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WCDT Strips 3481 to 3485 (15-19 May 2017)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 18 May 2017, 21:11 ---If Hannelores dad is considered the God of AI, is Hannelore Jesus?
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She's certainly a celebrity of sorts amongst some AI, based on May's reaction to the first time they met 'in the flesh', as it were. Whether there is anything further than that, Jeph hasn't specified. The possibility that AIs consider her a kind of 'sister' is my headcanon and not shown in the strip in any way of which I am aware.
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 18 May 2017, 23:30 ---Also, theologically speaking, that's a "no". Since Hanners and her dad are two entirely separate beings as opposed to being two parts of the same trinity (see the term "god head"). The deeper stuff is kind of hard to wrap your head around at first. Ravi Zacharias helps.
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Not all Christians accept the teaching of the Trinity as being anything but recycled Babylonian paganism adopted for marketing reasons.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 18 May 2017, 19:02 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 May 2017, 16:24 ---but it's a bit uncool to announce it like that. Better just to hand over the bottle of apple-juice, and pass over the reason in silence, I think.
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Wait, what? She just said that it was sparkling apple juice and apologized for not helping with the move. It's not like she said "here's apple-juice, IT'S NOT CHAMPAGNE, WINK WINK!" Unless there was another text change and I missed it?
(Also sparkling cider is gods damn delicious, I prefer the taste of it to champagne)
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Does the US call sparkling apple juice "cider", then? Where I live, cider (or occasionally "cyder") is an alcoholic drink made from fermenting apples, stronger than beer and sold as a minority alternative to it.
BenRG:
In the US, 'cider' does not automatically mean an alcoholic drink, no. There have actually been some incidents on trans-Atlantic children's TV as a result of this linguistic quirk.
Nycticoraci:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 18 May 2017, 23:30 ---
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 18 May 2017, 21:11 ---If Hannelores dad is considered the God of AI, is Hannelore Jesus?
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Don't be silly. She'd be 'Yeshua', not 'Jesus'. :D
Also, theologically speaking, that's a "no". Since Hanners and her dad are two entirely separate beings as opposed to being two parts of the same trinity (see the term "god head"). The deeper stuff is kind of hard to wrap your head around at first. Ravi Zacharias helps.
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I'll be honest, I was actually joking :P.
Personally I think a more likely Jesus candidate would be if Hanners dad successfully completed a human->machine upload, and uploaded a copy of himself to a machine. Then we have the father and the son. Station is totally the holy ghost.
That said, current research puts doubt on how likely non-destructive complete scan technology might be, so the possibility of a digital copy might be moot. Whether it is possible or not, there's a number of interesting ethical conundrums either way.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 19 May 2017, 00:20 ---
Does the US call sparkling apple juice "cider", then? Where I live, cider (or occasionally "cyder") is an alcoholic drink made from fermenting apples, stronger than beer and sold as a minority alternative to it.
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It's ... regional. 'Applejack' is a term that's completely unambiguous in the US for alcoholic cider. If you just say 'cider', you'll get applejack in small patches of the south and midwest, apple juice on either coast, or apple juice mulled with spices (and ideally served hot) in the midwest to north.
It's also seasonal. Cider is juice mulled with spices and served hot in the coldest months of the winter, even in places where it's just juice, and served cold, for the rest of the year.
If you want to be sure, you can ask for "mulled cider" or "apple juice" or "applejack".
And of course the sparkling apple juice that gets bottled with carbonation is a much newer invention which is none of these things.
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