Carriage Return

Once I can see it ... Then I'll have thoughts

For me, let me put this in terms of Bridgerton characters
Anthony - He hits all the boxes of a classically good looking guy and I appreciate that but ...not for me.
Marcus - yes fucking please
Francesca - stunningly beautiful but not for me
Sophie - stunningly beautiful and maybe?

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[e] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.

This is what Matthew says. He's literally chastizing everyone for engaging in the same practices that facilitate prayer that he's told other people to do. What part of this says anyone was being ripped off?

So, one of the main points being made is that when you look at the general rules of operation, the standard interpretation of this specific event becomes less clear than it's usually taught in Sunday school and gets passed along by people as a gotcha when they leave the church.

AND this is almost immediately after he curses a fig tree for not bearing fruit...out of season

there's a good chance that the people he's telling, especially those not from Jerusalem, wouldn't have been able to do so without the money changers and the market. We don't even have a gospel text that the changers are ripping people off since Jesus comes in and yells+

So if you're looking at the Gospel story, we really don't have much to go on. However, the money changers were a part of the larger complex that served a vital tool since only one type of coin was accepted for donations. In fact, Jesus often tells people he's healed to go sacrifice at the Temple+

(though, I'm 100% on the board of no one has to read Tolkien unless they want to)

Y'all are making this one hard with the opening talk of Tolkien (I'm being 95% silly). The serious comment I'd make is that I don't think that most people riffing on Tolkien have been doing "it" better, mostly because a lot of Tolkien rip offs I've encountered have been Brooks style "thing stop bad"

I've worked with a lot of different queer groups doing events in queer spaces and if we can't support them financially, then we won't have them anymore.

I fully think supporting the venue is part of the whole social contract with free events held at bars and coffee shops and other spaces. I'm sure there are folks who cannot afford a drink and it sounds like you aren't pressuring them, but instead are encouraging everyone who can to support the venue

Honestly? And this is for me and not a universal proclamation, but I don't like the term "goon" or "gooning" or it's variations in the modern day slang definition.

I miss drawing but I'm still at a point where everything I sit down to do just makes my brain do the dial up modem noise like the sister in Lain.

Let's take civic advice from someone named "Part Time Terrorist" who has less than 100 followers.

I'm tired of these fucking accounts.

It's the Romana Didulo episode. Is that a replay?

...ho boy

(I think I gave up when King James did an aside about Biden and The Stroke of a Pen)

Wait... They weren't even that deep? (I haven't watched their channel in a long time)

I personally don't think he's funny as a politician. Most of the "funny" stuff comes from having no filter and everyone laughs that grandpa just made fun of a disabled reporter because we're not gonna confront him about it.

He also does this thing that I've seen multiple people do, most notably, Fundie Fridays and Mean Fat Chick, which is assuming that since THEY left right wing evangelical culture, that none of us can understand it and only they do

ON TOP OF THAT, just looking at stuff we KNOW he's done and not just allegedly...
We're not looking at Cher's dad in Clueless

BtB the one about the Queen of Canada. I ...want to say I *get* what he's saying (my take on this is this if he HE said Pokemon Go to the Polls, people would have thought it was funny but that says less about him and more about us)

I think the last time I had to unsubscribe was back in 2019 when he was going hard with the Kamala is a Cop thing and putting the two of these ideas together, I feel like maybe the issue isn't Liberals™️.

His most recent podcast episode has him, the guest, and Sophie talking up how funny Trump is and if he hadn't gotten into politics, he'd just be a funny, charming, rich dude ...
I'd unfollowed him recently and that's really making me think maybe it's time to unsubscribe from the pod

Also, isn't his suicide by cop because he can't find the girl he's in lust with?

A LOT of Les Mis fans don't even know the monarchy was restored. It's not really mentioned in the musical BUT Waterloo is mentioned a few times and the novel SPECIFICALLY says Louis Phillipe is the king. It's ... fascinating to see who's not paying attention

Setting things on fire isn't non violent. "non violent protest Charlottesville"

I was there and in some cases, yes and in some cases no, especially if you were in a panicked crowd, which seems like a dumb thing to do to yourself.

If *you* want to play Les Mis revolutionaries, go ahead, but most people don't understand that that revolution doesn't take place during the French Revolution and in the story, everyone but Marius dies, so you might wanna warn people about your suicidal notions if you're dragging them with you