Oh please. I wouldn’t believe this administration cumulatively attended 10 regular Sunday church services in the past 20 years.

It ain’t got nothing to do with God or any religion. They are as religious as Russia. It’s about creating a global oligarchy with themselves at the top.

You can go to CVS and talk to your pharmacist about getting something to stop the coffin.

Excuse me.

It’s “And with your spirit.”

Oh, I’m sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn’t win wars. (Didn’t win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn’t help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)

In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America’s military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.

A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.

Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it’s still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.

Vampires is great way to describe them. Out of the debt they use to buy the company, they pay themselves huge “management fees”. So they are taking on crazy debt to buy a company, paying themselves millions, and leaving the bank a rotten corpse to clean up.

I really don’t understand who keeps giving these people money?

Not weird. Lots of gods get eaten. Not really that unusual.

Yeah. It was taking a company that is only barely financially solvent because it was grown very conservatively and had no debt, and flooding that company with debt. I mean it’s not Nobel prize economics stuff here.

Who keeps giving these VC guys money? Unless the goal is specifically to close the company the business plan made no sense.

Well, technically consuming the flesh of a god isn’t evil if the god specifically orders you to do it in ritual and reverence to them. The moral rules of gods is different.

It’s only weird if you are eating the flesh of a god without their consent.

2043 is going to be a wild year in literature!

He didn’t invent it. He helped further develop it and popularize it through the printing press.

But I’m really taking about the contemporary implementation of it which Luther would absolutely certainly not approve of.

I personally think your third possibility is the least likely. I just find it unimaginable that there would not have been any cultural exchange at all of the two peoples knew about each other.

I can imagine human beings, even extremely capable ones, just missing things. In fact that happened a lot. There were many European cultures that had the technical capability to sail to the Americans for thousands of years before they did it. And there were clothes in the Americas that had the capability to go the other way, but they didn’t.

As someone else pointed out, there is a similar story for Madagascar. There were plenty of cultures that could have discovered it for centuries that just didn’t. Similar stories with countless other islands.

Honestly, I think it’s more surprising that the indigenous Australian peoples discovered the continent when they did. They were the only animals to make the jump across the straight.

I don’t know. There is linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence that the Polynesians traded with the South Americans, but I don’t think there is nearly as robust evidence for Australia.

Current evidence as I understand it is really just as that map depicts it. That they went straight from Indonesia to New Zealand, and just missed Australia.

I think it’s such a funny quark of history that the Polynesians, despite their incredible sea exploration abilities, just apparently completely missed Australia.

“I only read the first two paragraphs”.

My mother had a good friend that this happened to. He disappeared for 20 years. They had a funeral. He was found in the 90s. He was gay and living in Memphis. He “disappeared” himself and lived under a pseudonym because he wanted to live his life.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/behind-the-smoke-unmasking-the-link-between-cannabis-and-schizophrenia/

It wasn’t the general defunding of education. It wasn’t the defunding and of arts and music programs. It wasn’t the anti-intellectualism.

It was the cheap computers gosh darnit!

No no…

This is a ancient grape cultivation metaphor. They didn’t have grape farms like we do today, with rows of grapevines strung on wires.

They would grow bushes and let the vines grow up through the branches of the bush. Tthe bushes would hold the vines.

In this metaphor the bush a the church and the branches are the people. (Or individual diocese or parishes depending on the interpretation.) But the bush is the Church. And the vine is Jesus abiding in the bush.

Jesus is the vine. You ain’t Jesus. You gotta be something else in the metaphor.

I would say that specific verse you are citing it’s actually specifically calling people to community in the church. The vine is wrapped around the tree, tangled among the branches. If a branch grows to far away from the main tree that’s holding the vine, that’s when the branch is cut off.