You know what, this is actually a decent question. I’ll bite.

Hebrew has a number of words that we typically translate as “God.” One is elohim, and it basically means any higher power or absolute authority.

Similar to English when we say “LeBron is a GOD of the court.” 🧵 We don’t mean that LeBron is immortal, or created the world. Just that his abilities in the arena of basketball are in another class entirely from the common run of men.

Everyone seems upset so I’d like to gently point out that there’s no rule you have to endorse all aspects of Elon’s life just because you like the role he’s currently playing in public policy

You’re allowed to approve one and disapprove the other, that’s an option Sorry if this seems basic I just…do people remember we’re not signing up for lifelong contracts here?

Do you people literally think we care what EUROPE thinks lmao

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Look the shining was OKAY. And Salem’s Lot. Exactly zero of it will be remembered after your death. Do you seriously not realize this? You are not a person of significance. If you think you are because you are currently famous that is a serious indictment of your intelligence

This is Amon, king of the Egyptian gods. And this is ammonia, the stuff we use in fertilizers. Ammonia is named after Amon. So Amon probably can't send the rains but he can help you unclog your sink. Here's why:

When the Greeks met the Egyptians, they often combined Egyptian gods with their own to highlight similarities in the pantheon. Here's Zeus-Ammon, a combination of the Greek king god and the Egyptian king god (mashups like this are called "syncretism"):

Hello, let me tell you about an easter egg I noticed in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy this weekend. Start with another Lewis book. One of my absolute favorite passages in all of his works is also one that has always frustrated me. It's in Chapter 4 of The Four Loves, on friendship.

Absolutely everyone is allowed to “perform gender” except men who want to be manly For Dylan Mulvaney, no accessory is too trivial and no object too banal to count as an indispensable marker of some essential “girlhood”. For a “trans woman” absolutely any bag, trinket, or utensil is a necessary and beautiful expression of femininity.

Here’s my problem with the Game of Thrones-ification of the fantasy genre: I’m starting to think it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what fantasy is for. (The following thoughts brought to you by the finale of Witcher season 3, in which unexpected deaths and betrayals become so much the norm that they’re more hackneyed and boring than the tropes they claim to subvert. Spoilers follow.)

Let me weigh in here with a thread about the slippery slope. I will touch on complicated subjects that arouse strong passions. There is probably no way to be as precise and detailed as the situation merits. But broadly speaking, here is where things stand as I see them.

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The sexual revolution demanded many profound changes to American social life and the laws that govern it. Issues involved included divorce, abortion, contraceptives, gay sex, and pornography. In every case the trend was to maximize personal choice and weaken traditional norms.