I was in gifted courses in school and I’m a fucking idiot. All it did was teach me rudimentary Spanish and make me a target later.

Alright Blitz. What was your previous job?

What is your current job?

You shit on your cousin as a drunk and she still continues to arrive at the Family Estate.

What’s your deal rich man?

I was walking from the corner store when there was this guy freestyling. I was wearing a white shirt with red stripes all over it. He pointed at me and says where’s Waldo, where’s Waldo, he too bald to hide. So yeah.

I still have the shirt and I wear it as junk clothes. I always think Waldo when I put it on.

You nailed it for some of us. What do you do with a guy who went balls to the wall well into his 30s to make up for it?

I’ve felt happiness a few times. I’m thinking it’s time to fight for it.

They did it in a style of adventure novels or comics popular before the movies came out. It’s totally fucking awesome.

I mean they gotta keep it simple, no other guy, no weird aliens, just some robots and a hero with his bad-ass lady.

What I’m curious about is they didn’t make the hero’s laser sword light glint line up directly with Vader’s “eyes” in the background. They could have, and it arguably would be an even better image. But they didn’t, why?

Hanging DONG. Designated Orifice Neuro Gig.

Fuck anyone do better?

They’re dark skinned and African. They might as well be Martians for how much people care about them.

I’ve seen this several times and never noticed. Holy shit why‽

Yep. Learned the first knot goes left over right in my 30s. Shoes fit better and don’t do that stupid thing where the laces face front to back.

Well it was only twice in the 20+ years I’ve been going to bars, and I don’t shy away from a gay bar.

I don’t know if they would have. They say they would have. But I think a lot of it is trying to reduce their association with this fucking psychopath narcissist.

Those are good examples from the ESV which I haven’t read. Have you considered the difficulty of translation from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English? The church I belonged to as a child handwaved this away as all the translators were divinely guided to preserve the meaning of god’s word.

That seems improbable at best and honestly silly in general. My church followed the King James translation which has so many problems. Was ESV created to be an easier read of King James or did it go back to an earlier source?

I have no doubt in my mind that the god of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) must be a tremendous asshole. If he exists, then I want nothing to do with him. All the depictions of heaven I’ve been offered are endlessly praising this god while basking in his glory. Sounds like shit to me. Why would a god who created humans need them to worship him? I find the idea perverse and disgusting.

Finally I’ll mention the council of Nicea, the council of Rome, and the council of Florence in determining the Christian canon. There were many writings about Jesus from roughly 300AD and they had to decide which to keep and which to toss. Were they guided by god in this? In the curated canon these councils produced, god promised not to directly meddle in the affairs of humans in the new testament, until judgement day. So if he guided these translations and councils was he not a liar?

I am very curious by what metrics you have found Christianity to be the most probable of all the supernatural explanations of worldly and otherworldly history and current events.

It’s useful when talking about race issues. Instead of saying white/black people you can say white folk or black folk. It just seems more friendly when discussing something that could be sensitive.

I like bet. It’s just saying “You can bet on it” in a fun quick way.

This one makes me crazy. And I’ve heard it so much I’ve caught myself saying it which makes me angry with myself.

This. It’s so useless. I downvote it automatically.

Age, Sex, Location. It’s shorthand from old chatrooms. Used to strike up a conversation which could lead to cyber (short for cybersex).

I judge the shit out of people for this. It suggests that they don’t even grasp the meaning of the words they are typing or saying.

I understand where you’re coming from, but it might just have been a simple accident and they’re too poor or don’t have the time to get it fixed. I went around with a shattered screen for about six months.

I let gay guys buy me drinks but I make it clear that I’m straight and married to a woman. Twice now that has turned into a conversation where the man buying the drink tried to convince me I am lying to myself.