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One of the reasons christian literalist ways of interpreting Jewish texts is often asinine is that paleo and biblical era Hebrew did not have vowels. It had root consonants, and the interpretation of a word depended on context, not text. And each set of consonant roots has a WIDE range of interpretations.

Take the word chametz – one interpretation is leaven (yeast), but the root itself means puffed up or inflated, as well as harsh, vinegar, oppressive, and distasteful, and so on. Each root has a full circle of meanings depending on the vowels and tense *you* choose to insert, as well as the topic of the surrounding text – each root of those words also having a wide range of meanings. And those vowel insertions are man-made, not scripture. Not “god’s word.”

Men’s interpretations.

Literalists cherry pick what interpretation they want, and insist that is “THE” meaning, when it is no such thing.

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/clearing-out-how

#Mazeldon #Hebrew #Passover #Chametz #linguistics #spirituality

—@ShekinahCanCook

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In reply to @chris.

@chris @daljo628 @jan This entire thread. I noticed the vibe at WCUS in Nashville and was disappointed, but also completely prepared to start identifying as a fucking problem if the people bringing that vibe with them start causing trouble for other members of our community with diverse backgrounds/characteristics. And yes that includes the trans members and the neurodivergent members.

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I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it’s totally cool to scrape everyone’s personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

—@maxkennerly

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Morning everybody, we're doing Monday. Just waiting on groceries and we're waiting until Wednesday for the cable guy to come out and configure the new router after ours died on Saturday since the tech John spoke to yesterday couldn't get the signal to come through. Also, I was yesterday years old when I learnd that getmac works on current Windows instead of just linux.