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[escardos]

so imagine you're making ratatouille and you don't like tomatoes. you don't like the taste, the texture, the putting them in water and the peeling them-- ugh! so you say to yourself "lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?" a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you're done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille?! so you take to google and find that the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they forma a "sauce" of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther's 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics.

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[escardos]

omg you're a vampire!

tysm for answering my question. so do you EXCLUSIVELY eat blood or can you have like...ice cream and stuff? human foods?

[transfusionem]

Yeah, I am.

[She told Maverick so there's literally no point in hiding it any more.]

Human foods make me kind of crampy, tbh, my digestive system doesn't work like it used to. Blood's way easier to digest.

[escardos]

it's always easier to blame someone else for your bad luck, even if it's 'a punishment from god'!

but the economic chaos that erupted from the desperate need to buy your way out of purgatory is quite funny to think about, too.

[escardos]

aw that really sucks. no wonder you guys are so inefficient as beings.

well, doesn't it get boring to just drink blood all the time? what do you do to make it different? what about like...blood popsicles?

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[soft_focus]

Do the last things also need tomatoes?

Sometimes you just have to eat tomatoes it's okay.

[escardos]

the last things?

catholics and protestants?

oh, those arent foods, theyre religions!

[escardos]

ahaha what do you mean?!

[escardos]

thats what vpns are for, lia! cant be caught by the government if you're behind 10 proxies!!

[escardos]

i mean im not that big of a cook. last school i was in banned me from the kitchen because i accidentally blew up a microwave.

[transfusionem]

Yeah, it kind of sucks not being able to enjoy the stuff I make anymore, but some stuff isn't so bad. Regeneration is pretty neat.

Blood popsicles would be a good idea for the summer, I'll have to remember that. And all blood tastes different, so it's not all bad. Some people are tastier than others and all that.

[escardos]

so do you get it directly from the source? or does the infirmary give you your Designated Blood Bag of the week/day?

[transfusionem]

Designated blood bags - though it's not the same.

[giornata_gloriosa]

[Sorry Flat but you have thrown Giorno off his game for a moment, the next response takes time.]

Parents do that? Is that really a normal thing? Being from Italia I can say first hand that you are hard pressed not to be inundated by the tomato from the moment you can first understand it. It's there at the corner market, every menu has sections that specify dishes without it, because it's so pervasive. There is no way to just avoid it. If you don't like tomato, you soon feel like you have to, in order to fit in, while even if you do like it, you sometimes feel the need for an Alfredo sauce or a light soup, where you can avoid it.

[stavros]

...what do vegetables have to do with religious denomination, exactly?

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[alreadyhuman]

so protestants didnt like tomatoes and that's why they split? (°ロ°)! they must have had some really strong opinions about food!!

[escardos]

not at all! they split up because of criticism towards the catholic church and the pope's abuse of power through indulgences!

the ratatouille analogy is to demonstrate how one small decision can snowball into an entire movement that shakes the core of something that seemed as unshakable as the catholic church.

and that you should never forget to put tomatoes in your ratatouille.

[escardos]

the vegetables aren't important! whats important is how one little decision like 'i wont put tomatoes in my ratatouille' can snowball into something much bigger!

[escardos]

mmm it's the more efficient method, i guess.

but if you ever need any, i guess i can offer mine?

not sure how tasty i am though.

[escardos]

ah youre from italia? amazing, we're practically neighbors!

but thats a very good argument! so you're saying that even though it is readily available, people have the choice to take the tomato or not, the same way that people have the chance to choose catholicism or not, even in a country as catholic as italy! is that what you mean?

[transfusionem]

It's definitely easier than hunting.

Are you sure? I mean, it can be pretty painful.

[alreadyhuman]

oh so its not anything to do with food after all.......i see! (・・ ) so its a metaphor!!

i guess that makes sense. if you take a big ingredient out of a dish then it doesnt taste as good, so the protestants ended up more boring than the catholics because they took out something they didnt think was important but actually was?

[ He's clinging to the cooking metaphor because he knows nothing about religion and way more about recipes. ]

[escardos]

they say it's important to try new things in life!

but also don't bleed me dry please and thank you!

[transfusionem]

Generally that doesn't mean "make yourself a snack for an apex predator".

But I know restraint!

[Is she being serious or not... Who can say.]

[giornata_gloriosa]

Si, from Napoli in particular.

People have a choice, yes, but those choices are limited. And at the same time, they are always marked as 'different' from their counterparts. For example you cannot have pizza margherita without it being made with a tomato sauce, and anyone you ask to do so will tell you "then it's no longer pizza margherita". So while there are options they are not always equal and not always given the same value, because they don't include what everyone has been raised to consume, and have as a part of their day to day life for so long.

In this same way, can you call you're allegorical ratatouille a ratatouille, considering the outcome?

[escardos]

somewhat! although the catholic church has also changed how indulgences work since the middle ages (over 500 years ago!), so really the church is just as boring, whether it's protestant or catholic. oh well!