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  • Almost all of the Christian folklore surrounding Jesus can be directly tied to other myths that were common knowledge to Mediterranean people at the time.

    There was a dude called Jesus, there were a lot of them. That one was Jewish and belonged to an evangelical cult was likely. But we can’t really say that because the Bible exists so too must have the Jesus described within.

    What we have today was written by people hundreds of years after the fact. There was nothing written during these events, nothing at least that survived.

    If you go looking for proof of Jesus, you’ll either come out disappointed, or delusional. Think of guys like Ken Ham.

    Keep the faith, by all means. But part of believing is accepting that you don’t get to have proof.





  • It still works in highly technical areas.

    Or if you’re a machinist someone will tell you the right way to do something as soon as they see you have the material. By the time you have it in the machine 6 other guys will have told you the right way to do it in six wildly different ways. Someone will suggest Vaseline instead of coolant. Someone will start bitching about Haas. Someone will insist that it’s only possible with thru spindle coolant, regardless of depth. None of which matters because your code won’t post to the 40 year old 3 axis mill you’re using and the engineer gave you a print with impossible geometry anyway. GEE I DON’T KNOW TERRY DO YOU THINK THIS HUNK OF STEEL LOOKS LIKE YOUR PART YET

    Anyway my point is sometimes there’s more than one right answer, even if everyone says they have the one right answer.

    Sometimes technical specifications limit you to a specific set of right answers, but the right answers you get are for different set ups entirely.

    and sometimes, the circumstances surrounding your failure were given to you by the engineer in a state that was destined to fail, whether they knew it or not.





  • What’s weird is prior to the meltdown over trans people she was obnoxiously progressive. Constantly retconning characters via tweets to make them more inclusive, when it has absolutely nothing to do with the story being told.

    I have no problem at all with Dumpledore being gay and Hermione being black. I think including marginalized people in story telling is fantastic.

    But that’s absolutely not how these characters were written. She just kinda said that’s the way it was and left it at that. Because the characters weren’t originally written with that in mind it added no context, and brought nothing to light about these characters that night have been missed. That’s not inclusivity. It’s pandering. And she just would not stop doing it.