At one of those bible study after church things, I asked the priest if when I die and go to heaven, Iâll get answers to things Iâve always wondered, like how many stars there are, or since Iâm outside of time then, be able to observe historic events like building of pyramids or the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs , or supernovas, or how technology would be in the future.
⊠he said that I wouldnât care, Iâd be too busy being astounded by the face of god for all eternity.
Which I thought was the lamest way to spend eternity, and whatâs worse, would mean that my main trait at the time, curiosity, wouldnât be part of me when Iâm in heaven. Then would it really be me up there?
Act 2. I eek out the âwhy does a loving god allow souls to be tortured and burnt for all eternityâ question to a different priest and got some answer like hell is just the absence of god. Which, I can understand why to him thatâs torture but for me⊠it seemed more like a âok you donât want to stare at my godly face for eternity? Be elsewhere then with your fellow non believers â. Which from my pov, itâs like ok no big deal then?
And from there the shadow of doubt grew enough and now I understand this is all there is so we just gotta make the best of it, and try to push the envelope for humanity in any way we can.
If war and they were in the Arms business. Krupp, Nissan, Boeing, etc. Krupp individually as a person.
If youâre already rich, Depressions/recessions are a fire sale for the rich. They buy up everything they can that suddenly becomes worth more in a few years.
It wouldnât be much different. Really what politicians need are more staff with science literacy and social literacy.
You see the failure of science in policing frequently where metrics get imposed that end up having bad results (thereâs a fantastic reply all about comstat). You need people with social literacy who can make better appointments and navigate these situations.
We could use better science literacy among media: writers, news anchors, etc.
Then just donât start a community on a small one.
Iâm a minuscule instance. Thatâs fine. I like that I have control over it, how itâs maintained and updated. If I want to convert it to Mbin because I like it more, I can. I know for sure itâs going to live at least as long as Iâm interested in the fediverse. Nobody can take it away from me.
Big instances are expensive to run, and in a way, theyâre not exactly immune to shutting down and big instances shutting down have a much bigger impact than a small one with few communities when they go poof.
I know you said youâve ruled out Onyx, but I just purchased the Boox Palma, and I really canât complain about the quality of the device. Itâs light years ahead of anything by Kobo, which I was considering.
I didnât realize that Onyx is a GPL violator until after I purchased the device, but they really engineered an awesome little solution otherwise. Conflicts of interest are hard. :-(
Bill & Tedâs Excellent Adventure is my favorite, but Iâll sit through any of em. I just love those characters, and genuinely try to live my life along the âbe excellent to each otherâ philosophy.
Iâve been a who fan for almost 40 years and didnât put 2 and 2 together until your comment⊠feeling elated for the revelation and a bit like a nonce at the same time
I love how casual they approach time travel. It makes no sense, is incredibly inconsistent, and the more you think about it the more youâll hate it. But itâs a fun series everyone must watch.
Spoilers:
The time travel mechanic literally makes Bill and Ted the only people that matter, ever, in the history of time. The world belongs to Bill and Ted and this is their playground. I love how the characters recognize this in the movies too, so the writers obviously knew their time travel dynamic was goofy.
At least in the first movie:
Only people who can change their future actions thatâll have an impact on the future is Bill and Ted (time traveller who told them to pass a class influenced Bill and Ted to change their future actions)
If someone other than Bill and Ted interacts with a different time, it has effectively zero impact on their future actions and society is largely unchanged (ie stealing Socrates and Napoleon into the present didnât really affect modern society, and nobody found it weird a blue phone booth existed in the 1700s?!)
Even though Bill and Ted are time traveling, any time they spend time traveling counts against an absolute timeline leading up to their presentation.
I think some of these dynamics changed in the second movie, and again in different ways in the third movie but donât remember itâs plot enough to defend that claim.
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