#no really

[eligrayboi]

So a year ago I met this girl on tumblr..

In 11 days, I marry her.

[tuvens]

they have a hucklerobby shipper in that writing room and it's noah wyle WHO SAID THAT

[meziniart]

you guys will never guess

[solshii]

my pens fixed and i havent drawn in a while

by the way theyre supposed to have robes guys i was just too confused to figure it out 😞

next

[vintage-tigre]

[twobeesornottwobees]

when i was in my early 20s people told me pretty often that grad school would ruin my life and you know what they were not wrong woooo boy were they not at all incorrect they should've said it more in fact, like way more way way way more and of course i would not have listened to them (because of my mental illness) and of course they did in fact mentioned that i would be impoverished but to be fair to me they MAYBE should have told me that all universities have functionally identical administrators that categorically SUCK as both people and professionals and they should have PROBABLY i would have to spend a significant amount of my free time that does not exist asking my own fucking university to please remember that i am a Person and as such deserve Compensation for my Labor and they DEFINITELY should have said that PhDs are being valued less and less by the wider public, especially those in humanities and any stem field associated with women, and they really REALLY REALLY should have mentioned that i would have to deal with this shit all while listening to idiots on the internet tell me how colleges these days are way too fucking liberal (HA) and wait where was i going with this

[king-of-docks]

[jessicalprice]

how can you be so controversial and yet so brave

(reposted from Twitter)

Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?

The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.

The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.

The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)

So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.

I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.

(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)

The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.

The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.

I shit you not.

Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.

A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."

anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her

except attend another interfaith event