Since the latest season hasn’t concluded yet, let’s only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.
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.
If there’s one good thing about Maga it’s that it clearly illuminated what a majority of these “Christians” actually are.
There are some of us that don’t do that. But yeah, even as an adherent, I see and feel what you mean.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Literally, all it boils down to is: Don’t Be An Asshole.
That’s it. That’s all you have to do.
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.
HOI4 moment
Fucking Papal States. I wish that I could play Florence without becoming Excommunication Simulator!
That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
Those aren’t plot holes. They’re upper story windows conveniently located in Russia.
The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must’ve been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they… really, really didn’t.
You haven’t seen Blackadder? I thought the whole plot was a set up to the series.
one drunk dude with a pistol changing the course of the whole world?
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…
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.
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.
My turn to learn a new fact today. Wild that I’ve never realised it was spelt that way.
Nobody has figured out who the Zodiac killer is yet? Come on, people!
I thought it was Ted Cruz
Just to emphasise:
from 1990 and before
Folks can’t read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
Idk man I wasn’t alive then.
Why the weird arbitrary time?
Because I didn’t want people arguing about current events and the end of the Cold War seemed as good a cutoff as any.
Did it really end? The Soviet Union might have imploded, but the KGB just took the country over, turned it into a mafia state, and kept right at it.
I remember 1990. There was nothing arbitrary about it.
What did drugs ever do to start a war???
Well, the British were able to use drugs to start a war on China once. All in the name of cheap tea.
Some would say the fentanyl problem right now is payback for the opium thing
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?
Pepsi has also made huge profits in Russia since the west started sanctions.
Yes, they have. That’s why I don’t buy their products anymore.
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.
If most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
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).
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
That there wasn’t a single mainstream Republican who stood up to Trump during his presidency.
I mean, come on. Who wrote this?
We’re supposed to believe that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in government went from taking about how unfit Trump was when he was a candidate … to standing behind him 100% even when he cozied up to Russia, paid hush money to a porn star, and lied about a Presidential election?
How does this fit the prompt? They specified before 1990.
Some voted for impeachment. Still, far more should have defended democracy, decency, and the rule of law.
The Space Race ended without closing ceremonies.
That one on 25th Street that I hit the other day. Oh wait, you said “plot”. Nevermind.
Where all the aliens are.
The popularity of Harry Styles
Lead singer of a mega famous boyband and one of Taylor Swift’s most famous exes.
We’ve def got a real mystery on our hands, Grommit
Which was tough to achieve before 1990, but Harold Styles of Sioux Falls South Dakota pulled it off.
That guy was a king in South Dakota.
