Jerkface (any/all)

Sooooo… he’s NOT leaving YouTube?

Urban Terror

If you don’t drink, don’t drink.

Wow, I tuned out the USA so hard, I missed all of this.

Many people with a uterus don’t actually bleed, but still have a cycle. A tracker is helpful to figure out where you are in your cycle when there isn’t a big signal you can rely on every period, by logging and tracking other more subtle cues.

how do you know when someone abuses animals don’t worry they never stop telling you

Organize “pox parties” on Facebook; don’t attend.

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.

No, but it means you’re probably not really a friend anymore. If you’re good with that, everything’s jake.

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.

The dumbest thing I think I ever heard of was prosecuting people for possession of cannabis.

I didn’t come here for MORE toxic masculinity and gender shaming. Sort your shit out.

Jumping spiders are so cute, they make you want to hug a spider.

There are ten cute animals in captivity at factory farms for your personal use. Every time one is slaughtered, it is replaced.

Well, I’m not an employer. You’ll have to define what “bootlicker” means to you. Go ahead, I dare you.

Are you also endorsing fraud and sabotage? It sure seems like you are.

No, it’s on the same level as “make major life changes” to either a depressed person, or someone working in a non-union environment. There is no analogy needed. Sometimes you cannot make major life changes, even if it might help with significant problems. But we don’t know that. It’s valid advice. Unlike everything else said in this thread.

None of that elaborate rationalization you just performed changes anything. You admit you counseled something unethical, but you want to insist that reflects on OP, not on you. So now it’s not just a failure of integrity, but it’s also sophistry.