Quote from: Kradan on Jul 20, 2020, 05:41:47 AM
Oh, it just reflects my rank now - Warrior Alien and the fact that it "lost" it's dome in Aliens
When I was Chestburser I had something like this: "Watch out! I'm gonna bite off your feet!"
Quote from: Kradan on Jul 19, 2020, 07:33:50 PM
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pafG42HIrVE/hqdefault.jpg
I get it
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 07:20:38 PMQuote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 19, 2020, 01:23:43 PMQuote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 09:04:55 PM
It was really more of a set-up for Voodoo, a funny little thematic quotation-bait that I'm hoping he'll take...
https://media3.giphy.com/media/vXtN6Sn8A5cRy/giphy.gifQuote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 07:20:38 PM
..."crucified"? What for? Terror tactics? To scare the shit out of their enemies? Is it about... money?
/\ This is a very serious question VooDoo, and one I think you fully know the answer to...
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 09:04:55 PM
It was really more of a set-up for Voodoo, a funny little thematic quotation-bait that I'm hoping he'll take...
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 18, 2020, 08:15:19 PM
Shape of the cross not spelled out
"The word translated "cross" in the New Testament is the Greek word stauros, which notes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.
You're very passionate my friend but I think neither of us are in a position to guarantee anything in this subject my friend.
Quote from: Huggs on Jul 18, 2020, 07:26:54 PM
It's a form of strappado.
Torture is the goal.
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 07:20:38 PM
..."crucified"? What for? Terror tactics? To scare the shit out of their enemies? Is it about... money?
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 07:20:38 PM
The latter 3 forms, yes, correct and literal, the first one helll no, these other examples are all figurative, not literal. And I can guarantee you anyone lashing or nailing someone to that old ass stake form back in the days before Christ wasn't calling it crucifixion, and if they were they were using the word incorrectly and/or figuratively too.
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 06:24:03 PM
I'm not as convinced that people do realize he's not literally been crucified. What is implied by figurative crucifixion?
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 18, 2020, 05:45:39 PM
Okay, here's a nitpick for y'all, especially since Aaron humorously kept correcting the these were "Berserker" Predators. So, in that same vein and with similarly humorous outrage because it drives me insane every time it's said or seen in the motion comic prequel, but... the classic Yaut is Not Crucifed. The one and Only requirement for crucifixion it the use of a cruciform, cruci = crux = cross, there is no cross involved here in any way shape or form. The classic Pred has been tied to a stake, or a weird ceremonial monolith, but whatever you want to call it, the one thing it Is Not is a Cross. You Cannot be Crucified without a Cross.
This will never be corrected, I know it will never be corrected. I will simply have to live in the perpetually maddening reality where this evisceration of the English language exists and will ever torture me, and as an American I am well versed in the torture of the English language. But hopefully, I will no longer be alone, and others will now be likewise plagued with this cursed knowledge.