Doctrine is revealed slowly and incrementally like the unfolding of flower petals, but discipline can change as the need arises. Cremation was avoided originally because it was associated with disbelief in the resurrection.

That’s exactly it, and I’m surprised more people don’t see it that way. For such fiction, there will almost always be a bigger nerd that eclipses your own knowledge on any particular aspect of canon, and yet someone pays half-attention to a child’s curriculum or reads a Dawkins or Hitchens book and it’s treated as an insult to their intelligence to politely inform them of something they may have missed.

At least fanfic arguments tend to lean more civil, and are generally seen as an expression of zeal between peers who all enjoy the same thing, albeit with differing opinions on the details.

Limbo for unbaptized infants is a theological opinion that has fallen out of popularity in favour of other, more merciful theories.

Is it possible Paul is referring to the accidents, not the substance?

The Onion a little over ten years ago:

Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend

It’s best to avoid all ribbon campaigns altogether to avoid being misinterpreted, including poppies.

When someone asks me why I’m not wearing {x}, I tell them I am making a stand against peer pressure.

Thanks to Poe’s Law, you may want to try this next time: “/s”

Even Jason figured this one out.

My understanding is that the cost of Extended Security Updates (ESU) goes up every year.

So, not dairy free, then.

One of those until-recently mouth agape YouTubers.

You can blame the Listerine ads for that.

I beg to differ. If it’s not a CoViD test, where would you urinate?

1 asprin […] 1 aleve …

That combination of two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is probably knocking out more than you think.

There’s an NPR episode of Code Switch on the subject:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/16/313154674/mirror-mirror-does-fairest-mean-most-beautiful-or-most-white

If it’s an official decree, then it must be in writing somewhere. The fanwiki is very short on references. One could assume it’s all speculation. Probably just self-censureship rather than a ban.

Chosing not to air is not the same as a ban.

Nice try, sentient escherichia coli.

Either Shaw was gouging, or the first couple generations of cable modems really were three times today’s cost. This was in the days where the DOCSIS standard capped out at 40Mb/s (which you only ever got close to when you happened to be downloading from a CDN hosted by shaw)

Sure, my experience was twenty years ago, but at the time my modem was roughly one month’s rent at a dive apartment.