You hate furries
Yes, I do. It's about the only honest, straightforward hate I have.
And for that matter...
Even furries hate furries.
Original Video Animation. Means it went direct to sale instead of airing on tv.
Here's the quality of the OVA...
As you can see, there's about 30 years of improvement in animation. But both versions have their merits. The most important thing to bear in mind, is that the battles are always stupid. The author... wanted Napoleonic war in space.
That very question is why, for the last 400 years, most Christians have insisted that Quakers aren't Christians.
The Religious Society of Friends formed in isolation from the rest of the continental protestants. George Fox's teachings really emphasized getting back to the TEACHINGS OF CHRIST, the four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and living those in practice. It was a very pragmatic, very ENGLISH approach to faith, focused on the world as it is and how it ought be, and our existence within it.
We're often contrasted with the Calvinists, who also don't say very much about the soul and the afterlife, but for radically different reasons. The Calvinists have a very pessimistic, very GERMAN way of approaching faith, and in their view, god's universe is determined. You have no possibility of knowing your standing with god.
Actually it might surprise you that Quakers, all the way back to George Fox, say very little about salvation at all.
The main thrust of Quakerism has always been about living by the Sermons of the Mount and the Plain, and thus bringing about the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
You know how the Muslims insist that there will be peace when the whole world is united in worship of Allah? We're basically the peacenik version of that same argument.
Growing up in the 90's in a Quaker town, I heard Bill & Ted's "be excellent to each other" quip a lot.
That is a surprisingly complex issue.
I was raised in a majority Quaker community, but it's fair to say I was agonistic. But I arrived at faith by working Dostoyevsky's Dilemma in reverse. The dilemma states:
“If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
But I start with the concrete moral knowledge that some things are wrong, hence god must exist.
A central tenet of Quakerism is the belief in personal experience of god. This stands in stark contrast to, say, the Muslim view that man and god are distinctly separate and that nothing of God is in man. I BELIEVE that our sliver of moral knowledge, the conscience, is a direct experience of the divine.
"Knowing" that all possess this sliver of divinity, that all possess a relationship to god, whether they acknowledge it or deny it (or try to drown it in substances), I am able to leap past the dilemma and say that some things are wrong. But I can only do that because I acknowledge that god must exist.
MMMhmmm.
Consider "eye for an eye". The Law of Moses sets out a practical minimum for the functioning of a state. Blood for blood. But Christ basically says that while this is the law, it's not the ideal of behavior that you should approve of seeing the murderer "justly" die. This doesn't reflect well on YOU, and Christ's message is about you the individual, your behavior, and your relationship to God.
As I understand Christ's teachings...
Christians should aim to exceed the Jewish by not only keeping the law but also forsaking malice for forgiveness. Basically that even the crude law of Moses was just a tool for the times. Christians are not freed of it, rather they are tasked by Christ to transcend it. That simply living by the letter of the law isn't sufficient.
Now, on that note...
There are a couple items in Leviticus that I'm prepared to say probably could be scratched out, like the prohibitions on certain foods. Any time Leviticus marks something EXTERNAL TO HUMAN NATURE AND BEHAVIOR as bad, it is borne out of primitive science, and fair game for scrutiny.
We knew back then that trichinosis existed, but we couldn't explain what it was, so it was lumped into the category of things which are simply bad.
The next couple sentences in Matthew 5 pretty much kick that to the curb.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:19
The back half of Matthew 5 is taking the Hebrew to task for being hypocrites. He never says the law is wrong. Just that they aren't living up to it, and then sets an EVEN HIGHER standard.
So any of the books Paul wrote shouldn’t be considered biblical?
They aren't the Sermons, and calling Paul "the apostle" is like saying everyone at Lambeau deserves a superbowl ring for being really loud (which is basically all Paul was, figuratively).
But how does that contribute to your argument that I'm wrong.
Christ's sermons in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke do not support the later Pauline assertion that Christ was the end of the law.
I am saying bluntly, your (like many) rejection of the majority of the Mitzvot is, well, blasphemous catholic hypocrisy. A marketing decision by a 1st century bullshit artist who called himself an apostle despite not being at the proverbial table.
In what way?
I only regard the Gospels as foundational. Everything after is fanfiction, as canonical as the Book of Mormon.
Remember: I AM QUAKER. From my perspective the Catholic church of Peter and Paul is itself a perversion of the original faith.
those are jew things
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." -Matthew 5:17
Your protestations to the contrary are Pauline garbage. Paul is to Christ what Kathleen Kennedy is to Star Wars.
the only one I know is the anime
Moonlight Mile by Yasou Ohtagaki
Although it has a more conspiratorial bend to it, about a great powers struggle between NATO and China in space.
I'll give you fair warning...
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a VERY long run. There's ten books. And two animes. The original (OVA) ran for four seasons and the only practical way to get it is downloads. It's also very crude and has some pacing issues.
The REMAKE (called Die Neue These) is incomplete, only covering about half the material so far, although more is on the way. I got Aaron Claery to do a boomer review of the first four episodes, and he thought it was good but not something he'd continue. "It's better than Baldur's Gate 3." -CaptainCapitalism
The overarching MESSAGE of the story though is whether the benevolent, competent dictatorship is better than the incompetent, corrupt democracy. With the implication at the end that constitutional monarchy is probably the best humanity can hope for long term.
Political dialog disguised as sci-fi.
This is mostly the domain of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), although there's also Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the Galactic Heroes), and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5).
Or, if you're not going to deal in politics, then go all the way to the other end of the spectrum: Fashion. This is the territory of Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and Mamoru Nagano (The Five Star Stories). I'm not here for the story at this point... Kenichi Sonoda and Masanori Ota are incapable of creating believable characters, but their designs are amazing.
Don't be half-in, half-out. Either deal in deep, well thought out scrutiny of the human condition, or go whole hog arthouse futurist. That's why I didn't hate the Alita movie despite it being everything bad about modern writing, because it wasn't afraid to be way the fuck out there visually, on the level of Speed Racer and TRON.
"What makes you so damned special?"
"Well I have that dealy where me and a rook can switch places instantly."
"Your dealy is shithouse, your majesty. Pawns are more useful than you."
"DON'T START ON THAT AGAIN! I keep telling you, those losers can only go forward! I can move in all directions!"
“There's a spiritual component there that I don't fully understand.”
Yeah, it's called narcissism.
The determined belief in your own self importance in the face of a universe that presents a pretty convincing case that you aren't.
someone has to fund Social Security in the future
No they don't.
You're believing in a lie that ceases to exist the second we elect our own Javier Milei. Which will happen when things get bad enough. Social security will not last forever. No government policy in history ever has because no government has. Everything has its time and dies.
Let's run down some of the major storylines:
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Horus Heresy - The big one, lots of involved authors. A massive tale told from all possible perspectives. Not for the casual reader.
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Gaunt's Ghosts - Probably the most highly regarded of the serial stories. Basically an entire brigade of Rambos with no home to go back to.
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Eisenhorn & Ravenor - Inquisitors doing inquisitor shit. Pretty much every character either turns out to be a hypocrite or gets fucked over for trusting a hypocrite.
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Ciaphas Cain - Blackadder Goes Forth in SPAAAAACE.
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Ragnar - Mary-wolfing-sue incarnate. Not even Bjorn's plot armor is this thick.
However, instead of going into 40k, I suggest you pick up Glen Cook's The Black Company. Can be a bit more confusing at times but the characters feel a lot more real.
That's entirely too many words. Here's a much simpler take.
You'd be amazed.
Heating 10 liters of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.
You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt/hour of energy?
A fuck lot more than 10.
So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.