jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 1 day ago:
It hasn’t aged as well as I think people remember. Did you see it when it came out?
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 1 day ago:
Do you like ANY Mel Brooks movie? Zucker Brothers?
- Comment on A simple solution, really 4 days ago:
things addicts say
- Comment on A simple solution, really 4 days ago:
The things that make life worth living don’t cost money. The things that make life not death cost money.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 6 days ago:
Please flag slurs with NSFW.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
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. 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.
I’m trying to understand if you are advocating doing that intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.
- Comment on Where to report mod abuse? 2 weeks ago:
do I just leave Lemmy too?
Yes. If you left Reddit because of the social climate, you haven’t accomplished anything.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, yes.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the symbolism.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment 2 weeks ago:
so can you
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 2 weeks ago:
You cannot obtain consent by deceit. That’s rape.
- Comment on How can open source projects get acquired by third parties? 3 weeks ago:
You’re talking about a service, not an open source text like source code. A service can’t be “open source” unless it lives on a computing block chain like Etherium or something, because actual human beings have to do things on private assets.
- Comment on Another CEO has been killed 3 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ, this isn’t “work reform”, it’s fomenting murder.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 3 weeks ago:
If anyone is surprised by PayPal’s conduct, they shouldn’t be.
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
Why should a full-time employer be permitted to pay an employee less than it costs to merely survive? It’s like you WANT to live in a culture where humans are exploited and thrown away when they break.
- Comment on Anon describes past 4 weeks ago:
It certainly sucked for those who did, but the majority didn’t have to worry about war.
It’s not like you knew; you were still fucking worried even if you were in the 9/10.
- Comment on Anon describes past 4 weeks ago:
And this is exactly why we can’t have affordable housing. All these boomers go from wealthy retirees to hungry tent dwellers like the rest of us.
- Comment on how do i become a Scientologist? 4 weeks ago:
It’s easy. You just pay money.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 4 weeks ago:
Tried hard to get through the first airing of Heroes. One episode, halfway through, we just looked at each other and turned off the TV. Turned out to be the second-last episode. Still feel good about that decision.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and?
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 weeks ago:
show your work
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 5 weeks ago:
Hey, look, all the sites I specifically avoid, plus Pinterest which just happens to get avoided.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Nothing is normal anymore.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe you’re guilty and your freedom is worth more to you than any amount of money.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
annoying how?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
