#qooky rambles

Men’s proclivity towards extremes (domineering vs passivity) is not a problem of lack of leadership. It’s a problem of patriarchy. What needs to be addressed is the societal expectations around what makes a man a man. What needs to be addressed is the lack of confidence in men’s more “feminine” side. Men need to build that foundation that it’s ok for men to be nurturers and submissive like women are told to be submissive, the same way we as women, have become breadwinners and leaders.

Women shouldn’t have to keep bearing the burden of either playing mother to men or be subject to oppression.

Enough people elected this man??

I barely know who this Mamdani is (though his campaign vids I saw were amazing 😂) but just like with my country’s previous administration, this obsession over communism is mind-boggling.

This statement admittedly is still one I wrestle with because the meaning of those last three words can easily vary depending on who you ask.

On a factual basis, the statement is true. Since the Bible wasn’t fully compiled until some centuries after Jesus, one can’t just assume that phrases and verses denoting themselves (like in Hebrews) as the word of God are referring to the entire biblical canon as we know it. The author would’ve intended it to be more specific to what they were writing at the time or to older texts like the Torah and even what we now consider deuterocanonical or pseudographical texts.

On the other hand, the word of God can be seen in a more spiritual and wisdom sense, inspiration, the living text that guides us as we learn and read from it, learn about God, learn about humanity and our preciousness and fallenness and whatnot, how we ought to live in honor of God, with our neighbors and ourselves.

It’s an interesting tension going on here. If we’re talking biblical inerrancy, I no longer fully adhere to the concept (at least the definition of it according to the Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy in the 70s which is a much more recent development that arguably stemmed from political underpinnings of its time). I take these anthropological aspects of the Bible just as seriously as I do with its significance and “authority” in my life.

(I put authority in quotation marks so people don’t misunderstand me and think the Bible is like the emperor of my life telling me exactly what to do).