Meritorious May Miniraves

[Scuba Ben]

Originally Posted by C2H5OH

All my friends are Catholics. They don't know "That funny Hebrew writing."

Except the ones who are fundies. They don't want to hear any of "That Latin Shit" either.

I don't get why a fundie would be against Latin AND Hebrew. Would they prefer Aramaic or even Paleo-Aramaic? Or super-old school and Middle Kingdom Hieratic?

OK, truth be told I don't get fundies at all. They're the ones who think that the NKJV translation is the Actual Word of the Divine and never mind that it's gone through at least three layers of translation; that being in the same room with young adult middle fantasy literature or non-cubic dice is the gateway to worshiping infernal beings; that the post of High Priest should be given to someone chock full of greed, wrath, envy, and sloth; that blatant metaphors and obvious folk tales should be treated as Truth; etc.

If I had any skill at constructing an RPG system I'd try to adapt Toon for Pokemon. Because nothing points out the silliness of fundies' fears better than the pure silliness of a Pikachu's electrical strike being blocked by a cream pie to its face.

Originally Posted by wring

Y’all know I give out rubber ducks a lot, right? And in the past year or so I’ve gotten into “bedazzling “ them

I found someone on Esty (most likely) selling, I kid you not, Secret Jewish Space Laser ducks.

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

If I had any skill at constructing an RPG system I'd try to adapt Toon for Pokemon. Because nothing points out the silliness of fundies' fears better than the pure silliness of a Pikachu's electrical strike being blocked by a cream pie to its face.

Toon with the right gaming group is wonderful silly fun.

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

I don't get why a fundie would be against Latin AND Hebrew. Would they prefer Aramaic or even Paleo-Aramaic? Or super-old school and Middle Kingdom Hieratic?

It's not that they're against Hebrew, it's that they are too lazy and uninterested to learn to read it.

[Scuba Ben]

Originally Posted by C2H5OH

It's not that they're against Hebrew, it's that they are too lazy and uninterested to learn to read it.

If they were interested in learning, they wouldn't be fundies. Religious fundamentalists, of any religion, emphatically do NOT want to learn anything that might contradict their beliefs. This applies even more so to exact science.