Question:

Since LJ no longer allows logging in as a community, how do community managers change a community's settings, such as style, picture galleries, and the like? I haven't found the question in the FAQ's, and I'm curious...

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From the talented, and perfectly silly (and sillily perfect) gordon_r_d.

learn something every day...

Just out of curiosity, I went nosing around to see if I could find any Quaker LJ communities and I found quakers. Deep in the replies in this thread, davetrow gave some cultural background for that old admonition to "Turn the other cheek":

1. For the Pharisees, the left hand was considered unclean and it was taboo to use it.


2. The backhanded slap was always intended as an insult -- given to someone who is considered inferior.


3. The foreslap (slapping with the palm of the hand) was reserved for equals.

So, if someone strikes your right cheek, then it must be a backhanded slap (i.e. an insult), because a Pharisee must use his right hand, to avoid the taboo. If, instead of slapping the person back, you present your left cheek, you force the attacker to break a taboo, acknowledge your equality or simply stop hitting you. In one simple act, the balance of power is shifted.

Kind of puts a whole different spin on this classic advice on non-violent response, doesn't it?

I have much more respect for that saying now...