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I wish I still had my click wheel iPod…

Me too! I recently put Linux on it and it runs like a brand new computer.

Read somewhere back in the day that Jesus was probably around 4’10” because that was about the average height of people then.

Ironically, that shape is known as a transverse cross (one of the many shapes of crucis that Romans used for crucifixion).

Will they at least let Godzilla have a story that reflects his top billing? The last two of these have been Kong films.

So, Anglican theologians like John Keble and John Henry Newman (who later converted to Roman Catholicism) built off of a notion advanced by the 16th Century Anglican Divines that viewed Anglican Christianity as a distinct branch that developed alongside Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Things like the Synod of Whitby are cited as evidence that the Roman church worked hard to bring this distinct form of the church inline with Roman polity and practices (in some views Celtic Christianity is viewed as being part of this wider “English” branch of the faith). This resulted in a long-standing tenuous relationship with English Christianity and the Catholicism of continental Europe (reflected in things like the Sarum rite, etc.). So when the Reformation happened, this gave the opportunity for English Christianity to pick up where they left off and live into that distinct mode of being.

Given this, according to branch theory proponents, there would be Anglicans in the 900s. They were just put under the veil of Roman Christianity at the time.

[contemplates going on a tangent about the Branch Theory of Anglican identity, decides against it]

Pope Scott the Unknowledgeable

Yeah, there’s a BUNCH of Latin American Catholics that would read “Marxism = anti-religion” as news to them. (See: Liberation Theology)

As an Episcopal priest myself, I’ll be keeping an eye on this story… I guess since we’re the “wrong” kind of Christians (y’know, because we do same-sex marriages and have LGBT+ clergy and all), a Republican has no problem trying to steal one of our churches out from under us.

Same. I also have a different experience with tea (tend to get a more even distribution of “energy” throughout the day whereas coffee gives me a jolt). I understand that it has something to do with how we metabolize the caffeine molecule in different contexts (which includes how it is carried into our bodies).

I read a thing several years back that argued for a distinction between caffeine and theine—the name for the molecule as it appears in tea. This is because, iirc, caffeine is found in the oils of the coffee bean and theine is found in the tannins of the tea leaf. The human body metabolizes oils and tannins differently, resulting in different absorption times (for lack of a better term). When it comes to energy drinks, the caffeine is either synthesized or isolated from a carrier (oil or tannins) and is thus metabolized differently from both coffee and tea.

My wife cannot drink coffee. But she can drink strong teas fine (including matcha, which has a higher concentration of theine/caffeine than coffee). She seems to be sensitive to the oil-based metabolic process (which is supposedly quicker than with tannins) and it gives her brain fog and an inability to concentrate (plus shakes).

looks around room Okay, who put the camera in here? It’s not funny…