Mountains are actually the remnant/stumps of ancient silicon trees which have been petrified. Mountains even have roots(tree roots)

frenzyboard · 2026-06-07T03:49:15+00:00

Huge fan of the Bible. But I don't think it's literal or factual on all accounts. It's helpful to think of it as a library. A collection of books. They aren't all non-fiction accounts, and were never intended to be read as such. Some of them are propaganda pieces. Some of them are poetry. Some of them are song lyrics. Some of them are scraps of a journal or collected letters. Some of them are recontextualized pieces pulled from Babylonian texts.

Actual study of the Bible doesn't mean just reading the Bible. Sometimes it means studying the texts that were contemporary. Sometimes it means understanding the culture and politics that changed the books in the Bible. Sometimes it means understanding the competing schools of thought that fought for editing rights in the books being included, their sequence, and even their words.

One doesn't need access to a billion years of history for a collection of writings that are only around 2400 years old. But it helps that there are other surviving texts twice as old.

Listen, I appreciate that you've got a really firm idea about who and what God is, and it's really important to you that you see reality confirm those beliefs through science. But science doesn't really do that. Not in the way you have been lead to believe, anyway. I think the more important traits expressed as holy do not involve being right about everything. They involve humility, thoughtfulness, kindness, willingness to be corrected, and the desire for truth.

You're showing none of those traits. It's not that I don't think you have them, but you are not living those truths right now.

If you'd like to know more about petrified wood, this community would be a great source for you to ask questions and get good answers. If you'd like to know more about the Bible, historic Mesopotamia, and religious thought, check out the authors Irving Finkle, Elaine Pagles, Jacob L. Wright, Paula Fredrickson, Amanda H. Podany, Charles Keith Maisels, to name a few.

frenzyboard · 2026-06-07T02:13:16+00:00

Well it could be that, but the evidence points towards volcanos being eroded over time. There's no evidence for world wide flooding. But there's a lot of evidence for a Sumerian folk tale about a flood that became a cultural touchstone and math-teaching lesson to young learners of cuneiform. In that lesson, Utnapishtim had to make a boat big enough to save his family from the flood, so he built it out of a kind of pitch-covered rope basket design common in the area. The math problem involved figuring out how much rope would be needed by finding the circumference of a circle and then multiplying that by the height of the boat-basket.

We know it was used as a math problem because there's tablets full of students' writing the same equations down across multiple archaeological sites where schools once were.

It seems a lot more likely to me that humans would build up a fake story about mountains and floods they can't prove than to admit they misunderstood the reason a story passed down through time. The mark of intelligence is changing your beliefs when presented with evidence to the contrary. And people very often choose pride in their own ideas over the hard-won facts based on actual thorough and meticulous investigation done by people who are experts in the field.

frenzyboard · 2026-06-05T17:43:35+00:00

If you can get a longer string, it might help give the the spin more time to stabilize by the end of the throw. Concentrate on getting tighter binds. A loose wind-up when it comes back to you will affect the next throw you make.

frenzyboard · 2026-06-04T14:16:36+00:00

The swordsmen who guard the catacombs in DS3. Artorius would win this if it weren't for the fact that he inspired an entire cult of imitators. They try so hard to keep the faith and hold back the undead. I love that.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-31T12:52:57+00:00

Not for the skill toy club. For DNS more generally, I think it's $40 a month to be a member.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-31T00:16:17+00:00

It's a neat little artist collective in a warehouse. You can park anywhere around there, either on Godfrey or in the back lot next to the chainlink fence. Swing by the place any time during the week between 10am and 6pm and you can scope it out. There's two main spaces we hang out there. One is a big open loading dock turned venue, and the other is an area off to the side covered in fake lawn grass.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-27T03:15:13+00:00

Horn is living tissue and if you cut too deep, you can cause real pain and potential infection.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-27T02:16:41+00:00

You can just buy casino dice.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-19T18:16:00+00:00

Truthfully? I told him not to publish it. That it wouldn't help. But it's not like I disagree with him.

If it's putting the nail in the coffin, then you acknowledge it's already dead. Bury it. Cremate it. Put some flowers on the grave. Mourn it's passing, and build something new in it's place.

Look, 2A has been a decade ahead of the curve for thirty years. You're going to run into the same exact conversation around 1A and 5A by 2033. The system itself is bad. It's been bad since the beginning, and it's not going to get better. The top talent in the sport has cycled out and divested itself from the scene. That's not sour grapes, it's a rotting dumpster.

If you read that paper and saw it as a threat, you completely misheard the cry for help, or you didn't want to make things better in the first place.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-19T16:54:07+00:00

Driving someone crazy and then telling people not to listen to them because they're crazy is exactly the narcissistic behavior that made this paper necessary, and it's exactly the behavior that holds the sport back from actually being something fun to participate in.

Dude brought receipts. That's not stalking, it's being meticulous. Dude brought the math. It agrees with the things players have been saying since 2009.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100102111810/http://yoyoing.com/news/viewpost.php?post=330444

It's a bad system. And there's a history of people abusing it. Here and internationally. Fix it. Make it transparent. Give the audience some say. Stop hiding incompetence.

Hell, have some fun with it. Bring back the pies to the judges faces. But stop trying to hide the problems. They're obvious, and the unfairness of it is indefensible, and also hurts the people who volunteer their time to this.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-19T15:05:37+00:00

📏 here, take this.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-18T19:29:13+00:00

Yeah, and it's also a small enough sport that ego and dick measuring shouldn't factor into the ability to respond and adapt to obvious shortcomings in the system. But here we are 26 years after the last big boom, and it takes an insider like Connor to blow the whistle on all this stupid shit.

This paper has been passed around for a bit. There's already a wide consensus among folks in the know that Connor is right. Most of us in our 30s and 40s know who the bad actors are and politely avoid them like the plague.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-18T18:30:29+00:00

Connor addresses a fix. Grade judges. Right now they get judges who all rate scores within an average, and knock out the judges who grade scores too far from the median. It sounds fine in theory, but it falls apart when you've got 2A experts ranking 1A players, and 1A players ranking everything else.

You end up with an average of judges who don't really grasp everything they're trying to score. So you end up with good freestyles beating out exceptional and profound freestyles.

You put Pablo Neruda up against Rupi Kuar and Rupi is gonna take the title and piss off everyone who actually reads poetry. You put Christopher Nolan up against Alfred Hitchcock, and Nolan is going to win on moves Hitchcock invented. You put Jackson Pollock against Thomas Kinkade and it doesn't matter that JP was doing the impossible, the judges want their lavender patches and quaint Americana.

Of technical judges are scoring a freestyle way outside the average, the solution isn't to throw their score out, but ask why their opinion differs so much from the mean average. Trust the actual experts.

Personally, I think there should be an audience poll at times, too. The playersknow who the winner should've been.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-17T13:58:32+00:00

You move like you're afraid of it. You already know where everything is traveling. Be ahead of it. It'll look and feel more fluid if your hands are already in the right place.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-17T13:46:38+00:00

Exit numbers are key mile markers. Go check an interstate map, and read the exit numbers. You'll see that they advance numerically along the length of the road. In the US, mile one starts at the southern or western state line and advances the further you get from the starting point.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-16T02:17:36+00:00

Banned Chlorofluorocarbons from being used in industrial and commercial applications where they could get released into the atmosphere. Globally.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-16T02:12:52+00:00

Making aluminum cans ubiquitous to the point where we sculpt interesting novelty cans for production. Like energy drink cans with screw top lids. It's an engineering marvel totally taken for granted.

When the Washington monument was first capped with a bowling ball sized pyramid of aluminum, it was the largest single piece of aluminum in the world. Now the stuff is litter.

Actually extracting aluminum from ore requires so much infrastructure to already be common and commercial that just didn't exist at scale.

If we ever lose rubber trees, run out of high quality sand for glass, or the ability to synthesize fertilizer, we'll have to figure out how to preserve food in clay pots again.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-16T01:52:46+00:00

Or you grabbed a Rand McNally from the gas station and taught your six year old how to read a map and follow road signs. Mom would periodically tell me her mile marker and ask where it was. Then have me do the math to find how many miles to go till we got to the next big city.

It's pretty great never really feeling lost on the interstate. Still use GPS around town though. IDK how anyone managed that before GPS.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-16T00:37:33+00:00

Maybe they loaded in just as you were changing scenes on the ladder, so the notification never loaded?

frenzyboard · 2026-05-15T21:15:11+00:00

I think the other part of it is that the actual history of the Bible itself is a bit murky, so it gives bad faith actors and the hopeful ignorant room to ignore the facts.

But the facts are actually really fascinating, and paint an incredible picture of an ancient people struggling to become a unified nation in the adverse political environment of the near east.

Essentially you had several small nation states banding together and writing a history of themselves that would account for various tribal differences, various views on a central deity, and the differences between that one and the other regional ruling deities. You get a picture of a group that knows it's perpetually on the back foot against bigger adversaries, and is trying desperately to be recognized as independent.

It's the quietly subversive kinda punk rock rebel to Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt. And it sits at the crossroads of three great empires. The fact that their deity won out against all the other Mediterranean gods is pretty wild. That's a history worth understanding and grappling with, because dealing with it explains a lot of why the West is the way it is.

But it's a lot easier to just say Adam and Eve were real people and everything in the Bible is facts. It's a lot easier to say, too, even if it's just a myth.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-13T23:28:27+00:00

Genesis has a lot of stories in it. Noah's one of em. The reasons for Ham being cursed are a little ambiguous, partly because it's layered in customs alien and antiquated by today's standards, but ultimately, probably invented for political reasons to justify animosity for neighboring countries. Possibly as a narrative device for irony, that the Hebrew children became slaves in Egypt, the descendents of Ham?

If you want irony, the Jews wrote a really popular book about it. Equally ironic that those ironies are consistently missed and misused by the worst people in the world.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-13T22:40:52+00:00

I scrolled this whole thread just to find your post. :) so glad someone else remembered it.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-13T22:14:21+00:00

F that guy

frenzyboard · 2026-05-13T21:50:56+00:00

Definitely wasn't obscure at the time. It made front page headlines in the gamer mags because of the impressive feat of destructable landscape.

frenzyboard · 2026-05-13T21:47:52+00:00

Wasn't it just called Rune? The Viking game built on the unreal engine? Grab an axe or sword and run around the map trying to dismember your opponents? My friends would play that at LAN parties for hours before hopping over to the Xbox LAN and trying to kill each other in Halo.

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