i say swears online posted:

someone that's not some guy tt please confirm this happens in season 3

Fellatio del Toro posted:

the bear s2 wasnt as good as s1, but i still liked it, the christmas ep was extremely good, and i stan ayo

but lol at the whole "if anything is off by 10 seconds in any restaurant it causes cascading slowdowns and the whole system falls apart" like just hire literally one more than the absolute bare minimum number of employees lol

ArmedZombie posted:

Whirling posted:

insulting religion is great actually. like lmao there's people who actually believe there's magical spirits that'll slow cook them like a 7-11 hotdog for eternity because they jacked off once

Whirling posted:

insulting religion is great actually. like lmao there's people who actually believe there's magical spirits that'll slow cook them like a 7-11 hotdog for eternity because they jacked off once

War and Pieces posted:

but also lol that there are ppl who think they're going to get reborn as a duck

Whirling posted:

shinto is the only respectable religion because they just assume that everything has a spirit but its no big deal, you get free holidays out of it, and you can just do whatever apart from maybe not go to a shrine if somebody near you dies. beats having to talk to a very old man every week and tell him that you saw a boob and liked it so he can forgive you for it so god doesn't cast Disintegrate on you in the afterlife

Trabisnikof posted:

Whirling posted:

insulting religion is great actually. like lmao there's people who actually believe there's magical spirits that'll slow cook them like a 7-11 hotdog for eternity because they jacked off once

Whirling posted:

The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, SECT. IX.—THE LAND OF HADES

Thereupon, His Augustness the Male Who-Invites, wishing to meet and see his younger sister, Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites, followed after her to the Land of Hades. So when she raised the door from the palace and came out to meet him, His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites spoke, saying: "Thine Augustness my lovely younger sister! The lands that I and thou have made are not yet finished; so come back!" Then, Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites answered, saying:

"Lamentable indeed that thou camest not sooner! I have eaten of the furnace of Hades. Nevertheless, as I reverence the entry here of Thine Augustness my lovely elder brother, I wish to return. Moreover, I will discuss it particularly with the Deities of Hades. Look not at me!"

Having thus spoken, she went back inside the palace; and as she tarried there very long, he could not wait. So having taken and broken off one of the end-teeth of the multitudinous and close-toothed comb stuck in the august left bunch of his hair, he lit one light and went in and looked. Maggots were swarming, and she was rotting, and in her head dwelt the Great-Thunder, in her breast dwelt the Fire-Thunder, in her left hand dwelt the Young-Thunder, in her right hand dwelt the Earth-Thunder, in her left foot dwelt the Rumbling-Thunder, in her right foot dwelt the Couchant-Thunder—altogether eight Thunder-Deities had been born and dwelt there. Hereupon, His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites, overawed at the sight, fled back, whereupon his younger sister, Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites, said: "Thou hast put me to shame," and at once sent the Ugly-Female-of-Hades to pursue him. So His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites took his black august head-dress and cast it down, and it instantly turned into grapes. While she picked them up and ate them, he fled on; but as she still pursued him, he took and broke the multitudinous and close-toothed comb in the right bunch of his hair and cast it down, and it instantly turned into bamboo-sprouts. While she pulled them up and ate them, he fled on. Again later, his younger sister sent the eight Thunder-Deities with a thousand and five hundred warriors of Hades to pursue him. So he, drawing the ten-grasp sabre that was augustly girded on him, fled forward brandishing it in his back hand; and as they still pursued, he took, on reaching the base of the Even Pass of Hades, three peaches that were growing at its base, and waited and smote his pursuers therewith, so that they all fled back. Then His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites announced to the peaches: "Like as ye have helped me, so must ye help all living people in the Central Land of Reed-Plains when they shall fall into troublous circumstances and be harassed!"—and he gave to the peaches the designation of Their Augustnesses Great-Divine-Fruit. Last of all, his younger sister, Her Augustness the Princess-Who-Invites, came out herself in pursuit. So he drew a thousand-draught rock, and with it blocked up the Even Pass of Hades, and placed the rock in the middle; and they stood opposite to one another and exchanged leave-takings; and Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites said: "My lovely elder brother, thine Augustness! If thou do like this, I will in one day strangle to death a thousand of the folks of thy land." Then His Augustness the Male-Who-Invites replied: "My lovely younger sister, Thine Augustness! If thou do this, I will in one day set up a thousand and five hundred parturition-houses. In this manner, each day a thousand people would surely be born." So Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites is called the Great-Deity-of-Hades. Again it is said that, owing to her having pursued and reached her elder brother, she is called the Road-Reaching-Great-Deity. Again, the rock with which he blocked up the Pass of Hades is called the Great-Deity-of-the-Road-Turning-back, and again it is called the Blocking-Great-Deity-of-the-Door-of-Hades. So what was called the Even-Pass-of-Hades is now called the Ifuya-Pass in the Land of Idzumo.

NOTE: The characters in the original which are here rendered Hades are 黄泉, lit. "Yellow Stream," a Chinese name for the Underworld to which a remark of Mencius and a story in the "Tso Chuan" appear to have given rise. They here represent the Japanese word Yomo or Yomi, which we find phonetically written with the characters in the name of Yomo-tsu-shiko-me a little further on, and which is defined by Motowori as "an underworld,.... the habitation of the dead,.... the land whither, when they die, go all men, whether noble or mean, virtuous or wicked." The orthodox Japanese derivation of Yomi is from Yoru, "night," which would give us for Yomo-tsu-kuni some such rendering as "the Land of Gloom." A suggestion quoted by Arawi Hakuseki ("Tōga," art. Idzumi) that the word may really be but a mispronunciation of Yama, the Sanscrit name of the Buddhist god of hell, is however worthy of consideration; but it seems best on the whole to translate Yomi or Yomo by "Hades," a term which is itself of uncertain derivation, and the signification attached to which closely resembles the Japanese Shintō notion of the world beyond, or rather beneath, the grave.

loquacius posted:

This might sound like a my_little_pony_at_auschwitz.jpg type post, but the pure absurdity of eternal punishment didn't get through to me until I played Baldurs Gate 3

There's a part where you bust into a demon's house and meet some of the people whose souls he owns, and one guy is like "I sold my soul to feed my starving family. That was like 1600 years ago and now I don't even remember their faces." Like, the vast, VAST majority of his lived experience was torment over a deal he made during his comparatively tiny physical life.

Imagine it's 2 billion years from now, Earth's sun has long since exploded, and you're still being punished for practicing the slightly wrong flavor of Christianity when you were alive for 37 years, so long ago you can't remember your own given name. Ridiculous concept

Whirling posted:

i remember reading that story about david collecting 200 philistine foreskins like he was fulfilling the requirements of a mmo quest when i was young because my church was talking about david and i got so confused

Whirling posted:

lmao this dude is translating Izanagi and Izanami in such a dumb way, its like translating Akira Kurosawa as "Black-Swamp-Bright"

like you wouldn't translate "Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov" as "Peaceful-Ruler Lord-is-my-God Son-of-Youth", I don't get why dudes used to translate Chinese and Japanese names like that back in the day

Kit Walker posted:

“David, David, oh my god, I meant to say wineskin. Please tell me you didn’t”

i say swears online posted:

a donkey's jawbone is a grey-tier weapon so he's not the greatest MMOer

loquacius posted:

This might sound like a my_little_pony_at_auschwitz.jpg type post

loquacius posted:

The Jewish afterlife lore is officially "I dunno, don't overthink it"

All this "people you don't like will be tortured by demons until long after the heat death of the universe" poo poo started with Christians, don't blame us

loquacius posted:

Imagine it's 2 billion years from now, Earth's sun has long since exploded, and you're still being punished for practicing the slightly wrong flavor of Christianity when you were alive for 37 years, so long ago you can't remember your own given name. Ridiculous concept

i say swears online posted:

a donkey's jawbone is a grey-tier weapon so he's not the greatest MMOer

A Buttery Pastry posted:

christians are a jewish sect, just like muslims and mormons

Nichael posted:

Christianity is to Judaism as Mork & Mindy is to Happy Days.

BONGHITZ posted:

eternal punishment was always a video game tier plot device