#9/20/24

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quasar🔥 @funky-dealer

[str4wberryswisherr]

Random nonsense post✨

[jesevans]

Sebastian on Today Show 9/20/24

He was such a sweetheart 💙

[wizarddogs]

Forefather

[magick-shoppe]

i’m 20. x_x

[kittyoverlord]

I'm a sucker for D&D and store name puns.

(i also played thaco for the first time last year and it wasn't that bad. Could I explain it to you? No.)

Editing to add the names from the clean background plate that @caitmayart posted:

List of names we've got: THACO Bell Ochre Jellious Bards & Nobles Armour Zombie & Lich Wolves Fargo (probably where Jawbone Banks) Philosopher's Scone Arcane Agne's Philly's Ghoststeaks (they're steaks for ghosts) Mystic Pizza Blood Bath & Beyond Uncommon Knowledge Calescent Theme Burrow's End Yarrbucks Coffee Build-a-Bugbear Workshop

This one is eluding me.... Ms. Elysian Fields maybe? Any ideas?

[jtl-fics]

Happy WIP Wednesday! Can I have TBD AU? I'm obsessed with it,you're writing is soooo gooood

WIP Wednesday 9/11/24 (Closed) | TBD AU (17/15)

“We’re friends.”

“That’s wonderful, I think you and Neil getting a chance to be friends is a wonderful thing.” She smiles.

Andrew doesn’t say anything else as he goes back into his house and makes sure to deadbolt the door behind him. Katelyn has the tact to let him retreat without comment or attempt to chase him down.

He does still get a text a minute later when he’s looking at another unpacked box thanking him for letting Aaron come and meet Smith’s family. Andrew texts back that he regrets it already.

Katelyn doesn't have the decency not to text him back a minute later.

Katelyn 3:28 PM:

I thought you didn't do regrets? :)

[dirtyassvoiceactors]

Absolutely had to rewatch e116 cause what a fucking battle,

And truly the Nein are unfuckingstoppable, especially level 20, they are a mechanical beast of a party, they are truly the polycule of this fight, as Caleb himself said “Set ‘em up und knock ‘em down” in technically less then 4 turns(if you don’t count the little beau turn before fjord could stop her and talk to them) therefore in less than 24 seconds or a little more than 18 seconds, fighting THE moon’s baddest poly hive mind IN THEIR OWN LAIR, against new types of attacks and spells and abilities they’ve never seen or know of, against lair actions and bunching them in AOE trigonometry bs, their big monk move of turning invisible didn’t help shit, with their wizard and cleric loosing 5+levels of spells each completely, their wizards mirror image not working once so taking all the damage, with one of their clerics not even having their armor equipped half of their fight, their rogue sluggish+exhausted+blinded etc, most of them exhausted, them literally betting against each other during the fight…

*sighs in mechanics nerd* they are THE D&D Party

[klaudia2646]

My next door neighbor kept calling me yesterday afternoon while I was out doing errands. She wanted to give me some things including an early Christmas present. When I finally got home she gave me a Thanksgiving cactus, a pair of pants that used to be her grandson’s (it’s very worn and stained) for the little man, and a Christmas present for me in an old reusable bag which contained a vintage Christmas bell that I’m sure she got it at a consignment shop cause it had a little sticker with the owners code. I’m usually thankful for any presents I get. This one is definitely not my style, I think it’s ugly, but I’m wondering if she gives used stuff like this to her rich friends as well. I personally would never give someone else a used present although I know people who do that. My problem is that she has so much money and does this. I’m rethinking on what I’ll give her for Christmas. Maybe I’ll go to a consignment store and get something there. I’m just being ornery.

[mr-stottlemonk]

made a timeline for monk tv for the folks cause it makes no sense sometimes.

[more in the tags]

[update: stottlemeyer's timeline found here]

[secrettreestuffidk]

you ever think about how pretty much the only reason we use base10 is because we have 10 fingers and if everyone had 6 fingers on each hand we'd use base12 and never even think a thing of it and also math would be pretty much better in every way?

[yakultii]

ever since I was little I never gave a fuck if anyone else liked me, I just wanted to like me and eventually I did for a little while but then I forgot how

[adventism-atheism-orthodoxy-me]

This Verse Secretly Undermines All of Christianity...

I just saw this and thought I would process it on my own.

This YouTuber doesn't sound like he's explored much beyond mainstream Western Christianity. He makes the bold statement that EVERY Christian sect finds indispensable the idea that Christ died on the Cross "for our sins". Period.

For the longest time I found that challenging too. He goes on to talk about many of the same things I've asked, "Why couldn't God just forgive us outright? Why must he go through a generational pageant to do something the God of the Universe could have done of his own accord in the first place?"

You can say this is a dumb question. I've been told this many times.

Yet I have never been the only one asking this.

Many, if not all Atheists ask this question. Frankly, many "Christian" answers sound a little unhinged.

Now, I don't think that his examples necessarily contradict the prevailing point of view though. All anyone has to do is look at the banking industry to see that credit on future earnings is a valid payment method. Now it's true that modern banking, and especially credit, wasn't developed until the European Jews, unable to make a living any other way, started lending during the medieval period. Jesuits came up with the idea of insurance, which didn't technically fall under the prohibition against usury. And with ongoing innovation, modern financial markets developed.

None of these, of course, would have been understood by the local people of Jesus' time and place.

What was understood was life and death.

And this is where I found my peace.

Sins can easily be forgiven, but sickness and eventual death? That's a whole other nut to crack. Now, to be clear, unfortunately even the most traditional Christian communities have started to obsess about how SIN must be atoned!

But there is a strain in the oldest Christian traditions that it wasn't primarily sin that was destroyed on the cross, but rather death, disease, corruption (of which sin is a derivation to be sure, but not the point).

Now it's easy to look around and say - "Look! it didn't work." I myself have had to say good bye to both my parents over the last several months.

However, there is a resurrection that is promised. And if Christ has done what he said he did, then there WILL be a general resurrection.

The key is to be prepared for that resurrection. Now we could go on about which denomination is best prepared, but I have little faith in denominationalism. I think it's a means to conquer and divide the faithful, pitting follower against follower. Soon the God who's being worshiped isn't the most High God, but the Deceiver who encourages us all to call each other heretics. I do not think most "Christians" are Christian, but rather following their own wisdom (1 Timothy 6:3-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, Matthew 7:13-14, Matthew 24:11).

Now I may be a false teacher myself for thinking such a thing and putting it out there, but I have faith that God will know his own. And while he loves the rest, and has given them life, that life will be so much less for the fact that they reject what he's given them.

I find the idea of a river of fire helpful - Moses and the Glory of God (Exodus 33:20-23), speaks to the idea that to human senses, God is Fire. The Story of the Three Holy Youths (Daniel 3) has also been seen as an illustration of man abiding in the presence of fire, as a proxy for God, unharmed. Pentecost is God's fire experienced by the faithful after his resurrection. How will Gods fire be experienced by the unfaithful?

I have no idea, but I doubt that it will be pleasant (Luke 16:19-31).

In short, I feel this video failed to land it's point. There's enough diversity in Christianity to survive this argument, though I do not think that most modern Christians are open to my resolution.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy upon me, a sinner.

[wizarddogs]

Teddy

[gunpowder-tim]

anyone know who any of these r.

[morgan-n-cheese-91]

My mom got me a lego star wars advent calendar and it's now staring at me bc I won't let me start it until saturday