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  1. It should not be lost on anyone that among the first real, genuine, black people and white people equal and egalitarian movements in America was Pentecostalism and the Azusa Street revival, in a way that none of the progressives of the time or later times could recreate or desired to. People who are on fire with the Holy Spirit do not always behave as expected, remains true of enthusiastic religion today. Holiness Pentecostaliam is actual counter-culture. They are not larping.
  2. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and Fundamentalism and American Culture are sober, critical, but not jeremiad culture war examinations of Evangelicalism and fundamentalism in America, including how to tell them apart. Highly recommend. These are serious histories and not tracts. I honestly don’t know of any serious studies of Prosperity Gospel stuff. It was pretty new when I was doing my religion reading. For a peek behind the veil, The Late Great Planet Earth is deeply influential and insane and a direct line to the conspiratorial, politically chapter apocalyptic version of fundamentalism we have today, and Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life for a more meaningful look at what mainstream Evangelicals actually consume and aspire to. I am not Evangelical, BTW. And Anastasis is basically right that almost any unusual church with no clear denomination you see is basically just Baptists in a different costume. Sometimes you get lucky and it’s something fun, like a holiness inspired bunch. Down the road the real growth industry is in the Spanish speaking Evangelical and holiness groups. Everyone is in for some interesting times.
  3. No, losses are losses and wins are wins. Almost doesn’t count for anything either way— whether it’s an almost win or not. Georgia had that insane come from 17 points down behind 8 OT win against Georgia Tech. Many such cases. There were multiple almost catches and almost plays in the Miami game. If Rueben Owen’s hangs on to a clear catch it’s in OT. But he didn’t and it’s a loss, period. Very good teams have some wins that they “shouldn’t” have had. Only a very few great teams clearly beat everyone up.
  4. It’s not realistic to talk about any program taking a step forward or backward until portal dust settles at this point. No one will know if you’re this year’s Indiana or this year’s ASU. A few things that IMO are indisputable: We haven’t won 10 plus games in over a decade and son getting to 11 is an important milestone. The SEC schedule shook out very favorably for us, although most pundits thought it was going to be very challenging when the season kicked off. It is very hard in college football to simply win all your games against teams that you have more talent than; and that’s been especially true for A&M. We did not suffer a genuine upset much less more than one, which has not been true for years. Under Elko, A&M has demonstrated intelligent and impactful use of the portal which is key for any team looking to win big. The players on the roster next year will match up decently against any team in the SEC. Elko got outcoached by Sark again and also we had a second year in a row where Reed devolved over home stretch of a season. The Klein replacement is going to be a key test. For a guy who preaches culture and disciplined football, he put a team on the field that drew tons of truly stupid penalties, idiot special teams, and undisciplined play on both sides of the ball. Bottom line: A set of ingredients are there for A&M to regularly contend for the CFP under the current and planned future formats. If Elko can simply continue avoiding the usual 1-2 bad upsets past Aggie teams were always good for, he is already down the road of getting there. It remains to be seen if he can elevate those ingredients beyond that, or even recreate this season’s real successes. All of us have had experience really nailing a dish and never doing it again. IMO he is on far better footing than Jimbo or Sumlin.
  5. It was sort of a given thing for white Protestant men to do who were aspiring or actual pillar of the community types. And it is true as well that an earlier generation of enlightenment/democratic types discussed these ideas at Masonic lodges. The analysis of Masonry as a secret society of powerful puppet masters, though, is very much on the “wet roads cause rain” level. Also very en vogue as a Tsarist bete noir, which is equally true for many ideas later adopted by schizos.
  6. Give it a shot @Hagbard Celine . I think it can be done in good faith. I wasn’t trying to spark a political discussion, but I don’t see how you can talk about the movie without acknowledging that it’s Trump-inflected if not inspired. In a prior era the too-close-to-reality version of America would look different; Lockjaw likely would have been CIA and his target Muslims. Which ties into the Reddit thread which got a lot of shit but has some element of truth: the French 75 is very clearly a 60s inspired activist revolutionary group of the type that simply doesn’t exist at all now. Today’s America hasn’t yet produced a Weather Underground or SLA type group.
  7. It cant be emphasized enough that these currents were all extremely modern and an attempt to work a framework of rationalism and historicism into a religious foundation. They were wrong, but that’s what it was. Many humbling similar lessons out there on various dead ends of Progress and Reason for those willing to see.
  8. Of all the things that didn’t happen, this guy smashing his face with a hammer didn’t happen the most. Go Google Jake Paul hospital photos to satisfy yourself that he did not achieve chiseled features via blunt force facial trauma. He’s just a full of shit online personality.
  9. The English have a state church and also a developed tendency to encourage their zealots to decamp for other parts of the Anglosphere. As a result they missed some real theological oddities and sped up secularization. However, it has long been clear that the secularism and rationalism trains are not only on different tracks, but often heading different directions. As evidenced by Mason conspiracy posting and public policy in the Year of our Lord 2025. This is in strong contention for most embarrassing statement— public institutions category in 2025, even with DJT in office.
  10. Starmer is in the middle of a PR crisis because he bragged about bringing “home” an Egyptian extremist who inherited his citizenship from a prior government víš his mother (who was born there while his grandma is a student) without ever setting foot in the UK. He was jailed in Egypt and became a minor cause. No sooner had he landed than a series of tweets emerged from his 30s where he called gay people “dirty homosexuals,” expressed a desire to work with bin Laden to kill Americans, and to engage in mass exterminations of white people. (Of course also the requisite calls to kill Zionists anywhere; which made the aforementioned OK). Several MPs who were on board have turned against him. If it is deflection, resurrecting a 40 year old Masonic conspiracy is the most brain dead way to go about it). So it will likely work.
  11. Since everyone is a mentally ill conspiracy theorist now, I shouldn’t be surprised but somehow I still am. The London Met has decided it needs to ferret out Freemasons in the ranks, apparently in an effort to appease other mentally ill people. It’s been a while since we had a good Masonry panic, maybe Nature is Healing?
  12. She looks like she’s being hunted or is in captivity in this photo. It’s like a still from Planet of the Apes. Not of the hot fur bikini wearing retrograde woman that the actor falls for, one of the extras cast for their Denisovian features.
  13. Counter-point: all of the best music was made when I was young, had a lot of time to listen to it, had a lot of intense emotional and formative experiences associated with the music, a hormone dump like being on drugs every day, and basically no real responsibilities or actual concerns. But now that I’m old and my life is the opposite of those things all the new music sucks.
  14. They wouldn’t be if people other than the owner weren’t feeding them. If you’ve been doing that then just wander over and leave the gate open one night, or get a trustworthy kid to do it. Leave some really fragrant treats outside if they are especially reluctant to come out. Take the dogs when they “escape”, next day wander over and knock on the door. Leave a note that you are watching the dogs and will take them to a shelter, leave a number. Go to a trustworthy a shelter, tell them the story: dogs got out, seemed they had been abandoned, house seemed empty. You want to adopt them after the waiting period, fill out the form then and there. Go get the dogs for adoption after they are not picked up and you and the neighbor lady can then either take them or figure out a good rehome situation. EP LEO are not going to be interested in cracking the case of the dogs that you tried to return after they got out and followed proper waiting times after their owners just left them for SPCA to come feed, assuming these assholes ever come back and want them.
  15. This has every indicator of a fake bullshit moral panic scam. It’s not that there aren’t incels or dudes obsessed with their appearance and making it better. But this shit as outlined by this podcaster is not an epidemic and I frankly don’t believe he really smashed himself with a hammer or injected his girlfriend with meth. (I didn’t and will not watch the videos). Now if you’ll excuse me I have a medical appointment to make, I am getting ribs removed so I can perform autofellatio.
  16. I agree, I think There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights are better. Part of that is PTA not being fully in or fully out of this being Trump’s America and so it occupies a weird space between explicitly political or more thematic about “big picture” America. 10 years down the line I think the first two will hold up better and be more relevant by choosing the latter clearly and by being anchored in a specific time/place but telling a more timeless story and character study. I think also in those two PTA lets his characters be complicated and always recognizably human, even the revolting characters, whereas Lockjaw is just the worst person in the world and we don’t know why really. Chase Infiniti killed it and will be a megawatt star. I think here also- she was a bit too mature, forgiving, ready with a quip, badass, and composed despite being raised by a pretty messed up single dad and thrust into a terrifying ordeal. Martial arts will only take you so far. I think also that she’s so clearly older than a teenager— and audiences do not react well to real depictions of terror and danger for kids so PTA for sure had a justification for that casting.
  17. My philosophy on chopping the trinity is the opposite: as small of a dice as I can do casually. I won’t obsess over it, but I want the chunkiness to be from the protein and okra (if using). I find that if you’re slurping down a bowl of gumbo, you don’t dislike onions and peppers though you may think you do; it’s not a salad or sandwich or fajita where you are getting them in big pieces you chew. It just kind of goes down. Not a criticism of @ROFL BOX . I am a bit of a fascist on cooking: I’ll accommodate allergies and religious restrictions, and if you warn me in advance I’ll do my best with vegan or vegetarian options. Beyond that, I cook what I like as good as I can and if it’s not your taste then I’m sorry you are so limited.
  18. I have apparently missed out that it has tremendous impact on people with amazing forms of mental illness. I admit my error. Many such cases.
  19. “Look, the dumbest and most racist person ever elected to Congress shares my thoughts on Israel” should prompt more introspection. (Side note, the Gaza plan which is just vaporware and terrible grift does not involve money to Israel).
  20. I am trying to think of a massive, record breaking property like Avatar that has less cultural impact. I cannot recall the names of any characters without thinking hard. No memorable dialogue. No musical earbugs. No real attempts to capitalize off of Avatar mania. No gifs or catchphrases or touchstone characters. I assume there are toys but it’s not like kids beg for the stuff. You go, you oooh and ahh over the special effects, you leave. It’s not like Cameron can’t do this: Titanic, Alien, Terminator— huge lasting cultural impact. But Avatar remains basically a massive SFX showpiece that doesn’t resonate beyond that. The only real impact I can think of is the SNL Papyrus sketch which is ironically about Avatar being bland and generic.
  21. Me, geeked up on meth and getting arrested after running over a pedestrian: “We’re just looksmaxxing, officer.”
  22. Mid-range is likely the worst place to shop for fridges and appliances. Appliance guys I talk to say the same thing: Whirlpool or Frigidaire, no ice-maker or dispenser, top freezer. Simplest and will run for as long as the compressor will. I’m happy with the Frigidaire we have. Interior plastics even on high-end models now are mostly shit.
  23. Comedy is awful in large part because comics crawled up their own asses and began performing for each other and putting out endless meta content about themselves and their philosophy of comedy instead of just telling jokes and being funny. It was always clear that it’s harder than it looks and that comics are mostly self-loathing and nasty and back-biting. And that they have rivalries and beefs. All that stuff is supposed to be behind the scenes. For the audience there should just be jokes. Let us believe you’re a funny person telling jokes. We really don’t want to know you, we want to enjoy the character you play. All the performing arts are like this. I don’t want a podcast on YoYoMa’s theories of practice or hours of him just jawboning with musicians. It’s mildly interesting to know that Daniel Day Lewis is a madman method actor— at most that’s a few magazine profiles. I just want to watch him chew the scenery as Bill the Butcher. Also their feuds and beefs are boring and stupid and no one wants to hear it. Hollywood gossip is vaguely fun because beautiful people sleeping with each other is inherently fascinating. Funny men griping about their problems with other funny men is anti-comedy.
  24. They are both terrible people and a big part of the movie is that Bob/Pat is Charlene/Willia’s real family because the other two actively harm her. “Pussy is for war, the guns is the fun” is her credo. Most people look at that in the frame of her imbalanced but quasi-consensual involvement with Lockjaw, but it applies to her treatment of Pat. We first see her having sex with him after seeing his explosives expertise and asking him “do you like black girls?” After a confirmed yes, she has sex with him but abandons him after he asks her to stop shooting shit and settle down and take care of their daughter. She was using him all along to keep him around blowing stuff up for the French 75 and once he was done, he was no longer instrumentally useful. Neither he or her daughter mean anything and she dumped them when needed. She drinks while pregnant, murders an innocent man (who is black so it’s bad even in the warped ethics of the French 75), she cares more about chaos than her “cause.” And when she is down she rats on her group and runs away— again causing danger to Charlene and Bob instead of, for example, making their safety a condition of her ratting. Her name means treachery, you aren’t supposed to like her. As I mentioned, this isnt a nuanced film in a lot of ways.
  25. Now just getting actual NBA players to come play midseason. This was totally worth just letting the kids do a local car commercial. He scored points this weekend for the Bulls.
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