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It's a hilarious story actually (and also one i can 100% believe cause my 2-year-old nephew who's obsessed with buses tried to do the same with the toy bus he got for his birthday)

consuming mass amounts of media related to my hyperfixation isnt enough i need to eat it

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consuming mass amounts of media related to my hyperfixation isnt enough i need to eat it

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*doesn't even hit blunt*

Yo is it me or is Mr. Horse' son a little Jesus-coded?

’mr spider wants more’ mr spider should shut the fuck up and mind his manners. heck, if someone gave me their literal SON i would sure as hell say think you. mr spider is an ungrateful bitch.

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Thinking about how Moses was the first ever human to ask God Their name

Thinking about how Exodus in Hebrew is titled Shemot, The Book of Names, and this is the book in which we learn God's name

Thinking about the Holy Name itself, how poignant and meaningful it is how much it encompasses (too much to write it all here and now) how Hebrew was the perfect and maybe the only language able to express its meaning

Thinking about how God's name is Their breath of life, how it is quite literally life itself

Just, thinking about IHWH again

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Hey @mj-says-hey um yeah quick two questions:

1. Did you write this? Cause it's wonderful and i love it with all my heart!!!!? 🥺🥺🥺

2. May i please please please make it into a choral song??

But My Soul

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Heaven's hand is open. Reach out

i feel like my loneliness is an existential failing. so lost to both myself and the world. like god cannot find me in the garden, no matter what

why make him do all the searching? the woman from the fishing village in magdala last saw him at the mouth of some rocks. start there

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Woohoo thank you for tagging me!

Favorite New Testament Writer: St. John of course All mentioned above and more. The Adopted. The Banished. The Virgin. The Lover. The Listener to the Sacred Heart. The Prophet.

Favorite Church Father: really hard to choose but i'll go with St. Basil the Great

Favorite Medieval Theologian: St. Catherine of Sienna! 💖 (St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the second place)

Favorite Post-Reformation Theologian: C. S. Lewis

Favorite Living Theologian: ...Does Fr. Adam Szustak count?

@jh-newman-opn @seeking-wisdom @margindoodles2407 @two-microscopes and whoever would like to join!

Theologian Tagging Game:

Favourite New Testament Writer: St. James

Favourite Church Father: St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Favourite Medieval Theologian: St. John of Damascus

Favourite Post-Reformation Theologian: C. S. Lewis

Favourite Living Theologian: Fr. Stephen DeYoung

Tagging @sapphosremains, @thomasstaples and @idylls-of-the-divine-romance: fill in your answers and tag others!

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Hello Mouthwashing enjoyers, a doctor here

So i finally played the game yesterday and noticed a detail that isn't talked about enough:

10 mg oxycodone for someone in Curly's condition wouldn't do jack as a painkiller. From what i understood, he also takes it only once a day orally. When he's easily at the very top of the analgesic ladder (meaning due to his state he would need the strongest narcotics in the highest doses, preferably intravenously). Especially that 1) idk about the state of his digestive tract but i can venture to say the absorption would be very poor (meaning a big portion of the drug would just pass through his guts without actually going into the body), and 2) he's been taking it for months and oxycodone as an opioid builds tolerance (meaning his organism "gets used to" the drug and gradually needs more for the same effect). He probably feels that himself, that's why he's reluctant to take it throughout the game.

But don't worry, it gets worse!

Because later on, when we find out we're out of meds and find a hidden stash, it turns out to be...

500 mg paracetamol. As in, half a dose you yourself would take for a headache on a good day. It's placebo at best. What's even the point.

So yeah, if any of you playing thought something along the lines of "it's horrible i hate it i hate giving meds to Curly but at least the painkillers make him feel better" No. They don't. They never did. He may moan less but he's not in any less pain. I'm sorry.

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Oh frick Orthur's body parts have found me!!!

JONATHAN SIMS?

BRILLIANT GENIUS FREAKING JONATHAN SIMS GOD BLESSED INTELLECTUAL STORIES WRITING AWE INSPIRING WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING AWESOME WISE GUY AVATAR OF THE BEST WRITING SKILLS EVER SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED WELCOMED WHEREVER HE APPEARS COOL SPACE PIRATE FREAKING JONATHAN SIMS. STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT JONATHAN SIMS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY AWESOME IDEAS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO MESS AROUND AND CREATE A MASTERPIECE JUST SET IT LOOSE IS HE ALIVE IS HE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME MAN HAS SUCH A PROFOUND EFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS CUTEST SMILE GET AWAY FROM ME.

if i wanted to get into heaven and God said jonathan sims not waiting inside i would fistfight every single demon for the sole purpose of getting him sent back up. if i have to deal with jonathan sims speaking one word in person on voice in podcast not only will i reopen the tab i will save all my bookmarks out of admiration and want to watch the entire series again for the experience of being able to relish in all the times he is mentioned or alive. i dont even know why i love him so much. he writes stories but i am just grateful because i am HAPPI. he better have some awesome backstory to explain this if hes just some underdog whos a fan of good storytelling and wanted the irl version ill be smitten. BETTER have had an idea make him bring a blorbo to life cuz if he didnt Im going to make him.

paypal.com/IFreakingLoveJonathanSims

episode's not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his reading of a statement and I'm sold. where the heck is jonathan sims if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he lived a thousand more years.

beautiful man. ill kiss jonathan sims and his beautiful strong hunky cheeks will simply blush under my humble loving meat lips and he will be appreciated until all thats left is one final award he kept on him at all times simply titled You Made It Yay! in ancient yiddish. im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point. i hope theres a date given to when jonathan sims has birthday or will have birthday so i can make it a reminder on my phone, and everyday once a year i will see it and do everything to pay respect to the man who created so many brilliant if true stories

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Woah i can't believe Gertrude TMA is a Catholic reference!

I can't believe i confused St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patroness of cats, whose feast day is March 17, with St. Gertrude of Helfta, the patroness of West Indies, whose feast day is November 16, and spent a whole day celebrating with my cat and giving her her favorite treats and lots of smooches, oh nooo what a traaagedy whatever will i dooo...

Anyway,

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I can't believe i confused St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patroness of cats, whose feast day is March 17, with St. Gertrude of Helfta, the patroness of West Indies, whose feast day is November 16, and spent a whole day celebrating with my cat and giving her her favorite treats and lots of smooches, oh nooo what a traaagedy whatever will i dooo...

Anyway,

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Saint Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Fish, 1898

Edouard Jerome Paupion, 1854-1912

Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie de Besancon, Besancon, France

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JESUS THE SEVEN-HORNED SEVEN-EYED LAMB OF GOD

JESUS THE ALL-CONSUMING FIRE DEVOURING EVERYTHING THAT COMES NEAR HIM

JESUS A LITTLE SKINNY UNASSUMING HUMAN WHOM ALL THE DEMONS FLEW AWAY IN TERROR FROM

WHOM STORMS AND NATURE HAD TO LISTEN TO

WHO IN THIS MEEK FORM HAD IN HIM THE ALMIGHTY POWER BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION

JESUS THE PIECE OF BREAD AND THE DROP OF WINE THAT ALL THE WORLD BOWS DOWN TO MORE IMPORTANT TO LIFE ON EARTH THAN THE SUN

JESUS THE WORD INCARNATE THE TRUTH PERSONIFIED "UNABLE" TO SPEAK LIES SIMPLY BECAUSE THE REALITY ITSELF BENDS AND SHIFTS TO FULFIL HIS EVERY WORD

JESUS WHO KNEW YOUR EVERY THOUGHT BEFORE THE WORLD EXISTED (HE LIVES IN YOUR MIND RIGHT NOW)

JESUS WHOSE TRUE GODLY FORM IF YOU TOOK ONE LOOK AT YOU WOULD INSTANTLY DIE

Lovecraftian horrors may only wish they could have this level of mind-shattering incomprehensiveness that the only real God who ever existed has

(art by OukaMocha)

See the thing about fundamentalists and trads and Christian nationalists and MAGA evangelicals and ethnocratic bigots is that they render the faith so boring.

I take no issue with the fact that they would look at me and say that I’m not a member of the faithful because their faith is radically, inherently, ontologically distinct from mine. My God is too big and too loving and too esoteric to fit neatly into the gendered understanding of an authoritarian white father disciplining his children for not perfectly falling into lockstep. My Savior is the man who told the religious leaders “Caesar can have his idolatrous blood money, but give God your heart and your faith,” challenging the notion of an earthly ruler. My apostles wrote of the throne of man being empty—there are no masters or kings or governments, there is only Jesus Christ, Basileus Basileōn, king of kings. I believe in radical oneness with God through Christ—one flesh and one body, biblical marriage with the bridegroom whose flesh and blood make up the holy Eucharist. My faith is Queer, ancestral, esoteric, anarchist, insurrectionary, anticolonial, antiracist, unorthodox, disruptive, free. When I encounter the divine, or pray to the saints, or sit in the chapel to pray, I am experiencing communion with the sublime, in every sense of the word, the same presence that made the apostles fall to their faces before the transfiguration, that shaped the world from void, that animates the deep care and rage which boil into every aspect of my being.

When conservatives tell me I am not a Christian it is only because they cannot conceive of a Christ and a faith so big, so all encompassing, so beyond anything our human minds can comprehend, and they cannot conceive being in tune with this divinity and being left senseless by the knowledge that the divine above all else is us and loves us more than we could ever comprehend, such that experiencing this love is enough to leave one fundamentally, ontologically changed down to the fiber of their being. I feel sorrow for them. I pray that Christ may reach into their hearts and open their eyes, that they may see not only the horrors that they commit but also the deep love and freedom that awaits them through abandoning their fundamentalism and their bigotry.

Or, in other words, me every time I see another conservative Christian whining about how people aren’t doing Christianity right because they don’t adhere to a super narrow and watered down version of the faith:

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Lololol you thought well! 😆😆😆😆

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You kinda remind me of Merry (from LOTR)

Man i really gotta sit down and finally read+watch the whole LOTR 😅 i'll make sure to pay special attention to Merry, he looks like a kind and dorky fella!

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For the fictional character thing: you remind me of SpongeBob because you are both happy, positive, upbeat, funny, don’t have a driver’s license yet, and asexual.

YAY I GOT SPONGEBOB!! Thank you, dear mutual! 🥰💛🫶🏻