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Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:01 am

I don't know anything about Lina Inverse other than there was someone who annoyed me on WotC boards that used that as his screen name and as a result I won't watch Slayers on that principal. When examining these so-called principals I seem to have very strong beliefs rooted in very silly things...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:22 am

That's ok Count, most belief is in very silly things. Your principle is no sillier than the magic sky fairy of Christianity.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:35 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know anything about Lina Inverse other than there was someone who annoyed me on WotC boards that used that as his screen name and as a result I won't watch Slayers on that principal. When examining these so-called principals I seem to have very strong beliefs rooted in very silly things...

Lina Inverse is a flat-chested wizard who is rather sensitive about the size of her bust and has a tendency to cast hillariously overpowered offensive spells, usually of the explody type.

Anyway, back to the image macros.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:18 pm

I don't see why the wood get so cross about that

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:39 pm

Because they are hung up on the torture porn at the center of the passion narrative and outright forgot that their savior worked as a carpenter before his career as a prophet.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:21 pm

That's not photoshoped. That's seriously an official Times cover.

I don't know how they could make that image look even more dorky.

Tangent, I predict the new VR devices that are being hyped to hell and back will be end up being a quick fad and soon will be forgotten. Because I find it somewhat useful to be able to keep track of my actual surroundings when I use my computer thank you very much. Also makes it faster and easier to show it to other people.

Plus they said that shit was coming out in 2013, since it's been delayed until now that's a really bad sign on my book.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:01 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:Because they are hung up on the torture porn at the center of the passion narrative and outright forgot that their savior worked as a carpenter before his career as a prophet.

Apparently, in real crucifixions they didn't actually nail you to the cross, since they reused those things and repeated nailing would inevitably weaken the wood. Instead they just tied you to the cross, in a position that would cause you to slowly asphyxiate over a period of hours or days as your diaphragm muscles wore out.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:29 pm

hyzmarca wrote:
Josh_Kablack wrote:Because they are hung up on the torture porn at the center of the passion narrative and outright forgot that their savior worked as a carpenter before his career as a prophet.
Apparently, in real crucifixions they didn't actually nail you to the cross, since they reused those things and repeated nailing would inevitably weaken the wood. Instead they just tied you to the cross, in a position that would cause you to slowly asphyxiate over a period of hours or days as your diaphragm muscles wore out.

That was the damn point all along. The thieves that were crucified at Jesus's side got tied up to their crosses. The prophet got the "premium" execution method of being nailed plus the crown of spines.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:16 pm

Being nailed to the cross would actually be significantly more pleasant because you'd die from blood loss.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:27 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:Because they are hung up on the torture porn at the center of the passion narrative and outright forgot that their savior worked as a carpenter before his career as a prophet.

Point of fact, there is absolutely no reason to think that Jesus was a carpenter at all in any way. Quite aside from questions of his existence, or the authority one of the four gospels, all of which were written 100% literarily steeped in literary meaning as opposed to historical meaning, and quite aside from the fact that the explicit original source of claiming Jesus is a "carpenter" is a pure metaphor about how Jesus is a "craftsman" in the same sense as God, and therefore his occupation was almost certainly invented solely for the purpose of the metaphor in which it is first (and only originally) brought up.

It doesn't even mean Carpenter. The word tekton just means "craftsman" and a wood tekton is a different thing than a stone tekton or an iron tekton. And no where at all does it clarify any such distinction as to Jesus. So that could be equally as accurately translated as Jesus the Blacksmith, or Jesus the Bricklayer.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 10:21 pm

Kaelik wrote:It doesn't even mean Carpenter. The word tekton just means "craftsman" and a wood tekton is a different thing than a stone tekton or an iron tekton. And no where at all does it clarify any such distinction as to Jesus. So that could be equally as accurately translated as Jesus the Blacksmith, or Jesus the Bricklayer.

Oh man, if I were still Christian. "Jesus the Game Designer"

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maglag · Post by **maglag** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:57 am

Darth Rabbitt wrote:Being nailed to the cross would actually be significantly more pleasant because you'd die from blood loss.

Considering that the roman governor overseeing the execution was kinda sympathetic towards Jesus, that may've as well been the point as well. Pontius Pilate knew Jesus had commited no crime, so he gave him a faster execution method. Thus the "premium" treatment.

Remember that the romans even went to the trouble of spearing the poor bleeding dude to end his misery faster.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:19 am

maglag wrote:
Darth Rabbitt wrote:Being nailed to the cross would actually be significantly more pleasant because you'd die from blood loss.
Considering that the roman governor overseeing the execution was kinda sympathetic towards Jesus, that may've as well been the point as well. Pontius Pilate knew Jesus had commited no crime, so he gave him a faster execution method. Thus the "premium" treatment.

Remember that the romans even went to the trouble of spearing the poor bleeding dude to end his misery faster.

Ughhh... people talking about literary events that are described in 1/4th the books made 100 years after the event as obviously true

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:52 am

Prak wrote:

Damn, how many cats are in there? I kind of lost count at 574.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:48 pm

ishy wrote:
Prak wrote:

Damn, how many cats are in there? I kind of lost count at 574.

The gif stops at 735. You almost made it!

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:24 pm

It's a loop. There are either three cats, or an infinite number of them, depending on perspective.

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:31 pm

Occluded Sun wrote:It's a loop. There are either three cats, or an infinite number of them, depending on perspective.

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Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:09 pm

"Occluded Sun: flaying smartalecs with the obvious since 1974."

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:56 pm

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:44 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:05 am

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:19 pm

Essence · Post by **Essence** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:17 am

It has come to my attention that a picture of some interesting Old Spice deodorant scents has somehow managed to become the center of attention of the Harry Potter fandom, who is, as we speak, busily creating a massive new clusterfuck of fanfiction on Tumblr based on these names as the houses of the "American Hogwarts," a place called the Lavaeudeen School of Magick

The best part of the whole thing is that there is a 5th scent to this Old Spice line, Lionspride, but because it didn't make it onto the picture, it's been summarily ignored.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:47 pm

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:51 am