The Breakdown

Having electricity in my home is so great. Most of the humans that have ever lived didn't have this.

There's a weird 3 star movie out there ready to change your life forever

Christianity has two Mary's who both know the male protagonist, they are essentially the only women he knows, and they are literally a Madonna and a whore.

Funnily enough, Mormonism has this whole thing about how a strict reading of the text doesn't actually support the idea that Mary Magdalene is any of the various women accused of or implied to be involved in sex stuff. Nine times out of ten, this is then the setup for the idea that she was actually Jesus's wife (or if anyone from the Deseret period is doing the talking, one of his wives).

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy

#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.

one sup of this will have you demanding the news

I can't decide whether my own observations about human behavior should be summed up as "everyone is spiritual, no one is religious" or the exact opposite. Discuss.

Sufficiently advanced therapyspeak is indistinguishable from theology.

i'd like to formally apologise for my behaviour last night, which i can only describe as "fucking badass"

trying to be a writer is so scary. like what if I’m actually a Wronger

it's always a little embarrassing when anglophone theo-philes talk about the vital importance in the belief of an afterlife (and especially an afterlife of reward and punishment) to human psychology and it's centrality to religion, spirituality and superstition, as if it just naturally arises in human psychology, or even is the natural root of religious belief. talk about actually existing cultural Christianity! (well more like actually existing post Babylonian exile abrahmism but that's not as pithy)

The Sumerian afterlife, likely the oldest recorded concept of an afterlife in human history, sucked ass! Eternal darkness eating dust and ash no matter what.

but one day we will become like the angels

we are all now always sending messages to each other. we are already the angels

Heaven is empty and all the angels are here