#kitcaz

[deltajay]

kitcaz replied to your post “I finished my paper but i need someone to edit it”

I can help edit if you want

@kitcaz if youre serious I’d love that?

[scottstiles]

Your post about instruments and music was so interesting! I feel quite similar (raised WAY though) in that sometimes a guitar is nice esp. in a small, camp-like space. but just voice has always been the most soul enriching sound for me. My home shul has a choir now, mostly it frustrates me because it *is* a performance for them (legit their conductors tells them so). But they do one piece on YK where the call and response could make me cry on its own. Basically, this is to say, I get you.

aww so nice of you to send this message! i rambled so much in that post so thank you for reading it :) sorry to hear you’re frustrated with the choir situation, i think it’s a more common feeling than we think, people just don’t really talk about it. a choir can be very nice for certain things and i for sure get what you mean with it making you cry (i never stop crying on yom kippur), but i just kinda...i get more emotional if i can sing it out myself, u kno?

[theprettynerdie]

@kitcaz replied to your post: @kitcaz replied to your photo: ...

Florida is where I’m headed, but I’m doing all the really touristy stuff (Disneyland etc.) so I feel like that should be safer. But at the same time I’m really not sure.

I think you should be fine. I say take them with you, you can always decide to take them off.

[theprettynerdie]

@kitcaz replied to your photo: My mother advised against it. In all my 26 years,...

I grew up being told ‘no Hebrew in public’ and 'Magen David is for shul only’, then when I was older I decided, no, they were wrong about the world it was all just paranoia. I’m going to the US in a week, and for the first time ever I’m wondering if I should pack my necklaces…

I grew up in a liberal area of Long Island, New York, so being openly Jewish was never a problem. I moved to Florida in December, and even though I’m not in the very conservative, rural part of the state, I did have to stop and consider whether I should or should not wear my star. There’s a chapter of the American Freedom Party in my town.  

[train-whistles-at-night]

Also, I know Catholics have Mass on a Wednesday and Methodists have a thing. But basically it's up to each church, I don't think it's a scriptural type thing (I may be wrong). I had friends who used to go for mid-week communion though, so I think it's just something that happens when people want it so it varies between denominations.

Ohhh

[train-whistles-at-night]

If I'm completely honest, I have no idea why Christianity decided to have Original Sin. St Augustine (I think) came up with it and it stuck. Christianity has a lot of things about humans being inherent sinners, Judaism prefers the idea that humans are conflicted between good and bad but we aren't inherently one or the other. -Entirely from my understanding of Christianity, a Christian might disagree. But yeah, no idea why they kept it, sorry.

Oh, well, thanks for trying to answer my question/s anyway ;v;/

[train-whistles-at-night]

Original sin: you know the story about Adam and Eve, and Eve eats the apple and then Adam eats the apple and they get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. In Christianity, this is known as Original Sin/The Fall of Man, and it means that all humans carry this essence of sin inside them at birth and that's why baptism etc is necessary. Judaism has the same story, but without any of the whole 'inherent badness' idea. Like it, happened, we move on. Christianity keeps it around.

OhhhBut,,, Why keep it around???? What purpose does that serve aside from having another reason for being baptized?

[train-whistles-at-night]

Protestantism and other denominations - so they're all Christianity, but things such as: Methodism, Quakers, Church of England, Church of Scotland etc. are all forms of Protestant Christianity. I think to an extent there is Catholicism and 'all other forms of Christianity' and that's mostly for historical reasons rather than theological for the most part.

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Why,,,, are there so many,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, w h y