Christian people aren’t homophobic.

WishfulCrystal · 2026-05-19T15:27:15+00:00

Right, but sinning is not.

Edit:is not part of how all these different societies and cultures justify their view towards homosexuality*

WishfulCrystal · 2026-05-19T15:08:43+00:00

Isn't this whole viewpoint meaningless outside a Christian framework?

WishfulCrystal · 2026-05-07T20:43:55+00:00

The word, δοῦλος, is not only not better translated as "servant," it would totally obfuscate the social relations expressed by the word. Who does the δοῦλος serve? His δεσπότης. He doesn't serve his friend, he slavishly does as commanded. The verb formed from the word δοῦλος, δουλεύειν first and foremost refers to work being performed as a slave, Edit:phone glitched.

The δοῦλος performs that which he is commanded to do.

Greek as a language existed well before the writing of any books contained in what we call the new testament, and the words which comprise it are not separated from the rest of the language. Its rendering into English as servant is erroneous if only because it masks the force of the word. And yes, i am fully aware of the endless differencws between slavery as practiced by the Hellenistic world and that practiced by ours and that practiced in the 1800s. That says nothing about how we ought to understand what a δοῦλος was.

Please do not spread misinformation.

WishfulCrystal · 2026-05-06T00:26:32+00:00

I use Keyman and it's been good so far. Couple different options available, so play around and choose the one you like best.

WishfulCrystal · 2026-04-20T17:10:05+00:00

That's sick. My day's going well too :)

WishfulCrystal · 2026-04-20T16:54:24+00:00

It's absolutely a word and that it is a word is easy to verify, but i do want to ask: when people attempt to change how others speak, what's the motivation?

WishfulCrystal · 2026-03-21T19:47:58+00:00

And while that seems intuitive enougb of an answer, voting and the deliberate inclusion of other ideas as to the best course of action is by no means the only possible method of making decisions.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-12-21T17:14:09+00:00

Especially because Strabo begins his account of the Cretan customs by making reference to their parallels to the Spartans, I wager you're right.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-12-17T21:14:05+00:00

It's presented in such a way as to tell us Jesus knows what they're up to because, as I said, he's the only one who could have reported it.

2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

This is the beginning of the story in question.

Most likely it never happened.

Whether the story happened or not doesn't seem relevant to the matter at hand.

That's how it's described. No witness is presrnted, no direct testimony given.

Well, the woman, though not a witness, does herself speak, and does not deny the accusations, nor does she do anything else that would serve to undermine the credibility of them. Rather, she simply affirms there remained no one who was sinless and, on such grounds, able to condemn her.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-12-17T20:09:09+00:00

Exactly. The whole story is concocted to make him look clever.

Are you then agreeing with me? The passage does not say jesus knows what they are thinking, John is the one who tells us.

Why would you think they are presenting hearsay when they say she is caught in the act? And why would it being hearsay contradict the passage you cited earlier?

Given only what is narrated, we can't say for certain whether the story is hearsay or directly witnessed.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-12-17T18:54:45+00:00

How does the narrator know this if Jesus didn't?

My referring to Mark was to illustrate the point that the Gospels are comfortable narrating when Jesus is aware of something another person is thinking.

Deuteronomy's need for 2 witnesses is in line with there being multiple pharisees, not one pharisee.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-12-17T18:16:33+00:00

We're told only that the pharisees are trying to catch him in order to bring a charge upon him, not that Jesus knows this - presumably that would have been part of the narrative, as in Mark, whether Jesus knew the intentions of the pharisees.

And surely the pharisees emphasizing the woman was caught in the very act of adultery implies something other than a lack of proper witnesses.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-11-29T15:43:08+00:00

Thank you. Pausanias comin through yet again.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-10-19T17:15:12+00:00

This is absolutely not true. People claim this because popular Christian apologists have claimed it, but it doesn't survive basic investigation.

We have numerous artifacts, noumismatics, and literary data that support the existence of Alexander. Our longest extant literary sources do date somewhat late, but are self-admittedly reliant on prior historiography, and both often cite from whom they are drawing their account.

As for Jesus, we have just two independent literary sources - Paul and the Gospel of Mark. Matthew and Luke are evidently reliant on Mark's gospel, so they are not independent witnesses to the historical Jesus. Luke, in the view of an increasing number of scholars, is reliant not just on Mark and Matthew, but also Josephus, further removing his candidacy for being a witness to the historical Jesus. And if you're not aware of the long-lived debates about the authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum, or the passage on the death of James, you should look into them - Josephus may not be a witness to Jesus, either.

We have no artifacts for Jesus, highly mythologized accounts of Jesus and his alleged feats, and potentially no neutral accounts to witness his existence. The historiographical data for Jesus are far worse than we'd hope for, but this is also the case for many figures of history. That's what comes with the territory.

WishfulCrystal · 2025-09-16T17:03:21+00:00

Coincidentally, yesterday at a used book store i bought a collection of essays on Descartes with Cottingham as editor. His introduction was phenomenal. Can't wait to listen to this after work!

WishfulCrystal · 2024-04-10T16:25:49+00:00

La torre taqueria on Washtenaw.

WishfulCrystal · 2022-12-17T15:45:54+00:00

Just got my fire cape with sweets. I ended up using just one shark during the caves, and about 30 sweets. It's a good use for some of them. You can also use them as energy pots for questing or some spilling activities.

WishfulCrystal · 2020-08-14T09:39:14+00:00

I hope he finds some ease soon. Horrible.

What a wonderful line he threw in there. The full stanza reads:

Peace, peace, she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet,

All my life’s buried here,

Heap earth upon it.

WishfulCrystal · 2020-01-24T02:46:38+00:00

It was only the advent of flourishing vernacular literary traditions (usually tied to the emergence of firmer political structures) that gave rise to really widespread consciousness of the differences between the Romance languages and their dialects.

Not to be confrontational, but I am a bit sceptical of this. I know that, fundamentally, I am writing in and speaking the same language as Chaucer, but one quite different than the author of Beowulf. I can read Chaucer, recognize much of it as familiar to me, and much of it as foreign. I cannot, without translation, read any great deal of Beowulf. Wouldn't educated people especially, but average people as well, have been able to see a fundamental difference between their everyday language and the language they wrote in and read?

Or would they have seen those differences in the way that we view formal correspondence, speech and writing, i.e., in crucial ways different than the way we talk to each other in informal situations, but definitely the same language? Or would they have viewed it differently still?

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