Iran is a war mongering, autocratic, theocratic GOVERNMENT but a peaceful, progressive, secular NATION.
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3·4 days agoI’m sure there’s some passage that instructs stoning people for some trivial fucking reason.
It hasn’t aged as well as I think people remember. Did you see it when it came out?
Do you like ANY Mel Brooks movie? Zucker Brothers?
71·8 days agoAn “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.
41·9 days ago21 times a week! Good gracious!
22·10 days agowhat’s the difference between a free range cage and a cage? The comfort level of the animal.
I think you are making a rhetorical point unrelated to animal welfare, but in point of fact, “free range” hens do not enjoy a meaningfully greater level of comfort. The only way to reduce these suffering of exploited vulnerable individuals is not to pay for their exploitation in the first place.
things addicts say
The things that make life worth living don’t cost money. The things that make life not death cost money.
97·12 days agoI’m opposed to human reproduction. There are so many bad reasons to have a child, but I’m not sure there are any good ones.
6·13 days agoWhen it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.
2·24 days agoWhen the original authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their words in the original Greek, they were not imagining blindness to be a metaphor for clinical depression. Or even for feeling sad, if that is what you mean. While many people understand these passages as referring to literal blindness, blindness is often used as a metaphor in the Bible, for example for ignorance, pride, deception, and unbelief. You can attempt to take it as a metaphor for the modern concept of depression (which of course they did not even possess) but to do so, you are clearly reading into the text. And it’s not clear how the message of Jesus is meant to cure your depression, the way it can presumably cure you of spiritual ignorance, unbelief, etc.
I’m trying to understand if you are advocating reading into the text intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.
Eating something doesn’t make it food. You can eat a bike but you’re not a metalovore.
I’m going to claim brain fart. I’m horrified to find I had thought that it was about, like, modern Israel. Dumb.
OTOH, it sounds like you are suggesting taking interpretations like that; reading things into the text and adopting the symbols for our own purposes. Blindness wasn’t a metaphor for depression. You have to insert that as a modern reader. The text doesn’t fully support it and you have to creatively interpret at times. I don’t think that’s very satisfying.
Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.
Yes, yes. Very clever. Not contributing but don’t you look smart.
The point is that they are fucking miracles. It doesn’t matter whether they are “impressive” or “lame” when they prove that the natural laws of the Universe do not apply. Whatever the effect of the miracle is less significant than the simple fact of it and what that implies.
What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the non-literal symbolism.
don’t worry they tell you
Could you please acknowledge the distinction I am making? Because it kind of looks like you just picked out some words and flipped your wig without really attempting to comprehend what you were reading. Breathe, dude. We’re gonna get through this.