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The "I" in that verse is Paul, telling Timothy how righteous people should behave. Doesn't really make it much better unless you speculate that he's actually making a veiled reference to a certain woman who really is out of line and that this counsel is in response to an extreme case (same with the "young widows are wicked seductresses, old widows are righteous" thing later on in that epistle), but at that point you're just inventing unknown historical context. Just wanted to clarify who "I" is in that verse, though.

Yes. It's a cosplay style called animegao kigurumi. ("Animegao"="anime face", "kigurumi"=I don't remember but something to do with wearing something) Most masks are just static, but for a while I followed the progress of a maskmaker/cosplayer who managed to rig up their masks so you could make them wink or blink by moving your mouth.

Fun fact speaking of anesthesia, that same doctor is credited as the first British surgeon to use anesthesia. (It was near the end of his career.)

Have a cliche scene where Sonic doesn't want to/is too scared to be the hero, a refusal-of-the-call-before-the-climax kind of thing. Cop guy convinces him by telling him about his namesake, Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the creature was named after Sonic the Hedgehog because they're both blue and fast, but Sonic the Hedgehog is the fictional legend that Sonic the alien has to live up to. The world needs a hero like Sonic, but he doesn't actually exist, so the alien has to step up and be that hero. (Robotnik's just crazy and became an Eggman-themed supervillain.) This way Sonic can act "out of character" and have lightning powers and stuff, Sonic the Hedgehog can still be important and be put on a pedestal, and the movie can be even more in the "real world" on Earth. And it'd only take one fairly stock scene.

If you only had the two sections fiction and non-fiction, where would you put outdated and incorrect textbooks? Not saying that they're the same as Bibles, just that your Watchmen example made me think of other cases of contains-fact-and-fiction. Like a chemistry textbook with the Bohr model of the atom, or a biology textbook saying Watson and Crick discovered DNA instead of that they described its shape, or a history textbook saying Christopher Columbus spread disease to native Americans (specifically in North America, where he never was). They have truths and were written to be non-fiction, but also do include some falsehoods, even if by accident or ignorance.

There was also the difference between CD-R and CD-RW. CD-RW was kind of like a flashdrive, because you could write and overwrite it as much as you wanted. Once you wrote to a CD-R, though, that was it. Better hope you didn't make a mistake in your playlist or you had to buy another CD.

That artist has a better idea than most depictions. The gorilla used "related" instead of "ancestor" or "descendant", implying a hypothesized common ancestor instead of a linear descendancy.

Not a psychiatrist, but another difference is that things and events make you sad, while depression just happens. (Depression can also make you sad) Depression is also long-term. Oh, also, important: "just" being sad instead of being depressed isn't a weaker form of emotion that needs less care. Sadness isn't a chemical imbalance in the brain like depression is, so you don't need pills, but you still have just as much claim on the sympathy of others and the comforts of friends and things that cheer you up as a depressed person does.

(other guest) Pretty sure that's Oriana Thomson from A Certain Magical Index.
Anime details: a dude with no powers in a world where most people have powers continually saves the day. He actually does have a power, the power to negate other people's powers. People are split among Science or Magic, with the Science people being further split among various groups vying for power and control over Academy City and the Magic people being split among various churches (because religion = magic) vying for power and control over the world.
Character details: she's on the magic side, but wants to help people in general. Her powers involve pre-preparing spells on paper so she's extremely versatile with her magic but also doesn't really use the same spell twice. She's also got good hand-to-hand skills and definitely knows that she's attractive and uses that to her advantage. She's shown up in two of the arcs so far over three seasons of the anime adaptation.

I don't know the water situation, but for the homeless some justifications (valid or not) are A) it lets them get handouts from people instead of being incentivized to go to a shelter where homelessness can be better addressed but requires more effort (eg. helping someone break a drug habit that's been keeping them homeless), B) well-meaning but poorly-trained people who don't know about food safety can make homeless people sick with their meals, C) if they can rely on the kindness of strangers, homeless people will stick around instead of going somewhere else and being some other city's problem, D) for the amount of money and effort it costs you to make a meal for the homeless, a charity organization could make several meals, so feeding the homeless by yourself is a waste of resources that could be multiplied if you volunteered at/donated to a charity organization. These are the most common arguments I've heard. I'll leave judgement to others as to how good the arguments are.

"world champion"

(Edit: I agree that rugby is a tougher sport than football, though. Although having a rugby team play a football team because both sports have tackling and an oblong ball would be like a pole vaulter competing against a hurdler because they both involve jumping over stuff on a track.)

"The All Blacks would beat both of them combined." Maybe if the game was rugby, yeah, but not a chance if it's football. Honestly, the two sports don't have that much in common. Rugby's got more similarities to soccer and hockey than football.

Yes, the wound got infected and the infection killed him. However, the bolt was removed by a surgeon who apparently wasn't very skilled or careful, so the infection could have been from the shot or the surgery. (Still, even if it was the surgeon's fault, the boy was the one who shot him, so he gets the credit either way.)

(other guest) I'm a senior in college. I'm currently going through the proccess of dropping a class because of a professor like this. (Many other reasons, but the final straw was two classes in a row of "hey, remember what I taught you last time? Okay, good, no need to move on to the next thing. Now, try and argue that Trump is right about trade policies and I'll tell you why you and he are wrong. No, we're not going to continue with the scheduled content for today that's actually relevant to the class. And if you run out of arguments, I'll just make some up to tear down.") This is the first class that's ever been this bad. So, these professors do exist, but at least in my experience, they're uncommon.

How many parents do you think picked a child's name like this?

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Artist is Will Burke.

She literally said she loved him and would keep him in her prayers. You can love someone without approving of their actions or compromising your beliefs.

That part was just accounting for the case of "so if I make sure I never learn the law, I am exempt from it" attitude, not specifically aimed at the joke. My bad for pre-emptive defending. In the case of the hypothetical situation of the joke, it'd go "if I didn't know about this stuff, would I go to hell?" "No, but you'd learn about it eventually and then make your choice." "Then why did you tell me?" "Well, for all I know, you've been looking for this stuff your whole life. How would you know if I might have satisfactory answers for you if I didn't let you know?" It's kind of like if you find a book or show or music you really like and also have a friend and know it'd also become a favorite of theirs. Are you going to wait for them to say "so, got any books/shows/music to recommend?", or are you going to find them and go "Hey, check this out, you'll love it!" ?

Also the priest in the joke is wrong. If you don't know the gospel, you get taught after you die. Your character sticks with you, though, so going "lalala, don't wanna listen so I can sin now and learn when I'm dead" is a good indicator of refusing to listen in the afterlife too, and then yes, you go to "hell" (well, more like you go to heaven but not the best heaven. Like winning a million dollars when the grand prize was two million dollars and a speedboat.) But basically, you're going to learn sooner or later, so might as well make it sooner and get a head start.

Although lately I keep waking up at 2am and fall back asleep and the dream resumes but now as a nightmare. Like the first half is me being taken in by a kind family and having dinner with them and the second half is them wanting my corpse to animate as a slave as payment and trying to bludgeon me to death when I show signs of not cooperating.

Solid criteria right there, @unklethan.