Particularly since Paladins have the ability to detect evil with magic, and have a mandate to defeat evil people or else lose their alignment and class abilities. I honestly find them to be profoundly creepy characters, because their persecution of evil is entirely based on the idea that their magic (which isn't able…

Heh, I had the opposite experience... the bread and blood of Jesus always made me so hungry, but you'd have to wait for another half hour before lunch. Though Lutheran's never thought of it as anything other than metaphor.

I think it would be interesting to have scientists continually regenerate one of these jellyfish for a really extended period of time and see what happens. Because I'm curious if immortality would ever happen in real life, given the huge attrition rate of predation on little tasty things in the ocean, and if it does…

What's really funny is that I assumed that the first episode on the DVDs was the real first episode, and that they had started the show with a 'previously on'. Since I'd been told that the show was famously weird, I was actually pretty happy that it was that way right from the start.

I'm also highly skeptical any sensible Bigfoot would live that close to Detroit.

When I saw ID4 in theaters, everyone clapped at the end of his speech. One of the things I like best about theaters, is the spontaneous response of the audience like that.... just like how when a bee stung Scully before she could kiss Mulder, everyone groaned.

Actually, from what I understand the Gospels were written down in Greek first. If there was a historical Jesus, he probably would have spoken Aramaic, but aside from a few references to Aramaic words within the Gospels, there is no reason to presume that they're translations. Some people have even made a fairly good…

If he can fix the stars in the sky, he can fix the iceberg.

I think part of the problem is that (and this is particularly true if you grow up religious, as most atheists do), that religions keep you stuck in a very specific web of interpretations and viewpoints on their Holy Book. As an ex-Lutheran, I'll tell you, we never once cracked the Book of Job, the Song of Solomon, or…

I'm really still at a loss for this. As someone who started on the path to atheism through sci-fi and Carl Sagan, is this article just telling me that I did it wrong? Or that being open minded is the same as accepting something that says you have to accept it on faith?

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Wow. Okay.

Yeah. Isn't it funny how Buffy had essentially the same odd vampire situation, and yet did it a hundred billion times better?

While I'll give Twighlight props for taking the concept of a 'soulmate' to its creepiest possible conclusion, if werewolves can just imprint on some random person, they should all be on every sort of watchlist... is there even any sort of consent involved in this process?

I'd definitely believe there would be spores up there, though I think it would be a really difficult environment for something to actually live up there, for no other reason than life requires a variety of different elements, and I can't imagine there is much in the way of iron up there.

The top of the Reichstag in Berlin has a very similar structure, except you look down on the German parliament instead of a tree.

Would it have been greener to make it out of steel?

I think it keeps going because it provides an easy way to give people a superpower, and because people rightly think that the brain is a very scientifically mysterious organ. Course, the problem is that it is increasingly better known, and evolution doesn't work by producing something first, and then finding a use…

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all.

I think it would be possible to try doing it for other impressive animals as well. I think a Lion Funeral would be neat, or a Shark Funeral. Though perhaps we shouldn't encourage them to enjoy our tasty meats.