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getting a note on a super old post
reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind
it's crazy how casually people will talk about wanting to lose weight and become thinner as if that's a normal thing to want or talk about, you are brainwashed
like do what you want with your body but stop assuming we all relate to wanting to be thinner idk
ESPECIALLY stop assuming i relate to wanting to be thinner just because i'm fat
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I could write 20 pages against exclusionist arguments but nothing I could say would be as efficient as this
[ID: a reddit comment by tomohawk12345 that reads:
"this sexual minority isn't part of the sexual minority group" 🤓🤓
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Not just "fuck ICE" but also "love immigrants"
ICE is a domestic terrorist group that promotes behaviors similar to literal slave catchers and nazis that needs to be stopped yesterday.
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Immigrants are human beings who deserve no more or less love than anyone else on the planet.
Oh, i remember this! No truck fucking, but also hard to explain...?
Basically, a lot of truckers feel VERY attached to their trucks, to the point where it's common for truckers to refer to them as their "first baby".
So, knowing this, this trucker's wife organised a photoshoot where her husband's "first baby" got to meet his "second baby". Kind of like those pregnancy photoshoots with dogs?
He thought it was great, and they shared it on social media trucker groups. In a turn i would not expect, a lot of other truckers got really emotional about it. Like, grown men cooing over a stranger's pregnancy photoshoot, going to their wives and asking if they can do something similar 🥺🥺🥺. All in all, strangely wholesome???
Ohhhh, the truck is the big brother :)
the thing with romance for me is that you need to convince me through behavior and dialogue that the characters enjoy spending time with each other and seek each other out. even with enemies to lovers a foundation of mutual respect goes a long way. you can be like "he's the youngest ever general of the dragon slaying guild and I'm secretly a dragon, but he's the best swordsman I've ever fought and our sparring matches are the only thing that make me feel alive ever since my family was killed." if he implies something similar then bam, you have a reason for the two of them to hang out even though one of them knows it's dangerous. you can't be like "he's a dragon slayer and he's mean to me all the time but the flex of his arms when he swings his sword is just too sexy." it does not matter how many times you have your protagonist say "I shouldn't be drawn to him... but I am" if you never show a real moment of connection between them that draws them together
Rocket scientists who leave the rocket industry keep thinking everything is a rocket and it's kind of adorable
"We can honeycomb this to reduce the weight" sweetie no that's going to be twice as expensive to manufacture and we are not launching it anywhere.
"If we use titanium instead of steel we'll save a bunch of weight" baby you need to stop worrying so much about your weight! And maybe worry more about what happens to titanium when you expose it to deuterium plasma.
One of the things I love about watching people make art on the internet is clocking the way they use the tools they know. The way a nail artist makes miniatures is completely different than the way a polymer clay artist does the same thing. How a whittler and a painter approach printmaking.
Consider the ways in which you are a rocket engineer.
Half the backlash to fat lib content essentially boils down to "I can't believe you're FORCING me to not be mean to you"
Thin people are absolutely relentless with this. "But I have to TELL them!" "I can't just not SAY something!" "We can't just PRETEND it's fine to be fat!"
They really seem to think the main reason people are fat is because we're simply drowning in approval and no one has been brave enough to inform us that it's better to not be fat, actually
I genuinely think it's related to what I observe about singleness, virginity, and ace/aro topics: people's entire worldviews are threatened by fat liberation. And having your worldview challenged is scary... especially because so many people have put so, so much personal effort into Not Being Fat, so much self-hate into gaining weight, so much self-denial of food they like and forcing themselves into activities they hate, to avoid being fat.
And fat liberation says "It's okay to be fat!" and fat people say "I'm happy being fat and I don't try to become skinny!"
And it scares people that that is an option. It scares people to think that they have sunk so much time, so much effort, so much misery into avoiding being fat. And this person in front of them is just... not even trying. Rejecting the game. Saying You Don't Have To Do That.
If they accept that they didn't have to do that... then they made themselves so unhappy, for so long, for no reason.
They want their effort, their unhappiness, to have been worth it. To have meant something.
So they have to believe that being fat is wrong, bad, gross, a moral failing, and the only reason anyone would be happy that way is if they just don't know better. Because the other option is to realize and admit that they suffered unnecessarily for years and it meant nothing at all.
This is also why people violently resist the reality that weight loss dieting does not result in sustainable significant weight loss for the vast majority of people who attempt it.

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Something I don't think Xian atheists really get is the idea of obligation as liberation.
The view of obligation and duty in Xianity seems to be one of restriction - of limiting what you're allowed to do. And I won't deny there's a thread of that in Judaism - in most religions, even.
But there's another thread in Judaism - obligation limits what other people can stop you from doing.
If, for example, you are obligated to give to the poor, nobody can stop you because those people don't deserve it.
More famously, if you are obligated to violate the other rules to save a life, nobody can penalize you for the violation.
It's not just a religious concept, either - I have partners who struggle with feeling "selfish" any time they do something for themselves. By giving them an obligation to spend a certain part of their budget on pure luxury indulgences for themselves, I can circumvent that feeling.
Sacredness and obligation are tools, and like any other social tool, they can be used to oppressive or liberatory ends. The question lies in who's wielding them and what they're doing with them.
Salty reminder that if you're about to say anything about Judaism as a religion and call our Gd Y****h, hit the breaks before you spew bullshit.
That's a Christian transliteration and a Christian name. In Judaism that name isn't meant to be pronounced at all, and any authentic transliteration has been lost to time. It's considered so holy that the stand-in word for it (Ad-nai) is traditionally reserved exclusively for prayer. There are even rules about even writing it down on things which could be damaged or destroyed. Pronouncing it like Y****h or J*h**a could even be considered blasphemous from a Jewish perspective.
Saying Jewish people worship "Y-----" is inaccurate, super disrespectful and gross!!
I don't follow any religion but I like to observe and from where I'm standing, this sounds like the equivalent of Muslims getting their knickers in a twist if anyone dares draw Mohammed, even though that's only a law in Sunni Islam. Why should non-believers be bound to the laws of any particular religion?
Just because we respect other people's right to follow their religion doesn't mean we have to respect their religion.
Let me be clear: We should respect other people's RIGHT to follow their religion. We do not have to respect their religion.
Demanding that non-believers respect religion laws is ludicrous, and if we give in to it the next thing we know we'll be hearing demands for blasphemy laws; punishment for anyone who offends religions sentiment. There have been many cases, mostly in Islamic countries, where even perceived insult to Islam is punished with death.
Just because someone acts offended doesn't mean they're in the right. Anyone can act offended. Acting offended is not an argument that's going to hold up in a logical debate about any issue.
Being a member of a persecuted minority also doesn't automatically make someone right.
So let me repeat; We should respect other people's right to follow their religious laws (within reason, we don't tolerate religious intolerance). However we do not have to respect or follow the religious laws of religions we are not members of, and calls for such behaviour should be disregarded.
That's not what's happening here at all. Nobody is asking you to obey halacha. We're just asking you not to spread lies about our religion. That really isn't worth getting bent out of shape over. It's basic courtesy for the people around you. If "don't spread antisemitic lies" is a deal-breaker for you, you may want to take a break from society while you figure that shit out.
CT could you or one of your pals help me understand something? I’m reading the Torah feel like I’m missing something. I offer a horse figurine and a piece o pressed lavender from last summer
Not my area of expertise but maybe someone else can help ya
I need more info. Which translation are you using? JPS is the standard, however I find it a little bland at times, but it is solid. Sefaria is a great place to read, they have multiple translations you can switch between and they also allow you to see the hebrew and english side by side. You can also highlight specific hebrew words and they will give you possible translations, so you can start to put the pieces together yourself
I havent personally read it yet, but ive heard rave reviews of Robert Alter’s translation, it is available on libgen for free!
Besides the translation, are you having trouble relating to the stories, finding spiritual meaning, trying to find any sort of meaning? if you need help interpreting what its all supposed to mean, a good place to start is reading divrei torah, or torah commentaries, which will give interpretations and more detail on each of the 54 parshot (sections) of the torah. Some good sites are reconstructing judaism, reform judaism, hadar (great traditional but egalitarian resource!), and ofc chabad
If youre having trouble comprehending the language of the torah, you may find Rashi’s commentary helpful, as it has both interpretation but also has basic clarification of what the text is saying. his commentary is considered to be the gold standard of torah commentary, hes also hilarious sometimes so i highly recommend reading his commentary on song of songs! he has commentary on all parts of the tanakh, including all five books of torah. It is available on sefaria here
If youre looking for a more kabbalistic/spiritual commentary on the torah, the Or HaChaim is great, and i find it quite easy to digest. It’s also available on Sefaria here
I find commentaries best read alongside the original torah portion that they are discussing.
I wish i could help more, but im unsure on what specifically you are “missing”, please feel free to reach out and ask me personally, i would be happy to help!
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Relatedly, also – Since OP asked this question on an occultism blog rather than a Judaism one, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they're not Jewish. And I think that if you're coming from a non-Jewish background, the biggest barrier to understanding the Torah is that Jews do not engage with our texts in remotely the same way that Christians engage with their texts.
Don't start by treating the Torah like a literal narrative account. For many people, this is the only way they know how to engage with Biblical texts, but in Judaism, it's really not the main way we read the Torah at all.
Torah is a collection of stories and laws and poetry – the fact that we Jews believe that it is divine in no way means that we believe that it is all literal; this is much like how the fact that English lit scholars tend to believe that Poe was a great writer doesn't at all mean that they think he literally slept in a tomb by the sea.
When approaching Torah, there are four main methods of interpretation:
First, there's p'shat or "surface meaning": This is the closest thing we have to literalism, but even p'shat is not exactly biblical literalism in the way that Christians tend to mean. Think of this as "that type of literary analysis you did in high school" and you won't be too far off. A p'shat interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" would be something like "the narrator loved this women so much that angels killed her, and now he lies down in her tomb – the rhyme scheme, repetition, and meter conveys the narrator's intense mournfulness."
Second, there's remez or "hinted meaning": This is something more like a higher-level literary critique, involving more hidden or symbolic meanings within the text. A remez interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" would be something more like "when you contrast Annabel Lee with poems such as The Raven, Ulalume, and To One in Paradise, you see an evolving view of the concepts of death and doomed love."
Third, there's derash or "inquiry": This is a more active engagement with the text, where scholars draw meaning and stories out of what's written by contrasting multiple texts, and then additionally reading between the lines of what's written. A derash interpretation of "Annabel Lee" might be in the form of an imagined dialogue, in which Annabel Lee's ghost responds to the narrator's assertions in the original poem by quoting passages from Edgar Allen Poe's other works – and this dialogue could end up suggesting a meaning in which the young love referred to in the poem was symbolic of something else entirely.
Finally, there's sod or "secret meaning": This is an esoteric form of interpretation which I'd steer clear of entirely until you have a fairly complete understanding of the contents of the text and their more simple interpretations. A sod interpretation of "Annabel Lee" might look like someone pointing out that Edgar Allen Poe tends to use the letter "L" for all of his doomed female love interest characters, then going into a thesis-length analysis of the symbolic meanings of the letter "L" throughout all of English literature, and then arguing that a connection they've discovered between "Annabel Lee" and Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" through analyzing the nature of the letter "L" elucidates a deeper human meaning of the nature of love and tragedy.
Tl;dr: If you're having trouble getting what we Jews are getting out of the Torah by just reading it plain, that's probably because that's not really how we read Torah. When we say that every letter is sacred and full of meaning to us, we're not just speaking metaphorically.
I don't usually do reblogs, but this is too excellent of a breakdown to not share here for anyone struggling with text study.
I'd also add: Torah study is often a communal activity; having different perspectives in dialogue with each other and the text can help tease out meanings that you wouldn't have noticed on your own.
This is part of another of those fundamental differences in our cultures - Judaism is an ongoing dialogue with the text. You're intended to struggle, to disagree, to challenge and be challenged by Torah, rather than simply receiving it.
Gender is like G-d: Invisible, but omnipresent. Some say we all have a spark of it in us. Some say they’ve never felt that spark. Some have learned to flinch at its touch, lest it burn them again.
Gender is like G-d: You will struggle with it, fight it, curse its name some days… and you will curse yourself for failing its standards, for resenting it. You will remember that you love it, that it’s a source of deep comfort and solace in your life… and then you will struggle with it once more.
Gender is like G-d: Esoteric and ineffable. You will spend your whole life searching for the right words to describe what it means, how it feels, to you; and you will spend your whole life discovering new facets and layers to that meaning.
Gender is like G-d: Difficult and holy, impossible to fully grasp; for how could you possibly contain it all?

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Today’s fighting Christian hegemony factoid:
“Charity” and “tzedakah” are not synonymous. To many Jews this is relatively clear, but I have seen gentiles struggle to understand the difference. So let’s look at each of these concepts.
Charity, the predominant word used to describe “giving money to people/entities to help make the world a better place” in the west, is a Christian term. And at its root it means giving out of the good of your heart to a person/entity/cause for the betterment of mankind. The word itself is derived from caritas, a Latin word for love. When we speak of charity in the west, we talk about wanting to help people, and then giving our time or money to someone or to some entity for that purpose. If you’re giving money to a good cause but you don’t want to, it’s forced upon you or you’re doing it for social cache, we treat it as a lesser form of giving, because you didn’t mean it. It’s not “real charity.” Charity is giving to your fellow because you love him as you love yourself.
Tzedakah is not at all like that. It too refers to the concept of giving money or other aid to those in need, but it has nothing to do with loving other people or wanting to help people. No, the root of tzedakah is “Tzedek,” which means justice. Giving aid to those in need (or to organizations that will help those in need) is doing justice, and though it’s nice if someone “means it” that is in no way required. Tzedakah is a recognition that it is unjust to have more than you need while denying help to those who don’t have their needs met yet. You can help them begrudgingly, or angrily. You can hate every second of it. But if you give to those in need it is still tzedakah. Because personal feelings, though very relevant to the “love” at the root of charity, are irrelevant to justice.
Related factoid: because giving tzedakah is a mitzvah, it is common for people panhandling for money in Israel to do so in heavily Orthodox neighborhoods. Because halacha dictates that if someone asks for tzedakah, you must provide it if you are able.
Fun bible fact: Adam was basically a futa before god made eve. The "rib" is a metaphor for Adam's breasts, which god gave to eve, along with Adam's pussy. The serpent in the garden of Eden was originally trying to convince Adam to get herself pregnant by cumming in her hand and then scooping it into her pussy, but when god caught Adam jackin it god thought Adam was lonely, and used parts of her to make a companion, eve, who the serpent then lured with the apple of knowledge. My point being, if god hadn't been such a nosy little bitch about Adam jerking off, we coulda all been futas, but nooooo, instead the woke liberal church went and invented gender.
sure, ill incorporate this into my worldview
#I know this is wholly wrong but you know what. sure.
I have no idea what you're talking about, these are real true bible facts. If you see a bible that doesn't say this then it's just a really fucked up translation trying to hide the truth.
Fun fact Jewish ppl like me have been debating Adam's gender pre-Eve for ages. The literal translation before Eve entered was 'and G-d made them man and woman' which is both where Lilth came from (as an explanation of the timeline) and also where some people suggest Adam was either a) intersex or b) some form of trans/nonbinary
I really hope you're bein serious, 'cause this honestly vibes hard. Every time I learn about Jewish debates over points of religious history it makes me so happy. I love this. I love that this is being discussed and considered. Wonderful <3
There's also a significant argument that Abraham and Sarah were trans or intersex.