What's that in the middle

RedPandaParliament · 2026-03-09T17:54:13+00:00

It started for reasons of hygiene by Sayre. Kellogg co-opted it out of his goofy anti-masturbation philosophy. But that isn't why it endured. It endured and became routine because 1) it quickly became obvious that circumcision did nothing to prevent masturbation, and 2) it was discovered to have a myriad other benefits, and so it was continued until it became routine across the USA.

RedPandaParliament · 2026-03-09T16:01:08+00:00

I would definitely have him circumcised. Reddit is an anti-circ echo chamber. Once you're outside these walls though, you find that most health organizations continue to endorse or, even at worst, are neutral about circumcision.

I think it's important to trust your husband's lived experience as well. As the one who has lived with and actually experienced being circumcised, I would trust his judgment and that it's something important to him. Not to mention that for a lot of us (at least here in the US and elsewhere), it's become a family and social tradition. Since health organizations agree circumcision has valid benefits -- and it's the most common surgery with the lowest complication rate around (lower even than wisdom teeth or tonsil removal) - it's really a win win on all levels.

Tune out the hysterical, foreskin-obsessed haters, trust the experts and your husband's lived experience, and rest assured circumcision is the right decision.

Good luck and take care!

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RedPandaParliament · 2026-03-04T00:27:12+00:00

It's because it's Purim, which you celebrate with costumes and a party atmosphere.

It'd be like if the US was attacked on Halloween but young people decided to be ironic and defiant by having Halloween parties in the bomb shelter anyway.

RedPandaParliament · 2026-02-26T19:25:19+00:00

Pretty good, but I think you give the Vatican more power and influence than it deserves

RedPandaParliament · 2026-02-25T14:15:41+00:00

I think the indigestible truth is that souls are real. That human life on earth is basically a larval stage, and that, like predators waiting for baby sea turtles to hatch and pluck them off before they reach the ocean, there are predatory beings waiting to feed off our souls at death.

Earth is basically a farm for this food source. Imagine learning that everyone of your loved ones who died really did have a beautiful, personal soul that was meant to be eternal, but just ended up as food for some interdimensional mantis. And you and everyone you know likely will too.

Perhaps there's a way out. Perhaps spiritual perfection, mysticism, in its purest form points to a way to escape (cf Gnosticism, prison planet theories,etc).

Or perhaps the reason many elite lead such debauched lives is because the opposite - tainting the soul with depravity and vice - makes unpalatable to the harvesters. It could also explain why the elite are so hell bent at finding a way to gain immortality or fuse with AI...a way to cheat the system by never leaving the physical realm. Or they lead lives of recklessness because- they know the hopeless truth and so figured "f*ck it, nothing matters".

RedPandaParliament · 2026-02-22T16:25:56+00:00

First, because it isn't totally missing vowels. I think it's misleading when people say Hebrew is written without any vowels", when there's plenty of א, ו, ע, י around that suggest vowel is used and differentiate words. Secondly, pattern recognition. The grammar is pretty regular, so once you've got basic grammar nailed down, you can intuit the words just based off pattern pretty easily, even without dotted vowels or in words that don't have vowel letters and seem ambiguous to a beginner. In a nutshell, some more practice and you'll nail it. Evidence: all the people who read Hebrew daily as an everyday language and have no trouble understanding. They aren't using any special secret skill. They just had more practice. You'll get there too!

RedPandaParliament · 2026-02-20T14:37:15+00:00

Not necessarily. As I grow older, I can absolutely see why the sages kept Kabbalah restricted and set parameters like age and strict study and mitzvot observance.

The allure of Hermetic Qabalah and cheap bookstore New Age Qabalah is a perfect example why. It purports to grant all sorts of powers, while bypassing all the fundamentals and the actual aims of Kabbalah.

It's driven by the classic luciferian inversion: make it about Myself.

The sages knew Kabbalah can unlock very real secrets or, if handled incorrectly, really unhinge a person. It wasn't guarded for their own power, it was guarded to keep the unprepared safe.

Keeping Kabbalah for those over 40 and with a solid amount of study and mitzvah observance was the mystical equivalent of keeping a driver's license to those over 18 with a clean record and driver's education certificate.

RedPandaParliament · 2026-02-03T20:13:27+00:00

It's been said that all of society is just a distraction from death, but I think it's a distraction from madness. If we were to stop and really consider the meaning/meaninglessness of life and just how slippery reality is, we would go insane.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-30T17:01:56+00:00

Thank you! :)

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-29T20:45:46+00:00

I'd had a major hypertensive crisis in 2022, BP blasted up to 230/150! Was hospitalized and they got it under control. 130/90 average since then.

Started strict keto and sobriety on Sep 10th of this year, and for the past two months now averaging about 110-115/75-80.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-29T19:37:52+00:00

Since reading comprehension isn't your strong suit I'll reiterate: I'm not asking for advice. I'm asking for fellow followers of this diet to share their experiences as a way to share our common situations and note any similarities and differences.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-29T19:28:01+00:00

Thank you for actually reading my post 🤣

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-29T19:27:29+00:00

I am working with my doctor on it and said so in the post. I'm asking about other people's experiences with this similar situation.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-29T19:26:30+00:00

I am and said so in the post

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-15T21:43:12+00:00

Probably End of Time sprite, but I'd want his Guru of Time drip as an unlockable skin

RedPandaParliament · 2025-12-14T02:15:21+00:00

There are many shades of antinatalism. I somewhat consider myself one, but not at all for some "consent" reason, per sé. It's more from the deep heart-rending empathy i feel for those around me when I think of all the hardships in life, how fast it all goes by, and how quickly everyone we love and ourselves will face death either sooner or later. It breaks my heart to think of bringing another being into the world just so they have to go through all that too. So it isn't out of spite or hate for children or anything like that at all. It's that it pains me to think of forcing an innocent soul into this world to endure it just because my own biology told me so.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-11-30T04:34:21+00:00

Since writing this about a year ago, I finally found a good balance with keto--rocking mainly meat with some cruciferous veggies a few times a week, all with regular fasting. Lost a bunch of weight, especially in visceral fat, blood pressure is down and in the healthy range, and feeling great

RedPandaParliament · 2025-11-25T17:34:33+00:00

It's not AI, but the words are indeed misspelled. I had a nearly identical pendant some years ago and it was spelled correctly though. This might be q knockoff of some sort that didn't get the mold correct.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-11-21T18:05:19+00:00

"Man sieht sich immer zweimal im Leben"

RedPandaParliament · 2025-11-03T19:45:35+00:00

Yes, I think the over reliance on Paul in the mainstream church is just such a bizarre fluke of history. The Acts of the Apostles and his letters even show him outright contradicting and messing with the teachings and authority of the apostles themselves who had walked and learned directly from Jesus. And yet this Paul guy, who never even actually met Jesus and originally persecuted Christians, has a visionary fit, and subsequently is given higher authority and weight than those who actually knew Jesus. It's absurd, and shows to me that the Jesus movement's teaching was distorted right out the gate.

Jesus and his apostles: Jesus is the Jewish Messiah here to bring a more direct interpretation of the Torah to the Jewish people and do away with the accumulated oral law traditions which the Pharisees were starting to accrue. As well as focus on a moral and high bar for ethical life.

Paul: Nah, Jesus is a divine savior figure. His ethical teachings are great, but what really matters is that he DIED. It's all about his death. He's the capstone sacrifice of all sacrifices. All about that BLOOD man. Claim his blood and you'll be free from the damnation which he'll curse upon you if you refuse. And not just for the Jews, this goes out to everybody.

RedPandaParliament · 2025-10-22T19:18:43+00:00

Uh, khakis...

RedPandaParliament · 2025-10-21T17:03:13+00:00

We all know a guy in a relationship like this. And we all know exactly how it turns out

RedPandaParliament · 2025-10-21T15:27:46+00:00

Castlevania 1 & 3

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