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Force and Character said:
Becoming a cultist would take some self-awareness on his part. I think Bob would be the kind of guy who embodies the worst vices of all the Chaos gods - always getting angry at random stuff, eternally thirsty and hedonistic consoomer, lazy and disgusting slob, has absurd ambitions way outside his reach - but thinks he's a model citizen and cheers for the Inquisition to crack down on those obsolete wasteland mutants.
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The transcript isn't up yet but that theology podcast I listen to did a recent "monster" episode in theme for Halloween. One point they brought up (which I will probably now butcher) is this repeated concept throughout history - even among the pagans - that a person who indulges in sin will become more animal, more beastial over time. A monstrous creature only of appetite.

So I find it extra ironic that every day mega-atheist moviebob demonstrates as a living parable so many religious concepts.
 
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Flexo said:
The transcript isn't up yet but that theology podcast I listen to did a recent "monster" episode in theme for Halloween. One point they brought up (which I will probably now butcher) is this repeated concept throughout history - even among the pagans - that a person who indulges in sin will become more animal, more beastial over time. A monstrous creature only of appetite.

So I find it extra ironic that every day mega-atheist moviebob demonstrates as a living parable so many religious concepts.
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Out of curiosity, what podcast? I always need more background listening.

Also, I for one cannot fucking wait for all the incoming Rittenhouse cope.
 
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Foltest said:
Seeing as Kyle Rittenhouse was found not gulity, How much will Bob seethe?
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Normally I'd discourage "X happened, I can't wait for Bob to get mad about it" type posts, because Bob reads this thread and posting that kind of thing usually guarantees that he won't get publicly mad about it just to spite us. But this is too big a deal, he will feel like he must participate in the freak-out because if he doesn't he'll be accused of racism.
 
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Mola Ram said:
Time for this chestnut!

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According to the experts at Elevator Wiki:

"Generally speaking, a standard elevator in a low-rise building can hold anywhere from 2,100 to 2,500 lbs."

I honestly think this family would have to split up and take two trips. God knows only the one in the center would even *consider* taking the stairs.
 
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Steelatlas said:
Well actually. The taboos against autopsy make a lot of sense before sanitation became a thing. Which was fairly recent that the doctors started washing their hands between the morgue and the maternity wing.
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Yes about sanitation.

The hand washing thing... actually not that controversial.
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Of course, there’s always one more twist: Sutton doesn’t believe this story about Semmelweis. That’s another myth, he says — another tall tale, favored by academics, that ironically demonstrates the very point that it pretends to make. Citing the work of Sherwin Nuland, Sutton argues that Semmelweis didn’t go mad from being ostracized, and further that other physicians had already recommended hand-washing in chlorinated lime. The myth of Semmelweis, says Sutton, may have originated in the late 19th century, when a “massive nationally funded Hungarian public relations machine” placed biased articles into the scientific literature. Semmelweis scholar Kay Codell Carter concurs, at least insofar as Semmelweis was not, in fact, ignored by the medical establishment: From 1863 through 1883, he was cited dozens of times, Carter writes, “more frequently than almost anyone else.”​
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Krokodil Overdose said:
Nothing formally to do with sanitation, but before the advent if things like "germ theory" let alone modern medicine, the line between medical care and witchcraft was blurry at best. The ancients could describe a lot of phenomena (losing too much blood kills you, standing water breeds disease, certain ailments travel from person to person) but with no understanding of the mechanism, supernatural forces were as good an explanation as any. As a result, a lot of ritual beliefs sprang up as a result of people mapping cause-effect relationships they didn't fully understand (to your example, the Romans believed exactly that: that you became ritually impure by touching a body that didn't receive last rites.)
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Yes, what is often forgotten is that ancient humans were frequently right, though often for the wrong reasons.
 
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