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How I simultaneously avoid and indulge in dumb internet drama.

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i really wonder what Julius Caesar would think of a bunch of neurodivergent rats huddled in a circle chanting ides of march ides of march ides of march and then cheering loudly on the 2067th anniversary of his assassination?

like would he cry?

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how can you be so controversial and yet so brave

(reposted from Twitter)

Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?

The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.

The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.

The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)

So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.

I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.

(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)

The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.

The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.

I shit you not.

Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.

A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."

anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her

except attend another interfaith event

#incredible (derogatory) #embarrassing

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Health care includes abortion.

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Please Stop Bullying My Large Adult Son For Being An Incredibly Stupid Guy Online

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Y’all….this white man went and lived in India for 6 months where he “discovered” masala chai and decided to make his own version that he now sells and calls…..mud water. I shit you not thats the brand name.

#an ad for this just popped up on my fb and I was so confused #like i was trying to figure out how it was different from just. normal chai #and then i realized #ooh its just hippie racism

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Mesh shirts are doing so much for the male whore ecosystem

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no your honor I absolutely can make my case like an adult. first things first, fuck the defendant and fuck his family too. secondly,

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Please take good care of them!

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genuinely don't get why some people hate furries so much. like ohhh nooo some people are wearing weird cat costumes on the internet. this is a category nine international incident

#im not a furry but like #yea

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If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

#beer is good with specific foods #like pizza or pub food #and I'll drink a cider or pale ale casually #but anything hoppy is nope

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HOUSTON REPORTBACK: Hundreds of anti-fascists answered @screwstonafc’s call to defend a family-friendly drag show in Houston.  They completely outnumbered the tiny group of transphobes that showed up to harass & threaten the event, but couldn’t get anywhere near it and were eventually run off the block. 

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“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”

#oh no

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no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s