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11 hours agoIt’s also horrific animal abuse. Actual atrocity.
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5·6 days agoSooooo… he’s NOT leaving YouTube?
42·13 days agoYou’re not going to satisfy unmet emotional needs with logical arguments.
6·18 days agoRan an ISP on a Pentium 90 and a few 486s. Linux and FreeBSD!
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?
An “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.
32·23 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.
When it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.
When 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.
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.
2·1 month agoI just wish Emacs had started from the outset with more common keybindings- it makes it hard to recommend because you need to make a significant investment. I think it’s worthwhile, but still…
Surely you mean, “I wish Microsoft had adopted the standard Emacs keybindings.”
Magit has changed the workflow of my life.
I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.
You dropped your friggin’
in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.
I’m so sorry, so deeply grieved to tell you, yes, it is. Please educate yourself. It’s life and death for hundreds of millions of vulnerable individuals.