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âI think itâs important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.â
â Paulo Coelho
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Yet, I prefer real company over the company of myself.
But, I also cancel plans with myself to spend time with those who help me become better
Itâs about time you learn this.
I fuckin knew it.
then EXPLAIN jack and jill
Was your creativity shut down at an early age? Letâs bring it back to life!
Loved this weekâs episode of #HannahlyzeThis and our discussion of creativity as an inherently human expression. Not something reserved for âartistsâ and such.
Listen today! âŹïž Link in my story. âŹïž https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_TIdlhi1y/?igshid=k6fdm1p1jn6w
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Twitter thread
I originally posted this as a thread on twitter. To my shock and joy, Neil Gaiman retweeted it with this comment.
So I thought Iâd make it my first post here.
THREAD: As Iâve become mildly obsessed with #GoodOmensPrime, Iâve been giving some thought as to why.
To begin ⊠the book. I bought my first copy in 1991. It now looks somewhat tattered and extremely well-loved because itâs been read so often.
Itâs still holding together only because I bought a hardback and another pb to lend. It has been one of my go-to books at times when I need to be reminded that the world is a good place and that there is so much to enjoy in life. Including the writersâ wicked sense of humour.
Then there is the fact that @neilhimself not only wrote the screenplay, but kept close control of the whole process to ensure it was true to what the wonderful #SirTerryPratchett would have wanted.
This included making it crystal clear that the emotional heart of the tale is the love story between Crowley and Aziraphale; that although being angels (fallen and otherwise) they may express love differently to any human love, it is still a love story.
Then there was the casting. Because really ⊠not only #DavidTennant but also @MichaelSheen.  How could that possibly be any better?  From the first moment that they announced the casting for these roles, I was slavering in anticipation.
There is the use of Queenâs music. I love Queen. I was at their first big concert at the Rainbow in 1974. I loved the joke in the book about tapes in Crowleyâs car turning into the Best of Queen. So many songs are absolutely right for the soundtrack and most of them are in there.
There is also a simply wonderful original score, especially the main theme. Either Michael or David said that when you first hear it it seems like something youâve always known, and thatâs true. Iâve reached the point where as soon as I hear it I start to smile.
The show itself is six hours of pure joy. I believe that the love that went into making it â @neilhimselfâs love for Sir Terry, the love of so many people for the book, all simply glow from the screen. That love has transformed the series into something unique.
It has created a type of television experience Iâve never had before. Â The first sequence ends with a little snippet of Aziraphale sheltering Crowley under his wing that just brings me undone every time I see it because it seems to radiate tenderness and goodness.
The show has some very funny moments, many of them between Crowley and Aziraphale, but by no means all.
It has a number of little âEaster eggsâ of Terry Pratchett tributes â his infamous hat hangs in Aziraphaleâs book shop, his name appears on a video game screen, and there are a number of others.
It also encourages thought about serious issues. As Gabrielâs role in bringing about Armageddon unfolded, I for one realised that the story clearly demonstrates that unquestioning obedience to anyone, to anything, is simply a form of fascism. Â
And for a Christian, that raises some very serious questions. Perhaps it does for any religion. Even for agnostics and atheists. Being absolutely sure you are 100% right and justified is incredibly dangerous and almost certainly means that you are going incredibly wrong. Â
However, the show does not take a hammer to any of these points that it raises, it just lets them float through your mind if youâve got the kind of mind that welcomes such thoughts, and leaves you to ponder them at your leisure.
Along the way there are many laughs, a few âoohâs, a couple of âahâs, an âoopsâ or two and more than a sprinkling of âawwwâs.
There is a wonderful long sequence showing the angel/ demon relationship through the ages. This includes an Arthurian scene and one at the Globe theatre for the first performance of Hamlet. These are two of my favourite literary âthingsâ and I loved that they were included here.
A particular joy for me is that towards the end there is a Crowley/ Aziraphale scene filmed in one of my favourite parts of London â Tavistock Square. Â Iâve spent many hours in this square, reading, resting, writing, contemplating the universe.
In the centre is a statue of Gandhi which has become like a little shrine; there are nearly always flowers there and it has become imbued with the peace and serenity you would expect from such a space. Â (You can just see the Gandhi statue in the background of the scene.)
And then thereâs the final Aziraphale/ Crowley scene at the Ritz ⊠performed to the background music of âA Nightingale Sang In Berkley Squareâ. Itâs a delicious scene â sweet and a little bit funny and just about ridiculously romantic. Â
These two might be an angel and a demon and therefore the love between them may not be expressed in physical ways, but it is there, and in this scene it is clearly manifested. Â Underlined by the unashamed romanticism of the song lyrics.
It is the perfect finish to a wonderful show. Something that shows us what TV and movies can be when they do not go down the well worn paths of either dwelling on darkness and violence or else tipping over into mindless saccharine. Â
I can only say that I strongly recommend it to everyone. Â I promise you, you will not regret taking time to watch it. Â It will repay you with a lift to the spirits, with many smiles, and with a very gentle touch to your heart. Â âTo the worldâ, indeed.
In a Berlin metro. The text reads, âThis text has no other purpose than to terrify those afraid of the Arabic language.â (Source)
Epic trolling goals!
Negative Reinforcement
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Bonus:
To put it plainly, Jewish law allows for abortion. For the first 40 days of gestation, a fetus is considered âmere fluidâ (Talmud Yevamot 69b), and the fetus is regarded as part of the mother for the duration of the pregnancy. It is not considered to have the status of personhood until birth; the Mishnah (Ohalot 7:6) teaches that if the motherâs life is in danger from the pregnancy, even in labor, the fetus may be sacrificed to save her life, unless the babyâs head has already emerged. Only then, according to Rashi (Talmud Sanhedrin 72b), is the fetus or baby considered to be a nefesh, a soul. Elsewhere, the Mishnah (Arachin 1:4) teaches that âIf a [pregnant] woman is about to be executed, they do not wait for her until she gives birth. But if she had already sat on the birthstool, they wait for her until she gives birth.â Birth, not gestation, is the critical marker, here.
This body of literature, needless to say, comes in stark and striking contrast to arguments that lifeâand personhoodâbegins at conception.
Interestingly, many Christian communities derive their prooftexts against permitting abortion from the Hebrew Bible, like verses about God forming humans in the womb (Psalm 139:13, Jeremiah 1:5, Isaiah 44:24)âtexts which donât even register in the Jewish legal conversation on this topic. To put it simply, we donât derive matters of Jewish law from Psalms. - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Iâd like to point out too, since that thing about executing a pregnant woman sounds pretty brutal, that Jewish law places EXTREME limitations on the death penalty. The burden of proof is much higher than in many casesâ youâd need 23 judges and two witnesses who could demonstrate that the defendant was explicitly warned that what they were doing was a capital offense, and proceeded anyway. If the verdict was too fast or was unanimous, itâd be taken as a sign of bias and theyâd automatically acquit. The rabbis said that a court that executes more than one person in a generation would be considered a gang of murderers. Rabbis Akiva and Tarfon boasted that they if they had been on the court, being brilliant legal scholars, they could have found a way to acquit anyone.
tl;dr Judaism is really and truly pro-life in the sense of actually valuing life
Raja is an actual goddess
âHermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section.âÂ
Okay but this is legit a summary of how the trio works: Hermione is methodical and organised, Ron is âfuck this Iâm winging it #yoloâ, and Harry looks for something illegal to do.
since Iâve never seen someone actually post the song on tumblr
LITERALLY MY FAVORITE VERSION OF THIS SONG
Remember we made a play to this in school!!