troysnoise.bsky.social
Episcopalian, socialist, dad. I like trains, bicycles, video games, and sharing. In a former life I did sound design for video games, but now I have a dumb email job with health insurance. Don't tell my boss when you see that I'm not working. Living in WA
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The Wikipedia page for it is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consola...
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This guy thinks he has a case against the Son of God, and is feeling pretty good
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The "Book of Belial" was written around 1382 by Jacobus de Teramo. It's about a court trial where Satan files a lawsuit against Jesus Christ for trespassing when he descended into Hell. Satan sues for damages. King Solomon presides over the tribunal
Amazing stuff.
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God created me in his image to audit role-based access credentials according to least privilege principles. This is my primary goal in my one precious life.
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There's also rules and systems one might need to learn (although, games often "handle" the rules in the background so players don't have to think about them).
As a parent with a full-time job, I don't have much time/energy to give to games with high skill thresholds or complicated systems anymore.
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Yeah. The physical skill based aspect of video games is something I think is most comparable to sports. Video games don't require athleticism, but some games require reflexes and fine motor skills and such. If one doesn't achieve a certain level of competency, one can't even really engage with it.
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I tend to have a very wide definition of "art": practically anything made by humans can be *appreciated* as art.
But appreciating something as merely entertainment is not appreciating the thing as art.
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I read some of Enoch for the first time because of this game project! Haven't read it in its entirety, though.
The Testament of Solomon has probably been my favorite text so far. The demons have so much personality in it! It's attributed to Solomon, but prob first took form in 100-200 CE
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A fun thing for me is asking someone to share their ideas. And it's always interesting. But "demons" are usually not distinct individuals.
So I ask, like, "What do you think of Asmodeus?" And then people get uncomfortable. But I just want to get ideas about a boss in my video game, lol
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Which is weird, right? Because historically, it seems like Christians talked about demons a lot
In the modern day, my sense is that modern Christians are developing their own ideas, but with very little feedback from people around them. And so everyone has pretty unique beliefs on what a "demon" is
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I think for modern day Christians, demons are either:
1. Real beings with agency. Talking about them is dangerous.
or
2. Basically not real. But they're in the Bible, so it's weird to say they aren't real, so we'd rather ignore the whole idea.
In either case, people don't talk about them often
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Yeah, of course! Apologies for the typos, I was supposed to be working :)
My faith is important to me, and when I began to form an anti-capitalist worldview, I was scared that "wasn't allowed" or something. I think you know what I mean. So I'm excited to share this kind of stuff
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Play it loud
"JESUS WAS A COMMUNIST
JESUS WAS A PACIFIST
JESUS DIDN'T LIKE THE RICH"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ysp...
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Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" is a book where he explains his radical ideas of Christian Anarchism and pacifism. It influenced Gandhi's ideas on nonviolence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...
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Speaking of liberation theology, I like this short clip of Noam Chomsky speaking on liberation theology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANZ...
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Liberation Theology has been mentioned already. James Cone, in particular, was probably the most well-known liberation theology thinker in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H...
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Walter Rauschenbusch was an American protestant in the early 1900s, and one of the most influential thinkers in the "social gospel." His book "Christianity and the Social Crisis" mostly still holds up, 100+ years later: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
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There's a book called "Parables as Subversive Speech" that interprets the parables of Jesus is very interesting, radical ways: www.patheos.com/blogs/lostin...
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The life of St. Francis is really interesting. There's a lot of material there for thinking about Christianity and wealth: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
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Rosa Luxemburg has this really interesting on communism and early Christian history: www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...
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Vida Dutton Scudder is a really interesting figure, and she was an active voice in the "social gospel." She a member of the Church of the Carpenter, an official mission of The Episocopal Church, formed by "Society of Christian Socialists."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vida_Du...
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was some flavor of anti-capitalist, and was becoming out against the evils of poverty more aggressively towards the end of his life:
www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...
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There's Dorothy Day, who already mentioned. She was an anarchist and started Catholic Workers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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The Berrigan Brothers, and the plow share movement generally, are pretty badass. Daniel Berrigan was on the FBI's most wanted list, so that's cool:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
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Desmond Tutu was an arch bishop of the Anglican Church in South African, and I admire him a lot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond...
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Saint Oscar Romero, a bishop of the Catholic Church, has some great stuff. I like "The Church and Popular Political Organizations."
www.romerotrust.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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It's the year 2080. I've managed to survive long enough to live in a senior living center. Sipping a cup of tea, I boot up Final Fantasy VII. "Vincent looks so badass" I say to a caretaker
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Third, Prevost chose "Leo" as a papal name, most recently associated with Leo XIII who initiated the modern tradition of Catholic Social Teaching. That's an interesting sign. His opening remarks made a clear line of continuity with Francis, mentioning no other pope directly. Also interesting!
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Lol.
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I saw a sticker recently that was the same idea, but with a dinosaur eating the stick family figure. Maybe the takeaway is that some people hate kids? Or are shitty edgelords?
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William Barber is doing the Lord's work. In 2018, I was involved with the new Poor People's Campaign, and I learned a lot about praying and singing hymns that get people arrested that year ðŸ«
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Tbh, it's a "good" slogan because it's a Rorscach test. Without an explanation, it could mean practically anything. Anyone can bring their own opinions and baggage and say, yeah, I'd like that.