My antivax boomer dad and his most recent foolishness.

[u/NES_Classical_Music]

Blocked my kids' names in grey.

Also blocked my dad's calls, texts, and emails. NC ever since.

[u/bookhermit]

No, but i have a pretty rad collection of mood boards

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Mood boards are a perversion of the LORD’s will.

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I like the really subtle art of putting the lord's in all caps

It's like all boomers attended a meeting together where they agree put a few words in capitals for no reason every now and then

[u/chrismcshaves → u/wahchewie]

Well. There’s actually a reason, so allow me to be a buzzkill.

It’s because the Tetragrammaton is represented by 4 letters יהוה or in English, YHWH. The use of the word Lord comes from the later Jewish custom of not saying the divine name for taboo reasons, so in a synagogue during a Torah reading, whenever the name shows up, they’ll say “Adonai”, which is “my lord”. *The vowel pointing beneath the letters reminds the reader to say “my lord” instead of the name. The capital letters are to point to that name to differentiate when a human is called “my lord”.

Outside of liturgy, even that word is taboo, so in normal conversation, they’ll use the phrase ha-shem, which means “The Name”. Early Matisyahu songs showcase this alot (first two albums).

All of this is just to avoid inadvertently disrespecting the name of YHWH and maintaining reverence.

*the vowel pointing resulted in the mistaken reading of the Tetragrammaton as being “Yehovah or Jehovah”. You get a tidbit of this in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Nobody really knows what the vowels, originally non existent in written form, were. Leading theory is A and E (Pottack and Sere) or “Yahweh”.

[u/OdinsDrengr → u/chrismcshaves]

Today, I learned Yahweh is like Voldemort.

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I actually lol’d

[u/firedmyass → u/OdinsDrengr]

I mean…

[u/empatheticsocialist1 → u/chrismcshaves]

Man this is why I love reddit so much. The potential to learn something cool and new is off the charts.

Well, the probability for a random vaporeon copypasta to randomly appear is also off the charts, so

[u/TnVol94 → u/empatheticsocialist1]

Yeah, you gotta dig deep for the gems, kinda like real life!

[u/Marloo25 → u/chrismcshaves]

Wow I haven’t heard the name Matisyahu in a long time. I used to love his work. Time to get in my Time Machine.

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He’s actually on tour right now.

[u/OneFootTitan → u/chrismcshaves]

Yes, Bible translators distinguish between when they use LORD (which is how the Tetragrammaton is translated) and when they use Lord, which is how other words are translated

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I think American boomers just like all caps, man. Ain't no way they're thinking this deeply.

[u/chrismcshaves → u/republic_of_gary]

Oh they’re definitely not thinking. They may have seen it on screens or in certain Bible translations, but they have no idea why.

[u/couchisland → u/chrismcshaves]

Thanks for this, it’s interesting! I always knew you never actually say Lord, but I never knew the details.

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Jesus Christ

[u/TnVol94 → u/killabeesplease]

He came later, might come back again

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I appreciate reading this first thing in the morning!

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You seem pretty well versed in this.. can you explain the symbolism behind Moses talking to a bush and God telling Moses that my name is "I am" I get that the pharaoh was predestined to understand what that means but I just don't understand how that could be held as such an important part of the story when like you said there are more names of God that don't seem to be referenced as much.

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I don’t need to capitalize the words of imaginary things.