• kn33@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Someone should email the Vatican and ask. Not because I think they have the answer, just because I think it’d be funny.

  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Probably stand still otherwise that walking on the sea part of the Bible would have been hilarious as Jesus flips all over the place in the waves as the disciples yell, “Oh shit! OH FUCK!”

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    19 days ago

    The answer to the question depends on if Jesus walks over water or on water. I think the idea of him not being able to bath without disabling his habilities is funnier so he would go down the river as if it were an icy slope, behaving as a drop of a highly hydrophobic substance.

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      19 days ago

      What happens if it rains? Does he ping pong off the raindrops into the sky or dose he get a water bubble around him?

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          19 days ago

          If hes in a bubble, but not above the water, he would be underwater. Meaning he would float to stand above his bubble if there’s enough water there, bringing the bubble with him keeping him underwater. So, he would shoot strait up like a rocket, or perhaps liftoff before the rain touches the ground…

          Is there an upper range on the power? What if a waterworld a billion light years away is directly overhead? Dose he travel to a surface faster than his human form could survive?

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            19 days ago

            Jesus instantly vaporizing because technically there is ice in mars and he gets shot up is really funny but I think he can turn off the power at will and adjust the range

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            19 days ago

            Even wine has water in it, along with most of his body.

            I feel like they did a bad job fleshing out the magic system, it’s full of plot holes like this.

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      19 days ago

      I can imagine the soles of his feet being hydrophobic, but I don’t see why the rest of him needs to be

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    19 days ago

    How fast is the current?

    Is there a flow threshold where he does start moving, and is that threshold relativistic?

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    19 days ago

    “Look, it’s an important unresolved question. We are all in dire need of doctrinal clarification. Does anybody know the Pope’s phone number?”

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    He’d stand still, so effectively on a fixed point relative to the planet.
    Otherwise there’d be reports of him wobbling with the waves in that accurate and trustworthy book some randos wrote decades after he went back to his spaceship died…

    Also, is this an European river or African river?

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    18 days ago

    Does Jesus impart weight on the water at all? We have to assume not, because otherwise he would create a depression in it. This means he could stand on the flow coming out of a hosepipe that he himself is holding.

    With a long enough hosepipe he could fly over buildings.

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    18 days ago

    jerry seinfeld dated a 17-year-old named shoshanna back in the 1990s. sorry if this is how you found out. seriously!

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    19 days ago

    How many lands does he have left? Do I have any counter spells left? No way I’m allowing zombie jesus to walk on water, I got goblins to double on his ass.

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      18 days ago

      shit dude a wave pool?

      jesus just chilling on his phone and only moving up and down in the middle of a wave pool

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    19 days ago

    I would have to assume move. Unless this ability could be material specific or be disabled at will, he would have to still be in contact with the surface because otherwise if he was actually levitating at some minor level he wouldn’t be able to walk regardless of what he was standing on.

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      Well the story of him walking on water was of him walking on the sea during a storm, so it definitely had a current, so I think he would stand still

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        It doesn’t actually say whether he was bobbing up and down on the waves.

        Although I suppose the canonical explanation would be, He controls the water so that the part around His feet holds still. Because he’s also known to have calmed the storm.

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        In that case though there’s active motion to move, and the ability to do so implies friction to push off against a surface. If he stood still then that same friction should carry him downstream.