The 321 Podcast! Episode Sixteen
Episode Sixteen is where the guys talk about Scientology, Catholicism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and ramble around near the subject of college experiences.
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Themocracy
Episode Sixteen is where the guys talk about Scientology, Catholicism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and ramble around near the subject of college experiences.
Panorama Theme by Themocracy
Episode 16! You guys have staying power! Thanks for keeping them comin’
They don’t have common when Moses runs Faerun games bitches. He loves situations involving language barriers and miscommunication.
p.s. congrats Dave on the move south, and welcome to Cali.
Wow, this is an interesting (aka scary!) read…
Scientology is like turning Star Wars into a religion apparently… From Wikipedia:
The Church of Scientology holds that at the higher levels of initiation (OT levels) mystical teachings are imparted that may be harmful to unprepared readers. These teachings are kept secret from members who have not reached these levels. The Church states that the secrecy is warranted to keep its materials’ use in context, and to protect its members from being exposed to materials they are not yet prepared for.[114]
The Scientology cruise ship Freewinds.
These are the OT levels, the levels above Clear, whose contents are guarded within Scientology. The OT level teachings include accounts of various cosmic catastrophes that befell the thetans.[115] Hubbard described these early events collectively as space opera.
In the OT levels, Hubbard explains how to reverse the effects of past-life trauma patterns that supposedly extend millions of years into the past.[116] Among these advanced teachings is the story of Xenu (sometimes Xemu), introduced as an alien ruler of the “Galactic Confederacy.” According to this story, 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and detonated hydrogen bombs in the volcanoes. The thetans then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today. Scientologists at advanced levels place considerable emphasis on isolating body thetans and neutralizing their ill effects.[117]
@Dave: Sampson’s Old Testament, bitch! Get your Jew facts right.
Genital based nicknames:
Dave Metzgina
Campy Drapgina
Moses VagAdams Barrgina
Also, as well as being the name of the alien lord of scientology, Zargon is the dungeon master in the popular boardgame HeroQuest.
The substance free hall would be very different from the free substance hall. Chew on that and swallow it.
You can actually read about the Kessel run in one of the “Han Solo Trilogy” books. It’s an area of space that is just loaded with gravitational anomalies. One wrong move can send your ship helplessly into a black hole. As a result, however, space-time is drasitcally skewed all throughout it, making each run a new challenge, so to speak.
When Han broke 6 parsecs, he was actually saving his girlfriend. They were racing through it, and her ship bounced too close to a black hole when she tried to out-maneuver him. She couldn’t pull herself out, so he moved in, and saved her. (but not her ship, which she was pissed about, the ungrateful bitch). When it was all said and done, he checked the odometer, and it read less than 6 parsecs.
I may be skewing a few different events into that, so don’t take me too litterally. It’s been a while since I read those books. Also: I think 6 parsecs was particularly impressive in that it breaks not only records, but the fundamental theories for how fast it could have been done to begin with. Like, “kessel space” is 8 parsecs long, or something.
Also: I agree with college mentality being more of a party-zone. I hated college peoples. I would support OSU because the entire freakin’ campus would be significantly quieter if we lost to them.
I also had a neighbor who would play his subwoofer all the damned time, and throw honest-to-god tantrums when I asked him to turn it down. I think the UofO needs to take steps to secure the dorms for educational purposes, and keep it that way. “well, stop it, or else” doesn’t convince ass-holes to stop shitting on anything if you never back it up, dorm admins! I had to move away from Mr. Douche-bag because no one would do a damned thing. I was punished for needing a quiet, intellectually conducive environment. And he was rewarded for 6-year old tantrums. Honestly, I’m not even exaggerating there.
Interesting fact: A Parsec is a measurement of distance based on apparent stellar motion as observed from Earth. 360×60×60/2π Astronomical Units (AU)
Earth has a year 365.2424 days long and an AU of 149,597,870,691 meters. This makes an Earth based parsec equal 30,856,775,813,057,300 meters.
In Star Wars: A New Hope a boastful Han Solo claims that his spaceship made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. This is odd because he says parsec like it is a unit of time, but it really is a unit of distance.
The thing to keep in mind about Solo’s claim of doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs is that the Kessel Run is through the Maw. Event Horizons around black holes are dependent on the speed at which you are travelling. A standard ship has to do the run in 18 parsecs because to cut the route any closer, the ship would get sucked in. The Falcon, however, is fast enough to straighten the route and cut over 6 parsecs off the distance traveled. This makes sense, since the Falcon’s hyperdrive is often rated as a x.5 rather than a x1 standard, potentially making it twice as fast as standard ships. While this argument may all be after-the-fact justification for an actual scriptwriting error, the logic does hold, although Solo could have just been boasting to his potential clients.
On the other hand, a parsec is a very small unit in astronomical terms, only 3.26 light years. Elementary arithmetic shows that if the Galaxy is the same size as the Milky Way, roughly 30,000 parsecs across, any ship capable of traveling across the galaxy in only a few weeks would travel six parsecs in less than ten minutes– hardly a significant difference. A similar issue arises in The Courtship of Princess Leia, when it takes more than a week to travel a distance of only seventy parsecs (the stated distance between Dathomir and Coruscant).
The “Decoded” version of the episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Dooku Captured says that six parsecs equals about 114 trillion miles, although it would be closer to 116 trillion miles using either figure. Coruscant may be closer or farther to its sun than Earth is.
The Star Wars Essential Atlas says a parsec is 3.26 light-years.
Okay enough of the Geek Fu. The real answer is WHO GIVES A FUCK! lol!
p.s. Good episode guys you should definitely continue the “College Experiences” in future episodes.
Got any good college prank stories?