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“movies that have some asshole or monster claim to be a god and so some…”

I can’t help but feel that the Jewish people should not be proud of israel meaning “he who fights with G-d.” It’d be like Christians being called “those guys that really hate Jesus”

Your big mistake was taking xtianity and trying to apply it to Jews, Judaism, and our relationship with G-d.

You can not on a fundamental level apply xtianity to Judaism because they are nothing alike and highly incompatible.

To understand this concept of fighting G-d you have to solely look at Judaism otherwise it won’t make any sense.

See xtianity sees fighting with god and takes that to mean one hates god.

Jews see fighting with G-d and we go ah that person loves G-d.

Fighting with G-d to Jews is an expression of love. It is a massive aspect of relationship with G-d. 

There is a reason that there are many atheist Jews and those Jews are some of the most like hardcore Jews ever.

There is a famous story of two Rabbis arguing about something in the Torah and finally after much back and forth The Voice of G-d speaks to them and says Rabbi A is correct.

So Rabbi B says to The Voice of G-d that might be, but You gave us the Torah for us here on Earth to understand and interpret so what you say is correct has no bearing on this argument.

G-d starts to laugh and says “Look at how wonderful my children are”

To Jews, G-d is not necessarily necessary to the equation.

So to fight G-d is rather an expression of love rather then hate.

Fighting G-d whether you be like Yakkov who physically fought G-d or if be a battle of words like pretty much every Jew ever is a basic core of Jewish culture.

No matter where in the world we are, no matter how far we are from each other, no matter what the one thing you can always count on is that fighting G-d will always be apart of Jewish culture, Judaism, and the very nature of every Jewish person.

Why is one the most important words in Judaism. Why allows us to explore the world, ourselves, and each other. Why helps to debate and to understand. Why lets us argue with G-d and Why helps to become closer to G-d.

One of the fundamentals of Judaism is to ask questions and question everything.

Question your leader, question yourself, and question G-d.

When we question and fight G-d we don’t come away hating G-d or rejecting Judaism. Rather we come away with a deeper understanding of everything and with a further love of G-d.

To G-d there is nothing as wonderful as when a Jew comes and fights with G-d.

And to a Jew it is one of the most fundamentally Jewish things they can ever do.

I don’t...get the product either? But I love it?

Wait tho pls tell me non british people have also seen this advert bc it’s amazing and very important to me

Michelle Obama: "The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut."

Our FLOTUS Forever sat for a conversation in Denver yesterday to a crowd of mostly women and discussed many of the things she advocated for as First Lady, including nutrition and education for girls, but she also touched on the racism she experienced.

WFCO President and CEO Lauren Casteel commented that Obama broke a glass ceiling by becoming the first black first lady. She then asked which of the falling glass shards cut the deepest.

“The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut,” she said, referencing being called an ape and people talking about her bottom. “Knowing that after eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.”

She said she can’t pretend like it doesn’t hurt because that lets those who do the hurting off the hook.

“Women, we endure those cuts in so many ways that we don’t even notice we’re cut,” she said. “We are living with small tiny cuts, and we are bleeding every single day. And we’re still getting up.”

But Obama said women should own their scars. Referring to failure, she said those wounds hurt deeply but they heal with time. If women own their scars, they can encourage younger girls who are getting their first cuts.

(cont. Denver Post) 

I like this.

I understand putting on a brave face for bullies.  Don’t give them the power or satisfaction of letting them know they’ve hurt you.  It’s why we teach kids “Sticks & stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”  The theory is if you ignore them, they’ll leave you alone.  The bully wants to hurt you.  Their goal is to affect you and watch you react.  If you don’t give them that reaction, then they haven’t achieved their goal and they lose interest.  Maybe they realize bullying is a waste of their time and they find something else to do.

But that doesn’t mean words don’t hurt unless you allow them to.  That’s the RuPaul School of Don’t Be So Sensitive that I’ve never subscribed to, and I think what Michelle Obama said is important because it’s not really a conversation we usually have with our kids.  Somewhere along the line, bullies stopped needed a reaction.  They troll because it makes them feel good about themselves.  They feel better about their shortcomings by putting someone else down.  They try to make others feel small so they can feel bigger.  It doesn’t matter if the subject reacts or not – they’ve gotten what they wanted from just having an audience to yell at, part of which will support them and part of which will react based on the general impropriety of the trolling.

Michelle Obama is coming at this admitting that she was hurt.  That hurt didn’t stop her from working toward her goals and it didn’t make her into a horrible person, but it’s okay to acknowledge that hurt.  Other girls who are hurt by words can then look at this powerful woman and say She was affected so it’s okay that I am too, but it didn’t define her, and it doesn’t define me.

It’s a fine line to walk between acknowledging your pain and wallowing in it, but obviously Michelle Obama is the best example.  She’s probably taken more fire than any other woman on the planet and look at her, still gracious, still positive, and still inspiring others while not ignoring the negativity that was thrown her way.  Now, I’m not saying I wouldn’t love a good ol’ nasty tell-all where she gives the business to all her haters, but she’s not wired that way, and we’re still so blessed to have her.

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This is lovely.

I’m reblogging though because it’s #relevant to my yesterday. I said “thank you for trusting us with this moment” to someone (Shitty was right, it’s a heartfelt way to acknowledge vulnerability!) - and then had a wild moment of fear that THEY might be a Check, Please! fan. That they’d know my heartfelt response to their vulnerability was just...me poaching. Textually.

Thankfully the moment passed. But it was good to hear about a random in-person fannish encounter. I’ve never had a spontaneous one of those.

I’m doing nanowrimo again this year (against my better judgement), and I’m also trying to be social while doing it, so I went to a local write-in yesterday.  I got to talking with one of my table-mates and we discussed the fact that we were both published. They asked for my pen name, I told them, and then they said I sounded kind of familiar.

So on a whim, I ask, “Are you by chance in the Check, Please! fandom?”

They nod. We meet eyes, start to grin There has been an exchange. We are already bonded, just a little.

Then, “do you know justwritins/sinspiration?”

Yes.

It me!!

And it turns out they’d just finished reading self reflection! 

So *waves to @dsudis* it was nice to meet you! I hope we run into each other again (or arrange it? I’d love to talk to you more)!