You need to try introducing them to theory in an innocuous and emotionally unchallenging way. Try playing Immortal Technique on your phone speaker

What a loss.

I check in with Maximilian Hess from the FPRI every now and then. I don't think he's right about most things but he's a true believer and very invested in what he believes.

He's a great character designer and illustrator. I remember watching yoruichi get knocked out of a "hottest anime babe" bracket challenge in the quarterfinals and thinking what are they teaching these kids on tumblr huh

It is a testament to the power of bell witch that I feel bad about pausing them

it's actually not possible for a man to look sexier than majima washed up on the beach, face down in the sand, while still wearing trousers and shoes

What's the figure peering over the shoulder of india and africa

Incredibly surreal to run into someone who knew of heaven will be mine but only through the halimede acct. Play the game!

Finally someone's talking sense

heaven is a trip!

Bro...

they don't have to say anything i'm getting on no matter what

Dickwaving diplomacy. Magical thinking

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One of the reasons Unjust Depths is good is because the author is capable of handling both a grotesque realism of violence and a libidinal fantasy of stylised violence.

I'm mostly just inferring from the article. From the fifth paragraph:

At least in Europe people started to get way more thingy about what the Church called the “sins of the tongue” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

For the church to get thingy about sins of the tongue, the bible probably must be able to be interpreted in such a way as to prohibit them:

The north wind brings forth rain;

And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Proverbs 25:23

He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;

Therefore do not associate with a gossip

Proverbs 20:19

There's also room for such interpretations in the Qur'an:

O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

Surah Hujurat Ayat 12

It reminds me of usury — the texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam can be read to prohibit it, but whether it's read that way and whether the prohibition is enforced is a matter for religious officials.

Judaism, in text, takes up a similar position where gossip, even true gossip, is prohibited unless someone's immediate life or livelihood are at stake.

As this article makes clear, Christianity already had the prohibition against sins of the tongue, it took the Fourth Lateran Council for the church to get serious about it. I'm curious about the comparative social/structural history of prohibitions on gossip compared between different religious communities, when and why they're emphasized, that sort of thing — was there a specific pattern of behaviour reported to Innocent III that led him to get serious about confession, was he specifically running down gossipmongers or was it just that the list of what should be confessed comported to what's in the text?

at that stage of having a cold where I feel like my body is about to tear itself apart like Kusanagi Motoko

(canadianly) FUCKIN RIGHT