Tar_Alcaran

You should see what they do to voles and mice. It’s not pretty.

Unless you’re Gwen Stacy, the only time physics worked as they should.

For your crimes against Dutchness, I sentence you to having all the stroop in your stroopwafels replaced with Vegemite.

This is completely normal in the Netherlands. Behold: hagelslag, it comes in both chocolate and fruity variants.

Oh, Scott Adams died?

Nothing of value was lost.

Steam once again using the winning strategy of doing nothing while your opponent fucks up

It may be costly. It may be ineffective. And maybe I built my plantation in the least fertile place possible. And maybe I don’t know shit about farming. And maybe, possible, having slaves is a constant loss to me and my civilization.

But damnit if I can’t use slavery to justify my racism, how will I feel like a big important man?!

Yeah, it’s goose farming, despite them clearly having numerous geese. This is because english is an absolutely terrible language.

I wouldn’t let AI take care of a light switch.

That’s how you get to ELO number 1!!!

Yeah, there’s definitely some stuff that just hurts to play. But that’s part of the charm, I guess.

Oh yeah, fewer people ringing my doorbell is always better.

What kind of religion puts you in a room, alone, as a teenager, with a 50-year-old man who is asking you about your sexual habits? What kind of religion has billions of dollars in real estate investments?

Turns out that’s pretty much all of them.

What kind of religion requires you to ring people’s doorbells and pester them about your religion?

Honestly, I weirdly respect this. The JWs/Mormons at least take their obligations from 1 peter 3:15 seriously. The vast majority of Christian denominations just kind of ignore that one.

Turns out you kinda have to ignore most of what God tells you to do, just so you don’t end up in jail. But I do respect that they’re actually more of the Bible seriously. The outcomes are worse, but they DO stand for what they believe.

I just wish they put all that dedication into something like doctors without borders or something.

Language fact of the day:

“Klank” is the Dutch word for “sound”

What made me do it was the unending stream of contradictions in the bible internally, between the Bible and reality, and between the Bible and what people say is in the bible in order to fix the other two.

It’s the old “nobody could show me why I should believe any of it”, including me. And the more I looked for answers, the more problems and contradictions I found.

I have plenty of contact with my family, my parents are both great people and it helps a lot that they’re not so much religious as that they think “its important”. My more extended family has made a few tries, I occasionally get into discussions with a few aunts, uncles and cousins, but they’re not exactly good at it. It’s just looping around the same old terrible arguments that quickly end when I ask them to show that it was Jahweh who created the universe, and not Bob.

The church made the biggest effort to get me back, but they have a financial incentive, unlike everyone else. It was an incredible pain in the ass to get removed from church rolls before GDPR.

For larp, no. It’s a hobby pretty much defined by everyone reinventing the wheel constantly.

For reenactment/experimental archeology? There are definitely authoritative works, but those are mostly by professional, traditional historians. There are remarkably few books on how to, say, bend an early medieval hedge, or how thick your daub needs to be or how old Madder should be to get the best colours.

This is the exact wrong place to try and have a discussion about religious beliefs.

You started one though

Did you perhaps logic yourself into religion first?

More seriously, yeah, same here. Logiced myself out of indoctrination.

The only Amaroks I’ve ever seen here in the Netherlands were military camo green.

Porcupines are called “quill pigs” in Dutch. I heard “Those aren’t pigs!” more than once when I worked at the zoo.

They’re not wrong.