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Cake day: September 6th, 2024

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  • In my mind, I always envisioned a scene that explains why Christianity struggled to take off in India.

    I imagine an old missionary, some old missionary in a robe, holding a Bible, talking to the locals in India and telling them about Jesus.

    Missionary: “And that is why you should follow the teachings of Christ!”

    Local, thumbing through Bible: “you know, you’re right. This Jesus guy does sound really great. Thanks for telling us about him!”

    Missionary: “wonderful! So you’ll worship him as your Lord and savior?”

    Local: “Sure! Alright boys, add this Jesus guy to the wall!”

    Camera pans over, and some stone mason starts adding the name Jesus to a large wall listing hundreds of various gods, in a position of no particular centrality or importance.

    <Missionary curses and wanders off.>





  • I was also never sure how to separate “things” from “experiences.” Is a fancy cocktail while I’m on a beach vacation a thing or an experience? If I buy a new table saw for my hobby woodshop is that a thing or a experience?

    We don’t normally buy things and then bury them in a hole in the ground. We buy them because we intend to use them, even if that use is just for decoration. Our things enable experiences, and our experiences require things.

    The line between thing and experience has always been very blurry to me.




  • Americans love overcomplicating things in general, and particularly love using overly specific and technical names for stuff. There’s acronyms everywhere, and things are named after weird technicalities. Like nobody says “retirement account”, they call it “401(k)”, named after the paragraph in the law which defines it.

    As a plus, I can greatly confuse and terrify an Irish person by telling them about the thousands I send “to the old IRA” every year. 😂