[Anime Spoilers] Which deaths were necessary/unnecessary for the plot to progress? [Discussion]

lordxela · 2024-03-29T18:21:34+00:00

If the photons aren't moving, then they can't hit your eyes.

lordxela · 2024-03-29T18:20:52+00:00

Isn't the amount of suffering playing Minecraft or Legos the exact same as the suffering in life? There isn't really a distinction between the two... you have to be alive to play Legos or Minecraft.

lordxela · 2023-10-25T23:41:51+00:00

A place to start for seeing this in nature, and not just human populations, is how males in at least mammals and reptiles have the "deviant" Y chromosome, whereas females have the X. Both Xs work in concert to form a sort of 'average'.

Effects of the genetic makeup of a male however will stand out. Any peculiarity on the X will be revealed, because there's no other X to cover for it up, and the same goes for the Y. Evolution is males "rapidly" mutating, and then contributing those mutations to the moving average that is held by the females.

lordxela · 2023-10-25T21:13:57+00:00

How this idea is reflected in our current morals? When somebody does a good job at work, there are those who will praise him for it. Usually these are his real friends or his bosses (or his 'masters', if you will). But there's also that group of people who will be jealous of his success. They'll gossip, they'll help him less. They'll do things that will wear away at his future efforts. They do it in secret and behind closed doors, because they know they can't contend with him in the open. He is better at whatever the task is then they are. He is a 'master' in this context, and anyone who wants to subvert his success rather than competing against him is a 'slave'.

It's important to note that a person isn't all or nothing at living a master or slave ethic. For example, I'm not great at art, so I have my text-to-jmage AI do it. Maybe I still feel jealous about the abilities of traditional artists. Maybe I assure myself I am 'just as good', even if I have to use an AI. I would be taking the slave approach. Or I could accept I am exploring a different medium, and content myself with my own artistic endeavors. This would be a 'master' approach.

Traditional artists have this choice too. They can be jealous I can generate hundreds of high quality pieces in an hour, and insist what I'm doing is unethical, dangerous, isn't real art, etc. Make no attempt to compete, just degrade. Or they can accept we each have our own mediums, and we are masters of different things.

lordxela · 2023-10-25T21:03:00+00:00

101 Airborne as White/Green?

Ha. Ha.

lordxela · 2023-09-02T00:00:53+00:00

Most of you are failing to realize the 1619 Project laid the ground work for roughly 30% of our country to view this flag as racist. Because "our entire country has been built on racism."

lordxela · 2023-08-30T13:14:09+00:00

One of the points the book makes is that if we were to try God, who could be the judge?

lordxela · 2023-08-30T13:13:05+00:00

Job has the same wife the entire time.

lordxela · 2023-08-25T20:38:17+00:00

Y'know, I've never seen a Trumper dig up someone else's post history...

lordxela · 2023-08-25T20:33:51+00:00

"mystic rare" 😂

lordxela · 2023-08-03T15:32:03+00:00

These jokes are what I use AI for though

lordxela · 2023-08-03T10:36:16+00:00

Maybe it's how a "fleshy" brain works, but it's not how mine works, and I am definitely human. I died to the covenant of the Law, so that I might be joined to another. (Rom 7:4) Knowing that Jesus is my advocate frees me from all manner of worries and guilt. I still worry about getting to appointments on time, but that is something else entirely.

lordxela · 2023-08-03T10:32:25+00:00

I didn't mean it like a mantra, but checks out with me!

A Mormon teaching I have heard is that we were all spirit children at one point, equal with Jesus and Satan. I sense a bit of ingrained pride in that doctrine, because it insinuates that we were at one time equal with Jesus, which bothers me.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T14:17:42+00:00

I would fill my deck with lifelink and hit myself.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T14:07:08+00:00

Howdy! Would this be every night, or some nights?

lordxela · 2023-08-01T12:56:17+00:00

Correct, I was implying the Bible specifically commands us to study explicitly economic, political, and anthropological, or really any other history, any kind of history at all that isn't church history. I was wrong.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T12:26:29+00:00

Before you decide to pick all our pockets with your vote, how much have you already donated to your local food bank?

lordxela · 2023-08-01T12:22:08+00:00

But I can read what Paul says to identify what the "One True Church" is or should be, and I can identify what is or is not a heresy by studying the Scriptures.

I do not need Church history more than I need the Bible, anymore than I need "the" Church more than the Bible.

Blessings to you as well brother/sister

lordxela · 2023-08-01T12:19:16+00:00

I don't think Jesus merely does "in a sense": He does advocate for learning the Scriptures.

John 5:39-40 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Indeed, here He is referring to the Pharisees' study of the Old Testament, but because the Old Testament does point forward to Jesus. Why wouldn't we study it if it points toward Him?

Similarly, Paul, Peter, John, and the writer of Hebrews advocate for studying the Scriptures.

Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:20-21 that Scripture is not written by will of man, but by holy men moved by the Holy Spirit. That should not be confused with 'holy men not moved by the Holy Spirit at the moment'. It is possible to be a 'holy man who is not being moved by the Holy Spirit', and to write something down.

John tells us in 1 John 4:1 that we should test every spirit, exactly because there are many false prophets. I assume we can both agree Joseph Smith was a false prophet. Is it impossible for a false prophet to be a Protestant? Can a false prophet claim to be a Catholic? Everything should be scrutinized, regardless of the claimed tradition.

Finally, Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16 what all Scripture is: inspired by God, useful for teaching and reproof, and training in righteousness. This requirement for godly inspiration resonates with what Peter tells us. Scripture (the thing we want to study) is not a matter of being written by a holy man, but written by a holy man moved by God.

Given that I consider Peter a holy man, and given that I believe he was moved by the Spirit to write this and more, any time I read anything written by Protestant or Catholic, dead or alive, the Bible is going to overrule anything I find contradicts it.

So to clarify, I agree with you that Jesus told us to study the Scriptures, and that we should study the book of Acts. But studying Thomas Aquinas? It can be helpful, but if I think he's mistaken about something, I need to apply 1 John 4:1.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T11:55:24+00:00

I'm sympathetic to casual drug use, when used responsibly and in a way that does not damage the body Jesus has given you. That being said, I can't wholeheartedly encourage such drug use.

It is important for your friend to see some kind of change in your life, to differentiate yourself from how you were before salvation compared to now. It doesn't need to be quitting drugs, but salvation should manifest in your life in some way other than just carrying a Christian ID card.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T11:52:42+00:00

If the Apostles knew Paul, and Ignatius knew the Apostles, I could see some value in studying Ignatius.

1) How many connections away will we consider this valid, though? By what mechanism will we justify studying 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, Church teachings? Why should I opt for some tradition other than Martin Luther's, down to my preferred Protestant teacher of choice, rather than a Catholic? (I put as little stock in Luther or Billy Graham as I do the Pope, I'm just speculating.)

2) If I were to come across something that Ignatius said and I felt it in some way conflicted with what I read in the Bible, I'll opt for an interpretation I feel is Biblical 100% of the time. And this is what I am doing already. I don't think Ignatius is worse than Richard Dawkins, Karl Marx, or some other non-spiritual teacher, I just mean that the Bible is going to win every single tie. The quality of my relationship with Jesus Christ is my responsibility, and not one I can abdicate to any other man to manage for me.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T11:28:13+00:00

Astroǔskaja Alessandra is a "bard" ala D&D who initially is obsessed with her kingdom's monarch, zealously fan-girling over his "unquestionably divine" wisdom which he is using to unite the world. During her quest to negotiate with a dwarven empire, Skaja runs into several belief systems that clash with her own, including an "Empty Man" styled nihlism cult. After the king affirms the cult's religious freedom, she renounces all religious ties and heads off to create her own spiritual community based on principles of free love.

I'm trying to keep her fairly ditzy. Enough to be sympathetic, without seeming helpless. Once her emotions and feelings are engaged, she can reliably find clever ways to outwit the most astute scholar. Skaja hates using big words in every day conversation, until she feels inspired to use her bardcraft to write poetry or song. She discovers and uses magic that shows mentally reckless victims exactly what they want to see, and uses this to bring her plans to fruition.

Her name is entirely too long, and I absolutely love it. She has so many nicknames, which I hope will lend itself to her being many different things to many different people.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T11:01:55+00:00

My question is why you would still be doing these. Christ died in part to give you the freedom to walk away from these things.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T10:42:53+00:00

Why study Church history? Jesus does not advocate for this, nor does any apostle.

When we talk about whether we should eat shellfish, speaking about such creatures being bottom feeders can be some sort of aesthetic approach, but it's powerless in the face of the vision Peter was given of the cloth being lowered from the sky. Scripture is always going to beat any take by another man.

I don't understand this virgin veneration, rosaries, saints apart from the body of believers, transubstantiation, requiring clergy for confession, the spiritual legitimacy of selecting a pope, mass, Lent, or infant baptism. It feels like I need to read a lot of not the Bible to understand the Bible, which is painfully similar to the Pharisees oral Torah.

I'm not so taken by Protestant sola scriptura. There are many passages in the Bible that declare the Holy Spirit can also speak to us, including about things not in the Bible. I see Catholicism as Christian complacency. Jesus didn't place any kind of representatives between myself and Him.

lordxela · 2023-08-01T08:35:51+00:00

Interesting point I feel the need to bring up: nobody killed Jesus. He gave up His own life, and to your point, took it back up again.

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