Zompist Bboard Again

I was not originally familiar with that youtuber, so it's an interesting coincidence. I originally was thinking of Spinoza and of stuff I've read about Ismailism's neoplatonic influences, and decided to concoct something from there. Turning aside from McIntosh's activities in space for a moment, let...

What would draw people to a new religion? I expect most of you can form your own opinions on that topic, so I'll move on: what were the actual details of the new religion proposed by McIntosh? This will be a brief overview, largely consisting of background to contextualize why McIntosh was intereste...

/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2026 10:04 pm suffice it to say that I'm already intrigued.

Glad to hear it; hopefully future developments will live up to your expectations!

In late 2026, an individual who went by the name of Psmith made an unusual series of posts on the internet, in which he claimed to be in possession of a black box which could produce any life form desired, according to any arbitrary parameters provided to the black box, subject to the sole constrain...

I'm with bradrn -- when I listen for the differences between GA and SSBE I can definitely pick them out, but when normally watching British TV I don't automatically think "these guys have an accent". I find this sort of thing most noticeable when the setting involves several characters wi...

Some terrible news on the horizon. Congress is very close to passing a law that would require extensive documentation, such as a passport, to vote. Instead of sounding like a doomer, I just want to ask how I would go about getting a passport in time for November so that I can still vote. https://ww...

I am not sure how to most gently say this, but there is a difference between reporting enemy propaganda in order to inform your side's strategy for countering it, on the one hand, and reporting enemy propaganda in order to advance the enemy's cause, on the other hand. The second is something I think...

How difficult is the literary language for the ordinary speaker? Is it closer to formal vs informal registers in English in your opinion, or does it require more overt training to understand? Thanks for the question. I would compare it to Shakespearean English. It's recognizably the same language. ...

How difficult is the literary language for the ordinary speaker? Is it closer to formal vs informal registers in English in your opinion, or does it require more overt training to understand?

The male and female ends of electrical cords. I worked for a period of time at a manufacturing job which involved handling a lot of male and female connectors, screws, gaskets, hoses, pipes, etc. It's not like I wasn't aware of this on an intellectual level, beforehand, but the job reminded me of h...

Was the radar gun used calibrated recently? If not, it could be considered unreliable. - https://www.jeffjarrettlaw.com/blog/str ... on-errors/ That is certainly a good start. Unfortunately to the best of my memory, the weather was pretty good that day with nothing like wind or rain that could affe...

It seems to be implied that the various planets vary as to how many sovereign states are located on each one. Mars and briefly Okura are one state, and I take it that Homeland either does not have any states or likes to act as though it has none. New Bharat's settlement is new enough not to have spl...

It must be a very interesting experience to converse with the Phong.

Your cat reminds me of one of the cats my family had when I was a child. I'm sorry this happened.

The key scandals with Cuomo were when he was governor. If they hadn't happened, he wouldn't have resigned the governorship, and therefore as a consequence almost certainly wouldn't have been running for mayor this year. Any post-gubernatorial scandals may have adjusted the vote tally a little bit o...

The key scandals with Cuomo were when he was governor. If they hadn't happened, he wouldn't have resigned the governorship, and therefore as a consequence almost certainly wouldn't have been running for mayor this year. Any post-gubernatorial scandals may have adjusted the vote tally a little bit on...

rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:33 pm Thanks. I always thought what isolated people are doing on remote islands is mysterious and interesting.

I think this is a party of my own motivating for conworlding.

I took several courses in Arabic in college (longer ago than I want it to be) and took one semester of Hebrew. I was one of two non-Jewish people in the Hebrew class, and I think the professor designed the syllabus on the assumption that everyone in the class had learned the alphabet at some point b...

I found the description of folk religion to be well done and quite interesting, particularly the details of celebrations and rituals (especially the funeral ritual) and the role of the Brotherhoods. I flirted with the idea of something like the Brotherhoods in my own conworlding, although in my cas...

I think limiting it to that can have the effect of setting aside the responsibility of the government for things such as the segregated armed forces, differentiation between races for programs such as the New Deal welfare programs, and other similar things where the government itself (or some unit ...