tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post585098237366123439..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: It's a Tangent!Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-40825447070863318972014-12-02T21:17:57.582-08:002014-12-02T21:17:57.582-08:00"please tell me I'm not the only one wond...<b>"please tell me I'm not the only one wondering when the bow-chicka-wow-wow music is going to start? "</b><br /> <br />You know, for all the subtext in Supernatural, no male character ever actually remarked on the size of another male character's muscles. Geez, they'd give the guys from Top Gun a run for their money.<br /><br />So no, it's not just you.<br /><br /><b>Ellanjay [have] Luke weasel out of it by saying, <i>“No, that wouldn’t be right. But we can sure slow them down, don’t you think?”</i></b><br /><br />And then Luke and his new friends Sonic and Tails went off to defeat the evil Dr Robotnik and save all the creatures of the forest. [feel free to swap out Sonic The Hedgehog for the saturday morning cartoon of your choice]<br /> <br /><b>There's a brief interlude as he watches Nicky go by and wonders if Nicky can read his thoughts. Chang tests this by thinking about how Nicky is evil incarnate, but because he's protected by God, Chang's safe. </b><br /> <br />No no no Chang, that's not how you do !!SCIENCE!! When experimenting, always change one variable at a time. If you change your thoughts to "evil incarnate" AND change the expression on your face to a smug sneer, it invalidates the experiment. <br /> <br />And possibly gets you straight up murdered by Satan.<br /> <br />But mainly invalidates the test. Won't somebody think of the data integrity?Quasarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09398018171200335379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-65336274665446826812014-12-01T02:46:21.092-08:002014-12-01T02:46:21.092-08:00Aron's grip on reality was never very strong, ...Aron's grip on reality was never very strong, and when not being observed by a primary character he tends to dissolve into the amorphous cloud of background NPCs.<br /><br />Y'know, bounty hunters usually show up when regular law enforcement doesn't have the manpower to cover an area: it's a way of swapping money for extra people. But the GC has all the manpower in the world, literally: it runs the cops, and it's got all those former soldiers with nothing to do. (Whom it really ought to be training up for the final battle at Megiddo. "This is a seraph. Vulnerable spots are between the second and third pairs of wings.") It shouldn't <i>need</i> bounty hunters! But I guess bounty hunters are a thing that happens in a post-apocalyptic world, and therefore they're included here.<br /><br />Hah. Amateurs. Everyone knows the gun is good, the penis is evil.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-30448372422205551122014-11-30T17:08:47.374-08:002014-11-30T17:08:47.374-08:00It has been explained to me that Satan's role ...It has been explained to me that Satan's role is similar to that of a prosecuting attorney.aunursanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-22863034055349474972014-11-30T15:56:16.328-08:002014-11-30T15:56:16.328-08:00That's an interesting link, aunursa. Thanks fo...That's an interesting link, aunursa. Thanks for posting it. I'm not a Jew, but my impression from the Old Testament is that Satan's role was more akin to well the old role of "Devil's Advocate" in the Catholic Church in that he took the opposite position to explore an issue further. In fact, besides the whole Garden of Eden story, I think the only Old Testament story in which Satan plays a part and isn't just mentioned in passing, is the Book of Job. You may correct me if I'm wrong. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-70146469052547852272014-11-30T11:45:44.153-08:002014-11-30T11:45:44.153-08:00"Satan is being allowed to deceive, kill, and...<i>"Satan is being allowed to deceive, kill, and destroy like never before. I don’t understand it either, except to say that Satan can only do the things God allows."<br /><br />Yeah, Satan is being real destructive what with his prophets committing such eeeevils as making poisoned water drinkable, resurrecting the dead, and healing the sick, which we all know is totally what Jesus wouldn't do.</i><br /><br />"This Christian notion that Satan, in an act of outright defiance, ceased to function as God had intended him to, suggests that God created something imperfect or defective.<br /><br />For the Jewish faith, Satan’s purpose in seducing man away from God poses no problem because Satan is only an agent of God. As a servant of the Almighty, Satan faithfully carries out the divine will of his Creator as he does in all his tasks.<br />...<br />Throughout the [Hebrew] Bible, an angel is a messenger of God who carries out the divine will of the Almighty. There is not one example in the Jewish Scriptures where any angel, Satan included, ever opposes God’s will.<br /><br />In essence, Satan is an agent of God, and has no free will or independent existence."<br /><br />Rabbi Tovia Singer of <a href="http://outreachjudaism.org/who-is-satan/" rel="nofollow">Outreach Judaism</a>aunursanoreply@blogger.com