The correct term is Dissociative Identity Disorder. Schizophrenia means split mind in Greek, but was never used to mean the patient acted as though they were different individuals. Just that there were other split portions of their mind interacting with the patient.

Also important to remember most of the traditions about it are pagan. Christ wasn’t even born in December. They just decided to celebrate it then to coincide with the existing solstice traditions. Many places celebrated the solstice as a new beginning, the days were now getting longer, and people needed a pick-me-up in the dark season. It was often one of the biggest annual celebrations. So it was co-opted with one of the most obvious Christian signs matching the theme, Christ’s birth being the beginning of the end of a time of darkness. First by giving a new meaning to Saturnalia, then adding more bits from other regions they were trying to convert.

Not just Saturnalia, that was just the first. More was incorporated from various traditions as they sought to convert them. But yeah, that was sort of the foundation the rest was laid upon.

Hell, 20 years ago when I worked at Walmart we usually had about half the registers open most days. More when we were expecting a crowd. There was a fair amount of downtime, but not an excessive amount.

IIRC, the biggest uncertainty is about the singularity. I don’t know if it’s still true, but my understanding was that the consensus is that it isn’t really a true point of infinitely dense mass. That is how our current models say it must be, but many assumed our current models are incomplete and that more accurate ones will show that it must have some volume. And given the extreme nature of them, any updates to our models might have some significant repercussions in other aspects of them too.

Time is relarive to your frame of reference. You are always the source of your own frame of reference, so you can never feel the effect of time dilation on yourself. At worst, it would look like the universe outside the horizon started to accelerate to unimaginable speeds. But you would never feel trapped in an unending, at worst that is simply what it would look like to us.

So is New York City, lol.

My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.

To be fair, the I don’t think the Church has ever officially taken a stance on the idea of the Invisible Christian. But Pope Francis was a proponent of the idea.

In the earliest versions, and still is in the Jewish faith, he is literally an agent of God. God tells him to test folks, and he does his job. The whole War in Heaven and the idea that he had fallen come much later.

You touched on it, but for completeness, the official Catholic stance is actually a pretty interesting interpretation that is the result of a kind of wild assumption, and the absolute upholding of free will. Basically God is meant to be the source of all positive things, including feeling and sensation. Every person has a 2 way connection to God. Any positive feeling you’ve ever had was from him through this connection. When someone commits a Mortal Sin, they are showing they reject God, and sever their side of the connection. Truly repenting will pick the line back up, and God never drops his side so long as you live. If you die with a severed line, he accepts that you really don’t want to associate with him, and he drops his side too. And so Hell is not a place, nor a punishment, it’s a state of being. All the gnashing of teeth and lakes of fire were originally metaphors for how badly a total lack of Grace, that connection, is. Later Dante’s Inferno and other works painted it in a striking way that caught the imagination, but it is not the Church’s official stance.

The really fun part is smashing together the idea that Mortal Sin is a rejection of God, and the core concept of the Silent Christian. IE, the Bible very literally, and repeatedly, states that God is love. Like, not that he embodies it, or that he is the source of it (though it also does claim that) but that the two concepts are literally interchangeable. You basically can rewrite it using a replace tool and swap out any instance of God, Jesus, or the Holy Ghost with Love. It does make some kind of philosophical strange abstractness when it talks about loving Love, not that weird, with Love loving things, pretty weird. And it kind of takes “tough love,” to a whole new level with some of the wrath he brings in the 1st Testament, but that is fairly low on the list of weirdness between the two Testaments, and the God = love stuff is mostly from the 2nd.

But the core concept in the “invisible Christian,” is that those with no faith in a sky daddy can still be good Christians by letting God love into their hearts. Therefore, anyone that has empathy can really be taken to be a good Chrostian, and obtain all the benefits whenever the Bible says you need to beleive in and accept God. And the corollary here is that committing Mortal Sin, IE willingly committing a heinous act such as murder, is a rejection of God love in your life. Of course, the definition of what qualifies as Mortal Sin remains a contentious affair. Though the Catholics are generally more tolerant than the more hard-line sects, they are still pretty backwards here. But if you restrict it to things that cause serious harm to another person, then it becomes a comparatively reasonable model. Much more so than it is popularly presented, at any rate.

The ones that teach what Jesus supposedly did do not substitute God’s love for self love. He was asked if the myriad Jewish laws were still in effect or if Jesus’ coming had nullifiedthem according to prophecy. Jesus basically says, “love God, love your neighbor, and love yourself. Do these 3 things, and you will never break any moral law. You don’t need a list of commandments to follow, because you won’t break them if you follow these three.”

It is definitely possible to create that. The question is, will it ever be profitable, or cheap enough to be user made/controlled? I doubt it. Tech growth isn’t just limited by what’s possible, but also by what’s practical.

Uruk is the Elf name for them. Goblin is a generic word for boogeymen the Hobbits use when they first see them. Uruk properly translates to Orc in Westron, the commonly used language of Men of 3rd age in the books/movies. Uruk-hai are basically high orcs, ie a brand new breed of superior orcs that didn’t exist back during the Hobbit. Maybe a small handful of the first ones, but more likely he hadn’t started or at least likely hadn’t perfected them yet.

You can’t count cards when there is a shuffle after every hand. He could theoretically track the shuffle, but that’s an entirely different thing.

Think Stargate did something similar with… the Tokra? I think. I want to say the captain of the Prometheus was an under cover Goauld for a bit, and the only way to keep him alive after removing the symbiote was to have one of the friendly guauld hop in for a while and help repair the damage done. I don’t know, it’s been a long time.

The original was on a patch with 4 figures, all a single color. This variant was floated for the MTG circle jerk subreddit.

Pretty sure the trouble that Barney is used for is almost exclusively for getting into a fight. As in, in that very British habit of dry understatement, saying “there was a bit of trouble at the pub,” to describe a rowdy barfight.

I misread that as naval play, and then followup with titanic. Was wondering what that weird shit was.

Dietary calcium is great for preventing stones, actually. Calcium is bound to a couple different things that cause stones, but the body actually makes those things specifically to bind with calcium. When it happens where it is supposed to, this is a good thing. If you are low on calcium, these things get flushed, and may get trapped in the kidney. Then any calcium that passes through may bind to it. Having higher calcium intake helps prevent them from building up in the kidneys to begin with. Though extremely high amounts of calcium from vitamin supplements etc can increase the risk of getting stones, but high calcium diet is one of the best defenses against them.