Do you think it was cut down with a change in orthodoxy?

I can see how depicting Mary as a Queen of heaven might upset some overly stick in passed priest.

Oh was the ice cream machine broke? I hear he gets mad about that

Only ones who dissapointed me were Star Trek: Voyager actors. Its the only thing I got attached to as a kid.

Robert Beltran - Commander Chakotay

Roxann Dawson - B’Elanna Torres

Both transphobes and trump supporters who won’t shut up about no one wanting to invite them to Star Trek stuff anymore.

I used to feel bad for Rob because he got such a shit treatment in ST:V in terms of writing and because his character fell victim to Jamake High water’s grifting (look him up if you want to see why 90’s native american characters kinda suck).

Seems he’s just an asshole about being famous. Doesn’t like being recognized in public.

TBH, I don’t blame him. I’ll take it over everyone else in this thread.

Behind on the lore.

What did Shaq do other than nearly every ad in the world? I can accept being a sell out for car insurance but anything egregious?

I think her dying trying is an important part of the point here.

I don’t agree with it. I’m sure there’s a more nuanced cause of death, but that’s between step 2 and 3.

If I was depressed and the onion was already cut.

Yeah I’d eat it. Might eat it like that just to see.

Any idea what kinda cheese?

From the inside he looks like a republican.

But that’s how its been for a while. This years Dem is last decades Rep.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to have enjoyed it or found it thought-provoking, but it’s definitely not a text that gets mentioned without comment when there’s some pedantic Romaboo dragging his knuckles around the comm. :p

This is specifically why I like you Pug. I think it’s far too common on the internet for some one to share a fun fact they learned and then get dog piled by people just wanting to be right without respect for that person’s desire to learn.

That being said, those are all points that seemed important and Aslan did bring up and I latched onto. I as a fresh enjoyer of the field of Christology, couldn’t tell you where the problems are and I’m gonna be annoying and ask for a good intro to why Aslan sucks AKA SoUrCe? but I’m also gonna go looking on jstor and my university library for book reviews after.

Otherwise, I was going to read Bart Erhman’s “Did Jesus Exist?” book next. Maybe I’ll check for reviews first this time, but what are your suggestions for historical Jesus stuff?

It’s… an extremely dubious piece even as speculation.

I honestly don’t know how any piece on the historical Jesus could be less speculative. It seems we only have one non biblical text that mentions Jesus specifically and its Josefus saying they killed James brother of Jesus sometime before 70 CE. I can’t remember if that was solid evidence for some other reason than timing since both James and Jesus were incredibly common names.

In my opinion, Aslan did a fine job explaining the tensions and why they were high outside of Jesus’s cult and then extrapolating from there. But this is just my first book on the historical Jesus I’ve ever read and it was recommended by some guy on reddit I guess 4 years ago.

So please consider any defenses as Luke warm defenses at best. I’m not married to these ideas

Paul is generally accepted to have died before the First Jewish-Roman War, and the Romans continued to regard Christianity as dangerous and fringe for the next 200 years - including intermittently crucifying Christians for spreading the word of their faith.

Yes, I was referencing the people who would have followed Paul’s tradition since he is the one who makes claims about a metaphysical kingdom of god in heaven as opposed to the claim that this is about restoring Israel to Jewish rule. The idea was attractive to non-Jews thus facilitating new Roman Christians and it was common practice to attribute writings to a founder of a tradition which is why most of Paul was probably not written by him (?). Same thing as to why all of Socrates was written by Plato.

I just finished “Zealot” by Reza Aslan. Its a book about the historical Jesus but its mostly about making assumptions based on everything else we know about this time period. Which I recommend heavily to anyone who wants to know more.

But according Reza, Pilate had to be rehabilitated because of the Jewish revolt that lead to Rome’s total destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

The short version, Jesus was actually a Jewish ethno Nationalist rebel (modern terms on ancient people but basically that) the biggest piece of evidence for this is that he was crucified, an execution the romans only gave to people who commit sedition. He was also an itinerant preacher. He was mostly the first thing but he said enough based things and did enough good magick (debatable miracles see Celsus) that he formed a religion on accident it seems.

After Jesus’s death, it was hard to convert Jews to be a follower of Jesus because they would have known his Messiah claims to mean King of the Jews and liberator from the Romans, which you can’t do if you’re dead. So Paul, to the disdain of the actual disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem who are fully still alive and doing things including Jesus’s brother James who Jesus named as his successor, Paul starts converting non-jews (gentiles) in Rome.

Then after Jerusalem is destroyed completely by the romans, Pauline converts and inheritors of the faith, have to heavily tone down the whole brutality of Rome thing to be within the authorities good graces and not get crucified for promoting the words of a seditious rebel.

Unfortunately, this meant they could only make one other group the bad guy here since class consciousness wasn’t really a thing (Jesus was probably more mad at the wealthy hereditary priest class of the Jewish cult than anything) so the Jews got the blame for Jesus’s death and laid the justification for 2000 years of European and Asian antisemitism.

I think the problem you’re running into is that Valve isn’t doing nothing with that pay.

Like valve is actively making my gaming experience better by developing cheap hardware and a good system for gaming on Linux.

All the games I’ve ever bought, regardless of if they still sell them are in my library.

My save files are cloud synced for free.

I as the end user am having a good time.

I also have a sunk cost thing going on. I’ve been trying to buy and play more GOG games but I just have so much that works already on Linux without any work that it’s hard to justify the tinker time to get it working otherwise.

They provide such a good service I think we’ve all forgotten about the children casinos for CSGO2 skins, but even that they’re fixing (kinda).

Maybe its just nice to not be mad about something. Like its just video games, I don’t really care if Valve has a monopoly on that since 1) Experience is good 2) they’re not trying to have like a monopoly on water or something important. Bad take maybe, but there’s enough going on that I just don’t know if I could make myself care that valve is like 90% of videogame sales. Or whatever it is.

Its less upsetting and more baffeling

Like I’m not mad, usually confused and intrigued by the question.

Unless you’re being a dick about it.

I knew a guy who had ADHD and sold his adderall for Cocaine and then “microdosed” cocaine through college.

I think he works in tech sales now

I’m personally allergic to doing anything to my distro other than installing games and VSCodium.

Its why I barely understand the X11 v Wayland discussion. I have no idea how to customize my Linux set up, if a troubleshooting step says “May bork computer if done wrong” I just reinstall the Distro or try another one. It takes like 5-10 minutes to install Linux on most modern computers

To me this is a feature of Linux. “It works on my distro” means I’m using that distro now!

I used to be a dual monitor guy on my gaming rig, but there were a few times I had issues with display (usually playing older games like Underlord)

So I just became a single monitor guy, but its a big monitor

This only works on others computers.

If the wizard themselves experience a minor irritating tech issue, then it stays permanently and forces the wizard to use a convoluted work around instead of asking another wizard for help (this would fix it)

It doesn’t?

Its very clearly saying ugliness isn’t a physical thing but a state of being.

I assumed it meant being mean, rude, negative in a harmful way then that’s what being ugly is. Meanwhile, someone who doesn’t have traditional markers of beauty who are also positive things like kind and uplifting, then they are lovely.

The 2009 BBC Hamlet with David Tenant and Patrick Stewart is, without a doubt, the best possible version of hamlet on stage, on film, in its entirety.

I worked through and annotated hamlet and then watched that version. Just me, a dark room, popcorn, and a cozy spot.

It has made me obsess over Hamlet. Such a wonderful story!

He does write either, so I want to imagine he grabbed a note from his grandpa or someone and handed it to the guard.

“Its dangerous to go alone. Take this!”

sticky note with this description on it