I'm not dead, I only dress this way.

30+ They/He. Nerd. עם ישראל חי

[anglerfl3sh]

I love post like "you all are against rich people until they're a fictional character" because it's completely true. I am against rich people until it's a fictional character. I don't think liking Scrooge McDuck makes someone a class traitor

[brightlotusmoon]

[ewaneneollav]

amelia bedelia lives in a constantly shifting, unstable, frightening personal world where no amount of exposure to others ever gives her secure confidence in a general understanding of other people that would preclude them requesting apparently insane things, things which she has to always suppose make perfect sense for reasons she’s simply not privy to because she is blind

[sg1]

Stargate SG-1 | S06E04 Frozen

[whitepeopletwitter]

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[whitepeopletwitter]

Daily grind

[a-s-fischer]

One thing I wish more gentiles understood is that modern Judaism is post-apocalyptic, and every Jew they've ever met is living after the apocalypse.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[strive-to-be-human]

Since "apocalypse" is kind of a Christian concept, I don't define Jewishness by it.

Judaism is absolutely post-catastrophic, though. Post-cataclysmic, perhaps.

And yet we persist. Truly, our greatest gift (other than linear storytelling, but that's a different post) is the ability to pick up the pieces of our traditions and rearrange them to suit the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

[jewishgay4il]

why is apocalypse christian?

[pleasestopthese]

greek for “revelation,” the association with the end of the world is a reference to the last book of the christian bible, the revelation of john

[nonbinaryjudean]

Also I feel that the idea of an impending apocalypse is VERY Christian in that they think the rapture is coming and that generally explicitly means the death of all “non believers” i.e. Jews. Idk if this makes sense but that’s why the wording makes me uncomfortable

[a-s-fischer]

@nonbinaryjudean @pleasestopthese @strive-to-be-human @jewishgay4il

I'm actually using Christian language on purpose here, because I am trying to convey to gentiles, particularly culturally Christian onea, what it means to be continuing on as a people, and as an individual after the world has ended for you and your people, which unforunately leaves me limited to Christian language.

While there are other events in Jewish history that qualify as cataclysms and wiped away the Jewish world that was, when I wrote this post, I was thinking specifically of the Holocaust, and trying to convey to a culturally Christian audience what it means to be a Jew after the Holocaust, and what that feels like. And unfortunately in the culturally Christian English I have at my disposal, the only way to convey what it means to be rebuilding after the world that was has ended, is to compare it if not to the apocalypse of the Christian bible, then at least to the literary genre referred to as post apocalyptic literature.

[nonbinaryjudean]

That makes a lot of sense!!!

[zaprowsdower27]

Post-TaNaKh Era Jewish Apocalypses I Can Think Of Off The Top Of My Head

Destruction of the Temple, 71 CE, restructuring of the religion from the ground up to survive without a central facility

Crushing of the Bar Kochba Revolt, 135 CE, Judea renamed after a near-folkloric enemy from Jewish scripture and a large portion of Judeans enslaved and/or exiled

First Crusade/Rhineland Massacres, 1096 CE, large portion of the Jewish community of central Europe killed, 'othering' of Jews within European society skyrockets

Unremembered Genetic Bottleneck (Black Death-related pogroms?), circa 600-800 years ago, we don't remember the details but genetic evidence indicates that while we are closely related to Sepharadim and other Levantine peoples, all Ashkenazim alive today are descended from just 350 people between 25 to 32 generations ago because everybody else died

Reconquista, expulsion of Jews from Spain and later all Spanish colonial possessions, 1492

Holocaust

Faruhd+expulsion of the Jews from the entire MENA region with nothing but the clothes on their back post-1948

Again, that's all just off the top of my head and aside from the Reconquista is literally telling only half the story

[dragoneyes613]

I did not know number 4! Wow. That's just...wow. Only 350 people because everybody else got murdered? I have heard something about all Ashkenazim today being descended from the same approximately five families from hundreds of years ago; is that what this is referring to?

[zaprowsdower27]

Not sure. The Nature article from 2014 said that in their genetic study,

"We used the lengths of shared segments (Fig. 3c) to infer the parameters of a recent AJ bottleneck (effective size 250–420; 25–32 generations ago) followed by rapid exponential expansion".

Anything beyond that is conjecture, although it being 350 because everyone else died is a pretty dang safe bet since we know there were more ashkenazim than that more than 32 generations ago.

[therozanov]

1.03 | 3.01

[infectiouspiss]

doctor i don't feel too good can you help

[mariacallous]

Him being underwater with households making less than $50k…

[photos-of-space]

Today's NASA APOD: Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain

[setulose]

The one thing about gender is that frankly my ideal gender situation has very little to do with me and infinitely more to do with everyone else on the earth who cannot be fuuuuuuuuucking cool about anything ever

[saltoncity]

scientists are trying to discover something harder than getting out of bed to go to work in the morning. and dont make a fucking penis joke ok they already checked everyone’s dick and it doesn’t even come close

[foxes-in-love]

[eretzyisrael]

[detournementsmineurs]

Porcelain art by Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2021-22.

[scunthotter]

I know I've talked about Ilya being frustrated he can't brag about pulling Shane but you know who else would be frustrated about not being able to brag? Yuna Hollander would be so frustrated that she basically has the two best hockey players in the world in her family and she can't even bring up that now she has TWO sons in the mlh and oh what is your son up to Sharon? Hmm that sounds rough that you have to send him money every month. She's in meetings, maybe there are other players agents and managers and they try to bond by putting down Rozanov and she wants to go "your client couldn't even touch Ilya's points per game. Don't fucking talk about one of my boys." and she's so pissed off by the interaction she gets that player removed from the brand deal.

[json-derulo]

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