Doctrine is revealed slowly and incrementally like the unfolding of flower petals, but discipline can change as the need arises. Cremation was avoided originally because it was associated with disbelief in the resurrection.

That’s exactly it, and I’m surprised more people don’t see it that way. For such fiction, there will almost always be a bigger nerd that eclipses your own knowledge on any particular aspect of canon, and yet someone pays half-attention to a child’s curriculum or reads a Dawkins or Hitchens book and it’s treated as an insult to their intelligence to politely inform them of something they may have missed.

At least fanfic arguments tend to lean more civil, and are generally seen as an expression of zeal between peers who all enjoy the same thing, albeit with differing opinions on the details.

Limbo for unbaptized infants is a theological opinion that has fallen out of popularity in favour of other, more merciful theories.

Is it possible Paul is referring to the accidents, not the substance?

The Onion a little over ten years ago:

Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend

Thanks to Poe’s Law, you may want to try this next time: “/s”

Even Jason figured this one out.

My understanding is that the cost of Extended Security Updates (ESU) goes up every year.

So, not dairy free, then.

One of those until-recently mouth agape YouTubers.

You can blame the Listerine ads for that.

I beg to differ. If it’s not a CoViD test, where would you urinate?

1 asprin […] 1 aleve …

That combination of two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is probably knocking out more than you think.

There’s an NPR episode of Code Switch on the subject:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/16/313154674/mirror-mirror-does-fairest-mean-most-beautiful-or-most-white

If it’s an official decree, then it must be in writing somewhere. The fanwiki is very short on references. One could assume it’s all speculation. Probably just self-censureship rather than a ban.

Chosing not to air is not the same as a ban.

Nice try, sentient escherichia coli.

That’s a false dichotomy.

The principle of double effect allows one to attempt to relieve suffering with treatments having high mortality rates.

Euthanasia is a cost-saving measure to avoid the high costs of palliative care for non-palliative patients, and in the examples cited in the article – healthcare in general.

I run my own email server using mailcow-dockerized. Ironically, the problem is not enough volume.

Yours still works? One of the updates made mine stop working. I had to switch back to WiFi.