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general about page:
-chemistry undergrad at [university redacted], applying to grad school next year
-most of my tumblr content was reblogs. that said, expect original content to be mostly shitposts and opinions about current events, various ideas that I wish I had the time for, and some hobby-related stuff (as well as homestuck fanart.)
-some of my interests: plants, linguistics, hebrew (although mine is terrible), other jewish stuff, arguing about science and technology, editing wikipedia, homestuck / problem sleuth
long time no see
Feb. 12th, 2019 09:21 pmWOW it has been a while since I've been on here.
state of the 78nano:
-research is fun but hard, reactions don't work, what else is new
-writing about it is even harder
-I'm taking semantics as my humanities course for the semester! and it is super cool and I love the prof
-my spider plants are growing pretty massive
-I have no time to write or draw anything lately but I may get small things done over the course of the semester. we'll see.
state of the 78nano:
-research is fun but hard, reactions don't work, what else is new
-writing about it is even harder
-I'm taking semantics as my humanities course for the semester! and it is super cool and I love the prof
-my spider plants are growing pretty massive
-I have no time to write or draw anything lately but I may get small things done over the course of the semester. we'll see.
late-night thoughts
Dec. 25th, 2018 12:31 amI'm back home for winter break! it's very weird being back in a place where it is consistently warm and dry. planning to collect a bunch of succulents to take back to boston and propagate.
unrelatedly:
unclear how I can get youtube to recognize that I want to see pet / animal videos along the lines of good cute cat content, and not worrisome videos of humans making poor decisions with wild animals.
what I want:
what I get:
unrelatedly:
unclear how I can get youtube to recognize that I want to see pet / animal videos along the lines of good cute cat content, and not worrisome videos of humans making poor decisions with wild animals.
what I want:
what I get:
been thinking about sabbateans recently
Dec. 8th, 2018 10:24 pmcontext: In the 17th century, a rabbi named Shabbatai Zvi (spellings vary) showed up and became a messiah claimant, ending up with a contingent of followers (Sabbateans), before abruptly converting to Islam and making a lot of people very embarrassed.
until recently I was only vaguely familiar with him and the Sabbateans, but one of their main tenets was pretty wild: everything that is forbidden should actually be allowed. eating chelev, making feasts on fast days, all manner of sexual misconduct, etc. was considered good, and led to interesting scenarios such as wearing tefillin that were actually empty (see the middle of this article ).
I kind of want to look into this more-- partially to understand why anyone was following this guy, partially because it's fascinating (like watching a car crash, I guess?), and partially because it makes me feel a lot better about current divides in the jewish community. sure, people still levy charges of meshichism or non-observance at others, but at least nonsense like this seems to be a thing of the past.
until recently I was only vaguely familiar with him and the Sabbateans, but one of their main tenets was pretty wild: everything that is forbidden should actually be allowed. eating chelev, making feasts on fast days, all manner of sexual misconduct, etc. was considered good, and led to interesting scenarios such as wearing tefillin that were actually empty (see the middle of this article ).
I kind of want to look into this more-- partially to understand why anyone was following this guy, partially because it's fascinating (like watching a car crash, I guess?), and partially because it makes me feel a lot better about current divides in the jewish community. sure, people still levy charges of meshichism or non-observance at others, but at least nonsense like this seems to be a thing of the past.
tumblr exodus?
Dec. 3rd, 2018 10:43 pmI guess this is how it is now!
I was 78nanosieverts on tumblr and will continue to use that username here.
I was 78nanosieverts on tumblr and will continue to use that username here.
