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Happy Birthday, hottie.

I think this is dead on. Fans must be tripping if they think can just plug and play a new qb if their starter is sidelined like Aaron "The Mouth" Rodgers. Getting a chance to work with a talented young guy and no real risk of him being thrown into the starting slot in invaluable. It's one of the few things Green Bay has done right for so long.

You're going to love him. He's a good dude.

Happy Birthday!

One of these days we're going to make a wall of birthday threads.

It's going to float anyway... cereal doesn't just soak up milk on contact. But, you won't know how much milk you actually need unless you pour the cereal first - you'll just end up with a bowl of milk and whatever cereal you can put in without overflowing the bowl.

It’s rather absurd.

I don’t remember that even though I was definitely on before.

I was wondering how you were going to pull this one off….

Actually, for the cholesterol supposedly.

A whey protein and psyllium smoothie.

In what sense? Some of the most well know stories in the Torah borrows heavily or is a retelling of myths from older cultures in the Asia Minor region. That’s not an indication that Judaism stole older myths but it is evidence that Judaism could be a successor religion and an indication that Jews themselves are ethnically descendent from older defunct cultures. That is all to say that Jews probably wouldn’t have borrowed from a European culture when there were contemporary Stone Age cultures in the area they succeeded.

The Easter Bunny is an entirely secular institution that has no practical connection to the religious festivals of Passover, Christian Easter, or the Pagan holiday of the same name. The holiday was originally Pascha - “Ressurection Sunday” - and the core rituals were in place before the pagan name was co-opted. FWIW… this isn’t to suggest that all Christianity’s major holidays have no basis in Pagan religion. As opposed to Easter, Christmas was most likely built around a couple of Pagan, Roman holidays for the express purpose you described. The difference is that there isn’t a Jewish analog for the autumnal solstice that could be used as a basis for Jesus’ divine origin myth.

I don’t think it actually did. You learn more as world faith traditions are more openly discussed, but it’s important to remember that Easter is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Christian rituals… meaning it predates the influence of the Romans. It would have had its roots in Jewish symbolism, even if later non-Jewish adherents might make parallels to Roman and pagan practices.

I hadn’t really intended to deconstruct Iky’s statement that way, but I think you framed it perfectly. He’s most certainly correct in that the symbolism within a seder would be lost on a generation of non-Jewish people were it not for Rugrats. It’s a religious practice most would never see.

It's a nicer way of saying Christians appropriated Jewish religious traditions as part of their own. It isn't inherently bad: In part, it's a result of Jesus being a Jew who was explicitly practicing these traditions while seeking to reform Judaism; in part it reflects the universality of human behavior. But, in part it is also a blatant attempt to erase Jewish tradition by making the ritual a Christian one.

As Buddy alluded, Passover is intrinsically connected to Christian Easter traditions, specifically the “Passion of Christ” sequence, so it’s far more likely that earliest exposure to the religious festival would come from more universal pop cultural references like, say, DaVinci’s The Last Supper. Judaism has never secularized its religious practices in the way that Christianity has, nonetheless through the prism of Christianity it gets nearly as much exposure.

The death of Archie is like that too. It's too much a stretch given the original tone of the series.

I didn’t think a phone could gaslight you but here we are.

Don’t tell Chris Rock.

He's becoming the new face of traumatic brain injuries.

Nah, that was just my family reunion.

Ghosty, we all know you stand for justice and the rights of all people.

(Like Buddy said....) Generational monikers are fundamentally arbitrary. They exist mostly to document how changes to social structure, economy, and technology combine to shape a particular group of people. The concept itself didn't become a thing until the Baby Boom happened, largely as a response to fundamental changes in how the "Greatest Generation" changed their approach to raising "Boomers" from their parents'.