#Abrogated

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Burk Parsons | When it comes to sexual ethics in the Bible, we have to understand that they are rooted in creation. They are rooted in God’s ordering of creation, in creating man male and female, man and woman. Jesus appeals to the creation ordinance, and the Apostles in the New Testament appeal to the creation ordinance pertaining to all matters of sexual relations and...

[seph-on-an-irrational-planet]

you’re not supposed to like Ricky guys just because he smiles and is nice and attractive doesn’t mean he isn’t as bad as the rest of them

Lindy is easy to hate on purpose. Ricky is the level 2 media literacy challenge

[francesderwent]

thinking about snarky cultural/theological commentary and. the thing about snark is this: it’s easy, and it’s instant gratification. it’s easy because you’re playing to a likeminded audience. you get the way they think, you know the sort of things they find ridiculous, and so you know what’s going to play well with them. it’s not that hard to come up with a zinger that’s going to earn you applause from your own side. it’s also pretty easy to make another human being who’s not on your side look stupid, because we’re stupid creatures and we all have plenty of exploitable weak spots. it’s preaching to the choir, and it’s preaching meanly to the choir. and then, your snark bears all its fruit right away. you get the glowing feeling of having scored points against the enemy while being patted on the back by your friends for being so brave. if you succeeded in being snarky, you get the rewards of snark that very instant.

on the other hand, seeking to share the truth you possess in a mode in which it could actually be received—that is, says St Thomas, according to the mode of the recipient—that’s hard, and it’s so far from being instantly gratifying that you may never see the fruits of it in this life. not only are you not thinking about your likeminded audience, you’re not even going to trot out the truth simply in the way you understand it and call it your best effort. rather, you have to try to get inside your interlocutor’s frame of mind and understand how the truth you know is going to fulfill their own priorities and longings. you have to understand them so well that you see the truth of their position, even if that truth is buried very very deep, and then see how that truth connects them to the truth you see. you have to be insightful, and compassionate, and so, so patient. you don’t get to score any points, with anybody. your interlocutor might still get annoyed with you and turn around and make you look stupid. but you can’t just say “I’m going to speak the truth and I don’t care who hears and how they take it”—you have to care how they take it, because the truth is relational, it’s given and received, not just spouted into a void. and frankly you have to care how they take it because you have to care about their salvation.

don’t get me wrong, there are times in every person’s life when they will be called to stand up and be counted, to put fumbling words to what they hold most dear even if they can’t make everyone understand. but I don’t know that it’s a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth, with no consideration given to who hears you and what they’ll hear in it—and it’s certainly not a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth in a mean and funny way. “instruct the ignorant” is a spiritual work of mercy. but instruct the ignorant does not mean “instruct the ignorant while making the knowledgeable laugh and/or high five.”

[queenlua]

got the "hating what is evil" part down pat, working on that "clinging to what is good" bit

[comicbookcovers]

Quittin' time, part 3

[ariwritessometimes]

Assonance

Cairo Day Reprise: BONUS FIC #2

She thought Jack liked to collect broken people. To try to fix them. Or just be a general nuisance. Maybe it made him feel like a hero. But when the patch job starts to look like too much work, that’s when he bails. All of that makes perfect sense to Riley, even if it makes her seem jaded.

What she can’t figure out is why he added Angus MacGyver to his collection. Mr. Wizard seems to be the furthest thing from broken.

Bonus fic for the Summer '24 Cairo Day Reprise: 2024 Prompts "In Flight | Shh, You’re Okay Now"

Inspired by @impossiblepluto 's fic, ascending

Day 3's 'official' fic here

[saintsenara]

I love your thoughts on various ships and your metas. What’s your take on Tom Riddle Sr./ Morfin ?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

undoubtedly this was sent in as a crack ship - and good for you, we've all read lady chatterley's lover! the squire's son banging a bit of rough from the other side of the valley is the height of culture - but it... did not end up that way when i sat down to think about it.

and so this one has a trigger warning for discussion of rape, sexual abuse, and incest, and is under the cut.

now, the horrible thing about this one is the fact that the idea of morfin being jealously infatuated with tom sr., being pressed that his sister fancies him too, and attacking him in a fit of rage when he saw him with canonical cutie, cecilia, is much more pleasant than the actual implication of the text - which is that morfin is not only furious that merope wants to risk it all for a riddle because he's a blood-supremacist bigot, but because he views tom as a rival for sexual access to his own sister.

the gaunts' extreme incestuousness is played for laughs in the text - it alludes to common jokes in britain about how inbred the aristocracy are; and it also winks conspiratorially at the reader about the irony of a family which considers itself to be of such "pure" blood living in filth and fucking their own blood relations - in a way which makes me genuinely uncomfortable.

because there is a pretty clear subtext - in the way dumbledore talks about the family's increasing isolation from the rest of the world, in the way both morfin and marvolo talk to and about merope, and in morfin's taunting of his sister with the idea that tom sr. would never "have" her - that merope either is or will soon be subjected to incestuous sexual abuse at her brother and/or father's hands, and that she can expect nothing more from life than to be forced to bear children for morfin who will then go on to continue the cycle of abject poverty and pain which defines the decaying last generations of slytherin's line.

[this is one of the reasons why i am such a vehement defender of treating merope with nuance and care. her rape - and we should call it what it is - of tom riddle sr. is plainly wicked, and i hate that text glosses over what happened to him - even though i recognise that both harry and dumbledore thinking that he was a deadbeat who abandoned his son makes sense within the context of their characterisation. but she is also a teenage victim from an uncomplicatedly abusive home. she can have no idea about things like bodily autonomy and consent, and she undoubtedly conceives of tom sr. not only as something she wants in a covetous, creepy sense, but as the only way she can imagine escaping the life which stretches out before her...]

so yeah - good for morfin for just being a garden-variety creep for once. tom sr.'s not going for it - obviously - because he's a weapons-grade baddie and cecilia knows what she's doing with a riding crop, but morfin can at least entertain himself by watching those toned thighs [we all know horse girls have great legs and arses!] trotting by.

[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now

[intelligentchristianlady]

Please, people!

[stationhousesix]

“He's abrogating his responsibilities.”

“Abrogating?”

“It’s absolutely abhorrent.”

“Abrogate.”

“Yes. Abrogate.”

“Who says abrogate?”

“Are you kidding me? It's a word.”

“Abrogate?”

“Yes it means to put aside or evade.”

“Then why not say either of those words?”

“Does it really matter? Please! The captain isn't taking the safety of the crew seriously.”

“Abrogate.”

“Would you take this seriously? I don't want to starve in this coffin, because someone can't comprehend- I'll admit- a rather robust word in the English language.”

“People have lived and died never hearing that word, Doctor.”

“We'll have lived and died if we don't have clean water and food!”

“I know. I know. I've been working on a filter for the waste water. Hopefully we should have recycled water by 0100. As for food. We have two weeks of rations stored in the hull. If we are out here awake for longer than that. I don't know.”

“The nutraSynth system just had to fail…”

[midnightactual]

to talk about AI in art more specifically, I think in so far as AI has any legitimate use in art, it's exclusively as an artistic aid. if you generate an AI image of a character, then draw on top of it using it as a loose reference (I'm not talking about tracing here), that's not really any different than using any other photo reference or inspiration. if you feed all of a character's dialogue to an AI, then have it crosscheck versus dialogue you wrote for them and make adjustments to your writing (I'm not talking about copying and pasting here), that's not really any different than having someone beta-read for voice or doing it manually yourself. it can be an effective tool for doing very specific and technical things faster and thus developing a better personal artistic intuition for them. it's acceptable as training wheels, like spellcheck but much more sophisticated

what is broadly unacceptable is to just let AI generate something and release it into the wild as-is or edited. AI making your life easier or giving you more confidence in making your art is fine. using AI to substitute for and try and shortcut the artistic process is not

[patemi-pk]

Con tutte queste storie che spiegano cose che potevano anche non essere spiegate (e in alcuni casi sarebbe stato meglio), perché non una storia che faccia luce sulla bizzarra questione delle leggi mai abrogate del Calisota? Un espediente usato centinaia di volte per la qualunque. Chissà cosa farebbe un burocrate neo-assunto che si trova di fronte a questa mole di legislazioni obsolete. Cercherebbe di farle abrogare? E se tutta Paperopoli si scoprisse reggersi su quest'intricata tela di caos giudiziario?

[icharchivist]

love french politics and how i have to look through 10 different tabs to understand what the latest political switch and scandal is all about, i feel just as high as when i'm doing a wiki deep dive for fandom theories without any of the fun nor pleasure out of it, only frustratingly screaming

[dapurinthos]

bless, there's a whole epub of limyaael's rants. now i have a starting point for building a noble court. because i need to know how the whole thing works even if i'm just doing 'extreme periphery of'. it's how the autism works.

[insightfultake]

How India Redefined Sovereignty: Article 370’s Legacy in Kashmir

In the grand theater of global politics, the United Nations has long been viewed as a custodian of peace and a mediator in conflicts. But in Kashmir, the abrogation of Article 370 marked the beginning of an era where India decisively turned the page on international arbitration, casting the UN into the shadows of irrelevance. For decades, the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) lingered in Srinagar, a relic of Cold War politics that time had outgrown, but it was the abrogation that delivered the final verdict: its purpose was obsolete. Expand to read more