As someone who has spent a lot of time at Disney World I am used to being in made up places

Right back atcha, my man (the second part anyway, unless you're also moving, which I hope you're not!)

Sad to move away from our family and community here in Florida, but we are excited for this new chapter!

There's a whole generation in between me and the boomers

No way man! It wasn't till high school that chatting online became a widespread thing. Didn't get a cell phone till sophomore year of college. And I was born in 1983!

That's amazing

"Which of you, if your son asks you for bread, would give him a stone? Or if he asks for fish, which of you would give him a snake? So if even you though you're evil know how to give good gifts to your kid,..."

This kind of open curiosity, I think, can be really fruitful in other, related intellectual disciplines, including ecumenical and interfaith dialog. I highly recommend it. /fin

But in my view, some of the most illuminating work does something more like: assume that, because people are a rational agents, there probably is a rational intelligibility to what they're up to when they convert to a religion, and then ask, if so, what's it like? 2/

My word

He should probably have split his strength into seven objects, but then we must remember how innovative it was in Sauron's day to have even a single Horcrux. Sauron walked so that Voldemort could fly.

No, you get me!

The joke is, people confuse "tenet" and "tenant" enough that, on descriptivist grounds (that is, the view that definitions of words are just descriptions of how people use them), the definition of "tenet" ought to be listed as a valid definition of the word "tenant."

Just an interesting analogy imo to discussions of gratuity in theology. Nothing more to say about it, really, but interested in anyone else's thoughts. /fin