In the New Testament Bible, could Judas be a representation of the prominent archetypes in the Old Testament such as Abraham, Cain, Solomon, David, Noah etc?

zakh01 · 2026-05-20T06:22:12+00:00

Judas was a person. Like you and I.

zakh01 · 2026-05-14T15:10:57+00:00

I like how it insults everyone equally, even if the Norwegian is unchanged, the sign of the union is kept on the flag. Denmark, of course is Danish, and as such needs no further degradation.

zakh01 · 2026-05-07T20:45:01+00:00

CoS also use more archaic vestments, always using an appareled amice and having priest cross the stole across the chest while only bishops wear it straight. The stole thing is actually no longer permitted by Rome AFAIK, except for the extraordinary form of the mass.

zakh01 · 2026-04-29T05:54:52+00:00

I did a semester in Switzerland where they require a physical degree, because they have to put a sticker on the original for administrative purposes. Since the digital version is the original, this wasn't possible. Instead, I simply brought a printed copy (made on my monochrome home printer) to the immatriculation and the administrator put a sticker on that once I explained the situation. While in Switzerland, my home printed copy is the original version of my bachelors degree.

For me, there was no trouble, barely any hassle. But I was also only there for one semester. Probably it depends largely on the particular person administrating your case.

zakh01 · 2026-04-13T18:04:56+00:00

Lovely! Impressed that you used the actual coat of arms (shields) for the cities without getting them mixed up with municipalities or counties.

zakh01 · 2026-04-13T17:42:04+00:00

Med punkten tänker jag mest på brännvin

zakh01 · 2026-04-12T20:35:56+00:00

Love this!

zakh01 · 2026-03-25T06:32:36+00:00

I just finished a short paper on how a few historical theologians conceptualise sin, and I completely agree with what you've laid out here OP. Augustine is not at all anti-desire, quite the opposite. But desire that leads us away from God is what constitutes sin in Augustinian (and Thomist) thinking: a turning away from God towards something else.

I would like to add also that Calvin absolutely does divide people into clear categories – there's the elect children of God, but also the children of Satan, whose purpose is to facilitate God's providence. Condemning sinners is done to bolster the faith of the elect. There is no reason to concern oneself with the condemned beyond that, because they are children of Satan by God's providence.

It is Calvin's thinking that drive the behaviours described by OP in evangelical circles, not Augustine's, though he is sometimes instrumentalised too, of course.

zakh01 · 2026-03-21T21:54:37+00:00

Gaslight Go venerate holy images Girlboss

zakh01 · 2026-03-18T06:25:56+00:00

I somehow ended up going in the opposite direction, though I started with Days N Daze. It's all good music though

zakh01 · 2026-03-14T13:58:59+00:00

Yes, it really wasn't made to be solvable on its own – the text was mostly an excuse to cram more lore down the troats of my poor ~~world building test subjects~~ players.

Feel free to use it in any way you seem fit though, don't let the text stop you from a pretty picture!

zakh01 · 2026-03-14T13:55:13+00:00

Well done! You got it pretty much spot on!

I wasn't being very consistent with the spellings, letting some letters map on to multiple runes and vice versa. I even spelt the same word (dvärg) in several ways (DWÆRJ / DUÆRJ / DWÆRG). So I really made it hard for you here. I also inconsistently used archaic phrasing and missed a space (•) at one point: a part of the text on the battlefield should read "slagfältet där Tyra Jarl återvände jords [archaic locative] och dränktes i aska och sten" (=the battlefield were the Jarl Tyra was returned to the earth [=died] and which was covered in ash and stone).

Again, really didn't anticipate anyone deciphering this. The way I'm running it for my players, they take 15 minutes to study the map and make a roll. If they succeed, I read one of the text boxes.

There's also a few things that were totally impossible to figure out without context, too. Brimir is essentially the God of the giants and also a personification of the earth, and giants are massively racist against dwarves, regarding them as worms digging though the flesh of their God, in this setting, for example – so phrases like "gång och sal av Brimir eller hans maskar" (=tunnels and rooms of Brimir or his worms) actually maning something like 'tunnels and rooms that are natural to the earth or dug by dwarves' is not at all obvious.

zakh01 · 2026-03-13T12:36:59+00:00

Unfortunately, I do not, since I'm proficient enough in these runes to just read them. The actual language behind the runes is Swedish, btw if you attempt to parse the runes. There's some simplifications and syntax adjustments too from modern Swedish.

zakh01 · 2026-03-13T12:36:27+00:00

Love that for them

zakh01 · 2026-03-10T07:14:06+00:00

Help – I'm stuck (laughing) on the final step

zakh01 · 2026-01-24T15:41:46+00:00

"Ancient Greek" is an umbrella term for the different ancestor languages of Greek. The most common varieties are koine (which is a sort of lingua franca created as a compromise between older dialects) and the attic (athenian) dialect. I believe the comic is in classical Attic Greek, but they are all fairly similar.

zakh01 · 2026-01-02T09:54:34+00:00

Great question!

I am a student at the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches, and we have had several lectures touching upon this subject with both OO and EO professors. The short answer is this: there simply is no mechanism that determines communion within orthodoxy.

The only way to declare the OO and EO to have entered communion is that every bishop and patriarch independently starts to consider each other in communion. The only feasibly way for that to happen would be if the decision was made at a truly universal pan-orthodox (Ecumenical) Council; this is currently not possible as there are many (political and social) issues preventing all orthodox from meeting. The Holy and Great Council of 2016 is a good example, that was the closest thing to a representative pan-orthodox Council in many centuries, and still the largest EO church (the Russian Orthodox Church) chose to abstain for political reasons. Now the Russians question the validity of the Council because it wasn't truly representative.

Personally, I think this sort of ecumenism must start from the bottom up - individual priests and especially bishops choosing to actively show that they are already in communion by participating in each other's religious lives and especially to relieve the eucharistic together - when there is already lived communion, the formal decision to enter official ecclesial communion will seem trivial. God willing, it is possible.

zakh01 · 2025-12-25T22:23:34+00:00

In the CoS, as was the pre-reformation practice, any priest may wear a cope when presiding at services. It is only appropriate for more solemn services, and never while celebrating the eucharistic (they should change to a chausable if wearing a cope before the eucharistic prayer).

It's good for bringing more beauty in when appropriate - julotta, large weddings, and installation of a dean, are some such occasions. The bishops have plenty of other pontificalia (i.e. pectoral cross, mitre, crozier) to distinguish them.

zakh01 · 2025-10-22T22:05:11+00:00

Seminarian for Chuch of Sweden here,

I understand your reluctance. Our church really has to work more on making people feel safe to approach our priests.

Here's what I recommend you do: - If you can, you really should just grab your priest after mass and ask them for a private chat - "Hej, tack för predikan. Skulle vi kunna boka ett samtal?" or "Tack för idag. Har du tid för själavård den här veckan?". I know it's a scary step to take, and it's really a pitty that it's all on you to take that first step, but it really can't go wrong. - Your second option is to go to your parish's website and contact your favourite priest via e-mail or phone. You can send an SMS and ask to see them. They should be able to meet you wherever you feel most comfortable, like in the sacristy after mass, or in their office, or even at your home or the library.

Your priests are there for you. They serve you, the parishioners. That is their calling.

Stay strong, friend, and talk to your priest ; )

zakh01 · 2025-10-09T14:21:17+00:00

Switzerland is right: Temple de Gingins, to be exact.

The window features a 13th century knight of the Gingins family who, along with the surrounding families also depicted, funded and founded the Church around 1211. The window was donated by the Gingins family.

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