Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]

“Take Chances. Make Mistakes. Get Messy.”

Hexbear’s fourth grade teacher, taking the class on adventures and defeating misogyny, racism, and misanthropy.

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  • You’re suggesting that your statement is self-evident. You need to cite specific named and numbered passages which back up your claim explicitly, not implicitly.

    In which passage does the Bible say or even allude to Moses suffering the curse of Cain?

    Thebetween both wandering is certainly interesting to draw, but it’s a just a parallel, not evidence. You’ve discovered literary symbolism at best.

    Do you purport to have unique, divine knowledge of the scripture that supersedes all other interpretation?



  • I think there’s two misunderstandings here, coming from syntactic ambiguity. Lemme try to break it down.

    It’s the descendents of angels who mated with women who plagued the world with evil.

    It was angels who mated with human women. It was their descendants who plagued the world with evil.

    This is a somewhat common but wrong interpretation of Nephilim, from Bereshit 6:4. Better interpretation and translation can make an incredible difference, especially when compared to the nonsense cooked up by a bunch of dudes in the 16th century who had no access to any of the original texts or even direct translations of the original text.

    Rashi’s interpretation and the JPS 1917 translation are really well respected, and I’ll take their understanding of the original text to be far more accurate than anyone working with one of the dozens of awful translation telephone nightmares based on the Septuagint or Vulgate, like any of the Catholic Bibles, King James Version, or Geneva Bible. Even most of the English translated Christian Bibles that claim to use the Masoretic Text absolutely don’t. If someone is interpreting Genesis 4:6 as meaning the children of angels, they’ve either got a bad Septuagint based translation, or they’re Randall.


    (Somehow, chabad.org still has the easiest to read digital torah with Rashi’s commentary. In spite of it all, the techbros at Sefaria just haven’t succeeded at reinventing the wheel in this regard.)


  • I’m saying that Moses is Cain reincarnated.

    This statement is considered heretical, derived from early esotericist cults like the Gnostics and Manichaeists. Christianity explicitly rejects the concept of reincarnation. Hebrews 9:27, “And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,” explicitly states that people die only once. The Apostle’s Creed, one of the most foundational statements of Christian belief, is a personal covenant Christians of all denominations make with God asserting your rejection of those heretical esoteric beliefs.

    The concept of reincarnation is not now, and never has been compatible with or permissible in any form of Christianity. There are in fact no religious communities within any of the Abrahamic religions that validate or accept reincarnation.



  • In Talmudic or Biblical hermeneutics, the burden of proof is both mandatory and always on the individual offering scriptural exegesis. Look to the dialectical format of sugyot in the Gemara for examples of this.

    It is your responsibility to cite significant specific and explicit evidence for your claims from elsewhere in the original text and/or from earlier interpretation. You never just get to say that the exegetical claims you are presenting are the literal word of God, your job is to provide a clear narrative using only extant sources.




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    That lottery winners typically do become destitute again is true, but it’s not because they blow all the cash.

    Lottery winners are subject to a lot of pressure from other people who want that money. Hostile divorces, scams, and familial financial abuse are all really common. Winners are rarely informed of the financial instruments the wealthy typically use to protect their wealth, and thus have a much higher financial attrition rate.

    They also tend to be less aware of and prepared for future financial precarity. The concept of being “set for life” seems to result in a really high rate of underinsurance, so when an unexpected financial hardship like a house fire or major car accident occurs, they’re typically unprepared for that hardship.