I'm not the first person to make this point, but it's something that every time I hear it, I get a similar reaction to "eat ze bugs".
When everyone on the internet describes their stuff as "content" or other things as content. Like "Wow Nintendo just announced a bunch of new content coming for [insert thing]"
What a bland revolting consumerist phrase. I wish the term "content" was banned from the English language unless you're describing the content of someone's character.
When you say they have a good content of character, it's a fine word.
But when you describe art, entertainment, or videos as that way you couldn't pick a more soul-less word, and they're choosing it for themselves.
Something doesn't have to be high art in order to not be called content. The weather channel is pretty dry stuff, but they don't open up the show by going "hi here's our weather content for the day". It really is like something a dystopian society would say.
They say "Good morning everyone, glad to have you back. Let's look at how the weather is going to look like today". Or I assume that's along the lines of what they say. I haven't seen a weather channel in many years.
Anyways, mini rant, had to get it off my chest.
"Content creator" is such a self-aggrandizing labeling of oneself too, for what usually amounts to speaking to a cell-phone camera for 10 minutes about nothing. But the WiFi Bucks!
If all you can call it is "content," then absolutely. Don't ask questions, just consume content, then get excited for next content.
(Yeah, I know the line was "product.")
Kek I was thinking this too. Secondly because of that McDonald's guy calling his burger a product, and firstly... I think you know.
Agree wholeheartedly. I hate going into discussion threads on a show or something and having people talk about "the content." Hearing a creator call it that is bad enough, but has the distance of condescension. When a consumer (hate that word, too, but that's what these people are) calls it "content", it makes my skin crawl. It would be like hearing an Evangelical unironically call himself a "goy" and shrug it off because the yids "are chosen."
they really got them good teaching that the covenant didn't transfer.
That's not what dispensationalists believe. They believe the church is also chosen, and that the Abrhamic covenant is still in effect prophetically, but Christians have the blessing of a better new covenant.
One day the Jews because of the Abrahamic covenant will also enjoy the blessings of the new covenant. At the moment as a people, they are cast off in terms of the present times in enjoying the blessing of being God's people, unlike the church, but in a future time they will because of the Abrahamic covenant, be restored to the new covenant when they accept Jesus at the end times.
This idea that "dispensationalists favor Jews over Christians" is a straw man. That's not what we believe. We believe theologically that Israel is not cast off and the covenant of not being forever cast off is not void because that's what the Bible including the New Testament says. Paul addresses this very point in Romans 11 about the standing of Israel in regards to their future state.
That sounds like some pretty hard cope, honestly. What would the point even be in recognizing the new covenant (which is entirely a "You've been fucking up, you need to change" reform movement) if everybody who just up and decides to ignore it (or revile it, or, say, lynch the prophet who brings it) gets just sort of grandfathered into the new deal anyways?
And saying "prophet" there is the softest scenario. You could parse it just as well as "God himself came down for an audit (which most of you failed) and you murked him in a backwater because you couldn't lawyer out of it."
They will be restored the same as an unbeliever is restored. The first believers were Jews. Paul was an murderer of Christians and a Jew and he became the biggest spreader of the gospel in the NT.
Isreal will cry out after they're persecuted by the anti-Christ and repent.
They aren't grandfathered in. Jews who die right now believing in Judaism go to hell.
The prophecy is about the last generation who cries out and repents.
God made similar prophecies to the Jews throughout the old testament.
He would say "you will forsake me and follow other gods, and I will crush you and have enemies devour you. BUT one day you will cry out to me and I will rescue you and restore you."
He wasn't saying the Jews who died being conquered for their worshipping other gods go to heaven. He's making a claim that when they get carted off to other nations, after a few generations they'll finally call out to God and He will remember His promise to them.
This plays out multiple times in the old testament.
It will play out one more time, in armageddon, and this time they won't forsake God in favor of other gods ever again. The Jews who are prophecisied about at the end times are a generation who get saved the same way you or I get saved, which is repenting and calling out to Jesus for forgiveness.
That's what the generation at the end times will do. Now I don't know if it means every Jew at that generation will, but it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. I believe everyone in Ninevah repented. But it will be a significant amount of Jews repent and Israel as a nation repents.
Well, a couple of notes:
First, because Paul gets brought up a lot in these contexts: Paul repented. It wasn't something he might do, or is prophesied to do, or is likely to do. He did it, no conjecture necessary, he walked the walk and talked the talk. Literally nobody ever says that a person can't enter the fold, but they have to actually do it for it to count.
Second:
I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, bunch of fucking idol-worshiping heretics.
It's prophecy. Zecheriah 12 and 13 prophecies this event. It says they will mourn the one they pierced like one mourns their only son.
Who pierced Jesus, Christians or Jews?
It says of those who mourn those who pierced Him that
In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.
“It will come about in that day,” declares the LORD of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
Now did that happen in Jerusalem? No, it says of the Jews that they stumbled and rejected Jesus which brought it to the Gentiles. Jerusalem was then destroyed in 70 AD. The minority of Jews believed.
It certainly cannot be said that a fountain has been opened for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and impurity.
Jerusalem has not been removed of their false prophets (Rabbis) or unclean spirits (any anti-Christ spirit), so this is clearly something that has not happened yet. And we know it can't be referring to a past event pre-Christ because it says "they will mourn the one they pierced"
I've lost track of what specific people you're even talking about. Unless...nah. I mean, unless you're claiming that the current tenants of the Country Israel are the same people mentioned in the verses you've quoted.
Is that what's going on here? Do you think these people are the same? Because if so, whew lad, good luck with all that you've got some very not fun learning in your future. And if not, then a gazillionty different things need to happen to even begin to set up the conditions needed for a start to any of those prophecies--like, "In the year 2757, North Korea leads the world in GDP" kind of so-far-in-the-future-who-the-fuck-even-knows.
With all due respect. Which is to say, none at all.
That's retarded as fuck.
I have no doubt that plenty of people have had this conversation with you, so I'm gonna do minimum due diligence and dip out.
Galatians 3:23-29 very clearly gives the lie to dispensationalism. There really isn't a way to interpret it any other way.
That's what YOU believe because you are a well reasoned man trying to adapt the system of thought he lives in.
Your average Midwest pew-sitter believes that the jews are the older brother and will eventually brought back to their right place to rule over the younger brother.
I would argue the average pew-sitter doesn't really know the Bible and doesn't really understand the throughline the generations to Jesus, or know about the Tabernacle and the various parts and roles of that system and how Jesus fulfills the day of Atonement.
I don't think the average "just goes to church because that's what they're supposed to do" person thinks much one way or the other theologically about Jews.
Now there is a group who I think is totally off base who do fit your view, but I don't think they're the average; I think they're a smaller amount than people would think who donate to the third temple being built and help Jews out without preaching to them repentance because they think they're supposed to help Jews for blessings and never criticize them.
I tell those people, you're just aiding the Jews deception. Every cent you give to getting the third temple built is telling Jews "Even we Christians believe the temple sacrifices will cleanse you of your sin". It's wrong that Christians do it. And it's not a thing of faith to do that, to try to "speed up" prophecy. The third temple will be built no matter what because it's been prophecised.
So those people you describe do exist but I don't think they're the average Christian, and they seemingly haven't thought deeply about the implications of what they're doing when trying to aid Israel to build the temple.
Discontentment about the content of the contentment of the term content.
On Youtube it's called 'content', because all these 'creators' have brutal production schedules of having to deliver every single day, which means it's quantity over quality. Streamers are digital line cooks for the masses. Plop goes the slop.
When it's referring to DEI slop on streaming services it's actually a good description of the contractual-algorithmic garbage found there. 'Viking leader needs to be a black female if you want this project to be financed.' Quality takes a backseat to ideology.
The streaming service doesn't care about quality, only quantity. And each product needs to have an ideological DEI injection, regardless of quality.
It reeks of corporate coaching, like some zoomer had no idea how else to describe the array of bland, cringe, humorless shit they were desperate to churn out.
"We need you to create more content in order to maximize revenue from the monitization schedule we've put together for your brand."
"Uh... Okay, more rizz CONTENT coming right up!"
I dislike the word "portion" for similar reasons :/
What about the word portion? I'm not aware of the context.
It just bugs me. It's like someone else controls things, especially your food. "Serves 4" is fine, (usually it serves 2, lolz!) But "4 portions" bugs me :/
Portion control. Good band, the idea bugs me though.
I created some content on the toilet earlier. It's too bad I wasn't recording.
I was about to disagree, but then I realized the toilet "contained" your content, so I didn't disagree 😸
You seem discontent about this. What can we do to make you feel content? ;)
I, too, blurt that word out at random times.
"content" and "consume" are the most abused words in the English language. I absolutely hate them.
I recall having the same feeling when someone said they were "going to watch some online video content" totally non-ironically.
I also feel this way about "gameplay loop." When Doom Eternal said "master the core gameplay loop" I was alike, wtf, I want to play a badass who kills demons, not a fucking gameplay loop.
Gameplay loop is an annoying one because it's a design term that plebs have tried to adopt to sound smart, while not actually understanding what it's useful for.
Clown society. Tiktok generation. Bunch of fools. Total nonsense everywhere. Glamourization of dumbness.
Consoom the content goy from your space, goy.