I’m not convinced. The “If I want to go to heaven I will start from death” comes from the clue once we found the tofugu article, and the spoiler thread has already showed that There is more than one relevant article on tofugu.
In buddha-prevents-earthquakes it’s mentioned that the 大仏 is a 国宝, which is worth noting because, again in the spoiler thread Someone else already brought up the national treasure/nic cage, so it’s a little funny to see it popping up again. Additionally that article was updated at the beginning of January.
Additionally? That right there is enough to be suspicious. Anyone have to time to try getting a diff of the source? I can later this evening (if I can find an old version)
Are we expecting something at 4500 posts? It’s every 1000 that a-regular-durtle shows up. So far: 1152, 2002, 3016, 4014 (not correcting for deleted posts that mess with the ordering).
There is likely a consequence to going out of order (so it may even out)…not that it was cheating, either you protect the sequence or keep it a free for all.
Another vote for merging the threads. In retrospect, I don’t think it’s so much a spoiler as a discovery of more information that might help. But not a “cheat code” to skip ahead, if you know what I mean. It was a good thought to be cautious, but at this point it’s just part of the same puzzle being worked in parallel. Nothing wrong with that; we’re going to have to solve it now or later anyway.