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Do your civic duty and stay there til 2028

What does ↕️ mean in this context?

Does this mean eating uranium is sufficient for adopting the term “queer”

You need to try introducing them to theory in an innocuous and emotionally unchallenging way. Try playing Immortal Technique on your phone speaker

I’m mostly just inferring from the article. From the fifth paragraph:

At least in Europe people started to get way more thingy about what the Church called the “sins of the tongue” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

For the church to get thingy about sins of the tongue, the bible probably must be able to be interpreted in such a way as to prohibit them:

The north wind brings forth rain;

And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Proverbs 25:23

He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;

Therefore do not associate with a gossip

Proverbs 20:19

There’s also room for such interpretations in the Qur’an:

O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

Surah Hujurat Ayat 12

It reminds me of usury — the texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam can be read to prohibit it, but whether it’s read that way and whether the prohibition is enforced is a matter for religious officials.

Judaism, in text, takes up a similar position where gossip, even true gossip, is prohibited unless someone’s immediate life or livelihood are at stake.

As this article makes clear, Christianity already had the prohibition against sins of the tongue, it took the Fourth Lateran Council for the church to get serious about it. I’m curious about the comparative social/structural history of prohibitions on gossip compared between different religious communities, when and why they’re emphasized, that sort of thing — was there a specific pattern of behaviour reported to Innocent III that led him to get serious about confession, was he specifically running down gossipmongers or was it just that the list of what should be confessed comported to what’s in the text?

(canadianly) FUCKIN RIGHT

Easy game for giant eagles and rocs

Me this day

I thought this was a process. you talk to your boss about the anomalous circle only to find out that you also do circles now

Do a little workout, play a little guitar, read a little marx, vaccum and put out the recycling, play a little street fighter, got this sunday shit figured out

new kind of feet guy

Anyone know if I can escape samsara by watching optimal tv

Micrometeorite inpact; phone crater lake

Rare candid shot of me and the girls going apeshit

She’s sodium metal, I’m an in-ground pool

this should be the fourth stage in a baudrillard sign-order meme where the first stage is Simulation and Simulacra and the middle two are variations on this meme

Fujo girl

She’s been living in her fujo world