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Wenn Schnecken an Schnecken schlecken, merken sie zu ihrem Schrecken, dass Schnecken nicht schmecken.

Warum schlecken die Schnecken denn auch an Schnecken? smh. 🐌

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Today I’m thinking about hobbits.

For all the criticism that can be levied against Tolkien’s work and the LOTR movies based on it, there’s something that occurred to me just recently that I find strangely refreshing.

The hobbits eat. They are a culture that revolves to a large degree around food—bountiful food, frequent food. They are not, by and large, a skinny folk, but tend to carry weight with them. Hobbits are stout.

And the narrative does not say they’re bad for this.

They get hungry more often than humans, and eat many more meals in a day.

The narrative shows that this clashes with a questing life, but it does not say they’re bad for this. When Merry and Pippin moan about second breakfast, the joke isn’t “ha ha hobbits are gluttons” so much as it’s “ha ha culture shock/these yokels are out of their depth because they’ve lived a relatively very easy life, entirely unlike Strider”.

They eat large amounts at a time. Their larders are the size of living rooms and their everyday meals are feasts.

And the narrative does not say they’re bad for this.

So just this once, we have an entire culture of some-degree-of-fat people who eat big and eat often and have something of a fixation on food, and while the narrative does show that these ingrained habits are the result of a life of comfort and security that they must, with difficulty and understandable complaint, leave behind when they go on their journeys beyond their own borders for entirely practical reasons, it does not judge them as lazy, fat gluttons who were Wrong About It and must become human-grade health nuts in order to be worthy of heroism, or use them as a well of fat jokes.

Bilbo tricked a dragon while sporting a paunch.

It’s not every day you get a story like that.

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This is on the same level as those anthropologists who claimed that every hero story is really the same story: the heroes journey.

Faux-intellectual Hogwash.

I have read both the odyssey and the gospels and those stories are not the same at all.

Just to pick the easiest to explain: odysseus was a king, not a carpenter.

Your move @aestheticallyatheist

A carpenter, human unlike the gods of similar stories, is disliked by many. He is in close contact with higher powers and endures challenges and hardships because of it.

He is followed in his journey by close companions who aren’t very smart. People plot to kill him. He eats a final feat with his companions before dying, seeing the afterlife, and returning as a king and the first person to do so.

This is the story of Jesus.

It’s also the story of Odysseus, a character in a Greek myth written 800 years before the Bible, in the same language.

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If somebody does or says something objectionable, go ahead and boycott them.

If an individual has not done anything you can point to as particularly objectionable, but you want to boycott them because they're of a particular nationality, then you're not disagreeing with a particular action, opinion, or viewpoint. You're objecting to a particular kind of person.

For example, I object to the CCP. I believe they are carrying out genocides against Tibetans and Uighurs. I understand, however, that my objection is with the CCP and not Chinese people. So, I boycott particular corporations and individuals who I see as contributing to the oppression of these people (Huawei, for example). I do not object to Chinese nationals being in films, being hired at my university, and I regularly consume art and media created by Chinese nationals.

If I objected to my university hiring a Chinese professor, I would rightly be called Sinophobic. I would be doing something racist. This wouldn't be a boycott, it would be bigoted and discriminatory behavior.

You should object to certain actions and attitudes, not to certain kinds of people.

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"Die Abfahrt findet heute außerplanmäßig von Gleis 1 statt".

Liebe Bahn, ich weiß nicht, wie ihr eure Zeitmaschine eingestellt habt, aber das letzte Mal, dass wir hier ein anderes Gleis als Gleis 1 hatten, war vor 30 Jahren.

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We made it! Humans are the super apex predator of this world. Thanks to technology, even our babies are safe.

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Happy New Year 🎊 🎉

Dear friends,

While you celebrate Christmas, there are people in desperate need, struggling to survive, waiting for your support.

My name is Ghazal Naseer, and I am a 16-year-old girl from northern Gaza.

The war has torn my life apart, separating me from my parents and forcing my siblings and me to live in a tattered tent in southern Gaza.

’ I felling into a deep depression and attempted suicide several times ’

We have nothing no food, no safety, no clean water.

I humbly ask for your support.

Your donation, no matter how small, can make a huge difference and bring hope back into our hearts.

Please help us and share our story.

https://gofund.me/2ecd8e3d

Thank you . ❤️

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Yeah, this is also my personal theory why Christmas got so big. Makes sense tha Hanukkah would follow the same pattern.

I have been a practicing christian all my life and from a theological perspective Christmas is only the third or maybe fourth most important holiday. I am pretty sure most non-Christians believe it is the most important holiday in my religion.

But it really helps against the gloominess of winter. The lights, the preparations, getting together to sing and bake and eat and prepare gifts for the children...

How in the world the most known jewish holiday is Hannukah, which is about THE REESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL AFTER THE DIASPORAH, and still the goyim don't understand zionism is a jewish value

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My understanding is that the Nazis and Hamas have one major commonality in their ideology, namely that the jews are the main obstacle on the road to the redemption of the world. Obviously that redemption looks radically different for both groups, but that commonality produces similar tactics.

Regarding my source on this: Unfortunately this conflict gets called the most complicated one in the world for a reason and part of that reason is that there are no unbiased sources.

Haviv Rettig Gur is an Israeli, but a serious scholar who has spend decades reading palestinian sources and thinking deeply on their reasoning for ehat they do, both in general and the different political/religious groups

Unless you want to read several books from conflicting sources i believe this lecture is the best starting point:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QlK2mfYYm4U

On the other hand, which is really the first hand:

I have heard claims articulated by seemingly smart and informed people that maybe part of the reason for Hamas's violence is that specifically Hamas has absorbed a lot of Nazi-ish antisemitic mythology which has taken deep root, even if they have softened their language recently.

But the people saying this were clearly sympathetic to the Zionist position, and I would be interested in independent verification.

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🎗️ LET THEM GO!!!!!!!!! 🎗️

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This looks so much like a picture from sunday school. I love it.

Interesting graphic

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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

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And THIS is why I've been dead the last couple months after saying i was coming back, lol. Not my usual fare, here, but i think it counts as art enough. This little piece took more than 100 hours, and i spent almost all my free time on it for 2 months. I designed it--drew the sketch and planned the colors, and also hand-embroidered it.

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nautical + space themed quilt pieces by Sampaguita Quilts ! :)

the link leads to her full gallery on her blog; i recommend having a look at all of her work!

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man hating will never be progressive. you can't take terf shit and slap a rainbow coat of paint on it and act like it's somehow now based and woke and pro queer rights. snap out of it.