I had a guy call me the Anti-Christ today. What did you do?

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I slept until 3:30 PM and I'm still tired. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I also ate nachos, unloaded the dishwasher (because for some reason that's become my job around the house), attempted to Reverse Pirate in Disgaea 4 but couldn't get the right Innocents to show up and watched Meet the Pyro. I was going to go down to the river, but I ended up sleeping until 3:30 PM. Oh, well. Tomorrow it is, hopefully!

 

[Mr Companion]

Called some dude the Antichrist.

He was trying to open a portal to hell using human sacrifice at the time so it felt appropriate.

Fortunately you just kept it to that. It would have annoyed me greatly if you had actually tried doing something about it.

Agreed, its totally rude to interrupt somebody while they're doing something.

 

[Jonluw]

That's because you pretty much don't. Here we use a double yellow line in the center of the road. Passing is only legal if one line is broken, and then only on the side that is broken. Passing is only legal for both sides if there is a single broken yellow line.


Suffice it to say that the double yellow goes on for miles and miles unbroken. You get stuck behind someone you deal with it.

We use the same system over here, except that a broken line is the rule rather than the exception. The double line is mostly used when there are special circumstances in the surroundings and in and around cities.

For example, I recently spent four hours on a track designed for experiencing braking and handling on slippery surfaces and throwing the car out of control. You know: the kind of track with steel plates covered in oil and water where the teacher'll turn of the TCS (and the ABS if they can).

You want a course like that you pay out of pocket for it. Here the custom is to go for MORE driver's aids. Everyone's pushing for alphabet soup. Insurance rates are lower, car companies keep advertising it, and honestly I think it's making drivers worse. Most drivers are dependent on their ABS and TCS to stay on the road, remove either system and it's just a matter of when and where they crash. Not if. God help us if an EMP weapon disables everyone's TCS and ABS. Our roads will turn into a deathtrap.

Pretty much all cars come with all of that equipment over here as well. It's just that the mandatory driving lessons include very basic introductions to how the car handles without them. It's mostly for the purpose of raising awareness that these tools are for helping you be even safer as a driver: they're not there so that you can rely upon them to compensate for your poor driving skill.

Annoyingly, my instructor's car (2012 Audi A4) didn't allow the driver to turn off ABS. Pretty irritating, since I'd like to get some proper wheel-lock going.

Getting a license in Norway is expensive though. You'll be hard pressed to find any course cheaper than $3,000.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Called some dude the Antichrist.

He was trying to open a portal to hell using human sacrifice at the time so it felt appropriate.

Fool his intents are not something as tame as Satan. He was summoning an unspaekable being that feeds on entropy itself.

How can anything feed on entropy?

Actually, I think the entropy change for photosynthesis is a negative (since it has a positive enthalpy change and isn't feasible without light hitting it), and this process provides most of the sustenance on Earth for living creatures.

So don't we all feed on entropy?

And if we do all feed on entropy, are we all unspeakable horrors?

 

[BabyRaptor]

You're not the Antichrist, dude. I dated the Antichrist. Met him through this very website, actually.

I'm not expecting a long life, though. I imagine once he gains power, he'll end up silencing me so I won't tell the world all his embarrassing secrets.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

So, you've probably heard about this whole "Oreo supports homosexuality" controversy. An old colleague of mine certainly did. After reading several rambling rants about the sin of homosexuality, I decided I had had enough, and posted a logical deconstruction of the Biblical condemnation of the homosexuality, essentially proving that the Bible doesn't care about homosexuals as a concept but instead condemns lust in all its forms, saying nothing on the subject of homosexual love given that the three contexts in which homosexuality is mentioned Biblically are, in order: A dodge for celibacy, a group of rapists, and in the middle of an orgy of unholy debauchery ranging waaaaay beyond sexual relations. Based upon these common themes and examining the historical precedents for social movements of this nature, I was forced to remind everyone how silly general culture and particularly the more respectable bastions of our faith view such events such as racial and religious suppression, and asked how we wish to be remembered by future generations in this respect. All in all, it was slightly inflammatory, but I felt it was a logical conclusion that I was prepared to defend.

In response, I was told that I'm the Anti-Christ. Well, not exactly in those terms, what he actually said was that I'm proof that it's the End of Days. However, that's close enough for me. It's official. I'm the Anti-Christ.

So, what'd you do today?

So... someone said something stupid over the internet. Shocker. -.-

You disappoint me sir, I thought someone called you such a thing in real life. THAT would of be amusing.

 

[geK0]

Got hired at wallmart, bought tales of the abyss, played it until 3DS battery ran out, couldn't find charger, went on computer

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I spent five straight hours trying to help one completely inept foreign student who had already returned to China complete his UCAS application. At the end of it I was told that another student was filing a complaint against me because of something I didn't do and had no part in, yet I still have to be investigated.

My gig was good though. Played some Creedence Clearwater Revival and had forty people singing along to Rocking All Over the World.

 

[DocBalance]

So... someone said something stupid over the internet. Shocker. -.-

You disappoint me sir, I thought someone called you such a thing in real life. THAT would of be amusing.

If it helps your disappointment at all, it was someone I know in real life, and have met with frequently, this conversation simply occurred over the internet.

 

[00slash00]

im no religious expert. in face ive never even read the bible. but isnt the whole homosexuality is evil thing, in the book of lavinicus? and isnt the sacrifice of jesus done, more or less, to undo all the shit in lavinicus? if thats true and i wasnt just horribly misinformed, then isnt everyone who says homosexuality is a sin, also saying that jesus died for nothing?

 

[Justank]

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Wow. That just completely made my evening. Fine work, good sir. That's an incredible accurate description of driving in the US and so many people fail miserably at it. As to Jonluw, yeah, that sounds pretty awful. Everything is nice and simple in the states, all the roads even with well marked lanes and often barriers, especially on freeways. Much easier.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I watched TheRunawayGuys playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The Subspace Emissary before going to work. After work I watched The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Futurama. Boring and standard day really.

Sorry, I didn't mean motorways. When I said 'highway', this is the kind of environment I was thinking of:

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We call it a "landevei" in Norway, but it's hard to find suitable translations for those kinds of terms so I just went with 'highway'.

(And if I drove at 65 mph I'd be pulled over)

Yeah, that's a highway. Any public road is a highway. In the US we generally call controlled-access highways (motorways as you and the UK call them) "freeways" or "expressways". Sometimes we just call them highways but I think most of us know better.

Anyway, in the US driver's training only has a specific training course for city and freeway driving. Overall only about an hour of on the road training is all that's required for a learner's permit (in Michigan at least, it varies between States), and honestly that's plenty. In the US close to all traffic accidents are caused by distractions or impairment, not lack of aptitude even among new drivers. I don't think Norway will do anything but waste money on these absurd requirements. As you say Scandinavian driving has some pretty harsh challenges, but a 5-hour training course still seems like a bit much.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

I bumped into a good friend of mine I don't think I've seen all year. Just one of tose little things that lifted my spirits a bit today.

 

[ecoho]

So, you've probably heard about this whole "Oreo supports homosexuality" controversy. An old colleague of mine certainly did. After reading several rambling rants about the sin of homosexuality, I decided I had had enough, and posted a logical deconstruction of the Biblical condemnation of the homosexuality, essentially proving that the Bible doesn't care about homosexuals as a concept but instead condemns lust in all its forms, saying nothing on the subject of homosexual love given that the three contexts in which homosexuality is mentioned Biblically are, in order: A dodge for celibacy, a group of rapists, and in the middle of an orgy of unholy debauchery ranging waaaaay beyond sexual relations. Based upon these common themes and examining the historical precedents for social movements of this nature, I was forced to remind everyone how silly general culture and particularly the more respectable bastions of our faith view such events such as racial and religious suppression, and asked how we wish to be remembered by future generations in this respect. All in all, it was slightly inflammatory, but I felt it was a logical conclusion that I was prepared to defend.

In response, I was told that I'm the Anti-Christ. Well, not exactly in those terms, what he actually said was that I'm proof that it's the End of Days. However, that's close enough for me. It's official. I'm the Anti-Christ.

So, what'd you do today?

first off and this is from a Christian tell that asshole to go reread the bible. If he was a real Christian he would not say something like that to anyone just because they said something they didnt beleave was right. I would like to offer my apoligies for this idiots slander and hope you dont judge us all by this mans actions.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

im no religious expert. in face ive never even read the bible. but isnt the whole homosexuality is evil thing, in the book of lavinicus? and isnt the sacrifice of jesus done, more or less, to undo all the shit in lavinicus? if thats true and i wasnt just horribly misinformed, then isnt everyone who says homosexuality is a sin, also saying that jesus died for nothing?

Condemning homosexual acts between two men:
Leviticus 18:22 'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.'

Leviticus 18:29 proscribes exile as the punishment for this by the way. Also sacrificing your children to Molek is apparently one of the 18 sexual relations you shouldn't have. The Bible's full of this hilarious nonsense, you should read it sometime.

Jesus saying he does not undo all the shit in the Old Testament:
Matthew 5:17 'Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.'

"The Law" is what Jews call the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses of which Leviticus is one. That said, Jesus does go on to say that people who break the Law can still get into Heaven and says nothing personally about homosexuality. Still, Jesus specifically saying that he has not come to abolish the Law is pretty tough to reconcile with the widely held dogma that Jesus did abolish the Law. It just goes to show that religion is more about what people want to believe than what the supposed guidebook says.

So, to answer your questions: Yes, No, No.

 

[DocBalance]

first off and this is from a Christian tell that asshole to go reread the bible. If he was a real Christian he would not say something like that to anyone just because they said something they didnt beleave was right. I would like to offer my apoligies for this idiots slander and hope you dont judge us all by this mans actions.

No apologies necessary, as a Christian myself I don't find it indicative of of Christianity as a whole, I just find it humorous and thought it was a funny story to share.

im no religious expert. in face ive never even read the bible. but isnt the whole homosexuality is evil thing, in the book of lavinicus? and isnt the sacrifice of jesus done, more or less, to undo all the shit in lavinicus? if thats true and i wasnt just horribly misinformed, then isnt everyone who says homosexuality is a sin, also saying that jesus died for nothing?

Condemning homosexual acts between two men:
Leviticus 18:22 'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.'

Leviticus 18:29 proscribes exile as the punishment for this by the way. Also sacrificing your children to Molek is apparently one of the 18 sexual relations you shouldn't have. The Bible's full of this hilarious nonsense, you should read it sometime.

Jesus saying he does not undo all the shit in the Old Testament:
Matthew 5:17 'Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.'

"The Law" is what Jews call the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses of which Leviticus is one. That said, Jesus does go on to say that people who break the Law can still get into Heaven and says nothing personally about homosexuality. Still, Jesus specifically saying that he has not come to abolish the Law is pretty tough to reconcile with the widely held dogma that Jesus did abolish the Law. It just goes to show that religion is more about what people want to believe than what the supposed guidebook says.

So, to answer your questions: Yes, No, No.

Actually, he's technically correct. Leviticus was written for the priesthood, in the first place, and shouldn't be regarded as part of normal Jewish law, as it concerns itself with the the laws for the Levites and the laity.

Secondly, Jesus was being more than a little coy in Matthew 5:17. When He says He came to fulfill the law and the prophets, He means He is going to enact the spirit of the law as it was always meant, rather than the stringent letter of law enforced by the Israeli council. This is supported by the fact that there are far more instances of Christ breaking Jewish law than of Him following it, and of the tearing of the Great Veil which separated the common man from the portion of the temple where the priests conducted their business.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

But yesterday I went to the doctors - apparently I looked nice. Because some guys leaned out of a car to yell at me on the way there

Weird, I enjoy it when girls do that to me.

 

[GamerAddict7796]

Got up, helped edit my Dad's CV and went on computer. Also ordered a new copy of Fallout 3 GOTY as my copy got mashed up when my Xbox was knocked.

But seriously? As most people these days (at least in Britain) are atheist or just not bothered then it must have been the End of Days yonks ago.