Zompist Bboard Again

In the case of Catholicism, you have conflicted feelings about the communion. You know it's not cannibalism, but your unconscious can't shake the accusation. You overcompensate by imagining people who celebrate a communion where real cannibalism takes place and are violent towards them to prove tha...

Did I mess up the wording or something? This is not even about the history of Christian theology any more. I've never been Christian, and unasked-for images of a cannibalistic communion have been blasted at me from all sides. Here's the first Google result: https://ct.dio.org/item/4888-hey-father-m...

Protestants explicitly identify it as cannibalistic and try to get rid of that aspect. What? No we don’t. It’s symbolic. The leftovers from my church usually end up fed to my parents’ chickens as a snack!! (the bread, that is, not the wine, although given chickens’ penchant for consuming anything, ...

You're really on a roll with religious comments today! Given that the majority of Protestants don't believe in transubstantiation, I find your theory unconvincing.

Space60 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:35 pm Is the word Pam a generic term for cooking spray to you? I have heard people refer to cooking spray as Pam even when it is cooking spray of a different brand.

It is not, although I would understand it as a generic term if so used.

Can landlords just schedule apartment inspections in the US? That's awful! (In France they're much like vampires. They can only get in if you invite them.) Having an annual apartment inspection is not uncommon in the US, yes. I can't say for certain how it works in other places but in Michigan, lan...

Weird chicken, duck of the variety that at first glance my brain always wants to call a goose, and duck

I suggested that around January 20-22 would have been a good time to end international travel -- but recommanding that at the time would've required some seriously impressive forethought. But December ? That would have required some eerie powers of prescience! We have something called a "Centr...

No. You might see it written that way on, say, a poster or banner, where it's being emphasized, but in ordinary writing I'd expect ordinary sentence capitalization: "Good luck!"

As someone who both is religious and derives my morality from my religious beliefs... this would be a terrible idea. I'll give a real-world example, because I think it illustrates my major problems with the proposal. (obligatory caveat that anecdotes are not data, this is only an example, yadda yadd...

White Departing Civil Rights Post To Become Interim Detroit Police Chief

(“White” is a surname. Of a black man in this case, for maximum irony)

I chose the word blob because I noticed noticed that women's abstract self-representations of themselves tend to be distinctly un-"curvy" like the icon on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg I didn't mean to insult anyone. Sorry for not including this in...

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 12:42 pm Okay, but just to be clear, I'm not stopping you from saying something you want to say. It is the other way around.

Yes. Correct. This was my precise intent. If someone is saying something inappropriate, I do in fact want to stop them from saying it.

My intention is not to denigrate women, but to mortify my own creepy attachment to women's bodies. Mortifying your self-described creepy attachment to women's bodies sounds like the sort of thing you should sort out with a therapist. I, for one, do not care to be audience to it. I genuinely am not ...

sure do love logging into the internet to see perfectly normal women’s bodies described as “blobs”, “unwieldy”, an “absurd pattern”, and “like an amoeba”

It really drives home the amount of privilege involved in getting a vaccine, even if you're in an eligibility group and there's (theoretically) appointments in your area. If you're someone who works all day at a job where you can't be on a computer or phone browsing for appointments, or don't have g...

Amusingly enough, my aunt, who leans a bit conspiracy for anything health related... sheepishly "admitted" she's been vaccinated. (she does payroll at a school and vaccines were offered to all of the school's employees) Guess her "oh, but covid isn't that bad really" and "oh...

i had a page-a-day calendar for spanish vocabulary, which would give a new vocabulary word each day and then use it in a sentence; i translated these sentences into transemilian. This is a neat idea. I like Lexember (creating a new word every day in December) but sometimes it's weirdly hard to come...

Ii [i​] as in happ y or k i t ( not as in pr i ce). I assume both pronunciations are acceptable here? Nn [n] as in thi n . When it is followed by a consonant, it may be pronounced in the same place in the mouth as the following consonant. I'm not sure this would be comprehensible to the average per...

Nobody is saying "women who have children have no free time whatsoever", the point is that women have, on average, less free time than men. At any rate, this is only one of a whole pack of different factors that have been brought up by both you and others. No single factor is going to expl...