Anyone want a free star war [game]? I have GOG keys for Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga and SW Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, if you want either/or pls comment or DM me
i also have Styx: Master of Shadows if you want an older sneaky beaky game
I'm going to see Revenge of the Sith tomorrow, very curious if the big screen will enhance the experience. I love that stupid shitty movie and I'm genuinely excited to see it in the theater for the first time
(no spoilers) I just finished ep3 and I'm so fucking happy this show is still peak. I was afraid they were going to libbify it but nope, they're going even harder now on showing the raw truth of fascism. I was genuinely shocked by some of the things this Star Wars show portrays. I can't recommend the show enough it's phenomenal (I wish we had some Andor emotes)
There should be a CW for attempted SA on ep3, just an fyi for anyone looking to watch.
Only the first 3 episodes are out right now and they form a full story arc. The rest of the season is supposedly 3ep arcs as well with time skips between them.
Just want to add an interesting note here regarding this line and one other that I learned from my favorite professor in college, absolutely brilliant scholar who was like an encyclopedia of New Testament studies. Supposedly this line is intended as a double entendre that only Jesus' audience of common people would have fully understood - on the surface it sounds like "give to Caesar what belongs to him" meaning taxes, fealty, etc. But it can also be interpreted as "give Caesar what he deserves", meaning revolutionary violence against the Roman state.
Another example is the "turn the other cheek" saying. In the culture of the time, if you slapped a person with the back of your hand, that was a sign you considered them your inferior or subordinate. Slapping with the palm of your hand was reserved for people you considered your equal. (it might be the other way around but you get the idea) So if a Roman solider backhanded you, and you turned your other cheek towards them, they'd have to palmslap you if they wanted to hit you again, acknowledging you as their equal.
Granted I learned this stuff well over a decade ago so take it with a grain of salt. The language, translation, and interpretation of the texts is a HUGE factor in how Christianity in particular develops. Similar to how:
The lines from the Pauline epistles that seem to refer to homosexuality generally are largely about the practice of pederasty in Roman culture, if you understand the original, Greek texts
Not to detract from your other points about the modern Western understanding of Christian theology (esp among white evangelicals), I just find the academic study of the Bible very enlightening for these reasons. Ultimately reactionary forces will push whatever interpretation benefits them and the status quo the most. The "original texts" don't hold a lot of value for a dialectical materialist analysis.
over correcting into enthusiastic support for religion can also be problematic.
I don't generally see this happen around here, I feel hexbear users have pretty even-keeled views on religion as a whole, barring those with religious trauma who are completely justified in their negative views. I'd certainly never allow outright evangelism anywhere on the site. And as others have said, the christianity comm is barely alive, same with /c/judaism, and /c/islam has been locked forever due to lack of mods. This is not a site that's enthusiastic about religion.
Trying to decide what class to play for my first solo Baldurs Gate 3 run and the paladin oaths all seem too easy to break for completely unintuitive reasons. Like each oath reads like a random comfortable lib's worldview with tenets like "loyalty", "honesty", "The Law(TM)", with the ingame results being completely morally incoherent. If your oath says you have to keep your word, and you lie to and betray an objectively evil person in the game, ayy lmao our oath is broken! The gods hate you now! Deeply unserious Bethesda-ass system
This is a ridiculously defensive response that doesn't reflect the discussion in this thread at all. Read The Will to Change by bell hooks