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a song about women’s empowerment written by sara bareilles and played by an all female band. the dream
I can fix this I can twist it into sugar, butter covered pieces Never mind what’s underneath it I have done it before I’ll bake me a door to help me get through I learned that from you Mama, it’s amazing what baking can do
So… Anyone wanna help me get this to Sara Bareilles/her team?
This is the text. It pretty much explains itself. It would mean a lot to me if she at least acknowledge this. I’ve been a fan for years and it’d be great if we could use the songs that inspired the script in the actual short film.
(I’m becaammarques on twitter if anyone is interested.)
Anyone got tips beyond the tweeting? I’ve also DM her but I’m unsure if she’s even the one who takes care of her Instagram account.
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, has passed away. Thank you for creating this wonderful show. We are sending love to his family.
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To anyone with an eating disorder on Thanksgiving: I know it’s scary. Stay safe. You deserve to enjoy your dinner. Treat yourself kindly after you eat. You can do this, and I love you.
I’m so happy I saw this
All food is guilt-free. There’s nothing shameful about feeding yourself, ever.
How to get the perfect body
1. Have a body.
2. Congratulations, you have the perfect body.
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I was gonna put this in my queue but tbh I think it’s more relevant right now.
Yeah.
“the Bible says homosexuality is a sin” well the Bible also has a lot of sexism, rape, incest, violence and a lot of contradictory messages in general because it was written by people and people have agendas
I don’t really think that God even has the time to care about if people are gay like if he’s got a whole world to run there are more important things anyway
And if God is love, he’s not just loving me if I am what he wants; he’s loving me as the person he made me to be, which is a queer person
You can’t say “I love you, and I made you gay but I’m sending you to hell you awful sinner” my dude that doesn’t make sense it’s not like hell has a low population is it
The god I believe in loves queer people because that’s how he made us
the bible doesn’t condemn homosexuality anyway. It’s content taken out of context and misinterpreted over hundreds of years of translations, re-translations, and mis-translations.
Hell, in Kenneth Davis’s Don’t Know Much About The Bible, there’s a passage that absolutely blows my mind and proves just how much we can misinterpret with simple translation mistakes:
“In researching the world’s oldest city, for instance, I learned that Joshua’s Jericho is one of the oldest human settlements. It also lies on a major earthquake zone. Could that simple fact of geology have had anything to do with those famous walls tumbling down? Then I discovered that Moses and the tribes of Israel never crossed the Red Sea but escaped from Pharaoh and his chariots across the Sea of Reeds, an uncertain designation which might be one of several Egyptian lakes or a marshy section of the Nile Delta. This mistranslation crept into the Greek Septuagint version and was uncovered by modern scholars with access to old Hebrew manuscripts.”
The bible is one long-ass game of telephone, whispered around the world in dozens if not hundreds of languages, for thousands of years. I have a hard time knowing what my grandpa is talking about, when he starts going on about the technology or practices of his youth, and that was only about 80 years ago, in the same country and in the same language as me. So why every Joe on the streets thinks they can take one or two verses, completely out of context and probably mis-translated several times to boot, and use it to spout propaganda and hatred for an entire group of people will forever be beyond me.
You’re all valid, and frankly, if there is a ‘loving God,’ then that God will be happy to see you happy. Seriously.
I needed that. Thank you.
The Bible wasn’t faxed down from the sky, people, it’s been compiled and formulated for hundreds of years until it became what it is today. And yes, misinterpreted by whoever with whatever agenda-of-the-day.
And hypocrites always stick to the word and not the spirit of any religion: to love, to help, to respect, to protect, and to strive to make the world a better place.
Yup, Jesus never said ANYTHING against LGBT people. All he said was don’t be greedy, don’t be lustful and don’t be wrathful. The fact that LGBTphobes took those instructions out of context to justify their LGBTphobia is pretty telling!
Hey, your friendly neighborhood Jew here!
You guys know that verse in Leviticus that homophobes like to trot out? Well, I’m here to tell you:
They don’t read Hebrew and they don’t know shit.
And now here’s something you probably won’t hear from any of those Fine Christian Folks ™ anytime soon, either:
We do read Hebrew and we still don’t know shit.
Here’s the thing. The most “accurate” word-for-word translation of that verse would say “a man shall not lie with another man; it is forbidden.”
Here’s the issue.
The grammar surrounding “men” in that sentence isn’t correct, and the word I’ve translated as “forbidden” is “toevah,” a word so fucking old we literally don’t know what it meant anymore.
The strange sentence construction suggests that “lie with another man” uses a feminine construction you wouldn’t normally find in a sentence that’s entirely about men, and while “toevah” means “forbidden,” it’s not actually clear what is forbidden. Here’s an incomplete list of possibilities:
Pederasty (adult male/adolescent male sex) is full-stop forbidden, a man sleeping with a male prostitute is full-stop forbidden, a man sleeping with a man as part of any kind of sex magic or fertility ritual is forbidden.
And my rabbi’s personal interpretation, based on the sentence construction: a man shouldn’t sleep with another man in a woman’s bed. (So basically: don’t cheat on your wife with a dude, which is probably treated separately from “don’t commit adultery” because adultery would come with the risk of an illegitimate child.)
You’ll notice none of these involve “ew, you disgusting gays.”
Unless you accept a word-for-word literal translation with zero consideration for the social mores and other tribes surrounding Israel contemporary with the writing of Torah, nothing about this commandment has anything to do with our modern understanding of queer people having committed relationships. Once you start taking the rituals and practices of Israel’s contemporaries into account, it suddenly becomes clear why these prohibitions would have been put into place (sex magic was common in the cult of Ba’al, for example, while pederasty was practically a requirement in Greece).
If you’re just a person out there loving other people of the same gender as you? The Torah says nothing against you. But do you know what our literary tradition does say?
It puts you in the company of Naomi and Ruth.
Ruth is considered the first convert, and her vow to her mother-in-law Naomi (after Ruth’s husband’s death) forms the basis of our modern marriage vows. “Where you go, I shall go, and where you lodge, I shall lodge; your people shall be my people, and your G-d my G-d; and where you die I shall die, and there shall I be buried.” Ruth remarries as prescribed by law at the time, but even when a child is born of that new union, nobody calls it “Ruth’s and Boaz’s child”–they all say a child has been born to Ruth and Naomi.
You are in the company of a woman whose name we invoke in our prayers and whose life we celebrate. I wear her words around my shoulders on my tallit, my sacred prayer shawl. Since we consider that everything in the Tanakh is intended for learning and study, what might we take from this story, but that a queer person can be virtuous and beloved of G-d?
me: progressives should be more accepting of religious people.
conservative christians: i agree. american christians are severely persecuted by liberals.
conservative christians: i can’t even leave my house without fearing constant humiliation and persecution 😔 2 timothy 3:12
me: man, it sure is difficult to be a religious minority in america. for example, musl-
conservative christians: i know what you mean. not being allowed to turn gay people away from my restaurant basically makes me saint peter
persecute the christians it’s been 2000 years it’s their turn on the suffering again
just because american christians are capable of being really shitty doesn’t mean that all christians “deserve” persecution. christians are already persecuted all around the world. churches burned down. people are killed. it’s fucking horrific. don’t act like their suffering is deserved.
i was critiquing a very certain kind of christian. don’t twist my post.
mmmm after thousands of years of genocide and colonialism I don’t…..how you say……care.
It’s important to remember that Christianity was never exclusive to Europe. It began in the Middle East and it was being practised there and in India and North Africa while most of Europe was still polytheistic. A lot of these communities are being persecuted today, like Egyptian Copts and Iraqi Chaldean Catholics.
This isn’t to say genocide and colonialism never happened because they obviously did, and this isn’t to excuse any of the brutality, but not every Christian is a white European or North American who gets privilege because of colonial history. Which religious groups are being attacked or not really depends on where you’re talking about.
Literally 7 Coptic Christians were targeted for their faith and murdered today, so please stfu about Christian suffering as a joke(?), please. I have plenty of my own issues with Christianity (especially conservative, evangelical, and/or mission based types), but Christianity is a global religion with people of all colors, classes, and sexualities. Many of the global Christian community suffer serious threats to their safety. Even in America queer Christians suffer due to poor understandings of the text and sexuality.
These are things you should… I don’t know… care about about a human being?