AeonFelis
@AeonFelis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 5 days ago:
In the end I think scripture is just a tool for Jews to have something to argue about endlessly.
Considering how that’s the main way to gain fame in Judaism - you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 6 days ago:
I like Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor’s interpretation. It’s far from being accepted in Judaism - probably because it makes so much sense.
The interpretation is based on the fact that the passage originally appears in Exodus twice - but not in a section about Kosher laws. It appears in sections about Bikurim - bringing offerings to the temple:
- www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A…
- www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+34%3A…
The very same verse that contains that law also contains a law about Bikkurim:
Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.
You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Because these two laws seem so unrelated, Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor suggests a different way to read the second part.
In Hebrew, the root of the word “cook”/“boil” is B-SH-L - and this is also the root of the word “ripe”/“mature”. Because of that, it’s possible to read “you must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk” as “you must not let a young goat mature while drinking its mother’s milk”.
This makes the second part of the verse a repetition of the first part - a pattern very common in the Old Testament as a (vain) attempt to prevent misinterpretations. Reading it like so, both parts mean “the offerings should be as young and as fresh as possible”.
That reading is a little bit odd - but not too odd in biblical language standards, and it makes so much more sense in the context where the passage appears.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 6 days ago:
I’m more worried about that thing turning up my nose.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 6 days ago:
I do understand why they want to sell it thought.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
This generation really is doomed - but not because of these words (or anything else it does, really)
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
-1/12
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Time travelers already tried and failed. It’s a fixed point in time.
- Comment on frenly warnin 1 month ago:
These people probably feel so ashamed they can’t even look at themselves in the mirror.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 month ago:
Acknowledgmen’t
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 2 months ago:
#trumpiffs
- Comment on Please answer. 2 months ago:
“mould” vs “would”
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
That word doesn’t mean anything to him
“Illegal” as in “illegal immigrants”. It’s a connotation word, it doesn’t mean anything on its own obviously.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 2 months ago:
“pound the pavement” gets a whole new meaning then
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 2 months ago:
Did… did you have a crane operation license?
- Comment on Anon investigates a random goth girl 2 months ago:
Not just one. Two of them!
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 months ago:
Third - drop the banana peel on the floor and make him slip on it.
- Comment on Good morning. 2 months ago:
Well, yea. You won’t be able to, seeing how she holds your nose.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In Hebrew, the word for “stone” is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for “rock” is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 2 months ago:
I don’t know whether or not this is sarcasm, and frankly - it doesn’t matter. Science provides the facts - it does not provide values. You need to combine facts with values in order to come up with an ethical verdict.
If the resulting verdict is not what you wanted, you can always rethink your values. This is essentially what philosophers have done for millennia. It does mean you’ll need to defend your new values, of course, but you don’t have to stick with old values when it turns out they have bad implications.
What you don’t get to do, is decide to ignore or twist the facts. The facts don’t change just because they’re inconvenient. If you lie in order to get the ethical verdict you desire, then you are tautologically in the wrong.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 months ago:
- Ask ChatGPT for a solution.
- Try to run the solution. It doesn’t work.
- Post the solution online as something you wrote all on your own, and ask people what’s wrong with it.
- Copy-paste the fixed-by-actual-human solution from the replies.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 2 months ago:
He won’t die before releasing Half Life 3, which means he’s immortal.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 months ago:
Actually… Yes? People’s health did deteriorate due to over-reliance on technology over the generations. At least, the health of those who have access to that technology.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 3 months ago:
As valid and informative as TwitteX’ blue mark.
- Comment on Anon fixes Super Mario Bros 3 months ago:
“Green Mario” because the kind of people who have these ideas should fear his true name.
- Comment on Yep, you did. 3 months ago:
They were both right - it’s just that Orwell’s prophecies manifested in east while Huxley’s did in the west.
- Comment on guys... :( 3 months ago:
This has not bean your best day
- Comment on Based Red Dead 3 months ago:
I don’t think it was about “white vs black” as much as it was about “America can take any system, good or bad, and turn it into something so much worse”.
- Comment on So why did we stop worshiping the sun? 3 months ago:
Shuddup Sun! The world does not revolve around you!
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 3 months ago:
Bow tie, and also add a monocle.
