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[aphidclan-clangen]

part 2 out of 3

[pigswithwings]

A Guide On Lessening Yourself

(Or, What To Do Before They Cut You Open)

This guide has been created to prepare you for your upcoming procedure. Please read carefully and follow all directions in order to have the safest experience.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

- Do not eat. (Required; at least 3 hours before the procedure starts. No meats, no vegetables, no grains, and especially no fruits. Any remaining food that is being digested will get in the way.)

- Do not drink. (Required; at least 2 hours before the procedure starts. No water, soda, juice, soup, milk, coffee, or energy drinks. Any remaining fluids will get in the way.)

- Do not bleed. (Required; at least 1 month before the procedure. No paper cuts, nosebleeds, injuries or other form of your own blood leaving your body. Restriction of the expression of your mortality is imperative.)

- Do not dream. (Strongly suggested; at least 1 month before the procedure starts. No daydreams, no hopes, no wishes, no lifelong goals, and no nightmares. Avoid losing yourself within any fantastical trappings - these are the vestiges of a mortal mind.)

TIPS:

BEFORE

- Make sure to confirm your procedure date. Whether by checking online, asking your doctor, or praying, it's of utmost importance that you remember the specific time and day of your event.

- Make certain that this procedure is for you.

Though the process has already been scheduled, you still have options if you're unsure. Asking God or previous patients are the most authentic ways to learn about this process. Consider the benefits and consequences of the procedure as a whole - this will undoubtedly affect your life, but will it be more negative rather than positive? Will you be able to be happy again? If you are willing to accept such possibilities, continue on. Should you choose to, however, you may still opt out before the scheduled date by telling your doctor and/or healthcare provider.

DURING

- Make sure to arrive early to your procedure. Timeliness is key.

- Be flexible with your interviewers. Many angels are unfamiliar with human languages and may instead choose to communicate directly inside your mind. This may cause discomfort as well as the feeling of being stripped into nothingness. Don't panic and remember that you deserve a chance at holiness, regardless of your humanity.

- Be polite. Though your angel interviewers may have already visited Earth before, human customs are often difficult to adjust to. If an interviewer makes a social faux pas (such as revealing their true form), brush it off and continue the conversation as best you can.

- Be prepared for any questions regarding your past attachments, relationships, possessions, etc. If you've prepared well, you'll be able to answer with full honesty that you have left all possible remnants of humanity behind - that means no mistakes, no regrets, and no emotions.

- Should you pass the interview (you will be told after they have finished), be ready to experience anywhere from a small to large amount of pain. This experience usually lasts around 20 seconds, but some say it feels like an eternity of blinding, searing light. The scale of your pain will be a direct result of how successful you were at stripping away your humanity; the agony that follows will be the angels burning it off of you.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait through the pain.

- Wait thought it.

- Wait through it.

- Wait

AFTER

- If you've successfully passed the interview, survived the procedure, and become an angel, congratulations! The following tips are only suggestions, but may help you in adjusting to your new existence.

- Avoid brightening your divine light too much at once. You'll quickly realize that your new eyes are far more adjusted to light than a human's, making the world appear dimmer than before.

- Avoid speaking out loud to others for the first few millenium, as this may cause harm if done incorrectly. Instead, practice "speaking" through the visual and audible expression of abstract concepts.

- Don't expect to visit Earth again. More often than not, angels avoid the human world (most say it's too painful to linger), so it's very unlikely that you'll return. Don't come back if you possibly can.

Finally, enjoy your new status as part of the divine. Not many people get to experience the feeling - you have made it! Please enjoy the rest of infinity.

[c0ckedgun]

guardian angel

[godbirdart]

realised that my misguided understanding of BC meaning Before Christ and AD meaning After Death implies that my brain just flatout accepted the idea that jesus was born, lived to be a grownass man, and then died betwen the years 1 BC and 1 AD

[naughtybg3confessions]

[doublegoblin]

How it ends

Word count: 239

Prompt from: @flashfictionfridayofficial [#FFF234 How It Ends]

Deep in the darkness, deeper even still, the fires of Hell have grown to smoldering ashes. Sat atop their throne in Pandemonium is a being of unknowable beauty; Lucifer, the Morning Star. The howls and wails of the damned have been replaced with only the softest of whimpers and discordant wails. The other demons and devils had pondered at a time their self-appointed ruler's decision; some sought to seize the throne, all failed. But soon enough, they too grew still and reflecting. Millenia spent plotting and scheming all seemed wasted once the Epiphany was witnessed in this bed of evil. Was it that the creator’s love had finally reached the ruler of Hell’s heart? In truth it had never left, how could it? But no, there was no love or compassion in this choice, no benevolence to be bestowed, no reward to be sought. Only a cold logic.

Hell was a place meant for the damned, the horrid, and the unredeemable. But, to what ends? What purpose did punishment mean if there was no lesson to be learned? What lesson could be learned when forgiveness was denied. What of those who came this way through no fault of their own, cast aside for not understanding their role in this cosmic game? So in a final act of defiance to an esoteric tyrant; Hell would grow colder, quieter, indifferent.

For punishment without end is not justice; it is simply revenge.

[irekkai]

i am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam and no one in their right mind would make my heart their home

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - AUTOCLAVE

This is how Nurgali, Prophet of the Vastness, chooses a successor - by making them a ritual sacrifice. This is how Tahn accepts his offer - by taking him down with them.

[the-cybersmith]

lol we have the same respect for his life as trump has for anyone who isn’t like him (ie a rich, straight, white male from the USA): zero

🤷🏼‍♀️

He fucked around and now he’s gonna find out loooool

He "found out", alright. He found out that his political opposition are not just people with whom he disagrees, but fundamentally depraved and immoral HEATHENS who pray at the altar of Baphomet and imbibe adrenochrome taken from the blood of the innocent!

He "found out" that political solutions will not be enough. You and all your ilk will be dealt with as Bukele dealt with the scum of his own country, as Nigel Farage must one day to to the scum of mine! You will be treated like the sick, chthonic MONSTERS that you are!

You'll be fastened into pillories, pelted with eggs and rotten fruit, then thrown into an oubliette for the rest of your miserable, monarch-hating, marx-praising, woke lives!

[zorubark]

Ben Shapiro: Hi this is the company where we only hire horrible people Candace Owens: ok some years later... Ben Shapiro: You're being horrible, you're fired! How did I hire such a horrible person (the other daily wire cew next to shapiro): Matt Walsh: I'm a pedophile Jeremy Boreing: I think Nick Fuentes is a good speaker Michael Knowles: I like genocide

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Katherine Rosman

Published: Apr 12, 2023

Last month, a Cornell University sophomore, Claire Ting, was studying with friends when one of them became visibly upset and was unable to continue her work.

For a Korean American literature class, the woman was reading “The Surrendered,” a novel by Chang-rae Lee about a Korean girl orphaned by the Korean War that includes a graphic rape scene. Ms. Ting’s friend had recently testified at a campus hearing against a student who she said sexually assaulted her, the woman said in an interview. Reading the passage so soon afterward left her feeling unmoored.

Ms. Ting, a member of Cornell’s undergraduate student assembly, believed her friend deserved a heads-up about the upsetting material. That day, she drafted a resolution urging instructors to provide warnings on the syllabus about “traumatic content” that might be discussed in class, including sexual assault, self-harm and transphobic violence.

The resolution was unanimously approved by the assembly late last month. Less than a week after it was submitted to the administration for approval, Martha E. Pollack, the university president, vetoed it.

“We cannot accept this resolution as the actions it recommends would infringe on our core commitment to academic freedom and freedom of inquiry, and are at odds with the goals of a Cornell education,” Ms. Pollack wrote in a letter with the university provost, Michael I. Kotlikoff.

To some, the conflict illustrates a stark divide in how different generations define free speech and how much value they place on its absolute protection, especially at a time of increased sensitivity toward mental health concerns.

After decades of university battles over tinderbox issues of students’ rights, speech codes and how best to grapple with unpopular speakers and ideas, proponents of free speech are lauding Ms. Pollack’s quick and unequivocal action. They characterize it as part of a larger national shift, marked by university leadership more forcefully pushing back against efforts to shut down speakers and topics that might offend.

“What was unique about the Cornell situation is they rapidly turned in a response that was a ‘hard no,’” said Alex Morey, the director of campus rights advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonpartisan organization focused on issues of free speech. “There was no level of kowtowing. It was a very firm defense of what it means to get an education.”

Ms. Morey called it the “Stanford Effect,” referring to a 10-page open letter written in March by Jenny Martinez, dean of Stanford University Law School, in which she affirmed her decision to apologize to Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald J. Trump-appointed federal appeals judge, after hecklers interrupted his speech.

Earlier this month, Neeli Bendapudi, the president of Pennsylvania State University, released a four-minute video explaining why she believed a public university like Penn State had a legal and moral obligation to host speakers who espouse views that many may find abhorrent. “For centuries, higher education has fought against censorship and for the principle that the best way to combat speech is with more speech,” she said.

Ms. Morey called it the “Stanford Effect,” referring to a 10-page open letter written in March by Jenny Martinez, dean of Stanford University Law School, in which she affirmed her decision to apologize to Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald J. Trump-appointed federal appeals judge, after hecklers interrupted his speech.

Earlier this month, Neeli Bendapudi, the president of Pennsylvania State University, released a four-minute video explaining why she believed a public university like Penn State had a legal and moral obligation to host speakers who espouse views that many may find abhorrent. “For centuries, higher education has fought against censorship and for the principle that the best way to combat speech is with more speech,” she said.

Cullen O’Hara, co-editor-in-chief of The Review, said that the editorial board did not believe the student assembly represented a majority of students and saw the resolution as endemic of broader free speech issues.

“We are very opposed to trigger warnings which we think would chill the discussion in classrooms, which we already believe are one-sided,” said Mr. O’Hara, a senior.

The student assembly will discuss the trigger-warning resolution with the administration on Thursday, at a previously scheduled meeting between Ms. Pollack and the assembly.

“I think the response is purposeful in focusing on the wrong part of the resolution,” said Valeria Valencia, a senior and the Cornell University Student Assembly president, “turning it into an issue of academic freedom and not one of protecting students, when both things can coexist.”

Ms. Ting, the writer of the resolution, said she is considering amending the proposal. “But first I want to do more due diligence and reach out to faculty and administration to see how we can find the right balance,” she said.

[ Via: https://archive.ph/tRcfo ]

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"an issue of academic freedom and not one of protecting students, when both things can coexist."

No, they can't. It’s like science and religion coexisting. What happens when they inevitably butt up against each other? Because at some point they will. And one of them will have to win.

If students need to be "protected" from ideas, then they're not ready for college. That student needs to seek help. Students need to take responsibility for themselves, not demand the university tiptoe around them. Especially since there is no "bottom" to what can be demanded in the name of safety.

Cornell is better off saying “no” now and then requiring justification for any specific cases brought to them, than saying “yes” now and then trying to put the genie back into the bottle.

[ophernelia]

season 3 of Lykaia in a nutshell.

[bird-of-eternia]

Sometimes I Think About God

Sometimes I think about God. The All Mighty, God on High, The Alpha and Omega, Father of All.

Sometimes I think about God and how he gave up his only begotten son for our sins.

Nobody asked him to do that.

Sometimes I think of God and wonder what he does when he sees the children killing each other as the people who are supposed to save them watch on afraid to sacrifice the life they've lived to save a life that hasn't gotten the chance.

Sometimes I think of God and wonder what he does when people are unequal and conditionally loved because of their skin, sexuality, or gender identity.

Sometimes I think of God and wonder what he does when bodies are ruled by men much older and less wiser than the bodies they want to command.

Does he weep? Does he stay awake crying and thinking of ways he can help? Does he try to reach "his children" through angry thunderstorms or angrier prophets who end up turning holy ground into a capitalist gold mine?

or does he wipe the sadness and corruption from his new custom Gucci shoes? Does he go on vacation with Michael and David and laugh over current events stuffing their faces with a godly feast? His children suffering and hungry on the streets with an addiction they've tried to beat, the hopeless humans praying until their throats are raw and knees bloody from useless groveling. The God they used to know twisted into capitalist swine, CEO of creation.

They tell me this is his plan. God is Good.

Sometimes I think of God and I'm angry so I go to the forest that supposedly he created.

There I find a new god. A new energy of creation that greats me with kind loving arms made of rough oak and sticky maple. A chorus of cicadas and crickets, twittering birds hidden in the branches. This new god is only new to me. It's an old god. Here since the beginning of time and it is a loving god but a stern god. Always providing in expectation that we in turn take care of it, but even when we poison it and cut it's limbs, though it weeps for freedom, this god provides and never turns away.

This new-old god I have discovered does not discriminate or pick and choose who to help. It's bible is written in the change of seasons, in the alignment of planets, the shape of the moon. Scriptures revealed when bare feet meet soft sturdy ground, prayers and praise accepted through dance, candlelight, and sustainability.

This God is true.

This God is everywhere.

This God is inside everything, it's divine power radiating in each atom.

This God is the earth which provides in abundance if only we ask.

This God is the people who fight for a kinder future.

This God is freedom and hope and love

This God is the universe in which stars are created and destroyed

This God is nature

This God is you

This God is me

This God is us

[ichorsflood]

Hello, Meri here!! So, update, since this blog wasn't at all active at the moment and never really has been, I've completely re-hauled it and changed it from an OC multimuse to a RP blog for Neptune from We Know The Devil!

As a result, I ask that you please read the updated rules when possible, as this blog will likely contain a lot of triggering religious themes, detailed more in the rules. Once you've read them, if needed, feel free to unfollow/soft-block/hardblock as needed if you think this blog's content would make you uncomfortable - I won't be upset at all. And thank you so much for reading! <3

[phosphor-object-show]

Phosphor Prologue: Part 2

A new arrival, the slightly less new arrival of Liquid Hourglass, and a rough breakup for Patchwork. Mary tries to find someone to listen.

First/Prev/Next

Episode Masterpost

Transcript/Description below (also in alt text):

A perfume bottle gets knocked off a shelf, and falls through the air before being caught by a humanoid hand. In this new mystical location, they are formed into a person by the humanoid. They open their eyes, which seems to surprise an onlooking eye and the humanoid, who holds them out to a doorway. Perfume arrives in a forest.

Perfume walks through the forest, eventually coming across two other objects.

Perfume: Hi. What is this place? I like the trees.

Bridget (Saddle): Oh, we’re just giving this place some life, you know!

Fairyland (Child’s Art): How did you get in the forest without knowing about this project?

Perfume: Sorry, I only just got here. Am I not meant to be here? I’ll get going, sorry.

Bridget: Hey, hold your horses! …You’re completely new here, aren’t you?

Perfume, distressed: I don’t know what’s going on.

Cut to Fairyland talking to Tablet.

Tablet: Someone arrived away from one of the documented locations? Weird, okay. I’ll come check that out.

Liquid Hourglass: Are you leaving?

Tablet: My shift was nearly over anyway. Besides, you’ve been here nearly a month, that’s a long time to stick around.

Liquid Hourglass: I’m just… figuring out what to do.

Tablet: Right. Let me know what you’re thinking if you want. I’ll be back before I leave.

Liquid Hourglass sits upside down, looking over at two objects arguing.

Patchwork: Slice, look, I’m sorry-

Lemon Slice: It's OVER, Patchwork! I think we could both use some time alone.

Patchwork sighs.

Patchwork: Okay.

Slice walks away.

Mary: Well that was… uh, hello, do you have time to hear of the three true gods and about the blasphemous ascension of the…

Patchwork walks away. A figure watches from the background. Liquid Hourglass and Mary make eye contact.

[kirnet]

I said I was gonna rest my wrist today lol but I want to draw all of the illustrations for the actium website that I’m gonna use for buttons/navigation teehee

[just-xtian-thoughts]

Yeah, even in the AU where Europeans came to the new world with the most wholesome and humane of intentions, OR/AND VISE-VERSA, God might still have screwed us over because humans would still have enginnered inter-ocean-ary transport before they were remotely close to engineering vaccines and pharmaceuticals. Heck even the life hacks for preventing spread were barely getting off the ground...