wolfe but sad @wolfgang@awoo.space

chapter 4: the desert and roof story makes sense to me somehow. reminds me of jonah maybe? but also like,,,, of COURSE the way only to beat the devil is to rules-lawyer around quotes from scripture. i'd say it's the most jewish thing in the entire chapter EXCEPT right after that, jesus goes on to go around synagogues and does an EVEN MORE jewish thing: he teaches his own new interpretation of scripture and gets everyone mad at him!!!!!!

there we go; chapter 3 feels much more similar to the old testament. especially the extremely long list of names of jesus' ancestors(?) that i have literally 0 context for. classic

this book feels so far like it's trying REALLY HARD to constantly impress me with how miraculous and special everything is and like,,, dude,, chill,,

chapter 2 seems to continue the trend of "oh you think the OLD testament was epic?? then get a load o' THIS!!"

also the story about jesus staying behind in the temple to ask questions and learn stuff feels to me like,,, peak Autistic Jewish Boy. in a parallel universe where i was raised religious, that would've 100000% been me at age 12

ANYWAY,,,,,,,,,,, after this wild ride,,,,, on to chapter 2 😵

i love the implication that when zechariah goes nonverbal, the people around him try to accommodate and sign with him 🥹 never mind the reason right now 🙃

goyim, are y'all doin ok?

like straight off the bat not one, but TWO prophecies of weird holy birth

(bonus: a person going nonverbal)

and then we find out the two mothers are RELATIVES?

and then mary visits elizabeth and randomly breaks into song???? (and decides to stay there like 3 months for some reason?)

is this real? is this a translation quirk?? it's like if someone tried to make a parody of Genesis and i'm only like halfway through the first chapter????

ok @else 's livetoot has made me finally start reading The New Testament for the first time ever and WOW this document is WILD i love it

the bus gods are kind to me today

i think one could describe my sign language learning progress right now as: amazingly fast, and yet agonizingly slow

my teacher agreed to send me the homework+answers for the entire course and now my plan for the coming weeks is: hyperfixate 🤩

when i'm not Told What To Think about a song, i'm free to form my own opinion, untainted by any prejudices other than my own

people = mostly my family, also some school friends

....huh

i think i may have been conditioned by peoples reactions to listen to unpopular music

whenever i listen to stuff people know, they always voice various opinions i don't want to hear; so by listening to stuff no one else is familiar with, i can avoid being Interacted At in that way

if i had a car it would take less, but still more than you'd think because of the traffic in the area i need to get to

today i will be covering a distance of roughly 12 km (~8 mi) and i'm expecting it to take about an hour and a half

it just fucks with my mind how small israel is, and yet how big it can feel when i need to get somewhere

i have a 45 second tiktok song stuck in my head and i am determined to get it stuck in everyone else's heads too

ok i think i'm done spamming the public timelines with my probably-lukewarm-by-now takes on languages and the field of linguistics for now 😇