Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?
She's still playing that "let's meet in the middle" charade that didn't do shit for her during her campaign?
Random erections at the worst conceivable time, and Squishy Wilbert Syndrome when stiffness is actually required, makes me think my penis is haunted by a mischievous 11th century sprite called Lomtomp the Rascal.
There's a conspiracy theory that Jesus is a composite character plagiarised from half a dozen or more pre-Christian faiths, and in particular the key points of his life are actually personified versions of the Winter solstice and the movement of the sun and the stars (including the Zodiac in some versions of the theory).
It's widely believed amongst atheists, but it's simply not true on any level. He was a real dude and was really crucified, and the supposed earlier versions of Christ-like characteristics are either extremely tenuous coincidences or simply outright lies (with some honest mistranslations/misinterpretations). Bart Ehrman, an atheist himself but a world-renowned scholar on the history of Christianity, has several books which deal with this question to varying degrees, the main one being "Did Jesus Exist?". It's worth reading (or listening to) if you're curious about it. He addresses the specific claims of proponents of the conspiracy theory directly, like those of Richard Carrier.
I'm atheist, but I respect history and historical scholarship. It's one of the handful of disciplines that humanity can't really afford to overlook or devalue in 2025 if we want to survive into the next millennia. Agreeing on reality is one of the hardest things to do in the current climate. Overeager atheism that plays fast and loose with historical fact is not helping us secularise the world. It's making us seem like we're debunkable, because in this specific case, we are. It's like in a video game when you get to a boss fight and see that the boss has a glowing section on its body that you're supposed to shoot. Pretending Jesus wasn't a real person is like us placing a giant glowing chest plate on our efforts and watching helplessly as Christians fire directly at it. There's no need for it.
You could tell me anything about Australia and I'd have little choice but to reflexively believe it. Oh they have a brand of children's sandals called Flippy Floppy Cunts? Sure, whatever. There's a shark with gorilla arms holding knives fashioned from goat bones and using them to mug surfers? Of course that's a thing, no further investigation needed.
Australia is the world's marsupial pouch filled with equal parts mischief and nightmarish animal terrors.
We're getting to the stage where normal everyday traits are being attributed to neurological dingleberries. It's like when people say "only those with Asian mothers know about keeping lots of plastic bags in a larger plastic bag in the cupboard under the sink" even though this is something everyone does.
Is it an affectation that they're trained to deploy? (If so, why?) Or is it just a natural thing that happens in the very specific circumstance of being a politician on the campaign trail, and that's why no one else seems to do it?
I don't think I've seen it in any other context 🤔
Cheers!
I'll replay the game once someone goes in and removes the myriad dead ends that can happen. You aren't even informed that you've reached a dead end, so you spend hours fruitlessly hammering away at it until you give in and check a walkthrough, only to discover that the game is just... over.
I think the fact that his victims no longer need to concern themselves with future parole hearing dates, or indeed the completion of his sentence, is a good thing. He should never, ever have been allowed to leave prison, but even his full sentence was by no means an effective 'life sentence'; he would be out before reaching old age. So, one less thing to worry about for the victims.
There's a "famous" gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya'll probably already know what I'm talking about, so I don't need to explain (and if you haven't seen it or don't know what it is, don't bother looking for it, it's not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I've desperately wanted to know the man's identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I've had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.
Trust me when I say that I've looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they're all wrong and provably so. I've watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it's always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there're a lot of such clips).
There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other 'holy grail' clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.
I've seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there's something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it's also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are "worse" videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.
Yeah it's hard to imagine a more petty and pathetic incel of a god than the one described in the Bible. Genocides entire populations because they don't love him enough. Nevermind the quintillions of planets and star systems and galaxies other than the rock we live on, it's the most recent bipedal primate on Earth that he needs affection from, on pain of eternal torment in a place he had to have created himself for that purpose. Even sent his own kid to get tacked to a board so we could be forgiven for not being deferential enough to him, even though he could have just said "meh you're forgiven". Or, you know, grew the fuck up and got over himself. Who was he saving us from with his infanticidal sacrifice? HIM! The daft bitch was in debt to himself and had to off his kid in a brutal and humiliating fashion to wipe the slate clean.
And on top of that, he won't just appear and confirm his existence, which would make everyone fall in line instantly. Instead, we have to infer his existence and base our entire lives on that inference, and the only manual we have to do so was written by dick-mutilating Bronze Age numbnuts who didn't know shit about fuck.