If anyone wants to be sucked into a new podcast and also get a nice dose of Jewish mythology, Throwing Sheyd is so good. It’s run by two very lively, likeable, and knowledgeable people, and covers a ton of different topics in Jewish demonology. Like literally it’s all demons, and I know how much y’all like those
Fiction helps build empathy. You are making in your head another person who isn’t you and you are looking out through their eyes. In attempting to change people’s minds, that’s incredibly important.
Fiction helps build empathy. You are making in your head another person who isn’t you and you are looking out through their eyes. In attempting to change people’s minds, that’s incredibly important. Human beings are built to be xenophobic and tribal. We like people like us; people who aren’t like us are dangerous. It made an awful lot of sense back in the caves and back on the plains. It makes less sense now. When we need to find the things we have in common, when we need to see that people who are not like us in some way are still people too, reading is a great tool for that.
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