New post by @vgr The Winter King of the Internethttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/03/21/the-winter-king-of-the-internet/ …
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Ryan Herr Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
Off topic, but I'm surprised your Jesuit high school didn't teach transubstantiation?https://twitter.com/vgr/status/582037617320980480 …
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tangentially, transubstantiation has given rise to one of my favourite eng. words: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paneity …
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That is seriously the funniest word ever. 'The quality of being bread'... You Romans are crazy

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ikr? :) i was disappointed to find out it had so prosaic a raison d'etre; it was more charming to think that it was coined just because
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is there also a vinity? Quality of being wine? Other end of Eucharist is what...quality of being flesh and blood? Corporeal?
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Yes, and "hocus pocus" originates from "hoc est corpus" ("this is my body")
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