• PixelAlchemist@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t see how the term “Alchemy” is any different than “Transubstantiation”, and the Catholic Church seems pretty down with that.

    Imagine living your entire life with this kind of fear. Religion does crazy things to people’s minds.

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      10 months ago

      You say that and yet… APIs and XML-RPC are essentially the same thing. But APIs don’t make me wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah. I consider it important to maintain a healthy agnosticism about the possibility of heaven. It’s dangerous to wait to start living as the person I want to be!

        But on the topic of hell - well, I’ve needed to make two computers talk to eachother using the XML specification. I know that hell is very real.

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      10 months ago

      Looking at the comments in that thread, people seem to agree that the question is silly