Since the latest season hasn’t concluded yet, let’s only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.

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    Probably the two a half billion people claiming to identify as christian while actively opposing and taking action against any of Christ’s non-self-serving ideals.

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      If there’s one good thing about Maga it’s that it clearly illuminated what a majority of these “Christians” actually are.

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        They’ve been more than happy to illuminate themselves, sometimes via burning crosses, for some time. At least those ones have taken off the hoods now.

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      There are some of us that don’t do that. But yeah, even as an adherent, I see and feel what you mean.

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        That must be painful and frustrating. An old coworker of mine was a “real” Christian (by that I mean kind, pleasant, and non-judgmental) and I often wonder what his take on the last several years would be.

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          I know what mine is. Nobody is truly thinking about how they “should” go about things, they make the word second fiddle to something else, whether it’s public speakers being selective and hoarding their money to supposedly “Catholic” or “Protestant” governors enacting policies that would make even Neo-Stoics give up on them. I often hear about people going through hardships with supposedly Christ-loving families, hardships that shouldn’t be there, and it makes me mad I can’t do anything. I might be terrified of being a mom, but I’d do it for those people.

          A good rule of thumb: The ten commandments > The word of Jesus > The rest of the old testament > Indirect interpretations, with Paul being nothing more than the Christian equivalent of a hadith.

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            Out of curiosity, why put the 10 commandments before the words of Jesus? I dig the general point you’re making but that caught my eye.

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              Jesus himself did this. The implication behind them being inscribed in stone was that they are a priority. Imagine putting something in bold print and saying “oh don’t worry, that text is in bold just because I felt like it”. If someone had to choose between, say, disobeying a commandment and disobeying the food rules, you should disobey the food rule.

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              Also seems a bit weird to me. Maybe they meant it along the lines of what is easy to look up and apply quickly. But even then, there’s “Love thy neighbour as thyself“ which is maybe even simpler. Maybe they’ll explain what they meant.

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                The ten commandments are a priority, Jesus stressed often the need to not impede on those. Commandments were brought up a few times in the synoptic gospels. The most famous example was when he said that fantasizing about someone you’re not married to was (figuratively) as good as adultery. In another, he was asked why he was “working on Sundays” and he went out of his way to demonstrate how it wasn’t work in a laborious sense. The ten commandments do take priority over other teachings, that’s why they’re called the ten commandments and why, according to some, they were inscribed on stone while other rules were spoken orally.

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              The Ten Commandments are literally the word of God, straight from their mouth (hand?) and onto stone. Doesn’t get much more important than that.

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                God gave us 10 commandments, Jesus gave us 1.

                Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

                We call it the Golden rule because if you can follow that one rule you’re golden when it comes to your judgment at the end of time.

                Blessed are the empathetic, for they shall accrue a debt that God will repay.

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                  Jesus still said the ten commandments were crucial expressions of the commandment of doing to others as one one have done to themselves. The ten commandments had been brought up a few times in the new testament, either with Jesus being questioned as to why he wasn’t following them (in response to which he’d elaborate why a commandment is important and why he’s not dishonoring it) or with him expanding a commandment, such as at Matthew 5:28-29.

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                  I always preferred the general commandment of “don’t be a dick”, and everything else is just kind of a given if you follow that.

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          I grew up in a religious community that was mostly “real” Christians (there are always exceptions, and people are imperfect, but they were trying their best). It’s SO frustrating to see how these people are. I haven’t been practicing in well over a decade, so I don’t feel like I’m a part of that group anymore, so it’s starting to get less frustrating. Or maybe I’m just getting jaded.

          But the worst part of it all is seeing my parents start to drink the hate Kool aid. My parents used to be the kind of people that would literally take the shirts off their backs to help anyone. And now they are so hateful and selfish. It’s so disappointing.

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        I feel like there was something in Revelations about how a powerful delusion would fall on people because they “loved not the truth”.

        And I’m not saying this is the end times but I definitely feel like there wouldn’t be much difference between how I felt right now and how I would feel if I knew for a fact it was the end times.

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      Nah, that’s not a plot hole. That’s just a seed for the Act 3 twist we’re due in about 2 years. When the Vatican incorporates and invades Yugoslavia.

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      For real. I am no catholic or god worshipper but i feel like i am living a more religious life then them because I recognize the fiction of Jesus life for the vast inspirational philophies it contains and actually try to incorporate some of it in my life.

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      How does it feel to be on the same side as most preachers and weekly church-goers?

      Few things drives them more nuts than people who call themselves Christians and don’t even attempt to be followers of Christ. Trying and failing is one thing, and always an embarrassment to the church, but living like the worst dregs of society, while using that name, is worse than an intentional smear campaign.

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      Wow, top voted reply. Damn Lemmy is cynical. There are many people out there doing God’s work caring for each other for no recognition, no reward. And certainly there are many folks out there too that make things look really bad, and the media loves to tell that story, but don’t for a moment think that that’s every Christian.

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        I don’t think it’s fair to complain about assumed absolute statements and in the next breath say “damn lemmy is cynical”.

        Obviously every christian isn’t a hypocrite.

        Also obviously, too many are.

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          You’re right. Just sad to see this being the highest rated comment on something that I really didn’t expect to have at all to do with religion.

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            The biggest real-life plot holes and you didn’t expect something that directly affects 8 out of ten people (and indirectly affects the other 2) on the planet to come up?

            Anything that affects that many people is going to have real life plot-holes:

            America nominally fought its last war in 1945, but we’ve had soldiers fighting and dying in dozens of countries ever since.

            Fossil fuels and unregulated pollution is proven to be destroying the recent period of relative climate stability and fossil fuel companies are getting paid by the government to stay in business.

            America produces enough food to feed the entire country(and probably several others) but created laws that force you to throw it away.

            Bigger the event, bigger the plot holes.

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        The best thing these unrecognized christians “doing God’s work” you say exist could be doing to help the world right now is to be actively and vocally trying to oppose the Christians that are currently very loudly advocating for fascism. There is literally no bigger threat right now. There is a clear imbalance in voices in the Christian community. The good Christians could be just as loud if they wanted, they could be setting an example, but they aren’t. People always say it’s just a “few” loud voices when talking about the bad things being said, if it only takes a few to be that loud then why the fuck are the good ones silent?

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    The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must’ve been a drug-fueled writing session on that one

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      When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they… really, really didn’t.

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        Don’t ignore the whole other stuff with the failed bombing etc.

        From wikipedia:

        At 10:10 am,[75] Franz Ferdinand’s car approached and Čabrinović threw his bomb. The bomb bounced off the folded back convertible cover into the street.[76] The bomb’s timed detonator caused it to explode under the next car, putting that car out of action, leaving a 1-foot-diameter (0.30 m), 6.5-inch-deep (170 mm) crater,[75] and wounding 16–20 people.[77]

        Čabrinović swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. Čabrinović’s suicide attempt failed, as the old cyanide only induced vomiting, and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer.[78] Police dragged Čabrinović out of the river, and he was severely beaten by the crowd before being taken into custody.

        Just the mental image of him chucking himself into a river after the failed bombing and then also failing his suicide on two fronts…

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        Not at all. Things were a powder keg. If it wouldn’t have blown at that point, then shortly thereafter.

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      “The War to End All Wars” was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.

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    The fact the Pepsi at one point had the 6th largest military in the world, and did nothing to conquer Coca-Cola.

    Like, why even start that storyline if you dont take it to the inevitable conclusion?

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    Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn’s Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather… TWICE?? Lazy writing.

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      Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times…

      Not bashing your point though, that’s a good one.

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    Why would they just confirm all the fan theories about the world elite running a massive illegal money laundering ring spanning the globe, and follow it up by proving that the same elite are trafficking children for sex acts if they didn’t plan to go anywhere with that storyline?

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      It’s like the way they left Deadwood. They set it up for a righteous proper class war and then suddenly the series was cancelled.

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        But they made a movie episode, in 2019, to try to finally round off the series (all the actors returned). Check it out, if you didn’t catch it. It wasn’t perfect, obviously, but it was an admirable attempt.

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    A few Prime Ministers have been peculiar plotholes. Harold Holt just disappeared. Whitlam got taken out by a madman influenced by the yanks and nominally working for the Queen. Sometimes it seems the writers just get bored of the storyline and drop stuff.

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    The whole wrapping up world war 2 using “the gadget” just reeks of writers struggling to wrap up after writing themselves into a corner.

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      The end of WW2 was a complex political issue, and the atomic bombs were not the ‘press here, end war’ that most of us believe.

      The Japanese we’re holding out hope (stupidly) that the Soviet Union would negotiate a conditional surrender with the united States as the end of the imperial system was unacceptable to them. The US had floated that if there was an unconditional surrender, that the imperial system would stay intact, but wanted it to seem like a US condition, not a Japanese one, because that would be a conditional surrender.

      The Soviets always intended to invade, but were held by a nonaggression pact they made with the Japanese. The US pressured the Soviets very hard to violate this and invade Manchuria.

      There was literally a Japanese war cabinet convened already when news of Nagasaki reached them. We have actual primary source for their reactions. They did not care.

      Only once the second bomb dropped and Manchuria was invaded did some of the cabinet manage to convince the emporer to intervene which was extremely rare.

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      The writers keep doing this shit.

      The Berlin Wall arc just abruptly ended because they announced that East Germans could freely travel to the west and ‘conveniently’ forgot to mention there were still some regulations. Then the Border guards ‘conveniently’ said “fuck it” and let people pass without checking passports.

      They built up the Epstein island arc like mad only to end it with him killing himself in prison and then never mention it again.

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    I don’t know about this series, but I play a game with the same name and absolutely hate it. It’s hugely pay to win with permadeath and the grind has nowhere near the payoff for the amount of effort you put in.

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      IIRC, they’re too big to have formed in one of the ways we know and then continuously lost matter at the the rate they should have.

      So one or more of the assumptions about how they could have formed or how they lost matter over time is wrong, right?

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          Can’t watch videos right now, but the wikipedia article says the problem has been solved around y2k by recalculating the age of the universe, and says nothing about JWST making this problem worse.

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            Some astronomers are looking at JWST data and claiming they are seeing galaxies with red shifts in the range of 11-20, which if accurate, correspond to ages older than we’d expect to see galaxies of such size formed. Other astronomers disagree, and believe that the results aren’t so clear. This the “hubble tension” or “crisis in cosmology” maybe still live on.

            It is exciting, either we get more data to confirm our current understanding or we need to discover be physics and form new theories that align with the data. Either way is great, imo.

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          Since around 1997–2003, the problem is believed to have been solved by most cosmologists

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    The universe is not locally real*.

    *Locality and reality are defined in specific ways within quantum physics, and “not locally real” doesn’t necessarily mean ‘illusory’ as you might expect. Look into it, it’s some crazy shit.

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      There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).

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        I like that.

        Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):

        A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

        – Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K

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      Most people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(