You're missing the point. The shepherd protects his flock. The shepherd protects his flock from threats both internal and external.
Jesus was tough and critical to his followers. He challenged. He pushed.
"Force people into submission" is not a message of Jesus. Nor is a "live and let live" attitude towards his followers. It's those who are held to a high standard.
https://english.wisc.edu/programs/composition-and-rhetoric/graduate-studies/
https://english.ku.edu/phd-creative-writing
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/phd/tcr/index.php
Never doubt the ability of universities to come up with useless degrees.
I mean a lot of them have mayo...and you frequently dip in soy sauce. So ketchup's just another sauce, right? I'm kind of tempted to try this..
I love ketchup. An older guy I know who helped teach me to cook was a an anti-ketchup extremist--used to ban ketchup from burgers and hotdogs. If ever anyone deserved being called a nazi..(he was a great guy)
Christ called us to be shepherds. It is a poor shepherd that refuses to shoot a wolf.
Besides the cross, what's the main symbol of Christianity (ok fish is big, dove, etc.)? The shepherd's crook. Bishops staffs are designed to look like a shepherd's crook.
Why?
Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
You think that crook was just for looks? Hell no. Shepherds are not soft, pacifistic men who let their flocks go where they will, eat what they will, and be preyed upon by predators.
No, that crook is for whacking the sheep on the ass when they go astray. The hook is for yanking a wayward sheep back in line and even rescuing a fallen or trapped lamb.
This idea of a soft, effeminiate, pacfistic "live life as you will" Jesus, is ahistorical and flawed.
It's speculated that Michaelangelo may have been austic, and for him, it seems to fit (poor hygiene, insane dedication to his work, insane work hours, erratic social life, etc.).
Leonardo autistic? I doubt it. Was he gay? Maybe, who knows.
The "-ism" people love to claim people in the past, and they can't concieve of a world which doesn't exactly conform to modern standards and modern sensibilities. Male friendship?!--must be gay!
My favorite. Raphael. Guy had good taste! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fornarina
Ironic the 3rd place “center right” party that might work with Geert is headed by a Turkish woman.
Don’t forget Burger Becky. Or Burger Bill? Well, who knows…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman
OG trans.
Two X chromosomes, no tally whacker.
Most succinct definition I’ve heard
I didn't know he was gay. Interesting that that didn't really show up in the media (at least not that I had seen).
What about his sister?
Wait. Those guys are black? Was I supposed to know that?
It's often pretty tricky.
Traditionally if freedmen could marry a white it was like hitting the lottery--one step closer for children to "pass" and enter white society. Weird stuff happens with genetics. You can have someone who is "mulatto" (1/2 black and 1/2 white) who looks almost fully white. You can have a "quadroon" (1/4 black and 3/4 white) who looks full African, etc.
It's said that mixed individuals used to keep their nails clipped very closely, because the color of the fingernail oftened was evidence of black ancestry.
Anyway, to your question, it used to be that claiming to be white was the goal. Today, you get more social benefit from being black, so it has switched in the opposite direction.
Edit: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc., are extremely dated terms today
I enjoyed the book too. It is not at all woke or obnoxious.
The basic message of The Hunger Games is pretty great. Person fighting against powerful central government that rules with an iron fist and tightly controls what its people see nd know by keeping them entertained with degenerate bloodsports. Without getting into spoilers, all governments suck and become tyrannical, and it's up to individuals to fight for freedom.
I didn't know about this movie, but I am 100% skipping anything with that actress as the lead.
Never, never underestimate the power of men wanting to get their dicks wet in strange.
Even smart men, even successful men, even family men, even billionaire "high-quality" men.
To quote from one with who describes the Vogue article (I could not bring myself to read it):
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Sánchez uses a mug Bezos got her from Amazon, with the words “Woke up sexy as hell again” splashed across the side.” (In another life, Jeff Bezos was a TJ Maxx mom.)
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“… The phrase “Love you to space and back,” a favorite saying between Sánchez and Bezos, embroidered in her lilting cursive.”
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“‘I made her vulnerable and soft,’ says Bezos with more than a hint of pride.” (Reader, I gagged (derogatory).)
https://colormeloverly.substack.com/p/not-this-fake-normalcy-from-mr-and
You think any guy who actually comes close to their criteria is going to want anything to do with these gold digging sociopaths?
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2699859-cowboy-jeff-bezos-2023-vogue-photoshoot
A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words.
Outside of other scholar seasoning-americans who never actually watched the show claiming he was their favorite, no one gave one flying fuck about Geordi LaForge.
It's funny too. Geordi is totally a sex pest "nice guy" and would 10000% be cancelled if on today.
I've had friends who worked in mental health say that it's largely due to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Nurse Ratched, etc. The book and movie made asylums out to be so grim and oppressive that on both a personal level (people didn't want to send family members to these places) and a political level (pressure to defund and deinstitutionalize--sound familiar?), their demise was swift.
Quillette, so take it with a grain of salt, but this is actually a really interesting article about deinstitutionalization:
Is there any doubt that a billion normies are going to buy and play this?
I was surprised they announced Cataclysm Classic. Not many people asking for that..
I thought for sure they would lauch progression servers. I would play that.
I’m not particularly religious (though I am very much a cultural Christian) and I go out of my way to say Merry Christmas.
It hurts no one.
It's a close call as to whether stormfags are more obsessed with jews or with social media upvotes and downvotes.
I mean if we're being technical I don't think the Romans made any delineation between kids and adults seeing sexual artwork, even where they did have censors visiting houses. I recall reading some families had giant phalluses on the kitchen table "to promote fertility".
Correct. Phalluses were magical, basically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus
Like in the Renaissance, artwork and nude statues were common. Some of it sexual, some it not. You can find the same thing across the world. (See Lingam stones in India, neolithic phalluses in Europe, Phallic Egyptian deities, etc.)
LSL was a household name but was explicitly marketed to adults. Your overall point about the shift in culture is correct, despite the fringe exceptions KeeperOfTheGate brings up.
And BG3 is marketed towards children? It's 17+ on Steam. Leisure Suit Larry, with its zany, cartoony imagery, marketed alongside King's Quest, Quest for Glory, was certainly available and arguably marketed to children. My parents wouldn't let me get it, but I had friends who played it. (Maybe 5th/6th grade ages.)
The point again is not that things aren't more available now, or more explicit, or more degenerate. Everything has intenstified. The point is that the original statement, "that elementary school kids didn't have the ability to have sex with people in games 10-20 years ago" is just not true. I went back to the 1970s and 1980s with examples. Ten years ago was 2013. Do you really need a list of widely available games in ~2010 that had player fucking?
Bruh, you may or may not be old enough to remember, but this shit was easily and widely available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure
Leisure Suit Larry was in every Egghead, Babbages, Funco, etc around. It was mainstream, by one of the most mainstream and family-friendly companies out there.
Exposure to porn is one of the most time-honored groomer tactics in the book. I wonder why the market developed this way?
Why did the Romans have pornographic artwork. Why did most cultures around the world. Because people are nasty, horny, beasts who like looking at titties.
If left to our own devices, people want to fuck and and look at titillating things. Culture needs to fight against that. My beef is with your recency bias. This is NOT NEW.
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The motto of Mossad is literally "by deception we wage war".
Really?
Thought experiment.
If the vast majority of immigrants crossing the southern border were whites who voted Republican upon citizenship (see, e.g., Cubans), would democrats support unlimited illegal immigration? Would Republicans?
If the vast majority of doctors, professors, etc., said publicly--without fear of cancelation and harassment--that women are women, men are men, and transgenderism is a disorder, would leftists still believe the science?
No.