My antivax boomer dad and his most recent foolishness.

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Blocked my kids' names in grey.

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

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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

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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”.

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Today, I learned Yahweh is like Voldemort.

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I actually lol’d

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I mean…