between the poverty, the plagues, and wars you'd only ever find are being waged when soldiers show up in the next village over, i get why ppl felt like humanity was doomed, think doomerism is a response nearly every generation has had
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yikes the Talmud rlly got scapegoated as the source of Jewish 'cunning', and i think on some level the burning spread was more about power, watching books burn at scale, with a fervent crowd who'd found a new target to rally against for their problems
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Dembowski's visions are smth
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Asher's father finds spiritual meaning in the light he works with but Asher j looks at it through science, like he almost views the idea of religion w more disdain or agnosticism. gitla and samuel do seem to soften him, he's grown attached enough atp to abandon his original plan of finding her a diff place to stay
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Jacob's followers are stirring up a lot of fervor but the Besht is urging them to redirect it toward building smth instead of their current path which j seems to be rebellion, they dont hv a real sense of who they are at all
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Jacob will flip to whichever religion offers a temporary advantage and he can easily justify it by claiming the 'true religion' is a synthesis of all three. but because of this contradiction, his followers can't ever be secure because the foundation itself keeps changing
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Ivanie a shit place that's said to be liberal but isn't really, the 'sexual freedom' is j the leaders choosing who to sleep w and shunning women who refuse. and imo Moliwda's account has to be more accurate cuz Hana, as Jacob's wife, is still more shielded and revered in a way most women in Ivanie aren't
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Hayah has been elevated into more of a holy symbol kinda like the Virgin Mary and she's closer to being one of the religion's founding figures than most other ppl
between the poverty, the plagues, and wars you'd only ever find are being waged when soldiers show up in the next village over, i get why ppl felt like humanity was doomed, think doomerism is a response nearly every generation has had
--
yikes the Talmud rlly got scapegoated as the source of Jewish 'cunning', and i think on some level the burning spread was more about power, watching books burn at scale, with a fervent crowd who'd found a new target to rally against for their problems
--
Dembowski's visions are smth
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Asher's father finds spiritual meaning in the light he works with but Asher j looks at it through science, like he almost views the idea of religion w more disdain or agnosticism. gitla and samuel do seem to soften him, he's grown attached enough atp to abandon his original plan of finding her a diff place to stay
--
Jacob's followers are stirring up a lot of fervor but the Besht is urging them to redirect it toward building smth instead of their current path which j seems to be rebellion, they dont hv a real sense of who they are at all
--
Jacob will flip to whichever religion offers a temporary advantage and he can easily justify it by claiming the 'true religion' is a synthesis of all three. but because of this contradiction, his followers can't ever be secure because the foundation itself keeps changing
--
Ivanie a shit place that's said to be liberal but isn't really, the 'sexual freedom' is j the leaders choosing who to sleep w and shunning women who refuse. and imo Moliwda's account has to be more accurate cuz Hana, as Jacob's wife, is still more shielded and revered in a way most women in Ivanie aren't
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Hayah has been elevated into more of a holy symbol kinda like the Virgin Mary and she's closer to being one of the religion's founding figures than most other ppl