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They named a fossilized ringworm "Shaihuludia shurikeni"
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:They named a fossilized ringworm "Shaihuludia shurikeni" That's either badass or so goddamn nerdy I want to hide inside a hole. I can't decide.
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Apr 15, 2023 16:22
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It's the latter. There's probably some previously unknown midget hedgehog someone's trying to name sonic as we speak
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Apr 15, 2023 16:24
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There’s already a Sonic The Hedgehog sequence of genes (SHH), doesn’t make people into spindly monsters, shamefully.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:There’s already a Sonic The Hedgehog sequence of genes (SHH), doesn’t make people into spindly monsters, shamefully. But a mutation in it causes the brain to fail to divide into hemispheres, which is usually fatal.
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kiimo posted:I distinctly remember a super long version that played on the Disney channel of all things and many of the shots weren't color corrected. I've never seen it again but there were scenes that weren't even in the extended edition  Yeah there were at least two different TV versions of Dune (the two-part TV release in 88, the KTVU release in 92) that were 180+ minutes long and used footage not found in other releases.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:14
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Fuschia tude posted:But a mutation in it causes the brain to fail to divide into hemispheres, which is usually fatal. I was gonna make some joke about that RUSH album here but yeesh, don't GIS those gene mutations. I don't feel like jokin' no more.
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Just thinking about the Orange Catholic Bible and the Commission of Ecumenical Translators and I gotta say it's one of the more laughably naïve things Frank ever came up with. I suppose it might make sense immediately following an existential threat like the Butlerian Jihad, but the idea of representatives from every major religion (with more than 1 million members only!) all flying to Hawaii to debate the spiritual truth and even coming to any sort of agreement after seven loving years is hilarious to me.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:47
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Seven years of loving
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Mister Speaker posted:Just thinking about the Orange Catholic Bible and the Commission of Ecumenical Translators and I gotta say it's one of the more laughably naïve things Frank ever came up with. I suppose it might make sense immediately following an existential threat like the Butlerian Jihad, but the idea of representatives from every major religion (with more than 1 million members only!) all flying to Hawaii to debate the spiritual truth and even coming to any sort of agreement after seven loving years is hilarious to me.
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And what's up with the space Jews anyways
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Colonel Cancer posted:And what's up with the space Jews anyways what's up with ANY of that later stuff. your man was on a trip.
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Colonel Cancer posted:And what's up with the space Jews anyways There's already space Catholoprotestants and space Buddhimuslims; what makes space Jews unbelievable in that setting?
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Fuschia tude posted:There's already space Catholoprotestants and space Buddhimuslims; what makes space Jews unbelievable in that setting? Exactly. It's a setting with space buddhimuslims wherein a major adjacent faith somehow stays hidden and unchanged for millenia instead of evolving into idk space wormreformist voodoojudaism
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Minus that weird poo poo in Chapterhouse, the Fremen were kind of explicitly Jewish? I mean, a weird cult of survivalists making do in the desert while waiting for the messiah to show up is sort of most of Jewish history. And the kefitzat haderech literally shows up in the book of Genesis.
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Apr 15, 2023 19:31
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Pretty sure they were zensunni
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That's not what 'explicitly' means. They have some traits that could be likened to Judaism but it's pretty spelled-out in Frank's writing that the Fremen religion (and just about everything else that could be called 'religion' in the universe) is new mysticism borne of the survival practices on Arrakis, and seeded just a li'l bit by the Missionaria Protectiva. Which is why it's so weird that Chapterhouse just drops it out of nowhere that there are still Jews 15000 years in the future. I mean it stands to reason that probably a handful of religions didn't get on board with the OC Bible and just kept doing their own thing, but it's an awful long spacetime (and at least one or two Jihads/Crusades) to have passed to still be practicing that old a religion virtually unchanged. And FWIR Frank's depiction of them is kind of questionable.
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Yeah but unlike those religions, isn't preserving their culture and religious practices virtually unchanged for millennia kind of Judaism's whole schtick?
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Fuschia tude posted:Yeah but unlike those religions, isn't preserving their culture and religious practices virtually unchanged for millennia kind of Judaism's whole schtick? What? The Zensunni stuff is absolutely chock full of Islamic references. That’s clearly the main inspiration and the religion it’s supposed to evoke most directly. Mister Speaker posted:Just thinking about the Orange Catholic Bible and the Commission of Ecumenical Translators and I gotta say it's one of the more laughably naïve things Frank ever came up with. I suppose it might make sense immediately following an existential threat like the Butlerian Jihad, but the idea of representatives from every major religion (with more than 1 million members only!) all flying to Hawaii to debate the spiritual truth and even coming to any sort of agreement after seven loving years is hilarious to me. I haven’t read it in a bit but isn’t the point of that appendix that those religious leaders were hopelessly naive and nobody cared or followed those original dictats?
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Jewmanji posted:I haven’t read it in a bit but isn’t the point of that appendix that those religious leaders were hopelessly naive and nobody cared or followed those original dictats? Pretty much, though if I recall it eventually gained traction because the powerful ended up embracing it and it became the popular faith of empire, not unlike Christianity.
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The fun list of religious traditions in the appendix includes Zensunni Wanderers, Navachristianity, Zen Hekiganshu, Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur, and... Hinduism.
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Orthodontic Jainism Paleoconfucianism Taothodoxy Zorroastrianism
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DebonaireD posted:Orthodontic Jainism
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scientological deism
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Fuschia tude posted:Yeah but unlike those religions, isn't preserving their culture and religious practices virtually unchanged for millennia kind of Judaism's whole schtick?
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rewatching dunc rn. Apart from everything else, it has the perfect orinthopter design and is clearly the best dune adaptation on that alone
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disposablewords posted:Pretty much, though if I recall it eventually gained traction because the powerful ended up embracing it and it became the popular faith of empire, not unlike Christianity. Yeah, having just finished the book for the second time (it's good!), the O.C. Bible stuff was a disaster at first, with a number of the creators renouncing it, dying at the hands of their parishioners, or dying by suicide. Only much later did it catch on. Which feels kind of realistic. E: my tween daughter loved the movie, and is waiting for the second one before reading the book. She regularly says to me, "Paul rides a sandworm in the second one. Right? Right!?" I have refused to confirm or deny. pthighs fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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pthighs posted:Yeah, having just finished the book for the second time (it's good!), the O.C. Bible stuff was a disaster at first, with a number of the creators renouncing it, dying at the hands of their parishioners, or dying by suicide. Only much later did it catch on. Which feels kind of realistic. I always find that funny especially since we never get told how it went from an utterly disastrous presentation to the Emperor to near-universal acceptance, but it tracks with the history of... many major religions in the real world. Maybe there's just no such thing as bad publicity? Also it doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to figure that Fremen clearly descend from Muslims (or Muslim spiritual descendants) who are still pissed they're denied the Hajj.
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Jewmanji posted:What? The Zensunni stuff is absolutely chock full of Islamic references. That’s clearly the main inspiration and the religion it’s supposed to evoke most directly. I'm not Tobermory. 
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DebonaireD posted:Orthodontic Jainism Portman Taothodoxy
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was Paul just a coward? what does the music drug sound/feel like? do you think you could survive a week as the baron's adult plaything?
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trailer when denis deeeeeniiiiiiiiiiiis
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you have to be high as gently caress for semuta to sound good so I assume it’s just like any other jam band
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Riot Bimbo posted:was Paul just a coward? what does the music drug sound/feel like? do you think you could survive a week as the baron's adult plaything?
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Colonel Cancer posted:Semuta is just femboy hypno this is canon now
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