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It really is - one I've fallen victim to as well. I can't bear to be away from the light of my screen for too long. I know I'm setting a bad example for my future kids, because children learn by example.

In fact, I suspect that a lot of iPad kids are children of iPad adults, who don't know or care about how to interact with a child, and who are setting a terrible example by being on screens themselves all the time.

And seeing as we're here, could I please turn this into a prayer request for getting off screens and away from fandoms I shouldn't be in? Thank you.

I’m going to say something spicy. I hope people don’t burn me alive:

Handing a child, autistic or not, a tablet to babysit them is making things worse for them. It’s rotting their minds, ruining their social skills and robbing them of the creativity that comes with physical toys. iPads aren’t evil. Some autistic children, especially non verbal, use their iPads to communicate with others. iPads can teach and help kids learn. iPads can be entertainment.

But handing a kid an iPad with no limits, all freedom is horrible. It’s ruining childrens minds. The term “iPad kid” is something that should be taken so seriously. When my husband and I went out to eat the other day we saw a table of adults with a few kids. They ALL had iPhones or iPads. None of the kids were talking or even moved their eyes from the screens. The adults were having a good time but these kids were like little zombies.

This is a massive issue people. STOP giving your kids unlimited access to technology. Take them outside. Give them toys and coloring books. Let them be kids!! Limit tablet and tv time and learn how to spend time with your children.

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I think it must be said that adults and parents (including myself) need to get themselves off screens and learn how to interact with kids again.

I’m going to say something spicy. I hope people don’t burn me alive:

Handing a child, autistic or not, a tablet to babysit them is making things worse for them. It’s rotting their minds, ruining their social skills and robbing them of the creativity that comes with physical toys. iPads aren’t evil. Some autistic children, especially non verbal, use their iPads to communicate with others. iPads can teach and help kids learn. iPads can be entertainment.

But handing a kid an iPad with no limits, all freedom is horrible. It’s ruining childrens minds. The term “iPad kid” is something that should be taken so seriously. When my husband and I went out to eat the other day we saw a table of adults with a few kids. They ALL had iPhones or iPads. None of the kids were talking or even moved their eyes from the screens. The adults were having a good time but these kids were like little zombies.

This is a massive issue people. STOP giving your kids unlimited access to technology. Take them outside. Give them toys and coloring books. Let them be kids!! Limit tablet and tv time and learn how to spend time with your children.

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On Christianity and the Divinity of Christ:

Galatians 1:1-10 (emphasis added):

Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers and sisters with me,

To the churches in Galatia:

 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,  who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,  to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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This is no small warning or trivial matter.

Friends, I say this humbly and urgently-- those who claim to be Christians must by nature acknowledge the divinity of Christ and submit to the Word of God as revealed through Scripture. I can no longer remain silent on this: Christ reveals himself and is revealed as the Word who was God and with God in the beginning (John 1:1, 1:14) as one of the Trinity (being the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit), raised to the right hand of God the Father (Phillipians 2:1-11) through the fulfillment of the covenant made with Abraham. Those who deny Christ's divinity and equality with God are committing a grave heresy and are not, by definition, Christians.

One of the most fascinating things I discovered as I read the Old Testament was that God has revealed himself in the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ever since the beginning. Please, do not let yourself be led astray by smooth speech and false teaching; test the spirits-- yes, even that which we might be certain come from God. If whatever "revelations" we are given would go against the Scriptures (which are God-breathed, good for correction and instruction (2 Timothy 3:16-17)) then we should discard them!

I ask you out of a desire to see truth be done, for God's honor to not be besmirched, and for you to be led out of apostasy-- submit yourself to Christ and to the will of the Holy Spirit who inspired and speaks through Scripture and the words of the apostles and prophets. (And before anyone tries to be clever, I refer to moral law; while some aspects of Scripture dealt with the cultures of that time, the moral law and doctrine of salvation remain unchanged and in line with its past, present, and future alignment.)

Those which claim to be Christian but deny the divinity of Christ (or any other aspect of the Trinity) are, by definition, following a grave heresy. Please take this warning with the kindness and concern that is so hard to convey through text and humble yourselves; repent of this sin. God is merciful and just, and he is also concerned with his own honor (this is not in conflict with the first two points).

Go and be blessed.

~ tinydragon

PS: There are so many wonderful podcasts and speakers (speaker John Dickson's podcast, Undeceptions, and his breakdown on what makes canon canon (here) is fantastically-researched and discussed) on both this and other related topics. I highly recommend his works.

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By magic or willpower?

No, my friend . . . by STRATEGY and ROUTINE!

I can't eat uncooked apples, because it's literally painful for me. I find it hard to eat fresh fruit and veg, citrus and salads; because that can be painful too. I have to be careful with bananas as well. So casual, spontaneous snacking on fruit and veg (like some of the more neurotypical kids I teach) is out.

But. Most of those foods I struggle with? I can eat most of them under the correct circumstances.

I can eat a grapefruit or a clementine if I eat them slowly, and that means I can schedule in the time and place.

I can eat tomatoes if they're in a sandwich. I can eat salad if there's cream to neutralise the acids, or if I have enough time to eat it slowly, so that it doesn't touch the parts that will hurt.

I can eat steamed steamed vegetables. I can eat cooked fruits. I can drink juice.

Is it a massive struggle? Yes. But on a good day I'll be having grapefruit in the morning, shakshuka with tomatoes and bell peppers for lunch, and beans and broccoli in the evening.

And now I think of it, I think I've seen the post that OP was referencing. If it's the post I think it is, then it had loads of practical help and tips to help autistics with food sensitivities eat properly.

I saw the post again where the OP is like "I don't care if you're autistic, you have to eat vegetables"

Sometimes a disability means you can't do a thing...That is what disability...Means.............

If you are an autistic person who sits around being judgmental and condescending toward every autistic person more disabled than you, you are a tar pit

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Saw this on the worst app in the world and wanted it on my blog

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I grew up in a house church, reading stuff by the Plymouth Brethren writers, and I think that @ray-moo's hot take is absolutely right.

Now let's add two more things to the conversation: house churches, and congregations who have to rent a space in the community center somewhere.

In my experience, house churches represent two things: primitivism, and family. Generally the rationale for house churches, among people who do it deliberately, is that this is the New Testament pattern. We know that early Christians did meet in synagogues, but that they also - very often - met in each other's houses. So there's that.

But I find, in my experience, that the practice of a house church reinforces the experience of the church as a family. When I was growing up, my parents had several church meetings a week at our house, and we regularly visited another couple for Bible study. The result was that I considered most members of the church to be literal extended family which I didn't have to hide things from, or put on any kind of show for. Why would I? They were family, after all.

And it also helped reinforce, to me, that Christianity is something that needs to be practiced at home, in the family; not just 'at church on Sunday' - because the church was my home, and it was my family.

Then when I went to university, I lived in church-sponsored communal living, which is a fancy way of saying that they facilitated several single sisters to live together by putting them in contact and helping us find a flat. We paid, made our own rules, and it was understood that we would host meetings.

I soon found out that this really did make the church our family, and that it improved the family life of the sisters' house. I had to hoover every week and clean the bathroom every week before the University Students' Bible study - not because I had anything to hide, but because I wanted to make things pleasant for them, should anyone need the bathroom. I wouldn't have done it otherwise; I would have let the bathroom grow mould and hair. So I found out that having the church in your house was an incentive to keep the house in order; both the physical side of it, and the familial relations. Note that I wasn't related to either of the girls who lived with me at this time, but we were still a family, and not just because we called each other sister. We were a family because we were literally living together in the church.

Now. Onto the 'rental guys' congregation.

Most people have the luxury of only renting one place every week. But my parents can remember a time, when the congregation got too big to fit in someone's house on Sunday, where they all had to rent - a different place every week. Cue all the jokes about the tabernacle and 'we're living a life of the altar and the tent like Abraham!'.

The renting and the moving around made us realise that we had to pay attention to where we were going, that we couldn't just rely on routine - and that we are wanderers and pilgrims in this world. This world is not our true home.

Roman Catholics and Orthodox have got to knock it off with "Protestants have brutalist corporate churches". A particular modern strain of Protestantism has hideous modern churches. It's a depressingly common strain, and arguably the dominant one in America, but it's either ignorant or dishonest to pretend as though all Protestants have ugly churches.

Behold:

Clockwise from top left:

St. Peter's Church, Geneva, canton of Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss Reformed)

Barnes Methodist Church, London, England, UK (Methodist)

Dutch Reformed Church, Newbury, New York state, USA (Dutch Reformed)

St. Jude's Church, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Presbyterian)

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This is why I dress for comfort.

Makeup and acrylic nails and feminine clothes and high heels are so restricting! you can't touch your face, you can't blow your nose, you can't cry, you can't kiss your partner, you can't go out in rain, you can't sit however you want, you can't move freely, you can't walk or dance painlessly, you can't even open a can soda or type a message on your phone without having to develop a special technique for it. You can't even attempt to play a string instrument. What's the point of going outside if you can't do anything? You are so much more than something to be looked at and admired. You are human. Allow yourself to live.

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I'm getting the impression here that Romeo is a lot more complex and a lot more difficult to play on stage than he's generally given credit for.

He has to be a real man's man, but he also has to be sensitive and thoughtful and (relatively) peace-loving. He has to be emotionally intelligent, but also super proactive to (arguably) the point of recklessness.

He can't just be Whiny Loverboy or Impulsive Hothead.

Me: [bolts awake at 3 a.m., eyes bloodshot] Could it be the Woobie Romeo fanon derives in part to the change from Early Modern Sexy Pirate English to the more elegant but much softer RP (Received Pronunciation)? Because whenever Woobie Romeo pops up, it’s almost always paired with an RP accent, either seriously or as a parody. And in hatefic, Woobie Romeo is consistently RP Romeo-coded.

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Well this explains why I feel so terrible.

“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)

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@rebathetoeless I really appreciate how you've properly referenced this post!

Behold! Though through Adam, sin entered the world (Genesis 3:1-7,) a new Adam is born (Romans 5 12-14.) Born under the law (Galatians 4:4,) in the form of a man, the Word that is God became flesh (John 1:1, 14.) he lived a perfect life, free of sin (1 Peter 2:22.) he, who is gentle and lowly, he whose yolk is easy and burden is light (Matthew 11:29-30,) he who when reviled did not revile in return (1 Peter 2:23,) he the very God of everything presented himself as a lamb unblemished (1 Peter 1:19.) So high, but humbled himself to the point of death. Crucifixion on a cross (Philippians 2:8) as ransom for those he loves (Mark 10:45.) We have been bought not cheaply, but with the blood of the most high (Galatians 3:13.) The way Hosea bought Gomer - though she was adulterous - with all he had (Hosea 3:1-2,) the very Lord of the universe gives his one and only son, for our sake (John 3:16).)

Raised to life he sits at the side of the father (Hebrews 1:3,) and sent the comforter to give witness of him to our souls (John 14:26, Romans 8:16)

Our great second Adam, born of a woman, crushes the serpents head (Genesis 3:17-19.)

Abrahams descendant causes us to join his family, we are like the grains of sand (Genesis 17:4-7, Romans 11:17)

With great reverence we look back on this.

With great joy we hold onto this.

With great anticipation we look to his return.

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,

who was and is and is to come!”

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Behold! Though through Adam, sin entered the world (Genesis 3:1-7,) a new Adam is born (Romans 5 12-14.) Born under the law (Galatians 4:4,) in the form of a man, the Word that is God became flesh (John 1:1, 14.) he lived a perfect life, free of sin (1 Peter 2:22.) he, who is gentle and lowly, he whose yolk is easy and burden is light (Matthew 11:29-30,) he who when reviled did not revile in return (1 Peter 2:23,) he the very God of everything presented himself as a lamb unblemished (1 Peter 1:19.) So high, but humbled himself to the point of death. Crucifixion on a cross (Philippians 2:8) as ransom for those he loves (Mark 10:45.) We have been bought not cheaply, but with the blood of the most high (Galatians 3:13.) The way Hosea bought Gomer - though she was adulterous - with all he had (Hosea 3:1-2,) the very Lord of the universe gives his one and only son, for our sake (John 3:16).)

Raised to life he sits at the side of the father (Hebrews 1:3,) and sent the comforter to give witness of him to our souls (John 14:26, Romans 8:16)

Our great second Adam, born of a woman, crushes the serpents head (Genesis 3:17-19.)

Abrahams descendant causes us to join his family, we are like the grains of sand (Genesis 17:4-7, Romans 11:17)

With great reverence we look back on this.

With great joy we hold onto this.

With great anticipation we look to his return.

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,

who was and is and is to come!”

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Nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you: He loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises: and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.

- George Whitefield

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

1 John 1-4

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

John 1:9-18

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-11

He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 Peter 2:22-25

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,

who was and is and is to come!”

Revelation 4:8

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One thing that took me a very long time to learn is that God wants us to be humans, not angels.

“God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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Okay but there is a reason that we as people go absolutely feral for redemption stories and narratives that end with the person who was in the wrong confessing their faults and their loved one - be it romantic, familial, or what have you - forgiving them and saying, "Forget it, I'm here with you now and I'll be with you until the end." My dudes that is the GOSPEL. WE ALL LONG FOR THE GOSPEL.

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The perfect divinity and the perfect humanity of Christ all in one long reblog chain. Amen.

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2‬:‭6‬-‭7a ‭

Though He was God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, He gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.