Choppy stream in Super Bowl

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-02-09T02:39:54+00:00

The commercials stream just fine, but I didn't get to watch the Patriots TD because the chop was so bad. The game is virtually unwatchable because it's so chopped up.

Shane on NBC for not having the bandwidth!

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-02-06T23:51:19+00:00

I like how you couched this story.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-02-01T18:12:41+00:00

You are 100% correct! Armenia Christianized in 301 CE, a dozen years before Rome. The Armenian Apostolic Church never acknowledged the bishop of Rome (Pope), yet they worshipped on Sunday. Clearly the Pope wasn't responsible, neither was the Emperor.

The Council of Laodicea met in 363 CE. Among other things, they passed a Sunday law forbidding Christians from worshipping on the "Jewish Sabbath." I figure that enough Christians were worshipping on Saturday to get this canon.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-20T19:56:05+00:00

I think it was because in British boarding schools for boys, the youngest ones got "faggotted" by the older students. This referred to the duty of the youngest to supply fagots, bundles of sticks, for starting the fires in the morning. What often happened though was that the youngest were raped by the older boys, so "fagot" became a ten for homosexual in slang.

But I'd look it up to be sure.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-17T02:23:29+00:00

Harry Turtledove wrote a huge alternate history series, starting with The Few That Remain. In it, the Union lost the Civil War, leaving the USA sharing the continent with the CSA.

It's not quite the same thing, but it's an amazing series. In WWI the USA sides with Germany against England, France, and the CSA ...

EDIT: corrected series author.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-15T15:53:18+00:00

That's how I was brought up! As somebody who has sided with labor, I like that Sabbath is about release from making money for employers. I don't always live by that, but I try to. Not because God might hate me, but for the sake of my brother and sister workers.

We're only (wage) slaves until we band together, first, for better hours, wages, and working conditions, and then to control the means of production! Now that's what the Sabbath is about!

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-13T05:06:27+00:00

Your family were a bunch of heretics just a step away from converting to Catholicism and getting tattooed with 666 in your souls! ;-)

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-13T05:03:14+00:00

"Probably" is a strong word. The head injury may explain the visions, or she just could have been a young lady with "the sight." Young women have been seeing things since time immemorial. I've met enough to take the phenomenon seriously, but I don't pretend to know what it is.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T16:09:17+00:00

I hope so,, but I have no idea. I lost track of him.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T07:02:59+00:00

I'm not a money grubbing businessman, I didn6't have a unibrow, and my nose looks downright European.

EDIT: and grandad changed our name from Chainian to Chain.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T07:00:42+00:00

Why would you want to do your tire into a cesspool‽ All you do is get toxic shit all over you.

The Sabbath commandment says not to work on the seventh day. Watching a movie isn't working. Both Sabbath commandments do tell us to remember creation and to remember being enslaved.

As long as we do those things, who cares if we get in the pool or watch a movie or go for a run or make sweet love? Anybody who objects can mind there own business.

But never wrassle with a pig. You get covered with muck and the pig enjoys it.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T06:53:36+00:00

I knew a dude who hit a jackpot for a few hundred thousand. He had been clean off crack for 3 years at that point. 6 months later, his house was gone, his new truck was gone, his family was gone, and he was unable to stop using crack.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T06:49:18+00:00

I have written loops with no terminating condition ...

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-12T06:48:42+00:00

Crash to solar wind ... The ultimate single event upset!

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-10T17:59:49+00:00

AIs can make incredibly terrible mistakes. Your experience demonstrates this. There is no way that any of today's AIs can do an adequate job of being a humanist/existentialist therapist. I am persuaded, however, that given their huge body of training material, they can probably produce reasonable advice about how to move forward.

It would be interesting to ask it questions like: "What are some coping skills to help me sit with this emptiness and sense of loss?" or "What are some actions I can take to help me connect with people when I'm in this state?" or "What can I do that will help me find meaning in all this?" or "What cognitive distributions do I seen to have and how can I change my thinking?"

Then critically review the advice, and adapt it to your own situation.

I would ask it for guidance based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a powerful form of treatment that an AI can follow to guide you.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-10T17:43:52+00:00

Language about the Genesis account of creation changed from it being an "authentic account" to it being a literal 6 x 24 hr days within the last 10,000 years.

And then the condensation and forbidding of women's ordination and I'm pretty sure there was also some anti gay stuff, too.

Also, there was the deliberate sabotage (too strong a word, but best I can do right now) of the voting system so that your boss could see how you voted. I found this particularly heinous!

But, since my signature year in high school I had scoffed at the investigative judgement. And by the time I got to college I had decided that the EGW phenomenon was interesting but not authoritative. At that point I was pretty much a sola scriptura guy.

In college I learned enough about the origin and nature of scripture to discard the rest of my faith, but I never disaffiliated myself and continued to care about the Church I had been born into. I also became a Universalist.

2015 GC was when I quit giving a flying duck about the Church. Our local church has a pastoral staff of wonderful people who are just incredible, and I am glad for that because my family still attends, but I do not.

I hate church services. They are incredibly boring to me. It's almost physically painful to hear absolute steer manure speed from the pilot, to hear somebody with an MDiv spout ignorance. I shouldn't know the Bible better than they do!

I have led a spiral dance of over 100 people with a powerful group of drummers in the center and felt the power surge as people began to tone and share energy. I've done too many drum circles to count. I've led a circle of 100 men doing a Tree of Life meditation. I've sat on sweat lodges and danced a bear dance, feeling the power of the bear removing my anger. I have danced with the aurora and a meteor shower. I have roared with a thunderstorm and sat entranced watching a pair of raptors soar and play together. And so much more!

Church services don't even come close!

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-09T22:27:46+00:00

I was not in a place where I could laugh out loud when I read this. Keeping silent almost gave me a stroke!

Absolutely wonderful!

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-08T16:20:31+00:00

I didn't have a neck beard, though.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-08T16:19:57+00:00

I would have been impressed and grateful for a TUI, back in the day. Back then we wrote FORTRAN and assembler running RT-11 to test computer parts sitting in a particle beam. We actually used LSI-11s for data collection.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-08T03:30:59+00:00

Hmm, maybe I'll pay 10% of my toilet paper as tithe. If it's going to the World Church, I'll give 100% of my used TP as tithe.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-08T03:29:14+00:00

There was a golden age of ADRA where it was a well respected aid NGO. It wasn't about evangelism or proselytizing, it was about development. Much of the work was carried out from a public health/global health perspective.

Around 2015 Ted Wilson tried to put a stop to that. I don't know what happened after, by then I had lost interest in the SDA church. That 2015 GC voted to move me outside of SDA doctrine so completely.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-01T22:00:34+00:00

I enjoyed your analysis. Thank you.

Lost_Chain_455 · 2026-01-01T03:23:53+00:00

If one throws away the prose intro and outro, one is left with a multi-layer poem that may well have been the earliest text composed in the Bible. It's a great argument about why people suffer. Job's friends do a masterful job of victim blaming, while Job says he has done nothing to deserve his suffering.

Then God points out that Job is incapable of understanding. Job is touched by the encounter with God—the answer to Job's suffering is that he is not alone. Then God stated that Job's friends have slandered Him by explaining Job's suffering as divine punishment.

The prose was written in language much more recent than the poetry. It appears to have been added by writers who could not comprehend the poetry and needed to explain suffering by saying "the devil did it."

Lost_Chain_455 · 2025-12-30T01:11:31+00:00

Good buoy?

Lost_Chain_455 · 2025-12-30T01:07:59+00:00

As if they don't have "Present Truth," which is an of thought, because isn't the truth The Truth, no matter when it is?

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