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The crwth Tapestry for Stalin Enthusiasts

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • DabbleDabble It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    See if they got the big cans of Surge.

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Milk

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
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    Also maybe some cigarettes

    See you when you get back in a timely manner!

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
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    Cello wrote: »
    Also maybe some cigarettes

    See you when you get back in a timely manner!

    when crwth gets back he promised he's gonna tell us about our real parentage and also what the mysterious map-shaped birthmarks we have mean

    but I agree its important that we have some energy drinks to sip while he does that, so i guess we'll see him in 10-15 minutes or so

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    a single plum floating in perfume

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    a single plum floating in perfume

    Served in a man's hat

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    We're super low on coffee - can you pick us up some? We buy the big jug of Folgers.

    If you're hitting Walmart, I'm also trying to find these two exclusive Snake Men figures for my Masters of the Universe collection. Terroar and Load Gr'Asp. If you happen to see them, grab me a set and I'll pay you back.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
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    Evangelical Protestantism as practiced in America, and a fair amount of the West at large, is basically just the most efficient way to strip down all the beauty of religion and spirituality and distill it to the most power hungry feedback loop possible

    There are a few other religious fundamentalist movements that are comparably bad but honestly a lot of them are just cribbing notes from American Evangelical Protestantism to get there

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
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    Breathing in pure oxygen is pretty rad, but might also, due to the cruel design of this universe, be very, very bad for you.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Love or hate True Detective I do still think the line from season 1 spoken by Rustin Cole really kind of says exactly how I feel.

    “If the only thing keeping a person decent is the promise of some divine reward then brother, that person is a piece of shit.”

    Funny enough this almost verbatim what Martin Luther said about the church

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
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    In movies pretty much everyone looks cooler when they smoke, but for some reason the only people I think look cooler when they smoke in real life is old men wearing button-up t-shirts who are talking about what's wrong with their lawnmower or like, trying to send someone to the moon

    maybe a frustrated mom trying to give her screaming child a haircut in the kitchen

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
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    Ive never understood the young earth creationists insistence that God couldn’t possibly done the Big Bang, or evolution. Youre telling me an all powerful God could not possibly create the laws of gravity, physics, quarks, black holes, and all the other things our minds can barely comprehend? That he placed rules that allowed species to change incrementally over millions of years? That instead, God decided to just make the world in six days 6000 years ago, and then he needed to take a day off because it was a lot of work.

    From my experience this stems from the interpretation that the Bible is the literal word of God. No metaphor or anything. What is written down is exactly what was said and what was done. I'm not super sure where this belief came to be because, historically, I don't think that's always been the case.

    But the young warth creationists stem from that core idea. Somebody somewhere did the "math" on the Begats part of the Bible (a list of generations in the Bible's Old Testament that appear in Genesis 5 and the books of 1 and 2 Chronicles) and somehow worked it out to be around 6 or so thousand years between Adam and Christ, plus the 2000 or so since Jesus. Wham bam the earth is 6 to 10 thousand years old and man kind walked amongst dinosaurs based off one vague mention of a leviathan in Job or something.

    Couple that with any mention of time scales that might allow for the plausibility of that dirty old evolution to occur and that's how you get that particular brand of faith. Luckily, I think it may have fallen back out of fashion. I don't see as much of it as I did maybe 10 or so years ago.

    Most of this come from the first millennia of Christianity being gatekept by the few corrupt assholes that could read being relied upon to tell everyone else what the Bible said (or even what was in it, that’s still a thing and was hugely a thing in the first few centuries after they even began compiling a “bible”)

    Nobody could read (in any language, but Latin was the main written language still) or understand Latin mass

    So when literacy spread and the Bible started being printed in the vulgar, people started going “wait a minute, Jesus preached the opposite of what all these assholes wearing gold and living in (comparably) palatial comfort told us”

    So a big part of organizing the reform movements was embracing the “truth” of the Bible to repudiate the legacy church heirarchy

    The church’s history is just a depraved tits and swords and treasure hoards catastrophe

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Cocaine

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
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    I've been fascinated by religion for years, have read and/or studied religious books, and I've found studying religion in an academic context really interesting.

    But also I was raised agnostic, I never attended church when I was younger, and I know actually being in those environments makes me viscerally uncomfortable. I can talk to deeply faithful people one-on-one no problem, I am at very least a superstitious person if not a person of direct faith myself. But going to a church service is a white knuckle experience for me, religious weddings can be very uncomfortable, all of that.

    So my answer is sort of, or like, a begrudging yes. I wish I were better at it, that I could solidly say no, but at the end of the day, I can't really.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I got married in a church and we requested that the senior pastor of the church (who officiated) do a non-religious ceremony and not use any gendered stuff in the vows and he was like “oh so every wedding we do here”

    It actually ended up being a very trad ceremony as a result, if you think about it

    I also love that it made my mom’s side of the family super squicked out because they all have American-style fash-Catholic brain worms. They’re used to hearing homilies about made up stories of trans people and pronouns and late term abortion and how Francis is a betrayer of his office.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
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    Straightzi wrote: »
    I've been fascinated by religion for years, have read and/or studied religious books, and I've found studying religion in an academic context really interesting.

    But also I was raised agnostic, I never attended church when I was younger, and I know actually being in those environments makes me viscerally uncomfortable. I can talk to deeply faithful people one-on-one no problem, I am at very least a superstitious person if not a person of direct faith myself. But going to a church service is a white knuckle experience for me, religious weddings can be very uncomfortable, all of that.

    So my answer is sort of, or like, a begrudging yes. I wish I were better at it, that I could solidly say no, but at the end of the day, I can't really.

    Yeah, something about the formality of it all really makes me uncomfortable. It's not just for religion, any sort of formal ceremony or whatever gives me some anxiety. Some of that might be because those sorts of things tend to have crowds and being in social situations is also deeply uncomfortable for me, but I don't think it's just that because it's a different sort of discomfort than a purely social anxiety. It's a mixture of things, and mixtures are always more fun

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
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    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    I spend a lot of time around younger people with a diverse array of religous beliefs and cultures and I'm not a weird freak about it. It's really easy. Just be normal.

    Oh a big part of my personal discomfort is that, with a wiiiiiiiide array of personal evidence collected over decades, very religious people are waaaaay likelier to say some weird shit to me about being Native.

    My own feelings on spirituality, religion, all that higher-minded stuff, that's... Secondary. I can and have had plenty of interesting conversations about it, it's neat

    But my hackles raise because I'm bracing for, like, hearing about The Lost Tribes of Israel, or being breathlessly told about their missionary work to Indigenous spaces, or offers to convert my ancestors, or whatever the fuck.

    I ain't the one who makes it weird, is all I'm saying.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    There is a joke from Dara O'Brian that fits my religious beliefs: "I'm not a religious man, right, I don't even believe in God. But still Catholic, obviously." Not going to church, observing holidays, prayer etc. but born in a small village, so the church is part of the community and influenced the person I was and became in both positive and negative ways. Half of my family is Hindhu

    The whole fundamentalism version of Christianity is so weird as that particular version is barely a century old. So you have a universal entity known who has been around for billion of years creating an entire universe and it is really concerned with things like gay sex? And the vast majority of humanity has been doomed for all time, because the only teaching that will save your soul has been handed over to a small part of the population and only got spread around a bit in pretty recent times (not going into the versions that don't even belief in free will). Yeah, I guess I can see where "god-fearing" came from, because that type of deity is terrifying.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
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    I went to a super religious genz family wedding last summer for my partners cousin and we prepped for weeks in case they asked me about god, because I grew up in an Adventist death cult until my senior year when I learned that actually I didn’t have to go to my moms church just because we always had.

    Then no one asked me probably because they got everything they needed to know from the facts of we’ve been living in sin (unmarried) in a godless hellscape (Chicago) for years.

    Anyway, those genz Christians first love seemed to be Taylor swift if the reception is anything to go on, so take that god.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I got married in a church and we requested that the senior pastor of the church (who officiated) do a non-religious ceremony and not use any gendered stuff in the vows and he was like “oh so every wedding we do here”

    It actually ended up being a very trad ceremony as a result, if you think about it

    I also love that it made my mom’s side of the family super squicked out because they all have American-style fash-Catholic brain worms. They’re used to hearing homilies about made up stories of trans people and pronouns and late term abortion and how Francis is a betrayer of his office.

    oh yeah the particular weird American "trad" Catholic thing that is in fact its own weird new-school movement (and kinda reads as envy toward Evangelical Protestantism having the easy anti-intellectual populist route to conservatism ngl) absolutely sucks

    incidentally I think Midnight Mass is a very interesting response to that movement in particular

    like don't get me wrong actual traditional Catholicism has its own litany of issues, but people have been criticizing Catholicism At Large for literally almost two thousand years, and especially the last six hundred or so (even if I think Luther also had some fuckin' issues, whew lad was he antisemitic) whereas the new nascent movements within it are a much less recognized phenomenon

    this is one thing I liked about growing up Episcopalian, it was diet Catholic: all the glam of the high church with only a fraction of the guilt, and formally liberal-progressive politics to boot

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
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    And lo, she of the family line who move nimbly, did appear before the throng and proclaim her own death, and it was good and it was righteous.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
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    One thing I do like about Christians is when they drop a sect on me I’ve never heard of but is apparently large and has been around for hundreds of years. Oh me? I’m a Typorithian, but you know, not the weird kind.

    And I'm just left there nodding along trying to imagine who or what a Typorith is and what that bolts on to the core religion.

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  • The Lovely KringleThe Lovely Kringle Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    pornog

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Bring me some gummy candies, I'll pay you back

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  • OdinOdin Registered User regular
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    Grab a bag of Dee's Nuts

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  • EtiowsaEtiowsa Registered User regular
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    I have an intense craving for paneer for some reason, help a brother out?

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
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    You are coming back from the store right, father?

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    crwth has an opportunity to do something extremely funny here

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 10
    My two additional religious anecdotes are as follows:

    A) As someone who grew up without religion, I find it really hard to understand being lightly religious. Like, I flirted with the idea of getting into religion as a rebellious teen, but as an outsider, I couldn't see a path into religion that wasn't going whole hog into it. The idea of C&E Christians didn't make sense to me at that time, I couldn't understand how you could believe in something but not devote your entire life to it. I think this is a pattern that you specifically see with some varieties of born again Christians, people who find religion later in life and feel like they need to become not just religious but devout.

    B) As someone who has studied religion in an academic context and also has spent a long time thinking about the middle ages, I know a bunch about historical Christianity that doesn't necessarily overlap with the things that people raised in the church know. Like, my fiancée grew up Presbyterian, doesn't have much current religious sentiment, but has a lot of fondness for parts of the church. When we talk about religion, we're sometimes talking past each other because I'm talking about like, twelfth century monastic traditions while she's talking about a modern liberal church experience. We can get through a lot of these conversations just fine because there is enough commonality there, we largely possess the same knowledge, but every once in a while we get some really confusing places where we butt up against each other.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
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    I would miss him if he left forever as a bit

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I had a big post here replying to @Straightzi but it was just echo chamber. I agree! That’s my post. Also: Way back when I was in the construction industry I did some work on a Quaker club and they had a secret passage that opened if you pulled on a wall mounted candle holder, which is pretty badass. At the end of the secret passage was a little study area, but I have to assume that was a ruse and if I just pulled or pressed the right thing it would have lead to another secret room. That’s what I would do.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Until the people who won't shut up about Jesus actually act like Jesus the church and I are on a break.

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