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You cannot get uncomfirmed or unbaptized, those are things that happened they can't unhappen.

God I loved that show.

And Illiad!

My preferred method is to backtrack from the end of the first season.

I loved reading it with my son, I'm going to miss it so much.

I wish I could up vote that thrice, twice for accuracy.

Sensation Comics got cancelled? Damn it. It's maybe my kid's favorite. Or at least, my favorite that my kid also really likes.

While I would never agree that the Middle Ages isn't awesome, Dang but I would be down for some Early Modern shenanigans.

There is actually some very fine scientific evidence that increasing scientific literacy can also increases scientific skepticism/vulnerability to pseudo-science and does not decrease it and that most of the phenomena relies on external factors like how much you hate various blowhards.*

Essentially - and for the time period of the creed - it was just an argument that Jesus really, really, really died in exactly the way people do die.

Though, interestingly, Dante works real hard to get as many non-Christians into heaven as he can using whatever slim rationale he can.

yeah, I love that bit.

I know it's wrong, but I also really like the one where she's president via a Casino induced vision.

Just wanted to give a little 'yay' for Scrawler's not considerin'

Huh, I've not really seen reports on either of those things being unusually true?

Eh, while that is a prose tradition in fantasy, it is ONE prose tradition. There are sparer authors out there and George isn't exactly… middle of the stream on that practice.

Oof, depends on the scene. There were some decades were including 'a point' was the distinguishing trope of the feature. All forests being laid low for the pulp to print 10,000 failed Star Trek scripts.

Also, ya'know, escapism isn't itself immune to being a vehicle for trenchant criticism or void of purpose.

Yeah, I've read some fairly extensive reviews, and the consensus/interesting conversation pegs it as liberal-critical not (various) reactionary-pro.

I would certainly agree that telling someone to lock their doors and be careful with their things as a tactic to reduce theft is an entirely different category of 'advice' from Chrissie Hynd's quote above.