I’m not familiar with that one.
Democrats should pass a bill renaming Republicans “The Dumbass Party”.
The Western Wall (or: Kotel, Buraq Wall, etc.) is often also called the Wailing Wall because Jewish people were perceived as crying, or wailing, at the location during prayers (this may have actually happened, though accounts vary). The crying could have been because of the loss of the holiest site in Judaism, or simply because it was emotional to be in the location held sacred by Jewish people for centuries.
From here - Wailing Wall | History, Location & Features | Study.com
This is a common term among American evangelicals or it was among the ones who raised me back in the 60s and 70s.
No, I know that the Western Wall is sometimes referred to as the “Wailing Wall” in English. I just don’t understand how the Evangelicals fit in.
Oh. The second coming of Jesus. The Temple has to be rebuilt so that can happen. The Western Wall is part of that story playing out the way they expect. They are very big on having supposed prophecy about this play out in a very specific way.
With a side end goal of ridding the planet of Jews.
It’s like you’ve never heard of multi-tasking! /s
This reminds me of small towns in Britain during the Cold war, who would declare themselves “nuclear free zones”. Really? the local council in this small market town in the English countryside will no longer house a stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons or build any nuclear power stations. Wow! This will really shake the nuclear arms race to its core
Oh. That. As if we don’t have enough religious craziness here, you Westerners have to come and impose your weirdo fanfic on us. Get a life, will you?
Those weirdos are trying to impose their fanfic on us too. That’s exactly why most of us have told them to fuck off.
Easy to do? NOT!
Ol’beck…drowning in the bible belt!
(One more cheery “have a blessed day!” And,
I may lose my good manners)
Bless your heart.
I think the idea is that they like that name because they can’t conceive of any circumstance where someone might be happy while engaged in non-Christian prayer.
The city of Berkeley in the great state of California did the same in the 70s or 80s. Sometimes it’s just about making a statement rather than doing anything useful.
The funny thing is that besides some performative crying on certain holidays, since 1967 the whole “wailing” aspect of the Wall has been a thing of the past.
So they want to get rid of the Jews, but call the place Judea??
That is a university town, and it was not merely a statement—well, it was, but the campus nuclear reactor was actually closed. But that is not really important compared to continued involvement in and management of facilities like Los Alamos, so whatever statement was not heard and definitely did nothing useful.
They did this because they are avoiding that thing called work.
In the sense of permitting individuals to have formal legal ownership of other human beings, no, you’re right, that’s not allowed in Arkansas.
In the sense of people being physically forced to do work without pay, actually, slavery is not as extinct in Arkansas as you think.
We are not actually talking about incarcerated criminals, duly adjudicated.
I’m surprised they ever paid inmates more than a pittance, anyway.
They are in prison, after all.
Who’s “we”, and who says so? Maybe that’s not what you thought we were talking about.
But perhaps that is exactly what songsoflovetrouble DID mean when they brought up the topic of “enslaved people” in Arkansas back in post #15. They haven’t been back in the thread since, AFAICT, so we can’t be sure.
Also AFAICT, it is very common for prison reform advocates to emphasize the connections between unpaid forced labor by inmates and pre-Civil War chattel slavery. Up to and including explicitly describing such unpaid forced labor in prisons as “legal enslavement”.
You may assume it’s no big deal for prisoners to be forced to work without compensation, but historically it formed part of a deliberately engineered post-Reconstruction policy to maintain “slavery lite”: