They are going to murder you in your sleep.
BlameTheAntifa
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One of the many things that christians seem to misunderstand is that almost none of the Bible is about them. It’s about the descendants of Israel who are the descendants of Noah who are the descendants of Adam and Eve, who were uniquely created by their god in its image and given a piece of its divine breath… none of which is about all humanity, but especially gentiles who are literally the same as wild animals as far as scripture is concerned.
Remember the story of the woman who begged Jesus and his disciples for help for days because her daughter was “possessed?” Not only did Jesus go out of his way to ignore and avoid her for days, he then compared her to a dog for not being Israelite. Only when she leaned into the insult did Jesus relent.
Israel was that specific fig tree and Israel was supposed to be special and had unique expectations placed on them since they were literally their god’s children, and other people were not.
I’m not disagreeing really. I’m building on your point.
Almost everything in there is a parable. It’s a cultural thing, because stories were only worth preserving as a lesson. The concept of preserving objective reality for its own sake is a very modern and recent ideology. It would have been seen as madness by ancient peoples.
I’ll point out that the “Jesus and the fig tree” story is a parable. It’s made fun of a lot, but it’s a vicious lesson by someone who was very theatrical in their teaching style. The fig tree is Israel, who were expected by their god to always be in season and ready for their messiah. But when Jesus arrived, they were not in season, and so were cursed to never bear fruit again. It wasn’t an agricultural misunderstanding, it was a lesson and everything that surrounds it gives it context.
He was being chased by a gang of young men, not just being made fun of by some random children.
Translation is a scholarly art, and English translations - and the masses understanding of them - are like the restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco.
Isn’t Australia’s rightmost parties neoliberal? That’s no less dangerous than out of the closet nazis, they are just better at hiding their dismantling of basic individual rights and services in pursuit if profit.
The Cypher system is one of the most ingenious, elegant, immersive, and flexible TTRPG systems ever created and I will die on this hill. If you want to escape D&D, Cypher is the way to go.
THAC0 is the reason I am so good at maths.
“Trans men are just men, but all women are property of men, therefore trans women are sneaky, deceitful predators trying to trick both innocent men and women.”
This is all just an extension of our fucked up patriarchal culture. It’s not that trans men are forgotten, it’s that their outward masculinity makes them irrelevant. They are no longer potential mates for the cishet males and therefore not “dangerous.”
Trans women, however, are a “problem” for those same reasons. Their femininity means they could be targeted as a potential mate for a cishet male, so to the patriarchal privileged they are by nature of existing “deceptive, duplicitous queers.” At the same time, any remaining masculinity in appearance or even the idea that a person could have a penis makes them a threat to other women, because other women are the property of other men. Hence the “trans women are just rapist men using drag to trap women in bathrooms” fallacy that the right loves so much.
I apologize for the window into that psychology. A shower may be warranted.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
This remains the cornerstone of rightist/authoritarian politics. Today, we have replaced “colored man” with trans people and immigrants.
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