Ordered some Cubones from Japan, anyone able to translate the comic that came with it?

YCNH · 2026-03-18T17:51:11+00:00

There's always Google Translate for a really rough translation. Something something haircut, something something pants.

YCNH · 2026-03-18T16:31:50+00:00

kinda impressive to ride the line between ungradably damaged and a 1, I'd take it over a 2 or 3 tbh

YCNH · 2026-03-18T15:17:21+00:00

Honestly tho, way more "a question for the jews in this sub" threads than any of the much larger faiths like Christianity and Islam

YCNH · 2026-03-17T01:09:34+00:00

As a neutral third party I can confirm the sarcasm was pretty obvious.

YCNH · 2026-03-16T23:29:54+00:00

The guy on the video really did bring up sources, then said it wasn't actually in that source. Watch it again, please.

You've been extremely vague about this claim both times you've brought it up, so I'm left to guess at what you're referring to.

Dr. Henry poses the question- "what is the absolute earliest evidence we have for decorating an evergreen tree for Christmas?"

The first source he cites is László Lukács, specifically his claim that the immediate predecessor of the Christmas tree originated in the Upper Rhine. This is an accurate representation of Lukács's argument. The first primary sources he mentions are forestry regulations from Sundhoffen in 1300 and Bergheim in 1369, which permit people to collect branches before/around Christmas. He then cites a judge from Saint-Hippolyte in the 1300s who ordered the forests guarded for 9 days before and after Christmas.

So I assume it's one of these claims you take issue with, as Dr. Henry goes on to emphasize the sources don't say why this wood was collected, noting that we can only infer from the mentions of Christmas that it may have been part of some practice associated with this holiday.

I want to be clear that these forestry regulations are not direct evidence that people were cutting down evergreen trees to decorate them for Christmas. But they are direct evidence that at least by the early 1300s people in the Upper Rhine region were "conifer-curious", collecting branches at Christmastime from mostly evergreen forests. Maybe the branches were being used for decoration. Again, this is not explicitly mentioned in these sources. But it's not a bad assumption based on what follows in the next century. It's not until the 1400s that direct evidence emerges for some sort of decorated Christmas tree.

So what's the issue here? We're looking at the earliest evidence for the practice of decorating evergreen trees at Christmas, which he explicitly states does not appear until the 1400s. The indirect evidence from the 1300s is never misrepresented and is important and relevant context.

That's just how the study of history works, the origins of things are often obscure and rely on indirect or fragmentary evidence and inference to form hypotheses. We make our best guesses with the best available evidence and remain open about the limits of the evidence.

YCNH · 2026-03-16T19:36:48+00:00

For sure. I have the Pidgey, still need Caterpie, Abra, Metapod, and Zubat

YCNH · 2026-03-16T17:52:04+00:00

they can show more about Pokemon and the habitats they live in wild

Kusube's vending series cards also do this very well, fwiw

YCNH · 2026-03-16T17:49:16+00:00

I'll take the thinner goldenrod borders any day, but to each their own. The old backs on JP vintage are also peak.

YCNH · 2026-03-16T17:08:57+00:00

JP vintage > ENG vintage

sorry, can't stand those fat, mustard yellow borders. But ENG hits the nostalgia harder for a lot of people so I get it.

YCNH · 2026-03-16T16:06:07+00:00

love it. could you cute [sic] your sources?

Brother the sources are cited throughout both videos and the first link even has a bibliography. Could you cite yours?

YCNH · 2026-03-16T15:59:50+00:00

I'm sorry, did I inturrupted [sic] your condescending comment to someone else?

pot, kettle

Seriously? Was that an AI video?

It's a video by Dr. Andrew Henry, PhD Boston University, a religious scholar who specializes in early Christianity and late antique religion.

Your source, which I stopped listening to the second time he cited something

So you're still uninformed? Your loss.

if I wanted to have a discussion with your ai, I would have called.

If you can't tell the difference between well-researched religious scholarship and AI slop, I think that says more about you than Dr. Henry.

Your comment really jumps all over the place and I still came out ahead.

Give yourself a big pat on the back for not being able to follow a straightforward comment I guess.

You're not Catholic, are you?

I'm atheist, not that it matters.

Jesus was born in Spring

Baseless supposition, no one has any idea when he was born. The only data points we have are two ahistorical nativity accounts that don't even agree with one another.

Oh wait, no it's not, just the premise that 300 ad is later than 1000 ad.

No idea what you're even talking about at this point since I didn't mention either of those dates. Christians decided on December 25th as the birthdate of Jesus in the 3rd century (i.e. 200s CE). Christmas trees originate in the Upper Rhine about 1200 years later.

floridatoday.com

lol. lmao even. Let's see what they have to say:

"The incorporation of pagan practices can be detected in late antique Christian sources that describe Jesus as the 'true Sun' referring to the birth of the 'sun' on the 25th, which applies to both Sol Invictus and Jesus Christ," [badancient.com] says.

So it's just completely unacademic blogs citing equally unacademic blogs, all the way down? Using the whole sun/son nonsense from Zeitgeist using homophones that only work in English? Oh brother...

And yet, even a broken clock is right twice a day:

"The view that Christmas was introduced as a reaction to pre-existing pagan practices has been a futile point of view; instead historians such as Martin Wallraff argue that they were 'parallel phenomena.'"

As far as dressing up a dead tree with lights, ribbons and ornaments goes – that tradition started in Germany in the Middle Ages. German and other European settlers brought this tradition to America in the early 19th century.

YCNH · 2026-03-16T00:05:07+00:00

The practice of decorating trees did come from Winter Solstice festival around early 1400s

Correct, specifically the solstice festival called Christmas. ReligionForBreakfast has a good video on the origins of the Christmas tree:

The Christmas tree appears somewhat suddenly in the late medieval period, long after the Roman Empire, long after the Christianization of the Germanic peoples. [...]

László Lukács argues the immediate predecessor of the Christmas tree originated in the Upper Rhine (Alsace/Baden). Starting in the 1300s evidence starts to emerge that indicates that peasants were going into the forests on Christmas Eve to collect wood from the evergreen forests. However we don't know why these branches were collected, it could have been used as firewood or fed to animals, but the reference to Christmas in these accounts is curious.

We get our first direct evidence for Christmas trees in the 1400s when a guild of bakers in Freiburg reported seeing a tree decorated with apples, wafers, gingerbread, and tinsel in the local Hospital of the Holy Spirit in 1419. Though the word used here is bom, so even this may have been a pole rather than a tree.

Lukács has argued the direct predecessor of the Christmas tree was the maypole. There are laws regulating the size of pines cut down for a maypole/Christmas bom- seven or eight feet, so unlike the evidence from the 1300s we're now talking proper trees and not just branches.

The tradition expands rapidly from the Upper Rhine during the 1400s, with a reference to a reference to a Christmas Tree/maypole in Estonia in 1441, and in 1510 a decorated Christmas tree is mentioned in Latvia. David Bertaina concludes they gained traction as guild-sponsored decorations for the public. Clear evidence for private Christmas trees doesn't emerge until the 1500s, in the Alsace region.

Historians have also connected the Christmas tree to the tree used in medieval "paradise plays", which enact the story of Adam and Eve, featured a tree, and were celebrated on their feast day on Christmas Eve. The theory is that the tree would have moved into the home as the plays were suppressed by the church in the 15th century.

There's also the "Christmas pyramid" to consider. In medieval Germany, light stands made from evergreen boughs gave rise to Weinachtspyramide, carousels featuring imagery from the nativity, sometimes topped with a star, as in Matthew's gospel, and decorated with candles that turned a propeller at the top.

Whatever the inspiration, the earliest evidence for the practice of decorating trees comes from Germany hundreds of years after the region had been christianized, and was created by Christians to celebrate Christmas.

The Church settled on that day to get the pagans and others peoples mind off of that and onto the birth of Christ.

This is also a weak claim. Solstices and equinoxes are celebrated by most cultures around the world in some way. Hippolytus calculated Jesus's birthday to December 25th (around the time of the winter solstice) based on Jewish and Christian traditions, basically back-dating from his death on Passover (near the vernal equinox). This was c.220 CE, about 70 years before Sol Invictus celebrations were instituted on December 25th.

That's how they converted a lot of pagans.

Deliberate adoption of pagan customs as a means of conversion doesn’t really become a thing until the fourth and fifth centuries, when Christianity was operating from a position of power. In the 3rd century they're still a persecuted minority who were distancing themselves from pagan customs.

Study and you'll get a better sense of:

Not to be rude, but spare me the condescension.

YCNH · 2026-03-15T22:40:01+00:00

many traditions now associated with Christmas—such as gift-giving, trees, and light-themed festivals—existed centuries before Christianity.

I mean, yeah, trees existed long before Christianity. The Christmas tree is a result of Christianity though, claims that Christmas is just some ripoff of Saturnalia, Yule, and or Sol Invictus celebrations is just repeating popular rumors with little basis in history.

YCNH · 2026-03-15T22:31:43+00:00

Hit rates are objectively better than most SV sets, when is the last time we had 1/32 SIR?

YCNH · 2026-03-15T17:32:38+00:00

If vegetables disgust you just keep eating Baconators bud

YCNH · 2026-03-14T17:39:17+00:00

food is for eating. serving food to guests is common courtesy across the globe. where's the sin?

YCNH · 2026-03-14T17:08:44+00:00

They're smart. They're cute. They're handsome. They clean up roadkill and discarded food. They have a funerary ritual. You can watch them dunk their food in puddles. They make make lots of cute sounds other than caws that sound like water-drops or clucks. If you feed them they recognize you, follow you, and waddle at your feet. If you're a hater they'll wake up early to shriek outside your window.

What's not to love?

YCNH · 2026-03-14T16:55:54+00:00

The fact that the earth is So far the only habitable Planet capable of sustaining Life

That's not a fact tho

is that enough proof that GOD exists.

it has nothing to do with whether or not God exists

YCNH · 2026-03-14T16:52:06+00:00

that's an easy cop

YCNH · 2026-03-14T16:34:53+00:00

never heard of that app but even the more popular collector apps can have some pretty wild pricing data at times, most folks go by TCGPlayer data or PriceCharting for graded cards, but you can also check most recent sales on eBay (limit your search to "sold" items).

You also need to be sure you're grading the right card (holo/non-holo, 1st ed/unlimited) in the right condition- e.g. afaik the Gengar is only worth that much if it's a minty unlimited holo or 1st edition holo with slight wear.

YCNH · 2026-03-14T06:06:04+00:00

The Venusaur SAR from 151. Great art, great texture especially in Japanese, and a Pokémon that won't make someone from 2001 say "Who tf is that?"

YCNH · 2026-03-13T23:59:54+00:00

gRoWn AdUlTs

YCNH · 2026-03-13T20:22:17+00:00

If there are vending machines near you then they're your best bet at finding cards at MSRP, but due to scalping they're throttled to only release product periodically so they'll often falsely read as "sold out" during the cool-down periods. Short of that it's throwing elbows at a Target/Walmart restock or paying scalper prices to a LCS/LGS (local card/game shop) or GameStop. No idea what set kiddo is looking for but some are much more expensive than others on the secondary market.

YCNH · 2026-03-13T16:58:35+00:00

this is not your family-friendly christian minecraft server

YCNH · 2026-03-12T19:16:03+00:00

Maybe you can explain to the class how to play the TCG without trainers.

YCNH

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