Unfortunately my father in law reads it every year from cover to cover. He’s accomplished it 4 times so far. Not sure how long he’s done it/attempted to do it.

That’s why he explicitly told me the Bible does not support or accept being gay. A church that marries them or accepts them isn’t a real church. I have two gay cousins so I strongly disagree haha. I’m not religious either so I just nodded.

Can’t believe people take the opinions of man from 2,000-3,000 years ago as fact over the scientific research of today.

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Not directed or produced, only written and handed off

Right and wrong/good and evil are instinctual moral compasses influenced by culture. You do not need religion to know how to act. That’s part of learning and developing as a human in a society.

I can understand you having that feeling or view due to how much information is accessible to us these days.

I only mention this because I don’t want you to have the false premise that morality and good is solely derived from a religion. I’m not religious at all and the most important thing to me is being a good guy and generally being an altruistic member of society. The human race can continue to make some really cool discoveries if we work together. I know religion tells us we have the answers to the world, but I don’t agree and am jealous of the future generations that hopefully get to know more about the universe than we do now.

Edit: spelling

how did you set up the spreadsheet for all of this

people are playing Minecraft in the great lakes lol

It’s nice and interesting but it could be good to make the colour difference between the two darker blues even clearer

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Thanks! I built my own web app to help me track and visualize this. Apparently, Reddit is hiding my links so here's the URL in case you want to check it out: timebar [dot] xyz

Good question and thanks for the feedback.

It's tough to be 100% consistent with a categorization due to the traditional order of books, but this scheme is generally based on genre rather than individual author. So of the works attributed to John, one is gospel/narrative, three are letters/epistles, and one is apocalyptic/prophetic, hence the three different colors. There are other helpful divisions (undisputed Pauline vs. disputed, major vs. minor prophets, etc.), so maybe it'd be good to offer some options in the color/genre breakdowns.

I find it entertaining that Revelation is given it’s own category. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to link it to “Works of Apostle John” that way you could group it with the Gospel of John; 1st, 2nd, 3rd John, and Revelation? At least so it’s a more useful distinction.

Where’s the Canadian Space Agency’s contribution? Without the Canadarm, the space station couldn’t have been built

Source: Human Development Index

Tools: MapChart for format, text and coloring.

We already had the largest separation in wealth at any point in history and it's only getting wider since 2020...the Rich will always get Richer.....

The only reason Musk and Bezos have lost so much net worth is because they are not investors. They are entrepreneurs, and will always sink money into startups, innovation and cool things... The rest of this list are people that know how to invest and maintain wealth.

I see Vacation and Christmas Vacation but not European Vacation.

It took me about 66 days (I started late in the year and tried to finish before end of that year) but I likely won't be reading it through that quickly again.

My math definitely didn't account for boring parts haha.

No car chases, but had some expendables style moments (maybe a couple passages about David's Mighty Men), a woman driving a tent peg through a dude's skull, and a few other things lol.

I usually have to go back and reread stuff two or three times anyway because I blank out a lot (I reread your comment a couple times to make sure I was answering all your points haha)

The Bible has some lovely parts. Just some nice poetic and philosophical stuff. My favorites are Genesis, Isaiah, some of the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, the Gospels, and some of the non-Pauline epistles (Peter & John). Scattered throughout the rest of the Old Testament are many interesting and fun little stories (The Exodus, David & Goliath, Samson, Joseph, Daniel, Esther, etc.) but it is mixed in with a lot of boring and/or WTF stuff. For beginners I would recommend Genesis and the Gospels as the most accessible books. The Poets and Prophets are hard to grok without a study guide.

My last read-through of the Bible convinced me that there is no God. I know that's not the way it is supposed to go, but what can I do? Jesus does have some great teachings and we would all do well to consider both his personal example of rejecting the prevailing religious dogmas of the day, and his teachings to be merciful and generous even to our political enemies.

I've read it. Multiple times. What's wrong with the summary? A religion cannot be both good, and allow for rape, murder, genocide, and slavery. No amount of time changes that.

It took me months. Does your math factor for boring? My mind would go blank, I would have to go back a page, to remember wtf I was reading. Definitely no car chases.

ah, yes, you are right my fault

This but unironically

South Africa has had power shortages for over a decade. "Loadshedding" is when there isn't enough power and we have rotating blackouts to prevent a grid collapse. This is done by stage, with the higher the stage, the more power has to be 'shed'. This sheet contains data going back to 2015 for each time the stage of loadshedding was changed.

I used Pandas and CalMap to plot the highest stage of each day, and Excalidraw to layout the descriptive text and legend etc.

This is an update of a previous post I did here.

Do what benefits your masters, or suffer dire consequences. That's all I got.

Interesting that only US billionaires have notable losses in 2023.

I read it cover to cover. Made me an atheist.