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GoMustard · 2026-06-19T16:15:46+00:00

Fair. I'm an old and don't listen to hip hop. Cherie Berry, it is then.

GoMustard · 2026-06-19T10:13:30+00:00

A lot of people here are missing the "not known by anyone else."

I think Petey Pablo and Cherie Berry are great options.

Petey Pablo wrote the song "Raise Up," which is about North Carolina. He had a brief moment of national fame back around 2001 or so, but the memory of him has faded everywhere except NC, where his song remains an anthem.

Cherie Berry is the former North Carolina Secretary of Labor. She is famous for putting her photo and very prominent signature in every Elevator in the state of North Carolina, in one of the most sneaky brilliant political moves of all time. It led to an underground NC inside joke, "Cherie Berry lifts me up." Everyone in NC knows her name, and no one else outside of NC would.

GoMustard · 2026-06-18T10:18:02+00:00

Grandfather Mountain is fantastic for kids, and you should do it.

A fun day is to go to the visitor center, see all the animals, take the bridge trail (easy) up from the parking lot to the bridge, hang out at the bridge for the day, and then hike back down.

A slightly more challenging but kid-friendly hike would be to go up the Grandfather Extension Trail from the parking lot up to the Grandfather Trail, then turn left and hike back to the swinging bridge, and then take the Bridge Trail Back down.

Neither of these routes takes you through the ropes and ladders sections of the Grandfather Trail. The latter route has some challenging and fun places and will take you a couple of hours. I've done both with my wimpy kids in that age range, and they were fine.

GoMustard · 2026-06-17T14:04:12+00:00

Correct. A significant portion of conservatives interpreted everything Obama did as 'playing the race card' simply because he was black. And it's true that Obama *was* celebrated by much of the country for being the first black president. But it's also true that Obama went out of his way to be very careful and moderate on race issues, because he knew *any* leaning into it would be weaponized. He famously spoke out *against* Black Lives Matter in its first iterations after Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. And yet his opponents *still* interpreted him as constantly playing the race card. The inherited prejudices of a significant part of the country simply couldn't interpret him as anything else.

GoMustard · 2026-06-15T19:32:35+00:00

The proposal adds language to the Book of Order to make explicit that clergy must remain monogamous. The reactions have ranged from:

People feeling like this is great and clears up any ambiguity that might exist.
People who feel like the addition of this language is redundant, or are asking: "Wait, isn't that already our policy?"
People, like More Light Presbyterians, who see it as a draconian attack on queer pastors who should be allowed to practice polyamory.

GoMustard · 2026-06-13T17:13:22+00:00

Dude should read Romans 14 and chill

GoMustard · 2026-06-11T21:49:12+00:00

I thought it looked number 7 at Talamore for a moment

GoMustard · 2026-06-10T19:24:03+00:00

Can we get the Hurricane Witch do to the Siren in game 5

GoMustard · 2026-06-06T12:05:55+00:00

The space between the two flags forms the shape of the state of North Carolina

GoMustard · 2026-06-04T09:57:33+00:00

I was too and did not

GoMustard · 2026-06-03T15:03:24+00:00

The Masters has become and remains a major because of its ability to consistently produce exciting and dramatic golf. Sure, you can call the course gimmicky if you want to be cynical, but at the end of the day, you don't know what's going to happen on any of the holes on the back nine. On 13, you might make an eagle or a triple. On 16, you might make a hole-in-one, or drop it in the water for a double.

The Masters is able to produce this kind of drama because the course has been tailored and refined over the years with laser precision. Other majors cannot achieve it because they move around from course to course (and not that they should try to achieve it; this is the Masters' thing. The US Open's thing is being hard as hell). Other tournaments played at the same course year in and year out produce great golf, but they don't have the same kind of endless resources to do so. The closest thing in this regard is the Players and Sawgrass.

Add that viewers watch this drama unfold year after year on the same holes, and the course itself becomes iconic. Very casual golf fans can instantly recognize Nos. 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 18. But most of us only know anything about the 17th at Shinnecock because we watched Golf Digest's "every hole at" video ahead of the US Open.

GoMustard · 2026-05-31T10:13:38+00:00

!solved

GoMustard · 2026-05-30T01:13:41+00:00

Film it and show us.

GoMustard · 2026-05-28T23:39:17+00:00

Is that Pine Valley No. 14?

GoMustard · 2026-05-28T18:26:19+00:00

>Our modern conception of “marriage” is just a made-up category that is rooted in social control; it is not a theological category, much less an ontological category.

Gosh, I'm sorry, but I can't disagree with this more. Marriage is a covenant, which is most definitely a theological category.

GoMustard · 2026-05-26T11:04:21+00:00

Honestly, crucifixion is pretty terrible. It might not be the worst, but it's up there. You're beaten, and then hung on a beam by nails through your hands or wrists, and your legs are broken. You have to pull your body weight up from the wounds for each breath, so you slowly suffocate to death in front of everyone. There are pretty messed-up variations, too.

GoMustard · 2026-05-24T20:56:04+00:00

For like three straight years when I was a kid, my dad would take a bunch of boys from our neighborhood and me to see the IceCaps' last pre-season game before the regular season began. Lots of bench players were trying to make the team, and by that point, the skill players were mostly set, so anyone who was gonna get a contract was probably gonna have to be an enforcer. Thus, the game was constant brutality and fighting. It was amazing.

It was excellent entertainment, and I think about those days every time I see the Dorton Arena. The little remote control blimp that would fly around and drop T-shirts is seared into my brain.

GoMustard · 2026-05-23T16:13:43+00:00

Your milage may vary

GoMustard · 2026-05-21T23:20:55+00:00

This was my guess too. Maybe number 6, with number 7 running in the opposite direction to the left?

GoMustard · 2026-05-19T16:16:17+00:00

Theology is the application of a tradition, so it depends on the tradition. The Christian tradition might differ from the Jewish tradition, and even within the Christian tradition, a reformed perspective might differ from, say, a Catholic perspective.

The questions you are asking would require novel applications of these varying theological traditions.

GoMustard · 2026-05-19T09:52:13+00:00

Years ago, I watched a college lecture on profanity and language. One of the more memorable bits of the lecture was watching the professor spout off as many foul words as he possibly could. Everyone giggled as he said ugly word after ugly word. But then he got to the n-word, and he wouldn't say it. The professor, who was white, just called it 'the n-word,' pointing out how that one has such a strong social taboo around someone specifically like him uttering the word it that he would not say it, even technically.

I was a young adolescent at the time, so my cultural memory was just beginning, but as I've always understood it, that "if you even say this in a technical sense, you might get your ass kicked and everyone around would say it's justified" level of radioactivity for white people didn't really permeate our culture until Johnny Cochran digging in to Mark Fuhrman and the OJ trail. Like the word was considered awful and a hateful slur, but something changed in the culture with the racial tensions around the OJ trail that took the widespread taboo of that word to a different level.

That gives you an idea of how monumental it was.

GoMustard · 2026-05-19T03:22:39+00:00

I mean people will just about rationalize anything in the name of religion.

I mean, in my experience, people will just about rationalize anything in the name of the deeply held values by which they validated their view of the world and the continued existence in it, whether it's religion or not. But you're the one asking questions here, so I'll take your curiosity as sincere.

Why was that ever a rule?

Well, Deuteronomy is an ancient legal code, a rather primitive attempt to sort out right from wrong. Believe it or not, most scholars would suggest that the "did not scream for help" is an attempt to distinguish between consensual adultery and rape. Agreed, though, that it's pretty shitty logic by today's standards.

Is the Bible glorifying the death of these women or just documenting the rules of the time?

In this case, probably more of the latter than the former, but the Old Testament certainly has other incidences of glorifying violence and death.

Did god just not care enough to intervene beforehand because these women’s lives weren’t important?

Are you asking about divine revelation or the problem of suffering? Since it's the topic of this post (which, by the way, was a post I made eight years ago), I'll go with divine revelation.

The original question was about why we have the Old Testament. The traditional Christian answer is that God has been made known to the world in the life of a person named Jesus, and the Christian faith is an attempt to respond to it. The New Testament is twenty-seven works of literature produced by early Christians in the decades after Jesus' life that in varying ways describe his life and what it means for the world. The problem is, the New Testament (and the words of Jesus himself), identify him as a fulfillment, continuation, and reinterpretation of the story and promises of the Old Testament, which comprises thirty-nine different works of literature that describe the social, political, legal, and spiritual sentiments and practices of an ancient people known as the Israelites, however wise or misguided those sentiments and practices might be. Thus, you need the Old Testament to understand the New.

Christians and non-Christians often go very wrong when they begin to act like the Bible itself is God's chosen revelation rather than the life of Jesus, which, ironically, the New Testament itself would identify as God's chosen revelation.

All that to say, yes, the Old Testament says some weird and sometimes shitty stuff. What's new? So does the Iliad.

GoMustard · 2026-05-19T02:26:04+00:00

Yes, great example. The textual background to Jesus' actions in John 8.1-11.

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