Secret Identities and Unmarked Cards

So the human likes horror movies although they aren't able to sleep for a week afterwards. The Vulcan feels nothing from watching horror movies because "It is just a movie. It is not real, and actually, it is very improbable that this would ever occur." The Vulcan is also fascinated by the Human's tendency to watch horror movies because they choose to scare themselves. The Human is losing sleep and becoming extremely jumpy which is not good for their job, health, psyche, and frankly the peace of mind of the Vulcan. So the Vulcan proposes watching the movies together, as well as having sleep overs so that the Human can rest, and it works way too well. The human can work through their extensive watch list. And the Vulcan ends up liking the company, the shared bonding experience, and getting a heated bed in a cold spaceship.

I’m not quite old enough to give a good answer; that was the year reading “clicked” for me but I was chewing through the Chronicles of Narnia, children’s encyclopedias, and Ranger Rick rather than newspapers and news magazines.

“I was going to get my masters degree but then it was 2020, so yeah”

“I was cast in a play and then it was 2020”

stuff like how syndrome from the incredibles isn't "powerless" at all, what are you talking about, that's literally the most obvious stereotypical tinker of all time!

anyway i reiterate that worm is very good but at the cost of making every other media with superpowers in it look bad in comparison

Do we ever find out Cordelia Frost’s powers? I can’t remember them ever being shown in “Generation X”?

Honestly it’s weird how much writers ignore this character- you would think they’d explore her more!

And he's another fucking Baptist too!!!!

What makes them nuts is being indoctrinated from their earliest days to believe in literal biblical interpretation and young earth and so on. They believe it because they're deluded or have deluded themselves into it.

So many times that I've seen these guys talk, they always have to use some... MASSIVELY extra-Biblical concept: a concept that is decidedly not in the Bible or even talked about by anyone more theologically informed than them, to try and say the Earth is 6000 years old, and yet looks to be billions of years old.

The two big ones are "God created the Earth 6000 years ago but put in embedded age and history (aka fake age and history) to make it LOOK billions of years old" and "Time ran faster for a period of those 6000 years before a certain point then it slowed down to as we know it is".

Group psychology. It’s always group psychology. People love their in groups and having an outgroup enemy. They’ll assemble mythologies that flatter their identity as part of their group.

And he's another fucking Baptist too!!!!

What makes them nuts is being indoctrinated from their earliest days to believe in literal biblical interpretation and young earth and so on. They believe it because they're deluded or have deluded themselves into it.

So many times that I've seen these guys talk, they always have to use some... MASSIVELY extra-Biblical concept: a concept that is decidedly not in the Bible or even talked about by anyone more theologically informed than them, to try and say the Earth is 6000 years old, and yet looks to be billions of years old.

The two big ones are "God created the Earth 6000 years ago but put in embedded age and history (aka fake age and history) to make it LOOK billions of years old" and "Time ran faster for a period of those 6000 years before a certain point then it slowed down to as we know it is".

Group psychology. It’s always group psychology. People love their in groups and having an outgroup enemy. They’ll assemble mythologies that flatter their identity as part of their group.

Elayne is like, if someone from a society without electricity finds an electric chair and generator. So she studies to discover how to harness this power. Once she thinks she understands she needs to find out if her conclusions are correct. So she builds duplicates of the electric chair and generator and — this part is key for Elayne's Elayneness — she tests them.

Great news there's a Reformation quiz too

You're telling me that you have this guy (and it always seems to be a guy) who is anywhere from 20 to 40 and often has no training in anything (and I do mean "anything"; not child development, not education, and not even theology) who is being paid less than minimum wage and is given essentially unquestioned authority over a group of children?

Like, there are only three types of people who would be attracted to that kind of job, people who are genuinely driven by the mission of ministering to children, people who think it could be a stepping stone to a more desirable career, and people who want to abuse that authority. Don't get me wrong, I think the truly mission driven are out there and the ambitious are probably the majority, but why would you want to create a position that so clearly and directly attracts those who want to abuse power over children?

And here's the thing, I'm not making the claim that religious people or even religious leaders are more likely to be child abusers because that would be an untrue statement, but child abusers are drawn to specific circumstances where they are permitted to have unquestioned authority over children with no oversight and, if you then specifically take away the kinds of things (like salary) that would attract other people to a position or things (like educational requirements) that would filter out random people, you will end up with a job that disproportionately attracts people who want to abuse children sexually or otherwise. This is true regardless of the other details of the job!

There was a time when all members of the religious community sat in the same room and heard the same sermon. This had disadvantages such as young members not understanding the lesson and even younger members disrupting the lesson. So as church became semi-formal, the assembly carved off separate classrooms for various age groups. The teachers were often volunteers, entirely unpaid, and (since their students were not adults) women.

But for older students there was the doctrinal question of whether women were allowed to hold authority over teenage males who were not their own children (yes, really!). And in wealthier congregations it became helpful for morale to occasionally take these older groups on field trips, sometimes even mission trips, which might take up some significant portion of the church budget, such that the position came to be seen as that of an actual church employee.