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i’m on verse joshua 12:1

“i put new people on a pedestal, worshipping them for their surprising kindness to me, for their benevolent notice. how many silver-plated statues have i erected, only to humanize them as i grow to know their vulnerable frailties-?”

i’m on verse joshua 9:1

bro, just destroying villages left and right…that’s a little fucked imo (me applying my modern day morals to the literal bible)

i’m on verse joshua 5:1 aka “circumcision at gilgal” how riveting

not done for today, but damn, sylvia got some bars. “is everything we do an attempt to choose between the lesser of two evils? is man, in this sense, born in original sin?”
the rest of the paragraph is gold too, but alas, there is a word count.

i’m on verse joshua 1:1

finally finished deuteronomy. i’m gonna miss moses rip to a real one

i’m on verse deuteronomy 33:1

god is giving real “you’ll never find anyone else like me” vibes “leave me and i’ll treat you like shit” vibes…

i’m on verse deuteronomy 30:1

i’m not done reading for today but just want to document
-she attends smith college 👀
-boys tend to bore her / not engage her well enough
-wrote an entire journal entry on another girl’s breasts

sylvia, is there something you want to tell us?

i’m on verse: deuteronomy 27:1

i’m on verse: deuteronomy 23:1

these rules are literally so random with no other reason other than “the lord your god detests this” brüther, if i want to cross dress, that’s not your problem

idk goodreads is saying i’m 100% done but there’s still like 15 pages, r u ok goodreads?

if he had made mr. barton the secondary character instead of doctor leete, this book would be twice as better

this book is short and i thought i would breeze through it in a week. it’s so dialogue heavy it hurts my brain lol

this book is very dialogue heavy and so it feels more like telling than showing, which i dislike

(on artists dropping their name before the song starts, think “DJ KHALED!”)
[…] naming is at the centre of elaborate rituals in which MCs and rappers establish their right to speak before doing so and connect collective identity to community territory.”
“they contribute to the ability of the group to define itself and symbolize its collective identity in cultural expression.”