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21:51	danni	how the heck can you have buddhism as a superpower
21:52	PsyLaptop1	i bought your mom last night
21:52	PsyLaptop1	for a nickel
21:52	danni	WOOF WOOF
21:52	thea	well i mean there's accounts in the vinaya about how practicing meditation essentially gives you superpowers
21:52	PsyLaptop1	i'm here all week, folks, be sure to tip your waitperson
21:52	thea	and if i remember right thundermind's thing was that his powers unlocked because of the heart sutra or something
21:53	thea	like he was a monk and in the process of meditation he unlocked his powers
21:53	danni	catholic priest superhero
21:53	thea	that's what i thought when i read 52 i never saw great ten
21:53	thea	isn't that basically zauriel though
21:53	thea	or nightcrawler
21:53	thea	but i would be down for a horror series with a catholic priest doing sick shit with holy water
21:54	thea	get a buddhist monk and a rabbi and a wiccan or some shit and call it an interreligious exorcism association or something
21:54	danni	transubstantiates the wine a mobster is drinking
21:54	danni	he spits out a mouthful of blood
21:54	thea	make american ghost hunt is what i want
21:54	danni	because that's how it works
21:54	thea	it doesn't turn into blood, though
21:54	danni	i know
21:54	thea	except for early modern miracles
21:54	thea	yeah that would be how that would happen huh
21:54	danni	well there you go
21:55	thea	yeah that's the thing, it doesn't actually become blood except for when it does
21:55	danni	buddhist monk, rabbi, priest, snakehandler, muslim sufi, wiccan
21:56	danni	Interfaith Coalition
21:56	thea	i want a daoist priest in there too but i know that's being too greedy
21:56	thea	only in anime can you get shit that sick
21:56	danni	come to think of it the organization in the van helsing movie was exactly that
21:56	danni	needs a punny name
21:57	thea	i kind of want it named like how actual organizations like that are named
21:57	danni	their headquarters is the basement of a unitarian church
21:57	thea	the Interfaith Coalition for the Advancement of Interreligious Understanding and the Promotion of Peace
21:58	danni	they fight monsters and stuff
21:58	thea	nah they're a registered non-profit with an office
21:58	thea	they can travel the world and interact with local religious culture
21:58	danni	if it was an anime the priest would totally be a woman for some reason
21:58	thea	like go to africa and deal with evangelicals and witch doctors
21:58	thea	nah they know enough to know that's not quite right
21:59	thea	they'd probably have a nun who wants to get married eventually instead
21:59	danni	hellsing has a lady given sir as a title
21:59	danni	rather than dame
21:59	thea	maybe she used to be a sir and they're dicks
22:00	thea	actually how do you get a woman on a team like this, most religions are kind of sausage fests when it comes to this stuff
22:00	danni	so is the wiccan the token chick?
22:00	thea	yeah maybe
22:00	danni	hold up
22:00	thea	maybe make the snake handler a woman, also
22:01	danni	i think there's a female rabbi in brooklyn or some thing
22:01	thea	reform yeah they have women rabbis i think
22:01	danni	http://www.centralsynagogue.org/about_us/our_clergy/buchdahl
22:01	PsyLaptop1	the buchdahl test
22:01	thea	you could also have a nun instead of a monk, but idk if esoteric teachings are taught to nuns
22:01	PsyLaptop1	i make that pun having not bothered to click the link
22:02	thea	yeah actually i think they do
22:02	danni	alternatively we can just have madonna and she does funky kabbalah stuff
22:02	PsyLaptop1	you could have a woman instead of a man but idk if they have the same rights men do
22:02	danni	like not pay taxes
22:02	thea	yeah if we want kabbalah not like we can get a woman in the rabbi role
22:03	danni	let's just have a lady rabbi
22:03	thea	i actually like the idea of a shingon nun, though. i think my brother mentioned they induct nuns into esoteric teachings these days
22:03	thea	so we can have a lady wiccan, lady buddhist nun, lady rabbi, lady snake handler, and dude other stuff
22:04	PsyLaptop1	thea remind me are you moving back to virginia
22:04	thea	priest and muslim suffi
22:04	danni	i think snake handlers work best as a male
22:04	thea	i'm in virginia now
22:04	danni	mainy because
22:04	PsyLaptop1	cool
22:04	danni	they're fucking insane
22:04	PsyLaptop1	wanna go see john wick sometime
22:04	danni	also evangelical christianity really seems to have more of a male face
22:04	thea	i don't know what that is
22:04	thea	yeah true
22:05	thea	i guess i like the idea of the evangelical being more okay with everyone else because of girl talk
22:05	PsyLaptop1	its an action movie directed by a former stuntman starring keanu reeves as a man out for revenge for the death of his dog
22:05	thea	though i think that could only happen with the rabbi and the wiccan
22:05	danni	GIRL TALK
22:05	danni	okay that could work
22:05	PsyLaptop1	scott and foo both told me it was rad
22:05	danni	like she could be some farm girl whose the only child
22:05	thea	oh i think i heard about that
22:06	danni	and is continuing her family's NOBLE SNAKE HANDLING TRADITION
22:06	danni	also guys who keep snakes as pets just seem weird
22:06	danni	so having her as a woman fixes that
22:06	thea	honestly snake handling is the kind of thing women would be able to do pretty well
22:07	thea	like that sort of charismatic, miraculous thing is something women do pretty often
22:07	thea	idk if that holds up in actual snake handling but it makes sense to me that there would be women who handle snakes
22:08	Schide	penis joke
22:08	danni	naturally
22:09	thea	i can see the snake handler joining the group to convert everyone
22:09	thea	but as she sees the other people actually succeeding at defeating demons and crap and thanks to the friendships she develops she begins to think that maybe people from other religions are okay
22:10	danni	okay on this mortal coil but they're still going to hell
22:11	danni	the sufi is a dude with a family back home who basically consider him a hippie
22:11	thea	as the series progresses i think she would begin to question that, and temporarily lose her faith (and ability to fight monsters) but her friends help her come to a deeper understanding of god and her own faith and she becomes more powerful
22:11	thea	i feel like the shingon nun would be very serious and keep to herself, but have a dark past relevant to the metaplot somehow
22:11	danni	also she names her snakes after various country singers
22:12	danni	no
22:12	thea	yeah that felt racist as i was writing it
22:12	danni	how about her snakes are inexplicably named after enochian angels
22:12	danni	and she has never read enoch
22:12	thea	i think the priest would gather everyone together since it's usually the catholics that feel the need to do the shit
22:12	thea	yes good i like it
22:13	thea	it goes with tongues and crap
22:13	danni	snakehandler girl eventually can speak enochian
22:13	thea	i think the priest should be the least developed character and occupy a vague leadership position that becomes less organic over time and devolves into a more democratic organization
22:14	thea	mostly i feel this because in most media the priest is central and i want other faiths to be the spotlight
22:14	danni	least developed but hints that he has unknown motives or past
22:14	thea	yes good
22:14	danni	like, is he doing this on his own, is he directed by the church?
22:14	danni	who knows
22:15	danni	let's retry the nun
22:15	danni	but avoid passive asian shit
22:15	danni	i know next to nothing on shingon buddhism
22:15	thea	part of the problem is esoteric buddhism seems very serious and austere to me
22:15	thea	which plays into that
22:16	thea	you and everyone else that isn't a shingon monk or nun
22:16	thea	it's one of the only remaining schools of esoteric buddhism and they're sort of the ones who woud do crap like exorcism and stuff
22:17	thea	maybe onmyodo or shinto would be better...
22:17	danni	sufi guy has has had some problems with his family lately mainly because his mother believes he's a witch basically
22:17	danni	or
22:17	danni	whatever a muslim theologically opposed to sufist thought might call them
22:18	thea	you know i used to know that
22:18	PsyLaptop1	theologically oppose my balls
22:18	danni	so he views the organization as an excuse from dealing with that
22:18	thea	i'm still thinking about the nun and the only things i can think of are anime bullshit
22:19	danni	lemme guess, rei from sailor moon came to mind?
22:20	thea	no, but what i was thinking of wasn't much better
22:21	danni	i mean monks or nuns can have fun i guess
22:21	danni	they're only human
22:21	danni	as human
22:21	thea	yeah
22:21	thea	yeah
22:22	thea	maybe a bit easy going, with a sense of responsibility? like she's nice and smiles all the time but when she's fighting demons she's all business?
22:22	thea	ugh i just described an anime character again
22:22	danni	you know an asian character can be those things without being an anime you know
22:22	danni	perhaps
22:23	danni	you are the real racist
22:23	thea	yeah i am really racist
22:24	thea	i don't know, the mom of the group who smiles all the time and is really strong? that's what i'm picturing
22:24	danni	i guess age of the characters matters
22:25	danni	i mean if she's like a realistic age for a monk like 40s/50s then i guess the 'implications' don't really matter?
22:26	thea	i see the wiccan and snake handler as in the 20s, rabbi in her early 30s, nun in her 40s-50s, priest in his sixties, and idk about the suffi
22:26	danni	what's a realistic sufi age?
22:27	thea	no clue
22:27	PsyLaptop1	god how do you fuck up gummi bears
22:27	PsyLaptop1	shameful
22:27	thea	well if they aren't giving you the screaming shits they could have fucked up worse
22:28	PsyLaptop1	nah like to give me the screaming shits they would have to be good enough to eat more than 2
22:28	PsyLaptop1	also i have the screaming shits already because either stomach virus or meds
22:29	PsyLaptop1	i hate pooping in general
22:29	PsyLaptop1	like every single time it's deeply unpleasant and i hate it
22:29	PsyLaptop1	is that weird
22:29	thea	v0v
22:29	PsyLaptop1	shouldnt it just be like
22:29	PsyLaptop1	normal
22:29	thea	honestly i don't know most people's opinions on shitting
22:30	thea	me unless it hurts i usually enjoy the release of pressure
22:30	PsyLaptop1	its one of those things most people keep to themselves yeah
22:30	thea	at least in america
22:31	PsyLaptop1	see there's relief when i pee but not when i poop, pooping is stressful
22:31	PsyLaptop1	poopchat
22:31	thea	peeing is stressful for me, at least in public, but that's transferred over to when i pee in private honestly
22:32	danni	well what's a realistic age for an adult man to still care what his parents think of him?
22:32	danni	re: the sufi
22:33	thea	i'd say late twenties, early thirties, later if he's from a culture where that's important