It's no more the "twist" at the end than Kowalski's death at the end of Gran Torino. In both cases, you KNOW it's coming. The difference is, Kowalski doesn't come back to life.
Thus the "twist" at the end of the story. It's not like "people coming back to life and ascending to heaven" was an established meme at the time.
It's about the ultimate sacrifice, and about forgiveness. As he's being tortured, he prays that God forgive the people who are torturing. I wish I could be so forgiving, but with me it's just not possible. I have a hard time forgiving someone who steals from me. I manage that, but I don't think I could forgive someone who was torturing me to death as they were doing the torturing.
What does this have to do with the rituals of Christianity being death-centered? Nothing you have said supports your previous claim that it is "eternal life" centered.
That's the "twist" at the end. However, the rituals of Christianity rarely focus on the "eternal life" bit, but rather the *death* that caused it to occur. The iconography is almost homogeneously centered around a method of execution.
One wanted to emphasize the eternal life part, one wouldn't create rituals centered around consuming a (variably metaphorical) dead person's flesh. One would spend a lot of time re-enacting Saul on the road to Damascus, or the Ascension, not symbolic cannibalism.
Not sure a pre-nup is a good "must have" unless there was already a severe imbalance in finances when you got married. Otherwise, if you don't trust this person to pull half their weight in the relationship (and thus deserve half the "stuff" at the end), why are you marrying them?
Because shit happens, and it prevents you (and the other partner) from getting screwed. Marriage is a legal arrangement, not an emotional one.
Well, in spite of the "twist" at the "end" of the central Christian myth, it really is quite centered around the death of its founder. Metaphorical (or transubstantiation, depending on your denomination) cannibalism is pretty central to the ritual practice of Christianity. It's not ignorant to point out truth.
She admitted it, and apologised, and we then proceeded to fix the situation.
Should have made her do the work and you should have told her how to do it, instead of willingly participating in fixing her fuck-up. She'll think twice about being irrational next time:D
While it might be more efficient, I imagine that like many things, something non-nuked will taste much better (at least to my tastebuds, and I imagine quite a few others') than something slow cooked.
I don't know why that is, exactly, especially for things that you wouldn't think it matters for, but it seems to be pretty consistent. So, that could be what she's on about, there.
Yeah, service industry jobs suck like that, but professional jobs... i've never had a full-time regular employee job that didn't start with 3 weeks vacation (accrual methods vary) from the start of year 1.
The folks I'm referring to tend to be professionals with advanced degrees who have spent large portions of their life reading and editing. They know how they like to work, and looking at a PDF on a monitor isn't that way. (I tend to read my docs on a computer screen, personally, but for longer reads, I like a comfy chair, a cup of , and a quiet room).
That's all well and good, but seriously. If it's mission critical, it should have some support from the vendor and it's worth shelling out some money for.
Explain that to a paralegal. Its no mystery as to why the go-to solution for such things is "print it out and store it at Iron Mountain(etc)" is the go-to solution.
Are there technical alternatives? Yes. Are they common or likely to be common anytime in the near future? Nope.
This echos my experience. I have a whole floor full of people who print out more and more each year, for reasons that fall into 2 general categories:
When you're reading very long articles/papers, sitting at your desktop and reading them isn't easy on the eyes (or the rest of your body), and
Printing them out and storing them (along with the legal folks) allows you to CYA because you can confirm in 10 years that the typo in your product was due to a typo pulled from JAMA a decade previous.
You mean the two word processors that later in their lives basically cloned the WYSIWYG interface of Word to a very large extent?
I used WP and Wordstar back in the day (the 8088->80386 days) and they were good for the time, but using the tags and what not became pretty pointless once Word was easy to get. Years later I was working in a software store and saw the new versions of Wordstar and WordPerfect, which are 90%+ visual and functional clones of Word. The reason being that Word does 99% of what you want, 95% of the time. Just like most of Microsoft's products.
The simple difference is that WoW had PvP tacked on later. JGE is considering it from the start. PvP in WoW has always sucked because the concentration of the game is on PvE and loot gathering to make your character more pretty.
The point is that we torture them for their entire, short, miserable lives. Lions don't imprison 823 million impala [independent.co.uk] in huge concentrations, artificially increasing their weight to grow abnormally fast in shorter time spans and thereby crippling some 27% them, keeping them in their own shit for so long that they suffer burns on their legs.
So... why is that bad? I mean, I realize it's all trendy these days to care about livestock, but, they're gonna die anyway, right? The only way one could possibly care is if one thinks animals are akin to humans in terms of having sentience or a "soul" of some sort.
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It's no more the "twist" at the end than Kowalski's death at the end of Gran Torino. In both cases, you KNOW it's coming. The difference is, Kowalski doesn't come back to life.
Thus the "twist" at the end of the story. It's not like "people coming back to life and ascending to heaven" was an established meme at the time.
It's about the ultimate sacrifice, and about forgiveness. As he's being tortured, he prays that God forgive the people who are torturing. I wish I could be so forgiving, but with me it's just not possible. I have a hard time forgiving someone who steals from me. I manage that, but I don't think I could forgive someone who was torturing me to death as they were doing the torturing.
What does this have to do with the rituals of Christianity being death-centered? Nothing you have said supports your previous claim that it is "eternal life" centered.
That may be the case, but it is, nonetheless, not assured.
That's the "twist" at the end. However, the rituals of Christianity rarely focus on the "eternal life" bit, but rather the *death* that caused it to occur. The iconography is almost homogeneously centered around a method of execution.
One wanted to emphasize the eternal life part, one wouldn't create rituals centered around consuming a (variably metaphorical) dead person's flesh. One would spend a lot of time re-enacting Saul on the road to Damascus, or the Ascension, not symbolic cannibalism.
Not sure why you got modded down. You have some valid points in your post.
Not sure a pre-nup is a good "must have" unless there was already a severe imbalance in finances when you got married. Otherwise, if you don't trust this person to pull half their weight in the relationship (and thus deserve half the "stuff" at the end), why are you marrying them?
Because shit happens, and it prevents you (and the other partner) from getting screwed. Marriage is a legal arrangement, not an emotional one.
An SEO is not a geek: it's a bullshit snake oil salesman carnival performer. There's a difference.
Mod parent up.
Well, in spite of the "twist" at the "end" of the central Christian myth, it really is quite centered around the death of its founder. Metaphorical (or transubstantiation, depending on your denomination) cannibalism is pretty central to the ritual practice of Christianity. It's not ignorant to point out truth.
If you can't then you don't love. If you can't forgive, your marriage is doomed. Forgiveness is the very core of Christianity; it is its main message.
And its why Christians are easy to use and manipulate, sadly (or not so sadly, depending on your goal).
It kinda does for guys.
*chortle* You're my new hero for the day.
after all, she'll be doing the same for you
You sound very confident about something that is not at all assured.
She admitted it, and apologised, and we then proceeded to fix the situation.
Should have made her do the work and you should have told her how to do it, instead of willingly participating in fixing her fuck-up. She'll think twice about being irrational next time :D
While it might be more efficient, I imagine that like many things, something non-nuked will taste much better (at least to my tastebuds, and I imagine quite a few others') than something slow cooked.
I don't know why that is, exactly, especially for things that you wouldn't think it matters for, but it seems to be pretty consistent. So, that could be what she's on about, there.
Also the network does not need to be upgraded every year. Every professor does not need an IBM thinkpad laptop
One reason you need an IT person is that you're not even aware that IBM sold their desktop/laptop line a few years back.
Seems silly. It is a demonstrator of a knowledgebase that person has. Do you count it as a strike because they have a college degree, as well?
Yeah, service industry jobs suck like that, but professional jobs... i've never had a full-time regular employee job that didn't start with 3 weeks vacation (accrual methods vary) from the start of year 1.
The folks I'm referring to tend to be professionals with advanced degrees who have spent large portions of their life reading and editing. They know how they like to work, and looking at a PDF on a monitor isn't that way. (I tend to read my docs on a computer screen, personally, but for longer reads, I like a comfy chair, a cup of , and a quiet room).
That's all well and good, but seriously. If it's mission critical, it should have some support from the vendor and it's worth shelling out some money for.
Explain that to a paralegal. Its no mystery as to why the go-to solution for such things is "print it out and store it at Iron Mountain(etc)" is the go-to solution.
Are there technical alternatives? Yes. Are they common or likely to be common anytime in the near future? Nope.
You mean the two word processors that later in their lives basically cloned the WYSIWYG interface of Word to a very large extent?
I used WP and Wordstar back in the day (the 8088->80386 days) and they were good for the time, but using the tags and what not became pretty pointless once Word was easy to get. Years later I was working in a software store and saw the new versions of Wordstar and WordPerfect, which are 90%+ visual and functional clones of Word. The reason being that Word does 99% of what you want, 95% of the time. Just like most of Microsoft's products.
The simple difference is that WoW had PvP tacked on later. JGE is considering it from the start. PvP in WoW has always sucked because the concentration of the game is on PvE and loot gathering to make your character more pretty.
Yeah it's pretty amazing what careful selection of fans can do for acoustics in a PC.
Bingo.
The point is that we torture them for their entire, short, miserable lives. Lions don't imprison 823 million impala [independent.co.uk] in huge concentrations, artificially increasing their weight to grow abnormally fast in shorter time spans and thereby crippling some 27% them, keeping them in their own shit for so long that they suffer burns on their legs.
So... why is that bad? I mean, I realize it's all trendy these days to care about livestock, but, they're gonna die anyway, right? The only way one could possibly care is if one thinks animals are akin to humans in terms of having sentience or a "soul" of some sort.