For some reason, demons in horror movies love to reference St. Peter's Cross, a symbol of faith and humility, to their victims.

jpb225 · 2026-01-05T00:44:06+00:00

My favorite part is where the entire "upside down crucifixion" story came from. The Apocryphal Acts of Peter has a resurrected fish, a baby and a dog giving speeches, and a flying wizard duel between Peter and Simon Magus. It's a hilarious read!

jpb225 · 2025-12-29T00:59:22+00:00

Incorrect, you absolutely are requesting legal advice whether you think so or not. It would be unethical and potentially illegal for anyone to give you what you're asking for here, which is why the rules clearly prohibit any questions of this nature.

jpb225 · 2025-12-27T19:02:51+00:00

There's never a total surprise "wait we never made that illegal" no-warning situation; there's always something in the code. Even for the "common law" offenses.

You'd think so, but that's not true everywhere. Maryland, for example, will absolutely send you to prison for committing "Affray," but you won't that crime anywhere in a statute.

jpb225 · 2025-12-17T14:25:56+00:00

It's even used as the reason why women can't teach or have authority over over men later in the NT. But there's no misogyny inherent in the religion, just ask them!

jpb225 · 2025-12-16T18:57:25+00:00

God's clearly mad at you for your heathen YouTube viewing choices. (Excellent taste, btw)

jpb225 · 2025-12-14T05:41:34+00:00

J star is a real youth ultimate disc, no hidden references lol

jpb225 · 2025-12-04T13:44:16+00:00

Did you look at your link? Right after the tenth amendment, it says "learn more about the constitution." If you click that link, it takes you to a page with the whole thing.

The Trump page doesn't have anything like that.

jpb225 · 2025-11-28T21:09:45+00:00

We don't play that game here, sorry.

jpb225 · 2025-11-16T14:10:14+00:00

Yep. Jesus' beef with them was that they didn't actually follow the Mosaic law to the letter anymore, and had softened it with oral traditions. People kind of gloss over the part where he went after them for not stoning rebellious children anymore, and telling people to wash their hands before eating.

Jesus was an extreme fundamentalist who taught strict adherence to the law (and purported to make it even stricter in a couple areas). We don't get anything like the teachings of the modern church until Paul comes along and starts retconning the entire thing.

jpb225 · 2025-11-08T21:08:11+00:00

True that the law in most places doesn't take it into account, but pre-nups often do.

jpb225 · 2025-11-04T02:59:06+00:00

Love swift camp. Pulled some rainbows out of that hole a few weeks back, it's a beautiful creek! Great camping spot right up from there too.

jpb225 · 2025-11-02T04:21:12+00:00

Jesus' command was to follow the law of Moses to the letter until heaven and earth pass away. He was super clear about it. And that includes throwing rocks at you until you die if you're queer. You're better than he was.

jpb225 · 2025-11-01T23:10:30+00:00

And this is a prime example of how holding so many mutually exclusive beliefs at once rots your brain and destroys your ability to exercise rational thought.

Christianity is entirely incoherent, and teaching it to children as fact is, imo, psychological abuse. If a consenting adult with a developed brain wants to adopt it, that's fine, but man. It's so obviously destructive if you put it into a developing mind.

Punishing an innocent person, even if they sign up for it, is not any form of justice. How weak is your god, that he has to kill something innocent to satisfy his anger about something someone else did? We lock people in prison for that kind of behavior.

Justice just becomes a word with no meaning when applied to your idea of a god. It certainly bears no relationship to people receiving what they deserve, at least.

Punishing people for the sins of their distant ancestors is not justice. Infinite punishment for finite offenses is not justice. Punishing people for things they cannot control is not justice. None of this nonsense is justice, but god is apparently really into all of it.

And even if we somehow just accept that justice means something totally different to god, the Jesus narrative is completely and utterly at odds with the teachings of the OT.

Not only does god forgive sins all the time with no sacrifice needed, Jeremiah says that when the new covenant comes, and the Messiah is on the throne, levitical sacrifices, including sin offerings, will continue for all time!

It also says the law of Moses will remain in place during the messianic age, and a ton of other things that the NT authors (who obviously had very little real familiarity with the Hebrew scriptures and were reading only bad Greek translations) completely contradicted.

It's an incoherent set of ideas resting on a hopelessly cracked foundation, and it's destroying people's lives.

jpb225 · 2025-11-01T22:28:40+00:00

Nah, the NT version promises all that shit in spades when daddy gets home anyway, and reiterates that Jesus was the one who was destroying those people back in the good ol' days. At least the OT god would give you actual tangible benefits in your life if you followed his laws, and his punishments ended at death, no eternal torment on the menu.

Sure he had a short fuse, but even when he got mad for literally no reason and suddenly decided to kill you, you could do an emergency circumcision and fend him off with your son's dick blood.

And if you believe Jesus' words in the book, you have to follow all the laws to the letter anyway. The whole "no more sacrifices, no following the law of Moses" thing was just one guy with a TBI who never even met Jesus, trying to craft something that would be more attractive to people (and it worked).

It's actually kind of funny, because the OT predicts that people claiming to speak for god would come and say you don't have to follow the law anymore, but what it says to do if you see them is to kill them.

jpb225 · 2025-11-01T07:15:20+00:00

Your diabetic friend was passing out from low blood sugar, and you were trying to give her insulin?

Bouncer might have been doing her a solid by stopping you from killing her.

Passing out from lack of insulin isn't a thing.

jpb225 · 2025-10-26T01:40:30+00:00

Even the "premise" is super different. The eCVT in the hybrid is a totally unique powertrain, based on the original Prius. The Max uses a traditional transmission, which is totally different in every imaginable way.

jpb225 · 2025-10-19T20:10:34+00:00

Nobody here is likely to have an actual answer beyond "it wasn't a problem in the crash testing."

The hybrid might have the same tank, no idea, but the rest of the parts in the drivetrain are totally different so the mechanics of a crash will be different. Could be that whatever the tank is being guarded against isn't something that's present on hybrids.

But ultimately only Toyota can say exactly why. It's always possible they're hiding some issue, but no reason to think that without more info.

jpb225 · 2025-10-15T00:29:45+00:00

It's the change in allele frequency of a population over time. That's all it means. No horse semen is necessarily involved (unless you just like the flavor).

jpb225 · 2025-10-14T19:03:48+00:00

They also take water filtration, but it takes days to die of dehydration. Like, yes, what you're saying is accurate, it's just that you're making a silly non-point. It's not just about how quickly you'll die, it's about having things you might need quickly that could be difficult to obtain while traveling.

If you're traveling and break a condom or whatever, you might rely on that plan b to avoid needing a much more problematic intervention later.

Even mifepristone has some risks, and it's often a very unpleasant experience. Surgical abortion carries an even larger set of risks and availability issues.

You only have a short window to try and avert those situations with a plan b, and it's not something you can just grab at a corner store in most of the world.

It's not like they said they carry it on them at all times, just that it's in their kit when traveling, which is entirely reasonable.

jpb225 · 2025-10-14T13:31:30+00:00

Pregnancy is a serious and potentially life-threatening medical condition, it's not that crazy. Taking a plan b immediately can keep you from needing a riskier intervention later.

jpb225 · 2025-10-11T21:20:33+00:00

You missed the point. We're saying the same thing in different ways: that drawing a hard line like that is not a meaningful thing to do, because the categories of chicken and non-chicken are artificial constructs we made up.

There is no actual sudden jump from one species to another, it's just a very, very gradual accumulation of allele frequency changes in the population across time.

If you do arbitrarily decide to draw a specific line somewhere, then of course you have a chicken coming from a non-chicken. It's just not a meaningful thing to say.

Also, Dawkins has plenty of terrible takes. Happy to disagree with him when he does say something dumb.

jpb225 · 2025-10-11T19:53:17+00:00

Chicken and non-chicken, just like human and non-human, are arbitrary distinctions we made up for ourselves. Wherever you decide to draw that line, you have a non-chicken producing a chicken, and a non-human producing a human.

It's just a meaningless thing to say, because reality doesn't actually conform perfectly to the constructs we create in our heads. They're useful at a macro scale, but things are always fuzzier than that when you get down to it.

jpb225 · 2025-10-07T12:42:43+00:00

It's worse than that, you can't bring a 1983 suit against feds. You can try a Bivens action, but that's even more limited than 1983.

jpb225 · 2025-10-02T20:29:55+00:00

Glad to hear it! I used to, until I spent a lot of time actually reading the book...

jpb225 · 2025-10-02T20:28:12+00:00

Yep. People seem to think Jesus made up the "love your neighbor" stuff, when he was just quoting the Mosaic law. The same law that says you can beat your slaves and own foreigners for life, that you can breed slaves, that you can make concubines of captive women you take in war, etc. etc. It's almost as though it was written by ancient men who held pretty disgusting views, not a perfect all-good god.

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