To expand on this, Jesus’s name is Anglicized in this way as well. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek “Ἰησοῦς”(Iēsous), which is derived from the Herbrew “ישוע”(Yeshu’a, which meant “YHWH is Salvaion”, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). When another form of that name, ” יְהוֹשֻׁעַ”(Yeoshu’a) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name “Joshua”.
Yes. Jesus’s actual name is Joshua.
joshua christ this is fascinating
oily josh
Huh
Translation, they were white washed.
They were translated.
My mother works for a Jewish agency, and is always the one to record the ‘we’re closed in observance of’ messages. They close on Christmas because federal holiday and gentile staff, and she always swears she will say they’re closed in observance of ‘Josh’s birthday’.
josh’s birthday
Like … seriously, y’all need to understand, none of these were English-speaking white people names until English-speaking white people started naming their kids after people in the Bible.
This is like wondering why Shakespeare uses all those famous quotes in his plays.
Reblogging for Oily Josh. That’s going to be fun.
(also note Yehuda goes to both Judas and Jude – so two yaakovs two yehudas (and like what 11 yehudim? (It’s a ethnonym joke))
(also the modern equivalent of Judas Iscariot would be, like, Muhammed bin ISIS, or Seamus O’PIRA, or Helmut Nazi, or White Power Bob, or something. They’re probably not real names of real people, is my point)
The other thing about the word “queer” is that almost everyone I’ve seen opposed to it have been cis, binary gays and lesbians. Not wanting it applied to yourself is fine, but I think people underestimate the appeal of vague, inclusive terminology when they already have language to easily and non-invasively describe themselves.
Saying “I’m gay/lesbian/bi” is pretty simple. Just about everyone knows what you mean, and you quickly establish yourself as a member of a community. Saying “I’m a trans nonbinary bi woman who’s celibate due to dysphoria and possibly on the ace spectrum”… not so much. You’re lucky to find anyone who understands even half of that, and explaining it requires revealing a ton of personal information. The appeal of “queer” is being able to identify yourself without profiling yourself. It’s welcoming and functional terminology to those who do not have the luxury of simplified language and occupy complicated identities. *That’s* why people use it – there are currently not alternatives to express the same sentiment.
It’s not people “oppressing themselves” or naively and irresponsibly using a word with loaded history. It’s easy to dismiss it as bad or unnecessary if you already have the luxury of language to comfortably describe yourself.
There’s another dimension that always, always gets overlooked in contemporary discussions about the word “queer:” class. The last paragraph here reminds me of a old quote: “rich lesbians are ‘sapphic,’ poor lesbians are ‘dykes’.”
The reclaiming of the slur “queer” was an intensely political process, and people who came up during the 90s, or who came up mostly around people who did so, were divided on class and political lines on questions of assimilation into straight capitalist society.
Bourgeois gays and lesbians already had “the luxury of language” to describe themselves – normalized through struggle, thanks to groups like the Gay Liberation Front.
Everyone else, from poor gays and lesbians to bi and trans people and so on, had no such language. These people were the ones for whom social/economic assimilation was not an option.
The only language left, the only word which united this particular underclass, was “queer.” “Queer” came to mean an opposition to assimilation – to straight culture, capitalism, patriarchy, and to upper class gays and lesbians who wanted to throw the rest of us under the bus for a seat at that table – and a solidarity among those marginalized for their sexuality/gender id/presentation.
(Groups which reclaimed “queer,” like Queer Patrol (armed against homophobic violence), (Queers) Bash Back! (action and theory against fascism, homophobia, and transphobia), and Queerbomb (in response to corporate/state co-optation of mainstream Gay Pride), were “ultraleft,” working-class, anti-capitalist, and functioned around solidarity and direct action.)
The contemporary discourse around “queer” as a reclaimed-or-not slur both ignores and reproduces this history. The most marginalized among us, as OP notes, need this language. The ones who have problems with it are, generally, among those who have language – or “community,” or social/economic/political support – of their own.
And during this recent interview in Manhattan, [Braugher] dwells on his two passions: his family and his work.
What fuels that love for acting?
“It’s an emotional release,” he explains — an outlet that might otherwise lie beyond his reach. “Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.”
Growing up in a rough Chicago neighborhood, he was blessed with loving and demanding parents. “But I was socialized in a certain way. Even as a kid there’s no real suitable outlet for emotions that don’t fall within a certain small range: anger, lust, ridicule — Army emotions, I call them.”
Then, at Stanford University as an engineering major, he helped out a friend by filling a vacant role in a campus play. He liked it — a lot. He had found a new major, and an unexpected calling.
“As an actor, I’m allowed — encouraged! — to explore emotions that have been basically unacceptable in my life. I have a huge well of emotional stuff, and once I give myself permission as an actor, it all comes to the surface. But I’ll be damned if I can give myself permission to bring it out as a man.“
“As a father,” Braugher goes on, looping back to one passion from the other, “I’ve tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I’ve had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things,” he says with feeling he seems fully able to express.
I read this interview over a decade ago now and the concept of “Army emotions” is still key to helping me understand what men deal with in terms of toxic masculinity.
I think God is one and the same and follow good doctrines of both
I’m atheist
I’m Jewish
And it’s often more subtle
Like a salesperson handing you two products and pressuring you to buy one of them, making you forget that
You don’t have to buy anything if you don’t want to
You can leave the store and buy something elsewhere
And sometimes it can be as important as
“Are you gay or are you straight?”
I’m gay
I’m straight
I’m both? So Bi?
I like no one, I’m ace.
I’m anything else, really, this is a spectrum and I define my own orientation.
So remember- If someone if pressuring you to pick between two choices, they’re probably trying to manipulate you by making you forget you also have another three options.
not really, because they describe and talk about different things about a person
MBTI focuses on the sort of functions for how you take in, or use or process information, its more of a, how your brain currently likes to do things described as different functions like introverted sensing, or introverted feeling, or extroverted sensing, or extroverted thinking and etc in different orders, combinations and pairs, its how you think about and view things, which sounds like it could be connected to classpect on the surface
but the difference lies in this: MBTI can change over time as your functions grow and develop, and even your type may change over time based on how you grow and develop these 8 different functions and how you use them the best, or which pairs or ‘loops’ you use more, but its based always on your current form of what you are now
Classpect is never really about the current self, a lot of people assume this tho which is where i think the association with MBTI comes from, but really Classpect is about what you WANT to become, rather than what you are currently
God tiering is supposed to be a journey of growth and discovery, and the god tier itself is like this end goal post that you want to achieve in the future that describes not just “you” but the best version of you, you at your greatest, achieving your best, being the best you that ever could be by achieving what you want to achieve out of life
so its more, MBTI is place you are currently in your journey, Classpect is the End Goal Post
so trying to decide a god tier based on the MBTI I think is not accurate way to do it, simply for the fact that they are describing different parts of a person that may or may not be the same
like, its not set in stone that who you are now is who you will want to be, in fact its more likely that who you are now wont be exactly like the person that you wish to become eventually (tho it can happen with people who’ve had their life together since kindergarten, and dont really have much of a journey of self discovery as a sidewalk of self discovery lol)
#your mbti type doesnt change lmao
it honestly can actually, because MBTI describes your way of doing things, your personality, and people’s personalities can in fact change over long periods of time, our brains have plasticity/we aren’t stagnant and etc
MBTI explains this though as you developing your different inferior functions, instead of just your dominant ones
heres the problem with that though: there are 16 types based on the order of only 4 out of 8 functions, some types share all of the same functions, but simply in a different order of strength, so what happens when for example an INTJ who has (Ni> Te> Fi> Se) and happens to develop/change/grow over time so that their Se is stronger than their Fe? or their Fi stronger than their Ni? and now their order of functions is Fi > Se > Ni > Te? which is the order of functions for an ISFP?
Did they develop fully as an INTJ? or did they become an ISFP? are you doomed to be forever immature and unable to grow with inferior functions or can you change your type over time? how can you tell them apart if an already fully developed person takes an MBTI test? How can you determine the difference based only on their behavior alone? you can’t, you have to use some sort of measurable data
which brings up the other problem that nobody really brings up, which is that none of MBTI is based on any sort of observable real world data based on any of the functions, theres no actual data, theres no brains scans showing clearly that “this brain is a sensor vs an intuitor” you cannot tell because it isnt grounded in the physical reality of the brain, unlike mental illness or conditions of the brain, or things like sociopathy, which you can actaually see physical differences in the brains that reflect the observable differences
Instead Its all based on a person’s personal observations of people’s behavior and theorized classifications of behaviours, its all purely outside observations, no internal data. Its a theoretical framework that has yet to be proven, or connected to physical reality
three internet trends i will (regrettably) probably never grow out of:
• typing in a cresCENDO TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT
• …………..unnecessarily……. long……….. ellipsis’
• puttinfh a typo in eveyr other word to shwo u dont really give a fukc but u actually do
also unnecessary!!!! punctuation marks??????? like…… ??? what is going on here????? i!! am!!! so!!! excited!!!!
and™ totally™ unneeded™ trademark symbols™
personally I enjoy Random Capitalisation to show things are Very Important
can we also talk about starting a sentence and then kind of just
stating something reblog if you agree
dude this isn’t even a collection of memes, this is a demonstration of internet grammar… anyone who says that when you type and communicate on the internet you lose too much inflection to get the real meaning just doesn’t understand internet syntax. the evolution of language in action.
the Rosetta Stone of the twenty first century
Also 🙂 doing 🙂 this 🙂 to express 🙂 bottled 🙂 pain 🙂
or,,,,,using commas,,,,,, for elipsis’ ,,,, bc,,, it sounds better,,, in your head,,,, than periods,,,,,,,
pu t ting sp a ces in your wor ds at r and om time s because w hat the fu ck
Is it just me, or did anyone else read all of these with different tones of voice, volume, and inflection?
Don’t forget the B I G S P A C E S F O R E M P H A S I S
Ok but can we talk about how emo, as a genre, defied gender roles in a big way? Like, everything about the culture, from the guys wearing makeup and womens’ skinny jeans, to the way they got unabashedly emotional in spite of the “men aren’t supposed to cry” narrative they’d obviously been socialized with, was just this complete “fuck you” to the idea that there’s a certain way to be a “man”.
And a lot of their detractors called them “girly” or “gay”. And they didn’t give a fuck! Fall Out Boy has a whole song entitled “Gay Is Not A Synonym for Shitty”, which referenced a famous Pete Wentz quote, where he basically said that if you thought his band sucked, to just say it sucked, and not be a “homophobic asshole” about it.
And, then, geez, My Chemical Romance took it a step further, and Gerard Way outright kissed one of his bandmates at concerts purely to infuriate homophobes who were at his shows.
A lot of these bands were openly for LGBT rights, for womens’ rights. I remember one instance where some band MCR was touring with asked women to flash their tits in exchange for backstage passes. And Gerard was so horrified by this, and told his female fans to “spit in the faces” of misogynists in the rock scene.
Like, god, these bands were so progressive. And they still are. Right after the Pulse tragedy, Brendon Urie literally danced around in a pride flag and told his queer fans what they meant to him. Pete Wentz said that “Uma Thurman” was meant to show his female fans that they could be “badass”, too. And Gerard pretty much admitted in an interview to somewhat identifying with the label “nonbinary”.
That’s the most lasting impact that emo is going to have. Showing fans of all genders that there’s nothing wrong with being whoever the fuck you are, that there’s no specific way to be a man or woman. And, god, I just fucking love that.
“So every day during my set, when I’m playing my own shows, I talk about people that are transgender. I talk about it a lot because everyday basically I say: …”
I feel like disco and emo should team up and that should be the next big music thing, sort of a defiant apocalyptic dance party, because disco did this sort of thing too, the rejection of straight white male heteronormativity, and that was basically why it was killed, so, like, emo plus defiant zombie disco would be the perfect thing to play in the Mango Menace era.
I love meta posts like these bc now i understand why my diehard defiant teenage ass was in love with these bands and this culture
it amuses me to see people being surprised/impressed/amused by this setup, because it’s extremely common on the plains. if you don’t plant a windbreak, your heating and cooling bills are huge, and storms do things like throw the lawnmower through the living room window, take the roof off, or cake the entire north side of the house with six inches of solid ice.
evergreens remain bendy even in the coldest weather, so – wait, no, not the coldest. i remember when i was a kid it got down to like -45 and the norway pines around my house were cracking like gunshots as the sap froze.
maples, incidentally, make that noise around -20f, and i hear it at least once every winter here in southern minnesota. but i only ever heard norway pines make it that one time.
so anyway that’s why we plant pine trees around our houses. because otherwise the wind would freaking kill us.
This is informative and perfectly sensible under the circumstances but I also cannot resist the temptation to compare it to planting stuff all around the boundary of your lot in The Sims
just moving along like everyone else 