My theory: Once you have it on, you can kill people with your brain.

I'm not....what, exactly?

That's an interesting service, especially considering the NSA managed it before they were formed.

Names can be changed.

I am being facetious and engaging in word games for the purposes of general amusement. You're completely correct that the intended meaning has no basis in fact. I was attempting to joke that their statement left room for a more factual interpretation.

Not necessarily. Technically speaking, accepting Christianity's teachings at swordpoint still fits their description.

Against all reason, I applied the Principle of Charity here. I think it's more likely they meant that no evidence was provided along with the caption. It's still an egregious example of the sort of petty argumentation you used to see in high school freshman debates, but it's not quite the blatant rejection of…

Speaking as a Christian who would love not to be persecuted for stupid reasons, perhaps you could attempt a civil discussion about dictionaries. You won't always be successful, but the rest of of us would appreciate the effort.

Ignorance is a human constant.

Those who live in backward and seditious political ideologies should not throw stones. Or something.

What a wonderful section, especially considering Augustine's foundational role in the modern church. Now if only he could have been so reasonable when he invented purity culture.

I feel like you've got a few premises out of whack there. No reasonable person would accept that statement.

I don't think we should call for an end to the trope. We just need to reframe it. We've got a bunch of movies that try to make all this "meaning" stuff scientific and thus lend it ethos. Let's take it the other way, where we grant a scientific nature for meaning and subjectivity, then brutally deconstruct them.

Yes, but only by bandits who are envious of the one compound with zombie treadmill-based electricity.

Even granting your assumptions, I'm struggling to come up with *any* ethical values which aren't themselves based in arbitrariness and habit.

I have a talking sword in my NaNoWriMo. She's a pacifist.

The other big time travel issue is the germs. Maybe we don't see any time travelers because all the timelines with time travelers died to anachronistic pandemics.

Am I doing RPGs wrong? My group can barely make it through *one* game session in a night.

Specific human cultures tend to have emblematic weapons. You can't talk about ancient Greek warfare without mentioning the phalanx (which, while not a weapon, was a formation designed around specialized equipment such as an almost impractically long spear). The English have the longbow. The article even mentions…

Beats me. Everyone else seems to think there's a difference, though.