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No, “blood of the Covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” is not the original quote. The original quote is from the 12th century, in the German epic Reinhart Fuchs, and reads, “Sippenblut von Wassern nicht verdirbt” - “Kin-blood is not spoiled by water”. On the other hand, that’s a really cool twist on the proverb that you can use in your own writing !!

No, “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one” is not the original quote. The original term is “Johannes fac totum” - basically, Johning Do-All - in Robert Greene’s 1592 booklet Groats-Worth of Wit, mocking William Shakespeare. In 1732, that evolved into “A Jack of all trades is master of none”, but that’s a really cool quote when not being used to spread misinformation !!

No, "curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back" is not the original quote. Though you are right that “curiosity killed the cat” isn’t, either. It’s “Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat..." from the 1598 (the 1590s were good for English ig) play Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson

I promise you historians are not censoring gay people. Your elementary school that taught you history is, because it was Catholic, Conservative, whatever-the-fuck.

Your pre-university history courses are not teaching you a historian’s perspective on history I promise - they’re teaching you the average - deeply politically-influenced - layman’s view on it, which is… not very accurate.

I know that people overwhelmingly want to believe that the people in their ivory towers are wrong and it’s really up to the salt-of-the-earth proletariat to “uncover the actual past” and bring the bourgeoise academicians down to earth once more, but that’s not true in many cases.

That’s also a terrifying prospect !! The concept of career professionals being so bad at their fields that I’m better than them ?? My God, I’d cry !!

No, Roman dodecahedrons were not “solved by your Grandma”. Your Grandma using it for knitting just adds another potential use onto the pile of potential uses we built for it.

Ritual does not mean “religious”, it means “habitual”. Brushing your teeth is a ritual. A “fertility ritual object” might just be an ancient dildo. Something being done “ritualistically” means it wasn’t out of place in a culture. Also, it is an inside joke a lot of the time.

No, Egyptian noses were not intentionally broken off. Do you know how easy it is to break the noses of statues completely on accident or just via erosion ? Fuck, do you know how often humans break their noses on a daily basis ? And we aren’t even being exposed to thousands of tiny sharp particles being flung in our faces at incredible speeds !! Usually !!

No, the real history of “feminist Lilith” is not being covered up by the Catholic Church. Au contraire, the Church loved the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Lilith is simply not mentioned much at all.

Hades, who cried “iron tears” on hearing Orpheus play, is probably not a “soft boy” but I like this trope so I’m going to ignore that.

You know what else is confusing? Being told my entire life that I would be exclusively attracted to men when in fact I am a raging queer. And you’re not giving kids enough credit, if they can handle topics like ‘you have a set of earthly parents and a set of Heavenly Parents and both are real parents to you’ then they should understand the concept of being trans.

(He got called to be a mission President a year after that - when he got home it was the first time I'd attended church in since he left. I still call him my Bishop. He was, and remains, a great man.)

Anyway, it was the BoM year, so the number of lessons I skipped was non-trivial. I think I repeated the 3rd Nephi, Chapter 17 lesson alone at least six times to avoid some of the dumber ones. Sometimes the kids just wanted to play outside so we’d sneak some of the teaching aids out of the library (mostly fake crowns and other costume gear) and go to the grass. I’d tell them we were reenacting BoM scenes, but it was always just silliness. The boys loved it when I joined their stick battles and they could all gang up on me and chase me around the lawn, and the girls liked when I joined their dramas. Especially murder mysteries. They’d present me with some sort of weird 8 year old parking lot jungle juice in a paper cup, and I’d take a small sip and then spend a minute or two “dying” from poison. Sometimes I barely had to fake it. I'm pretty sure they gave me straight gasoline once.

There was a set of fraternal twins in that group, a brother and a sister, and one day the boy asked why I wasn't on a mission yet. I told him I didn't know how to answer that, and he apologized, and I told him you have nothing to apologize for. His sister looked appalled as soon as he brought it up (mission stuff is a huge Mormon taboo) but when the day was ending, she stayed behind to help me fold chairs. And when that was done she asked if she'd see me in heaven.

And it struck me how much it must have been worrying her, for her to stay late and to overcome the taboo of asking. So I told her I would do my best, and she said that had to be enough, and I gave her a hug and walked her to parents, then got behind the wheel of my ridiculous half-spackle car and bawled like a little kid. I cried so hard my shoulders hurt. Then I went to the gas station and got a hotdog.

The people making these policies aren't afraid that the kids are going to be confused. They're afraid that they won't be. That they'll look up at you, and love you, and tell you that whatever you're doing has to be enough. They're afraid that if you helped their kids be happy and live a good life, those kids would love you, and then they would have to love you too. And so to keep their hatred safe, they throw you and what you could offer their kids away. It is cowardly, and selfish, and so sickening that it is hard to look at.

And in the end, all I could do was stop looking.

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kofi

You go back to ep 1 and see that Pete was literally the lamest dog. When Niran tells him later "you're hollow" and Pete says "I was a jackass", like they weren't kidding. Pete was so empty and listless before he met Niran, before the training montage. He joined Niran partially because his life meant so little to him that he didn't even care what Niran wanted him to do. He just went with it because it was better than what he was doing at the time.

And we found out Niran feels like such an outcast that he'd rather disappear - and you go back to the start and you realize that's why he let Pete keep hanging around. Niran complained and complained about Pete, but Pete (in his dumbass hollow way) was the first person to tell him he was awesome and capable and to trust Niran so much. He was probably the only person at the time who would have picked up Niran's call to go have drinks at all.