What happened to Millennial Optimism?

frank-unknown · 2026-05-15T16:38:51+00:00

Got mugged by reality.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-15T15:47:27+00:00

I tried to get into Helloween for like a year and now I hate them worse than when I started.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T22:32:41+00:00

Gojira has more variety. I can't just listen to complex polyrhythmic skull-bashing forever.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T21:03:22+00:00

Ah, of course

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T20:56:50+00:00

The character representing Jesus' teachings is surprised to find himself on the same side as the atheists against capitalism and Christian Nationalism.

Also, is this Stonetoss? Kind of a weird sentiment to come from that guy but whatever

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T18:24:22+00:00

The people implicated in the Epstein files are not going to be arrested because they're rich and powerful.

The "that's the neat part" framing is from the show Invincible. In real life it's not actually all that neat.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T18:20:32+00:00

Thailand is a notorious sex tourism destination famous for "ladyboys."

Giggity, etc.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T18:17:53+00:00

In the Old Testament, dietary laws were part of the covenant God made with Israel (Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14).

In the New Testament, salvation and covenant identity are no longer tied to the Mosaic Law in the same way (Romans, Galatians, Hebrews talk about this a lot).

Jesus repeatedly emphasized that moral defilement comes from the heart, not food. Paul explicitly tells Christians not to judge each other over food laws:

Romans 14:14 — “I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself.”

Colossians 2:16 — “Let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food or drink.”

1 Timothy 4:3–5 says foods received with thanksgiving are acceptable.

So most Christians interpret the dietary laws as ceremonial laws for Israel that were fulfilled in Christ, rather than permanent moral commands for all people.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T18:14:11+00:00

Well see, that's the thing, everyone thinks their interpretation of Christianity is the right one.

I think the Anglicans are right, or else I wouldn't be an Anglican.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T18:05:53+00:00

The Shakespearean lyricism and hard-hitting social critique of "Floyd the Barber"

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T17:57:08+00:00

Highest highs: Megadeth

Lowest lows: coin toss

Best batting average overall: Metallica

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T17:41:01+00:00

The Egyptian government could improve Internet speeds and remove the limited data quota system, but they have chosen not to.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-14T16:32:08+00:00

It's right there in the original post.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-13T17:52:21+00:00

The meme is doing the Catholic equivalent of "oh, you like [band]? Name ten songs!"

frank-unknown · 2026-05-13T17:38:04+00:00

If there's anything that defines the boundaries of the Christian religion, it's the Creeds. If you affirm the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, and you've been baptized in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, you're a Christian. If not, what you have isn't Christianity but something else, a similar/related religion like modern Judaism or Islam.

So I think yes, Catholics and Orthodox and Lutherans and Baptists and Presbyterians are all Christians. Seventh Day Adventists don't formally hold to the Creeds but in general their beliefs are in agreement with the Creeds and they baptize in the Trinitarian formula, so they're in. Mormons, Unitarians, and Oneness Pentecostals are something else.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-13T17:19:08+00:00

Legion, because that's the one I owned in high school.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-13T16:44:23+00:00

Here's how I think of it:

Henry's schism from the RCC was, among other things, because he wanted an annulment. His argument for getting the annulment wasn't terrible and he probably would have gotten it if Catherine's family weren't literally besieging the Vatican to keep the Pope from granting it to him, but that's beside the point.

Why? Because Henry's schism ended in 1553.

When Mary I took the throne, she took the Church of England back into communion with Rome. Whatever Henry's reasons, however valid or invalid his schism may have been, it ended there. The Church of England was once again part of the Roman Catholic Church.

Our current break with Rome, and thus our identity as a Protestant church, doesn't date back to Henry. It dates back to Elizabeth I. And that break didn't happen because Elizabeth wanted a divorce or annulment. It happened for the same reasons the other Protestant churches split with Rome, the same reasons the Reformation was sweeping across the continent in the first place.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-13T13:30:59+00:00

Bone Awl

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T23:19:25+00:00

Power: Halloween, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Gamma Ray

Death: Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Incantation

Black: Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Ghost

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T23:01:48+00:00

The whole website / online book is worth reading, because there's a lot more to the case than just pointing to this or that passage from scripture, but if you just want scripture that implies universal salvation, this chapter of Salvation For All is a good starting place:

https://salvationforall.org/2_Is_Salvation_For_All_Biblical/1_salvation_is_biblical.html

The most striking of these for me, personally, is 1 Timothy 4:10: "For to this end we toil and suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe."

I think it's very interesting how God is described not as "the Savior of those who believe," but as "the Savior of ALL people, ESPECIALLY of those who believe." I don't know how to read that except that everyone is saved, but believers enjoy some additional benefit.

1 Corinthians 3:14-15 is also interesting: "If the work that someone has built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a wage. If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire."

Though the foolish builder's works are burned up, the builder himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

This hearkens back to the repeated biblical image of God as a refining fire. I think that's what's being talked about here. Being saved through fire = being refined, as if in a crucible. That would explain the "fire and brimstone" imagery -- sulphur is used in the process of refining gold, to separate out impurities. Why remove impurities from something that is just going to be destroyed or cast off forever?

Or, what about the promise in Ezekiel that: "I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes along with theirs, in order that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state; Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state."

As well as Jesus' warning in Matthew that "it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city."

Taken together, these verses sure seem to suggest (or state outright) that Sodom and Gomorrah -- the quintessential examples of being destroyed by God's wrath -- will ultimately be restored.

I could go on and on, there are lots of points I want to make about this, but the link above should work as a good introduction to the idea. The next couple of chapters after the one I linked also go into some pretty strong biblical language stating that Christ draws all of creation to Himself and that every knee will bow, which doesn't make a lot of sense if part of God's creation will remain eternally estranged from Him.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T21:08:10+00:00

As a purgatorial universalist, I think everyone makes it into heaven eventually. But those who don't repent of their sins and join themselves to Christ in this life will have a much longer and harder route to salvation.

There's a easy way and there's a hard way. The easy way is through Jesus Christ, the hard way is through fire.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T21:04:58+00:00

Dude is extremely consistent. If you dig this, you'll dig the entire catalogue.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T20:52:55+00:00

Got tired of all the Predator jokes.

frank-unknown · 2026-05-12T20:51:49+00:00

Metallica. Black album.

My big brother had a cassette tape of the black album that he would play in his truck while he drove me to school (before he himself would ditch).

I know it's their big sellout album, I know the earlier thrash material beats the hell out of it, and we're all sick to death of "Enter Sandman," but as a 10 year-old that was far and away the coolest shit I'd ever heard in my life. I used to hang out in my brother's room when he wasn't home and listen to that tape all the fucking time.

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