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Mr Dick is very popular. In fact he posts here
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I'm a literal preacher and I've only read one book of the Bible. Luckily its the one with whales so its the only one that matters Reading Genesis and just replacing the snake with a whale knowing that my whaling parishioners will connect deeply with the message of today's reading.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:07
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Ive replaced so many passages of the bible with whales at this point Im not even sure if my parishioners are Christian anymore
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Dec 22, 2019 18:13
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Ive replaced so many passages of the bible with whales at this point Im not even sure if my parishioners are Christian anymore The church of Latter Day Whales.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:22
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There's a video game called Nantucket and it's basically "Ishmael's Revenge" and you go after Moby Dick and kill him, lol. It's next to impossible to actually kill him but lol that after 150 years video games killed the invincible great American novel whale.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:30
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There once was a man from Nantucket...
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Dec 22, 2019 18:44
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Ahab is a biblical name and in the bible its name of a wicked king of Israel who along with his wife Jezebel abandons the worship of YHWH and institutes the government-supported worship of the pagan Gods Ba'al and Asherah and persecuting all of the Israelite prophets and priests during his reign. In the book itself, its actually pointed out by several characters that this is one of the weirdest names you could give someone because anyone familiar enough with the Bible to know the name Ahab would be someone religious enough to not name a child after him. So its a good name for my pagan baby
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Dec 22, 2019 19:10
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Moby Dick was good but could have been improved with more space marines.
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Dec 22, 2019 20:21
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Gonna name my kid Ahab.
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Dec 22, 2019 20:21
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To the contrary; I think it is overutilized due to the song entitled "I am Ahab" by the revolutionary band Mastodon, from their smash breakout album Leviathan.
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Dec 22, 2019 20:23
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SHISHKABOB posted:Gonna name my kid Ahab. And thus the tertiary goal of this thread is accomplished and OP can look upon the world with smug satisfaction.
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Dec 22, 2019 20:56
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Literally A Person posted:And thus the tertiary goal of this thread is accomplished and OP can look upon the world with smug satisfaction. Tanner Ahab SHISHKABOB
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Dec 22, 2019 21:59
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Cubone posted:that's stupid Not really, Cubone. The book itself is a work of fiction.
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Dec 22, 2019 23:49
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terminal chillness posted:The book itself is a work of fiction. Whoa whoa whoa...wait a minute. Really?
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Dec 23, 2019 00:05
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:There once was a man from Nantucket... Go on, I've never heard the whole thing.
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Dec 23, 2019 00:13
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terminal chillness posted:Not really, Cubone. The book itself is a work of fiction. "what if the entire story as it's presented was actually all imagined by a single character?" is an unfalsifiable, fruitless, juvenile hypothetical that gets wheeled out by hack critics to be applied to everything from hamlet to rugrats, because it's a teenager's idea of mind-blowing as to what it would actually add to themes or emotional impact of any given story, the answer is almost always the same: nothing, because it relegates every significant arc and conflict to the imagination of a single character whom we know nothing about, and replaces them with nothing the rare exceptions are when stories are told specifically with that reading in mind- your I Am the Cheeses, your Cloud Atlases, your House of Leaveses– because they're designed either to illustrate the particular state of mind of the character in question or they're meant to be a commentary on the nature of fiction itself the rest of the time it's the literary equivalent of "dude, what if, like, you're actually just a brain in a jar, and what you perceive as reality is just signals being fed to you?" what would it add to moby dick for it all to be the ramblings of a drunken deckhand? does it give us a better idea of who the narrator is, other than an imaginative liar? does it say anything about storytelling except that sometimes a story doesn't real  ?all it does is take away from the meaning of everything that's actually in the story. it's stupid
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Dec 23, 2019 01:08
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Actually Moby Dick is a story about the nearly hopeless fight against patriarchical white hegemony, represented by the whale. The diverse cast (featuring at least one amputee, a native American, and so on) give it their all to take down the whale and regrettably they lose. Ishmael survives however to keep the spark of rebellion promising a successful overthrow in the future.
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Dec 23, 2019 01:13
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I think the whale represents a whale.
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Dec 23, 2019 01:26
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Oscar Wild posted:Moby Dick was good but could have been improved with more space marines. what couldn't?
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Dec 23, 2019 01:34
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VideoTapir posted:what couldn't? Warhammer 40k, ironically.
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Dec 23, 2019 02:02
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Oscar Wild posted:Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness. I'm kind of surprised the underlying ultra-horniness throughout the book isn't more well-known and discussed; like you'd think it'd be ripe for fanfic and memeification nowadays. As someone above noted, you even have the narrator married in all but name to the ship's harpooner; there's a lot of other wild (by 1850s standards) poo poo like that in there.
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Dec 23, 2019 02:50
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Kazak posted:So its a good name for my pagan baby SHISHKABOB posted:Gonna name my kid Ahab. look like we're on the cusp of an Ahab Spring here
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Dec 23, 2019 05:12
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:look like we're on the cusp of an Ahab Spring here i get it!
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Dec 23, 2019 05:13
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Literally A Person posted:i get it! 
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