I hope Nael knows their poem made me cry

Removed the top of my desk for cleaning. Cat did not understand 

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If you ever wondered what an angel is called, the answer is Rahul Dubey!

I’m obsessed with this

Get his ass

spell your username without using the letters in your name

mine is ptipi

Sandwich boys 

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I have a lot of feelings about Catra.

him laundry

That’s my boy!!

I cant stop reciting this and then laughing so hard I cry

welp. i was THISCLOSE to posting an adolescent “i hate everything” post… and then i saw this.

Literally just let this play 8 times in a row and my smile never faltered even once 😁

This healed me….

I just saw someone refer to Hallelujah by Lenard Cohen as a “church song” and I just…. like, died a bit inside but it’s fine! I tried not to be like, salty or anything!!! Some people can think it’s a church song and that’s… fine!!! Even though it’s definitely not!!!!!

@too-punk-rock-for-this

OK!!!!!

It’s written by Lenard Cohen, a Canadian singer song-writer who was Jewish. Overall, the song is about a relationship that has gone sour. However, there is a lot of religious imagery. In the first verse Cohen sings, 

This is a reference to King David from the Old Testament(AKA, the Torah). He becomes infatuated with Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite, after seeing her bathing on the roof. This is referenced in the second verse like this:

David then sends Bathsheba’s husband on a suicide mission and marries her when he dies. After that, David’s son tries to overthrow him and there’s a lot of drama stemming from his lust driven choice, and the eventual fallout is reflected in the song’s minor key. 

Cohen’s next biblical reference is later in the second verse, when he sings,

This is a reference to Samson, from the Book of Judges. He has incredible strength that’s he has used to fell many armies, and he reveals to his wife Delilah that it all comes from his hair. Delilah, being bribed by the Philistines, cuts his hair while he sleeps and turns him over to the Philistines. 

These are both stories in which love is portrayed as a weakness instead of a strength. In the story of David and Bathsheba love is a drug that confuses one’s moral compass, and in the story of Samson and Delilah it is one that distracts the tactical mind. 

The next three verses really go into the struggles of having your life intertwined with someone you no longer love, while also lamenting the loss of something once beautiful and real, singing,

But my favorite like in the whole song is in Verse 5, when Cohen sings,

This is really a line that encapsulates the Jewish experience. There’s a Jewish joke that goes something like, “Two Rabbis are talking one night, debating the existence of God. At the end of the night, they both come to the conclusion that God does not exist. The next morning, one of the Rabbi’s sees the other heading to Temple. ‘I thought we decided God doesn’t exist’ he said. The other responds, ‘Yeah, what does that have to do with anything?’”** It is fundamentally Jewish trait to question God, both the existence of God and the actions of God. There are many Jewish people, me included, who don’t believe in God, at least not in the traditional sense, but who believe in being a good person who is grateful for all we have on this earth. That’s why it bothers me so much when people say this song is a “church song”, because it’s not about a blind faith in a higher power. It’s about not knowing what exists outside of our universe and yet continuing to live anyway. When talking about the song, Lenard Cohen stated, “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word which means ‘Glory to the Lord.’ The song explains that many kinds of Hallelujahs do exist. I say: All the perfect and broken Hallelujahs have an equal value. It’s a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion.“

So, though Hallelujah is a song that really encapsulates much of the human experience, which can absolutely apply to people of the Christian faith, it is not a Church song. It is a fundamentally Jewish song, written by a Jewish man, about living life despite uncertainty about the existence of powers beyond the ones we understand.

**Sorry I didn’t tell it well, I tried.

I really appreciate this! Thank you!

Of course! I really love the song so it was fun for me too haha

Unique Key Rendered Useless by Removing the Unexceptional Half, 2013

Artifact

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I can’t stop thinking about this. It says that part is “unexceptional”. It’s just a rounded bit with a hole in it. Every key has the exact same one, maybe colored differently, maybe slightly more square or round. It’s not the thing that actually allows entry, so the teeth are always unique. The odds of finding matching top parts is MUCH lower than finding keys that have the same top part. You could easily think it wasn’t important at all. Except you don’t have the force necessary to open it without it. It’s a lesson, to ourselves. Even the parts of us we don’t think are special are most likely the parts that make everything else works.

Fran Fine pairing a baseball cap and pigtails with a holographic Versus Versace party dress is an important moment in fashion history.

BYE

all we have we owe it to her

and THATS fighting for gay rights

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