Posts by taalumot@stoat.zone
(DIR) Post #ATVtIgUqIfQV8zkns8 by taalumot@stoat.zone
2023-03-11T17:41:30Z
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Lookin real good
(DIR) Post #AYAHuotNqz40dwbzpQ by taalumot@stoat.zone
2023-07-28T21:01:59Z
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@IdahoLark Thanks! I believe it was an Etsy, but it’s certainly the kind of thing it seems like one should make for oneself
(DIR) Post #Ab6q2n1wMcoPqtm5gG by taalumot@stoat.zone
2023-10-24T22:41:00Z
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I would say having a website is analogous to fishing
(DIR) Post #Ab6r0g0DccdPQmWdzU by taalumot@stoat.zone
2023-10-24T22:52:43Z
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@rimugu bingoHow about, “One invents new units of measurement to impress others and then exaggerates them”
(DIR) Post #AdaDj0t7EwBZAY8Lz6 by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-01-02T21:05:53Z
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The Pirate Ship Model of Federated Social Media: https://taalumot.space/writing/pirate-ship-social-media
(DIR) Post #AhpJSoNxmLpYhlrbto by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-05-06T10:41:54Z
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My new thing is getting up in the morning, making my tea, and sipping it while reading philosophical blog posts about the horrors of virtual reality in virtual reality.
(DIR) Post #AhpJSqO2L34suZuhI8 by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-05-06T11:59:59Z
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I really love reading in virtual reality. It’s the only part of reality where I can read comfortably without having to wear glasses.
(DIR) Post #AhsKsNGbuVkNYW3cKe by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-05-06T01:41:33Z
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(DIR) Post #AhvysB7ReflfWL6yHI by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-05-02T13:51:54Z
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Torah Posting: אחרי מותGoat-demons.https://taalumot.space/writing/aharei-mot
(DIR) Post #Aiit37JTktsfXwrzKS by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T13:42:10Z
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You know, I don’t say this enough:I believe — whole-heartedly and whole-throatedly — in religious conversion.The way I talk about culture and lineage, you might not think so, or you might think I’m very strict about it or something, and I know that at least *Jewish* converts often feel exclusionary pressure about that.That’s never my intention. Converts are holy, holy Jews. The thing is, Jewish conversion is a *very intensive process*, and that’s where my standards come from.
(DIR) Post #Aiit38NPnkciqRie6S by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T13:48:45Z
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I say this part a lot; it’s one of my favorite personal cliches. Conversion to become a Jew is more analogous to immigration than baptism, and baptism is the conversion modality invented for the transmission of ideological religions in the culture-erasing milieu of global empires, so it’s usually what comes to mind for residents of such empires: You make a mental and verbal declaration of some ideological payload, you dunk in the water, and when you pop out, you’re in.That’s not my culture.
(DIR) Post #Aiit39SllKV6DLER5U by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T13:53:47Z
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But it’s not because I don’t believe in the idea of being cleansed and reborn — where do you think the early Christians, who were Jews, got their mikveh practice from? — but rather because I don’t accept the sufficiency of considering this a personal, private, inward, propositional transformation. That’s not how purification functions in Jewish practice. It’s a communal condition, one that determines one’s readiness for participation in communal life. And that conversion involves both sides.
(DIR) Post #Aiit3AOuHB0N7eQrho by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T13:59:12Z
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So to me, a conversion story is one about joining a community, and no human desire could possibly be more understandable to me. When I learn someone is a convert, I expect to encounter a kind of respect and sensitivity that can only be learned by struggling to integrate intentionally into a community full of people who take their own standards for granted because, to them, they’re expected defaults.When I meet a person who says they’re a convert, that is my assumption about who I’m meeting.
(DIR) Post #Aiit3CIFEurezZKZbE by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T14:02:22Z
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Occasionally, though, they turn out not to be that sort of convert but rather one of the culture-erasing global empire variety, a Seeker™, someone who is exploring the world’s cultures like a bounty to be exploited to improve their personal lot in this world or the next.But my disapproval of this lifestyle is not a disapproval of converts. On the contrary, it’s a judgment that such a person is not yet a convert. They don’t meet the standards.
(DIR) Post #AiitGJJmQuAAXlImMi by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T16:21:36Z
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@mattskala When you self-identify with it, would you say you’re using it as a descriptor of something social?
(DIR) Post #AiiuzYBW6bGxdZZZ68 by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T16:41:02Z
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@mattskala That is an interesting and important observation
(DIR) Post #AiivsifCqZ7q41lZBo by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-08T16:50:56Z
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@mattskala Yeah I like that a lot, and it touches into what I was saying about natives and their defaults. Any religious tradition that wants to survive would do well to build in introspection about what’s important, so that those who belong in their tradition’s defaults KNOW it, and so those that don’t know that, too.
(DIR) Post #AjMolND2kqVt6E8RIO by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-27T21:33:48Z
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I feel like I nearly have it in me to rigorously study the playbook for how “cultural appropriation” critiques became part of popular culture in order to learn how to make “it’s not okay for Christians to use the Hebrew Bible” happen.
(DIR) Post #AjMpjy9OXMwF2sK4i8 by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-27T22:45:35Z
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@Hyolobrika Because it is the culturally embodied wisdom of a particular people of which the overwhelming majority of Christians are not a part, and for the few who are, that people’s culture has internalized the value that Christianity is a heresy.
(DIR) Post #AjMqUwjvbGQAHRoMwS by taalumot@stoat.zone
2024-06-27T22:54:55Z
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@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net I don’t really care to reply to any of your other replies, but I do want to enter into the record in my replies here that I am not saying that at all, I am simply saying that Christianity should leave my people alone and stop pretending it has anything to do with us.