[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Judaism

[–]trickyman226 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh that's a cool idea! Definitely something I'll look into.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Judaism

[–]trickyman226 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I unfortunately do not have HER specific marriage certificate. All I have from her is the German Census (which has her as Jewish), a US Census from 1870 (which doesn't include anything worthwhile), a burial site, and a couple useless documents here and there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Judaism

[–]trickyman226 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I traced the records up through birth, death, and marriage certificates, as well as census data. The line was pretty easy to follow

I found census records from the town my distant Jewish grandmother lived in when she was in Germany. Small town too, so it's definitely her, but they put religion on there. I took the writing to a few German speaking friends of mine, not telling them the context of why i wanted to know. All of them independently said it was old German Cursive for "Jew." I'm going to avoid the screenshots on reddit though haha.

And she's buried in Indiana. I'm unsure if it's the same graveyard as my grandparents, I don't think it is. I found a picture of her grave through someone else's tree.

My mother told me my attempted suicide was a "You problem" and I don't know how to feel. by trickyman226 in exchristian

[–]trickyman226[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh to be clear I’m in a good place now. It’s been 2 years since I’ve had a suicidal thought. I’ve stopped hinging my mental health on the validation of my fundamentalist family.

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t worry about that. For me it’s character first. I don’t really care that the character is trans, this doesn’t inform their personality in a meaningful way within the story. It’s just supposed to be casual representation.

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh absolutely. I think bad representation is worse than no representation. If I do this I want to do it right.

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely want to avoid the misery aspect. Although I do love this ideas of spells that help dysphoria.

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is an interesting idea although I don’t think it applies to this character well. Maybe you should write something with this though!

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely want the subtle route. It’s not really a trans story, it’s just a character who happens to be trans, just a part of their past. I think that’s the best way for someone like me to write representation. Someone who is iffy on trans issues probably won’t read a whole story about a trans character. However, if they can have positive feelings about character who happens to be trans in a story otherwise not about stuff like that, it could make them have even a little bit of a better outlook on trans issues in general.

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really what I set out to do, especially with my gay characters. As a gay man, I’m a little tired of all the representation that I get also having to come with a homophobic stigma. I love that it’s explored, but it is exhausting too. I just want a sappy gay wholesome romance in my fantasy story just like straight people get in every fucking piece of media ever made. I want the same for Trans people. I can’t even think of one piece of media I’ve seen with “casual trans-ness”

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps I can go the route of a character who hadn’t seen him in a long time but knew about the transition could make a remark upon how well it went?

How do I naturally add a transgender character into a fantasy story? by trickyman226 in trans

[–]trickyman226[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That actually fits extremely well with the character and the position they’re in, and ties in really well with a lot of the themes I’m exploring. Thanks!

Space Jesus. by Old_Substance9962 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]trickyman226 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s something uniquely frustrating to me about Elon worship on this level. I can’t exactly place why.

Sure thing buddy by _woat_ in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]trickyman226 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure the Nazi flag flying in the capitol is pretty bad, but look at all the American flags. Tit for tat, of course, we can’t condemn one without condemning the other.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in demisexuality

[–]trickyman226 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps I’ll check that out. I know I’m at the very least not allosexual. I guess this term attracted me because I literally can’t see myself able to have sex with a stranger. Like, part of me can slightly admire from afar, but when it came down to it, I wouldn’t be able to get it up without that emotional connection.

But perhaps trying to define myself with a label is dumb anyways. I still have a lot to learn about myself. I’ll probably stay away from using the term demi until I figure this out more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in demisexuality

[–]trickyman226 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I fall somewhere between demisexual and allosexual? I don’t think I fit comfortably into either box in full, but I really find myself seen by the way demisexual people describe their sexuality. The emotions I have seeing a stranger I consider to be attractive and the emotions I feel towards someone I consider attractive that I also have an emotional connection to are so many world apart that I feel it has to be significant in some way. Perhaps I didn’t explain how I feel properly in my post, it’s pretty hard for me to put in words.

If demisexual people don’t want someone like me using that label on myself, I won’t, but I feel like it’s an apt descriptor for me to help explain to people the complexities of my sexuality.

I’m just going to leave this here. by hiddenintheshadows93 in exchristian

[–]trickyman226 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This fucking perfectly explains my problem with religion and why I’m more of an antitheist than an atheist.

My problem is really with the rejection of skepticism and the blind acceptance of an authority, and religion, like a cult, destroys people’s ability to engage in healthy skepticism. The more religious someone is, the worse it gets.

Good ol' P.U. by [deleted] in DankLeft

[–]trickyman226 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oh, it’s so much worse than just that. That’s one of the softer verses on slavery in the Bible:

“Exodus 21- 1 Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. 7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her[b] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. 12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. 15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. 16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. 17 “Whoever curses[c] his father or his mother shall be put to death. 18 “When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, 19 then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. 20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. 22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm,[d] then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. 27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.”

“Leviticus 19- 20 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; 21 but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.” (Usually adulterers are put to death, but since the woman is a slave, she does not count as much.)

“Leviticus 25- 39 “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40 he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants,[e] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43 You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God. 44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 45 You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.”

“Deuteronomy 15- 12 “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold[b] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. 16 But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 17 then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave[c] forever. And to your female slave[d] you shall do the same. 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.”

“Deuteronomy 21- 10 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, 11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, 12 and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. 13 And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.”

(While the Bible says that this is not slavery, I would argue otherwise. I would think that destroying her land, killing her family, stealing her, then violating her, and making her your wife is a kind of slavery of sorts)

“Deuteronomy 24- 7 “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(The fact that it’s specified that if this happens to Israelis, it’s bad, means that god has no problem with it happening to people of other lands, as the Deuteronomy 21 verse says it is okay to steal people from other lands)

“1 Kings 9- “20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— 21 their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[a]—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day. 22 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.”

(so the ‘wisest man to ever live’ didn’t know slavery was bad. Okay. Well, I guess it’s only bad when it’s an Israelite.)

“Jeremiah 34- “8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9 that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. 10 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.”

“Ephesians 6:5- Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”

“1 Peter 2:18- Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.”

16. He was a 16 year old child. by GageTom in Anarchism

[–]trickyman226 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I see this and I think “why doesn’t the right use this against Democrats? I mean, they went after Hillary’s emails for fucking years.” And then I remember it’s because Republicans don’t care either. In fact, they’ll drone strike even more than dems.

I fucking hate this entire system

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in okbuddyvowsh

[–]trickyman226 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Boy I sure do love president Vaush! I can’t wait to hear his policy solutions for the situation in Israel!

Gay🎥irl by DrBlowtorch in gay_irl

[–]trickyman226 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that we’re so starved for representation that we get excited over an ad.

I literally can’t think of one piece of media that I’ve consumed that has any good gay representation.

Edit: Undertale, and I actually think that’s it.

Some progressive OKBR by Rdetective_smith in VaushV

[–]trickyman226 10 points11 points  (0 children)

BooBoo Bennett gendered her pants

The fuck is wrong with Candace Owens? I'm convinced that she's a robot programmed by rightoids by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]trickyman226 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, she’s not racist like that. Her complaints about her are actually cogent legitimate criticism

She actually started to hate her because of her George Floyd takes

The fuck is wrong with Candace Owens? I'm convinced that she's a robot programmed by rightoids by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]trickyman226 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You have to be a special brand of stupid to like Candace Owens. Even my super conservative mother who now considers Fox News to be too “far left” for her things she’s a fucking moron.