cringelord (affectionate) @nurthan - Tumblr Blog

There's this really frustrating goyish idea that Jews are always finding "loopholes" or "tricks" to violate the "spirit of the law" when it comes to observing Jewish law. No, they're following Jewish law. All ways in which one can follow the law are equally "in the spirit of the law" because the law's purpose is to be followed. The idea that finding easier ways to observe religious rules means "tricking" god or doing something otherwise shameful is reflective of Christian philosophy. Suffering is not virtuous in Judaism. Penance is not the purpose of Jewish law. Judaism is meant to enrich the current lives of its community, not ritualize hardship for some unknowable divine purpose.

surface-concept

Every single day some armchair socialist comes on here and rewrites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and expects to get a Nobel peace prize and an interview with Malala get out of my face I’m so serious

h4ganah

Well idk, if the foundation of your political beliefs is "my politics is that I am on the side of the oppressed 😠" it's pretty easy to just go full

"therefore when I call jews genocidal baby-killers, it logically must be for a good, morally correct reason. When Nazis say jews are genocidal baby-killers, they obviously think that because they're evil. Surely no one has thought like this before."

#they don't like malala but yeah

iswearbyalltheflowers

— Rwanda, Israel and the Inversion of ‘Genocide’

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

unheardoracle

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

hillsofspices

i love when shuls don’t mess around

from central synagogue

nurthan

full offense, i never want to hear another goyische rant about harry potter again. especially not when the rant unironically, uncritically boils down to "it's all nazi-dogwhistling goyslop" holy lack of self-awareness, what the fuck is wrong with you? also, like, can you care about Actual Real-World Antisemitism maybe???

nurthan

you were all so busy jerking each other off over the goblins that you didn't even realize how slytherin is jewish-coded. because the only antisemitism you can acknowledge is the kind that's overt to a comical degree.

(you also ignored how maybe the problem is less "the author is a jew-hater" and more "the author borrowed heavily from the tropes and figures of english folklore and history, so maybe the problem is more that a country founded upon the values of a religion which misappropriated and superseded judaism and the suppressed its jews has antisemitism baked into its very core)

full offense, i never want to hear another goyische rant about harry potter again. especially not when the rant unironically, uncritically boils down to "it's all nazi-dogwhistling goyslop" holy lack of self-awareness, what the fuck is wrong with you? also, like, can you care about Actual Real-World Antisemitism maybe???

girlactionfigure

mariacallous

Plus a huge appropriation from Hochul, don’t forget that

jewish-vents

@ Mayor Mamdani how the hell did you record a whole video about arresting Netanyahu when the only communication I've received about the LEGIONNAIRE'S OUTBREAK that has killed FIVE PEOPLE has been from an independent email newsletter called Upper East Site? Major art museums have tested positive. But nothing about that or what the health department is doing for us from the mayor. But that's fine, we're all totally up-to-date on the legal status of a leader of a different country. So long as we all know which information really matters!

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kosher-salt

"The European settlers came to Palestine and planted a bunch of pine trees to make it look like Europe"

The flag of Lebanon: am i a joke to you

rosebramblewolf

someone do that "you mean the fucking [blank]" meme with "jerusalem pine"

notyourgoodjew

kosher-salt

"The European settlers came to Palestine and planted a bunch of pine trees to make it look like Europe"

The flag of Lebanon: am i a joke to you

rosebramblewolf

someone do that "you mean the fucking [blank]" meme with "jerusalem pine"

kosher-salt

gingerswagfreckles

The endless irony of those posts that are like IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE LOVE REALLY DOES CONQUER ALL ALL WE HAVE IS EACH OTHER AND THAT'S BEAUTIFUL and then you go to their page and it's just 6000 pages of them celebrating terrorist attacks against Jews and calling for the execution of anyone who questions the greatness of Mao Zedong.