Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]

This is grim. Water fluoridation was one of the biggest public health victories the US had gained.

Keep your teeth safe, comrades. Try a fluoridated oral rinse if you have difficulty with consistent brushing.

Are you not also a Christian? If not, how would you describe your faith?

By “lovers of God,” you wouldn’t happen to be referring to Jews, would you?

You’re suggesting that your statement is self-evident. You need to cite specific named and numbered passages which back up your claim explicitly, not implicitly.

In which passage does the Bible say or even allude to Moses suffering the curse of Cain?

Thebetween both wandering is certainly interesting to draw, but it’s a just a parallel, not evidence. You’ve discovered literary symbolism at best.

Do you purport to have unique, divine knowledge of the scripture that supersedes all other interpretation?

I’m familiar, I’m trying to determine which biblical translation are you using? What specific version of the text are you working with?

Don’t pretend you’re fluent in Rabbinical Hebrew or Aramaic.

I think there’s two misunderstandings here, coming from syntactic ambiguity. Lemme try to break it down.

It’s the descendents of angels who mated with women who plagued the world with evil.

It was angels who mated with human women. It was their descendants who plagued the world with evil.

This is a somewhat common but wrong interpretation of Nephilim, from Bereshit 6:4. Better interpretation and translation can make an incredible difference, especially when compared to the nonsense cooked up by a bunch of dudes in the 16th century who had no access to any of the original texts or even direct translations of the original text.

Rashi’s interpretation and the JPS 1917 translation are really well respected, and I’ll take their understanding of the original text to be far more accurate than anyone working with one of the dozens of awful translation telephone nightmares based on the Septuagint or Vulgate, like any of the Catholic Bibles, King James Version, or Geneva Bible. Even most of the English translated Christian Bibles that claim to use the Masoretic Text absolutely don’t. If someone is interpreting Genesis 4:6 as meaning the children of angels, they’ve either got a bad Septuagint based translation, or they’re Randall.

(Somehow, chabad.org still has the easiest to read digital torah with Rashi’s commentary. In spite of it all, the techbros at Sefaria just haven’t succeeded at reinventing the wheel in this regard.)

I’m saying that Moses is Cain reincarnated.

This statement is considered heretical, derived from early esotericist cults like the Gnostics and Manichaeists. Christianity explicitly rejects the concept of reincarnation. Hebrews 9:27, “And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,” explicitly states that people die only once. The Apostle’s Creed, one of the most foundational statements of Christian belief, is a personal covenant Christians of all denominations make with God asserting your rejection of those heretical esoteric beliefs.

The concept of reincarnation is not now, and never has been compatible with or permissible in any form of Christianity. There are in fact no religious communities within any of the Abrahamic religions that validate or accept reincarnation.

you people

In Talmudic or Biblical hermeneutics, the burden of proof is both mandatory and always on the individual offering scriptural exegesis. Look to the dialectical format of sugyot in the Gemara for examples of this.

It is your responsibility to cite significant specific and explicit evidence for your claims from elsewhere in the original text and/or from earlier interpretation. You never just get to say that the exegetical claims you are presenting are the literal word of God, your job is to provide a clear narrative using only extant sources.

Could you please cite the passage(s) you’re referencing here?

Chabad-Lubavitch

Every fucking time.

I swear to god, I’m about 5 seconds away from distributing Abraham Geiger Apology Forms.

Me with a time machine at the Hamburg Temple disputes:

איך טראַכט אַ קינד מוז זײַן נאָך אים הייסן, אַבְרָהָם.

אַ קלאָג

That lottery winners typically do become destitute again is true, but it’s not because they blow all the cash.

Lottery winners are subject to a lot of pressure from other people who want that money. Hostile divorces, scams, and familial financial abuse are all really common. Winners are rarely informed of the financial instruments the wealthy typically use to protect their wealth, and thus have a much higher financial attrition rate.

They also tend to be less aware of and prepared for future financial precarity. The concept of being “set for life” seems to result in a really high rate of underinsurance, so when an unexpected financial hardship like a house fire or major car accident occurs, they’re typically unprepared for that hardship.

I think it’s definitely not as well written or produced as Jordan Peele’s films, and that tracks with his involvement being mostly as presenter. It’s definitely better than the 2002 TZ reboot.

If you like Black Mirror, you’ll have a good time with it. Worth the price of admission ($0, but probably like 10 gigs of torrent downloads)

why are there so few cis women?

The explanation that used to go around was that it was because we started as a lifeboat from a subreddit. Reddit has disproportionately few cis women who are disproportionately likely to only post in female-majority subreddits.

However, it’s been way too long since we were a subreddit for that to still be the reason for the underrepresentation on Hexbear, especially considering that there have been multiple large user influxes since then.

I have some kinda complex thoughts on this, but I think it’s site culture related and there’s been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.

Yeah, absolutely despicable shit from the feddit.uk admins.

It should go without saying that there was no need for a discussion for our instance. Hexbear admins were already in unilateral agreement that transphobic content isn’t acceptable.

Misanthropy is so universally present and even encouraged in vegan spaces that I’d say it’s a feature, rather than a bug.

The only normal vegans I’ve ever met actively avoid discussions about veganism, even with other vegans. Tbh, it’s a huge factor in why I never post in this comm.

Veganism simply isn’t a political entity in the minds of 99.999% of vegans. IME the second you leave this site, every vegan (esp. white vegans) you will ever talk to in the west will be someone with insufferable liberal political views and a touch of “I would trade all (POC) human lives for one single cute baby animal” Malthusianism.

These are not people who have genuinely come to veganism based on ethical decision-making or as a natural conclusion based on a Marxist worldview. They’re people who have found veganism as an individual consumer consumption choice that coincidentally aligns with certain aspects of their nihilistic views towards other people and makes them feel good for caring about animals while they simultaneously dehumanize other people.

I’ve met way too many of these people…