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@LaurieFleming @librarymindset I can see why they don't like reading if this is all they read.

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@librarymindset You don't need more than one book by Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates collectively. You don't need both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and you definitely don't need more than one Russian doorstop book. What about the Tale of Genji? Something by the Bronte sisters? Frankenstein?

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@dannarebb @JortsTheCat Calla lilies are actually unrelated to lilies and aren't dangerous. Lucky bamboo (which is not actually bamboo) is related to lilies, though, so it's best not to have that if you have cats. Not as toxic, but still toxic.

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@SeamusBlackley She never actually said that.

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@schraubd Given how Christian whiteness is, it kinda baffles me that they could even try to pin whiteness on Jews. But being stuck in between the powerful and the underclass and then getting all the blame for the actions of the powerful is thousands of years old for us, so it makes sense.

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@redwyrmofficial @seananmcguire There are so many options that could be way better than wheelchairs, as your son demonstrates. A permanent Tenser’s floating disk.The ability to fly. Even actual wheelchairs themselves would be way better- how about one that is a golem or otherwise animate object?

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@mashasapper @PicCollage I'm most surprised it has apples than that it has driedels.

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@RutiRegan Hmm I should ask everyone next parsha chat.

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@RutiRegan Random question for you. You know those disposable tablecloths that actually feel like cloth that everyone uses for shabbat? Do you know what brand that is/where to get them?

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@XianJaneway @C_Stroop They’re just so… limited in their thinking. Men can be pear shaped too, even though it’s more common for women.

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@mcjulie @C_Stroop I think this is the biggest appeal of evangelicalism for a lot of people. They find uncertainty terrifying.

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@Fenrirs_Chosen I mean, everyone is right that that's not true of tieflings but it's still true of dozens of sentient races. So the point stands.

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@ToriGlass I should have heeded this content warning. Now I have a whole body squick.

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@JustSayXtian @deBeauxOs1 @Delafina777 In fact Reb Moshe explicitly forbids him from doing what he did. Igrot Moshe EH 2:14 for those curious.

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@RutiRegan I’d like one! Blue sky and spoutible seems like they’re the most likely twitter replacements.

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@emilymbender @AP They don’t see the problem with using a technology that can’t tell reality from fiction for a news organization?

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@babs_klein @dshwa76 @C_Stroop @Maracus57 I don't think Jesus had a basically decent message. He mostly talked about how the world was ending and everyone has to do what he says. If the 'basic message' you're talking about is the golden rule, well, Jesus didn't write that and we don't need him to apply it.

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@Maracus57 @dshwa76 @babs_klein @C_Stroop Christians, as always, prioritizing 'harm' in the afterlife that nobody actually knows anything about over real harm, here and now.

We don't want your 'hope', but you keep trying to shove it down our throats because you think you know better than everyone else.

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@Maracus57 @jalfd @C_Stroop The group you wandered into is exvangelicals and other who have been traumatized by Christianity. Spouting trite statements about “it’s good because God said so” to people who spent decades being damaged by hearing that kind of garbage is going to get you some strong reactions.

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@RutiRegan @DennisFischman @shydrae Do the avengers like having that status, or is it more of a solemn duty no one really wants? The last few verses make it clear punishing a murderer is important for the whole community. #parshachat

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@RutiRegan @DennisFischman @shydrae I wonder if there were other rules for blood avengers? They have to be someone willing to execute a person. Can you hire someone to do it? Was there an understanding that they had to give people a head start? Would there be families with notorious avengers? #parshachat