Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I think the idea is that the 'vessel' that bore Christ had to be without original sin, so Mary was born sinless to bear Him.

yup

Xtianity is bizarre

i thought it just meant the conception of jesus was done without sin (filthy horrifying sinful human sexual activity) not that she was born "pure"
are you serious?

i learnt that from here: Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

(2011)

I didn't know this either, but wikipedia confirms it

wow
well i'm glad i decided at age 7 that christianity/catholicism wasn't for me -- at least it didn't take me forever to learn that

tbh there is no age I have been at where I haven't learned some bit of catholic minutiae that has blown my mind

it's a heck of an institution and swarm of beliefs

feel like i really should have known that too, but i didn't

otoh i'm not catholic, and it's really silly

There's a lot of lore around the birth of the messiah that maybe hasn't traveled down the centuries.
Joseph is made a lot more 3dimensional in medieval lore from what i've seen. Seems to have a backstory that show's him to be an old man or middle aged which turns up in folk songs etc.

& various heresies came up about how sacred exactly Christ and his mother were appeared and caused rifts in the church that needed to be sorted out.

tbh the immaculate conception thing is a really convoluted dive into the “humans are born with sin” thing and leads to some really dumb and philosophical questions, like: are miscarried babies in hell or purgatory, because they weren’t baptized! wait, do we think purgatory is real now? and is there a limbo, because purgatory sounds harsh so maybe there’s another thing too

recent popes have weighed in with stances like “hmm, maybe”

it's almost as if insisting on the literal reality of a single ludicrous impossibility has extensive implications that require all sorts of mental gymnastics

honestly I think very few of the clergy give a shit and it’s mostly really pedantic parishioners bugging them with questions

“do you think jesus had a boat?”
“uh he was a carpenter but lived inland and uh... ask the bishop”

Love Island isn't an island

Why would Jesus need a boat? His best friends are fishermen and when they're not around, well...

The other day I accidentally ordered a pack of AAAA batteries. That's right, AAAA. Who knew?

ai ai ai ai

I didn't know that about the Immaculate Conception until tonight.

Jesus can walk on water so does He really need a boat?

if you had a bag of fish on land, youd want a van, right?

AAAA batteries reminding me that is a thing but I seldom buy batteries and have screwed up AA/AAA enough to swear a lot

batteries are such bullshit

if there’s a rechargeable option i always take it regardless of the cost, because fuck buying stupid little packets of bastard batteries

Love Island isn't an island

It was in the original Lee Sharpe and him off Hollyoaks version

I've just realised that Lipps Inc is a pun on lip-synch. Only took me 38 years.

I had no idea!

I think I only clocked Lipps Inc when it appeared on puns that you had missed

honestly I think very few of the clergy give a shit and it’s mostly really pedantic parishioners bugging them with questions

“do you think jesus had a boat?”
“uh he was a carpenter but lived inland and uh... ask the bishop”

― mh, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEy0ZtNe8s

wow.. i had no idea how much he sounded like lenny bruce back then. it's practically an impression

(^ very much on topic)

tbh there is no age I have been at where I haven't learned some bit of catholic minutiae that has blown my mind

it's a heck of an institution and swarm of beliefs

― mh

I just heard someone on the radio say that the day of rest is Sunday because Catholics "worship the sun."

David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" solo, one of the most iconic Straty solos of all time, was played on a Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups.

Wasn't the term Catholic originally used to denote the wide array of beliefs being covered within the original versions of the religion before such things as heresy started becoming buzzwords and the like.
& anyway isn't Christianity one of teh most Syncretic of religions anyway? Not sure what facets of it are actually original and not just picked up from preceding religions in the areas that it has covered.

David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" solo, one of the most iconic Straty solos of all time, was played on a Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups.

Al Ewing is Tom's brother

good god am I dumb

Wtf...

Or maybe I'm thinking of the "Another Brick in the Wall" solo - which is even Strat-ier? Or maybe both songs?

Yeah, my bad, it's the Goldtop on "Another Brick in the Wall!"

Al Ewing is Tom's brother

good god am I dumb

― mh, Saturday, July 14, 2018 4:41 AM (thirty minutes ago)

wait until you hear about ILX posters Vic Fluro and the Groke

Mick Ronson and Mark Ronson not the same guy

when Mark Ronson first turned up as the son of a classic rocker, the thing to learn was that he was Mick Jones' son, not Mick Ronson's

then you had to learn that it was a different Mick Jones

how far we've come

^^^things I learned just now

I don't think I had any trouble with multiple Mick Joneses and multiple Roger Taylors. For some reason the Ronsons were a blind spot.

I think it was Tracer that posted somewhere about being able to eat kiwis with the skin still on. I totally never knew you could do this. It tastes almost exactly the same. So many years wasted... on peeling kiwis.

Eating them with their skin on was something I discovered for myself independently some years ago (probably pre-ILX). It's probably my most creative act, along with cutting pizza with kitchen scissors.

Oh, and that you can stop unwanted laughter by thinking sexual thoughts.

I got through high school without really grasping that the possessive pronoun 'its' shouldn't have an apostrophe before the 's'. I shudder to think how many times I typed it incorrectly.

Dear dairy, the most extraordinary thing happened today. I witnessed Dawkins getting masterfully BOTHA'ed on twitter and on reflection this is very big and clever and funny as fuck!

lol

This is the thread we tend to use for youthful misreadings of words not heard aloud, yes? I was thinking the other day about how when I was a kid I always used to read the word bedraggled as “bed-raggled”, which made sense to me as it meant looking like you’d just got out of bed

I still read bedraggled like that.