jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
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. 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.
I’m trying to understand if you are advocating doing that intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
Yes, yes.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the symbolism.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 week ago:
You cannot obtain consent by deceit. That’s rape.
- Comment on How can open source projects get acquired by third parties? 2 weeks ago:
You’re talking about a service, not an open source text like source code. A service can’t be “open source” unless it lives on a computing block chain like Etherium or something, because actual human beings have to do things on private assets.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
OTOH if you have to ask, then a couple possibilities need to be considered. Maybe they are already so well appointed, a twenty dollar trinket is just a waste of our planet’s dwindling resources. Maybe you know them so poorly, it really isn’t appropriate to be buying them a gift in the first place.
What we all want for our birthday is to feel like we are special to the people in our lives. That they know us, care about us, and wish us well. That’s not the sort of thing you can ask for; if you have to ask, it devalues it tremendously.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There is no stigma that I am aware of.
- Comment on how do i become a Scientologist? 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy. You just pay money.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nothing is normal anymore.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you’re guilty and your freedom is worth more to you than any amount of money.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 weeks ago:
annoying how?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on May the 4th be with you 4 weeks ago:
m etoo
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 4 weeks ago:
books exist
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 4 weeks ago:
They eat meat.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 5 weeks ago:
There’s no rational reason typefaces shouldn’t enjoy protection.
- Comment on are there bots that downvote every comment users have? 5 weeks ago:
Votes mean less on Lemmy than they did on Reddit. So we can sweat it less what people do with them. Not a big deal.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 5 weeks ago:
They do. That’s why voter suppression is such a big factor in every election.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think that your assumptions are true. Non-voters tend to be more progressive than voters, because conservatives vote religiously out of a sense of duty and responsibility, and progressives vote when they feel like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OP discovers smuggling.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
“FLOSS”?
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 month ago:
The entire phone-based ecosystem.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
The Dungeon already sort of gave up on the original design. Philip Price wrote The City and the extension mechanism that things were supposed to plug into, but The Dungeon didn’t use any of it. So it was a one-way trip… Except you couldn’t actually transfer characters, it was broken. :-/
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
The cancelled suite of Alternate Reality games.
- Comment on U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist 1 month ago:
All available evidence suggests otherwise.
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 1 month ago:
Sure, but not in the home.
