Did not know. But you could fill a Bible with what I don't know about Christianity.
― This Casserole is Divine! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
wait what?i thought the immaculate conception was about the conception of JESUS within the body of Mary (the immaculate heart of)mary herself was conceived immaculately?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
that doesn't sound right at all
I think the idea is that the 'vessel' that bore Christ had to be without original sin, so Mary was born sinless to bear Him.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Xtianity is bizarre
i thought it just meant the conception of jesus was done without sin (filthy horrifying sinful human sexual activity) not that she was born "pure"are you serious?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
i learnt that from here: Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
(2011)
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
I didn't know this either, but wikipedia confirms it
― rob, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
wowwell i'm glad i decided at age 7 that christianity/catholicism wasn't for me -- at least it didn't take me forever to learn that
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
tbh there is no age I have been at where I haven't learned some bit of catholic minutiae that has blown my mind
it's a heck of an institution and swarm of beliefs
― mh, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
feel like i really should have known that too, but i didn't
otoh i'm not catholic, and it's really silly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
There's a lot of lore around the birth of the messiah that maybe hasn't traveled down the centuries. Joseph is made a lot more 3dimensional in medieval lore from what i've seen. Seems to have a backstory that show's him to be an old man or middle aged which turns up in folk songs etc.
& various heresies came up about how sacred exactly Christ and his mother were appeared and caused rifts in the church that needed to be sorted out.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
tbh the immaculate conception thing is a really convoluted dive into the “humans are born with sin” thing and leads to some really dumb and philosophical questions, like: are miscarried babies in hell or purgatory, because they weren’t baptized! wait, do we think purgatory is real now? and is there a limbo, because purgatory sounds harsh so maybe there’s another thing toorecent popes have weighed in with stances like “hmm, maybe”
― mh, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
it's almost as if insisting on the literal reality of a single ludicrous impossibility has extensive implications that require all sorts of mental gymnastics
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
honestly I think very few of the clergy give a shit and it’s mostly really pedantic parishioners bugging them with questions “do you think jesus had a boat?”“uh he was a carpenter but lived inland and uh... ask the bishop”
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Love Island isn't an island
― he's one of our pwn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
Why would Jesus need a boat? His best friends are fishermen and when they're not around, well...
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
The other day I accidentally ordered a pack of AAAA batteries. That's right, AAAA. Who knew?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
ai ai ai ai
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
I didn't know that about the Immaculate Conception until tonight.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
Jesus can walk on water so does He really need a boat?
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
if you had a bag of fish on land, youd want a van, right?
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
AAAA batteries reminding me that is a thing but I seldom buy batteries and have screwed up AA/AAA enough to swear a lot
― mh, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link
batteries are such bullshit
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 July 2018 05:38 (five years ago) link
if there’s a rechargeable option i always take it regardless of the cost, because fuck buying stupid little packets of bastard batteries
It was in the original Lee Sharpe and him off Hollyoaks version
― Number None, Thursday, 12 July 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
I've just realised that Lipps Inc is a pun on lip-synch. Only took me 38 years.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 July 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
I had no idea!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
I think I only clocked Lipps Inc when it appeared on puns that you had missed
― Alba, Thursday, 12 July 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
honestly I think very few of the clergy give a shit and it’s mostly really pedantic parishioners bugging them with questions
“do you think jesus had a boat?”“uh he was a carpenter but lived inland and uh... ask the bishop”
― mh, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEy0ZtNe8s
― Eliza D., Thursday, 12 July 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
wow.. i had no idea how much he sounded like lenny bruce back then. it's practically an impression
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
(^ very much on topic)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
― mh
I just heard someone on the radio say that the day of rest is Sunday because Catholics "worship the sun."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" solo, one of the most iconic Straty solos of all time, was played on a Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
Wasn't the term Catholic originally used to denote the wide array of beliefs being covered within the original versions of the religion before such things as heresy started becoming buzzwords and the like.& anyway isn't Christianity one of teh most Syncretic of religions anyway? Not sure what facets of it are actually original and not just picked up from preceding religions in the areas that it has covered.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 July 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
Al Ewing is Tom's brother
good god am I dumb
― mh, Friday, 13 July 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Wtf...
Or maybe I'm thinking of the "Another Brick in the Wall" solo - which is even Strat-ier? Or maybe both songs?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 July 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Yeah, my bad, it's the Goldtop on "Another Brick in the Wall!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 July 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
― mh, Saturday, July 14, 2018 4:41 AM (thirty minutes ago)
wait until you hear about ILX posters Vic Fluro and the Groke
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Mick Ronson and Mark Ronson not the same guy
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 July 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
when Mark Ronson first turned up as the son of a classic rocker, the thing to learn was that he was Mick Jones' son, not Mick Ronson's
then you had to learn that it was a different Mick Jones
how far we've come
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 13 July 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
^^^things I learned just now
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 July 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
I don't think I had any trouble with multiple Mick Joneses and multiple Roger Taylors. For some reason the Ronsons were a blind spot.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 July 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
I think it was Tracer that posted somewhere about being able to eat kiwis with the skin still on. I totally never knew you could do this. It tastes almost exactly the same. So many years wasted... on peeling kiwis.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 July 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
Eating them with their skin on was something I discovered for myself independently some years ago (probably pre-ILX). It's probably my most creative act, along with cutting pizza with kitchen scissors.
― Alba, Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
Oh, and that you can stop unwanted laughter by thinking sexual thoughts.
― Alba, Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
I got through high school without really grasping that the possessive pronoun 'its' shouldn't have an apostrophe before the 's'. I shudder to think how many times I typed it incorrectly.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 14 July 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link