19:27

"You must not cut off the hair on your forehead or clip the ends of your beard."

You want me to just let my hair keep growing indefinitely? 🤔

The ends? You mean the tips? There's no hair beyond that. That's where the hair stops.

Do we mean trimming? So I can only shave my beard if I cut it off at the follicle? I can't decide how long I want it and keep it at that length???

19:33/19:34 (respectively)

"When immigrants live in your land with you, you must not cheat them." / "Any immigrant who lives with you must be treated as if they were one of your citizens. You must love them as yourself, because you were immigrants in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God"

OOF. Don't say that one too loud in... Well pretty much anywhere on earth 🤣

Dude don't get me wrong, that thing is not garbage. There's a reason I didn't just paste the whole page. A lot of it is reasonable and timeless. But some only applied to the problems they were facing in that time period. It's obsolete now.

Being gay was dangerously counterproductive in an underpopulated world with higher infant mortality rate, shorter lifespans, less efficient travel leading to lower genetic diversity causing higher susceptibility to pathogens, bad medical care, and no artificial means of reproduction.

Accidental pregnancies only happen in opposite-sex situations. They needed every baby they could get. At least one baby for every adult just to maintain the population. For every gay couple that wasn't reproducing, a straight couple would have to raise twice as many kids.

That's not fair. I don't want ANY damn kids, much less four. If I had lived back then, I probably would've been homophobic too. But all the factors that made it wrong have been greatly mitigated. That shit's over. Let it go.

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Oh for h*ck's sake 🙄

Like 99% of y'all haven't read a page of that book 🤦

Look at the OTHER Levitican laws. ☝🤓

Common English version

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019&version=CEB

19:13

“You must not oppress your neighbors or rob them. Do not withhold a hired laborer’s pay overnight"

My employer should be paying me every day? 🤔 Well, not a bad idea, but how about once every two weeks? Close enough. 👌

19:18

"You must not take revenge nor hold a grudge against any of your people; instead, you must love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord."

Unless I don't like where they stuck their dick, right? 🤔

19:19

“You must keep my rules. Do not crossbreed your livestock, do not plant your field with two kinds of seed, and do not wear clothes made from two kinds of material.."

You want me to only grow one kind of plant??? ☝😳

My pants are a sin??? 🙄
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You didn't miss anything important. There was humor, but not good enough to be worth explaining. The important part is I'm happy for you 🤗

I found out my understanding of this was flawed. There's actually nothing in the definition of philia that implies the person doesn't like anything else. Same word whether it's an exclusive taste or not. Seems like an important variable to me 🤣

Like if I had a vampire living in my house I would wanna know which franchise it's from. Does it just LIKE blood or does it NEED blood? It's not gonna nom on a human if a sandwich is just as good. Am I at risk or not??? Idgaf what it's thinking, I care what it's gonna DO 😅

I don't think I found any distinction between the words fetish and kink and philia either. Iirc it wasn't worded very efficiently and it took me a long time to read, but I think the gist was that all those words just mean someone likes something.

My memory of the research is surprisingly vague. Weird af because this really wasn't all that long ago. Less than a year. There's much older memories about much less interesting topics that I remember more clearly 🤔

Thank you, friend! 🥰

It was the US election results, most recently.

I know you didn't ask, but I think it was out of courtesy and not disinterest.

I'd much rather give a cruel person an opportunity to get their aggression out than let a kind person worry more than they already are.

Uncertainty makes everything more scary, so if you had to use your imagination, there's no telling what you may have visualized.

Plus, I'm really not vulnerable to any verbal/written cruelty, and whatever hits me won't hit anyone else 😊🤙

You don't carry a tower shield onto the battlefield and then stand there with your bare hands covering the front side of the shield. Shields are supposed to get hit 😋💖

Nothing that I said contradicts anything that you said. It may look like it, but this is not a genuine disagreement.

This is a manifestation of a communication barrier that was put in place deliberately. Things are like this by design.

Vocabulary, attention span, and reading comprehension are systematically restricted. The purpose of it is to prevent people from understanding that they're talking about different things, and it creates the illusion that we all have less common ground than we really do.

It ensures the constant presence of enough easily avoidable conflict to keep people distracted from the real problems, and to keep them from unifying against those problems.

People's expectations of unifying against those problems will be kept to a minimum if they're under the impression that they can't even agree on much more mundane topics.

But this is not a genuine disagreement. This a smokescreen. It's a diversion. As long as we're busy with this, we're not doing what we should be doing.

The problems are actually not problems from the perspective of the people who are causing them. It's exactly what they want. That's why the communication barrier in place. It was out there by tge same people.

I am sorry, friend, but I don't have the energy to explain this in relation to a mundane topic right now, because I'm in other places for hours at a time trying to explain to people that humanity just made one of its most hideous mistakes, and that the reason it happened is because people cannot understand each other, because they cannot communicate.

This was not a disaster. This was not negligence. This was exploitation and this was orchestrated. It worked on almost everyone. Even the smartest people I've ever known walked straight into it, and I need to make sure we have something left to protect after this.

I can't do this with you right now. I'm too tired. I shouldn't have even typed as much as I have, but that is not my way.

You are loved, and you are needed. Don't give up. This world would not be okay without you.

May your roads lead to warm sands 🤝❤

Gentle polite reminder

While a manga is still ongoing, stuff like this is just speculation, but our comments will still be here when the manga is completed.

So they'll be seen by first time readers who didn't start until after it was completed, and if we turn out to be right it can spoil it for them. It's not a spoiler in a technical sense, since by definition you would have be sure it's true.

But from that person's perspective, it's effectively it's the same thing. I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, btw. Intent is always relevant. Intent is the difference between lying and saying something that you aren't aware is untrue.

Deception is different from just being misinformed. Similarly, an educated guess you made for fun with your fellow hobbyists in a context where none of us could possibly know for sure is different from a spoiler.

I love trying to predict where stories will go, and since none of my manga reader friends have picked this one up, the people I see here are the only ones I could do that with, so I understand the motivation, and I think people should feel free to do it. But I care about future readers too.

I wish there was a second cover-up option for guesses, that was distinct from the spoiler one. I don't think predictions should be out in the open, but I don't think they should be expected to be spoiler tagged either. I don't want anyone to feel restricted 🤔

Omg, really? 2 days? That's amazeballs 😄

50 chapters and like 60 pages each 😅

Inb4 anyone tells this person to touch grass, come to wherever my VPN says I am right meow and 1v1 me IRL 👊😼

If your mind ain't healthy enough to appreciate that, I got one gif to show ya👇

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Hmm. I think this is a good sign 🤔

If he can prove that to her, she's gonna know her height isn't hereditary. If wanting "normal" kids is the reason she's limiting her dating pool to smol guys, that might help mitigate her obsession with Sillan.

I hope that happens. She seems far enough gone that most people would probably consider her a lost cause and just kill her, but that is not my way.

BT-dubs, this is TOTALLY a virtuous merciful gentle soul speaking, and not just a submissive perv who is salty because he's taller than any AFAB IRL, and doesn't wanna stop seeing the hot psycho Amazon domme.

I am ABSOLUTELY out here thinkin' "Has anyone considered factoring in her circumstances? How much mental stability can we fairly expect? Ya know, there is a difference between wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein wasn't the monster. Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster. Naiveté is excusable, but the MC's consciousness is much older than her. He better not mess this up."

And I'm NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT thinkin' 👇

[Content/trigger warning: Detailed kinks. Masochism, degradation, and femdom. No ToS violations, but if you're vanilla I don't recommend tapping it. I always let my freak flag fly, but that doesn't mean I don't care about your comfort. You are not wrong for having simple tastes, just as I am not wrong for having weird ones. The heart wants what it wants, and so do the genitals 🙂🤝 Fair warning, Okie-dokes? 🤙]

"Whether she becomes an ally or rival, she's gonna fight again. Maybe she'll step on someone's face, choke them with her thighs, or squeeze their fun parts so hard that their mouth opens involuntarily and then spit in it while they scream and gag until they swallow every drop. Maybe there'll be low angle POV parts 🤔"

Wait, I thought Rifenhardt told his whole inner circle about how he's lived through the future on this timeline before.

I KNOW he told Siris, but iirc he was kinda backed into a corner on that one. I think the decision to be honest was improvised for damage control, not plan A.

I don't see why else he wouldn't tell Sillan exactly what's up unless he doesn't know about the future thingy.

Deception isn't something I'm good at but it's only because I never get any practice. I understand it very well in theory. If it was me and Sillan didn't already know, I may consider not telling him. It would be a risk/reward ratio situation.

If he was seeming like he was gonna walk right into it, I'd probably tell him, but he seems to be taking the situation seriously enough already. As long as he avoids her like the plague, his motivation isn't super relevant since it will yield the same result.

So it may be more effective to support his decision for a reason that aligns with his established beliefs instead of trying to persuade him to believe something new. Even if it's not something that contradicts his old stuff, it's still a longer path.

I might fabricate something if need be, but I don't think it's necessary. His objection is based on perfect logic. He knows she's not gonna treat him right. That's reason enough.

For the sake of your own fun/pleasure, if the dumb/oblivious MC thing bothers you to a problematic extent, you might want to reconsider your interest in the harem genre.

People keep calling this out like it doesn't make sense, but think about it. It's integral to plausibility. It's the only way the harem genre can be a thing.

If the MC was competent enough to make up his mind, the story would be over. They'd become a couple, and the harem would disperse and look for other people to date.

I'm not saying an established relationship couldn't make a good story. It could be great. I'm just saying it wouldn't be harem. If the author wants to write harem, their plot has to have something in it that prevents the MC from deciding.

I can probably think of other ways to write harem, but I'm getting pulled away right now. I'll probably remember to come back and edit this later

Idk how much they've mentioned of his religion, like how old it is. If it's super old it might have a situation going on like Christianity does.

Rules that originally had merit because they addressed the problems people were facing at the time, but have since become obsolete, like Leviticus. There is no valid criticism to be made against homosexuality in modern times, but back then it was dangerously counterproductive.

In that setting, earth was underpopulated and there were no artificial means of reproduction. Unplanned pregnancies only come from straight sex. In times that desperate, individuals waiting until they're certain they're ready was bad for the collective. Quantity was more important than quality.

Like, mortals technically don't have the authority to amend divine laws, but if nobody's heard from the deity in thousands of years and they're living in vastly different circumstances, responsible followers gotta step up and do something.

They have faith that their deity is well-meaning and that their best interests are in mind, so there must be a legit reason they're not being guided anymore. They conclude that peace is the priority, so if they think it'll help, they start drawing their own lines.

In this case, if his deity thinks getting stepped on by giant women is wrong, it just never met THAT one 😳 It's not fair to expect people to consider information they don't have access to, so I'm not gonna resent the deity but I'm not gonna follow the rule either 🤙I can be a man of God and still get stepped on 🤣

Well, in this case more like a boy of God, but I was tapping [Enter site, I am 18+] when I was much younger than him, and "practice what you preach" is rule zero of integrity, so I can't say much 😅

Woah, how the h*ck did I not notice this before? This is my second time reading this.

He just said "You're 10 years too early to be asking me on a date" but Ohga doesn't know he's an adult.

I thought maybe they just accidentally drew a speech bubble instead of a thought bubble, but Ohga replied to it 🤔

Hehe, that's adorable 🤣 Imagine how awkward you gotta be to hear that from someone who's enrolled in the same school as you, and come back with just "It's not a date!"

So worried about social discomfort that potential crime doesn't even cross his mind 😂

A better question would be "How am I treating the people around me in my day to day life?"

If you're not causing problems for other people, you're a good person. Simple as that. ✌

What you choose to do with your recreational time is a major contributing factor to what your personality is like, and by extension, what your behavior is like.

Being deprived of what you enjoy will only make you unhappy, and that'll be everyone's problem. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others.

This next bit of info may sound crazy, because it takes an amount of real world experience and deep/close human interaction than many people have access to, but...

The FREAKIEST people have the BIGGEST hearts. That is NOT an opinion.

Think about it in terms of practicality. It helps SO much with perspective to have such bizarre feelings.

The kind of people who kick their kid out of their home for being transgender are always the kind of people who are only having sex in missionary position under a blanket with the lights off and no talking.

To someone like that, it doesn't take a whole lot of deviation to make them consider something inexcusably abnormal, inevitably problematic, and in need of correction.

But to a person who's into freaky stuff, they have the perspective they need to understand that that's not a big deal.

When they've got WAY weirder stuff going on between their own ears and know they're consistently behaving themselves, they don't expect that person is inevitably gonna cause trouble.

You have to reach a high level of comfort/trust with most people before they show you every part of themselves, and people just plain don't do that enough.

Oh wow, that's a real thing? Have you seen both of those traits within the same individual yourself?

I ask because sometimes when people point out what seems like a contradiction, they haven't genuinely seen any confirmed overlap. They're just correlating things they've seen from multiple individuals within a group of people that's really too big/diverse to fairly do that with, so it's kind of an illusion.

That would be fascinating if it's real. I'd be interested in hearing that person's rationality 🤔 But they'd probably think I was just one of those people who think randos have to prove themselves to them. As if their approval is crypto currency 😆

I've seen young-looking adults have pretty bad stuff said to them. Stuff like "Anyone who would be attracted to you is a pedo." It's cruel, really, because like you said, it could mess with their dating prospects really badly.

It's one thing to just be single and feel lonely, most of us have been there, but I can't imagine having my mind altered in a way where as soon as anyone showed interest in me I would be afraid.

Especially if THAT was the reason. Like what if I wanted my own kids, but couldn't get that idea out of my head? Obviously my partner would be the other parent in that scenario.

If the only kind of partner I can attract is the kind that wouldn't be appropriate for the role, then wtf do I do? Does my DNA dictate that I can never have family??? 😥

About the age thing, there has been a good bit of evidence found recently that the brain isn't performing at optimum efficiency until 25. I saw it in a Netflix documentary. It was pretty compelling.

Raising the threshold for adulthood might be the right decision in the interest of society, and we all know something's gotta change, because people are just way too unkind and unhappy on average.

Idk where the line should be, but I know one thing. Dating is not the only expectation that's relevant to this. Adulthood comes with responsibilities and privileges, and wherever that line is, that's where ALL of them begin.

If someone's not mentally fit enough to decide for themselves who to date, they shouldn't be expected to hold a job and pay their own bills either. No adult privileges, no adult responsibilities.

If we're gonna start calling a 24 year old a kid, we're also gonna stop calling them a loser for not having their own house. Don't get me wrong, that shouldn't be happening even now, but you get what I mean.

Is that criticism? 🤔

I ask because escapism is generally looked on in a critical way, but you're talking about the only sickness in the world where asking for help gets the person killed.

That's the only reason why there's still no cure. Can't do research without volunteers. Scared people hide. As long as the stigma remains, the crimes will too.

The people who believe they're the most virtuous are uninterested in a cure, because in reality they're just full of hatred. They don't want to protect. They want to harm. They are actively assuring that the risk remains constant.

I think desperate improvisation is to be expected. It's healthier than just resenting the world until it turns them into a monster.

"If I'm already hated by everyone just because of who I am, regardless of my behavior, then where is my incentive to behave? Other than criminal charges, I don't have any. I'm just gonna do whatever I want, as much as I can get away with."

👆 That right there, that's a mental place none of us should be letting anyone get to. The person who comes to that conclusion is about to become everyone's problem. We all have a personal stake in that.

Now that "do whatever I want." part varies from person to person, so this mindset is more dangerous in some people than it is in others. That particular group would cause more harm than most.

Not all of us have kids, but factoring in all the indirect harm that that stuff leads to (victims minds get messed up. It makes them do bad things too), I think it's in all of our best interest to be sure that group is adequately incentivized to restrain themselves.

Whatever they need to think/feel/believe/do in order to avoid victimizing someone, that's the right move to make. All thoughts are effectively non-existent if they don't manifest in behavior. And like I said, they can't ask for help, so you better hope they figure out something.

That whole "Push the unpopular person until they snap" protocol does not have a great success rate. I think anyone who's attended a school can vouch for that.

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Hehe, I adore smart wise goofballs so much. That epic analysis was brought to us by BallsDeep69 💪

That's not a sassy backhanded compliment, either. BernieBear isn't one of my accounts that fit the theme, but I've done a lot of that elsewhere, so it's very pleasant to see what it looks like from an outsider's perspective.

A funny response to that question I pray to see this happen someday, ideally not as part of a parody but as the single instance of 4th wall breaking in a long-running story, would be...

"Bro no offense to your appearance but I have NO freaking idea. You can't just size someone up in fiction. Grand Zeno looks like a happy meal toy."