Benjamin Essner

@ManifestHistory Which version? Catholic or Protestant? We Catholics have a few extra books in our Bible. (The Jerusalem Bible is the best Catholic version, in my opinion. It was based on a popular French translation, and J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the editors.)

I’ve finally decided to read the entire bible. So far, I’ve read Genesis and Exodus. I’m obviously really interested in reading the Gospels and New Testament. I’m debating skipping ahead to the Gospels. What do you recommend I do: Read the bible from front to back or skip ahead and read the Gospels (or entire New Testament) and then go back to the Old Testament.

@yamanakanobody I have several. We just try to find things to discuss besides politics— subjects we can all agree on.

身内に左翼がいたらどうしますか？

@_PrezDez_ @iSwearImKarl @esjesjesj Exactly. Either way, it shouldn’t be called murder. Legally, it should be classified as a “justifiable homicide.”

@EssnerBenjamin @iSwearImKarl @esjesjesj Idk but getting jumped by 3 people one of which is assaulting you with a skateboard in the middle of a burning city riot seems pretty justified to me

One is a private citizen who committed murder and one is an unarmed man who was murdered by the state without any consequences

@ichimaru_novel That reminds me, there was this animated series that was super popular in the U.S. Has anyone in Japan ever heard of Dragonball Z?

日本で大人気だったフルハウス 海外でも当時好評だったのかな？

@iSwearImKarl @esjesjesj Technically the definition of murder doesn’t require the victim to be innocent. The killing just has to be considered unjustified.

@esjesjesj It's not murder. By definition, murder requires the dead party to be innocent. He killed in self defense, this is on record. And Pretti was not unarmed, he had a gun on him and was shot literally as he got disarmed. Not good, but be honest about it.

@Orangemanround3 Normal. Even Jesus Himself probably felt like throttling people from time to time.

What's it called when you want to follow Jesus but also knock the shit out of people?

@MUKIDEZA2 None of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been in a Smash Bros. game yet.

そろそろアメリカ人も日本人も話題が尽きてくる頃ですし次にスマブラに参戦しそうなキャラでも予想する？

@AbakpaJob Let me get back to you on that.

can we please start a support group for procrastinators?

Not everyone has them, but anyone COULD have them. That’s part of the reason no other country wants to invade us. Anywhere else, they’d only have to deal with armed military and possibly armed law enforcement. In the U.S., a random mom pushing a stroller down the street might be carrying.

アメリカニキって銃社会だと思うけど、実際に所持してる家庭は何割くらいなんだろ？ 日本人はおそらくほとんどの人が持っていると思ってる

@Iwatekko6969 In Missouri, we have pork *steaks*.

⋯⋯ん？ 今日一日、アメリカの善き人々たちご自慢のBBQツイートを見ていて気がついたことがある。 アメリカ人、BBQでは豚肉食わないんか？　ほとんど牛肉なのでは。 アメリカでは豚肉はBBQに使わないの？

@MrCheese99000 @tanomuzeA As a Missourian who lives just across the river from Illinois, you have my sympathies, and should you wish to make your way to a saner state, (or at least a state where the crazy people are quieter about it) we will welcome you with open arms.

@tanomuzeA I live in Illinois, I love my state but it's run horribly. A lot of people hate California because a lot of bad policies come from there and their people are taught that, and then they move to the rest of America spreading their bad policies

公開のX交流で、 アメリカ人のカリフォルニア嫌いが さらに露呈した気がする NYはあまり言われないのが意外

@tanomuzeA New Yorkers in general are obnoxious and insufferable in ways that are marginally more tolerable than Californians.

@learning_yohei I don’t know if this helps, but “Worschestershire” is the only English word for which there is no correct pronunciation.

日本から投稿しています🇯🇵 アメリカ人とイギリス人に質問があります🇺🇸🇬🇧 どうしてアメリカ人とイギリス人は英語の「水」の発音について討論するのですか？💧 アメリカ英語とイギリス英語、どちらの発音が正しいのですか？😵‍💫

@hoshizorarock Okay, then. Sounds like a plan.

アメリカ人の皆さん、 どうか落ち着いて聞きください。 今日からカルフォルニアがアメリカから独立しました。

@DavidFischer Old enough? Yes. Did I? Nope. I could have BOUGHT a Street Fighter II cabinet for the amount it cost for ONE CREDIT for Dragon’s Lair.

Be honest: who is old enough to say they played this?

@nosoup4knowles Maybe he’s just predicting the lineup for the semifinals of an interfaith league softball tournament. “Tomorrow, we’ve got the match between St. Margaret’s and the Northwest Islamic Center, followed by the clash between First Methodist and Temple Beth Israel, here on 96.1 FM!”

Islamists love guys like Milo

@deathandsaints @Bullman53170100 Which just goes to prove… Germans love David Hasselhoff.

@Bullman53170100 Yup. That sure was a thing that... exists for some reason.

Nope. If you are complaining about Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury. You are just racist. Like that is one of the best castings in the MCU.

@curry_boz I respect it as a philosophy, but personally, I’m more into Taoism.

アメリカの友人へ、教えてほしい。 繊細な質問だけれど、仏教について、どんな印象をもっていますか？可能なかぎりで教えてほしいです。

@InsaneCope They didn’t have as much output in general during the Biden years as they normally do. It’s like criticizing Family Guy for not making jokes about John Kerry’s presidential campaign. (Family Guy was not in active production between 2002 and 2005.)

@Slaymaker222 @Gods_Full_Armor @InsaneCope Or maybe they saw Biden and thought “there’s nothing we can do that is more ridiculous than how he is in real life”.

@Gods_Full_Armor @InsaneCope I like to think they looked at the biden admin and were just like "perfect 10/10, nothing to make fun of here" lmao They're either bought off or fell off