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Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea of this practice. I can easily see how this form of monasticism can be beneficial and harmful.
Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea of this practice. I can easily see how this form of monasticism can be beneficial and harmful.
It’s far more than just looking to one set of scripture when it comes to the charedi movement in Israel. They’re reading in thousands of years of Rabbinic Judaism, most importantly the idea that the sacrificial cult of Ancient Israelite Religion (A.K.A. Torah) is the way God wants people to engage in worship. It’s using thousands of years of anti-Semitism as a cudgel to state “we can’t be oppressors because we were oppressed.”
My hot take is that one reason for a strong connection between the U.S. and Israel is that Israel is a settler-colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, theocratic apartheid ethnostate. There’s a non-insignificant portion of the U.S. populace who wish the U.S. had the same kind of government.
I love that site! I’ve gotten so many books from there. Thanks for making sure more people know about it.
I recommend pairing that with Calibre to manage all the ebooks you get, and to convert them into useable formats for your device(s).
I’m a huge fan of Evolve, an idle game played in the browser which only requires a network connection to start up. Saves are text that you can export and load to a file. There’s lots of strategy, all kinds of ways to play, and makes for some funny stories.
Damn, you’re making me want to take my DS version out and start playing again. When I emulated it, I was at a point where I had unlocked every ending and beat Spekio in his final form.
I hope the creator goes to tech heaven.
God damn that’s a great game. At the same time, I think they did this knowing that folks would die all the time, so they didn’t want each death to be super punishing.