Not sure how to deal w it. He was a fun guy to work with. He’s a good person, but pretty crazy. This is the second time he decided he reeeeallly had to make a hard sell. I’m agnostic. I feel like it’s gonna really offend him bc he sent me paragraphs about the religious text and I simply don’t care. But I don’t wanna hurt his feelings. This time… Science proves it.

Can I have it both ways? I’m not gonna be an Islamic but I still wanna be his friend. but he’s being so weird about it and I’m bad about confrontation. I’m cool with his choices but damn

      • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The book is old and unchanged!

        Next he’ll be convinced that an honourable merchant who did nothing wrong sold poor quality copper just because the tablet of his customers’ complaint still exists thousands of years later.

          • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            1 year ago

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir

            The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. The tablet, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, a trader, sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.

            Nanni, dissatisfied with the quality, wrote a cuneiform complaint addressing the poor service and mistreatment of his servant.

            Written in Akkadian cuneiform, this tablet is recognized as the “Oldest Customer Complaint” by Guinness World Records. From 2015 onwards, the tablet’s content and Ea-nāṣir in particular gained popularity as an internet meme, due to its modern-sounding nature of dissatisfaction with goods

            • YourMom [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Yeah that is solid but will absolutely be countered in a way I cannot fully articulate a response to. That’s his thing now. I have a really hard time researching this and then coming up with a conclusion, so I hope you will help me with my response so I do not offend him lol.

              edit: had no clue it’s a meme, I am even more screwed