Slavers used slave children for alligator bait.

It’s also how Jacob got Leah and Rachel.

It’s not just the Orthodox. It pretty much is the whole Church, which is now and was then very political. Schismed people are malleable and controllable, and expedient for rulers. That is why I read the Ethiopian Bible, complete with mistranslations, then go do weeks or months of tedious research to find the actual translations, and what that meant in the ancient Judaism and its parent religions. It’s also why I feel free to discard anything after Jesus ’ teachings.

Orthodoxy aims to keep individuals schismed, Jesus aimed to unite them. House divided.

I’d like that, too.

Exactly my first thought.

Vietnam? Cuba? Hard to say, never having been out of the Continental USA.

We can exit the ride at any time. Few are willing to climb out of the top car of the stranded Ferris wheel and scale down, though, and in this case, it’s enough or nothing. So far it’s nothing.

G4c or whatever they call themselves now

The people in those buildings were not of the legislative, executive, or judicial branches…I did laugh though

I have had delicious roasted duck with wild blackberry sauce that was also delicious. To answer OP, that, venison, quail have been mentioned here and are delicious. I’m also fond of tiramisu and coffee.

I’m extremely interested. Perhaps somewhere on a niche instance?

Honest discussion has often changed my perspective, or enhances it, which imo is personal growth, which is a core value to me. I realize it’s not popularly a shared core value. But if I can’t find that in the fediverse, it’s just not worth engaging, and while not a popular value, I think excluding it is detrimental to the fediverse as a whole. Kind of not realizing how important toes are, until broken.

I would advocate for quality, not quantity. A bunch of reposts doesn’t achieve that, and I think that’s your stance, too?

I think first of all people really need to stop dumping posts in an ill-conveived attempt to help. It’s a misconception. We need more comments here, not posts. Yet they do the opposite and their user profiles rarely have comments, just hundreds of posts. If you want to grow and foster the place, add comments.

Please know that in a community where you and I engaged in good faith, at least two of the mods are engaged behind the scenes. As today is a (rather ironic) holiday in the US, and we all have work and filial obligations, it may be slow going, and that the outcome of that engagement will determine my own course in that community, as it does others.

I do find content jacking extremely dishonest and outright vile. Plagiarism. But apparently not all mods gaf about integrity, whatsoever.

As you can see, the hundredth monkey effect seems more like spitting in one hand and wishing in the other.

Perhaps a post about this in politics? You’ve piqued my interest.

Probably won’t have to pay. They’re appealing.

I came with the same excerpt as your first.

I disagree with the bit about the king, though, because like the monarchy of the UK, he’s largely there to force us to bow to the jackal and vulture gods of capitalism. Now we have a choice. Will we sacrifice ourselves and children to those false gods, or make the necessary choice of perhaps more difficult sacrifices to the more merciful egalitarian ideals? We may never realize them, in any lifetime. I suppose that largely depends on how much the collective values themselves over capitalists.

Your English is fine. The same words often evoke different mental images from one person to another. Sometimes I have trouble distinguishing when to embrace literal meanings and when to go with the general gist of words. Thanks for addressing my comment, a gentle reminder for me.