Yeah, the debate over the nature of how exactly sacrament works and what the purpose is not a singular belief in Christianity and like the Trinity is one of the things that has been debated within councils and philosophy endlessly. The Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are the main two that hold it physically becomes the body and blood of Jesus. The big Protestant churches run the gamut of “body and blood is present but it’s still bread and wine” to “present in spirit” to “this is bread and wine; the act is symbolic”. That’s also why some can substitute grape juice or water and the act is still valid.

2 Peter 1:4 - “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature,having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”

John 17:21-23 - “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation, circa 318–325 CE - “He became man so that we might become god.”

The concept is called theosis and is developed largely from those two verses and was further contemplated by early Catholics. Whether you become one with the godhead, like unto the godhead, or, such as in Mormonism, can literally become a god-being (though not the God) yourself varies by sect. Most agree that the communion does infer some sort of divine combining of one’s self with the god power. You can also see this concept in the idea of “invite Jesus into your heart”, or the gift of the Holy Spirit. Somehow some part of god is dwelling in you and you are a part of god.

Sacrifice is a common theme in a lot of religions. The victim is offered to the diety, killed, and then consumed; the followers get whatever they were after, which could be atonement, a blessing, grace, etc. In Christianity theology, the man-god Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice, ending the need to attain atonement with animal sacrifice. His instructions were to ritualistically eat bread (his body) and drink wine (his blood) as the atonement ritual. Different sects have differing opinions on where this is purely symbolic (most Protestants) or if through transubstantiation it literally becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus (Catholics). At the end of the day, you’re either symbolically or literally eating Jesus. By the doctrine though, it’s not pure cannibalism since Jesus is a god incarnate, but that’s what theologically makes it a step up over other forms of sacrifice; eat god, become like god.

Their holy book is filled with rape, murder, genocide, incest, and ritualized cannibalism in the name of their god. It ends with them going to heaven while everyone else gets burned for eternity. There probably are decent people who get involved, but their decency does not stem from their religion. It’s a psychological coping mechanism that has become a good old boys club that holds itself as morally unaccountable to anyone but god for their actions. In the real world, people expect others to either not be an asshole, or if they are, actually atone by paying the consequences and change their ways, not just whisper some words to the sky and announce “all good, I’m forgiven”. You can insert a lot of other religions in here- do wrong, be sheltered from consequences by your cult, or if even they can’t protect you, double down on refusing to take accountability because you don’t think you answer to other humans.

I’m curious to watch how the privatization of public lands plays out in the West. The libertarians and party first conservatives voted for Mr. New York City, they aren’t going to be happy when he sells off the land their cattle graze on to his buddies, sells their water to his tech bros to cool their data centers, and some fuckwad from Texas buys up all the prime hunting units but never visits. They’re already flabbergasted that ICE stole their labor force, they were supposed to take someone else’s labor force!

Iran didn’t have to develop the tech itself. Clearly they have captured a Predator.

And it made people more likely to steal cars.

Well, he wasn’t invited back for Home Alone 3.

This is America Ferrera erasure and I won’t stand for it.

This is what happens when your entire party wants to play paladins.

Dumbasses. Everyone knows the spell for kickstarting the Apocalypse is found in the Book of Vile Darkness, not Exalted Deeds.

That’s why nobody can find theirs anymore.

“The suspect had a dozen copies of a 10hr looped video of a man shattering a jar in his anus on their phone.”

Have fun watching that, detective.

Imagine all the knowledge we gained and lost before we invented writing. Some of it probably got relearned, or survived orally until someone wrote it down, but there’s undoubtedly human knowledge that has ceased to exist. Like how to hunt mammoths. At best we speculate and use clues to reconstruct, but we still don’t know in a manner that would have been taught generation to generation among people who relied on them.

Providing energy absorption 10000yrs into the future, even at the edge of a subduction zone. No more plate tectonics for you.

Legends era glup shittofication would have told us he once bought a shipment of space beer from a brewery on Ord Mantel that sourced their water from Tatooine and the money spent was just what Owen needed to buy medicine to save Luke’s life when he was five. The Star Wars we know would never have happened if every background character that ever appeared didn’t contribute to the main plot!

He’s a vampire wizard, of course he was that old.

But jokes aside, yes. Old enough he witnessed the last public execution by guillotine in France, met Tolkien personally, and while his tales may have grown a bit, he’s one of the inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. He famously told Peter Jackson people don’t scream when they get stabbed in the back, they just go “uh”. Also performed heavy metal. He’s genuinely pretty badass.

Christopher Lee was some sort of agent as well. However, joining the Sith, becoming an vampire, and cutting down the forests of Isengard are kinda dick moves.