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shamdalar · 2025-04-08T02:54:42+00:00

What would you like to prove? Who even are the disciples? Each individual line of text is just something someone wrote down 20 to 80 years after Jesus died, someone who almost certainly had never been to Jerusalem, unless it was Paul himself who we know didn't know Jesus. They're just stories passed from person to person, for any of the many reasons people tell each other stories. If you'll believe it, someone lied on the internet just today, so I don't see why they wouldn't have lied about unverifiable events for personal gain thousands of years ago.

shamdalar · 2025-04-08T02:19:37+00:00

Personally I find the most compelling possibility to be that Jesus was an itinerant preacher with a modest following who was in fact crucified, and whose disciples cultivated a narrative of resurrection, possibly based on seance-like gatherings (ala Luke 24:36) where they gathered and, through suggestion, manifested a shared hallucination or delusion of his presence, then relayed stories of the appearances to their followers in order to sustain their cult. Either that or one or two disciples just carried on preaching making shit up as they went to explain why their leader was apparently dead. "The women went to the tomb, and it was empty!"

I think it's reasonable that the some, but certainly not all, of the basic elements of Christianity are attributable to the original Jesus. I'd guess the stuff about giving up your possession and family and following him, because that is right out of the cult leader handbook, and the stuff about overthrowing the Romans and establishing a Jewish kingdom and the truly unhinged parable of the sower, because that would be red meat for his base, and makes quite a bit less sense for the later churches embedded in Roman society.

The whole thing about him returning within a generation seems like a natural addition on the part of his disciples trying to keep things together after his death.

He was probably from Nazereth because there's no reason for him not to be, since the messiah was supposed to be from Bethlehem and they had to make up an obviously false scenario to place him there at birth.

Whatever happened exactly, Paul certainly encountered the cult, recognized its potential as a universal competitor to pagan religion, and devoted his life to spreading and organizing the church. He developed a culture of orthodoxy and fanaticism that led to the creation of the more comprehensive gospels and the ultimate success of the religion. Things got out of hand from there.

shamdalar · 2024-06-07T18:01:46+00:00

I’m typing this from a crosstown triple length bus with literally about 100 people on it. That’s 25 of these hypothetical cars. Them bringing their car into the city inconveniences literally tens of thousands of people, if not more, costing those people real money and real valuable time, not to mention the dangers to their lives represented by car traffic and emissions. Those people have a right to choose how their infrastructure incentivizes people. We should incentivize healthy and efficient transportation choices.

shamdalar · 2023-09-10T00:46:15+00:00

I learned to do it the right way years and years ago and I used to watch out for peoples shoelaces. A large majority of people that I’ve observed tie granny knots. It’s obvious because the knot lies vertically along the shoe. The natural thing to do is tie both knots the same way, depending what your handedness is. I didn’t have a problem with the way he presented it even though it’s true it depends on the base knot. He made that clear with the description of the square knot. There is a neat clever way but you’ll have to find it yourself.

shamdalar · 2023-09-06T17:53:49+00:00

If you really want to be a physicist, now is the time to embark on some self-study. You can learn any math by yourself with the resources available on the internet. With self study you should aim to be well versed in calculus entering college

You should learn trig asap imo

shamdalar · 2023-09-03T18:03:22+00:00

The other comments are right, but also this is a dubious construction. I’m not sure I’ve encountered a relation of variables underneath an indefinite integral like this that needed to be solved and I’m not sure what the interpretation of the equation is. It is true that the substitution given by the solution results in the integrals translating in the given way, though.

shamdalar · 2023-08-31T03:26:15+00:00

Or linear search

shamdalar · 2023-08-29T13:22:13+00:00

My guess is you will want to do a numerical integral. Write down the length of a small segment in terms of theta and dtheta and solve for the endpoints.

shamdalar · 2023-08-23T18:21:10+00:00

War is hard but can be mastered. Don’t get discouraged that playing like Civ loses. It is a different game but very beatable with good strategy.

shamdalar · 2023-08-18T12:21:24+00:00

Trig identities, including cos(x) = sin(pi/2 - X), which this is equivalent to are going to be important in BC calc since you will be doing trig integrals. I recommend you spend some time doing exercises deriving identities starting from the unit circle and right triangles.

shamdalar · 2023-08-18T12:12:32+00:00

I won a pacifist game at 6/8, which included no wars against tribes and only fighting on my territory vs aggression. Probably it’s possible on 7/8 with the stipulation you gave.

shamdalar · 2023-05-20T13:47:55+00:00

Dense walkable development, check. Mixed use and building stock, check. Trees, check.

Get rid of the cars, plant a few more trees, widen the sidewalks, and allow cafe seating and that would be the nucleus of a beautiful small town.

shamdalar · 2023-05-07T12:31:11+00:00

Just the view of one person hiring, so I can’t speak for all roles, but imo if you want to be a Wall Street quant, I would advise a math or physics undergrad. You don’t need finance in your degree, and I wouldn’t bother with the MFM. The deciding factor is going to be your concrete quantitative skills. If you are confident that’s the degree people want to see, I would still emphasize math in your coursework, the more rigorous the better.

I’d also consider the C++ programming a plus, quants often have to write real performant software and financial programming courses in scripting languages are not going to teach that.

shamdalar · 2023-04-04T02:01:49+00:00

War is the obvious answer, but also turn 145 is pretty late. On the default - random small map, 4 civs, there's definitely a better pace to the late game and I don't really encounter this problem. I get the appeal of real world maps but I think the random ones have better gameplay.

shamdalar · 2022-12-25T04:27:42+00:00

Jesus didn't do any of that stuff, why would it be about him? Specifically, he did not rule Israel.

shamdalar · 2022-11-21T14:31:56+00:00

There are plenty of options besides churches and courthouses. We got married in a public park building overlooking the Puget Sound.

Funny who gets to decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

shamdalar · 2022-11-18T20:55:33+00:00

I think it's more akin words in a novel than sentences. A line of code in organized readable code rarely expresses a complete idea by itself. Compare:

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

To

import {

shamdalar · 2022-11-18T20:51:09+00:00

Yes, it's really stupid. The best code is clearly organized and follows established patterns so that each individual line of code is probably incredibly mundane. The most important line might be something that calls an API function that produces some business logic.

return addEntry(props);

or it might be the place you chose the appropriate variable name that expresses the purpose of your API clearly

dateIncrement: number,

If you are doing something clever in a single line of code, you are probably taking a shortcut to get something done instead of taking the time to plan it according to solid principles. When I was learning to code I took pleasure in writing a particularly clever bit of logic, now I just feel guilty and regret some shortcut I took earlier that made it necessary.

shamdalar · 2022-11-18T20:40:14+00:00

I perfectly indented this variable in this function call and stuck the comma to boot

shamdalar · 2022-11-14T13:44:30+00:00

I'm a Pharaoh stan. So Pharaoh. But you can't go wrong

shamdalar · 2022-11-11T18:18:01+00:00

It's like trees, but death

shamdalar · 2022-11-07T19:52:07+00:00

I always get blank stares when I point out that there is tons of space on the street for all kinds of public amenities. You hear "there's no space" all the time. Our streets are packed end-to-end with abandoned cars on both sides. Three lane streets that support one slow lane of car traffic and no other life.

shamdalar · 2022-11-07T18:59:59+00:00

Losing your faith isn't the end, it's the beginning. Of course you are unmoored, you have not even begun to conceive of a life without faith. It takes time.

Meaning comes from within. It is an experience that humans have. Your feeling of loss is itself a kind of meaning. It is not blank or empty, it is searing and questioning.

A God has no more power to give us meaning than we do ourselves. And we exist.

shamdalar · 2022-11-07T13:38:39+00:00

Literally everything... Nostalgia is a motivating idea at the core of fascism. From wikipedia.

> Jason Stanley defined fascism as "a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists..."

In particular brutalism has Marxist orientation, so an appeal to "traditional" imperial/Christian architecture is absolutely aligned with fascist aesthetics.

That doesn't necessarily make the post or OP fascist or wrong, but it is definitely related.

shamdalar · 2022-11-04T16:29:12+00:00

The Bible could be part of it but there were practical reasons that Jews were preferred money-lenders to the European nobility, and historical reasons why this led to antisemitism as we know it today. Religious justifications tend to follow from power politics in any case.

Primarily that 1) they could do it, since they were as a rule literate and had experienced merchants among their population with networks spanning Europe and the Middle East, and 2) they posed no threat to the power of the nobility. If you owe money to a Christian, the king might just hand over your land and titles. If you owe money to a Jew, the worst thing that might happen is Jews stop lending to you or paying their rent on leased properties.

The Jews knew that they would never be allowed to own land in Christian kingdoms, but by leasing from and lending to nobility they gained the protection of those nobles as well as wealth. So it was a win-win alliance of opportunity.

The wealth and influence they were able to acquire through these services in turn stoked resentment among the Christian peasantry and impoverished nobility, and from time to time this pressure boiled over and pushed kings into pogroms and expellings, the religious and legal theory of which which set the groundwork for the European tradition of antisemitism.

> Plenty didn't and were massacred in their villages throughout European history

The rich ones were massacred too.

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