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I’ve never lent money to friends or family. I’ve given money to family when I could afford to, and vice versa, but never lent. Who the gently caress wants to be a creditor?
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:That's stupid. It gets stupider, because it goes Matrix. It's not "a malevolent Super-AI may evolve in your lifetime and torture its enemies", it's "a Super-AI could create a simulation of the world to find out who its enemies are and torture them. Thanks to <bad probability reasoning> it is most likely you're in that simulation, therefore a Super-AI DOES evolve in your lifetime and your actions definitely determine your fate." If a malevolent God does not exist, man decided to create him.
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People are weird about money because they trade time in their life for it, their most valuable resource, and so it gets attached to a lot of emotions.
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Hellblazer187 posted:religion sounds exhausting. It only is if you make it the central tenant and facet of your very being and the only thing that matters to you Otherwise it's kind of interesting to delve into aspects of it but not have it consume your whole
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God I wish someone would consume my whole
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Brawnfire posted:God I wish someone would consume my whole Oh no, they got Trevor!
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Religion is pretty easy so long as you avoid believing that completely innocuous acts are evil and actively harmful poo poo is good. It's not a particularly insurmountable bar, despite the obscene amount of people who fail to pass it.
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Brawnfire posted:God I wish someone would consume my whole 
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Xlorp posted:Oh no, they got Trevor! Oh Trevor, I pine for thee!
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Cowslips Warren posted:I thought Hindus took in Jesus as another facet of one of their gods? no that was buddha and they made him a special incarnation of Vishnu where Vishnu incarnated as a guy who went around teaching everyone the wrong thing so that he could know who the true believers are.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:no that was buddha and they made him a special incarnation of Vishnu where Vishnu incarnated as a guy who went around teaching everyone the wrong thing so that he could know who the true believers are. https://youtu.be/PvY6YQH9kE4
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I love an unenforceable punishment AITA for banning my daughter from seeing her boyfriend quote:My daughter is 15 by the way. The full context of this is that, over these past few months I’m seeing things that I don’t like from her. She comes home after curfew and doesn’t text her mom, doesn’t text me, just comes in and claims her phone died, she forgot, she thought she texted. Once or twice I can accept, but, it happened many times.
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Ziv Zulander posted:Dante’s inferno is a piece of fiction that got popular enough everybody thinks it’s actually part of the Bible And it's a helluva read, no pun intended. It's Dante throwing shade at Popes and important Italians of the past and where they all ended up in Hell. The fire and brimstone parts are in the middle, but when Dante and Virgil get all the way to the bottom depths of Hell they find Satan trapped in a lake of ice because being that far in Hell means they are the furthest distance possible from God's warming Grace so the sinners there are incased in ice. It's very allegorical and metaphorical and all that poo poo. It has nothing at all to do with the Bible or official Catholic teachings.
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Dec 5, 2021 19:58
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AITA for not wanting to be stuck as "little/second mom" to my siblings?quote:I am the oldest of four. My parents have me 16f, my brother 12m, my sisters 10f and 9f. When my brother was born my parents joked that I was the little mom and would help out like all good big siblings should. That started as a joke but once my brother started school my parents dumped homework help on me. And then it became my job to drop my stuff and walk a sibling to a friends house. Which then became me responsible for "helping" with their chores like parents do with toddlers. I honestly hate it. Especially because these are my jobs in the family. And my parents never do them. Unless a friend visit requires driving because I don't drive. But other than that the stuff I listed is my little mom/second mom responsibility and that has become a more serious thing.
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I did like that Satan flapping his wings in an attempt to fly free cools the air enough that he freezes the air and traps himself in Coccytus Inferno is a great read.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:It only is if you make it the central tenant I, too, would be exhausted by people renting parts of my body. Though better off I guess?
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feedmegin posted:I, too, would be exhausted by people renting parts of my body. Though better off I guess? Pregnancy sounds terrible, yeah.
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Wolfsbane posted:Couple of pages back, but: in the UK our current Conservative government had "cultural genocide of the Roma" as one of their election promises, and if it wasn't for Covid they would absolutely be getting on with that right now. ...sort of. Irish travellers aren't Roma, not that Roma wouldn't also be on The List.
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Funktastic posted:I love an unenforceable punishment There is so much not being said and left vague in here that I want to take the side of the teenager.
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CannonFodder posted:And it's a helluva read, no pun intended. It's Dante throwing shade at Popes and important Italians of the past and where they all ended up in Hell. The fire and brimstone parts are in the middle, but when Dante and Virgil get all the way to the bottom depths of Hell they find Satan trapped in a lake of ice because being that far in Hell means they are the furthest distance possible from God's warming Grace so the sinners there are incased in ice. It's very allegorical and metaphorical and all that poo poo. Of course! Winter happens because there is less god since he goes on vacation to Australia. It all makes sense.
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Its absolutely aaages ago, but I read the Inferno and thought it was extremely cool and interesting, skipped Purgatory, read Heaven and it was so so dull. We are much better at imagining terrible outcomes than beautiful, perfect ones.
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Ravenfood posted:I did like that Satan flapping his wings in an attempt to fly free cools the air enough that he freezes the air and traps himself in Coccytus That flapping establishes that Satan is powerless, ignorant and all evil to contrast with God's Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnibenevolence. I listened to it on audio book, and it kicked rear end. Definitely the best way to get through older books. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Of course! Winter happens because there is less god since he goes on vacation to Australia. It all makes sense. Pookah posted:Its absolutely aaages ago, but I read the Inferno and thought it was extremely cool and interesting, skipped Purgatory, read Heaven and it was so so dull. Also, there are no gates of Heaven, there are gates of Purgatory which the blessed will pass through first before they ever can enter Heaven. So the whole trope of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates of Heaven is completely different from the Dante Purgatorio/Paradisio version. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Pookah posted:Its absolutely aaages ago, but I read the Inferno and thought it was extremely cool and interesting, skipped Purgatory, read Heaven and it was so so dull. Purgatorio is basically Hell II, it's fun. but yeah christians are so much better at coming up with evil afterlifes than good ones, I'd take most of the upper circles over hanging around in assorted shapes singing for eternity
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AITA for laughing after my sister implied my brother's girlfriend's dish wasn't good at Thanksgiving?quote:I, 27F and my brother "John" 26M are very close, so I was definitely shocked when he surprised us on Thanksgiving by bringing his new girlfriend "Chelsea". Evil Willow fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Important mashed potato infoquote:They were burnt and runny, and the taste was off completely. But by "they were raisins" I meant she actually put raisins in the mashed potatoes. Like dried grapes. In the mashed potatoes.
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Lol Thanksgiving etc, but why do people insist on forcing other people to eat food when they can't cook at all? Do they know it's poo poo? Or have they only eaten such bad food that it's normal? If I gently caress up food (and I'm not a great cook but can follow a recipe), I will preface serving it with an apology that it's dry etc Funktastic posted:Important mashed potato info
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CannonFodder posted:I don't know if an Italian circa 1300 even knew of Australia, yet his logic of God going to Australia is sound. January in Melbourne sounds fantastic. There was absolutely no way an Italian in 1300 knew Australia existed. There were definitely vague rumors of a land beyond the sea (now the Americas) but no European really knew the continent existed until like the 1600s iirc (edit: apparently the Dutch found it first in 1606)
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Raisins in mashed potatoes should be a war crime.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:There was absolutely no way an Italian in 1300 knew Australia existed. There were definitely vague rumors of a land beyond the sea (now the Americas) but no European really knew the continent existed until like the 1600s iirc (edit: apparently the Dutch found it first in 1606) Other than, you know, the people that lived there
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Raisins are one of those things where if it's an ingredient, then it ought to be included in the name of the food so that you know what you're getting into. Raisins in oatmeal raisin cookies are okay! Raisins in mashed potatoes are not okay, unless you call them 'mashed potatoes with raisins', and saying that out loud should indicate to you on a visceral level that that's disgusting.
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Uncle Enzo posted:Other than, you know, the people that lived there Who were not Europeans........
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I am fine with surprise raisins in any curry.
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Paper Tiger posted:Raisins are one of those things where if it's an ingredient, then it ought to be included in the name of the food so that you know what you're getting into. Raisins in oatmeal raisin cookies are okay! Raisins in mashed potatoes are not okay, unless you call them 'mashed potatoes with raisins', and saying that out loud should indicate to you on a visceral level that that's disgusting. I thought maybe she saw it on one of those gimmick recipe videos, but I couldn't find anything. A brief google brings up plenty of recipes for sweet potatoes with raisins, which is a mistake a novice cook might make if they don't know what sweet potatoes are. The only recipes using normal potatoes and raisins are from india and the result isn't what americans would recognise as mashed potatoes: http://www.dvo.com/recipe_pages/india/Rajasthani_Potatoes_with_Cashews_and_Raisins.php Maybe it's her great grandmother's recipe from the depression when they couldn't afford sugar so putting raisins in mashed potatoes was a treat. Then it became a family tradition and she doesn't realize it's a crazy thing to do.
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for laughing after my sister implied my brother's girlfriend's dish wasn't good at Thanksgiving? I feel like there's some pretty important info about the girlfriend being left out here
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Let’s not overlook the fact that the potatoes were burnt as well.
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The Maroon Hawk posted:I feel like there's some pretty important info about the girlfriend being left out here Some families are really lovely about giving any newcomers the third degree at the dinner table, and they opted to hold off on that for now, that's how I interpreted it.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's possible, sure, but it's also entirely possible that holding out hope for more and never getting it is causing you more harm than good. Only you can answer that, and only by taking a long hard think about your own emotional well-being. It’s definitely not making me happy. I really want to push it past what it is into something more meaningful. Problem is I like this person too much and I feel that downgrading or just removing them from my the status quo is really going to hurt.
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I used to make scrambled eggs with raisins when I was younger. Everyone looks at me crazy when I mention it.
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Dazerbeams posted:Let’s not overlook the fact that the potatoes were burnt as well. How does that happen? Mashed potatoes require boiling first, do they not? Did the pan of water catch fire? I love mashed potatoes. Dash of butter, milk, and too much pepper, and I've got the perfect side to any meat-and-two-veg
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