#Rituals

A thread on Jewish incantations, rituals, and anxieties, related to memory in late antiquity and the early medieval period. 1/24 There were two main incantations for improved memory and learning
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midweek messages cancer, scorpio, pisces: someone’s betrayal has affected you tremendously. this has affected you mentally, physically, and emotionally. you must make a decision, whether to live for someone who
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Since ramadan is approaching (3 days left), and i can see many of my non-muslim friends are confused about what is it, and all they can see from the funny
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Compulsory mourning for a stranger sucks.Especially when it’s performative Victorian-style royal mourning, and the past century has seen a huge cultural flip-flop so that death and mourning are as inadmissible/peripheralized
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the xue nyang files this is song lan and xue nyang i swear to god he likes to show off shiny things bite this is xue nyang with xingchen oh
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Sad Update: After fighting COVID and other complications, my dad passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon. A man who loved people had to die with strangers, away from his loved ones.
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Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in Americahttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html?smid=tw-share Here is the essay I wrote to accompany this extraordinary work of journalis
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I was the advisor for the LGBTQ alliance at my college and I remember the backlash and threats my students got when they brought an American flag with rainbow stripes
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This experimental thread discusses the connections between the poster The Four Questions, by ACT UP group Gran Fury, & the four questions, or מה נשתנה, Ma Nishtana, of the Passover
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My dental pain is off the charts excruciating again.But I'm not supposed to talk about that because it's my fault because I'm poor (work harder!) or fat (because fat people
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If you’re interested in becoming a witch this is a thread for you I was little when I was introduced to the Craft. My godmother is Wiccan and my
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Favorite startup frameworks I've discovered on the following topics:- Recruiting- Fundraising- PM-fit- Community Recruiting: It's important to get the first 10 hires right b/c each employee will replicate themselves 10
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Ladies, shall we have some fun? When this tweet is on 200+ rt’s we’ll begin.... lol it’s a goodie too. If I don’t get that 200 before 9.45pm I’m
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Do you remember all the details of your life from one day ago? One or more years ago? No. Therefore, you don't need to remember everything from your previous lives
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i havent seen a lot of this on my timeline, but the covid situation in india is really bad.the whole country is dying, my family's home is literally on the
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I wonder if weird corporate humiliation rituals have evolved partially to take advantage of human capacity to develop coping mechanisms. If I make you sing the walm@rt song in front
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