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Cake day: July 31st, 2026

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  • I actually stupidly chose Jesus as a historical figure to write a proper primary sources only paper thinking there would be a breadth of info on the guy… and found out the hard way that from a historically factual standpoint all we’ve got is he probably existed, was baptized, and was executed. Straight up all weve got is what roman records gave us and one painting.


  • I always had this pet theory that Jesus was more like a group of dudes who had a similar message and that the guy existed and was executed by romans (thats as far as we got from roman records iirc is a guy who fit the bill existed and was executed) but that the jesus stories from the new testament were an amalgamation of different street preachers or philosophers and were incorporated into religion

    But my heart also wants to believe he was a dude who was really fuckin good at pulling coins from behind someones ear


















  • Hard disagree

    Ive nonstop seen automod and its “tools” flag false positives or miss incredibly easy coded language before. My first ever sitewide ban was for “report abuse” by reporting hate speech on a comment that was blaming jewish space lasers for setting the fires in Hawaii.

    Im on another one now from another false positive that cant even be appealed because im nearly 99% certain appeals are also automated or AI. They need actual critical reading comprehension skills for this kind of thing and frankly it should be paid and not volunteer so they stop ending up with captured astroturfed spaces.

    This is going to be a mess