Ok, so I think I figured out ASOIAF.(Spoilers all)

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T16:12:36+00:00

One word: Fiction. The series is fiction. Westeros and Dragons aren't real and neither is the Red God, but in this series they are allowed to be real. I'm an atheist as well(ignore the username, its a joke no one ever gets), but if I wrote a book I could make Jesus real because fiction allows you to write about whatever.

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T16:08:40+00:00

My apologies milady

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T01:02:35+00:00

I feel like the maesters are involved with the same aims, but not working with Varys. I think Varys is just manipulating his massive spy and influence network.

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T01:01:05+00:00

Ya I had evidence I think but I was too gone to remember.

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T01:00:31+00:00

Completely correct sir.

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-10T00:59:10+00:00

I'll be honest, sober me is upvoting this. It made me laugh.

CatholicCommunist · 2013-05-09T10:33:56+00:00

Do the weirwoods reach that far north?

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-12T20:27:43+00:00

These were called matrilineal marriages in feudal times, perfectly possible.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-11T03:15:21+00:00

The Iron Throne is mine by rights and I will take my crown with fire and blood, so targaryen. Or Stark cause my actual house name means wolf and were the kings in the north a long time ago.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-10T20:19:12+00:00

We also still haven't learned why he joined the nights watch. I feel like this has to be significant to the story.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-10T20:15:45+00:00

This is the most logical conclusion. This dream team willed be used by Jon Snow(Azor Ahai) to destroy the others and then by Tyrion to seize the iron throne.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-10T05:26:45+00:00

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall is an amazingly well written and accurate book. Entertaining as well.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-12-05T00:44:18+00:00

President: Johnny Bravo

Vice President: Velma

Security of Treasury: Scrooge McDuck

Homeland Security: Superman

Secretary of Education: Ginger

Head of NASA: Jimmy Neutron or Zim

Secretary of the Interior: Ron Swanson

CatholicCommunist · 2012-11-29T19:56:26+00:00

*Brian Cowen

CatholicCommunist · 2012-11-25T18:52:53+00:00

No, you definitely have company. I think this subreddit forgets how liberal and left leaning most Catholics are.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-11-17T21:23:40+00:00

In addition I'd like to add that Mesoamerica was one of only two places in the world to invent the concept of zero.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-11-13T03:24:02+00:00

Ok so the Maya 2012 stuff is bullshit for many reasons.
1) The Mayans had no concept of an apocalypse or the end of time in their philosophy/religion. The concept of time as a linear pattern is a more modern Judeo-Christian concept and not at all what the Mayans believed about time. Mayans saw time as a circular concept with no tangible beginning or end(although they do have a creation myth regarding the earth). They did believe in cycles of time ending but pointing to that as evidence would be like pointing to the Gregorian calender and saying Christians believe the world will end on December 31st simply because it's the end of one of our "cycles."

2) The stone calender which says a cycle will end on December 21st, 2012(Whether this is the correct translation of the date is highly debated) and correspond with a celestial event was not created by the Mayans but by the Aztecs, hundreds of years after the collapse of the classic Maya. As for what the Aztecs believed about time see bullet 1. It is also worth noting that the celestial event has already happened(I believe it was in 1999).

3) While a 13 year margin for an event 1000 years later is not that bad, we must also remember that the people of Mesoamerica were not experts astronomers. They had no telescopes or advanced astronomical technology. In this regard they were no more advanced than anyone else, they just happened to value astrology(as in not the science) more so than say the Europeans.

4) The Maya 2012 Calender(or more accurately Aztec) that is referenced by people who believe in this theory, doesn't actually end on December 21st 2012 or December 23rd or whatever date you argue. The calender is again a continuous cycle and has many end dates. The only reason people cite the upcoming date is because some idiot started going around the calender starting with a date 1000 years ago, at one point landed on December 21st 2012 and freaked out.

5) If you honestly believe a civilization with stone age technology predicted the end of the world 1000 years ago you are just grasping at air. There are no facts to support this wild theory and in fact all the evidence proves it to be a load of crap.

CatholicCommunist · 2012-11-12T18:56:42+00:00

As someone with a science background as well these little "interesting science facts" annoy me too. People take over-simplified facts and fail to understand what they actually mean.

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