Adam, as the world falls down 🏳️‍🌈

I'd like to submit a new internet/media law:

The entirety of a piece of (children's) media should be regarded as as queer as its last episode.

Alright my gays, theys, and Euro-trash babes! Who else is tuning in for Eurovision this year!

I wasn't sure how my first Record Store Day would go, but it ended up being a success. Our local record store posted that people started camping out yesterday at 6pm so we figured there'd be nothing left Managed to get almost everything we wanted! Only thing we missed was a live Tori Amos single.

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

We're now deep into the book burning stage of the current Nazi regime.

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I'm going to leave this thread here (for I believe the third time) and hope that you can end today a little more aware of your own ingrained biases. But if you can't learn, hopefully someone else might read this and take something from it.

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Very good. Now try it without the implied antisemitism.

I've been watching well intentioned comments start to lean pretty hard into antisemitism because of Christian (both religious and hegemonic) ignorance. 2/2

Listen, I love what Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde did and think it should be universally praised.

But when doing so, please don't revert to "true Christian" rhetoric. There's a lot of anger, rage, and bigotry in the gospels as well as the peace and love stuff. 1/2

4*if* he was powerful enough, he'd be morally obligated to do so.

You're now taking a moral posting everyone agreed on and wrapping it in presumptive Christianity, so now we suddenly"disagree", though not on the actual issue of slavery.

3. Some people believe god was powerful enough to stop it

You're working on the assumption that god is responsible for fixing earthly problems, and not humans.

God's role as an intercessor is not the same between Christianity and Judaism, and you're leaning towards the former.

2. Slavery was explicitly allowed for in the texts

Yes, but your ignoring the past where or was brought up that this was within a cultural context, and possibly as a limitation of humans and not god. Perhaps "explicitly regulated/limited" world be a better way of approaching it.

1. Slavery is wrong.

Everyone here has agreed on this.

You have set up the religious morality equivalent of the "yes or no: have you stopped beating your wife?" joke.

From a Jewish perspective, some of those, in the hierarchy you set up, aren't answerable because they're not applicable. As I said, your framework has a huge amount of presumed conditions and not all of them work within Judaism.

That's why I laid out multiple possible intentions with your questions.

If your intention is to understand the complex relationship between god/ethics/scripture/law in Judaism then you'll probably benefit from reading up rather than arguing.

If your intention is to pinpoint a source of blame then you might want to step away from this discussion completely.

This feels like you're camping from a very Christian framework of god/ethics/scripture/law, and attempting to bend Judaism into that Christian shape. There's a huge amount of implicit concepts propping up your list.

There kinda isn't a clear delineation between culture and religion in Judaism. That's what an ethnoreligion is. Christianity's religious/secular dichotomy is pretty unique to Christianity in that regard.

It would be more accurate to say that there is room within Judaism for atheism.

Sincerely, an atheist and a religious Jew

Louis! It's your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Pasteur. You know that new milk you're lookin' for! Well, drink some of this!

Andy Paley Dies: Songwriter/Producer Known for Work with Brian Wilson, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Was 72 - Rock Cellar Magazine Andy Paley, a singer/songwriter who was known and respected across the industry for decades of music and production work, has passed away at the age of 72 following a short fight with cancer. Paley's ...

Andy Paley, the decade-long musical director for @thrillingadv.bsky.social, has passed. Andy was an immense talent as a songwriter, producer + musician.
We were a footnote in his incredible career, but he never treated us that way.
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I see where this is going and I volunteer as tribute.

Just got a new @seananmcguire.bsky.social/Mira Grant ARC! Let's fucking go!

This is what Disney decided was unimportant/inappropriate and not profitable enough.

May have actually hit the tipping point to move from the hellsite to here. So that's why the mass follow (thanks Sky Follower Bridge).

Anyway, here I am. Rock you like a hurricane lamp.

Tis the season to get hangry at god.
May you be inscribed in the book of life. And to those fasting, may it be an easy one.

Well, got the new XBB.1.5 vaccine and my arm is certainly feeling it.

I'm not usually a softie when I read fiction. I very much am taking the pieces of prose apart and putting them back together to look at the craft as well as the story. But when I finished this and put it down, I felt like I was sitting on a desert island with no one around. So yeah, fair warning.

It's brutal. Gets labeled as dystopian, but it's so internal that it doesn't feel like that genre. Almost like the inverse of The Night Circus. It creates an amazing atmosphere, but instead of whimsy it's a pervasive loneliness and loss. Beautifully done, but I don't think I could read it again.