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[Pnx]

The new prequel page ends with a weird effect. Take a look!

How is this possible? 0_0

Yeah, I thought the Prequel effect was really cool, not precisely sure what process is being used to make it though.

Weird effect, eh? Try this out for size.

Heh, that kind of stuff is fun.

[Karnewarrior]

I think walking on coals is traditional in some asian religions. Probably Hinduism, could be Buddhism. As far as I'm aware, the Hindu are more likely to look at their body and go "FUCK THIS SHIT" than the Buddhists (Isn't the middle path like, don't hurt yourself but don't care about your body either? That's what I gathered from World Religions...)

[Putnam]

The middle path is "don't hurt yourself, but don't engorge yourself", methinks. Temperance and whatnot.

[Karnewarrior]

Yeah. It's basically Siddartha looking at Hindu Acseticism and saying, "good idea, but maybe starving yourself and drinking your own urine is taking it a little too far. Surely there has to be a better way to break Moksha than wiping yourself with your hands."

Not to mention he managed to start a new religion without completely fracturing the base. Even JESUS got the Jews into a knot with his preaching. Buddha must've been pretty fucking chill.

[SalmonGod]

Yeah. It's basically Siddartha looking at Hindu Acseticism and saying, "good idea, but maybe starving yourself and drinking your own urine is taking it a little too far. Surely there has to be a better way to break Moksha than wiping yourself with your hands."

Not to mention he managed to start a new religion without completely fracturing the base. Even JESUS got the Jews into a knot with his preaching. Buddha must've been pretty fucking chill.

Siddhartha's legend is pretty neat, from what I remember. 

Nice guys may finish last, but they also seem to be the only people who start major religions... with L. Ron Hubbard arguably being the exception.


Edit:   Just spotted this advertisement on Youtube.  What the fuck does this random badly rendered 3d baby have to do with anything?  It's creepy looking.

[kaijyuu]

please, for the love of god, be a joke...

Why does a conspiracy video have such awesome background music?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Re: Walking on burning coals.

It's just a trick. Really, it's just a trick. The surface area you are exposed to prevents your feet from being burnt at all, unless the setup is wrong or you do something utterly moronic like substitute pine wood for coal, as I once heard.

[Knight of Fools]

Mythbusters did the walking on coals thing. It has something to do with surface area + time of contact + amount of pressure. Too much of any of those gets your feet roasted.

So, basically stay calm and walk normally on them and you'll be fine.

[Loud Whispers]

Mythbusters did the walking on coals thing. It has something to do with surface area + time of contact + amount of pressure. Too much of any of those gets your feet roasted.

So, basically stay calm and walk normally on them and you'll be fine.

And then they made Adam walk on the coals without telling him to just walk calmly. He burnt the crap out of his feet.

[Frumple]

That... that was an incredibly violent dream, as my dreams go. On the flip side, I am apparently the prettiest kyuuki, according to the insanity themed gang myself and a few others just spent like a half hour violently murdering. Won an all expense paid resort vacation for myself and whoever I wanted to invite. Invited everyone present, which included what was left of all the dudes I was just violently killing. Cheering~

... what the Christ just happened. One of my allies turned into a spinning murder coat rack with like, spindly wooden arms that killed people.

You... you can't actually stop a rocket launcher/rpg from going off by sticking a shotgun down the barrel, I... I think?

Shotgun-assault rifle dual wield is hilariously impractical. It shouldn't have been working, especially not used primarily as melee weapons!

Goddamn. Dream brain apparently had a field day this time. Four hours sleep good (?) for that, I guess...?

[RedKing]

I think walking on coals is traditional in some asian religions. Probably Hinduism, could be Buddhism. As far as I'm aware, the Hindu are more likely to look at their body and go "FUCK THIS SHIT" than the Buddhists (Isn't the middle path like, don't hurt yourself but don't care about your body either? That's what I gathered from World Religions...)

Just to put my .02 in, walking on coals isn't a thing in Taoism. There's probably some internal alchemy disciplines that would claim to *let* you walk on fire (or fly, or leap over mountains, or walk through walls, etc.) but it's not a monastic practice or anything. Main practices that I'm aware of are getting drunk (Eight Immortals school) and controlled orgasm (no particular school, sometimes found in folklore as "dark" Taoism, particularly by evil women/fox spirits who use it vampirically).

And yes, that's WTF-worthy on its own. A religion whose "ascetic" practices are getting drunk and getting laid. Makes you wonder why on Earth it's not more widespread. 

[Frumple]

Yeah... the getting laid is a thing in Buddhism and hinduism, too, from what I understand. Not exactly primary schools (for some unfathomable reason ) but definitely there. It's kind of refreshing to know about, in an odd sense.

[Nadaka]

Finally, a religion I can get behind...

giggity.

[Nadaka]

Lets ignore the serious part of this news article for a moment.

http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-brotherhood-accusation-leads-threat-against-huma-abedin-214443208.html

I just discovered that Anthony Wieners wifes name is Huma Abedin.

Her name is Huma Abedin Wiener.

Abedin Wiener.

This is the funniest thing I have heard this year.

[Truean]

I think my girlfriend's boyfriend has vastly different expectations of the amount of time they should spend together than she does.

I come over, and she knows I like wearing cute outfits, so she tosses a summer dress at me, I slip it on and we watch TV together on the couch.  Her boyfriend comes through the door. He came over and was not amused.... "What's HE doing here?" She even called him on it a bit, but mostly witha look. She sorta gave him a shrug while tilting her head at me and looking at him a lil wide eyed. I sorta just slumped into the couch a bit.... It was kind of an implied, "really, how much gayer do you want for me to hang out with before you stop being upset "he's" a "boy?"

I suppose he might have seen me as an odd little third wheel and she just wanted time with a girlfriend or whatever. He's said some mean things before but she sorta glared at him. I have to say I appreciate her protection . I think we're both sorta.... I don't wanna say emotionally needy, because I'm not sure the term applies, but we both have the comfort area with some light cuddles (I get that you prolly don't do that, and that's cool). I listen to everything going on with her and she lets me wear her clothes. Her boyfriend seems furious at this; not sure why. I really wonder if he would pull this if her friend were born a girl.... He might, actually, but I'd say a.) Less likely and less loudly, and b.) she'd have more ground somehow to say "she's my friend."

You'd think people would want more well rounded partners. Maybe there might be a problem between them and he wants to be more intimate (not like that, you know what I mean and it isn't that in this instance) with her and feels she has that with me but not him. I dunno though. I'm not entirely sure there isn't an intimacy you can have with other girls that you can't have with guys. Assuming I'm lucky enough to be considered a girl....yeah.
She'll try to talk about her feelings to him and he's sorta unsure of what to say. LIke he's not consciously ignoring her, but he has no clue at all. I don't know if she can have that type of connection with him. Meanwhile I am somehow caught in the middle.

So, he's jealous of his girlfriend spending time with the clearly gay (I'm in a dress shyly sitting on the couch at this point) friend? What... what does he think is gonna happen here?