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A lot of the substances we think of as protection against the supernatural (e.g. salt, silver, garlic) are actually antibacterial, and would have helped stave off infections and illnesses that people once attributed to supernatural influence.
Based on this, I want to see a story where vampires are repelled by hand sanitizer.
A post I've been thinking about but yall need to realize men are just people. Gender and biological essentialism is still bad even when you apply it to men. Men aren't inherently evil or bad. Men are taught toxic masculinity and to be misogynistic (just as white people are taught to be racist) but they aren't inherently this way. This isn't meant to absolve them either. Men need to take responsibility for unlearning the toxic messages they have been taught. But like, honestly men are just people. They aren't inherently bad people.
“if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly.
oh don’t worry im not *dependent* on drugs, i just happen to like it when my brain works every day
“What is it that the child has to teach?
The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.
And the child is right.”
— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann
My girlfriend has been told to read Sandman for one of her college courses. Is there anything in particular she should pay attention to in your opinion?
1) the words
2) the pictures
girls after saying something smart: So yeah
Girls after giving a concise and completely sensible thought on the matter, with well thought out arguments:
... If that makes sense?
Girls after expressing a personal opinion: if you think that's okay haha maybe
Girls saying something they know to be absolutely correct and spent years studying: if I remember correctly
Alternatives for each of these to practice:
instead of: “so yeah” -- silence or “do you have any questions?”
instead of: “if that makes sense?” -- “does that make sense or can i clarify further?” or “do you have any questions I can help answer?”
instead of: “if you think that’s okay haha maybe” -- “that is my recommendation/opinion, though I am open to further discussion” or “Does anybody have reservations about this course of action/decision?”
instead of: “if i remember correctly” -- “to my understanding” or “I have found, through xyz”
the goal of these alternatives is not to shut down dissent, but to change the level of confidence and authority you give yourself in discussions.
the original statements essentially position your opinions and knowledge as by default “probably incorrect” and seeking confirmation.
the updated statements position your opinions and knowledge as being confirmed by you considering the information you have available-- others can voice their concerns and disconfirm, but this requires them to logically explain with facts/evidence why they disagree with you.
protip: If you’re writing or creating anything in a specific area of the world and need a list of plants and animals, just google “______ inaturalist” for an extensive list of native organisms with photos you can even sort by clade! I do this all the time
“‘What will it matter in 100 years time?’
‘It matters now.’”
~Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
“Here and now, we are alive”
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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Can't get over the prominence of the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in my childhood. Can't get over the prominence of the moral of God above family and friends in my childhood. That always tore me apart.
I remember asking a staff member at my camp “how do you have faith like Abraham, I want to believe I could trust God that much, but I don’t think I could”. I felt so guilty for not fully trusting God.
Yeah, it was pretty wild to go from, “you only need faith as small as a mustard seed,” to “you need to have so much faith that you would kill a family member for god’s shit and giggles.”
Look y’all I know that’s how that story is taught but literally that is not the moral of the story, Abraham failed that damn test, and I will stand behind this interpretation until I die.
Today on: why I despise the fact I was brought up christian despite my grandparents being jewish
Every time I see shit on how judaism treats issues and stories differently from christianity I feel like I've been sorely cheated. I hate whoever converted my father.
This is why I can't think of myself as Christian in the way American Christians define their religion. American Christians seem to love this idea of God wanting us to have blind, unquestioning faith. It's not the kind of faith I'm capable of.
I have to question. I have to argue. If God told me to jump, I would ask why. If the reason wasn't something I liked, I would refuse. I would argue.
This is what faith should be, but instead, so many Christians in America prefer the lazy version where asking questions is considered a bad thing.
I have embraced full on agnosticism and that is unlikely to change. But this is is a huge improvement over the Christian Standard "love god the mostest" moral of Abraham.
Yes yes yes and yes! This interpretation makes so much sense, which isn’t even saying much as the generally accepted Christian version doesn’t make sense at all. From a purely Christian perspective, there is a weak argument that God was foreshadowing the death of his own son by asking Abraham to do what he knew Abraham could not do, and what God would do himself someday. But I was never satisfied with that because I couldn’t imagine that God would be satisfied with Abraham if he was the type of guy to kill his own son for the arbitrary reason of “because I told you to do it.” It makes much more sense that God was testing the waters so to speak, trying to see if Abraham had a moral backbone and uh, turns out he didn’t. And this blind faith mentality is exactly what allows for harmful doctrines to fester, see for example, most of the Christian churches’ stance on queerness. “Why is bad to be gay? Idk, cuz God said so and therefore I am morally obligated to perpetuate a teaching that literally causes human suffering and death.” And it’s so painfully ironic that Christians in particular would fall into this kind of thinking, because the whole point of Jesus was to “free people from the law,” especially when that law is oppressive and/or arbitrary.
Anyways, I totally agree that rather than praising Abraham for his unquestioning obedience, God was more like
Long interfaith dialogue about a complex ancient story ending in a John Mulaney gif. Tumblr, that's what I appreciates about you.
Heresy is fun, don’t get me wrong, but it’s pretty unlikely that you are, in fact, a heretic – that’s something you have to work at!
Being a heretic doesn’t mean you’ve abandoned the faith (that’s being an apostate), nor does it mean that you said something offensive about the faith (that’s being a blasphemer), and it certainly doesn’t mean you were never a member of the faith in the first place (that’s being a heathen).
Being a heretic very specifically means that you claim to be a devoted member of the faith, and may actively participate in its rites and observances, but your interpretation of that faith’s scriptures or doctrines is sufficiently unorthodox as to be worthy of censure.
Basically, being a heretic is the religious equivalent of being Problematic™.
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i was with my mother’s family and they were talking to me about my religious studies major. my great aunt asked me what the definition of hell was, and i responded “well i suppose it depends on who you ask.” and nearly all the protestants in the group decided that hell was “the absence of god” which i suppose is a fair answer, albeit not a universal one. my cousin’s wife was playing with her 3-year-old daughter and she says “well mommy says that hell is a mcdonald’s playplace” asdfghjhgfd
this 3-year-old girl is so fucking hilarious. her mothers have signed her up for a toddler yoga class, and so she has adopted a very unique language. this child also has an imaginary friend named “mom” which is, in her mind, the boss of her two mothers. for example, my cousin’s wife explained to me how her daughter got mad at them one time. the little girl situated herself in the corner of her crib, pretended to type on a cell phone and said “im writing an email to mom right now and telling her how bad you two are. namaste.”
the family’s Big Theory about “Mom” is that both my cousin and her wife are referred to as “Mommy” and “Mama.” The nickname “Mom” is not used in the house because it would just be confusing. However, when interacting with the world, people tell their daughter that they will “tell her mom” if she is doing something wrong. so this child automatically assumes there is this greater “Mom” figure that is responsible for distributing universal justice.
To be fair to the toddler, that’s pretty much how religions get started.
Our Mom, who art gonna hear about this,
“I believe in poems as I do haunted houses. We say, someone must have died here.”
— Rosa Alcalá, “Voice: An Essay,” from MyOTHER Tongue
Hot take but lesbians and bi women aren’t different levels of wlw
