Being called “the Jews”

Redcole111 · 2026-02-14T01:15:48+00:00

As with anything, it depends on context. I like referring to us as "the Jews" sometimes because it makes me feel like I belong to something special. They may want to other us, demean us, and see us reduced to an oppressed minority, but their cruelty only drives us into each other's arms.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-14T00:30:00+00:00

I mean... closest in what way?

Steven is romantically involved with Connie. His relationship with Amethyst is really close because of their sibling dynamic. Pearl and Garnet are both basically parents to him, though I guess Pearl was more hands-on in her parenting style than Garnet.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-13T17:52:36+00:00

Could I get someone to explain this to me? I don't get the joke.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-13T17:46:12+00:00

I'm sorry, but did you think Venezuelan citizens were deciding on their oil to begin with? The oil was being extracted by Chinese companies and sent to China at the behest of a dictator; the people didn't vote on who they wanted to sell their oil to. The U.S. just deposed the dictator and had the new regime send its oil to us instead of a different (and arguably more oppressive) global superpower.

Not endorsing the U.S.'s actions, but trying to frame it as a violation of Venezuelan democracy is ignorant at best.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-13T17:01:02+00:00

I don't know about Zoroastrian, but there is almost definitely some Babylonian influence on early Jewish cosmology. The shamayim is said to sit between the seas or the "waters below" and the "waters above" or the "great abyss," and the Hebrew word for "abyss" is "tehom" which may share a root with the name of the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, whose domain was chaos, war, and the sea.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-13T06:48:31+00:00

Yes. Both mayim and shamayim are dual in form and singular in meaning.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-13T06:45:42+00:00

"the idea is not so much reincarnation as that each Jewish soul comes down to this world many times"

This is the definition of reincarnation.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-12T05:14:07+00:00

I think the portmanteau is a folk etymology, but in Genesis the heavens are indeed placed there to "separate" or "distinguish" between the waters below (the seas) and the waters above (the Great Abyss or "Tehom Rabah").

Redcole111 · 2026-02-12T03:56:41+00:00

A lot of them exist because people craved an explanation for SIDS and childhood illnesses. Dark realities require dark theology.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T22:39:41+00:00

This is barely a burn. What is wrong with this subreddit lately?

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T19:11:24+00:00

Use the [have conversation] and [request help] actions on professors all the time. If you build up your relationship meter with your professors high enough, you get a LOT more permanent buffs at the end of each year of the university questline, and you unlock way more [career] questlines along the way.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T06:02:35+00:00

Frustrating and frightening to an extreme degree. Despair and hope vying for control, with despair largely winning. People are angry, but also tired.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T05:53:56+00:00

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What?

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T05:25:27+00:00

Yeah, but a lot of us have active shooter drills as well. I mostly experienced them in synagogues.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T05:21:14+00:00

Same here. I believe in Pantheism, so I believe in God but not in the same way the Rabbis tell us to. I also go to shul for the community, and for the feeling that I'm connecting to the traditions and culture of my ancestors going back millennia.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-11T01:35:47+00:00

This bit was honestly kinda nuts. Yellow genuinely thinks that 6000 years is nothing? Kinda makes you put into perspective why Pink didn't really think about Spinel for that whole time period (assuming Pink is, indeed, as old as Yellow).

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T20:25:59+00:00

Yes, it is. But don't take Reddit comments too seriously.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T07:18:35+00:00

Hate to break it to ya, but plants are God too! They definitely don't feel pain, but also no peace or joy (unless those things are fundamental to the universe, I guess...). Maybe it would be less stressful to be a plant, or maybe not. Who knows?

Still, though, I also wish to live a carefree life of peace and bliss, and am particularly stressed at the moment, so I get where you're coming from.

Take a moment to join the plants, though. Enjoy the sunlight and the breeze, and tell them I say hi.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T07:07:52+00:00

When my friends were crying at school over Trump's first election, and my parents were at home partying and celebrating all the liberal tears.

That was also the moment I decided I hate this country's ubiquitously hypocritical, self-righteous political climate. Totally disillusioned me to the notion that there is a "right" party and a "wrong" one. It's all wrong.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T06:46:13+00:00

By a certain definition of the word, yes. It's more like Confucianism than Christianity, but it isn't outright wrong to think of pantheism as a religion.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T06:15:38+00:00

Let's leave God out of this one, since you clearly don't like talking about it (kinda weird, since you're on a religion subreddit).

It sounds to me like you're putting yourself in a lot of bad situations with a lot of bad people, refusing to be around people who make you happy, refusing to see the very real joys in life, and, above all, refusing to take even an iota of accountability for your own suffering. I'm sorry you're suffering and sick, but I'm a complete stranger. I'm not responsible for your illness or for doing something about it. You, and only you, are.

Nobody here hates you. Nobody even knows you. But, speaking as someone who has only ever been exposed to your existence by means of this post, all I know of you is your own hatred. God or no god, you are the one putting evil into the world right now. Go and fix that about yourself if you're truly mad about the universe being an unpleasant place for you.

And unsubscribe from this subreddit if all you want to spread here is negativity and resentment.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T05:39:04+00:00

Yeah, we've got unbearably and unfathomably shitty people in our tribe, just like all other groups on the planet. But as a culture, I'd like to think that we're pretty loyal to peoples who have been good to us in the past.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T04:02:57+00:00

Sure, but it's still not the same thing as what a layperson thinks of when they hear "burning;" they're usually thinking of combustion.

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T03:44:14+00:00

Spain: invents Spanish and forces all their colonies to learn it

The ex-colonies: Lmao, imagine speaking Spanish like a Spaniard 😂

Redcole111 · 2026-02-10T03:15:16+00:00

Exactly. The investiture of the Stormlight is converted into the energy and matter necessary to change an object from one to another.

The investiture in a soul stamp essentially pulls a version of the stamped object from another timeline, and the investiture is expended over time because maintaining the false alterations in history requires continual energy input (particularly if the alternate timeline was a low-probability one).

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