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straight people will listen to somebody to love by queen and be like “i understand this” but my hot take is that they don’t and they never will

Another hot take: y’all are being toxic because regardless of stupid straight people in the world mr. mercury would have wanted anyone to love the song and hear it as they would.

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Tbh it costs $0.00 to just let people explore their identities in peace so they can find what does and doesn’t fit them

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happy twentynoneteen everyone

the year of loving and respecting aces and aros everywhere!!!!

of course, as this is also twentybiteen, this is also the year for for bi/aro/ace solidarity!!!!!!

this year we’re loving and supporting our bi friends!!!

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This is such an evil way to switch around statistics

It’s not even a skillful switcheroo…that stat is so awful and shameful and disturbingly high it reeks no matter how you say it.

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We are not “Christians”, we are Messianic Jews. I was born to Jewish parents with a long line of Jewish roots. We practice Jewish holidays, recite Jewish prayers and keep Jewish traditions. We are here, we are valid and we aren’t going anywhere. 

Can’t keep Jewish holidays and traditions if you believe in Jesus. They are not compatible. He failed in every way to be the Jewish Moshiach.

I really fucking hate Christian missionaries that think that little sins like “bearing false witness” are acceptable when engaging in pious fraud for Jesus. And that’s all Messianic jews are. Lying frauds attempting to engage in cultural genocide, since actual genocide didn’t work.

OP, you’re not valid. 

every jew @ “jews” for jesus

big mood but also Jews for Judaism is a reactionary group 

Christian literally means a follower of Jesus. OP if you ain’t a Christian then why are you following Jesus?

Yeah go ahead and invalidate an entire sect of Judiasm. We don’t matter right. My grandmothers birth family were Messianic Jews and were of Israeli descent, but you know whatever just keep being absolute dickholes I guess. We’re lying frauds? what a joke y'all are.

List of Jewish organizations/groups/people who don’t recognize messianics as a valid sect of Judaism:

• The Entire State of Israel (in Legal-Civil matters)
• All of the Head Rabbis of the State of Israel (In Religious matters)
• Birthright-Taglit
• Orthodox (MoDox, Yeshivish, and other)
• Chabad
  
• other Hasidic sects
• Reconstructionists 
• Reform Judaism and the URJ
• Conservative/Masorti Judaism 
• Humanists
• Sephardim
• Ethiopian Jews/Beta Israel
• Bnei Israel 
• Kaifeng Jews 
• Secular Jews
• Unaffiliated 
• Me
• Moshe
• Hashem

Time to bust out one of my favourite images:

I am so deeply sorry for my woeful ignorance here but does someone have the emotional energy to explain what the dispute is here and what has everyones backs up so badly about Messianics? 

I’d be greatful if someone who feels able could private message me or explain to me here. I have little understanding of Judaism and this is something I am trying to learn about but I struggle to read books or focus on documentaries (Plus I seldom trust documentaries) due to my learning difficulties and also I end up sobbing uncontrollably whenever I read of the atrocities both past and ongoing, I do not turn a blind eye however and would be exceptionally greatful if someone who perhaps would enjoy educating me on the finer points of Judaism, to learn I need to be able to ask questions. I’m not expecting a full history lesson unless you are so inclined as one of the reasons I want to learn more about Judaism is so that I can more effectively shut down racist fuckwads. 

I will do some research independently but would appreciate some source suggestions as I will end up spending all my mental energy on finding a source that is more fact based and less thinly veiled racism and misinformation.

Thank you for reading and just the time you spent reading is a kind use of your mental energy and I’m greatful.

The condensed version is very simple:

1.) Messianics are part of a movement formed by evangelical Christians specifically and intentionally to convert more Jewish people to Christianity in order to bring about Christian end times. Messianics have built up a culture of lying to and misleading Jewish people in order to further their goal of cultural genocide - erasing everything about Judaism which does not further THEIR goals.

2.) the actual Jewish religion fundamentally does not support believe in Jesus. He did not fulfill the Jewish requirements for being Moshiach, and Jewish law forbids worshipping anyone but G-d. And a human incarnation cannot be G-d, simply because that would make them divisible. There’s a million other reasons but the most important is that this is Avodah Zara or idol worship, and that is extremely forbidden to Jewish people. (We already mentioned the group Jews for Judaism, there’s another rabbi (Tovia Singer) on a website called outreach Judaism which specifically is about counter-missionary stuff. Otherwise Myjewishlearning.com is a good place.

No real Jewish organization recognizes messianics because A.) their end game is to make us Christian and wipe Judaism off the map in order to bring about the second coming and B.) they break fundamental laws, and the breaking of those laws means you are not counted amongst Klal Yisrael (the Jewish people). An ethnically Jewish person CAN return, if they give up the whole Jesus-messianic thing. But unless or until they do, they are simply a Christian person with Jewish heritage.

this is different from kids in interfaith families! Messianics are upsetting because they are lying to and deceiving Jewish people.

Apologies for my ignorance as well, but if you have time could you please go into more detail about how Jesus doesn’t meet the requirements to be the Messiah/Moshiach? (Also please please tell me if I, as a non Jew, should be using one of the words rather than the other aaa)

I grew up in a Christian home so I was obviously taught that he fulfilled everything perfectly ^^;

I mean essentially if you refer to Christianity saying Christ is just saying “Messiah” in Greek. 

Whereas Mashiach/Moshiach (alt. pronunciation) is the hebrew for Anointed One, and is a Jewish term. Confusingly, Moshiah is the term for “Savior” but those are not the same thing, and in Hebrew these words are not actually etymologically similar and have different roots. In any case, we don’t believe Jesus is either the anointed one, or our savior. 

The Mashiach is supposed to fulfill some obvious requirements:

• The mashiach will bring about the political and spiritual redemption of the Jewish people by bringing us back to Israel and restoring Jerusalem (Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 23:8; 30:3; Hosea 3:4-5).
  Jesus did not bring the people back to Israel or restore Jerusalem to Jewish power. Instead, he died. 
• He will establish a government in Israel that will be the center of all world government, both for Jews and gentiles (Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:10; 42:1). 
  Jesus did not establish a government in Israel, much less one that was the “center” of the world. He established no government whatsoever, unlike another Jewish man whom people believed might be the Mashiach (Bar Kokhba).
• He will rebuild the Temple and re-establish its worship (Jeremiah 33:18).
  In Jesus’ lifetime, the second temple has already been built. It would be destroyed shortly after his death. He did not accomplish this. He did not restore worship there, and in the New Testament, he is recorded as having disrupted it instead. (See: chasing away moneylenders for people making pilgrimage and preventing them from affording…anything, overturning carts and cages of birds for sacrifice at the Temple)
• Related: Mashiach will build the Third Temple, which Jesus obviously also didn’t do. Or rather, the Temple must have remained standing, which it obviously didn’t. [Ezekiel 37:26-28]
• He will restore the religious court system of Israel and establish Jewish law as the law of the land (Jeremiah 33:15).
  Jesus did not restore the Sanhedrin, or restore full power to the Sanhedrin. He did not defeat the Romans or even remove Roman influence from Israel. 
• Isaiah 2:4: The Mashiach will usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore.”
  War, disease, and oppression still exist. 
• Zechariah 14:9: Spread universal knowledge of the G-d of Israel - uniting the entire human race as one: “G-d will be King over all the world—on that day, G-d will be One and His Name will be One”
  This also did not happen. If Jesus was the Mashiach, his followers would not have created a separate religion and accorded Jesus any divine power or status, because that divides G-d. 

Also the Mashiach must be descended on his father’s side from King David in order to be from the same tribe/lineage. As Jesus by the NT had no human father, he could not be a descendent of King David qualified to be the Mashiach. 

That one thing alone is actually quite complicated, Aish explains it in full:

Many prophetic passages speak of a descendant of King David who will rule Israel during the age of perfection. (Isaiah 11:1-9; Jeremiah 23:5-6, 30:7-10, 33:14-16; Ezekiel 34:11-31, 37:21-28; Hosea 3:4-5)

The Messiah must be descended on his father’s side from King David (see Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5, 33:17; Ezekiel 34:23-24). According to the Christian claim that Jesus was the product of a virgin birth, he had no father – and thus could not have possibly fulfilled the messianic requirement of being descended on his father’s side from King David. (1)

(1) In response, it is claimed that Joseph adopted Jesus, and passed on his genealogy via adoption. There are two problems with this claim:

a) There is no biblical basis for the idea of a father passing on his tribal line by adoption. A priest who adopts a son from another tribe cannot make him a priest by adoption.

b) Joseph could never pass on by adoption that which he doesn’t have. Because Joseph descended from Jeconiah (Matthew 1:11) he fell under the curse of that king that none of his descendants could ever sit as king upon the throne of David (Jeremiah 22:30; 36:30). (Although Jeconiah repented as discussed in Talmud Sanhedrin 37a and elsewhere, it’s not at all clear from the early sources that his repentance was accepted to the degree that the royal line continued through him. See e.g. Bereishit Rabbah 98:7 that the line continued through Zedekiah.)

To answer this difficult problem, apologists claim that Jesus traces himself back to King David through his mother Mary, who allegedly descends from David, as shown in the third chapter of Luke. There are four basic problems with this claim:

a) There is no evidence that Mary descends from David. The third chapter of Luke traces Joseph’s genealogy, not Mary’s.

b) Even if Mary can trace herself back to David, that doesn’t help Jesus, since tribal affiliation goes only through the father, not mother. cf. Numbers 1:18; Ezra 2:59.

c) Even if family line could go through the mother, Mary was not from a legitimate messianic family. According to the Bible, the Messiah must be a descendent of David through his son Solomon (2-Samuel 7:14; 1-Chronicles 17:11-14, 22:9-10, 28:4-6). The third chapter of Luke is irrelevant to this discussion because it describes lineage of David’s son Nathan, not Solomon. (Luke 3:31)

d) Luke 3:27 lists Shealtiel and Zerubbabel in his genealogy. These two also appear in Matthew 1:12 as descendants of the cursed Jeconiah. If Mary descends from them, it would also disqualify her from being a messianic progenitor.

So he’s not from the appropriate potential Messianic line, he did not fulfill any of the requirements of the Jewish Mashiach, and also he missed the era of the Prophets, so he isn’t even a Jewish prophet. 

 TL;DR Jesus did not fulfill any Jewish requirements to be Mashiach/The Anointed One. But Christians feel that he fulfilled Christian ideas of the Christian Messiah. It’s just they aren’t the same thing. 

That was very educational. Thank you @keshetchai

This whole thing does an EXCELLENT job of explaining the whole issue of Jews for Jesus (which is to say that, according to every branch/sect of Judaism, they’re just not actually Jews). ALSO covers why Jesus wasn’t the Jewish Messiah.

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hey I don’t think I’ve ever talked here about corn wolves. here let me find a gas station real quick

okay so I’m in the middle of nowhere stopped for gas in a small town in Iowa rn and my Internet is REALLY spotty so I hope this posts but

as people who have followed this blog for longer might know, sometimes I go hang out with this corn genetics lab at school, as in we meet up on friday nights to talk about corn science and stuff. once the corn genetics subject of the week is covered sometimes we go off track and start talking about other stuff. as u may imagine from a corn genetics lab, most of the members grew up on farms here in the midwest, and one night we were talking and a couple of the people started discussing an urban legend that they were taught as kids to keep them from running into their family’s cornfields and getting lost. one of those people was from Nebraska, and the other from rural minnisoda- these were isolated incidents of this urban legend happening, and all of us were deeply engrossed in this. i cannot make this shit up, this is the story:

there are wolves that live inside the corn when it’s full grown. they’re huge, and are camouflaged to hide in the fields. their breathing sounds like the misting of the irrigation systems set up over the corn in these areas for water. if they see small children in the fields, they kill and eat them.

now I’ve lived my whole life in suburban Iowa, and I can vouch that we don’t have irrigation systems like that here; our group came to the conclusion that this must be the reason that from our 7 or 8 person sample size, the corn wolves did not exist in Iowa, the largest producer of corn. I’ve never seen the corn wolves mentioned anywhere else outside that one night with the genetics lab, and it really fascinates me because as a horror/creepypasta person myself, I think it’s a great example of those strange little urban legends that never get written down on paper. the fact that it’s never appeared anywhere else in my life kind of confounds me, because it’s a really cool story. i like to go driving around rural Iowa when I’m home from college, and i always end up thinking about the corn wolves.

neither of the people believed it as kids btw lol

This is a FANTASTIC piece of Americana and cryptic lore. I propose making them a thing immediately.

Fun geography time.

This isn’t an unprecedented or unusual piece of folklore, and I think there’s a notable demographic reason that this lore shows-up in the long-grass prairies of the northern Corn Belt of the U.S. This appears to be a classic telling of “Roggenwolf” folklore, a variation on the “feldgeister” concept.

Roggenwolf - or sometimes, Kornwolf - specifically refers to the German folk belief in a phantom wolf spirit which hides in tall corn fields and stalks children. Roggenwolf is one of the more popular and widely-known of the feldgeister spirits.

In German folk culture, Feldgeisters, as is probably obvious from the name, are malevolent spirits which dwell in crops and rural agricultural fields. Feldgeisters are almost always specifically associated with children; that is, they are said to target children for torment and death. They are not really associated with naturally-occurring grasslands or woodlands, but instead are distinctly related to domesticated crops. Sometimes, some rural residents will make small ritualistic offerings during harvest season as a gesture to appease the spirit. The spirit is said to be most active when crops are at their tallest.

Other variations of the crop-dwelling feldgeister include an evil pig (Roggensau); a dog that tickles children to death (Kiddelhunde); a witch-like corn-woman who kidnaps children (Roggenmuhme); and a chicken that pecks-out children’s eyes (Getreidehahn).

I would say that there are two (2!) very good reasons why feldgeister lore shows-up in some micro-regions of the Midwest, while being absent in others. Specifically, both the ethnic heritage and the ecology of a certain part of the Plains/Midwest create good conditions for replicating this European lore in North America

People familiar with the cultural geography of the American Midwest are probably well-aware of the strong ethnic Norwegian presence among rural agricultural cultures in the glaciated plains of the Red River Valley of western Minnesota, the northern half of North Dakota, and northeastern Montana. Ecologically, this landscape is glaciated prairies with pothole lakes, and often hosts much more barley than corn. Meanwhile, the Heartland region of rural Illinois and Indiana, though hosting quite a bit of heavy corn industry, isn’t too much more ethnically German than other parts of America, and much of the landscape is a mixture of Rust Belt industrial areas in-between the cornfields (so it’s not exactly desolate and creepy).

However, there is very strong ethnic German presence in the long-grass prairies southern Minnesota, South Dakota, south-central North Dakota, parts of western Wisconsin, and central Nebraska and Kansas away from the urban areas of Omaha and Kansas City. In most of this land, over 50% of the population has German ancestry. Aside from this cultural composition, this region also lends itself better to creepy, eerie stories because it is more empty and ecologically homogenous than the rest of the Great Lakes and Heartlands; this is the region where crops run uninterrupted for miles and rural dirt-roads run in empty grid networks in every direction. Though the feldgeister concept has a closer association with cornfields in Europe, the long-grass prairies (roughly centered neared Sioux Falls) host 1) heavy German influence, and 2) the most expansive crops in the country. Therefore, the region is probably ripe for a replication of spooky German lore about haunted cornfields.

Source: Me
Map 1 – Cultural Micro-Regions of the Heartland and Great Plains:

I think that this map might help to visualize where both cornfields and rural lifestyle predominate, opening the door to rural folklore. The two regions here where corn agriculture is predominant are the orange and yellow regions. The orange region, the classic “Heartland”, hosts Indiana Hoosier culture and the cornfields of Illinois and Ohio. However, the region is marked by smaller farms and a higher population density, and is not that rural compared to the plains further west; much of this region also hosts larger cities and a lot of Rust Belt industrial zones and dairy farms. The yellow region, however, is both covered in corn and quite rural, where crops can span from horizon to horizon. That’s where we would look for German folk culture.

Source: An anonymous hero cartographer who’s had their work stolen by Pinterest users
Map 2 – German Ancestry in the U.S.

This might help to visualize the places where predominant corn agriculture overlaps with German ancestry. Note that in much of central Wisconsin and central North Dakota, over 50% of people have German ancestry. But this land isn’t really dominated by corn. However, the region roughly from Fargo (on the Minnesota-North Dakota border) to Kansas City is both heavily German and dominated by corn.
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Anyway, feldgeister lore is scary. I’d love to hear more American versions, since a lot of the scholarship on these spooky corn-wolves is based on folk culture in Germany itself, rather than the diaspora in the U.S.