An escaped dwarf from the region of lord of the rings. Can easily identify him with painting on his feet, legs, toes. Is mostly intoxicated.
Wow is that Daniel Read? Yeah the guy from Lord of the rings.
By presupposing it's truth and then create a narrative that is parallel to the text and then accepting this adjacent narrative AS TRUTH... Regardless of what the text actually says.
Hym "And then what they do is believe the narrative that is constructed around the text... In spite of the FACT that it is a manifestation of their own mind. So, it doesn't matter WHAT YOU SAY... As long as the conclusion is that the religion is both true and good. And it looks something like this:
Dr. JeepJorp "Flabbity florbity flip flop! Everyone KNOWS that flabbity florbity flip flop and that = the Bible true and good!"
Sheeple "Hey! I'm everyone! You're right! I know that, I mean, come on. Do you think I don't know that flabbity florbity flip flop? Everyone know it!"
Hym "And that's how Christians read the Bible."
to have your read receipts on, and read the text message, without responding. purposefully ignoring a person and/or their message.
Jessica was left on the reads by Mike, which caused an argument.
Interpretations of media that makes excuses for sexist/anti-lgbtq/racist themes by giving undue credit and nuance to authorial intent; especially as a way to give a pass to offensive writing in movies/books/etc you might enjoy.
"Zelda isn't actually a damsel in distress because she helps in defeating the final boss"
"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."
or
"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "
What you're doing right now
Me: Hey, you should stop reading. Go touch some grass instead.
An introvert's sad excuse for life.
Tom: Hi Bianca!
Bianca: .........
Tom: Are you doing anything after school?
Bianca: Reading.
Tom: Oh.
(Tom walks off.)
Staring at a dead piece of wood for hours hallucinating
James: "How was reading?"
Bill: "Great this dead peice of wood is amazing."
James: "Im sure you had a great hallucination Bill ."