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i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

people with cis mutuals rb this pleeeeaseee

this is kinda complicated but like

okay first off i don't want a bunch of comments saying 🥚or whatever. i am very comfortable and happy as a male. my experience is one of being most comfortable with my assigned-at-birth one.

BUT. if we ever got the ability to extract the brains from our bodies and put them in modular robot ones with hot swappable body parts. it would be hard not to want a female body that I could go into and out of. some days i'd want "dude body", some days "flat iRobot genderless plastic droid", and some days "anime girl proportions".

also with the rise of neopronouns, i have wondered about what my gender would be if it weren't "guy". like what i could be. but i feel like a good term doesn't exist yet. it'd probably also be something robot/tech related.

so i DO think about it! even as a cis person!

Um, that was the least cisgender thing I've ever read.

i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

people with cis mutuals rb this pleeeeaseee

@onemillionwordsofcrap I mean, the Patreon is at about $120 right now, so it would only actually take about $60 right now (assuming exchange rates hold for the couple of international donors I have)

ON THE OFF CHANCE ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN...

It's 2024 and people are still making Chuck Norris jokes.

And yet none of them know the list started out as Vin Diesel jokes.

@onemillionwordsofcrap I mean, the Patreon is at about $120 right now, so it would only actually take about $60 right now (assuming exchange rates hold for the couple of international donors I have)

ON THE OFF CHANCE ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN...

@onemillionwordsofcrap I mean, the Patreon is at about $120 right now, so it would only actually take about $60 right now (assuming exchange rates hold for the couple of international donors I have)

I'm asking people to please vote in November. Thank you.

literally so funny that the only thing anyone will ever remember about supernatual in like 10 years+ is the gay angel/hunter dynamic that the network didn't even want to make real. that's your legacy. you're the destiel show. that's all you'll ever be. outside your own little bubble, that's all anyone ever refers to you as. when people bring up supernatural, destiel is the only association they have. i don't know anyone who knows anything else about it. phenomenal.

Genuine question, but I often see DNIs saying "no non-Jewish Lilith devotees". I understand that Judaism is generally recognized as closed, but what about those who worship Lilith via Mesopotamian paganism? That is not a closed practice, and Lilith is featured there. Thanks to all who read, and double thanks to all who answer in good faith :)

Disclaimer: my personal practice has nothing to do with Lilith, Judaism, or Mesopotamian paganism, and I honestly don't know as much as I would like about them. I'm not looking to start any drama, please, I simply wish to educate myself further!

Simply put,

"Lilith" is not featured in Mesopotamian mythology. The concept of Lilith, as an individual, is from Jewish folklore.

Lilith is the personification/explanation for miscarriages, dangerous labor, and SIDS from Jewish folklore.

The origin of the story of Lilith as first wife of Adam and mother of demons is from Alphabet of Ben Sira. A Jewish satirical work and a story clearly written by a man who hates women.

The story of Lilith became popular to reexamine and retell with the feminist movements. However, the story itself from Ben Sira was what was reexamined and retold more sympathetically. This is something not uncommon in Jewish writings and storytelling.

However, the gentiles who saw the new retellings and reimaginings lacked both the history and context to understand what was going on, and we wind up with gentiles worshipping a literature character at best, or a murderer of women and babies at worst. Not a pretty thing.

Lilith is (unsurprisingly) used to refer to a diversity of beings, a few of which are unassociated with and predate Judaism by centuries or millennia. She is probably the oldest known named god/demon/being in the world with a lot of wildly varying beliefs and rituals associated with her.

This is a fascinating video from an academic of the occult discussing the Babylonian/Sumerian origins of Lilith and how it came to be incorporated into Judaic (and other) mythologies.

Holy Misinformation Batman!

OP, agony-aunt is greatly misrepresenting things to make it sound like there is a non-Jewish individual being/god/demon named Lilith that has commonalities with the Jewish folklore being. There is not. Full stop.

Also, that video is so full of shit that I couldn't get past the first 35 seconds without closing it in disgust- on the second try! The intro and the way that the speaker so casually shows disrespect for Jewish religion and culture from the very beginning should have clued agony-aunt in.

Fair warning to anyone Jewish who wants to subject themselves to it that there's a verbal attempt at the Tetragrammaton within the first 12 seconds or so.

The academic in question that you are trashing after admitting to not even watching the video is Jewish and wearing a kippah. He is one of the most respected scholars in his field, his study of which includes Kabbalah and historical Jewish mysticism. Everything in the video is meticulously sourced and also fascinating.

I'll do you the courtesy of asking what exactly are your qualifications? Sources to dispute his? Anything?

You are the one spreading misinformation. I didn't comment towards the content of the video beyond it being super disrespectful in the opening. Him being Jewish himself isn't really a defense against that.

For all I know, the video does not support what you said at all, and you are twisting the contents of that too. I don't know so I haven't said. Just that your comments are misinformation and that the video presenter is very disrespectful.

So the answer is no then, you're just making shit up and not really coping well with being publicly wrong about something. good luck with that, genuinely hope you get better.

I hope everyone else checking the reblogs find the linked sources useful and interesting. Dr Sledge is a really cool academic and there is a lot of info on the channel about a lot of historical magical practices and their connections to various religions, including an entire series on Kabbalah.

Yeah, I watched the video. And he immediately conflates the category of Mesopotamian demons -- the lilu and lilitu (which are a category of both male and female spirits) -- with Lilith. While it's certain her name etymologically comes from them, the singular Lilith is a wholly Jewish figure.

Like he's immediately equating Lamashtu with Lilith directly (even calling Lamashtu Lilitih in a few spots), and while they're culturally connected, they just... aren't the same thing. Mars is not Ares. Zeus is not Jupiter -- and those are closer ideas. There are differences between these figures (especially since Lilith as a fully formed figure as we know her doesn't materialize until over a thousand years later in folklore).

Just because they share common cultural sources does not make them the same.

In fact, what he does in that video is repeatedly bring up things as "possibilities" and almost "both sides-ing" things which have clear evidence against what he's proposing. No credible academic who has studied the Burney Relief believes that it depicts "Lilith" or a Lilitu -- the debate is whether or not it's Ishtar or Ereshkigal. That is settled. Kraeling and Frankfort's initial assertions have long been debunked, and were based solely on Kramer's mistranslation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. That isn't even a question, and yet Sledge brings it up like it's still up for debate.

Let me put it this way: If the justifications you have to work with a being are all based on things that were exclusively called a different name, then that's not the thing you've found justification to work with.

And further more:

The far right justices in question are Clarence Thomas (75) and Samuel Alito (73). The likelihood that both will be able to remain on the bench until 2029, at the earliest, is small, especially with the growing ethics concerns around Thomas’ financial improprieties and his wife’s association with January 6 that may push his retirement even though he is currently (very) resistant. Thomas and Alito are the oldest members of the Court.

Re-electing Biden substantially increases the chances of the loaded 6-3 court shifting to 5-4, moving control away from the far right bloc, by 2029.

But it also has to be considered that Sonia Sotomayor, even though she is only 68, may not be able to remain on the bench through the next presidential term due to health concerns.

The first Trump presidency and Mitch McConnell’s scheming loaded the court with three right wing ideologues who barely qualify to teach law at Regent University, let alone have lifetime appointments to our highest court.

It is crucial to remember that the impact of a presidency on the courts outlasts any other presidential legacy and can change the entire course of American life for decades.

Obergefell vs Hodges is one of the things that might be on the line in the future. If you don’t want gay marriage to have the same spotty rights as it used to — as happened with abortion without Roe vs Wade — then I recommend voting in your interest, even if it feels like there’s no moral choice on the ballot.