That's not bad.

That is most of it, but it's also not as though there aren't legitimate causes to worry (just as there are always legitimate causes to worry).

There are other more structural issues as well. Urbanization, hefty tolls at the gates for adulthood, and lower levels of social integration are all strong factors.

Agreed completely.

I thought Red Cliff was pretty great. Maybe not mastery, but worthy of a master's attention.

Agh, I made all this graffiti about humanity being brothers and holding each others hands in a great chain of interconnection. But funding didn't go through for the universal genetic testing or the modelling for the linking of hands. Guess it's religion now.

Man, I'm not certain any part of this objection holds up. Can you honestly make an interrogation of religion and art that holds to any sort of sharp distinction? Particularly in terms of the conflation GhaleonQ pointed out? And have you seriously never run into art making knowledge claims about the world? Baseless or…

I just think most intuitions of inconvenience or ludicrosity are themselves largely underexamined.

Your limb ain't too strong. Current polling has the second largest view among lay Catholics as 'symbol' at 40% but symbol without clarification could very well be cromulent with transubstantiation once better examined.

The Orthodox, as I understand it, explicitly do not have a codified view as the Catholics do. As I understand it their position is, "It is as serious and as present as it can possibly be, and any articulation further than that is unnecessary."

ehhhhhhhh, that kinda checks out. Depends on what you mean by rhetorical emphasis.

Actually I'm using it literarily.

As a comic book fan I gleefully revel in your dislike.

Well, I ain't attempting to fool. Just pointin' out there is a non-no one audience for said foolin.

Webcomics or Snyder films?

GhaleonQ is a lot closer on this.

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Yeah, but that would just make you a really bad traveler with some unexamined bias. That's not exactly a defense.

That and straight up criminality. Fights, harassment, theft, etc. It's not, like, a dive bar, but it's sure a step up from the wargamers or comic peeps or D&D crowd.