Two of them. The older brother had been killed by god for being “wicked.”

his brother’s widow

Tamar is an interesting character in her own right, and worthy of being named.

After this, she’s supposed to marry Judah’s (Onna’s dad’s) third son, but considering he just lost two, he doesn’t want it to go through. He sends her home to her parents and blows her off when she asks when the marriage is going to happen. (The Bible has a lot of verses about leaving parts of your field unharvested for widows. Not having a husband = hellish poverty.)

She eventually gets fed up with this, disguises herself as a temple prostitute, Judah shows up, has sex with her, and gives her a family emblem as an IOU.

Later, she ends up pregnant, so the village elders drag her before Judah for punishment (he’s her father-in-law still technically.) They are going to put her to death, and Judah asks her who knocked her up. She produces his family emblem, and he has to be “well, you got me, I guess I have to take care of you.

“it gets leaked” - eg, someone posts it as revenge porn, which is the case for a lot of sex tapes being “leaked”?

Something about this meme just feels like it’s trivializing sex crimes.

My apartment has two rooms. One is a storage room, the other is the living room/bedroom. TV (a computer monitor hooked up to a PlayStation 4 for YouTube) is right in front of the pile of blankets and pillows where I sleep, and is on 24/7.

What really pisses me off is that I played Bibi in a real world tactics game at a convention five or so years ago. I did exactly what he has done, like I was spot on in predicted what he did. Escalate genocide in Gaza, cultivate connections with the extreme alt right in the US…

But they tried him/me for all of the financial crimes almost immediately and booted me from office and banned him/me from running or holding office again.

Like clearly something about his strategies are working?

“Obscenity” is kinda meaningless when you have a president that raped children.

Bit more complicated than that.

It’s not one-to-one, and the Romans didn’t just adopt Greek gods.

How many of them aren’t alive that we don’t know of though?

The context is big here:

Gradually, the social and cultural imperialism that the missionaries brought to the islands developed into the exploitative commercial power that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

There’s also an obsession with the Battle of Tours. “Catholic” to them is more the idea of white heritage.

There’s an evolving strain of US Catholicism, exemplified by weirdos like JD Vance, who like the aesthetic of Catholicism (especially the Deus Vult thing) without really caring about any of the actual Catholic beliefs. It’s more like they have a childish misunderstanding of Catholicism as just being a more serious Christian. Which is not uncommon a misunderstanding in the south/Midwest, oddly enough - the desire for fundies to create a coalition to fight abortion in the 70’s/80’s really ended a lot of the more typical anti-Catholicism of the south.

Similar to the “American Orthodox,” which is the same idea with more of a Russian flavor.

This is apologia.

Why, through centuries of Muslim scholarship, was this conclusion not came to earlier? There are thousands and thousands of pages written by thousands and thousands of Muslim commentators and scholars that did not have a problem with her age at marriage, nor consider it particularly notable. It’s only now, at a Western university, in a world which unequivocally does not accept people fucking 9 year olds that the story changes.

Aisha was active a long time after Mohammad’s death. How old are we suggesting she was married at?

There are other hadiths that mention her being young (playing with dolls). So we’re throwing out a Hadith that many many Muslims have historically accepted, that seems to align with other hadiths that many many Muslims have historically accepted.

This is a clear Occam’s razor situation.

Is it “Christophobic” to point out that Mary was fourteen when God impregnated here? That seems to make the Christian god a clear pedophile.

Aisha was such a badass I wish some radical feminist Muslim women would retool the entire religion around her though.

Twelver Shia will let you get a temporary marriage, in case you want to fuck a prostitute. So you could probably rotate through a harem.

Bro, I dated a nurse who saw a girl die in the ER after an adjustment from a vertebral arterial dissection.

You pulled numbers out your ass and pretend they are authoritative. Here’s a fun number:

In this case report, we highlight a case of a 32-year-old woman who underwent chiropractic manipulation and had vertebral artery dissection with subsequent brainstem infarct. She quickly deteriorated and passed away shortly after arrival to the hospital. Although rare, one in 48 chiropractors have experienced such an event. We utilize this case to highlight the risk associated with cervical manipulation and urge open dialogue between chiropractors and physicians. Receiving medical clearance prior to cervical manipulation in potential at risk patients would drastically reduce morbidity and mortality.

Actual medicine does things. Chiropractic does nothing at best, and can kill you at worst.

Also the random bullshit about trump and queerness does zero to advance your argument, and really just embarrasses you. I am cringing as a leftist trans person myself.

Does any of what you just said prove that chiropractic or acupuncture is safe?

Acupuncturists and other “alternative” providers never kill anyone, of course.

your bible

Where has anyone mentioned Christianity? Sham science is sham science.

the answer is: you deny anything that isn’t in the bible.

Are you stoned?

Many of those studies in that meta analysis show limited short term effects.

Because there is no widely accepted sham protocol for DN research, researchers should incorporate cognitive influences that extend beyond the mimicking of tactile sensations to create a believable simulation of active dry needling.

I also think there’s a serious question about what sham/placebo dry needling would be, and if inconsistent standards could impact results.

the chiropractors can pull from sources that have worked for thousands of years

Chiropractic was made up in the 1800s.