i want men to be able to emotionally connect with people they don’t plan on having sex with. i want men to stop assuming i am planning on having sex with them because i make an effort to engage with them emotionally. i want men to stop feeling personally betrayed by the fact that i engage deeply & genuinely with people regardless of whether i desire them sexually, because i value people & seek to understand & connect with them regardless of sexual attraction
i can’t imagine how lonely it must be to reserve meaningful connection for prospective sexual partners
Actual orthodox jews in hospitals: *will do pretty much anything to save a life* let me check with my rabbi who will check with serious medical professionals *values life above all* *values medical advice and opinions* *believes in scientific advances and medicine*
orthodox jews in hospital tv shows: uh…..i think god would want me to die rather then take your medicine bc it once touched a pig and that’s the extent of my religion why don’t you get a random rabbi to come bless me
I hope it’s ok to add to this post bc I want to explain further, we have a principle called pikuach nefesh that basically means preserving life overrides almost any other commandment. It’s the same reason ill and pregnant people don’t fast on Yom Kippur. I don’t know much about specific halachic debates vis-a-vis various medical treatments but there is NO concept of enduring unnecessary suffering because it’s “what God wants”, i think that’s an exclusively christian way of thinking.
slavic forests are actually located in another dimension
if you’ve ever been in one of the great forests in a slavic country
you’ll know that there’s a point where the trees grow so densely packed
that the air is completely still and it’s so silent you could hear a pin
drop a mile away and you suddenly become uncomfortably aware of the
sound of your own heartbeat and the knowledge that the trees surrounding
you are alive and just as aware of your presence as you are of theirs,
and that’s when you know you’ve crossed into a different realm
I haven’t been able to get the full video but we just celebrated one of our steam locomotives turning 145 by chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox
