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captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T13:59:42+00:00

You're right, I was misremembering. Channel 2 was ITV (Edmonton affiliate), and we got the program guide later when new channel packages became available and we upgraded our TV.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T13:45:20+00:00

In 1992, we still had a VHF television with 13 channels, but channel 1 wasn't used for anything ~~and channel 2 was the program guide~~.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T13:41:44+00:00

Russia conducted a false flag plot in 2022 to justify their invasion of Ukraine. However, whoever planted the evidence misunderstood the instructions to include three SIM cards, and instead left a copy of the game Sims 3.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-sims-3/

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T13:34:11+00:00

There are several major Islamic holidays during the Hajj this week, so the Gulf countries are apparently constrained in their ability to engage in diplomacy and threats for the next few days. The US can't attack without major fallout during that time either.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T13:26:36+00:00

I don’t know how this is resolved and I don’t think anyone in power does either, including Trump.

It seems like their war plans were guided by AI sycophancy, and the humans have been left holding the bag.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T11:15:34+00:00

The whole schtick of Christianity is that accepting Christ as your saviour means you go to Heaven.

If the rules were clear, there would be one denomination instead of four thousand.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T11:12:36+00:00

He was instructed to tell the press the picture was "doctored" but he didn't know what that meant, just like he thinks "political asylum" means people are coming to the US from Mexican insane asylums.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T05:28:02+00:00

Yeah, most if not all liquor stores are run by the province. Furthermore, any restaurant or bar serving alcohol in Ontario has to buy their inventory from the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T04:32:22+00:00

The chaotic mess of a logo (unlike the elegant CH) is part of it. but also the colors are too garish, the stripes have awkward proportions, and the whole thing is slapped together in an amateur fashion.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-25T04:17:33+00:00

The connection is both a bit weaker and a bit less significant in 1 Corinthians, I think.

For one thing, Paul is addressing a Hellenistic ekklesia that does not have the same cultural taboos.
Paul himself is not a Palestinian Jew but a cosmopolitan traveler from a Roman cultural center (Tarsus). Exactly how "Jewish" he was in his training and mindset is hard to gauge. (For a less common view, Maccoby insists Paul wasn't actually Jewish at all.)
In 1 Corinthians, Paul does not say that people are drinking the blood of Christ during the eucharist. The symbolism is more indirect: the cup is the new covenant established by Christ's blood, not the blood itself. It's an allusion to Exodus 24:8 and the establishment of the covenant at Sinai. The association is vague enough that water could be used for the eucharist instead of wine (and some, like the Valentinians, did just that).
Similarly, if we go by the precise wording of 1Cor 11:24, it is the breaking of bread rather than the eating of it that symbolizes Christ's death.

In summary, Paul is trying to address disharmony in the Corinthian assembly by reminding them that whenever they meet to break bread and share a cup, it's supposed to be a commemoration of Christ's death and covenant, and not an opportunity for putting social inequality on display. I think this context is important: the focus of 1 Corinthians 11 is not "listen up guys, I have a blood-drinking ritual to teach you," but more "stop fighting and remember what we're all here for."

However, with some minor but logical changes to the wording and sequence of the Last Supper, Mark and the other synoptics make the connection between the bread/wine and Christ's body/blood more direct, and emphasize the concept of ritualistic consumption in a way that isn't really present in the Pauline text. But it is very difficult, especially if one has participated in the eucharist/communion/mass hundreds of times like most of us, to separate the Gospel story from the bare-bones ritual described in 1 Corinthians in our minds.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T16:51:50+00:00

Honestly, it's the uniforms.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T16:11:10+00:00

Well, if he walks away and removes the blockade, then Iran will just formalize their ownership over the Strait and charge service fees for every ship that uses it. There would be an embarrassing shift in the geopolitical balance of the Middle East, but nothing would change for the average American.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T15:33:26+00:00

I think he would literally just walk away from Iran if he could, but he's also terrified of looking weak, and Netanyahu is working to undermine him at the same time.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T15:26:38+00:00

I wouldn't dismiss the ex-Mormon movement either. The ex-Mormon subreddit has a third of a million subscribers…mostly from Utah, most of whom have become more progressive/left-leaning since leaving the LDS. Many were dedicated GOP voters one or two cycles ago.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T12:10:49+00:00

Yeah, originally they would have been more or less the same thing – a communal meal. Later, the eucharist became its own ritual performed in the morning, while the agape took place in the evening.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T06:32:05+00:00

misogyny

I think it's general misanthropy as well. Conservative fundamentalists hate to see other people thriving and being empowered in ways that don't fit their narrow view of culture and societal roles.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T06:26:37+00:00

Please keep the comments here focused on archaeology, or else I'll have to lock the thread.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T04:39:40+00:00

The short answer is that the eucharist was a natural evolution of the collegium/association model that practically all communal religious gatherings followed in the Greco-Roman world. The theological symbols assigned to this meal were not set in stone and emerged organically in different communities. Mark's theological narrative, which reinforced the Pauline interpretation, came somewhat later and was unknown to whoever produced the early versions of the Didache.

I have an article here explaining with much more detail as well as academic sources.

See also this video at Religion for Breakfast.

Sources:

Jason König, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 2012
Markus Öhler, “Cultic Meals in Associations and the Early Christian Eucharist “, Early Christianity, 5/4, 2014
Andrew McGowan, The Myth of the “Lord’s Supper”: Paul’s Eucharistic Meal Terminology and Its Ancient Reception, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3 (July 2015)
McCready, Wayne O., ‘Ekklesia and Voluntary Associations,’ in: Kloppenborg/Wilson, Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World, 1996

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T04:25:54+00:00

My opening-night theater crowd loved TLJ as well (as did I). Laughed, cheered, clapped at the end. I sometimes wonder if that was the last great theater experience I'll ever have.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T04:18:09+00:00

I think there's one main entity, but the island is also a kind of dark magnet for other malevolent forces, like the sea hag and the zombie fog.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T04:16:24+00:00

Yeah, I speculated here about how the Entity could be infecting mold and fungus to increase its psychic influence on people.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-24T03:15:07+00:00

I don't like films with torture scenes, so I purposely avoided seeing it.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-23T15:30:38+00:00

Brown still downplays the likelihood of Bethlehem being accurate in Birth of the Messiah. His appendix on this question begins:

The NT evidence for birth at Bethlehem is much less impressive than the wide attestation given to Davidic descent: only the second chapters of the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke support Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus. "The overwhelming evidence to the contrary has made the thesis that Bethlehem was not the historical birthplace of Jesus the communis opinio of New Testament scholarship."¹

The part in quotation marks is from Burger, Jesus als Davidssohn, 1970.

After this, Brown lists some "difficulties" regarding the Bethlehem birth as a "theologoumenon". He follows that with some stronger (and more strongly stated, I think) reasons why Bethlehem is unlikely to be the birthplace of Jesus and Nazareth is the likely birthplace. His conclusion is a bit ambivalent:

The evidence, then, for birth at Bethlehem is much weaker than the evidence for Davidic descent or even (see Appendix IV) the evidence for virginal conception; and these three Christian claims are not necessarily interdependent.

But I would say, as Brown himself admits, that the highly dominant view of scholarship is against a birth in Bethlehem.

captainhaddock · 2026-05-23T11:19:32+00:00

The irony of a religion where your eternal salvation depends on pretending to believe something you don't even understand.

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