#LDS movement

[politicaljewishblog]

I have found myself struggling with this too.

Like, think about if a holy place for Mormons in the United States (/Turtle Island) was originally a holy place for an indigenous tribe. Would we really view the Mormon claim of the place as equally valid?

maybe this isn’t the most coexistence-pilled sentiment but i get so angry sometimes when i think about how people took our g-d and decided he was everyone’s g-d, took our holy texts and decided they were everyone’s holy texts, took our holy land and decided it was everyone’s holy land, and we’re expected to just accept that. goyim think they can tell us we’re worshipping our own g-d wrong because they decided he was their g-d too. they think they can criticize how we engage with our own torah because they stole it and changed it and added shit and rewrote it when it was ALWAYS OUR TORAH. they call yerushalayim “the holy land of three religions” because apparently if you colonize someone hard enough you get to claim their holy land as your holy land too and the entire world will just nod their heads right along because the entire foundation of their global society is based on the colonization of ours. and i know it’s antithetical to peace and so i push aside this feeling when i talk about actual solutions and real world actions and consequences but that deep angry part of me does think it’s complete fucking bullshit that christianity and islam get to plunder our entire culture for themselves in between mass murdering us and nobody calls them on it

[mindfulldsliving]

Apostolic Christianity Restored: How the LDS Church Revives Christ's Original Teachings

What if the Christianity practiced today wasn’t quite what Christ Himself established? For many, this idea sparks curiosity. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints answers this question by claiming to restore the original Apostolic Christianity, complete with Christ’s teachings, ordinances, and priesthood authority. Grounded in scripture and revelation, this restoration offers a…

[urlocal-limitesshbic]

*.˗ˏˋ DEILD- The Quickest And Easiest Method To Lucid Dream That I know ´ˎ˗.*

Listennnn, I love the lucid dream method down. It is AND ALWAYS WILL BE my favorite way to shift, apart from the void state.

BUT I know I cannot be the only one struggling to get lucid😩😭 At least I used to struggle before I found DEILD. I found other techniques tedious, having to do constant reality checks during the day felt like a chore and lying completely still in bed for 30+ minutes waiting for my body to fall asleep was quite literally torture to me. IF I could stay awake through it because most times I couldn’t or just rolled over and gave up because nothing was happening and I was très uncomfortable.

I’ve tried mild, SSILD, fild, ALL THE “ILDS” every single one and while they are effective, I’ve finally found the technique that works best for me and takes the least amount of time so I thought I would share, just in case it may help someone else!

With this technique you…..

Go from being awake directly into a lucid dream without falling asleep (this is called a wake initiated lucid dream and in my experience I feel more aware and in control with these vs when I randomly become aware in the middle of my dream. They are also easier to remember if you have poor dream recall. )

Are able to start the lucid dream scene in the privacy of your own room so you don’t have to worry about trying to shift in the middle of distracting dream scenes or dealing with distracting dream characters

You can save a Lucid dream that’s been cut short or even have several lucid dreams in one night using this method

Don’t need to do reality checks during the day if you don’t want to or do any other daytime prep

The whole thing takes 10-30 seconds START TO FINISH!

The technique…

*.˗ˏˋ DEILD ´ˎ˗.*

Dream Exit Initiated Lucid dream

Steps…

Before bed set the intention that when you wake up you will immediately remember to perform DEILD

Set a touchless alarm to wake you up anywhere from 3-6 hours after falling asleep. I like this one! Maybe put it in a playlist with a lucid dreaming subliminal or theta waves set to play after the alarm goes off to boost your chances of becoming Lucid🌙

Go to bed as normal. As I fall asleep I like to imagine myself waking up to the alarm and successfully performing DEILD. Then I imagine myself successfully entering the void from the LD and then successfully waking up in my wr. I loop this sequence until I fall asleep. I do this to help me remember to do the technique the second I wake up, but it is not at all necessary.

Immediately upon waking and hearing the alarm, I try to remember to stay still and not open my eyes. Minimal movement is fine, but we’re trying to convince our body that we’re still asleep! The alarm will shut off on its own.

Wait for what feels like 10 seconds without actually counting (Again, you don’t want to activate your Brain and wake yourself up too much )

After it feels like 10 seconds have gone by, do a reality check like the nose pinch test EVEN IF YOU FEEL WIDE AWAKE and don’t think you could possibly already be back asleep in only 10 seconds. Most of the time you’ll already be in what is called a false awakening-when you think you’re awake in bed but you’re actually dreaming

If you were able to breathe through your closed nose you are now in a lucid dream starting out in your room. You can proceed to shift to your dr in any way you like-some of my go to’s are:

-creating a portal

-entering the void and shifting from there

-entering the astral realm and shifting from there

-waking myself up from the dream but intending to wake up in my dr not my cr

Editors note:

If when you do the nose pinch test, you are still awake, repeat step 6 up to 2 more times. If by this point, you still have not entered a lucid dream, it is best to go back to bed and try again the next time you wake up. This method is very effective but fragile, as it is best performed in that very small hypnopompic window right when you are teetering on the edge of awake and asleep.

Why this method works…

When you wake up from sleep and don’t move or open your eyes, it tricks your body into thinking that you’re still asleep and it puts you back in a dream, even though your mind is actually awake! This is why a touchless alarm is helpful, or you can use natural awakenings.

Troubleshooting the method…

The hardest part about this method is remembering to stay still as soon as you wake up.

You can set the intention to remember to do so before bed

You can also use prospective memory training during the day (every time you look in a mirror/ drink something/ plug in your phone/ enter a different room etc you can affirm “the next time I wake up I will immediately remember to perform DEILD” )

And if you move by mistake or have to use an alarm that needs manually turned off, all is not necessarily lost. it’s still worth trying anyway as long as you think you’ll be able to fall back asleep! Just wait 30 seconds instead of 10 before doing a reality check and consider using an anchor to help keep you focused and awake (could be focusing on the sound of the subliminal if you made a playlist, or the sound of a fan etc)

TLDR OF THE TECHNIQUE:

Wake up either naturally or to a touch-less alarm. If you must use a manual alarm, keep movement minimal as to not activate your brain too much.

Lie still with your eyes closed and keep a blank mind for 10-30 seconds

Do a reality check to see if you are lucid dreaming

Shift from the lucid dream

Videos explaining the technique….

“Use this simple technique for more lucid dreams. Please.” -Tiger123

“Lucid dreaming techniques shouldn’t be this easy!” - Daniel Love

“Dream exit induced lucid dreams-DEILD tutorial”- Tipharot

[wheeloffortune-design]

"why are you participating in crab day and giving your money to tumblr?!?"

Because I like this site. I spend a lot of time here. All my stuff is here.

"But they changed the interface and it's bad!"

When aren't they doing that.

"But there's still nazis and ch*ld p*rn on this site!"

And I'm still going to hold them accountable and push for them to fix this.

"But it's so cringe!"

Baby I was born cringe.

"This movement was started by Terfs/prolifers!"

And fuck terfs and prolifers. Thankfully, I'm not giving money to them. They don't profit of this. I'm giving it directly to tumblr.

"You're a bootlicker"

Shit, tumblr aren't cops, or a repressive government. They're a website.

"Why are you giving money to a website?"

I like their product. It's not perfect but I do get a lot of enjoyment and work from it. I want to encourage them to keep making this product.

"You should give your money to artists/causes/other noble thing"

Who says I'm not though. Do you really think you can support one cause and nothing else? That's not how money works.

"You really should put your money in more important stuff"

Get your eyes off my wallet. I worked hard to be in a place where I can encourage artists and causes and yes, the free products I use.

"Not everyone can afford to throw money out the window!"

Yeah I know, I was one of those, and I remember hating the fact that I couldn't help or invest in things that are important to me. So I'm glad to help support tumblr for them.

.

I like this site and I want to stay on this site and if I can help by sending crab-shaped pixels to a person I like on this site, I'll be glad to send them money.

🦀

[brothermouse]

I want to make weird church art. Any suggestion on where to start?

Here's my three step guide to getting started with weird church art:

Step one: there's a little guy in your head who keeps telling you that nobody wants your weird Mormon art. That nobody outside the church cares and nobody inside the church wants that. It's a niche within a niche and there's only, like, three people in the whole world who will know what you're going for. Find the little guy in your head who says that

AND MURDER HIM.🔪🔪🔪💅🔪

Embrace the idea that you're making this art for yourself. Do what you love because you love it.

Step Two: Find inspiration. I got into weird Mormon art by way of a random interest in Vaporwave a few years back. As I poked around Vaporwave subreddit and online communities, I also kept an eye out for any Mormon connections (because that's just a weird thing I do all the time) and I came across LazerOS, who was making some very weird, very Mormon Vaporwave art. It blew my little mind. We can do that? We can make blatantly Mormon art? We can not only talk about, but also embrace the weirdness of Mormonism and NOT apologize for it? Mind. Blown.

Once I knew that there was a least one weird Mormon artist, I started looking for more to see what kind of stuff they were getting away with: Camila Stark's witchy eco-goth approach, Matt Page's Pop art, and any others. The ARCH-HIVE is a great place to find artists making good stuff. Taking in their stuff sort of gave me permission to make my own stuff.

Also make sure to look at more traditional, mainstream Mormon art, C. C. A. Christensen, Minerva Teichert, Jorge Cocco Santángelo, and others. Find what you like to see and absorb it into your artistic being like some kind of cosmic jello horror.

Step Three: Do NOT recreate the Art & Belief movement! You're gonna want to. You might even already want to. I think most Mormon artists go through an Art & Belief movement phase. Don't. It's been tried, it was good, but it failed. Basically the Art & Belief movement was an attempt by LDS artists in the 60s and 70s to make world class Mormon art. The phrase I've heard connected to it was "to make Salt Lake like the Vatican, where people have to find quiet corners to weep for the beauty of the art".

That's a noble goal, and the Art & Belief movement produced some beautiful stuff, but ultimately it failed because of the simple face that Salt Lake is not the Vatican. Mormon art will never be Catholic art. Not should it be. Nearly every force involved in the Art & Belief movement from the artists themselves to church leadership wanted Mormon art to be something it wasn't. The artists wanted it to be something that connected emotionally to the world and church leadership wanted it to be instructive and traditional. Both were disappointed because that's not what Mormon art is.

Frankly we don't yet know what Mormon art is. That's kinda what the goal of weird Mormon art is, throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

Ultimately the TL;DR version is this: Make your art for you. Learn what you like and do that. Let it be what it is and learn to love it.

[tamamita]

it's māori language week here in aotearoa, and I discovered that there does exist a te reo māori translation of the Quran, but after doing some digging I found it was produced by an Ahmadiyya org, which I'd heard from various muslim friends as being not islam at all, or somewhat analogous to mormonism's relation to christianity.

I'd been somewhat interested in getting a copy, but knowing about it being produced by an ahmadiyya org, I'm unsure as to whether I should bother getting it, lest they have some specific interpretations that discolour the meaning of the original text; would it be wise of me to avoid it?

The Ahmadiyyas are a movement within Sunni Islam, which means that their transliterations of the Qur'an are just as valid as any other Qur'an. We all share the same unchanged text. The only difference is in HOW we interpret Scripture. However, they're a persecuted religious group and a lot of Muslims will excommunicate them, so there is gonna be a bias against them. I have personally never read their transliteration of the Qur'an, but since they follow the Hanafi school of thought, I'd assume their transliteration is fundamentally similar to the Sunnis with some of their own theology. Anyways, comparing them to the LDS is not correct, since the Ahmadis are not part of a cult and is just considered a revivalist/reformist movement that follow Sunni Islam in terms of fiqh (jurisprudence) and aqeedah (theology)

You do what you wanna do. Personally, as a Shi'a, any transliteration of Qur'an is valid, however, the way we extrapolate the esoteric and exoteric meaning from the verses differ fundamentally, which means that I wouldn't rely on any non-Shi'i interpretation of scripture for obvious reasons.

[shatnerihardlyknowher]

"Oh, him? He's harmless. Part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS..."

[thejewitches]

Hey there! I really liked reading your post about messianic Judaism. I was just curious, would you say the LDS faith falls under that umbrella? I promise I am genuinely asking. Thanks!

No, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church) does not fall within the Messianic Christian umbrella.

In a very short explanation, Mormonism comes a different branch of the Christian tree in the 1830's. The family of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, had 'religious differences' with his mother's family being, according to Britannica, involved in various Protestant movements (including Congregationalism, Seekerism, and Presbyterianism). He had access, by all accounts, to the King James Version of the Bible.

The Messianic Movement is a distinct movement that grew out of Protestant Christianity in the 60s-70s, specifically the Hebrew-Christian movement which sought to missionize to Jews.

It can be confusing, however, when Mormons do things that feel like they seemingly cross over into "Messianic" territory like..

appropriating the term 'gentile' to mean 'non-Mormon' rather than its real meaning of non-Jew.

Baptizing dead Jews into Mormonism, including Holocaust victims like Anne Frank, and Jews of note like Maimonides [note: this is done to others as well as Jews]

"Members of the LDS Church believe themselves, in a general sense, to be members of the House of Israel, many of whom believe themselves also to be the literal bloodline descendants of Ephraim, Joseph of Egypt's youngest son, but inheritor, notwithstanding, of Israel's "firstborn" birthright blessings."

Teaching that they're members of the 12 Tribes...."The official position of the LDS Church is that those who have accepted the teachings of the church or those who are members of the Latter Day Saint movement are primarily from the House of Joseph, either by blood lineage or by adoption, when the recipient is not a literal descendant of Jacob, who is also known as Israel. Individual church members are told about their tribal affiliation through a patriarchal blessing."

Mormon discussion can also be extraordinarily philosemitic and fetishistic, which can evoke similar feelings of unease.

[nerdygaymormon]

The Civil Rights movement for African Americans culminated in 1968. 10 years later in 1978 the LDS Church changed to give African Americans the priesthood and let them get married in the temple. During those 10 years, the membership of the church changed their views to be more tolerant and accepting and thus the change wasn't so disruptive. It's been almost 10 years since gay marriage, do you think the church will announce a change in 2025?

I truly think it would be amazing if such a change were announced next year. While there has been progress, I just don't think the leadership is ready to make that jump, and many of the membership would have a big problem if suddenly gay marriages could be performed in the temple.

However, I do see signs that may point towards what you're suggesting. In 2022, the LDS Church surprised many by issuing a statement in support of the Respect for Marriage Act which made gay marriage part of federal law. There's currently several married gay couples who attend church and are not excommunicated nor disfellowshipped. When my friend who is trans visits Florida and attends church with me, many ladies line up to greet her. Maybe 2025 is too soon, but I do think we're heading there.

[eri-pl]

Tengwar <3

It's the best thing Feanor made. Seriously. Nobody will murder you for using Tengwar. Nobody will hack your brain when you use Tengwar in the wrong moment. (The lamps are ok, but kinda meh, Tengwar is better)

Did you know, just did you know, that every consonant has a name, and the name is a noun, and some are really cool (and foreshadowing)? (chart and translations below the cut)

So, if you want a chart, here is a chart. And the names are (I don't have diacritics, so I just double the long vowels) (Quenya mode, with some historical notes from LotR appendix and elvish.org):

"Normal stuff Feanor had on his desk" row:

T tinco - metal

P parma - book

K calma - lamp (like those Feanor made? Or... like those Aule made)

Q quesse - feather (birds are important!)

"Things that keep you trapped" row:

ND ando - gate (like... the Door of Night?)

MB umbar - doom (doesn't need a comment...)

NG anga - iron (also, used in sword names, even for non-iron swords)

NGW (in TA changed to NW) ungwe - spider's web (foreshadowingsight on Feanor's part? :) )

"Mountain things???" row

S suule - spirit or breath (Manwe Sulimo... king of winds and stuff...) | TH thuule - spirit or breath, but I'm a Feanorian, or at least I'm a linguistics geek and love the phonetic scheme (me! but otoh it sounds dumb :( ), or I love the Teleri and/or Sindar, who use it as th (Finarfin, iirc).

F formen - north

H (h before t) harma (voiceless velar fricative phonetically /x/... I think. the sources are confusing. In TA mostly softened into a breath h.) - treasure (my precious Silmarills...) | aha (later renamed, idk when) - rage (my Silmarils! and, even more importantly, my father!)

HW (like "wh" in "why" especially the fancy British way of saying it where it's actyally h-w, not w-h) hwesta - breeze

"We need to name a row after places of articulation" row

NT anto - mouth (couldn't you think of a better name? I get it's a place-of-articulation row, but i don't like it anyway)

MP ampa - hook

NC anca - jaw

NQ unque - hole

"Things that Melkor likes" row:

N nuumen - west (Numenor...)

M malta - gold

NG (by TA: N) noldo - Noldo, as in type of Elf. Yes, it was initially Ngoldo. I mean, initially initially it was a gnome, so...

NW nwalme - tornment

"I have no idea but vaguely positive-metaphysical?..." row

R (pre-consonant or end-of-the-word R | non-vibrating r, whatever this means. My bet is that it's "r" as in Japanese --- position like "r", movement like "d") oore - heart (or: rising. Guess whose name includes this component. funny that it's the same word as heart, especially given that heart is also defined as conscience here)

V vala - power (duh.)

Y (? it has some history) [there was a consonant here]anna - gift (totally not made into a sus word by now...)

W/V (Initially W, by TA changed to V) wilya - air / lower sky (funny how those two names are next to one another. )

"Really, I think Feanor ran out of ideas for coherent name sets" row

R (vibrating, typpical "rrr") romen - east (the same sound being written with "East" and with a word alternatively translating to "heart" or part of Melkor's name --- I love it! Why? See my recent post. I love that. Call it a coincidence, but I love it)

RD arda - realm

L lambe - speech

LD alda - tree (!)

Now we are not in regular rows, so, the extra letters:

S silme - starlight (or... metaphysically important light in general? because guess what word is connected to this one. Also, funny how it's just after "tree"). It's always S, never TH.

(nuquerma is just "flipped" or something I guess)

Z aaze - day / sunlight (in Noldorin changed to Z - aare) | SS esse (Numenor and later, because they did not use the "z" sound, I think) - name

HY (Numenor and later: H) hywarmen - south

I yanta - bridge

U uure - heat

(doesn't have a sound, in Sindarin it's A) osse - terror (I guess he isn't a very nice Maia?)

H (voiceless h: /h/ not /x/; in TA replaced by harmen) halla - tall | gasdil - stop

(short wovel carrier) telco - stem

(long carrier) aara - dawn

The Tengwa names after directions are also used as marks in the compass (like we use NSWE) And snarky comments aside, I love the schema and how the names connect into many interesting and often Silm-events-related patterns. I love how each (almost) row is named after a set of similar things.

I'm not an expert, and if I made some mistakes, I'll be grateful for corrections.

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 30

January 30, 1965

Historical Context

Winston Churchill's funeral was on a scale befitting his place in history as the prime minister who guided Britain to victory during World War II. He died on January 24, 1965, having lived to the age of 90. The government had been planning extensively for his funeral in the years before his death, and it had to be revised several times as Churchill kept living, leading Lord Mountbatten to remark that "the pallbearers kept dying and Churchill kept living." It became the largest state funeral in history. Representatives from over 120 countries attended the ceremony in London, including Queen Elizabeth II, for whom Churchill was reportedly her favorite prime minister. The funeral itself was watched by 350 million people on television. After his death on January 24, the Queen sent his wife Clementine Churchill a letter saying "The whole world is the poorer by the loss of his many-sided genius while the survival of this country and the sister nations of the Commonwealth, in the face of the greatest danger that has ever threatened them, will be a perpetual memorial to his leadership, his vision and indomitable courage". Vast numbers of dignitaries attended the funeral, including wartime colleagues Dwight D. Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle as well as several past British prime ministers.

1859 – Edward Martyn was born on this date. (d.1923); Martyn was the first president of Sinn Féin, the Irish republican movement's political party, which he co-founded with Arthur Griffith, serving from 1904 to 1908. He was homosexual and the son of a wealthy Catholic family from Tillyra Castle in County Galway.

A pillar of the Celtic Renaissance, in 1899 Martyn co-founded, with the poet W.B. Yeats, what became Ireland's famous national theater, The Abbey, the Irish Literary Theatre (1899), which was part of the nationalist revival of interest in Ireland's Gaelic literary history. He was a cousin and friend to George Moore, the Irish novelist, though their relationship was often antagonistic.

Violently opposed to British rule in Ireland, he was the center of a court case in 1905 as the result of an off-the-cuff remark in which he stated that "All Irishmen who join the English army ought to be flogged". He died in 1923, unmarried, and after donating his body to science, was buried at his own request in a pauper's grave.

Martyn was outed by his friend George Moore, a prolific novelist, critic, and polemicist, in his three-volume memoir "Hail and Farewell" (published between 1911 and 1914), which entertained its readers but infuriated his former friend. Moore himself said of these memoirs, "Dublin is now divided into two sets; one half is afraid it will be in the book, and the other is afraid that it won't".

Moore, who was attracted to the handsome young Yeats, later fell in love with the celebrated French painter Edouard Manet, who painted three portraits of him. Moore was influenced by the homosexual Oxford critic Walter Pater, and Moore's 1886 work, A Drama in Muslin, contained references to Lesbianism. Moore's 1887 novel, A Mere Accident, also has a homosexual theme and its central character is again based on Martyn.

1889 – Joseph Fielding Smith (d.1964) was presiding patriarch and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1942 until 1946.

Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of a LDS Church apostle. He went to school at the University of Utah. In 1929, he married Ruth Pingree. Together they had 7 children.

At the age of 43, Smith was ordained a high priest and Patriarch to the Church on 8 October 1942 by Church President Heber J. Grant. He served but four years before it was reported by the church that he had requested to be released from his position. His request was granted by Church President George Albert Smith on 6 October 1946, with the church announcing that Smith was released for reasons of "ill health." After Smith's death it was discovered that the patriarch had been involved in a homosexual affair with a 21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor, who was also a Latter-day Saint.

After being released, Smith took his family to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he continued to raise his family. For a time, Smith was not allowed to hold any position in the church, but reportedly was "treated with compassion." In 1957, Smith was again allowed to serve in the church after he had forsaken his homosexual behavior.

1948 – Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi, India by a Hindu religious extremist. Gandhi had ended British rule in India through nonviolent resistance.

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being," he stated in 1926.

His teachings were used during many of the Gay demonstrations of the 60s and 70s and were a major influence on Martin Luther King, through his gay cohort and fellow organizer, Bayard Rustin, who studied with Gandhi and brought the idea of satyagraha (a synthesis of the Sanskrit words Satya (meaning "truth") and Agraha ("insistence", or "holding firmly to") back to the American civil rights movement Today, the Gay Christian group Soulforce continues the uses Gandhi's non violence practices in its demonstrations against Christian churches that discriminate against GLBT people.

1951 – A California appellate court upholds the oral copulation conviction of a man based on police looking into the window of a restroom.

1961 – The New Mexico House of Representatives votes 37-28 in favor of a revised criminal code that includes a repeal of the state's sodomy law. This is the first vote by a U.S. legislative body to repeal a sodomy law. This bill refers to sodomitical relations as "variant sexual practice," something unique in U.S. history.

1981 – Fernando Grostein Andrade, born in São Paulo, is a Brazilian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, director of photography, and media entrepreneur. He is a columnist for VEJA magazine and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

His best-known work is the documentary Quebrando o Tabu, which discusses alternative policies to the War on Drugs and features former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso as well as former US presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, infectologist Drauzio Varella and writer Paulo Coelho.

In 2012, in partnership with Sun Dog Pictures, owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, the documentary was adapted into an international version which was narrated by actor Morgan Freeman. The project has spun off into the largest online platform in defense for human rights, with over 15 million followers between Facebook and Instagram.

Abe, his most recent movie, was selected to the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, and stars Noah Schnapp and Seu Jorge.

Fernando was also selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019. He is a founder of Spray Media, which produces content for cinema as well as YouTube and branded content. Other works include the documentary Wandering Heart, with Caetano Veloso, and a number of publicity campaign for big brands such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Volkswagen.

Fernando is the son of PhD urbanist Marta Dora Grostein and journalist Mario Escobar de Andrade, director of Playboy magazine in Brazil, who died in 1991. He is brother, on his mother's side, of the TV host Luciano Huck. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his husband, actor Fernando Siqueira.

2003 – On this date Belgium became the second country in the world to legally recognize same-sex marriage, with some restrictions. According to the Belgian Official Journal, approximately 300 same-sex couples were married between June 2003 and April 2004 (245 in 2003 and 55 in 2004). This constituted 1.2 percent of the total number of marriages in Belgium during that period. Two thirds of the married couples were gay male couples; the remainder were lesbian couples. On 22 July 2005, the Belgian government announced that a total of 2,442 same-sex marriages had taken place in the country since the extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples two and a half years earlier.

[localtopegg]

Okay... been a while since I shared OCs here.

As it's been obvious, I've been in the Dandy's World Brainrot Hole. So obviously like all my brainrots, I made characters (and have been writing them on Discord with buddies).

More info:

Nova the Wishing Star:

A toon designed by Astro himself to be an assistant! Lore wise this quiet, voiceless star was wished for by him. Showed up to be an extremely minor side character to compliment Astro's roles in the show. That or move the plots along by granting character's wishes.

In the centre itself, Nova is often at Astro's side! Following him around and following any requests or orders that are given to him. Not just from his "big brother"boss", but from anyone in the centre. Despite his lack of voice, he's become pretty good at teaching kids to shoot for the stars. No dream or wish is out of reach, you just have to figure out how to get there!

He has no actual voice! When he wants to speak he makes the same sort of ringing that the lobby bells in-game do! Morse code in specific. The other toons seem to be able to naturally understand him! Staff... not so much. Leads to charades on occasion.

Eager to help... anyone, really. If he's not following or helping out Astro, he's following another of the staff or toons.

STATS: 🔴-🤍🤍🤍 🟠-⭐⭐ 🟡-⭐⭐⭐ 🟢-⭐⭐ 🔵-⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🟣-⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ability: Wish Grant || Active Cooldown: 70s Gives a targeted toon an item, if they have a free inventory slot. Items are distributed in a certain, consistent pattern. So the same item will be granted before and after the current granted one.

Tamer Riley the Sculpture:

Not actually a toon from the show. Riley is my take on what eventually happens if a human gets too over-exposed to ichor. It eats away at the flesh and body and makes it a part of it. Leaving a toon (of varying memory stability) in it's place.

Riley in particular was a young woman who got through the subway tunnels in an attempt to find shelter from the storm. Wound up in Gardenview Park and eventually the centre itself. An encounter with a twisted leaves her heavily exposed to ichor and in a hazed stupor. Manages to take shelter in that elevator, only for it to break and fall, taking her with it. Naturally it knocks her out. When she comes to, she finds herself with a memory missing chunks and a toony body.

Things start to get trickier when she remembers herself as "Tamer" instead of who she really is. Those memory outages get worse before they get better, with things being replaced to fit this new character.

Her memory does eventually start to right itself a little, triggered by her human ID being found in her lD stuff she fell down with. Unfortunately, this comes with "clarity episodes", that are essentially moments of full clear memory. They lead to existential crises, usually turning into mental breakdowns.

Has been through hell as a human and truly understands suffering. Thus an uncanny talent to understand and "tame" the twisteds to a degree. Making certain ones temporarily docile.. and others even brought to a more stable state of sanity and control.

Was the town scapegoat, as a human. Her mother of political influence being mostly responsible. Spent a lot of time having nearly everyone's problems blamed on her... Though a small handful still showed her mercy.

While Riley is rather passive and complacent. Tamer is usually extremely skittish and easily startled; though she does have a tendency to get excited easily as well. Gets zoomies when excited.

STATS: 🔴-🖤🤍🤍 🟠-⭐⭐ 🟡-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🟢-⭐⭐⭐ 🔵-⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🟣-⭐⭐

Ability 1: Familiarity || Passive This toon has a 7s buffer to being noticed by twisteds.

Ability 2: Follow the Leader || Active Cooldown: 70s Gives a targeted toon an movement speed buff on even numbered floors and a stealth buff on even floors.

[ii-strange-confessions]

Atychiphobia Part 3 - Vivisections and Vitrifications

- COPYRIGHT STRANGE AND ALTERNATIVE MATTER RESEARCH FACILITY 1961 -

Welcome... to the most esteemed science facility on the planet!

This is the Strange and Alternative Matter Research facility, better known as SaAM.

Every day, hundreds of revolutionary tests are being performed at SaAM, changing our understanding of science forever.

For instance, some of SaAM’s incredible scientific achievements include the Instant Scar Healing Packet (not avaliable for neutrons), the 3 Inch Quantum Tunneling Device, and Rotary Doors, citation needed. That’s part of the script right? No? whatever i dont get paid enough for this

Now, a few words from SaAM’s visionary CEO, Johnathan Dolton.

“is it recording? yes? no?? yes, alright. Most scientists in the world follow strict rules and morals to create their science. Not us. Here at the Strange and Alternative Matter Research Facility we build *our* science from the ground up. No handrails, no safety inspectors. Just pure science. I myself am honored to join the elite group of protons to win a nobel prize for my, lets be honest, incredible efforts. i didnt win a nobel prize? eh, whatever, they’ll believe it.”

And that’s your look into SaAM’s amazing scientists! You may be able to volunteer as a test subject for 30 free dollars per test, terms and conditions apply.

Lily, or, Charm, sat quietly in their grey, concrete room, unsure what to do. They had been able to change their medical bed into a chair, but being connected to their machine made any movement hard. They were alone and practically dying.

Just then, the one door in the room opened. It was Lambda. It had her usual backpack-style machine connected to a glove, one that could mediate strong force, or in short terms, move objects and quarks around.

“W-why are you here.” Lily said, their body appearing to be glitching.

“You don’t have to fluctuate your voice to explain what you mean, Charm.”

“DDONT call me that. and also, m-my ‘fluctu-U-U-ations’ in voice are just beCAUSE i’m unstable. have you eEver considered that when YOU became a lambda baryon?”

“Yes, but I made a machine to prevent unstability specifically.” Lambda glanced at Lily’s machine. “Yours appears to be focused on the prevention of rebirth, so this conversation could be null. Now, what was your original question?”

“D-ONt try to change the subject.”

Lambda was confused by Charm’s new behavior. “There is no more left to talk about the subject. You’re being irrational.”

“m-ME? BeEING IRRRRRRRATIONAl? Why wou-LD you risk YOUR LIFE j-just to BECOME some STUPID PA-artICLE???”

"I did it for science." Lambda said, unwavered. 

"So what if you did it for sci-I-ience!? i-IF Anyone lays a FINGER on you YOU'LL EXPLODE. How are y-y-you goinG to do tests THEN, huh!?" 

"...You simply do not understand our objective." 

"o-OH yYYEaH? why Can't you understand THIS???"

Charm attempted to lunge at Lambda, but it dodged it and threw her back using her glove.

Lambda put it’s glove down. “Don’t do that again.”

“F-INe.” Charm couldn’t think straight. “Just pl-Lease leavE.”

It obliged. As Lambda left the room, she glanced at Charm. “Delta sent me here to look for you.”

Charm couldn’t keep track of the time. They had fallen asleep a bit around an hour after Lambda left. As shocking as it was, they needed that conversation or else she’d be bored to death. Although, their thoughts weren’t much better than dying.

A knock came from the door. At least that meant it wasn’t Lambda, they thought that knocking was ‘too inefficient.’ The door opened, and of course, it was Delta.

“Oh. h-HEEEy, Delta.”

“Hi.” Delta seemed worried. Maybe Lambda told them they were being ‘irrational’ or the like. Maybe they were right. Charm wished this could all go away. “So uh. boring room here. You’ve had to stay in here for the past day?”

“YeaH. The place is Bo-ORing, but the walls are hallow. Maybe I can do somethiNg with them.”

“Well, if anyone can do it, it’s you.” Delta was still nervous. Charm couldn’t help but share the feeling. “I guess your speaking has taken a big hit from that whole thing.”

“yeahYEAH. I feel like I’m faking I-IT at this point.”

“Don’t stress about it. I’m sure its fine, Lily. Did Lambda call you Charm?”

“Yeah, but it’s kinda groWN On me.” 

“Huh. Alright, Charm? Feels strange calling you that.”

Melancholic silence filled the dimly lit room. “Has anyone mention-n-ned me at SaAM?”

“What do you think? The only other person that acknowledges your existence is Rho, and all he’s been doing is berating me about how both of us should have been tested.”

“Fair. Why did they even leave me i-In this room Anyway? I can STill do science, can’t I?” They looked at Delta. They knew what they were thinking.

“I’m sure you still can. The facility is just filled with morons.”

“I guE-E-Ess that’s true.” Charm still looked sorrowful.

Delta paused. “Well. You really aren’t the only one in this boat. I got fired too.” “WHA-T???”

“Really. What did you expect from them.”

“SomethIINg other than this?? We’re... They’re going broke! They can-N’t afford that??”

“They can’t afford everything.”

Charm took a breath. “yeaAh, I guess so. Just didn’t ThinkThink they would be so stupid.”

“Well, that’s how Alex is!” Delta looked at Charm. “Well, you don’t have to worry about me. I’m sure I’ll be alright. And... you will too.”

“...Thanks.”

Charm didn’t believe a word Delta said.

[tanadrin]

according to john hamer, a historian of the whole restorationist/LDS movement, the first draft of the book of mormon is a lot less impressive bc it has a bunch of idiomatic constructions of the "they was a-comin'" variety that read as hopelessly backcountry to most english speakers, but were simply an authentic element of how joseph smith spoke

which is hilarious, because the text was being translated with divine assistance. but also i kind of wish the mormons had kept that in! it would have made it a more authentically american religious document. maybe been a minor cultural antitude to kjv english as Ye Olde Religious English

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

to be brutally honest the more I learn about Mormonism/LDS the more I freaking lose it.

WHY IS HEAVEN PAY TO WIN???? HOW, AND WHY GENUINELY!

like if there was a genuine reform movement I think they could totally fix all the bad shit.

BUT WHY IS HEVEAN PAY TO WIN???

[rabbitcruiser]

Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, was organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York on April 6, 1830.

The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois on April 6, 1860.

The  Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff on April 6, 1893.  

Church of Latter-day Saints Day                

It was on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York, that a small  group led by Joseph Smith organized the "Church of Christ," the first  church of what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Saints (LDS). The anniversary date of April 6 has become known as Church  of Latter-day Saints Day.

Joseph Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni visited him in a  vision in 1823 and told him about a Hebrew text that had been lost for  1,500 years. The text recounted the story of Israelites who had lived in  the Americas during the time before Christ and had prophets similar to  those in the Old Testament. Smith said he was told the text had been  engraved on gold plates in the fourth century by a Native American  historian, and that the plates were buried in a nearby hill. He said he  excavated them four years later after Moroni told him where they were.  Smith translated the text into English and it was published as The Book of Mormon  in 1830, the same year he organized the church. On account of this  book, members of the church are often called Mormons, although the  church discourages the use of the term.

The church taught there would be a Second Coming of Christ which  would be followed by a "1,000-year reign of peace." Because of this,  Smith wanted to establish a "Zion," or kingdom of God, in the western  United States. Mormon communities were set up in Ohio, Illinois, and  Missouri, with the latter being chosen as the location for Zion. In  1839, Smith founded the city of Nauvoo in Illinois. The group there  faced hostility from non-Mormons, and after Smith pushed back against  dissidents within the church, the hostility and resentment from  non-Mormons heightened even more, and Smith was arrested. Smith and his  brother were murdered in a jail cell by an anti-Mormon mob in nearby  Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.

Smith's successor as church president, Brigham Young, set out from  Nauvoo and headed west with a group of 148 Mormons in 1846. They arrived  in Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah in July 1847. Young said, "this  is the place," and the group settled. Young sent missionaries across  North America and Europe, and new members were encouraged to move to  Utah.

The settlement applied for statehood in 1849 and was denied, but  Young was made governor of the new Territory of Utah. Further efforts to  gain statehood in the 1850s went nowhere once it became publicly known  that Mormons practiced polygamy and that they wished to form a  theocratic government. Then, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place,  during which Mormons killed members of a wagon train. In response, the  military arrived and a non-Mormon governor was put in charge of the  territory.

Young died in 1877 and church leadership was taken over by John  Taylor, and then by Wilford Woodruff. In 1890, during Woodruff's  presidency, the church announced it was banning polygamy in the United  States, in order to follow the country's law. (Polygamy was still  allowed outside of the United States and it continued in locations like  Mexico.) Utah was admitted as a state in 1896.

Today there are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Saints all around the world. In the early twenty-first century, church  membership was at about 16 million. The church is still headquartered in  Salt Lake City, Utah, and more members reside in the United States than  in any other country. Over 150 groups have sprouted off of the LDS for  various doctrinal and political reasons. The biggest is the Community of  Christ, which was known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of  the Latter-day Saints until 2001. It is headquartered in Independence,  Missouri, the location that Smith had designated as Zion.

The Book of Mormon and the King James Version of the Bible  are the two most important texts in the Church of Jesus Christ of  Latter-day Saints. Other important texts are Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants.  The church teaches of a "Godhead" of three beings: Father, Son, and  Holy Ghost. But unlike Christians, who see them as part of the Trinity,  they teach that they are separate entities.

Like Christianity, they teach that Jesus Christ came to Earth to die  for everyone's sins and that he rose from the dead, but they also teach  that people's own actions have an effect on their future. They teach  that faithful members will become gods themselves and that Christ will  return and rule on Earth for 1,000 years. After this, the Earth will  become a celestial sphere and the highest kingdom of heaven, where the  righteous will live. Others will live in lesser kingdoms known as  "terrestrial" and "telestial."

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