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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.

Comments

UN: GreenDolphin

[strings_theory]

I have one question.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[escardos]

arent you the one that tried to see if you could cut through bone a couple weeks back

un: Galanthusnivalis

[buddinghopes]

Why are you like this

why that analogy in particular

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME IMAGINE RUINING A PERFECTLY FINE RATATOUILLE

[strings_theory]

That was an actual experiment with actual consequences.

Not fucking up a goddamned food dish, you dipshit.

[escardos]

THE IMAGERY IS IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE ANALOGYY, MISS LIA

[buddinghopes]

Those poor vegetables...

... I'm not sure what it says about me that I'd still read that hypothetical essay though

[escardos]

cooking is just chemistry w/ another name. congealment is also a process that can happen to all liquids, including your blood. blood looks a lot like tomato sauce.

do you think vampires would want to have ratatouille if it had blood instead of tomato paste?!

UN: GioGio

[giornata_gloriosa]

I am interested to know how this analogy works further down the road.

Will you be posting this thesis somewhere?

[strings_theory]

Once again: What the fuck is wrong with you?

[escardos]

absolutely not!

[escardos]

childhood traumas. don't we all have them?

[strings_theory]

No.

UN: epicyon

[heromedal]

Do you still have the vegetables?

[escardos]

dw dw i didnt cook anything

yet

although in the above thread i am kinda curious what would happen if you used blood. it looks like tomatoes but it doesnt have the right consistency so i don't think it would work...but perhaps it'd be a good meal for vampires?

ANYWAYS if you liked it, now you can continue writing the essay yourself! be the change you wish to see in the world!

[escardos]

sure janet

[escardos]

this was all hypothetical?

[strings_theory]

Pre-teen or teen trauma is not childhood trauma, you fuckin' dickwad.

[heromedal]

Oh, that’s a shame.

[giornata_gloriosa]

Oh? That's a pity, it sounded like such a good subject to expound upon.

I was very curious as to how you would manage to portray such a variety and blend of vegetables to facets of religious following.

[buddinghopes]

"Yet"...

Yeah, the consistency would probably be all off, but now I'm going to actually wonder about that. This may call for potentially questionable internet searches.

Pfft, okay, no, I don't do essays outside of required ones for class, but this might persuade me to fall into the rabbit hole of research for a little while.

[escardos]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my bad!

would you like me to revise it to childhood and adolescent traumas then? it'll be more inclusive!

[strings_theory]

Don't bother.

It's like talking to a fucking brick wall, goddamn.

un: wellcooked

[transfusionem]

[This is not a response to the actual post, but to something he asked in it...]

I don't think blood as a sauce would make me want ratatoille more. It's still just baked veggies.

[escardos]

right right?!

although if you think about it, the way that parents force children to eat their vegetables to the point of hiding and/or disguising them as other foods is similar to how all facets of mainstream media and politics have religious undertones that even bleed into areas where christianity isn't a main religious. how many anime have you seen that use christian imagery as their inspiration? too many!

un: werther

[imitationsoul]

Generally, I agree with your point, but you have to leave it to Luther that he really managed to replace salvation through monetary means with a system in which you have no agency whatsoever in your own salvation.

The dedication to complete determinism is sure something.