#Leniency

[s-o-a-p-ing]

HEBREWS S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 8

Friday, 8/23/24

SCRIPTURE:

And each person won’t ever teach a neighbor or their brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord," because they will all know Me, from the least important of them to the most important; because I will be lenient toward their unjust actions, and I won’t remember their sins anymore. ~ Hebrews 8:11-12

OBSERVATION:

They will all know Him...

We - I - won't have to teach by saying...

He - His love and grace and mercy - will be known through our - my - life...

...to all in my life - "from the least... to the more important" (whoever they might be)

He will be lenient toward my unjust actions...

He won't remember my sins anymore...

Because of and through Jesus...

APPLICATION:

Know Him...

Show Him...

Understand my place between the least and most important...

PRAYER:

Father God - please forgive my false humility that allows me to act unjustly as if I am most important, and to brag about my least-ness... and please accept my thanks and gratitude for Your grace and merciful forgiveness given through Your Son... In His Name, and for Your glory and praise...

Enjoy - rest in - the Sabath this weekend...

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[corvianbard]

#5203

Oh to be a meager salmon That wished to see What may lie In the vast, blue sea, But now that I saw Every single secrecy It can ever offer, I miss the leniency Of the river that is my home, So I return even if it’s chancy.

[artcallednaturalviews]

So hard to believe

When its stands in the face

Our President Trump

The leniency by American Public Judges

And you Trump, bitch

[nfllivescores]

Football Fans React to Bentancur’s Seven-Game Ban – Phil McNulty Answers Key Questions

  Football   Football, a sport beloved by millions, never fails to ignite debates and discussions, especially when a controversial incident takes center stage. This time, the spotlight is on Rodrigo Bentancur and his recent seven-game ban, a decision that has sparked a wave of reactions across the football community. In this comprehensive analysis, we will explore the ban’s implications, the fan…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

A provision has been made for ex-soldiers to be treated with special leniency in the examinations.

"The Way Back" - Erich Maria Remarque

[immaculatasknight]

A spinning moral compass

[guqin-and-flute]

I came across a post once a long time ago that said that Xichen's philosophy in life is to not ask pertinent questions so he can believe that everyone is Right and Good and my personal reading of him is...yes, but actually no?

I think that it's less of a philosophy than something of a compulsion? Trauma response? There is a very real mental block that says 'The matter is complex' and becomes uncomfortable/unwilling to take a hard-line stance one way or the other when he is confronted with 2 people/sides/arguments that he cannot completely fault. Yes, he doesn't delve into it, ask the questions that would need to be asked to know every detail. Some of that is trust, some of that is willful blindness and the line is fuzzy.

And yet, I don't think that he sees anyone as Right and Good; that's not the point of the response. He very acutely sees everything in shades of gray. His mother was kind and funny and sweet and she loved them so much--she also killed someone and no one else that he trusts will talk about it. His Clan helps people, devotes their time to fighting monsters, is so esteemed that other Clans send their kids to learn morals and stuff--they also locked his mother up, away from him and Wangji except for one day a month and then lied about where she was to the rest of the world.

He doesn't twist himself into knots trying to justify that either of these things are 100% Morally Right; he's just very honest about not knowing what Morally Right is. Except that he's also the leader of the Morally Right Sect and his Uncle's very real project of making a Responsible-And-Upstanding-Clan-Leader-Unlike-Qingheng-Jun-Thanks-For-Nothing-Bro. With all these pressures, he does shockingly well by not being neither entirely rigidly adherent to the rules, nor so much of a worried hand-wringer about not knowing who to trust. He tries to give grace everywhere he possibly can.

When Wuxian asks why his mom killed his father's teacher, Xichen very frankly and calmly says, 'I don't know.' There isn't discomfort in his face or tone;

In fact, he tosses it out with an almost studied nonchalance. He's very clearly thought about this before but he has either never asked or (more likely, in my opinion) has been dissuaded from asking about it quite vigorously at some point in his life and has been convinced that pursuing this further won't actually lead to any useful information for him.

He loves his mom. He loves his Clan. Something fucked up happened--but what else is new? He can do what he can with the power that he has and the responsibilities that comes with. Poking old wounds that have been dealt more than 2 decades ago don't really factor into anything; he can just draw his own conclusions and try not to make the same mistakes.

Like...he does his best with the trauma that he has been handed (his own and others).

[commsroom]

circumstances surrounding the “leaked” documents about eiffel’s sentencing in need to know, as i understand them:

one of the very first things kepler does is offer eiffel, minkowski, and lovelace a drink. in true “at any given moment, kepler has about eighteen ulterior motives” spirit, it is, among other things, “hospitality”, sure, a test for eiffel, definitely, but… i think the main reaction he was checking for was minkowski’s. will she look at eiffel, or react to his reaction? how much does she know? how much does he trust her?

in don’t poke the bear, jacobi and maxwell stop lovelace from breaking into kepler’s server by pretending to be in on it with her: “she’s very good. it might turn into a problem.” / “i’ll run it by kepler.” two episodes later, files from kepler’s very secure server are “leaked.”

(the words "need to know" are spoken offhandedly by eiffel in the episode itself, but it also calls back to the excuse maxwell gives lovelace: "colonel kepler practically lives by the words 'need to know.' and, apparently, nothing i can say will ever convince him that i 'need to know' everything that's in our databanks.")

need to know opens with minkowski finishing an eleven hour shift, and then finding out kepler moved that shift to, well. now. she’s already frustrated and sleep deprived.

minkowski complains to kepler. jacobi and maxwell, on cue, barge in and complain to kepler. kepler assigns minkowski, jacobi, maxwell, and lovelace to punishment detail, taking eiffel out of the group because “you’re the only one who hasn’t wasted my time with pointless whining.” lovelace says: “um, i don’t think that i did any complaining either, so…” but that doesn’t matter. it’s just an excuse to remove eiffel from the group; he could just as easily have been singled out for special punishment. either way, it was going to happen.

hilbert isn’t there. not the most significant factor, since he’s already been effectively sidelined by kepler, but remember he already knows about eiffel’s sentencing, doesn’t care (about eiffel’s history OR about anyone else’s personal drama), and will later respond to minkowski asking by telling her to grow up and get back to work. it simplifies things to not factor him in.

consider the files themselves: we know from happy holidays that maxwell not talking to her family is common knowledge, but jacobi reacts like it’s news. we know from hera’s performance review flashback in memoria that kepler and jacobi were aware of “multiple attempted crew member homicides” in her record. the file about hera’s bentham directory was on kepler’s server. if there’s one person who would’ve been briefed on everything there was to know about hera, it would’ve been maxwell; her shock is entirely feigned. in fact, almost every reaction from jacobi and maxwell here is feigned. they’re black ops specialists who arrived prepared with divide-and-conquer tactics. there’s no reason they wouldn’t know these things. also note that none of the “leaks” reveal anything about the mission they didn’t already know, and that nothing about the si-5 is incriminating - if anything, it’s mostly silly and even humanizing. and, yes, all of that contextualizes maxwell’s reaction to “skiing?!”

eiffel’s file comes through last, once they’re already worn out. kepler sends eiffel to check on them at the same time so that he’ll walk in. jacobi shows minkowski the file. he lurks around waiting to see how her not-confrontation with eiffel goes, and then cements the thought in her head: what about you? are you going to care?

it’s true that there are aspects of the mission only kepler knows, but as far as information on the hephaestus crew goes (barring one very particular detail about lovelace)? that’s part of the job they were chosen for. when they kill the plant monster, kepler says: “you think we didn’t know about that thing? please. we listened to every log that you beamed down to canaveral.” kepler’s entire foundation is shaken when jacobi turns on him because this is how they operate: “have one person take the blame, say the mean things. meanwhile, the poor, betrayed little guy gets a bit more leeway - just enough to sneak up and hit you from behind.” the show is not subtle about any of this. you can pick apart any early-s3 interaction between two hephaestus crew members and an si-5 agent and see the same divide-and-conquer tactics at play. jacobi and maxwell are always - in morals, loyalty, job description - closer to kepler than they are to the hephaestus crew, and to even sort of believe otherwise is falling for that facade. it’s worth remembering that the hephaestus crew are prisoners. some of them were aware of it from the start, and some of them were lied to, but none of them were meant to leave. the si-5, on the other hand, went up there with a unified goal, and the knowing intention they would be, among other things, prison guards.

[brennan-lee-mother]

The way people are so happy to call every Jewish person who’s ever said something unfortunate (and may or may not have apologised/retracted) a full on Zionist is maddening. Also the way people are so happy to reblog a post vagueing about “zionists on dropout” without checking if it’s not just cancelling dropout for daring to have Jewish guests.

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Edwin is way too fucking kind. Like, picture this. You JUST got dragged down into a pit that took you 70 years prior to escape and, while down there, you run into the very boy that SENT you there. Yes, it was supposed to be a “prank”. But it was never EVER a good one, even if it did turn out to be fake. You were dragged out of your bed, tied up and gagged like a pig, and held down. That “prank”, since it’s inception, wasn't funny or harmless. (Not even getting into how bad it would be to be labeled a homosexual in the 19-fucking-hundreds.)

Then you get dragged into The Pit™️ for 7 decades and tortured beyond comprehension. Now you're finding out its cause the boy ASSSUMED you were like him then ASSUMED he assumed wrong. All that because the boy couldn't handle you not being what he assumed you were, you didn't even know he assumed that! You didn't even know HE was that!

Edwin had every right to berate Simon and leave but he DIDN’T. He offered him a hand — all but begged Simon to join him — and promised a salvation no one had offered him before. (Before Charles I mean.) He’s just so kind it breaks my heart. Like, yes, he’s a petty bitch; but he read to a dying boy to comfort him in the same year he escaped Hell. He upended his entire afterlife to go save Becky Aspen despite his protests. He offered his killer a helping hand.

Someone get this jerk a break oh my GOD he deserves one.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

au where moon fills in while sun is "on vacation" and nothing bad happens

[duckiemimi]

i think gege is being overworked because of the high demand towards the series, which was ironically what he wrote about in the first half of jjk. to be frank, it doesn't even seem like he's all that enthusiastic in the story anymore, not even the fights, given the repeat battle between "gojo" and sukuna. they said, "bring gojo back!" and he did, but it doesn't seem like he really wants to. could you blame an author for how big a character's grown in popularity compared to the actual protagonists and the actual story? could you blame the resentment? it fucking sucks to have your creative freedom stripped away from you for the sake of what would sell well, but this is just my speculation.

[rickybaby]

Kevin Magnussen suggests a connection between his driving style and struggles faced by Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo in the ground effect F1 era (via PlanetF1)

There are many reasonable parallels that could be drawn between Daniel’s season and Lewis’. They both struggled in qualifying against their teammates but they both almost always recovered in the race. Both Daniel and Lewis had, on multiple times, complained about a lack of feeling with regards to tyres, and that problem wasn’t clearer than during the Miami weekend for Daniel. Unfortunately for Daniel, he was driving a far more inferior car than Lewis and his issues with this generation of cars came across as more pronounced in the tight midfield he was fighting in.

It’ll always be a shame that we’re never going to see Daniel drive the new 2026 regulations …

[seaglassdinosaur]

Hoping wishing praying begging that Kenny doesn’t get put in a relationship with a cop.

[strawberrystepmom]

hiiiii im not saying this to be mean and it’s purely speaking from an ease of use standpoint but can we start putting our age indicators back in our pinned/bios? i have blocked A LOT of people because it is inaccessible and impractical to have to click through 5 links to get to where you are stating your age :(

[whats-in-a-sentence]

And Jones:

Mr. Richard Jones is a fiery Darlingist. He is said to be a moral man – one who treats his servants with leniency, and they acknowledge his tenderness with a corresponding anxiety to promote his interests. This ought, at least, to convince him that insubordination, so loudly proclaimed to exist, must proceed in a great measure from ill-treatment. He is known to have been formerly a "high Tory," and he is now a "Radical," and one of the Governor's sturdiest opponents: nevertheless I do not think he could assign a reasonable motive for his conduct. He is supposed to be a tool for others. These paltry few it is, who have gathered around them a host of hornets, to buzz about and annoy the Government.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr