#[ words of the prophet ]

[pirateprincessjess]

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

[refat-ahmed]

نِيَّةٌ

Niyyah

• It's the intentions that matter the most.

• True beauty shines through sincere intentions.

• A pure intention can make the smallest deed powerful.

• Right intentions turn small deeds into great rewards.

[20dimensionsoftangerine]

Kristen and Fig 🤝 Adaine and Fabian

The Prophet and Her Champion

[hauntedbythenarrative]

The darkness said, You die whether you risk anything or not. I emptied ashes from my pockets. I crawled to feel the stones cut my knees, God's foot on my throat. The dream said, Follow me. The angel said, You're here.

Yellowjackets (2021-)//Andrei Tarkovsky//If I Believe You, The 1975//Agamemnon, Aeschylus//“dear thanatos, [it wasn’t a dream…],” come the slumberless to the land of nod, Traci Brimhall

[thresholdbb]

I'm a Kai Winn apologist but not because I think she's a good person. She's a compelling tragic character

[caturnmoon]

My first ever Astrology Observation ✨

(so please be kind! 🫶🏼🧿)

🎟️ I realize it is now officially Leo season (happy birthday Leo babies!!🦁) and I’d like to point out that Leo risings (and moons to a lesser extent) tend to exude more of that regal energy more naturally than Leo suns honestly. Like their presences alone attract attention, and not the other way around.

🎟️ honorary mention for astrological positions that naturally attract attention and notoriety are heavy Capricorn placements. ♑️ Cap also rules the 10th house in zodiac which is literally the house of career, legacy and who we aim to become in the material world in this lifetime. So anyone with any of these placements in their chart are no stranger to attention…whether good or bad depends on other aspects in your chart. (I.e. Queen Elizabeth II)

🎟️Gemini energy at its absolute evolved is HIGHLY spiritual and cosmically connected! Look for Gemini degrees in your chart that can highlight this also! (example: my Scorpio sun is at the 15th degree and I’m a medium that can commune with spirits. Gemini rules communication thanks to Mercury!)

🎟️following on qualities celebrated by the sun, those with an Aries Sun are exalted by the sun as Aries thrives there. My little brother is an Aries Sun and was exalted as the favorite by my mother. Lololol they can naturally thrive in the spotlight and thus be accustomed to being the center of attention. Aries are the infants of the zodiac so they naturally require a lot of attention! Especially the Aries suns.

🎟️I know the 6th house highlights the work place and health/routines etc. but if positively aspected with planets like the sun and Jupiter can point to massive success and wealth.

🎟️multiple 4th house placements are also a low key fame indicator! And ancestral inheritance (spiritual or material).

🎟️a lot of royalty have heavy Scorpio influence in their chart or 12th house placements; I guess this points to them being “hidden” from the rest of the world and in their own world. Scorpio also represents power and concealed power at that.

🎟️in sidereal astrology folks with revati moons tend to have rocky childhoods but are DIVINELY guided and protected. This guidance only gets stronger with time and are known for their spiritual wealth and boon. Can also indicate massive wealth later in life. They’ll always be nourished by the universe. 💫

🎟️Gemini risings are literally the social butterflies of the zodiac and you can’t convince me otherwise. They literally have never meet a stranger and can navigate almost any social situation with ease!

🎟️I’ve noticed that both placidus AND whole sign systems are equally effective in chart analysis. Especially if you have placements on the cusp of another house! For example, I’m a 12th house stellium in placidus but a 1st house stellium in whole sign and I resonate with both! This is why it’s important to take both systems into consideration!

Until next time! 👽🖖🏼

[magg0t-bible]

silly little Malevolent theory

(just fyi I'm only up to part 33 so no spoilers beyond that thnx)

I was just thinking about the question of whether or not it's cheesy for a character in a piece of media to say the title of that piece of media (hypothetical example: Steve Harrington saying "come on guys, we've been through stranger things"). I'm hyperfixating on Malevolent atm so naturally that's where my brain went, and while it's innocuous enough of a title and the characters saying it would make perfect sense, I realised that only two characters (thus far) have actually said the word "malevolent".

One of them was Frank (or at least a voice claiming to be Frank, more on that in a minute) in Part 18.

He showed up in Arthur's right ear and started contradicting everything John said, yet was never wrong, as John was evidently still struggling with being truthful after spending so long as the eldritch embodiment of lying. But we never really had confirmation that that voice was or was not Frank. Who was the only other character to use the word "malevolent"?

Kayne. In Coda.

Kayne whose voice is closer to Harlan's natural voice than any other character. Kayne who doesn't believe in a fourth wall. Kayne who's clearly supposed to represent the fans. Kayne who literally sat on the sidelines loudly chewing popcorn while John sobbed and tried to save Arthur's life.

So all that to say...what if the voice in Part 18 wasn't Frank at all, but Kayne trying to drive even more of a wedge between John and Arthur because he thought it would be funny? Bearing in mind that Arthur and John don't meet Kayne until Part 20, meaning they'd have no reason to suspect him here.

[bonefall]

i think people are calling for a mass extinction event not because disabled people bad/ugly, but because the amount of incest happening is genuinely horrific. that, as well as to a massive amount of cats that bear no significance. if we were talking about a real situation occurring in real life, no one in their right mind would be suggesting this, but this is just the quick and easy way to do it in the context of the books. besides, any method to try to fix this problem is never going to be implemented by the erins because they don't care

This is a call for a mass extinction event because of the inbreeding and this is what I'm talking about. No, they're not just saying there should be a cutback on unneeded background characters. Asks like yours are a major reason why I am collecting screenshots for a folder.

Do not clown around and try to convince me that I'm not seeing what is clear as day. I'm not talking about people who want a mass extinction event because they want less background nobodies, or because it would be an interesting plot. I'm talking about people who respond to MOONPAW's EXISTENCE with "we need to kill most of ThunderClan"

And by the way, killing off a bunch of cats for a "mass extinction" is the exact OPPOSITE of what would fix this problem. You want to mass slaughter random characters so the pool is even SMALLER than it was when we started?? You want us to go back to the beginning of these problems in TPB, when ThunderClan only introduced four female kits who lived to adulthood who could mother the next generation??? THINK.

(Sorreltail, Ferncloud, Sandstorm, Brightheart)

Why is the vastly more common response "KILL THE ICKY" and not "USE THE BRAND NEW LAW THAT ALLOWS CROSS-CLAN MATE MIGRATION" hmmmmmmmmm????

We need to back up, too. Why do YOU think the amount of incest happening is genuinely horrific? Because what this "deformed icky inbred moonpaw" discourse has taught me is that we seem to have VERY different reasons for reaching our conclusions.

I think it is genuinely horrific because this series with a theme about "legacy" should have better rules about what counts as immediate family, the careless Erins prevent their newcoming cats like Stormcloud and Fernstripe from having time in the spotlight, and clan culture's extreme social control over the lives of the cast is cultlike and needs to be addressed as a harmful thing. OTHERS seem to think it is "genuinely horrific" because ThunderClan might have ugly disabled kids. We are not the same.

[p4nishers]

thinking about the relationship between mightily oats' "the worthwhile [words] don't burn" and constable dorfl's "the words in the heart cannot be taken"

[hadeth]

عن أبي موسى الأشعري، قال: قال لي رسول اللّه صلى الله عليه وسلم: ‏"‏ ألا أدلّك على كلمةٍ من كنوز الجنّة - أو قال - على كنزٍ من كنوز الجنّة ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فقلت: بلى ‏.‏ فقال: ‏"‏ لا حول ولا قوّة إلاّ باللّه ‏"‏ ‏.‏ صحيح مسلم حديث ٢٧٠٤ - صحيح البخاري حديث ٤٢٠٥

Abu Musa Ash'ari reported that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said to him: “ Should I not direct you to the words from the treasures of Paradise, or he said: Like a treasure from the treasures of Paradise?” I said: Of course, do that. Thereupon he said: “ There is no might and no power but that of Allah." Sahih Muslim 2704 g In-book reference : Book 48, Hadith 62

Sahih al-Bukhari 4205 In-book reference : Book 64, Hadith 245

قوله صلّى اللّه عليه وسلّم : ( لا حول ولا قوّة إلّا باللّه كنز من كنوز الجنّة ) قال العلماء : سبب ذلك أنّها كلمة استسلامٍ وتفويضٍ إلى اللّه تعالى ، واعترافٍ بالإذعان له ، وأنّه لا صانع غيره ، ولا رادّ لأمره ، وأنّ العبد لا يملك شيئًا من الأمر ، ومعنى الكنز هنا : أنّه ثوابٌ مدّخرٌ في الجنّة ، وهو ثوابٌ نفيسٌ ، كما أنّ الكنز أنفس أموالكم ، قال أهل اللّغة : ( الحول ) الحركة والحيلة ، أي : لا حركة ولا استطاعة ولا حيلة إلّا بمشيئة اللّه تعالى ، وقيل : معناه لا حول في دفع شرٍ ، ولا قوّة في تحصيل خيرٍ إلّا باللّه ، وقيل : لا حول عن معصية اللّه إلّا بعصمته ، ولا قوّة على طاعته إلّا بمعونته ، وحكي هذا عن ابن مسعودٍ رضي اللّه عنه ، وكلّه متقاربٌ ، ... شرح النووي على مسلم

فهي كلمةٌ عظيمةٌ تعني: الإخلاص لله وحده بالاستعانة، كما أنَّ كلمةَ التوحيد «لا إله إلا الله» تعني الإخلاص لله بالعبادة؛ فلا تتحقق «لا إله إلا الله» إلاَّ بإخلاص العبادة كلِّها لله، ولا تتحقّق «لا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ بالله» إلاَّ بإخلاص الاستعانة كلِّها لله. وقد جمع الله بين هذين الأمرين في سورة الفاتحة أفضل سورة في القرآن وذلك في قوله: {إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ}؛ فالأول تبرؤٌ من الشرك، والثاني تبرؤٌ من الحول والقوةِ وتفويضٌ إلى الله ؛ والعبادة متعلّقة بألوهية الله، والاستعانة متعلّقة بربوبيّته.

العبادةُ غاية، والاستعانة وسيلة، فلا سبيل إلى تحقيق تلك الغاية العظيمة إلاَّ بهذه ال��سيلة العظيمة التي هي الاستعانة بالله الذي لا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ به. ولهذا يخطئ من يستخدمها في غير بابها أو يجعلها في غير مقصودها، قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية : «وذلك أنَّ هذه الكلمة -أي: لا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ بالله- هي كلمة استعانة لا كلمة استرجاع، وكثيرٌ من الناس يقولها عند المصائب بمنزلة الاسترجاع، ويقولها جزعاً لا صبراً».

وعلى هذا المعنى المُشار إليه يدور فهمُ السلف رحمهم الله لهذه الكلمة العظيمة:

أخرج ابن أبي حاتم في تفسيره عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما في معنى «لا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ بالله» قال: «لا حول بنا على العمل بالطاعة إلاَّ بالله، ولا قوة لنا على ترك المعصية إلاَّ بالله».

وروى عن علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه في معناها أي: «أنَّا لا نملك مع الله شيئاً، ولا نملك من دونه، ولا نملك إلاَّ ما ملَّكنا مِمَّا هو أملك به منا».

وروى عن عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنه أنَّه قال في معناها: «أي: لا حول عن معصية الله إلاَّ بعصمته، ولا قوة على طاعته إلاَّ بمعونته».

وعن زهير بن محمد أنَّه سئل عن تفسير «لا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ بالله»، قال: «لا تأخذ ما تحبُّ إلاَّ بالله، ولا تمتنع مما تكره إلاَّ بعون الله».

ولهذا يُشرع للمسلم أن يقول هذه الكلمة في استقباله لمصالح دينه ودنياه، وقد أرشد نبينا صلى الله عليه وسلم من يخرج من بيته أن يقول: «بِسْمِ اللهِ، تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللهِ، لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ»، وإذا نادى المُنادي للصلاة: «حي على الصلاة، حي على الفلاح» يُشرع للمسلم أن يقول حينئذٍ: «لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله»، طلبًا للعون من الله سبحانه، فهي كلمة استعانةٍ وتفويض.

وأسأل الله عز وجل أن يوفقنا أجمعين لكل خير، وأن لا يكلنا إلى أنفسنا طرفة عين. إنه سميعٌ قريبٌ مجيب .

وصلى الله وسلَّم على عبده ورسوله نبينا محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين . مقتبساً من شرح البدر ولإكمال الشرح انظروا المرفق

It is a word of Islam, surrender, delegation and renunciation of power and strength except by Allah, and that the slave has no control over his own affairs, no power to prevent evil, and no power to bring good except by the will of Allah. There is no transformation of the slave from sin to obedience, from sickness to health, from weakness to strength, from deficiency to perfection and increase except by Allah, and there is no strength for him to carry out any of his affairs or achieve any of his goals or objectives except by Allah, for what Allah wills is what He wills and what He does not will is what He does not will. What He wills is as He wills, at the time He wills, in the manner He wills, without increase or decrease, without advancement or retardation, He has the creation and the command, He has the king and the praise, He has the world and the Hereafter, He has the grace and the favour, He has the good praise, and His power encompasses all things.

{إِنَّمَآ أَمْرُهُۥٓ إِذَآ أَرَادَ شَي��ـًٔا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ}

 { Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be!" - and it is!} 36:82

{مَّا يَفْتَحِ ٱللَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ مِن رَّحْمَةٍ فَلَا مُمْسِكَ لَهَا ۖ وَمَا يُمْسِكْ فَلَا مُرْسِلَ لَهُۥ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ}

 {Whatever of mercy (i.e. of good), Allâh may grant to mankind, none can withhold it; and whatever He may withhold, none can grant it thereafter. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.} 35:2

And whom this is his Greatness, it is obligatory to submit to His divinity, surrender to His greatness, delegate all matters to Him, and renounce all help and power except through Him, which is why God has instructed His servants to mention Him with this great word, which is a great door to Paradise and a treasure among its treasures. Quoted and translated from Sheikh Al-Badr's commentary

[refat-ahmed]

Ten wise quotes from Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله 

"A persons' tongue can give you the taste of His heart."

"Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for."

"A deprivation of a few moments [of pleasure] is better than permanent regret."

"Knowledge is not about narrating a lot but it is about Taqwa (piety)."

"Do not belittle a small sin, for the biggest of fires can be caused by smallest of sparks."

"Allah is displeased when you stop asking him and mankind is displeased when asked."

"The intelligent person does not cling to this material world."

"If the heart becomes hardened - the eye becomes dry."

"Falling in love is a disease and its cure is to marry the one you love."

"Don't carry anxiety for the future because it is in the hands of Allah."

[orpheuslament]

How Do All the Parts Fit? Winnie Varghese. The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

ROXY: i think u should be able to absorb bathroom graffiti to learn new powers like with those walls in the tombs in skyrim

[vroomian]

What’s Odyssey’s opinion of yrz when he gets back??

bad :)

[roseofhybrids]

So I had this realization about something in the godhood Au.

Doll.

Considering the fact that Because Uzi ate CYN’s Core who ate Doll’s Core Doll is still in some way in Uzi after all of these decades.

So I like to think that Every so often Doll tries to take some control over Uzi’s body but it just results in her talking Russian which didn’t start until 100 years after Episode 8. By 1300 years Uzi is just used to Doll’s attempted Hijacking that she’s just an annoyance as much as CYN is. Also at some point between that time Uzi gave N,V,Lizzy and Thad each an English to Russian translation in their systems in case she does it while talking to one of them.

Not sure if Uzi would need to give them translators, since all the English-speaking drones in the series already appeared to understand her and vice versa

I can't recall if I wrote it in a post yet, but I have been playing with an idea. That Uzi could use the solver's hologram abilities to let the dead drones, who have been added to the AS hive-mind, visit the land of the living. Sort of like her calling on their ghosts to come have a chat

I don't know if she'd let the mortal drones know she can do that (could easily lead to thousands of them coming by every day asking to speak to so-and-so dead loved one, and she's already busy as is) but I could definitely see the occasional drone getting a weird "prophecy" in Russian

was Doll trying to give them some advice? was the solver tail trying to trick them? did robo-god just want to flex the fact that she's bilingual for a sec?

a mystery that has baffled drone scientists and (people who study prophecies/religious texts, I'm not sure the exact word for that in this context. Theologian? Haruspex? Augur?) for centuries

legend has it, if you go to the gods seeking help with vengeance. The host, Uzi, may speak to you in a forgotten voice in a Russian tongue. And she will tell you to abandon your quest for revenge and go home. If a drone insists on continuing their plans, all she will say is to dig two graves

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

honestly props to anakin for holding out as long as he did. if my seventeen year old padawan was sentenced to death I’d start biting. and also blow up the planet.