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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 20h

I think I remember Buddhism getting popular in some ModOx circles.

שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 20h

Regarding other religions and spiritual practices, the big things were generally:

a) Not renouncing your Jewish identity.
b) Worshipping either Hashem or no deity. (“You shall have no OTHER gods before me.”) One or none.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 20h

Obviously, Christians disagree that their religion is any of these things, but by Jewish standards, it kind of is? Or could be interpreted that way? As a bigger thing, it often came up that Christianity has a uniquely exclusionary view regarding Judaism, and chose to make itself incompatible.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 20h

This is actually a discussion I remember seeing quite a few times on Twitter. The big thing with Christianity is a lot of Jews see it as one of a few things that Judaism isn’t compatible with. Specifically:

Idol worship
Polytheism
Worshipping a deity other than Hashem

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 23h

You played as an English major.

I feel so called out.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 23h

I’ll also note that incline walking helped me a lot. Technically we were doing a stair and hill run those days, but I was always walking uphill by lap two.

I noticed I had a significantly easier time with “flat” cardio after doing inclines a few times.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Those zones are also just guidance! They’re estimated based on (I think) your age and gender. The bigger thing is if you aren’t running out of breath and getting horrifically anaerobic, you’re probably fine to stick it out in that zone.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

What I’m getting at is I had the luxury of slowing down to keep my heart rate in a lower range as long as I was still moving, and eventually the intensity I could run at within that range increased.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

It took me a WHILE. But I also wasn’t training for a specific distance, it was endurance training for a fight, so we were given a time (an hour) and told to just go at whatever pace enabled us to keep moving for that hour.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not even specific to Palestinians, though that’s obviously forefront in my mind. I’m also thinking of how “goy” and “goyim” have been wielded against BIPOC, and when they call out that history, they get arguments-from-Yiddish-or-Hebrew-dictionary as pushback.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

The discourse the last few days has had me realizing, and this will never excuse antisemitism, that Jews are struggling with something that we ask Christians to do all the time: acknowledge that there are systemic, structural issues in our community that are causing others harm.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Aggressively useless.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Or, instead of posting memes and catch phrases at people who are already antizionists, make yourself useful and donate to or repost some Palestinian fundraisers: bsky.app/profile/lexi...

bsky.app

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

So glad others’ basic humanity is a game for you.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Not a relative of mine, but my therapist was telling me about going to his niece’s wedding, and that’s how I found out he was the uncle of a college friend I’d taken to a couple of fraternity formals.

שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

And? There’s nothing wrong with accusing people of things they’re actively doing, especially when they try to flout accountability for them.

Case in point, you.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

And your low effort makes for an easy target for Zionists to point to and say “look, anti-Zionism IS antisemitism, see?”

But you don’t actually give a shit about giving them ammunition as long as you got to belittle someone. Absolutely pathetic.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

You have a bunch of posts about Israel, and literally zero about Gaza, Palestinians, or Palestine in general.

You’re not looking to advocate for a people, your just want a villain you can shout at and feel morally justified.

It’s why you won’t engage with content that’s critical of your approach.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re going to be this low effort, the Palestinian cause is fundamentally better off without you. Stop getting in our way.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure someone dodging accountability for their actions should be trying to pass moral judgement on others who’ve accurately characterized their behavior.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

There’s research that indicates even joking about harmful narratives reinforces them:

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

“I was using a joke about stealing food to reference real land theft” still reinforces the “cultural parasite” narrative that has been wielded against Jewish people for centuries.

www.apa.org

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Think back to the classic “it’s not enough that I should succeed — others should fail.” A zero-sum game.

They don’t just want to have things. They only “appreciate” those things when others don’t or can’t have them. They thrive on a sense of exceptionality.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, it pays to remember that, for them and their supporters, the hypocrisy is part of the point. They want authoritarian rules to exist so that they can be above them.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Six months later, the theater begins advertising a play with that exact title, only now the staff are grating black truffle and it’s an anti-excess polemic.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The developer wrote it.

Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Professor contesting student's accommodations.

WonderWench @psygeek.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Hand score a Rorschach

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