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- Comment on susjay 18 hours ago:
Correct, and fundamentally you don’t make laws to prohibit something nobody is doing.
A few different gods had to get rationalized or syncretized in one way or another as I understand it.
Not only Baal but that pesky Asherah and her complicated and inconvenient situationship with YHWH.
- Comment on susjay 1 day ago:
It’s a great use case for a bible verse and I am totally here for it.
- Comment on susjay 1 day ago:
Prostrate, not prostate but still sounds like it was a good time.
41 As soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. He bowed three times, and they kissed each other and wept with each other; David wept the more.
Unfortunately this is probably all propaganda. As I understand it, many scholars believe that many of these stories are Davidic propaganda, and that David most likely killed Saul and Jonathan (and Saul’s whole family) in a sort of coup.
But assuming that is true, it’s quite likely that Solomon coup’d David and the whole Bathsheba story was meant to legitimize Solomon as a successor.
Take this with a grain of salt because I’m just a fascinated layman, and my recapitulation is likely limited by my level of understanding.
- Comment on Future 1 day ago:
You guys aren’t seeding torrents with your appliances?
- Comment on sacrifices 1 day ago:
Easily 5/7
- Comment on my mom using her hot trophy wife charisma to get women for my dad to fuck: 2 days ago:
So they don’t sound awesome because other people do a related and horrible thing that there is no indication that they themselves do?
Just clarifying.
- Comment on NSFW post 2 days ago:
Send photo
- Comment on Just try to show them that you care 1 week ago:
Not that I am accusing you but you can be a bot and still be ableist.
- Comment on my Lemmy modus operandi & why I end up deleting an account and making a new one 1 week ago:
I can relate to this cycle. For me it plays out irl more though.
- Comment on Make a few meme posts a day, some are good. Ask a good question once a week and post a good shower thought when I have one. Feel like a good lemmy contributor 1 week ago:
You are +5 for me too.
- Comment on Lady Parts is Bugs. 1 week ago:
I think there is a bullet that is often used with these particular butterfly wings.
- Comment on agagaga 2 weeks ago:
I’ve actually been trying to wrack my brain to remember the name of it, which is crazy because for over a year it dominated my life. I was the head of a guild with 4 branches and a hundred or so members. Like I was doing management and spreadsheets and even made more than one deck over that time. I’ve been awoken by a Line call at 3am because the Russians are attacking. But the name has left me.
- Comment on agagaga 2 weeks ago:
I used to run into aXanax all the time on this Mobile game I used to play. It was a PvP space colonization game and there were stark parallels to real world geopolitics.
We hated the Russians in that game, not for ideological reasons but because they and the Chinese would always attack any fleets not in base while we slept.
Obviously we did the same to them, and recruited a European shift for our guild.
- Comment on Please rate my dish 3 weeks ago:
Did you get any spaghetti noodles for this go around?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Don’t mis-attribute to god that which was perfected through natural selection over millennia of our ancestor throat goats.
- Comment on The Three Stooges are back on TV 3 weeks ago:
I’m trying to think but nothing happens!
- Comment on An Arctodus simus that has been affected by the tapeworm parasite, by Hodarinundu 4 weeks ago:
Just in case you did bail before it loaded, it is a painting, not a photo, and it is unhinged but not gross. Per se.
- Comment on An Arctodus simus that has been affected by the tapeworm parasite, by Hodarinundu 4 weeks ago:
This is how I got rid of mine but it was thanks to mice, not birds in my case. I felt like Cinderella!
- Comment on I fixed my meme 4 weeks ago:
Have you considered getting hornier friends though.
- Comment on Me after 3 shots of vodka 4 weeks ago:
Based on OP’s screen name, they might be going after a pretty niche, but surely thriving, target market.
I for one enjoy a frisky Lemmy.
- Comment on I wouldn't worry about it 4 weeks ago:
I assumed it was Doug Wilson for some reason.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 4 weeks ago:
Wait, were you born that way or are you talking about them? I am weirdly invested but confused.
- Comment on Dumb bitch 4 weeks ago:
Generation Lead Paint
- Comment on Teeeheeeee 4 weeks ago:
He soooo badly doesn’t want to want to though.
- Comment on Truth 4 weeks ago:
One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.
And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I wasted a year on Duolingo and got very little idioms, just some supposedly common sayings like das is schnee von gestern, oder es kostet nur einen apfel und ein ei.
Honestly, ich_iel has done more for my understanding than Duolingo did, but it is still almost nil.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t it closer to “we are looking for you”?
- Comment on Now this is an interesting question. What sound would you like it to make? 4 weeks ago:
Damn I should have scrolled down literally at all.
- Comment on Now this is an interesting question. What sound would you like it to make? 4 weeks ago:
When I was a kid there was a Transformers cartoon show and every time they transformed there would be this “BE-boo-babu-babu-BEEP” sound effect.
And so yeah.
- Comment on Frying chicken? Taking a leak? It's a mystery. 🤔 5 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude