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Valmy

#94065
June 19, 2025, 10:36:28 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 19, 2025, 08:16:41 AMBesides, crucifixion was reserved for particularly heinous offenses, like murder or rebellion (e.g. Spartacus). Jesus was executed on political grounds, not religious ones.

I don't know. I could see the Romans doing that for religious offenses just to appease the Temple authorities.

Also were the two thugs Jesus was supposedly crucified with murderers? I seem to remember they were petty criminals. But who knows?

Quote from: Razgovory on June 18, 2025, 10:06:16 PMIt was probably this line:

So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves." 25Then the people as a whole answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!

Mathew 27: 24-25

Makes me think of that crowd in Life of Brian who somehow managed to carry on a conversation in unison.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

#94066
June 19, 2025, 07:47:31 PM
They had a special meal for Juneteenth.  Fried chicken, collard greens and corn bread.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Maladict

#94067
June 20, 2025, 03:26:28 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 19, 2025, 10:36:28 AMAlso were the two thugs Jesus was supposedly crucified with murderers? I seem to remember they were petty criminals. But who knows?


Barabbas was said to be a murderer and insurrectionist. Don't know about the other one. The whole pardoning business may never have happened though.

The Romans were pretty relaxed about religion,  as long as the people kept quiet and paid their taxes. But claiming to be King of the Jews would have been a big no-no as it challenges the emperor.

crazy canuck

#94068
June 20, 2025, 02:29:01 PM
16 billion login credentials have been compromised.

Change all your vital ones now

Josquius

#94069
June 20, 2025, 06:32:49 PM
Weird thought of the day.
I'm not religious.
I don't believe in any gods.
But if I decided to be a Christian say I'd be damn good at it.
I am very good at remembering stories.  I know the backstories of all the primarchs inside out. Same shit.
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HVC

#94070
June 20, 2025, 06:38:21 PM
Most Christian's don't know their "stories" and the ones that do aren't fun to be around :P
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Grey Fox

#94071
June 20, 2025, 07:31:39 PM
You should not. Religions are not good things.
Getting ready to make IEDs against American Occupation Forces.

"But I didn't vote for him"; they cried.

HVC

#94072
June 20, 2025, 07:32:56 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 20, 2025, 07:31:39 PMYou should not. Religions are not good things.

Meh, I'm an atheist but don't think all religions/religious people are bad. Fundies, bad, yes. Literalists one step down from that.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Razgovory

#94073
June 20, 2025, 07:54:30 PM
Quote from: Josquius on June 20, 2025, 06:32:49 PMWeird thought of the day.
I'm not religious.
I don't believe in any gods.
But if I decided to be a Christian say I'd be damn good at it.
I am very good at remembering stories.  I know the backstories of all the primarchs inside out. Same shit.
Rote memorization of religious stories is not really what Christianity is about.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#94074
June 20, 2025, 07:55:16 PM
Quote from: HVC on June 20, 2025, 07:32:56 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 20, 2025, 07:31:39 PMYou should not. Religions are not good things.

Meh, I'm an atheist but don't think all religions/religious people are bad. Fundies, bad, yes. Literalists one step down from that.
Does seem to stave off depression and suicide.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

#94075
June 20, 2025, 08:01:10 PM
Quote from: Josquius on June 20, 2025, 06:32:49 PMWeird thought of the day.
I'm not religious.
I don't believe in any gods.
But if I decided to be a Christian say I'd be damn good at it.
I am very good at remembering stories.  I know the backstories of all the primarchs inside out. Same shit.

Judaism is the religion that is all about the stories. You don't have to believe that they are true, just that they tell tales that are important to Jewish identity.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Legbiter

#94076
June 21, 2025, 01:58:14 PM
Dozens of pilot whales got stranded in Ólafsfjord in the north of Iceland a couple of hours ago. Search and rescue teams are assisting them back out to sea.

Posted using 100% recycled electrons.

Josquius

#94077
June 21, 2025, 02:42:57 PM
Search and...... rescue?
It being Iceland I'd have thought search and devour would be more their speed?
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Josquius

#94078
June 21, 2025, 07:12:26 PM Last Edit: June 21, 2025, 07:14:31 PM by Josquius
From the silly right move files....

Anyone want to live in a cemetary gate?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/16326950

:morrissey:
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Sophie Scholl

#94079
June 23, 2025, 05:24:16 PM
Quote from: Josquius on June 20, 2025, 06:32:49 PMI am very good at remembering stories.  I know the backstories of all the primarchs inside out. Same shit.
Ok, but who is your favorite(s)? I'm a Vulkan, Mortarion, and Lorgar girl myself.  :nerd:
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
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