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First episode of Succession and I am hooked! I may or may not have shed a tear when Roman was being a prick to that kid...

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1. i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson/2. the bear (2022)/3. right now, gracie abrams/4. The haunting of hill house (2018)/5. I don't love anyone, belle and sebastian/6. rabbi joseph telushkin, jewish literacy/7. sucession (2023)/8. electra, sophocles/9. the bear (2018/10. sisters, holly warbutton & to my younger self, britton.

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I really need to sit and read long novels with complicated words that I don’t yet know and go back to language class and get my driver’s license in Italy and develop a routine outside of work and visit people for coffee and company and I need to watch films that are slow and crawling and demand all of me and stop with fucking YouTube shorts because my soul is dying

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do-it-again august

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...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexor injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

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AMEN

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Take your vitamin D. Take your magnesium. Go to therapy. Prioritize hydration. Make a daily to-do list. Keep your space clean. Wear sunscreen. Meditate, journal, stretch. Focus on what you can control. Apply actions to intentions. Give yourself grace. Above all, love yourself.

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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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Your comeback is right around the corner. Give it time. God is working.

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Love is the principle of God's actions and the good of His people is His goal. He never swerves from these. The fire of love never goes out of His heart, nor their good out of His eye. He purposed to humble them [the Israelites in the wilderness] so they could at last receive His goodness. The sun is always glorious, even on the most cloudy day, but this glory is not apparent until it has scattered the clouds which hide its light from the earth. God is glorious even when the world cannot see Him, but the demonstration of His glory appears when the glories of His mercy, truth, and faithfulness break forth in His people's salvation.

William Gurnall, 1655

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The Bible is my David Goggins.

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Being gay is kinda cool, because wdym my capacity to love someone is not bound to what I see in front of me or the gender they identify as.

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Reason to Live #12564

    That person who smiled at you on your walk today. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

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Sydney Star Observer (June, 1993)

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wdym cheaper by the dozen 2 isn't everyone's comfort film