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queer anarchist mezuzah
baker of breads, drinker of tea, worrier and tinkerer.

this is a jewish-normative account, but feel free to ask for context if you don't know what's going on. you should equally expect from this account: random boat building posts, a lot of jewish stuff, shitposts and metashitposts, and grumbling about software.

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Partner decided to oil our cutting boards just as someone was coming over and I almost tried to stop them, but a voice in my head popped up saying,
"You fool! $partner carries not the Curse of Anxiety with which we are afflicted. You underestimate the limitless power of such a being. They are not bound by the same rules as we."

$partner is oiling the wood outside, an option which I hadn't thought of. Indeed, they are a powerful witch.

in a way, it's very comforting to know that jewish history is basically full of a bunch of people proclaiming "this is the correct way to jew", while a bunch of other jews are unaware or don't care and they're off doing weird ass stuff. (but doing it jewishly).
the more i study jewish literature, the more i'm convinced that jewish theology is just a thousand theologies in a trench coat.

Running with that idea in my own words: by starting to categorize things as tov and ra, we create a differentiation - which becomes a difference/distance between ourselves and g-d. Similarly, death enters the picture the moment we begin engaging in the dualistic point of view (eating the fruit of knowledge of good and bad -> certain death). We begin to sort, "this is good, that is bad, god is here, god is not there, this is lively, that is dead", and we begin to see our own perceptions of things rather than existence as it is. (Only a sith deals in absolutes.)

Jewish practice makes things sacred and holy by honoring and making them different. It's "performative" in the Butlerian sense. We dance with the tension בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל as we strive to recognize that creation is still unfolding, there is no "tov", nor "ra", and we're still in the presence of the holy one.

#nondualism #mazeldon

Judith Butler: Performativity

Butler’s notion of ‘performativity’ is most famously associated with her views on gender and is important for critical legal thinkers because

Critical Legal Thinking

Zohar teacher just casually dropped the hint of an idea that blew my mind. Maybe it's super common, but I've never heard it before:

Eating from the tree of knowledge of good and bad was the start of reifying dualism.

Reform and Liberal approve historic merger as Progressive Judaism

Delegates of the two synagogue groups voted by more than 90 per cent to unite on Sunday

The Jewish Chronicle
I'm trying to decide if the Star Wars quote, "only a sith deals in absolutes" means that Obi-Wan has transcended his dualist tendencies and embraced the paradox / absurdity of the statement, or hints at an underlying Sith-mindset, which he still needs to overcome.

Nero Burning ROM will always stay in my heart as the best product name ever. This is not open for discussion.

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my use of the word "eh" has noticeably gone up since i started watching Shoresy and Letterkenny