AYRT (I think) and if I wasn't clear enough earlier, I'm also Jewish. This is just dumb. I can't even be mad because I'm pretty sure this is someone coming from a non-Jewish context who doesn't understand that the Torah is the work of dedicated, regular people who continued to preserve the message of the faith, generation after generation. I don't care for my faith being treated like it's in history only.
That's why I'm absolutely positive kelandry isn't Jewish. It's one thing to study history in school - it's quite another to treat your studies as all there is, while we walk among you.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
oh, no, i could tell you were speaking from some form of practicing experience tied to judaism.
as for even suggesting that kelandry MIGHT be jewish, that's just me trying to give any wiggle room in the (rare) event that they might be, since conversion/coming from a very loosely religious household is possible (had some of those folks in my confirmation group of all things) and leaves some room for ignorance. i'm in your camp in that it's absolutely far more likely the case they're just an academic, because of the specific ways in which they speak about judaism. they speak with no reverence or respect for the subject of their study, just academic attachment, and it reads like judaism is an ant colony on their desk to stare at.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
as a marine biologist in the works, i appreciate your imagery and find it more appropriate, because yeah this does feel like someone tapping on the glass.
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Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
(Anonymous) 2025-01-04 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)That's why I'm absolutely positive kelandry isn't Jewish. It's one thing to study history in school - it's quite another to treat your studies as all there is, while we walk among you.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
(Anonymous) 2025-01-04 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)oh, no, i could tell you were speaking from some form of practicing experience tied to judaism.
as for even suggesting that kelandry MIGHT be jewish, that's just me trying to give any wiggle room in the (rare) event that they might be, since conversion/coming from a very loosely religious household is possible (had some of those folks in my confirmation group of all things) and leaves some room for ignorance. i'm in your camp in that it's absolutely far more likely the case they're just an academic, because of the specific ways in which they speak about judaism. they speak with no reverence or respect for the subject of their study, just academic attachment, and it reads like judaism is an ant colony on their desk to stare at.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
(Anonymous) 2025-01-04 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread - Naming Dragons after Religious Texts
(Anonymous) 2025-01-04 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)as a marine biologist in the works, i appreciate your imagery and find it more appropriate, because yeah this does feel like someone tapping on the glass.