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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real

@jsx.bsky.social

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Jewish. American. Fan of R' Shimon bar Yochai. Open to corrections by people who speak various languages better than I do. She/her זי/איר היא/את

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · Nov 3

CHRISTIANS: this verse in the old testament says X
JEWS: It doesn't say that
CHRISTIAN: maybe. Who knows?
JEWS: we do. That's not in the Hebrew
CHRISTIAN: no one knows what the original language means
JEWS: Yes we do. We can read it.
CHRISTIAN: It's lost forever

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

I'm no heroine. Just someone who doesn't have to continually change the meaning of words and move the goalposts of my demands in order to avoid looking foolish.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

See? Told you that you'd just move the goal posts

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

You can say that if you like, but you're wrong

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

Here's another:
bsky.app/profile/cube...

Steven (Cube) he/him @cubesteven.bsky.social · Apr 23

All religions are belief centered.

Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · Apr 23

They assume erroneously that all religions are belief centered (almost none of them are), that all religions with sacred texts are literalists (only some of them are) and that no atheist can also be a member of a religion (many of us are).

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

Here's one:
bsky.app/profile/cube...

Steven (Cube) he/him @cubesteven.bsky.social · Jun 17

That's the problem with fictional characters.

Anyone can make them do whatever they want.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway, I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. But you've been a lot of fun to poke at, so I will do you a favor and provide you some examples of antitheists inserting themselves in order to snipe at folks talking about completely innocuous things with pompous derision.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, actually I do. I do get to talk about my own experiences and say "trust me bro".

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 8h

Or, hear me out, I could talk about my experiences without Internet weirdos popping up and telling me if I have to prove it to them.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Counterpoint:

Yeah, it really is. It's about the best one word summary of your behavior imaginable. Everyone who read it understood it as such.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

They call you Hel
They call you Stacey
They call you her
They call you Jane

a blonde woman is singing into a microphone with the words `` that 's not my name '' written on the bottom .

ALT: a blonde woman is singing into a microphone with the words `` that 's not my name '' written on the bottom .

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

But repeating an accurate description is.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Yup

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

We've come full circle, back to you telling us things we all saw never happened.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

The way I use words, it is.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Tell us more about keeping us spinning, please.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Accurate descriptions aren't attacks, any more than gifs are arguments.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

omg, we ARE at "what even do words mean". You are speed running this script Stevie.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Hold on, back up. "Its other two flavors?"

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, it's my job? Are you paying me? Tell me about the benefits package.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 9h

I would have to click on a meme to find out, so sadly I'll never know.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 10h

Some arguments make great GIFs though!

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 10h

a man running in the desert with the words " debate me " on the bottom

ALT: a man running in the desert with the words " debate me " on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 10h

I think you're proving something without even trying.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 10h

Correct, you never said that word. You just keep demanding proof, like it's our job to give you evidence of our experience. As if, one might say, you are owed that evidence.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing. The urge to be the proof in the comments is just too strong for some folks.

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