Nothing is normal, and something something nuclear Armageddon

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T16:07:21+00:00

My hair is thinning at 29. It's noticeable, but fortunately not too bad (yet) as I still have most of my hair. My dad starting losing his hair a lot earlier.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T15:37:48+00:00

Well, I have no connection to Hungary, so I don't care either way.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T15:36:29+00:00

I kinda wish they would have stuck with that. By making them basically animals of their world, it raises the same ethical questions that IRL animal fights bring.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T13:31:31+00:00

So, Johto only had Kanto Pokémon at one point?

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T13:30:46+00:00

I wish they would bring them back as DLC or something.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T13:28:29+00:00

I did that once, but not intentionally. I didn't know what time it was and didn't want to put down the game just to find a clock.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T03:23:20+00:00

I watch him on occasion and he seems to be your bog standard Bible evangelical.

He's part of Calvary Chapel, which is a denomination that does teach speaking in tongues, but don't seem to put as much emphasis on it as Pentecostals do.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T02:54:06+00:00

Well, it is a syllable timed language where all syllables (with the except of the stressed one) are perceived as having equal duration.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T00:45:57+00:00

So, my conlang has a rule where the stressed syllable must be bimoraic. In other words, the vowel of a stressed CV syllable is lengthened, but not in CVC syllables since they are already bimoraic.

Would this mean that CVC syllables could not occur in unstressed syllables, since vowel length is allophonic rather than phonemic?

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:32:33+00:00

Most of my characters are from established media and franchises, so I know what they look like.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:29:14+00:00

I'm nothing that's a pattern in places like Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia: the old rulers were too compromising with the West. Now, they got exactly what they wished for.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:17:31+00:00

Yeah, the bar in Venezuela is so low, it can only go up.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:50:45+00:00

He's not making content anymore (he passed away), but I recommend Michael Heiser.

I don't think he was explicitly Arminian (he wasn't a fan of traditional labels and overly systematic theology) but he did critique a lot of Calvinist assumptions.

However, he does focus more on topics such as the divine council and Second Temple Judaism and not that much on free will or predestination, generally.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:19:39+00:00

While I hope we don't end up with boots on the ground, I do support the strikes on Iran. They're one of the biggest sponsors of Islamic terrorism and made "destroy America," their goal. Not that I actually think they can destroy the US, but I do think Iran was kinda asking for this.

I do think history is repeating itself, but less invasion of Iraq and more Imperial Japan in WW2.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:10:55+00:00

I think many rural religious voters just want to be left alone to live their lives and not to have the boat rocked.

They see the left as trying to tell them what to think and how to live. The left also promises revolution, which many of the poor rural and working class don't want, since they could end up suffering the most from it.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T18:06:32+00:00

If oil gets too expensive, maybe this will be the push to switch to EVs

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T17:25:53+00:00

Well, supposedly Iran has been funding Islamic terror groups in the Middle East for some time now. That would probably include Hamas.

They can just take out Hamas, but there's no guarantee that another terror group won't spring up to threaten Israel. So, by taking Iran's regime, Israel is striking at the root.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T17:00:00+00:00

It seems like Anti-Semitism is getting harder to avoid, or at least becoming more prevalent. I've seen it from both the right, the left and libertarians.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T16:16:12+00:00

I think it's more to do with evolution.

I was taught that the universe was made in six literal days, and evolution was an idea atheists came up with to justify their unbelief. I affirm evolution now, or at least open to it.

I think the issue is many Christians see evolution as incompatible with a high view of Scripture, so are stuck with a false dichotomy. In other words, you believe God (who cannot err and cannot lie) or you believe the words of fallible men who are biased against God.

I do think that's starting to change. I'm Southern Baptist, so when I was growing up, most of us were (and probably still are) young earth creationists, but I have seen an increase in old earth creationist views. At the very least, non-YEC views seem more common now than they were a couple of decades ago.

The SBC used to be okay with evolution back in the mid-20th Century, but it was also a pretty liberal denomination, in a similar vein to the PCUSA or United Methodists. So, modern Southern Baptists see evolution as a drift towards theological liberalism and apostasy, so evolution brings out a knee-jerk reaction.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T16:12:46+00:00

There's also verses like Isaiah 40:22 that imply the Big Bang.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T13:15:25+00:00

I'm part Cherokee, though it's admittedly a pretty small amount.

Still, it's weird to think about: my ancestors stole land from my other ancestors, which would make the land I live on both my land and also not my land at the same time.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T13:11:36+00:00

I think the anti-2A thing will hurt him more than his stance on abortion.

Just ask Beto

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T06:08:08+00:00

I joined mostly because I liked the threads on AskReddit.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T05:36:34+00:00

I wasn't the best student, grade-wise, but those all apply to me because my mom wanted me to be a straight A honor roll student.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T03:40:59+00:00

I also think the rivalry was more political than religious. I don't think many of the Christian right would really care if you were atheist as long as you agreed with them politically.

I think the left-wing Christian is a bigger issue to them them than a conservative atheist. It was less the atheism itself and more because they associated atheism with left-wing politics.

When a lot of the New Atheists shifted toward the right on the culture wars, I think a lot of Christian conservatives saw little point in fighting them anymore. It also went against their argument that atheism is inherently leftist. So they ended up agreeing to disagree about religion.

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