#21 praises

[kickedin17]

Regional at Best is so special because it feels so exactly like what it is, which is an album made by a young person, younger than I am now, who'd given up everything else to make this dream work and probably had no idea what the hell he was going to do if it didn't. Keep working a normal job? Go back to college? What do you do if the dream doesn't work, when you're an early-20-something who (like all early-20-somethings) has precisely nothing else figured out? What do you do if everyone's right and the art isn't worth it?

Then your bandmates leave. But actually, it turns out perfect anyway, because you end up with this other guy who also has precisely nothing else figured out and no plan B except to be in this very band with you. How rare and precious of a thing that is, to meet someone who believes in your art just as much as you do. At least if you fail you fail together, right?

I think RAB feels like the end of summer and growing pains because it exists in that same itchy, anxious space as your last summer before you graduate high school/college, when it begins hitting you that there will never be a summer like this again because next year you're supposed to be grown up. But the truth is you never figured out how to grow up and you never figured out how to stop dreaming. So many people have to learn that lesson for various reasons, but Tyler and Josh never did because they believed in it so much that I think it truly never could've failed. Even if they never got as big as they did w/ Blurryface, I think they never could've failed because they are for the dreamers.

Self-titled is complicated and beautiful and core to everything else they would do after, but RAB is the beating heart of what tøp was always meant to be imo. It's embracing the fear of getting older because you have no other choice, while acknowledging you're still a little afraid of the dark. It's a night light for the grown-ups who are still scared of long dark hallways they can't see the end of (and work email chains). You turn 23 and discover you probably don't actually want to die as much as you used to, and also that you still think pokémon cards are fucking rad, and both of those things are okay. And maybe you'll never get out of this goddamn town but it never hurts to dream

[grogumaximus]

[kimetsu-no-yabai]

i had some thoughts abt the tokitou twins

[wiirocku]

Psalm 145:21 (NLT) - I will praise the LORD, and may everyone on earth bless His holy name forever and ever.

[gxlden-angels]

"The Lord loves a cheerful giver :)" I'll cheerfully give him these hands

[sealmonger]

Revelation 21 ESV

The New Heaven and the New Earth

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.[c] 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem

9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— 13 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.[d] Its length and width and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits[e] by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement. 18 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Footnotes

a. Revelation 21:3 Or tabernacle

b. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts peoples

c. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts omit as their God

d. Revelation 21:16 About 1,380 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters

e. Revelation 21:17 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

[sweetporing]

21. Bad dog

[astro-b-o-y-d]

It's still so funny to me how I've apparently been calling that triangle mid for almost a decade

[aetherose]

Vera is Stupid Hours In which Vera is a self-sabotaging self-destructive idiot, and No.21 is a godsend.

Cast: Rose as Vera Solis (@stalwartembers) as No.21 and Alpha

[russellius]

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[cyarsk52-20]

He actually thought he was going to get away with it like he’s gotten away with similar incidents beforehand that he didn’t even bother to have someone take this tweet down if he knew he how poorly aged it was going to be.

The one thing that I’m not going to get over and it’s because it’s very messed up is that Meg wasn’t even gonna say that Tory shot her at first and he repaid her by retraumatizing her and making her look like the bad guy. That’s sociopathic behavior at its finest!

Meg really did try very hard not to say anything publicly but Tory would not leave her alone and now he facing deportation In other words Tory fucked his own life up. Sings in

@kellyclarkson

🎵Some people wait a lifetime for a downfall like this 🎵

I hope you love your jail cell. I wish you everything terrible in life.

Useless midget!

[wiirocku]

Matthew 21:9 (NLT) - Jesus was in the center of the procession, and the people all around Him were shouting,

“Praise God for the Son of David!    Blessings on the One who comes in the name of the LORD!    Praise God in highest heaven!”

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Paul Visits James

18 And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present. 19 And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles. 20 And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law: 21 And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules. 22 What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come. 23 Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath; 24 Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law. 25 But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body. 26 Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them. — Acts 21:18-26 | Bible in Basic English (BBE) The Bible in Basic English is in the public domain. Cross References: Numbers 6:13; Numbers 6:18; Numbers 19:11; Matthew 5:32; Matthew 9:8; Matthew 23:7; John 11:55; Acts 1:17; Acts 6:14; Acts 11:30; Acts 12:17; Acts 15:1; Acts 15:19; Acts 18:18; Acts 24:18; 1 Corinthians 7:18; 1 Corinthians 14:15

[pythonscrypt]

"quitting" mcc because you're scared of dropping top 10 is insane btw

[thebirdandhersong]

MY ELINOR IS PREGNANT!!!!

[fromcainwithlove]

i wanna always feel like part of this was mine

the radio says there won’t be a meteor shower like this for another 31 years.

alone in a dark apartment at 2:00 am, a girl nine months removed from a suicide attempt climbs the railing of her balcony, curls both hands around the edge of the roof, and leans back as far as her arms will hold her, gaze fixed to the strip of sky where a thousand tiny filaments streak through the blackness in brief and brilliant bursts, and thinks: it’s enough. in this moment, shivering and dazzle eyed and one wrong move away from falling to a spinal fracture at best, it’s enough to breathe in the cold air and watch the sky explode and be alive to see it.

maybe she’ll even still be alive the next time it comes around.