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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 24, 2014, 10:00:51 am »
Eh? I'm... not sure? I was just doing standard word swapping -- pee for piss and pig (a common slur) for cop/kop.

Though a pig that hunts out yeast/urinary tract infections like truffles is definitely a hell of a thought.

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General Discussion / Re: Christian beliefs and discussion
« on: October 24, 2014, 09:54:44 am »
... y'know, reading something, and it strikes me with an odd question. In the case of Rapture -- and assuming that not everyone gets got -- what would happen to growing fetuses? Things that, by much christian consideration, are full human, but not yet born (and often not considered saved until some later date). Would, like. Would some of them not get YWHWducted? Life support system gets poofed, but the fleshy bundle just kinda'... stays behind.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 24, 2014, 09:39:36 am »
Yeah, I was thinking you were implying "during", peepig. Which... actually, this is a subject probably best dropped, innit? *dropping*

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 24, 2014, 08:59:17 am »
And suddenly I'm confused, because the last time I checked neither the french nor english meaning of the word has much to do with sex, generally. Not without things getting a bit weird, anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: Christian beliefs and discussion
« on: October 24, 2014, 08:41:30 am »
Yeah, don't mistake it -- there's definitely more tolerant religions out there (though, y'know, very few of particular note in regards to size. Buddhism's probably closest, and that lot has their own problems.). Hinduism in general just seems to be doing better on that front than the other billion+ ones (i.e. the other major ones, population wise).

S'mostly the sort of doctrinal permissiveness that appeals to me personally, t'be honest. Less likely to have the members of one sect of hinduism look at another and say, "That is not Hindu." At least in my interaction and understanding of the thing.

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General Discussion / Re: Christian beliefs and discussion
« on: October 24, 2014, 06:58:24 am »
Tended was the key word, IP. Comparatively lesser history of sectarian and inter-faith violence and whatnot. So far as I'm aware, anyway.

Also the noted violence seems to be an expression of a yet-again screwed up socio-political environment more than anything particularly religious. Fuck you, British Empire, etc., etc. Among other things, as always.

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General Discussion / Re: Christian beliefs and discussion
« on: October 24, 2014, 06:25:30 am »
The idea that the Covenant with the Jews is over is all but explicitly expressed in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Quote from: Epistle to the Hebrews
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
... yeah, literally in the same set of verses:
Quote
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.”

I guess by "all but explicitly" you mean "explicitly not"...

That sounds pretty specifically like they're still the chosen people of YWHW. Further, it's not because of a group of them's giving up of Streaker J to the romans that the old covenant has waned -- it's just because there's a better priest in town.

Hebrew 6 also kiiiinda' mentions YWHW's inability to lie, which I'd say would preclude its breaking of old oaths. The covenant may have changed, but promises previously made would likely still hold.

Also as noted, the whole "subset of wicked Jews doing wicked things and then better ones coming along" is apparently a very standard judaic literary technique, at least during the periods the torah (and related texts) was being passed along and eventually transcribed. Sort of an applied No True Scotsman thing. It... probably doesn't actually mean that much, from the text's perspective.

No lost claim sighted?

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Spoiler: Questions (click to show/hide)

Also are you a boy or a girl?

What is your name? Diophranes

Do you have a nickname? If so what is it? DIO

Do you have a catchphrase? What is it? (Keep it short please) Tuesday!

Which of these describes you best?
Short

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: October 24, 2014, 12:14:04 am »
And so pedomoru dies a blessed death.

Actually thought the gap was a bit larger than it is, though. Turns out it's only a three year difference in the original... could have sworn the guy was closer to twenty than 17 when the series started. Chiba apparently hit the ground running when it came to education, I guess.

But yeah, it was 14 vs 17 (and either graduated or about to graduate high school, for the latter, vs. just starting it) when the original started, checking the wiki. 16 vs 19 when it ended. Definitely appears to have shrunk a year or two in the remaking.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: October 24, 2014, 12:00:25 am »
... does it still have that somewhat uncomfortable age gap between the two?

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General Discussion / Re: Christian beliefs and discussion
« on: October 23, 2014, 11:53:26 pm »
Nah, you almost certainly would have at least some Hindu adherents hold some sort of conversion campaign. There's a ridiculously huge amount of sects and offshoots of the vedic descended stuff, and exactly how they go about their business is as just as myriad.

It's certainly less likely than with abrahamic descended stuff, but far from extremely rare.

In a lot of ways, Hinduism doesn't work in any particular way, from what interactions I've had with the subject. More splintered than the thousand denominations and a denomination of protestantism, ha. It's actually kind of refreshing, since that sort of thing has tended to breed a pretty incredibly tolerate attitude towards religious diversity (if not necessarily other sorts of diversity) in the areas it flourishes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 23, 2014, 09:43:18 pm »
... mostly fanfiction. Handful of LPs. Occasional bits of... miscellaneous other stuff. Like, representative example, the left side of my ctrl-tab thingy (i.e., the most recent stuff) consists of 30 tabs. Of it, all but 11 are fanfics. Of the 11, two are B12, two are LPs, two are manga, two are game related (ToME4 forum and some gamefaqs page), and the remainder are miscellaneous one-off stuff. Most of the "active" columns (which is usually the leftmost, maybe the left two, and the furthest right column or two -- stuff that's been background-tab opened but not yet looked at. I can't actually see the latter ones at the moment, but... eh.) look fairly similar, with the inactive ones being mostly-coherent columns of entirely fanfic or LP or whathaveyou.

Basically I read on the computer a lot. A lot. And I don't have any trouble reading several (dozen) things more or less sequentially, bouncing between them whenever the mood hits. And then I read something nice, check the author's favorites, and there's suddenly another dozen tabs open. And one of those is probably something nice that will again have author's favorites of note that I haven't yet read.

So stuff accrues.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 23, 2014, 09:27:21 pm »
Because it's considerably less effort than making, organizing, and using bookmarks.

Also considerably more likely for me to not just forget I wanted to return to the page if I leave it open in a tab instead of shoving it into the bookmark folder, never to be seen again.

Basically, for me, this methodology is significantly more effective than using bookmarks. So it's what I do.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 23, 2014, 09:22:12 pm »
... yeah, I've got something like 80-100 stuck behind something similar, usually. Mind you, it only makes so much difference from a visual standpoint, but eh.

It tends to be too much effort to bother sorting things, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 23, 2014, 08:34:26 pm »
That number of tabs is just disgusting

I don't actually know how many tabs I have open at this point. Two, three hundred? Something like that.

Incidentally, Opera handles tabs waaaay better than firefox, in my experience. Less memory imprint, and better means of navigating them all. The ctrl+tab or right-click+mouse wheel scroll menu thingy is amazing.

... also, there's totally too many tabs open for the little X on the tabs to show up. It does show when they're large enough to see the icons on the tabs, but... that was a long time and many fewer tabs ago.

E: Mind you, I've also got firefox open in the background with another dozen or so tabs open. It handles flash a bit better, so I use it for video LPs.

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