Alec really did make a blog

Alright my dudes, dudettes and dude dudes.

Here’s a list of links I’ll be moving on to:

Twitter (SFW/NSFW): https://twitter.com/Spartan8ter

Furaffinity (NSFW): http://www.furaffinity.net/user/alec8ter/

Newgrounds (NSFW): https://alec8ter.newgrounds.com/

Piczel (Gonna be streaming here more): https://piczel.tv/gallery/alec8ter

Pillowfort: Coming soon!

And of course, my Discord Server (SFW/NSFW): https://discord.gg/EzGshNq

Had this blog for more than 6 years. 7k followers (that I’ve constantly neglected), ain’t so bad of a run. Love you guys. Please spread this post so that many more may know of my migration ;w;

Does that give the employee the right to post a photo of the girl’s full name online in order to mock it ok? Absolutely not.

Apparently the employee had a habit of taking photos of people at work and making fun of them, and the mom only contacted the airline when she found that out. That is perfectly reasonable. The employee should absolutely be fired.

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

In Hebrew

You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah

These are specifically about Chassidic Jewish theories of the holy language, how each letter and combination of letters in Hebrew contains the essence of the divine spark and if used correctly, can unlock or uncover the divine spark in the mundane material word. And of course, there are secret names of God which, when spoken by any ordinary human would kill them, but if you are worthy and holy and righteous can be used to perform miracles or even to behold the glory of God face-to-face. The words themselves have power. Orthodox Jews often won’t even pronounce the word “hallelujah” in it’s entirety in conversation, because the “yah” sound at the end is a True Name of God (there are hundreds, supposedly) and thus too holy to say outside of prayer.

None of this is to mention how David’s sin in sleeping with Batshevah (the subject of much of the song, with a brief deviation to Shimshon and Delilah) is considered the turning point in the Tanach that ultimately dooms the Davidic line at the cosmological level and thus dooms Jewish sovereignty and independence altogether. From a Christian perspective this led to Jesus, the King of Kings, and that’s all very well and good for them, but for the Jews, the Davidic line never returned and is the central tragedy of the total arc of the Torah. Like, our Bible doesn’t have a happy ending? And that’s what this song is about? There’s no Grace - you just have to sit with the sin and its consequence.

Of course, Cohen is referencing all of this ironically, and personalizing these very high-level religious concepts. Like the point of this song is that Cohen, the songwriter, is identifying with David, the psalmist, and identifying his own sins with David’s. The ache that you hear in this song is that the two thousand year exile that resulted from one wrong night of passion and Cohen feels that the pain he has caused to his lover is of equally monumental infamy. Basically, in a certain light, the whole of Psalms is a vain effort for David to atone for his sin and I think Cohen was writing this song in wonderment that David could eternally praise the God who would not forgive him and would force him and his people into exile. But he ultimately gets how you have to surrender to the inexorable force of God in the face of your own inadequacies and how to surrender is to worship and to worship is to praise - hence, Hallelujah. You can either do the right thing and worship God from the start, or you can fuck up, be punished, and thus be forced to beg for His forgiveness. It’s the terrible inevitability of praise that’s driving him mad.

Like honestly, I identify with this song so strongly as an off-the-derech Jew, I sometimes wonder what Christians can possibly hear in this song, as it speaks so specifically to the sadomasochistic relationship that a lapsed Jew has with their God. It’s such a different song from a Christian theological perspective it’s almost unrecognizable, man. This song continues to be a wonder of postmodern Jewish theology and sexuality from start to finish. Don’t let anyone give you any “Judeo-Christian” narishkeit. This is a Jewish song.

But even as a child, I had a particular deference to Jews and Judaism- I always reasoned- these are whom the Christian faith emerges from, of course they are deserving of respect. But I think even more, it was the handful of Jewish focused cartoon specials I saw growing up (Thank you Rugrats) that really opened my heart up to the Jewish people.

But not to wander too far off from the point, I always loved the song Hallelujah growing up. I think its absolutely wonderful and fascinating that I’ve come back to this song in multiple times in my life and could walk away from it with a different feeling and understand, just based on my shifting world views and perspective. To see it first as a Christian, then as an Agnostic, then once again through the lens of a Jew…

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