposes of abortion, then that is closer to a partial ban.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why don't (you) shut the frick up?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Pregnant women might just be twice as likely to get hit, if we assume that the hand doesn't try to minimize collateral damage then it would sometimes end up killing multiple people anyway, in this case the pregnant women would get crushed while the hand is targetting the baby inside her since the pregnant woman and the baby are in the same spot at all times, that is, provided it counts unborn children in the random deciding process.

          You wouldn't be able to tell however if it was targeting the pregnant women more often until to took definite statistics on its victims. Until then there might just be rumours about why particular people are targeted.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So if the Hand is extensively recorded, and we notice a statistical aberration that pregnant women are disproportionately targetted, that would have ramifications on the abortion debate

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Assume that the hand becomes the emboidiment of god and one of the commandements becomes "I am the lord thy god, though shall not kill before me" in which case killing anyone before The Hand decides that it is their time either through natural means or directly would be a sin. The religious aspect of the abortion debate is a compound problem that relies on both killing being wrong and that striking a pregnant women and this results in a premature birth resulting in the death of the child requires a life for a life, as opposed to if the pregnant women is stricken and the child is born prematurely but there are no further injuries then it is merely punishable by a fine.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >if we assume that the hand doesn't try to minimize collateral damage then it would sometimes end up killing multiple people anyway,
            I imagine the hand would pick people up by the scruff of their neck and move them out of the way of its target.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I guess if it targets fetuses it would poke the pregnant belly like the Pilsbury Dough Boy

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Soviets would have nuked it, the Nips would have tried to capture and eat it, The Americans would try to ride it, and the Germans would bend over and try to get it to finger their buttholes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And the israelites. What would have the israelites done with the Hand?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        circumcize it

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They would try to fight it off the stage and if they won they would receive a trophy of themselves

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The hand is invincible you fricking twats

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nuh uh it usually starts with about 300hp

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the hand was killed 100 years ago
      cope harder handcuck

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like we would have sophisticated Hand hobbyists who are fully able to predict its movements like trainspotters.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Accounts always seem to vary widely. Sometimes it’s young, sometimes it’s old; neither its race nor what gender it belongs to are consistent

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >360 people a year
    that is literally a nothingburger

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the number may seem insignificant, but at the same time the very unique circumstances of it is what makes it interesting, after all what will attract more attention, the total amount of people that died from hunger, or the one guy who died from explosive shits

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would be worshipped as a god but things would get interesting in the modern age as flight and advanced weapons are invented.

    People would study the hand from up close with planes and might find out it is a physical object made of matter. Also eventually someone would be crazy enough to shoot at it, or mistake it for an enemy aircraft during a war. If it can be destroyed, it woul eventually be in modern times, and that would cause a giant crisis of faith everywhere since all the world religions would be hand-based. Basically all of humanity would become Nietzsche.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'd imagine that the "it is always slightly faster than you" would apply not only to you running away from it but also to you chasing it so the hand you be able to travel beyond supersonic if you had a supersonic airplane and if you shot a missile at it then it would be faster than the missile and avoid it. The hand would have to be able to theoretically travel from one end of the earth to the other in a day if for instance it happens to select at random a person in New Zealand and another in Spain.

      Quick searches seem to indicate that commercial airliners would make such a trip in just over 24-25 hours at current speeds of 500 mph or 800 km/h. The circumference of the earth is 40k kilometers so it would need to be able to travel 20k km in 24 hours, or 833 km/h, so it would definitely need to be able to move faster than a current commercial airliner at a minimum to be able to reach the farthest possible person on the other side of the planet if it happens to select them. The speed of sound is 1234 km/h so it is travel over three quarters the speed of sound at the very least, so it probably wouldn't be until around WW2 that we would have something which could theoretically outpace the hand if you ignore the part where it says it is always a little bit faster than you. Although the hand could "choose" to not go after someone on the other side of the planet due to not being fast enough to reach it, but that would introduce proximity bias rather than being purely a random chance of death.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I see no reason why it would be *that* important, in Abrahamic religions it would probably be interpreted as an angel at most.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Handiel

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Praise the Hand.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >take the hand-vaxx or lose your job!!
    >you want to visit your loved ones on their deathbed WITHOUT HANDVAXX?!!?!!?!
    >yes people with the hand-vaxx get crushed all the time, your point being?!
    >ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE ANTIHANDVAXXERS!?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >20% of the victims of the Hand in the last 2 years were Black, is the Hand a white supremacist?

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I Gilgamesh, king of kings, king of lands seen and unseen, ruler of four winds, mightiest of the powerful and immortal amongst mortal men, built this city on a place where i cut off all the fingers of the hand of evil god, stopping its flight and crushing of men. freeing my subjects and conquering the fate. remember my name when the other hand arrives.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Would be funny if one of the people it randomly crushed was a Pope or a King, something like that.
    Especially at the height of their glory age or whatever.
    Even more so if it was still completely random but people read significance into it anyway.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine watching some heart warming story of a 100 year old veteran on live TV and then the Hand comes squishes him midsentence

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Or an austronaut in the moon

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >1 person everyday
    >365.25 people every year
    >civilization often considered to be 8000 years old
    That's 2,922,000 total deaths from the hand, which is quite a small amount relative to the total number of people who lived. An estimated 85 million people died in WW2 alone. When you consider how big and how sparsely populated the world was throughout most of history, almost everyone would live their entire lives without seeing it at all. At best it would be recorded a few times in history but there's a very slim chance it would kill anyone important enough to completely change the outcome of history. Most people would have no idea the hand existed outside of obscure legends that probably wouldn't be believed. When a death by the hand was recorded, people would probably just chalk it up to that person doing something to upset God/the gods.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Before it's scientifically confirmed, it might be considered a "common myth" or Jungian archetype sort of deal that just happens to show up in a lot of places.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't forget that (presumably) The Hand can cause mass destruction on its way to Handle someone. What if the Handed person is underground, for whatever reason? What if they are in a big building, like a skyscraper, a castle, a palace? Would it only target someone if their death doesn't involve collateral damage, or would it not care? Maybe it would wait for the Chosen Handed person to be alone or in a position where no other casualties will be made. But then wouldn't it effectively anul The Hand to be always in companion with someone else?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Handle someone

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Handle someone
      I fricking love this thread kek

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So I take it that the Hand, in addition to being incredibly fast, must also be powerful enough to bypass any methods that a person might use to protect itself from it. This includes:
    -Ability to travel to the bottom of the ocean
    -Ability to travel in outer space, or at least the stratosphere
    -Strong enough to break down bunkers(I like to imagine it forms a fist and starts punching, imagine being in the bunker)

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if you were in a tank or boat or something, would the hand be able to destroy it to get to you?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I could imagine it influencing wars then.

        Imagine the siege of leningrad and then the hand just busts it open to kill someone inside, making a giant hole.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I asked my friend and we agreed that humanity would try to shoot it down but it would not die because it cannot be damaged or obstructed as a higher life form.

    Also it would probably kill Hitler just after he was spared by that Englisman at Ypres because the comic timing would be perfect. And lead to more cooperation between nations against it or at least mitigating its effects. The fact that it has to travel between victims implies that it can be delayed, so logically all nations would come together and attempt to escape to the stars.

    Obviously the live broadcast death of Neil Armstrong just before he takes humanity's first step on the moon at the hand of The Hand would shake the faith of some, but within a hundred years of the formation of the League of Nations we would be on Mars and plotting jumps to Jupiter.

    If the Hand is truly random it will pick someone on one of the colonies. This means weeks or months of travel between planetary bodies.

    By this point we can use the orbital trajectory of our solar system to throw colony ships at nearby systems and begin the centuries long journey away from the Hand.

    I imagine at least one will be brutally destroyed in a fatal decompression after the Hand picks a single colonist and busts the ship open to get them. Perhaps the crew would try to find whoever the Hand was trying to take and fire them out of an escape pod. They would probably be wrong and just kill the poor frick.

    Sufficient offworld populations would mean that a truly randomized Hand would eventually spend the lifetime of the target in transit.

    That is why it is there. It was left by the Precursors to poke us into action.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Humanity literally doesn't do anything against many more significant threats than this, the Hand is a nothingburger

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Anon it's a fricking giant hand flying around and smashing buildings and shit as it finds and kills people

        It's a goddamn menace

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It kills 365 people per year

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            At minimum you dummy

            What happens when the asteroid that is The Hand hits someone who is driving a car?

            What if it picks someone who is currently on a plane and punches a hole in the fuselage?

            Or breaks through a wall or a city building to get to someone?

            It's a hand the size of a jet plane that is always flying and hunting anon, don't be daft

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            As per consensus it can have the ability to ensure minimal damage is done, and as it is a hand it can manipulate objects pretty well to accomplish this. For example it can grab and stop the car, grab the plane and place it down on the ground, etc.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nah, it would probably work like silver surfer and only physically affect the objects it wants.
            It would go through your car/wall, plane etc, like a ghost only to crush you

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes but what if it kills the driver of the car and the still intact car still continues travelling at the speed it was previously but now without a driver?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Made me chuckle.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're assuming every planet doesn't have it's own Hand

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    lot more unsolved murders

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First post on that thread was to question what haplo group the hand belonged to.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Classic

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's The Hand

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Would it be killable if you stabbed it with a spear or something?

    It'd be cool if you could kill it when it comes for you, but it will always respawn and go for someone else the next day. If you "survive" and "defeat" the hand, you become King.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Guys I'm getting nervous, I know this started as a thought exercise but the Hand isn't real right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No more real than israeli sky daddy and his israelite on a stick son

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Le epic edgy atheist! You guys never ruin threads ever, your incredibly high IQs are always welcome and not annoying.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >cheerypicking
          Nice, here's mine. Guess all christians qre like this now.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >now
            Priests have always been pedophiles
            Always

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Imagine being so mentally ill that you think that quote has any sexual intent.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >that you think
            I don't need to "think", I just have to read a newspaper and see what priests actually do when parents let "children come to him".

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Every atheist I've talked to reminded me of Ricky Gervais tbh

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Those are ptr*testants though.

            Anyways, lets not derail this thread, I like it. There are brazillions of threads in this board about religion already.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >the Christcuck immediately thinks about atheists when his religion is mocked
          You know you'd fold like paper in a debate with other religions.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What other religions? Muslims and israelites also respect jesus and believe in the abrahamic god. Bhudism and shintoism are barely religions. And indian religions are as moronic as the marvel expanded universe.
            Atheists in the west were usually raised christian wich is why they are full of resentment. Most of this posts are from atheists.

            You will get HANDED because of your bullshit one day.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Muslims and israelites also respect jesus
            Only muslims. israelites ... uh ... have a different viewpoint.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well… to be fair until the Epistle to the Galatians, the followers of Jesus were israelites

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Muslims and israelites also respect jesus and believe in the abrahamic god.
            Kek
            >Bhudism and shintoism are barely religions.
            Still asshurt that the Based Japs rejected your israelite God and still became a homogenous superpower, I see.
            >And indian religions are as moronic as the marvel expanded universe.
            Didn't even try to formulate an argument.

            Christcucks are embarrassing.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            jews do not respect jesus. their religion's central tenant is to reject him

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            In the past couple years, I have never at any point see someone spell "tenet" correctly. Does this mean that, from a descriptivist standpoint, the word has been successfully merged into "tenant" and replaced completely?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How would you know it wasn't? There's 7 billion people on Earth and any video of it in this day and age can be disregarded as cgi.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Hand is real.

      Why do you think the worship of the sky gods is so common among so many religions throughout the Earth?

      They got handed.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Then why are there no reports of the hand in 2022? Checkmate, handtard.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Why were there no flu deaths in the last year?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It is killing people in Africa right now, and nobody cares if an African dies and people claim it was some almighty being from the sky that did it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Of course not Anon,
      In real life it’s actually a tentacle

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The hand would eventually be harnessed for energy. If it's able to zoom around the world faster, presumably, than modern vehicles/jet engines/etc, then hooking up some wind turbines to it could provide power purely from the air rushing around it alone. Drones could place batteries into the hand-power device that are charged by the turbines then harvest them later for energy storage. And then sell the power later. The hand wouldn't bother escaping this stuff because its only job is to crush people. Everyone would seethe at whoever takes this engine of death and uses it for profit, but they wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Hand would constantly be in contact with human viscera, fluids, and parasites from crushing them with its finger, so whenever it flies around the world to another place it spreads pathogens it was exposed to. Meaning the New World would have smallpox, bubonic plague, etc. before colonizers ever showed up. But the Old World wouldn't have syphilis since that's an STD. In fact if the hand is a literal organic hand, it might be infected with diseases itself, like carrying fleas infected by yersinia pestis, or malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought about a related idea earlier, we would definitely try to plant a tracking device on it, right? Either this would be true, or the Hand cleans itself regularly.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I believe the Hand would kill off any pathogens as it travels on its Inter Continental Ballistic Handling trajectories. It'd likely rise up into the atmosphere where it's cold and lacking in oxygen and thereby sterilize itself.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What if the hands DNA was tuudied?

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If it’s a lady’s hand I would try to jack off on it.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I briefly attempted to start /thg/ - The Hand General but Jannies nuked it

    https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13061331/#q13061331

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Since the hand just moves SLIGHTLY faster than you, when you see it just stay ABSOLUTELY still until the next 24 hour selection. What's slightly faster than 0 mph? 0.01? But that's also astronomically faster than 0.001 and so on until you reach speeds so slow it would take months or years to see a visible difference.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think you'd see religions emerge that attempt to figure out how to ward off the hand based on the assumption that the victims did something to piss it off. Given that it is random, this would result in many strange taboos and beliefs developing as a result of witnessing hand deaths while people were engaged in completely unrelated activities, different stations in life, lifestyles, etc. Expect widespread religious dietary and behavioral restrictions based on random high profile hand smiting incidents.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Inevitably, we would have Hand fetishists getting off to it killing people, as well as more innocuous hobbyists who think watching it is the most amazing thing ever, also religious devotees etc. Imagine having the Hand fly towards you at incredible hihg speed while being chased by a pack of bizarre autists with cameras and their dicks out and shit

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is this board collapsing from the Atheist-Christian sectarian war?

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How would we figure out it kills once a day?

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Hand would be picking targets in cities fairly frequently, being population centers and all. There would be too many reliable eyewitness accounts from major cities to dismiss The Hand as a myth.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When did [ZA HANDO] appear? By the Butterfly Principle if it was crushing people in -10k BC it could have totally scrambled the list of people that actually existed

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Some perverts would go looking for The Foot

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly, yes.
      People would have questions. Why is it a human looking hand? How can it hover? What is his energy source? Are there other similar "beings". It it part of an evil gigantic humanoid?, can it die? etc...

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if it existed from the dawn of time, it would be worshipped by all cultures with them each having it's own folklore about it's origins and motives. most of these cultures would consider it an honor and blessing to be chosen to die by the hand. i would imagine the family of the dead would be blessed too. people would flock towards it when they see it flying in the sky

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Theoretically speaking, would The Hand still attempt to crush someone if another person was blocking its path? Let's say it decides to crush a random baby being pushed along in a stroller, but the mother shields it with her own body, does The Hand kill them both?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like the idea that it phases through the mother like any other object and squishes the baby

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How would the Hand handle Siamese twins?

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Interestingly there is no consensus on whether the hand is a left or right hand. Early depictions often show a left hand, but this could simply be because an artist who was right-handed found it easier to model their own left hand. At least that is the running theory. There are several examples of the Hand being depicted as a right hand. Eye witness reports are similarly conflicted and early photographs too blurry.

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