The Accomplice: Finally dropped off. Music and mood lighting
25.8.24
23.8.24
Win by contract
Special K: "Danny Jansen will become the first player to play for both teams in one MLB game when the Red Sox resume a game against his old team, the Blue Jays, on Monday.
The game was suspended when he was hitting, so he will catch against his own pinch-hitter"
b1-66er: THAT IS SO GREAT!
K: Yes. Maybe the best thing ever.
b1: And it puts that guy in an interesting psychological situation...
He can't win.
But he also can't lose.
K: True.
b1: It's the Purgatory of Baseball.
K: Deep.
20.8.24
SO close to a pinwheel
b1-66er: Think of it more like a fountain that a rocket. (Video's on top. Description is good.)
b1-67er: When I'm watching that I'm thinking all the time, Is this the worst of it, or is it going to get even worse?"
D4rw1n: 8/10 firework. I prefer rockets over fountains. But points for mass, danger, and large pretty vortices of fire
66: See? I've gotta agree with that. Those're "Carr Court Sensibilities."
Country lockdown UNTIL YOU ALL TAKE YOUR SEATS
b1-66er: Headline- Flights cancelled in Japan after scissors go missing
Lede- Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
b1-67er: File that under
Abundance of Caution
I guess.
D4rw1n: Hey if running with scissors is bad then flying must be stopped at all costs
We all need a little Humanity Soup
b1-66er: "Nature does not care about your safety and will kill you especially if are not properly prepared."
D4rw1n: Okay if dying is a spiritual experience, you can definitely get that.
Mountain biking yesterday I went over a particularly scary drop and I involuntarily yelled "oh my god," quickly followed by my internal monologue saying "oh shit. I don't have one of those. I might be fucked."
b1-67er: Perhaps "oh any available god!" Would be more suitable.
Advising people to hike by themselves without food in the wilderness is dumb. A buddy system where you check in when you get back is also dumb. No cell phone is probably irrelevant, there's probably no service out there anyway.
D4: Would be funny if the only god is some kind of spaghetti monster. Okay I guess you'll have to do.
Or if there really are all manner of gods and they go "Fuck - emergency call. Thor it's your turn. Ganesh got the last one and Dionysus is out sick. Again"
67: Dyonysus does party a little too hard
I have a theological solution for you D4. It seems that both saint Odan and Saint Augustine are considered patron saints of Aetheists. And the Catholics do pray to saints, asking them to advocate on their behalf to God. So you may have a path to salvation after all.
66: What a great play•
D4: The concept of a patron saint of atheists breaks my brain
But I guess if Catholics are praying to them for my salvation, my work here is done
That is even better than another, slightly more straightforward approach first outlined by the philosopher Blaise Pascal: Pascal's Wager. It essentially says that atheists should accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior ... just in case. It's considered an attractive wager because as an atheist it costs you nothing to say it. But if you are wrong about being an atheist, the payoff is infinitely good.
I reject it because it's not intellectually honest
66: Patron Saint of Atheists is the joker in the Catholic card deck.
No over card trumping the play.
67: But praying to saint Augustin as an atheist really requires no duplicity. It can be a I don't really believe this, but I'm in real trouble, so just in case kind of prayer.
There is an interesting question here. I think most Christians have moments, maybe big ones, of doubting their faith. And I think most atheists have moments of doubting the nonexistence of God. That suggests those Venn diagrams overlap. So at what point is the doubting Christian an atheist, and at what point is the doubting atheist actually religious?
66: THAT'S a good question.
There's NO DOUBT they're all part of humanity.
This is the equivalent of calling 911 from the inner city.
Probably won't work. In desperation, it costs nothing to try.
67: We can think of the Saint Augustin prayer as the "Hail Mary" move.
Wrapped in flannel
b1-66er: "An Olympic rings tattoo is a rite of passage. If a Paralympian gets one, they'll be disqualified"
Special K: Why?
b1: I don't know. I didn't read the article.
<2 minutes pass>
K: "Body advertising is not allowed in any way whatsoever and that includes the Olympic rings. The athlete did not wear a cover and was therefore disqualified," an IPC spokesperson said in a statement at the time.
b1: What's the K's take?
K: Dumb.
b1: And so it is written...
... And so it shall be told.
K: So sharp I cut my jammies.
b1: That's not a penis reference, is it?
K: It's not.
18.8.24
... AND it reeks of cola!
b1-66er: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd7y3nm09lo#webview=1
b1-67er: I love the picture of the guy in the Tyroleon hat dumping boxes of hand grenades overboard. That's a picture that says a thousand words about Swiss neutrality.
That's a really hard, hard problem to solve.
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