I'mma lay your LOLs on the dresser and EXCELSIOR them shits with a spiked bat!

wonder what the mormon zing tradition is like

― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your mama's so fat your dad only needed one wife

― space dokken (Edward III), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yesssss

cold.

amazing

lol

it's nice to get to know people without having to see their underwear

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

VG OTM

edward iii really is secretly one of the funniest people on ilx

troo

lol get a brain morman

and what's that cheesy personality test that has the double barrelled name? we should do that too.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

myers briggs

― goole, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty goole

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did u know that they were married irl?

― goole, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wait that's not true

xp

― goole, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was a mother-daughter team

whoops.

― goole, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:25 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, they were married

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:26 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IBZocFkXGY

i've always been fascinated by uranus, but am i selfish for wanting to get break through the surface? i want to see uranus as it truly is.

i'm talking about a butt

― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new kanye single is pretty weird

i can't figure out if its ironic for me to be Gargamel for halloween since he was basically "a Jew"

― atlas sug (bnw), Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Regular Gargamel or Sexy Gargamel?

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the wikipedia page for gargamel is fascinating

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargamel

There should be a trigger warning for any mention of the Smurfs or Gargamel now, the movie is that bad.

According to Antoine Buéno, Gargamel is created as an archetypal Jew[4], with a big nose, magic powers, love of gold, and balding looks, Gargamel carries a lot of symbolism.

No horns, gtfo.

One of my roommates in college was p religious Jew who had gone to Jewish day school. One time they took a cross country school trip and some kid she met in the mid-west told her she couldn't be Jewish because she didn't have horns. True story. :/

I didn't even know about the whole horns thing until she told me that story.

something similar happened to me once - someone asked to see my horns, i must've been in ~6th grade at the time

What is the basis of the horns thing again? That's so insane.

I honestly did not hear the "Jews have horns" thing until a conversation on ILX where someone mentioned that defacing a picture by drawing horns on it was anti-Semitic

same thing happened to my mom in college - her freshman year roommate iirc

i think you misheard her u big stud

mistranslation of the word keren when describing moses descending from the mountain caused michelangelo to make moses w/ horns

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/michelangelo-sculptures-18.jpg

uh xp to mordy, this fukn phone

lol they were being euphemistic

I always assumed the drawn-on horns were supposed to make the person look like the devil. I don't know if it has real anti-semitic origins, but I doubt that's what most people think they're doing, and I kind of prefer not to even spread that idea because it just makes it more true, if that makes sense.

i think they thought i was hiding my horns under my yarmulke

mordy, that's amazing in re michaelangelo (keren -- my daughter's name btw -- means ray of light, for those who don't know, but it does also mean "horn" in the antiquated sense, like a horn of plenty, iirc)

something similar happened to me once - someone asked to see my horns, i must've been in ~6th grade at the time

― Mordy, Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:57 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:/ You should have seen my face when she told me that story. I had no idea that was even a thing. Also being from Long Island and living in NYC it was pretty weird to me that this dude had never met a Jewish person before.

speaking of kerens, do u know keren ann's music? xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0Qx8HwlW4

ive heard that story about the moses a lot but i always thought it was kinda bullshit. seems more likely that michelangelo was just reproducing an anti-semitic stereotype, doesnt it? i dont know the sourcing on the mistranslation story though

huh

The depiction of a horned Moses was the normal medieval Western depiction of Moses, based on the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus.[3] The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the Vulgate as, "And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord."[4] This was, however, a mistranslation of the original Hebrew Masoretic text which uses a term equivalent to "radiant",[5] suggesting an effect like a halo. The Greek Septuagint translated the verse as "Moses knew not that the appearance of the skin of his face was glorified."[6]

The church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch comments about this: "Jerome [the translator of the Old Testament into Latin], mistaking particles of Hebrew, had turned this into a description of Moses wearing a pair of horns - and so the Lawgiver is frequently depicted in the art of the Western Church, even after humanists had gleefully removed the horns from the text of Exodus."[7]

The assumption for centuries was that Michelangelo simply "didn't know better" than the accepted mistranslation. However, as Rabbi Benjamin Blech pointed out in his 2008 book, Sistine Secrets,

"[The statue] never had horns. The artist had planned Moses as a masterpiece not only of sculpture, but also of special optical effects worthy of any Hollywood movie. For this reason, the piece had to be elevated and facing straight forward, looking in the direcion of the front door of the basilica. The two protrusions on the head would have been invisible to the viewer looking up from the floor below — the only thing that would have been seen was the light reflected off of them." [2]
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i wonder what the relationship btw the anti-semitic myth of horns and the "normal medieval Western depiction of Moses" as being horned is

i took a class in college w/ benjamin blech! he told all kinds of stories of visiting the pope and touring the vatican archives

have u ever been to rome? the moses is unbelievable in person

he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.

adding "... with sexy results!" to this seems redundant

so is the image of the horned devil originally an anti-semitic thing?

everything is invisible except the light reflecting off it

"[The statue] never had horns"

huh? but... it has horns!

you never horns

this rabbi says the "horns" thing may originally not have had negative connotations, which may explain why michaelangelo portrayed such a noble-looking horned moses:

http://whctemple.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-jews-have-horns.html

it kind of makes sense -- there are several traditions with horned gods, e.g.

These aren't cow-licks.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NWYf5I8tijI/UIR5wUeJoJI/AAAAAAAADJQ/fVZ58-50UmA/s640/IMG_8861.jpg

bunny ears

stop it guys, i can't stop laughing

@'_'@

'Sup. Brought ur commandments iirc'