I know it's not what you meant, but I really like the idea that the sound can specifically target teenagers who are loitering. Teens walking past, A-okay. Teens standing still? Hoo, boy.

It's not that hard: Na-ghee-na-na-jar. Nagheenanajar.

Same, I stared at that one for some time.

I got 8.

Vandelay Industries.

Haha, yeah, who gives a fuck about story, insight, or craftsmanship when we can have novelty! You'll love my harrowing tale of a genderqueer muskrat coming to terms with his years of emotional abuse at the hands of his repressive, Russian Orthodox/Sindarin elflord Otherkin father!

His book on comics history- Supergods- was about 60% oral history of the industry, 40% "how I became a chaos magician and was abducted by godlike aliens."

How the West Was Won is a WAY better live album, if you ask me… And I think II is at least as vital as anything else they ever did.

Knoxville wasn't actually playing a character with a disability. His character was playing one. It was all recursive and shit.

Yeah, that's a very particular theology you were taught, and it is not mine. For my money, it is precisely sin that condemns. Through faith, the individual appropriates the merit of Christ and his atoning work. Without faith, sin is not covered. Disbelief is not what incurs wrath, but wrath is averted by the atoning…

We (obviously) have a fundamental disagreement about the nature of moral value. There's also a lengthy discussion to be had vis-a-vis thought and will, but frankly, I don't have the energy.

What if it is my "honest thought and opinion" that Jews are a race of rat-men meant to be driven from the fatherland of the glorious Aryan champions? That cool with you?

I'm not genuinely advocating skepticism. But I am suggesting that a "leap of faith" accusation can apply equally well to virtually any epistemology, which Hume convincingly demonstrates.

What you are describing are boundary conditions for virtually all knowledge.

Yes, it was definitely a kind of tropic or metaphorical use (I by no means subscribe to the idea that Jesus taught that the condemned would be physically cast into a valley full of fire). But that metaphorical usage has been the traditional interpretive grid of Christian theology, at least in the west (and…

Paul, by the way, is not associated with the gospels by either conservative or liberal scholars. In fact, the prevailing liberal argument is that the gospels (or rather, the Synoptics and John, separately) represent a fundamentally distinct tradition to "Paulinism."

The New Testament is actually one of if not the best documented ancient text. "[T]here are more manuscripts that preserve the New Testament than there are for any other ancient writing" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… ). Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars is reconstructed from manuscripts dating to, at the earliest,…

I can read some Koine Greek. And Hebrew. "Gehenna" is the word in question, usually, and its literal reference was to a valley where the Jews believed Moloch worshipers burnt infants as sacrifices. It was used to denote a place of postmortem punishment, used in contrast to the more typical "Sheol," which is a general…

Yeah, yeah, it's always hilarious when someone makes a snide joke about how Jesus would never be on board with the idea of hell. Except, you know, he tells parables about it: "Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and…

You seem to be taking this in a bizarrely personal manner…