• TrackinDaKraken
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    BRB, need to make a t-shirt.

    No quote, just:

    Front: a small red and blue GOP donkey with dick out on the top left

    Back: Ezekiel 23:20

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    It’s definitely my favorite line in the Bible.

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      Quentin Tarantino making characters that say the N word over and over or are involved in erotic foot fetish scenarios and then casting himself to play those characters.

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        Tarintino shows the US as it is/was. N-word is a part of that history

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            He seems more like a guy who never got past the emotional age of 13 than a racist. He probably really loved setting up a situation where he gets to rattle off an edgy, shocking round of nonsense in front of the whole country and giggle as people get offended. Your offense is probably playing into his pleasure more than the particular word he used.

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            I don’t know his reasoning and I have no idea what kind of person he is, but I’d rather do something uncomfortable than ask someone to do it.

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            Lol, you think black people in the states want to be called “negros” or “negroid?” Lmfao.

            Come on over and try it out on a crowded street. I’ll be very excited to video tape for you.

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            OK, I’ll give you a small benefit of the doubt that “negro” was the common and accepted term, but that was a long time ago. Even still, it literally just means black, so your point is really stupid. You’re saying Americans refuse to call them black and only call them black. It’s stupid as fuck.

            Also, for the “negroid race” thing, race is made up. Black is almost certainly more accurate than that shit.

            Finally, one last thing, calling people black is far from an American thing. It’s the norm around the world (using the native language’s word for black usually).

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            explicitly types out several different slurs for a minority group

            Insists it’s because Americans are racist

            Yeeeeeaaaaahh literally none of those slurs are okay to use

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      Kind of like that part in Genesis where Abraham his wife and presumably God all show that they have a cuckolding fetish while they engage in multiple cuckolding/blackmail schemes?

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        are you referring to Ishmael? If so, the cuckholding was against G-d’s will.

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          Nope. Abraham and his wife Sarah. They like to go to other cities pretend like they weren’t married and then when someone fucks Sarah then God makes the bull pay them money. Happens multiple times. Really fucking weird. Abraham liked watching people fuck his wife and presumably so did God.

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            Abram does it once in Egypt saying, “Say you are my sister, for you are beautiful and if you say you are my wife, they will kill me.” There’s no explicit language stating that Pharaoh took her to bed, but it could be inferred, in light of the following text.

            Then Abraham does the same shit with Sarah at Gerar. There it is explicitly stated Abimelech does not take her, and is given 1000 pieces of silver (to the brother) during the exchange.

            So weird to obscure that story in such a way. It’s okay to not know things. If you didn’t know, no need to respond. If you did know, then why lie?

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    every time someone whips out a proverb, I just reply with this one.

    It’s funny seeing them looking it up

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      Especially good when you explain that Oholibah is Jerusalem and it’s a metaphor for how the Israelites whored themselves out against G-d and continually disregard the Lord’s commands. Ezekial is saying, in the most baller ass way, “Israel, y’all a bunch of ho bags, and the Lord has/will let y’all get decimated by the Babylonians and Chaldeans. So, stop being bad” It’s a really interesting prophetical book to read.

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            Well, it depends. Judaism and Christianity have kind of a hold on the capital G.

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            I’d prefer if no one ever had a reason to think about how to spell it

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              Why is that? I’m just curious to hear your perspective. To me, if someone is invested in something spiritually, assisting them in living a full, loving life, there is no harm.

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                Lemmy has a strong atheism bias. You’d think as much as they cling to the “rationality” of it they’d realize that the stats literally show that religious people live longer. DIYing your own tight knit subcommunity that looks out for each other and have a shared set of traditions to mark both the passage of time and provide a structure for people cope with significant life events is a LOT harder than getting one off the shelf. Like it’s super hard to even find the people who want to do that without accidentally starting a cult. Like I’ve thought about trying to find people to do regular group meditations and create holiday traditions with and then realized I’m literally describing either a cult or something that could easily become one.

                And that’s the other thing; most religions have some kind of regular meditation built in on how they relate to the world that usually focus on gratitude and prosocial behavior. Because it’s a tradition that almost always predates modern psychology they don’t always reliably meet those ends but the fact that they often do is a big part of why prayer of some kind is such an enduring tradition in most world religions.

                People are so ready to dig on humans even a few centuries back for doing stuff like singing / chanting over an tincture / extract or other concentrated medicine they’re making but how the fuck else were they supposed to time how long it takes for to brew a medicine with a narrow therapeutic range that needs to be exact? They didn’t have fucking kitchen timers!

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                  Some of us have moved on from atheism to post-theism. In part, because some atheists can be very annoying. (Thanks a lot, four horsemen of the dorkalypse).

                  To your point, I do sometimes miss the music, rituals, fellowship, and liturgy of my old church. It was a mostly wholesome experience, and many of the people were very good people. In particular I miss being a member of the choir.

                  It was interesting (and revealing) when I left the church to experience which of my old friends from that church were very accepting of my walking away, and which ones wanted nothing to do with me anymore.

                  Anyway, I have found that my table top gaming groups (mostly RPG games) have helped a lot with social needs. Not a full replacement for a church, of course. But it is an activity that creates interpersonal bonds and encourages folks to be vulnerable around each other at times. And, a little bit like churches and temples, the quality of the experience can vary greatly from one group to another.

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                I’d be okay with those people having to find their meaning elsewhere if all the historical atrocities went away too

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          Hebrew tradition, that I like. I believe in Samsara, in a way. So, for all the religions in the world, I believe there is truth and guidance and I follow the tenets that I feel bring me closer to the driving life force of the world.

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          It’s a very long, old way to say, Israel was horny for other gods from surrounding states. I don’t believe they individually mean anything.

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          For whatever reason I took “emissions like a horse” as someone who farts like a horse. I have to say horse cum makes way more sense.

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            There’s a whole chapter about cum in the bible. Rules about what to do when you cum on your neighbor’s goat, what to do if you someone cums on you. Basically the whole thing is part of the tabernacle racket. Pretty much any time someone cums they have to bring birds to the tabernacle to cut in half and set fire to. Probably written by a bird seller if we’re being honest with ourselves here.

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              I…. Don’t believe you. Lmao. Either that or sky daddy’s book is way more wild than I’ve ever considered

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                You really need to read the Song of Soloman. It’s basically a dirty love poem.

                “Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.”

                “This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.”

                " I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour."

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                Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

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          correct, that is how you refer to these books in religious studies

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          Those prophetical books tend to have been rewritten to make them prophetical in retrospect, so it does have that element.

          I believe it was King Josiah, ~600BCE, who compiled the books and had them lightly edited into a History of the Kingdom kinda deal. The whole theme of the Kingdom of Judea being the Rightful Leader Of The Tribes really gives it away. There’s a lot of convenient propaganda.

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            The books that were “rewritten” were the kings of Israel were ranked according to adherence to Deuteronomy Law. The prophetical books remained untouched, I believe. At a quick glance at my books, I don’t see anything about rewriting prophecy. Would you mind sharing your knowledge?

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              Sorry, it’s been too long. I could be full of shit anyway :P

              It might be more a case of selecting than editing the canon anyway.

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                I’M SO SORRY!!! I’M DUMB. I think I understand where you’re coming from. Referring to King Josiah’s reign in which Samaria was pretty much excluded further, which inevitability led to some bad tensions. He compiled the books into the official canon and told Samaria to basically eat it lol. Every great king in the bible is terrible lmao. Love it.

                edit: I was narrow mindedly, only considering the offical Hebrew Bible perspective, whereas you were considering the broader Judaism that was prevelant in Samaria. early-early Judaism is so wild

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    Even in pre-history, men were somehow convinced that what women really wanted was: bigger dicks. Bigger dicks than human men could possibly offer.

    It’s such a weird preoccupation, and it seems like it’s got to be deeper than just a cultural thing.

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              Why did you switch to the word Authority instead of History? Is it because using the word history makes your argument invalid?

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                I don’t even have an argument here. Chill.

                You must be so used to people being contrarian that even my sarcastic criticism triggers your aggression or whatever this is.

                Just relax and take a deep breath, nobody here is an enemy.

                I’m merely pointing out an interesting idea that to a lot of (maybe even most, or even all) people, history, and therefore one’s worldview and values, are subjective and based around an authority of some kind.

                No need to make this weirdly personal and hostile, we are only discussing ideas.

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                  Wow you’re coming off as super chill and not defensive at all here. Lol.

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            written record, it’s clearly history, accuracy disclaimers aside.

            With that definition, isn’t Frodo dumping the One Ring into a vulcano history too?

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      Well obviously there’s a biological and psychological component, which would transcend cultures. Probably goes back to times in our evolution before we were even considered human.

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        That would explain its robustness across culture and history, but I can’t come up with even a shitty evopsych explanation. Bigger dicks scoop out more of the previous male’s ejaculate??

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          Same reason oral sex probably predates modern humans. Pleasing your partner is advantageous. Whether the bigger dick actually does this is a matter of perception. Just like in modern porn.