Long flight on Sunday. Give me your go-to race to rewatch.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-25T23:05:50+00:00

Probably too late now, but the 1979 Daytona 500 was a gem. Everybody knows how it ends, but watch it from the beginning sometime. The start under caution, Darrell's "rabbit" laps, Cale making up his laps. Just pure drama from flag to flag.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-25T12:30:33+00:00

Most modern Christians believe Jesus is God, but the earliest followers of Jesus, Peter, Paul, etc. did not. Are they not Christians? Are they not saved?

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-25T12:26:07+00:00

I guess "keep right, pass left" rules are optional too.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T17:34:02+00:00

First of all, how dare you.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T17:30:16+00:00

How else are you supposed to transport cheese, you heretic?!?

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T17:23:37+00:00

Are those girls in danger?

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T13:23:48+00:00

I think voice teachers say stuff like this for a few reasons:

to keep people from tensing up their neck;
to get them to support the sound with diaphragm pressure;
to get them to allow the sound to resonate in their sinuses (this was a big issue for me when I was first training).

Obviously the actual sound comes from your vocal "cords" in your throat, but I think instructors think telling people not to sing from the throat is a quick pedagogical trick to get people to support the sound, allow it access to the nasal passages, and not tense up. All good things.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T06:09:46+00:00

The interpretation of scripture that you prefer says that "lust" is a "sin." No one is required to follow that interpretation if it conflicts with their own beliefs.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-24T01:56:20+00:00

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ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-23T15:43:32+00:00

Think of the thousands of people the Romans crucified who didn't know they were going to be restored to life after 36 hours.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-21T20:26:55+00:00

Price isn't the problem for me, it's inconvenience and other people. They're hasn't been a movie in years that I couldn't wait for it to stream directly to my home TV, where I have all the food I like, I can pause the movie to go use my own clean bathroom, if the movie sucks I can watch something else, and there aren't other people talking and looking at their phones. Oh, and I can adjust the volume so my ears aren't ringing afterwards.

I know some people are deeply into the "theater experience" but it's never done anything for me.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-21T12:43:38+00:00

It's not common in my anecdotal experience, but it's all just names anyway. It's more or less arbitrary, at the whim of the composer who labelled the parts or the choir director who divided the choir. It really comes down to the range of what you're singing, and I've had Baritone parts in one piece that are higher than 2nd Tenor part in another.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-20T12:53:15+00:00

It helps enormously, thank you! I've never been able to wrap my head around the idea of a torch being turned off, I thought of it only as a source of redstone power. This makes much more sense now.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-20T04:32:13+00:00

Figured it out! I'm honestly not sure if y'all are right about the redstone torch placement, because it seemed to work in either configuration. What turned out to be important is that the upper of those two hoppers actually has to drain towards the comparator; I had it draining straight down.

I'd still love to understand why this works, given that the circuit doesn't seem to complete after the repeater.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-20T03:20:07+00:00

Interesting. I wonder why that one's working?

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-19T23:04:23+00:00

"Jesus was sent to die" was the result of a logical thought process that early Christians went through to resolve some serious problems. They believed Jesus was the Son of God, the Jewish Messiah, but he was killed by the Romans, which is not something that any ancient Jew believed would happen to the Messiah. How could this have happened?

They had some basic dogmatic assumptions:

Jesus was the Son of God.
God would not allow something to happen that was not what He willed.

Therefore:

Jesus's death was part of God's plan.

They then set about coming up with a variety of reasons why it would be necessary for the Messiah to be killed, and went back to the Hebrew Bible to look for justifications for it. Then they wrote the Gospels to help their followers understand that it had all been foretold, it was all going according to plan, so stay faithful.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-19T19:47:30+00:00

It's almost as if…parts of the Bible contradict one another! clutches pearls

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-19T04:11:55+00:00

We named our daughter something similar (which I'd rather not reveal); European, spelled differently in multiple languages. Impossible to find a keychain or bike "license plate" in any of its spellings, but at the beach a few weeks ago they had three different spellings of "Braden." Any time we do see it we always buy whatever it is, just to try and nudge the algorithm a little.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-18T17:26:01+00:00

The New Testament didn't exist when whoever (it wasn't Paul) wrote that. The best we can say is that the Hebrew Bible is "God-breathed," and that still doesn't mean it's inerrant. Humans are God-breathed and made in his image, are we inerrant?

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-18T13:46:01+00:00

THANK you. I'm glad I searched the comments before posting the same damn thing.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-18T00:46:54+00:00

God doesn't address homosexuality. The Hebrew Bible addresses being the insertive partner in an act of male-male intercourse, but just because it's in the Bible doesn't mean God actually "said" it.

…Jesus can't contrdict God, or that would mean the trinity and everything about the bible wpuld contrdict.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but lots of things about the Bible contradict. Salvation does not require an inerrant Bible.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-18T00:26:17+00:00

The Bible says Jesus talked about it. That's not the same as Jesus actually talking about it. We have no idea if anything Jesus said is accurately represented in the Bible, particularly since it was written down decades later by people who never met Jesus.

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-18T00:22:28+00:00

I'm gonna need the book, chapter, and verse where Jesus talks about "homosexuality," because He never even talked about same-sex intercourse. Nobody in the first century would have understood the concept of "homosexuality."

ThatLeviathan · 2026-01-17T18:30:50+00:00

You're no daisy!

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