#timidity

[wiirocku]

2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT) - For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

[eretzyisrael]

By DAVID CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN

Fear is something Jews have known all too well, but timidity is something else entirely. Fear is the Inquisition and pogroms, Nazis and Hamas – horrors for which fear has been a necessary, if not life-saving, reaction. Yet, there has never been anything Jewish about timidity.

That was until October 7.

Israel’s war in Gaza and the subsequent surge in global antisemitism may have turned Jews like myself into unlikely activists, but Jews of equal, if not greater, numbers have traded outrage for impotence as they tiptoe around the hatred that has arrived at our schools, workplaces, and even our front doors.

Take the case of African-American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose latest book, The Message, libelously brands Israel a genocidal apartheid state. Weeks after The Message was released last September, Coates was scheduled to give a reading at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, the city’s preeminent cultural arena named after one of its preeminent Jewish philanthropists.

Many Miami Jews were horrified, and I received calls and emails asking for help. Why me? First, I wrote a series of pieces highly critical of The Message, which I believe is a Mein Kampf for the 21st century. But most crucially, I am both an African American and a Jewish American – as well as a full-throttled Zionist – and Coates’s racialized Israel critique felt particularly personal and egregious.

Timidity comes to an end 

“We’re afraid of being called racist,” they confided as they sat silently, paralyzed by timidity and a perverse sense of politically correct propriety. Never mind that a man who has literally denied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was heading to town. For this crowd, appeasement and acquiescence felt like the only options.

In the end, Coates stayed home – sidelined by Hurricane Milton. But the sense of timidity revealed by his intended visit can and must end with Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

We are living in a dangerous time for Jews. A “global emergency” is how Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt described the current climate last week following the release of an ADL report noting that 46% of the world’s population harbors antisemitic views.

But cases like Coates – and the endless other encounters I’ve had with American Jews too timid to speak out at the hate right in front of them – are only making things worse.

Believe me, I get it. White people taking on Black literary giants like Ta-Nehisi Coates within a culture overwhelmed by identity politics and “cancel” fears is a fraught and terrifying prospect. Particularly for Jews, continuously labeled as “privileged” by a punitive and overreaching DEI system that denies our ethnic distinctiveness, along with the violence and discrimination being waged against us.

TRUMP HAS committed to taking on – if not taking out – DEI on his first day in office. Indeed, even before he assumed office, Trump’s DEI threats saw companies ranging from Walmart to Facebook end their DEI programs.

Government action, even from the top, can change policy, but it cannot necessarily change minds – at least not immediately. It will take far more than an executive order to dismantle the conformity and coerciveness that has made DEI so fearsome for those, like Jews, who fall outside its purview.

[yugiohcardsdaily]

Timidity

"Neither player can destroy Set Spell and Trap Cards on the field until your opponent's next End Phase."

[timbarrus]

Tim Barrus: Opinion

What Does Wholesome mean. Something is lurking here. I can see it out the edges of my eyes. Slightly more than a laser beam, baby. I can with some justification wholesomeness is going to mean white girls and white mommies (who are to blame ) are forgiven for everything. Gen Z doesn't get away with You Get To Define Wholesomeness And We Know Who losses here like clockwork dick for sale. I cannot take my eyes off Greta knitting. (there is an illustration of woman knitting who appears to be Greta). It feels like boys are -- umm, where. I see tokens. You know who I mean. Where are the fucking jocks who run high school. The whole thing.

Jocks who could use some of this messaging. The Jocks belong to the Stupid Party. Who vomits in a girl's basement, really. Above. See Greta. I love Greta. Go girl. I had to look up the word wholesomeness. Let's review: 1.) Greta will eat your lunch. 2.) Greta does what she says she is going to do. Where do you, Dear Americans, fit into the sliding scale of that. Dear Greta, I'm as autistic as an ass's burger. Code is everything. Greta has what Americans have lost. Fucking guts. I want to know if Greta is knitting in this illustration. And why. The graphic was provocative, even scornful. Jessica deserves better. Talk about messaging. But not in the New York Times. Yes. Because awareness is oh, so very rare.

When they said Kennedy Junior was a psychopathic heroin addict, I believed it because all the crazy ass things worms in your brain normals do is contrasted by timidity. Hey, Gen Z, it gets very, very, very hard out there. And let's talk openly about the suicide. Yes. The suicide. He knows. Is it dangerous for people on their knees -- no teeth. No teeth. It's gotta be dangerous. Just another loser sucking another dick. Has anyone seen the cabinet. There is no vaccine for teeth. It is up to the mommies who will decide. Or. Look at what you have wrought. A hex on male stupidity. We need a Greta. Greta, I love you. I do not mean to be sarcastic because anything else does not get through. Nothing gets through. These guys know publishing. Sarcasm is protected speech. -- Tim Barrus

[grandpasessions]

The vileness, the rudeness, the acts of inhumanity that I would have committed out of shyness!

Notebooks Emil Cioran

[unikittybigbrightworldau]

[Image Description: Icons of supporting characters in the Big Bright World AU. They are lineless, simplified versions of the characters’ heads, and they don’t have their faces on them. In Row One, there’s Ellie, Timidity, Ivy, and Master Doom. Row Two features Master Pain, Master Fear, Master Hazard, Master Plague, and Master Malice. In Row Three, there’s Master Misery and Master Papercuts. /End ID.]

I cooked up some more character icons, including my Wattpad friend Char’s OCs, Ellie and Timidity!

You can learn more about them here:

[ekechi]

POWER, LOVE AND DISCIPLINE

One of the miracles of salvation is that when we have faith in Christ, God not only saves us—He also gives us the power to live according to His will for us. Your life in Christ is one that is empowered by the Holy Spirit living within you. This is a great gift, but a big shift. It often takes time to change how we think and act. We may have bad habits that take hard work to correct, or…

[elegantzombielite]

"A timid question will always receive a confident answer."

Charles John Darling, lawyer, judge, and politician (6th December 1849-1936)

[authormarialberg]

The Twelfth Day of Dauntlessness in Timidity

Timidity in Dauntlessness Maria L. Berg 2023 Today I’m trying to capture dauntlessness in timidity and timidity in dauntlessness. How can an image lack courage and confidence while being fearless and bold? Or how can I show fearless lack of confidence? I think I’ll continue with abstract shape combinations. I’ll create one that I think of as being bold and another as being timid. Dauntlessness…

[wiirocku]

2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT) - For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Swedish Ardennes

Height: 15-16 hh

Common coat colors: Black, chestnut and blood bay

Place of origin: Sweden

[blobbei-art]

Repurposed the fairy AU Kasifer design and turned it into its own character. Bee fairy!

[timbarrus]

Take notes. I’ve been waiting for this one. This is a “home for the holiday” piece and I can get that in Teen Vogue. Thank you. A publication that is impotent. The New York Times, award-winner of journalism goes to see a show cuz it gives them a new perspective. Give me a break. Did you take the bus. Did the Times Square Tourist Committee approve. Reading this is not unlike taking a sleeping pill. The New York Times wants it both ways and both ways. No one gets it both ways. No one. The New York Times is a follower, not a leader. Every single time I am critical of the NYT, they kick me into the street. Don’t believe one word – like patronizing – they say. I now cannot believe one word coming from anyone there.

Are we all supposed to play merry Christmas now. I do not know anything about these characters. You lost me. We could assign colors to all minorities, but I think this culture of death and death and death already did that. I am not the Monstrosity. I am a writer. I know when you’re treading water. This paper is treading water. There is not even the hint of a whisper that we can resist. It would have been good to know what our options are. We can click our heels together, the Monstrosity will disappear like in a movie. Life is not a movie. Life is war, starvation, blood, bodies, disease and working for the Boss Man. But no. I see no photograph of a suit. What does NYT even know about the resistance. The New York Times is in grief and impotent. Click, click, click.

[kashmimo]

best friends

[dreammeiser]

🌈🌧️ Through Hardships and Fair Weather, Until The End, Mae will Always Be Your Loving Friend 🌧️🌈

[ohposhers]

i want floyd to get high at a rock concert and start a fight in the moshpit