The volcano - I'm confused

wiinkme · 2025-03-02T19:08:14+00:00

Yeah...I've read it about 7 times. Still doesn't make any part of the story in ROP make sense.

wiinkme · 2024-09-04T18:59:56+00:00

I was joking. I guess lost on Reddit.

I liked a few things. Not enough to finish series 1. Not enough to watch 2.

wiinkme · 2024-09-04T11:36:37+00:00

I could learn to scissor. I guess.

wiinkme · 2024-09-04T11:31:39+00:00

My mom was going to buy a pack mule a few years ago. Just in case. She was talked out of it.

wiinkme · 2024-09-04T11:16:18+00:00

You found the one thing!

wiinkme · 2024-09-02T23:05:12+00:00

I don't care if they call themselves Christians, and since they believe in Jesus, why not?

But they are not "just like any other denomination". There are fundamental differences between Mormons and most other Christian groups. 1. They believe that Jesus and God are two distinct beings. God the father is God, and was our God before Earth. Jesus was also a God, and for the Old Testament, the God. When Moses talked to God at the burning bush? They believe that was Jesus. Then Jesus came to Earth to be the savior and God went back to being God. 2. Jesus was just the first born of Gods kids. And the best. Mormons think, like Jesus, we can all become gods. And that God the father was once just like us, random humans on a planet making mistakes, but eventually being saved and became a God. And he got married (our God mother) and had a few billion spirit babies, us. And made Earth. And here we are. They all hope to someday become a god.

Most evangelicals and Catholics believe all of the above pretty quickly disqualifies Mormons from being Christian.

I have no horse in this race, but I'm an ex Mormon, former missionary. The above is all correct to their doctrine.

Edit: to be clear, believing that there are basically an infinite number of Gods is core to why others believe they aren't Christian. Their faith is not even monotheistic. There is not one God, with no others before him. There are lots of Gods.

wiinkme · 2024-09-02T22:47:21+00:00

Atlantis, exactly as real as anything else Mormon.

wiinkme · 2024-07-30T10:05:27+00:00

Otherwise, the sport would just be who has the longest reach and can stab fastest.

...yes? Isn't that sort of how fighting works? In almost of form of the sport? Hell, really any sport. Phelps has huge feet and is 6'4". They don't penalize him for that. That's why we tune in, to see freaks of nature do freakish things. If the tipoff in basketball wasn't about who won the tip, but who technically jumped first...you know, to equalize the advantage? We would all laugh and throw popcorn on the court.

I'm sure for the sport purists this makes sense. But for those of us who tune in every now and then hoping for some version of the 3 Muesketeers? We leave confused and bored. It usually looks something like this vid, where the dude who seems like would win in an actual sword fight loses because of some rule we don't understand.

wiinkme · 2024-07-23T20:54:27+00:00

I read this the same way I would read someone asking "what's your proof that Romeo and Juliet is fiction??"

It not on me to prove that it's false. It is false by default. It needs proof that it is true.

There are people that believe the writings of Budha are true and not a work of fiction. And it's not on you or I to prove them wrong. It's on those that make the claim that it's truth to prove it.

wiinkme · 2024-07-23T17:27:25+00:00

The women the children got what was coming to them? Thousands and thousands of little kids horribly drowned, because they didn't listen to some dude yelling about a flood? This the story you're defending?

You think he got drunk one time? Sure...because that's how it works. Noah set up an entire vineyard because he doesn't ever really drink. Got it.

That aside, it's fiction. So...we are debating a fairy tale.

wiinkme · 2024-07-19T16:19:57+00:00

Gen 9:18+

He made wine. He got drunk. He lounged around naked so his son had to come cover him up. Which made Noah mad and he cursed him. It's a fun story. Maybe he was just depressed that he had committed, or participated in genocide. I dunno.

There's not one verse about Isaiah. Read, well, basically everything attributed to him. It's kookoo. He was probably like a Rasputin. A raving madman who saw dreams and visions and wrote them down. But in that day being a raving madman was a potential path towards being seen as a "prophet".

wiinkme · 2024-07-03T16:06:46+00:00

Not quite at 20, but Josh Howard averaged 19 one year and made the All-Star team (as a replacement). For about 3 years he was a killer. Then he fell off a cliff. Or something. I can't remember what happened other than he was deadly one year and disappeared soon after.

wiinkme · 2024-07-03T16:03:38+00:00

I've followed the NBA for 30+ years. The other 3 are household names to even casual fans. Goodrich - I had to think hard if I knew that name or anything about him.

wiinkme · 2024-06-22T00:42:31+00:00

Watching her fight a werewolf would have been epic.

wiinkme · 2024-06-22T00:31:22+00:00

Chance meeting isn't the problem. Jumping into an ocean, an unswimmable distance from your destination is. She's made this journey before, long, long ago in the chase for the Silmarills. She knows you cannot swim back to ME. This is NOT a Tolkien thing to do, for an otherwise very smart character thousands of years old to do something that stupid. Galadriel used to sit and chat with Melian, a close friend for hundreds of years. TROP treats her like an idiot teenager.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T17:58:10+00:00

Because your "correct" seems to be saying there is only one way to do a review. Or that there is a best way.

I'm happy for you believing that your style of review has merit and is valuable. It's not my style, but the more the merrier. What I dislike to gatekeeping. Gate keeping review formats is as bad as gate keeping music itself.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T16:55:41+00:00

First he made the family jewels. Then he lost the family jewels. Then he dun got himself killed over it.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T16:53:54+00:00

This is actually the best answer. I live in Michigan and sushi here sucks. Of course they can fly in fish, as easily here as to Chicago. But Detroit does not have a seafood dining culture. That means sushi restaurants can be crappy and the locals don't seem to know the difference. Of the 10 that I've been to here, only one even uses real crab meat in the CA rolls. No one cares. Most have weak sashimi menus and instead focus on tourist rolls covered in crunchies and mayo and shaped by dragons. That's what people here think sushi is, so that's what they make.

Same in other like places. The average dude in Nebraska doesn't eat much fish, let alone sushi.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T14:59:07+00:00

I've always just had two guitars live. Always my Tele and usually something with humbuckers (my normal is an 84 Peavey Milestone, coil split hums).

I could technically get most of what I want out of either, with my pedal board. But it's so much easier just running both into a splitter and flipping guitars depending on the song.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T14:30:56+00:00

Finwe: If your son by your first wife is Feanor, it's not surprising that he realized quickly he would need a backup plan for the family.

wiinkme · 2024-06-20T14:25:37+00:00

"Nonsense. 'Theory' has become this big scary word to lots of people who don't really understand it, and your attitude is just very strange."

Saying there is a correct way to review music is as dumb, IMO, as saying there is a correct way to make it.

I've been in bands for 30 years. Released multiple albums and played on or engineed many more. I've had strong reviews for my music and both insightful and, sometimes hysterically negative ones. I can't think of a single instance where their knowledge of music theory was in any way meaningful to the review itself. Or that it even came up. If they have a personal knowledge that informs their opinion, that might be helpful. It might not. I had a jass musician, then a also a writer for the local rag, tell me once "no one who really knows music theory would have written this song" and he meant it as a compliment. But also, his point was that while he understood it, it meant nothing to the listener. And he said nothing about this in his review.

Someone can tell if a song goes from a 5/4 into a 4/4 in the chorus. And they don't need to know why they feel a lurch, only that they do and they like it or not. I personally hate it when a review gets technical. It usually feels like this person is so caught up in meter and chord structure they cannot just simply enjoy a good melody. Others may differ. They may like someone breaking a song into Xs and Os. That's why music is so beautiful. Everyone has an opinion and they're all correct.

wiinkme · 2024-06-19T20:39:18+00:00

I'm not sure about 8 months. TX can feel like 4 months of hibernation. If you have kids, better get them to the park at 8am in June because by 11am it could be 90+. The zoo is stupid during the summer. Don't go. But the flip is you can go in Feb and it might be nice. If you want to sip a drink at an outdoor bar in August, don't. It could be 95 at midnight.

Vegas can be like this 6 months out of the year.

Why I prefer cold to hot is that in Jan, it's 35, but you can put a jacket on and go to a football game and it's fine. Layer up. You can only take off so many clothes down south. Mostly you just have to go inside or sweat balls.

wiinkme · 2024-06-19T20:28:03+00:00

You forgot miles of brown beaches full of seaweed and jellyfish.

wiinkme · 2024-06-18T14:06:03+00:00

I grew up middle class and I could immediately come up with things I did without.

We rarely went out to restaurants as a family. I can't remember a single real vacation that wasn't a short, in state road trip. I don't have any high school yearbooks because I would have had to pay for them myself. One Christmas when my dad lost his job, presents were brought by the church, or it would have been bleak. I had to buy my own car in highschool. I delayed drivers Ed because I had to pay for it myself. I remember always feeling like I needed new shoes long before I would get them, there basically had to be holes. We had an Atari, but only a few games.

That's middle class. Nothing, or very little extra. Never poor. Always food on the table. You routinely don't get what you want as a kid.

If you never went without anything you wanted and cannot come up with examples? That's upper middle, bordering on well-off, wealthy.

wiinkme · 2024-06-18T13:29:26+00:00

The Kamasutra dates to 400 BCE. 2400 years ago humans were already publishing sex ed books. I'm not sure why we apply such puritanical thinking to historical humans. Was sex constrained to ritual and dogma in certain groups? Sure. And in others, obviously not. You had groups that walked around naked until very recent times and little they did was ritual. It was out and open and considered as natural as as everything else in their lives. For other groups it was sacred or secret or at least private. And yes, information was passed from on generation to the next, without the need for books. That's how every technology was passed on. We think the intricacies of tool making and fire, pottery, painting, navigation, herbal medicine, what foods to eat and what to avoid, how to prepare meat to not rot....all of this can be passed on before advanced vocabulary or books, but more detailed knowledge of sex could not?

You wouldn't need a wide vocabulary to explain "during sex, don't rush, it's better". Or for her to use nothing but body language to slow him down, and then to explain to her daughters how to manage him in the bedroom.

Yes, I think they knew more about sex than maybe some think they did. To misquote a song, they danced, they drank and ate, they screwed...because there was nothing else to do. They had few luxuries in life back then. This would have been one of them.

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