Strictly speaking, Jesus was actually part of a tradition of radical mendicant rabbis who were particularly prevalent during that period. John the Baptist was another obvious one, but even at that point travelling holy men preaching to the diaspora from outside the synagogue were their own parallel tradition.
Claimants to being the messiah were so common among the Jews that Romans made jokes about the stereotype.
Yeah, Judaea was kind of a hotbed for religious eccentricity and militant politics, which tended to overlap quite a bit. Jesus was interesting because, if the Gospels are to be taken as reflective of his teachings, while he was in many ways very political, he framed his arguments in a very apolitical way: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's," and so forth. It was sneakier and less equivocal than many of the flashier claimants. And really, it seems like the guy never really thought of himself as any more of a "son of God" than any other rabbi or any other human; that people took this literally is at once a testament to the problems of cultural translation and testimony to what this man's charisma must have been.
bus is five minutes late this is worse than the holocaust
i'd say "only five?" but the bus i usually take barely even pretends to be on a schedule and just has "it usually comes once every X minutes at Y time of day" on the big sign it has
luckily there's a website that tells me when the bus is going to come, and it only occasionally says the wrong thing
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm at my second to last day at this temp job
Work doesn't start for another half hour so I'm wasting time in the car
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I was gonna say this is even more nonsensical than your PONY posts, but...no, it isn't, not really
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I was in the kitchen getting some apple juice, but forgot the pasta jar that I use as a glass. So I ended up drinking the juice out of my (clean) plastic microwave saucepan.
I was in the kitchen getting some apple juice, but forgot the pasta jar that I use as a glass. So I ended up drinking the juice out of my (clean) plastic microwave saucepan.
Laziness is also associated with ingenuity.
Instead of expending effort to get your jar, you drank your juice.
It's natural to feel vindicated when you are in some manner right, but if it's about things going wrong where other people have tried to reassure you about something, yes, that might be a bit unhealthy.
I like really dark, pessimistic fiction, personally, assuming it is done well and doesn't feel forced. But then, emotions in a work shouldn't be forced in general.
It seems like it is misapplied frequently. Like, I get being put off by forced, immature misanthropy as an excuse for melodrama and authorial sadism (of the not-fun kind), but accusing a work of that just because it is a little too dark or bleak or violent for you is just stupid. "I can't handle that" is valid; saying a work is "objectively" bad for that is bullshit.
I mean, I really like how Stig Høgset of THEM approached reviewing Shigurui: That he could see the artistic value in it and admire it for that, while full well admitting that for him it was about as fun as a root canal. More people should be able to take that tack.
Incidentally I really want to give Shigurui a go despite the fact that it sounds really hard to watch. Ditto Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, which, as Imi would put it, seems really timey in an intriguing way, albeit also very uncompromisingly violent and depressing.
I mean, I really like how Stig Høgset of THEM approached reviewing Shigurui: That he could see the artistic value in it and admire it for that, while full well admitting that for him it was about as fun as a root canal. More people should be able to take that tack.
Roger Ebert said this about Naked Lunch the movie.
I am not surprised. There are some things that I will probably never agree with Ebert on but the man had a way of conceding good points about things he did not like that I sort of strive towards. I wish I could be that fair.
That said, when he wanted to make a point about how much he loathed something, the man was a bulldozer.
today was good. woke up and found out that the prime minister fucked a pig. then got an interview for a job in Taiwan on thursday. helped a mate move some stuff into his new house and got a lil blazed round there, cooked a bomb ass gorgonzola, bacon and spinach pasta, and ive spent the whole evening titting around in fl studio. and it even got sunny after being shit and rainy in the morning.
a book for me which has artistic value but which i cant read because it irritates my very intensely is American Psycho. fuck reading that book, but he was doing something cool and interesting.
a book for me which has artistic value but which i cant read because it irritates my very intensely is American Psycho. fuck reading that book, but he was doing something cool and interesting.
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Yeah, Judaea was kind of a hotbed for religious eccentricity and militant politics, which tended to overlap quite a bit. Jesus was interesting because, if the Gospels are to be taken as reflective of his teachings, while he was in many ways very political, he framed his arguments in a very apolitical way: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's," and so forth. It was sneakier and less equivocal than many of the flashier claimants. And really, it seems like the guy never really thought of himself as any more of a "son of God" than any other rabbi or any other human; that people took this literally is at once a testament to the problems of cultural translation and testimony to what this man's charisma must have been.
Work doesn't start for another half hour so I'm wasting time in the car
birds are singing, flowers are blooming...
on days like these, kids like you...
Should burn in hell.
Wouldn't want to go whole hog after all.
Of the ones on Steven Universe, that is. ::::P
o:^)
it pearl
I was in the kitchen getting some apple juice, but forgot the pasta jar that I use as a glass. So I ended up drinking the juice out of my (clean) plastic microwave saucepan.
I didn't bring any glasses down with me when I moved in, so just use an empty pasta jar instead of buying new glasses.
I can get behind that
It's natural to feel vindicated when you are in some manner right, but if it's about things going wrong where other people have tried to reassure you about something, yes, that might be a bit unhealthy.
Then I just feel bad
But yeah, there is nothing wrong with feeling good when you are actually right about something.
That said, when he wanted to make a point about how much he loathed something, the man was a bulldozer.
A very funny bulldozer.
I feel kinda bad-weird at the moment but I hope that will pass?
a book for me which has artistic value but which i cant read because it irritates my very intensely is American Psycho. fuck reading that book, but he was doing something cool and interesting.