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Daemon (thelemmy.club)

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[-] Pyro@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've never heard of daemons outside a programming context

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I recently read it in a book. It was used for an evolved human form. That was my first time seeing it other than programming too

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

They appear in Warhammer a fair bit.

[-] vanillama@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago

They were divine beings above humans and below gods, they're probably the main inspiration for both angels and demons in Christianity

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago

They were demons but with a funny æ

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Nope, daemon is just the Latin spelling. Sometimes we use it nowadays for fun to mean different things.

[-] vanillama@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

In religious studies, daemon or daimon is used to refer to pre Christian supernatural beings as I said. There's a huge difference between beings that may or may not be evil vs demons who are generally regarded as evil by definition. Demons got their name from daimons, but they're not fully equivalent.