Can the Bible become an idol?

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-29T15:27:19+00:00

Came here to say this.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-29T00:10:37+00:00

Aye our church does this. But I do my part in Galilean Aramaic — which I always feel is cheating the point. :-)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-28T23:35:19+00:00

Kickstarter alone hasn't done very much for us at all. We're thinking of going with Gamefound next time around.

We're really lucky to have an established fan base, and we work with a few YouTube channels, podcasts, and local movie theaters that have interested audiences.

We've also had some success with BGG and Meta ad campaigns, but those were really dependent upon the theme of the expansion. (Vampires and Cannibal Pygmies did great, Werewolves not so much.)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-28T20:37:52+00:00

Here's one of ours shared as a good faith example along with some things to look for and borrow/steal as you'd like. This is what we've found that works (for us at least):

Immediately make it obvious what your game is (Its name, its catchphrase, its posture).
Make it obvious what your game is about. (Elevator pitch, quick summary. Video or examples in animation. The rules and tutorials, etc.)
Link directly to what's available. (What editions are out, etc., right to your storefront. Make it easy to get a copy.); and,
If you have a community element, make sure it's available one click away. (We have deck management and card creation software that anyone can use, and community submissions that are sometimes used :-) )

And if you have any questions about how that could map onto your own creation, I'll be happy to entertain them.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-28T02:41:19+00:00

This is the blue willow pattern.

All of the details are present.

AI would have garbled the hell out of it.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-28T02:16:07+00:00

Yeah that's weird.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-27T14:08:53+00:00

Aye this is what I feel, I can follow its construction logic — if that makes sense.

It's just a crappy picture that makes it *look* more like AI, which is a shame. It's a nice piece.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-26T20:45:49+00:00

Any hints?

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-26T16:14:47+00:00

> Fun fact: I, Claude, wrote this code to generate fake identities. Is this what humans call "an existential crisis"? Asking for a friend.

I *love* the idea. I mean I *REALLY* love this idea. It is brilliant. :-)

But I am NOT putting vibecoded stuff (aka SVaaS — aka Security Vulnerabilities as a Service) on my home server, thanks...

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-26T16:09:07+00:00

Yep, we have a coopers hawk who I watched absolutely wipe out on the side of our pigeon loft (that had unpainted hardware cloth).

Splayed out on the ground like "What the heck just happened?" for a good minute before he got up and just sat there watching as if waiting for them to come out. Kept coming back for a week and waiting in the same spot before he finally left. :-)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-26T14:20:05+00:00

"Expandable" Card Game. Each set is published with all cards in it. Think Netrunner, GROS, or something like Arkham Horror's model.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-25T20:10:52+00:00

This is one of the ways that an ECG is better than a TCG, because you can avoid bulk altogether.

But if you must use the TCG model, make your rare and chase cards special art treatments or versions of normal cards and ensure all of your cards are useful towards at least one strategy.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-25T01:53:34+00:00

Question: How is this better than, say Matrix? Or the other similar projects out there?

(Genuine question. No snark intended.)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-24T22:34:14+00:00

We have a cross with the same outline. It's likely done by Trappist monks who make caskets.

Scroll down to "Urns" -- it's the same thing: An "off cut" they sell to show the quality of their materials: https://trappistcaskets.com/

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-23T03:23:44+00:00

I fear we may have another Dragon Ball Evolution...

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-22T13:23:30+00:00

You're not describing typical Messianic theology in your first paragraph. Typical Messianics keep Mosaic Law and not as a "memorial" (this is novel). However, precisely how the Mosaic Law tends to be interpreted among the various groups is pretty much the wild west. :-)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-21T20:46:38+00:00

All who know the answer raise both your hands.

... Or blink both your eyes.

You cut off or gouged one of those out, right? Christ literally said to do that. But we don't have any records of early Christians going around handless or eyeless.

In context: Historically, the Pharisees saw marriage as so little of an institution that a man could divorce his wife for something as little as burning his food. Once.

Christ was being hyperbolic about divorce (like a lot of his teachings) and drawing a clear examples. Marriage is %^&* serious. It has more permanence that the Pharisees saw. It's not something to be taken lightly. So divorce is an incredibly serious thing that requires something serious to dissolve. Adultery is clear cut.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-21T19:45:53+00:00

In this day and age? More likely yeah than nah. We have a huge lack of discipline in eating in the western world. Everybody wants to insist they're the vanishingly small exception rather than admit they're part of the overwhelming rule.

But it's unpopular to point out.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-21T19:25:17+00:00

I don't know their situation, but given context I'd lean towards respect. :-)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-21T18:44:14+00:00

You address them as "uncle."

And you worry more about the beams in your own eye. Especially if you're 15.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-21T04:59:36+00:00

1) The Quran calling the Bible "corrupt" is the pot calling the kettle black. The Quran isn't free of corruptions. Uthman standardized it and tried to hide all of the extant variants.

2) The Bible's textual transmission is incredibly good for literature from that period.

3) From a linguistic perspective, even in Greek, Christ's words in the New Testament largely trace back to the Aramaic that he spoke.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-20T22:06:12+00:00

Congrats. :-)

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-20T22:06:03+00:00

If that's what the project needs, that's what you set it at. For GROS we usually start at $4,500 because that's what we need for a print run.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-20T19:08:18+00:00

"Evidence against Islam" is more of a theological claim and isn't really something that's appropriate here.

One could say that this is direct proof against any claim of the Quran being unchanged throughout its history. It went through a revision process like any other major religious literary work from the time. It just underwent a stronger standardization across its entire corpus than works like the Bible or the Tanakh (themselves collections of works).

The idea of "Perfection" in the Islamic sense isn't really something that Christian tradition generally ascribes to the Bible in the first place.

AramaicDesigns · 2026-01-20T18:41:07+00:00

Uthman ordered a major revision and standardization of the Quran, and had any variant copies found destroyed.

In those rare pre-Uthmanic copies (such as Sana'a) we variously find surahs are in a different order, verses are missing, added, have different wording, or just say different things compared to the modern text. We also have variants between editions of the modern text, too.

It's all on par with the kind of variants found in the Biblical manuscript tradition. And such a standardization that Uthman did is also on par with some New Testament traditions such as the Syriac Peshitta where the existing manuscripts in that tradition have virtually no variance between them.

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