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Some are, sorta'. Modern ones like that tend to be hella' boring, imo, but there's definitely specialists in the abrahamic stuff. Decent theology program is still going to have a fairly solid grounding in comparative theology, though. Christian theologian worth the title kinda' has to be with regard to some of the older/historic religions, given how much judaism and christianity ripped 'em off, heh.

Mind you, there is quite a fair number of... I guess you could call them scare quote "theologians". Folks that claim the title, and probably have some kind of barely-recognized degree, that don't really cut it in genuine academic or sizable-church level theology. They write books, maybe have a congregation or TV show, but... well, the actual theologians, and even quite a few of the plain clothes ordained priests, I've had the privilege of talking to don't have terribly much nice to say about that sort

Bond is different from loan, mostly. I think. I can't quite remember what the difference is, but they're generally treated as different things. Both are debit vehicles, but not the same sort of one. It's either that or having something to do with the bank part of it, I guess.

P. sure it's the loan/bond thing, though. Forget the reasoning behind having them different, too, but I imagine something that sounds suspiciously like "tax evasion" is involved. Or... well, there's another word for it, that's, y'know, taking advantage of legal tax loopholes that have been very obviously bribed into existence and whatnot. The legal sibling of tax evasion, whatever it's called. Accountants have a word for it, which I'm currently too drugged/in pain to remember.

E: Though even without those bits, it is kinda' important to treat plain loans and bonds as different. Selling/transferring them, along with a bunch of other stuff, is not the same process. Different bookkeeping, among other junk.

Blood and tea continues to be one of the more horrifying taste sensations I have ever experienced.

Also, biting down on a tea bag evidentially gives me caffeine jitters, which is just further misery.

Unfortunately, gumming a tea bag actually works for causing the bleeding to stop, so... off we go again.

Wisdom teeth removal sucks. Even worse, I can't suck until it's healed up, so no straws and Nth multiplicative difficulty in consuming anything ;_;

At least it's coming along faster than the last set. Somewhat.

Mostly just highlights the name in that huge morass of aliases at the bottom of the main forum index, iirc. Plus there's some stuff related to PMs, iirc. You can choose to get PMs from buddies and admins only, ferex.

Matthaion doesn't sound very english to me at all. Nor does Markon, Loukan, or... whatever John originally was, since the wikipedia page isn't being very forthcoming as to the initial translation. Probably Ioannes, or some variation around Yohanan.

... but no, it took like five seconds with google and wikipedia to pretty sufficiently lay out the etymology of the synoptic gospel names, and they look pretty in line with what they should be. Just because many idiots take the KJV as fully accurate doesn't mean it actually is.

Which is to say, yeah, those sound anglicized because they were. The original greek/hebrew was different.

Less culturally imperialist than... meatily imperialist? I guess? From what I understand of meat, just due to what bushmeat tends to be -- the type of animals, and how they live/what they eat -- the meat trends toward being on the lower range of delicious flesh quality, compared to your average farm grown stuff or whatev'.

And, from what I've seen elsewhere, the general pattern is that as better meat becomes more ubiquitous, the worse quality meat starts to regulate itself to the (relatively) rich. And so, as conditions improve (that is, higher quality flesh becomes more available), regular consumption of deathmeat should reduce alongside them. You'd still probably have some consumption of deathmeat, just... less.

S'like, in these parts, squirrel and possum and etc. are generally free if you feel like getting off your arse and maybe throwing a rock at a tree or summat like that, and yet, while it is eaten, even among the poor it's not eaten often. Because it's edible but kinda' nasty, and sometimes even free isn't worth that taste, y'know? Not when a relatively negligible amount can get you not-free, but tastier.

Does... does it have some kind of odd secondary meaning that's (presumably) recently arisen, or...?