being a goy and spending two years learning to read Torah in Hebrew isn't normal but on occultism it is
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How long to go from making the sounds of the letters to understanding wtf it says?
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nobody understands wtf it says, but in his case that's secondary to knowing which numbers it encodes
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oh that's not fair, we've got most of it, but i do enjoy the bits of lost knowledge like what a takhash is (so you can just translate it as "badger" or "unicorn" or whatever you like)
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tfw goy occultist is a better Jew than you, with a Jewish mother and everything, are
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i do enjoy bageling the fuck out of my Jewish friends with this stuff
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look, buddy, you did this to yourself so you don't have an excuse for why you polluted your mind with the worst kind of monotheism the upside of it is that it's so bad that Jews had to invent atheism to deal with it
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime and
oh god, when i was in college i was talking to a friend in the library about the various religions i was studying and i said "i just don't understand why anyone would want to be jewish" and this freshman girl decided to give me a stern dressing down
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Replying to @john_heathen @danlistensto and
i just couldn't understand why anyone would want to be a part of a religious organization that was primarily legalistic and didn't seem to offer much in the way of affirming mythologies or liberation
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Replying to @john_heathen @chaosprime and
rabbinical judaism is legalistic, and a lot of that is very long lingering influence of the deuteronomists, but as a legal code it's so full of holes and so subject (and in need of) contextual interpretation that in practice it's not legalistic, it's theocratic
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sad! there are some really delightful outcomes of that situation, though, like the ideal outcome of a talmudic debate being the preservation of a textual ambiguity, since textual ambiguity is the only thing that sustains human agency
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Jews invented hypertext! without a global telecomm network your page load time is potentially centuries though.
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