My wife has always gone by her middle name, but when we moved to the US and she started work her supervisor called her by her first name. Being very unsure of herself in a new country she let it ride. After a time she got used to it and she liked having one name to use at work and another at home. It gave her a nice separation.
My best friend's brother's boyfriend was just "Uncle [name]'s good friend" at Christmas for several years. This past Christmas, he was "Uncle [name]'s fiancée". The kid's didn't care, they just like hanging out with both of them.
If you strip off all the religious window-dressing, a lot of Leviticus can be read as pretty solid public health measures. It was apparently given at the stage when the Israelites had just left Egypt. They'd gone from a settled culture with an infrastructure, to a nomadic band wandering around in the desert, having to set up a new camp every night, with no infrastructure and limited resources.
Read through that lens, a lot of the commands make more sense. Don't put the latrine pits near your water source. Wash regularly, especially before eating. If someone gets sick, isolate them. Re-examine the sick person on a regular schedule, taking special note of particular symptoms, and determine if they're getting better or worse. Don't eat shellfish (a major source of food poisoning) or pigs (which are particularly likely to pass on disease or parasites to humans if not cooked adequately). Don't eat a sick animal or one you've found dead. Drain all the blood from carcasses intended for human consumption (which helps delay spoilage).
Fantasy author Terry Pratchett (of blessed memory) described a concept called headology. Granny Weatherwax, an expert in the art, prescribed the following treatment. The man was given a potion in an elaborate bottle and told to walk to a particular waterfall daily. There he should drink a mouthful of the potion, throw a stone into the falls as a gift for the pixies, and recite a special prayer asking their help to heal him. Another witch pointed out that there were no pixies in that waterfall and the "potion" was coloured water. Granny replied the best treatment for the man was regular exercise in the open air, and he was much more likely to adhere to a complicated mystic ritual than simply take a daily walk. That's classic headology.
And in that time and place, the Israelites were much more likely to follow basic health precautions if they were wrapped up as religious ritual. So thought the author of Leviticus. That's my theory about the sensible parts, anyway. There's definitely some batshit stuff there as well.
Prosecutors have to wait for every tiny bit of evidence to be perfect. So you progressives keep having conniption fits and screaming “Off with their heads!” like the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
Those of us of a more patient temperament will laugh while you whine. As I always say, Watergate took two years; Nixon had to be chased out of office.
My granddaughter turned 18 last May. She ran right out and registered. She's pissed about the climate, she's pissed about not being able to go to school because it cost too much, and she's pissed because Manchin and the R's fucked up her chance to get a year of Community College under her belt while she figured out what she's going to do.
Who cares if he knew or not? The narrative was perfect for achieving his goals, and he was more than willing to use this gullible woman toward that end. It was on him (and his staff) to determine the truth of any statement he was prepared to make publicly on this subject.
A spotlight has been thrown on this family and this child, which should help make everything clear to the transgendered child. Especially if being white and conservative in Florida suddenly loses its cachet, and someone decides to prosecute Mom for knowingly making false statements in a legal filing.
Lennox had a manufacturing plant in my town. They were having contentious contract negotiations with the union. Lennox claimed massive cuts in both benefits and salaries were needed to keep the plant going through those hard economic times. The union panicked and gave in.
SPOILER ALERT! Lennox had already made plans to close the plant and sell the land for development six months before contract negotiations started but went on to use those concessions to wring the same thing out of other locals during their negotiations until they actually shut down the plant in my town, of course. Then, the cat was kind of out of the bag with all those niggling public filings and nosy journamalism people.
It's now the location of Lennox Towne Centre, a trendy little collection of shops and eateries with Target as an anchor and a multiplex with an IMAX screen.
Thank Dog; my town kept the parental rights asshole off of the school board. His other priority was to make our sports teams more competitive. Basically, the dick wanted to be Theresa with bragging rights at the bar.
The anti-gay stuff, from what I understand, was rooted in ensuring the nomadic band would continue to reproduce rather than die out, and distinguishing itself from neighboring societies where members of all sexes practiced temple prostitution. Also, perhaps, it was a prohibition against raping vanquished enemy soldiers as a show of dominance. Disclaimer: I am not a Biblical scholar.
My wife has always gone by her middle name, but when we moved to the US and she started work her supervisor called her by her first name. Being very unsure of herself in a new country she let it ride. After a time she got used to it and she liked having one name to use at work and another at home. It gave her a nice separation.
Many have gone to jail.
Some for a month or three. Even the longer sentences I've seen will have them out in time for the next inauguration.
Fun fact: the DoJ is "the world's largest law firm" with over 9,000 attorneys and over 100,000 employees.
So Yay! 15 months and they've clapped some ankle bracelets on 200-300 Cletuses.
My best friend's brother's boyfriend was just "Uncle [name]'s good friend" at Christmas for several years. This past Christmas, he was "Uncle [name]'s fiancée". The kid's didn't care, they just like hanging out with both of them.
If you strip off all the religious window-dressing, a lot of Leviticus can be read as pretty solid public health measures. It was apparently given at the stage when the Israelites had just left Egypt. They'd gone from a settled culture with an infrastructure, to a nomadic band wandering around in the desert, having to set up a new camp every night, with no infrastructure and limited resources.
Read through that lens, a lot of the commands make more sense. Don't put the latrine pits near your water source. Wash regularly, especially before eating. If someone gets sick, isolate them. Re-examine the sick person on a regular schedule, taking special note of particular symptoms, and determine if they're getting better or worse. Don't eat shellfish (a major source of food poisoning) or pigs (which are particularly likely to pass on disease or parasites to humans if not cooked adequately). Don't eat a sick animal or one you've found dead. Drain all the blood from carcasses intended for human consumption (which helps delay spoilage).
Fantasy author Terry Pratchett (of blessed memory) described a concept called headology. Granny Weatherwax, an expert in the art, prescribed the following treatment. The man was given a potion in an elaborate bottle and told to walk to a particular waterfall daily. There he should drink a mouthful of the potion, throw a stone into the falls as a gift for the pixies, and recite a special prayer asking their help to heal him. Another witch pointed out that there were no pixies in that waterfall and the "potion" was coloured water. Granny replied the best treatment for the man was regular exercise in the open air, and he was much more likely to adhere to a complicated mystic ritual than simply take a daily walk. That's classic headology.
And in that time and place, the Israelites were much more likely to follow basic health precautions if they were wrapped up as religious ritual. So thought the author of Leviticus. That's my theory about the sensible parts, anyway. There's definitely some batshit stuff there as well.
That’s completely wrong.
Prosecutors have to wait for every tiny bit of evidence to be perfect. So you progressives keep having conniption fits and screaming “Off with their heads!” like the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
Those of us of a more patient temperament will laugh while you whine. As I always say, Watergate took two years; Nixon had to be chased out of office.
My granddaughter turned 18 last May. She ran right out and registered. She's pissed about the climate, she's pissed about not being able to go to school because it cost too much, and she's pissed because Manchin and the R's fucked up her chance to get a year of Community College under her belt while she figured out what she's going to do.
Who cares if he knew or not? The narrative was perfect for achieving his goals, and he was more than willing to use this gullible woman toward that end. It was on him (and his staff) to determine the truth of any statement he was prepared to make publicly on this subject.
A spotlight has been thrown on this family and this child, which should help make everything clear to the transgendered child. Especially if being white and conservative in Florida suddenly loses its cachet, and someone decides to prosecute Mom for knowingly making false statements in a legal filing.
Lennox had a manufacturing plant in my town. They were having contentious contract negotiations with the union. Lennox claimed massive cuts in both benefits and salaries were needed to keep the plant going through those hard economic times. The union panicked and gave in.
SPOILER ALERT! Lennox had already made plans to close the plant and sell the land for development six months before contract negotiations started but went on to use those concessions to wring the same thing out of other locals during their negotiations until they actually shut down the plant in my town, of course. Then, the cat was kind of out of the bag with all those niggling public filings and nosy journamalism people.
It's now the location of Lennox Towne Centre, a trendy little collection of shops and eateries with Target as an anchor and a multiplex with an IMAX screen.
And easy access on and off the freeway.
Tolkien's Old Testament (The Silmarillion) was better.
And every war's going to have its collateral damage.
That is probably the name and information on his insurance.
An individual who is transitioning may have many accounts and documents that are residual in this way.
What is important is to do what you did and accord them respectful courtesy and recognition now, while the accounts and documents catch up.
Thank Dog; my town kept the parental rights asshole off of the school board. His other priority was to make our sports teams more competitive. Basically, the dick wanted to be Theresa with bragging rights at the bar.
The anti-gay stuff, from what I understand, was rooted in ensuring the nomadic band would continue to reproduce rather than die out, and distinguishing itself from neighboring societies where members of all sexes practiced temple prostitution. Also, perhaps, it was a prohibition against raping vanquished enemy soldiers as a show of dominance. Disclaimer: I am not a Biblical scholar.
Nope, not at all, wrong, try again.
You're describing situational sexuality, which is not at all the same as sexual orientation.
I made that joke to my kid (Gay, asexual, pronouns She/Her), and she shot right back that I was NEVER going to a home.
She needed someone to look after her pets while she was in the field digging up dinosaurs.