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Sounds good until dozens of people around the world all use it as their email too. So many receipts and job applications. I have enough documents for an Australian with the same name as me, I could easily steal their identity. A 12 year old in England set up an Instagram with my email and I ended up with access to their full account. Also had some fun the time I was included in a maga family email chain.

I spotted a Roman dodecahedron in Luthen's shop

I was playing a video game with a buddy recently. I was in the middle of a flank and he said he was out of ammo. I said "literally 0 bullets?" And he said "yep literally 0". I aborted my flank to run back and give him some ammo but got killed as I ran back. Just then, he starts shooting.

I don't think context makes the word "literally" clear. We ruined the word and now we need a new one to establish we're not exaggerating.

This was made when JP was at his peak. In 2020 he was induced into a coma in Russia to treat his benzo addiction. The brain damage turned him into the fucked up crybaby version we see today. I'd give him even less credit than this video gives. (Although the vid is still great)

Yeah you're right, I didn't mean to imply that they're stupid. It's stupid to us, but that's only because we're standing on the shoulders of giants.

I see what you're getting at, and I personally think that's probably how a lot of the myths/religions start, but I don't think you can outright say that tribes only thought of them as children's stories.

In the book I was referencing, the author noted the "cost" of a religion, in that the tribes were usually required to spend a significant amount of their time worshiping, and/or discarded resources in the name of sacrifice. One of the tribes studied spent 1 out of every 3 days worshiping. A very large commitment for people who have a very real risk of starvation if their hunts go badly. He then goes on to argue that there must be an evolutionary benefit to religion or an atheist tribe would have out-competed all of these tribes (but that's another tangent). I bring this up because it implies that they do actually believe their "stories", otherwise why risk starvation?

I recently read The World Until Yesterday which compares the way of life between tribal cultures and western cultures. The section about religion has a clumsy preamble that was obviously trying to cushion the blow for religious people reading the book who thought their religion was any different to tribal religions.

The author then goes on to treat them all the same.

It was quite funny to read. I was imagining how it must feel to see your religion laid out side by side with a dozen other equally stupid myths and think "Yep this is the right one. I was super lucky to be born to parents who picked the correct religion!"

Does their god need a reason to create every single fish? Sounds exhausting

Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos

I use "kitty". It amuses me when Straight Outta Compton becomes about kitties with attitude

It's like New Game +, but the other way round. New Game -

Flatten it though, ffs