#Literal

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I had a “Vision” in my “Waterfall,” as one does

[alarminglybad]

SOMETHING

[viejospellejos]

Cuando sales a dar una vuelta con el coche

[hopelesslygaysstuff]

Okay, but like imagine Subby!Milf!Wanda begging you to breed her? Like just imagine cumming in Wanda over and over and over again until all she can do is babble and she can’t walk anymore and the continuing the next day because she just needs it so bad.

I WISH I WAS BLESSED WITH THE ABILITY TO DO THIS I CURSE GOD EVERYDAY FOR NOT GIVING ME A PENI-

anyways i'm totally normal about this ask!! hearing Wanda whine and beg in your ear to fill her up would actually make me go feral!! and she just keeps getting more and more turned on from the feeling of your cum inside her and so do you and you guys just fuck for literal hours until the overstimulation becomes too painful to continue...

'and that, billy and tommy, is how your mom got pregnant with you two!!'

[welele]

Así se promociona tu academia.

[evilhorse]

Great literal title for an issue.

(Fantastic Four Volume 7 #23)

[loveisinthebat]

Literal Baby

[spaceorphan18]

Oh, it's probably too small to see. I was watching a scene for some writing inspiration and when I went to pause it, my computer (bottom left corner) was warning me about very high pollen today and I couldn't help but laugh because that's been my every day for months now.

[baul-de-frases]

Y hubo personitas que excavaron ternura de mi alma. Extrajeron cariño donde a simple vista se sentía muerte.

Firthunands

[notbimbophi]

had a random idea for a cursed sword and paladin who are married

[richehs]

"It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves."

- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[alarminglybad]

Who let the dogs out?

[momentsbeforemass]

How can you tell?

When you read the Bible, you’re going to run into a lot of ideas about it.

Some of them are helpful. Some of them are just weird. Some of them are anything but helpful.

Some of the most harmful? The ones that boil down to making the Bible say what you want it to.

Sadly, no one has a monopoly on abusing the Bible this way. The people who do it come from every political and theological corner you can think of.

One of the worst? Picking and choosing what parts of the Bible to read literally (this happened, here’s what God said, etc.) and what parts to read as allegory or myth (a story is being told to make a point, a legend that reveals something about God, etc.).

Not that we shouldn’t do that. We should read the literal stuff as literal and the allegories as allegory. It’s just that some of the ideas about how to do that are so easily abused.

And easily used to abuse.

So how can you tell?

It’s easier than you think. You don’t need a degree in literature or theology.

Because you’re already doing it. Here’s what I mean:

“A sower went out to so some seed. And as he sowed, some of the seed fell on…”

Right. Before Jesus unpacks it, you know that this one is an allegory. It has that “once upon a time” feel to it.

But even if the farmer was an actual person, that’s not why Jesus is telling the story.

Jesus is not critiquing first century agricultural practices. Jesus is using the story to make a point. And we all know it.

Today’s Gospel is the bread of life discourse, where Jesus tells people that He is the bread of life. And then goes on to explain exactly what He means.

There are a lot of people who want this to be an allegory. For a lot of reasons.

It’s not.

How can I say that? How can you tell that Jesus is being literal about this one?

The reactions it gets. And way the way Jesus responds to those reactions.

The first time Jesus announces that He is the bread of life, no one who heard it understood it as an allegory.

How do I know this? Their reaction – “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?”  

Making it clear that they have it right, that this is no metaphor, Jesus doesn’t explain the symbolism (like He does with the parable of the sower).

Instead (in tomorrow’s Gospel), Jesus doubles down on what He said, on what they’re hanging up on. “Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you.”

Making it clear that they understood Jesus to be speaking literally?

The way that people respond to Jesus doubling down - many of them quit following Jesus and leave.

That’s not how people respond to an allegory. Nobody leaves after Jesus explains the parable of the sower.

If you ever wondered why Catholics are so hung up on the Eucharist? Why we believe what we believe?

This is what’s behind it.

We’re just taking Jesus at His word. And then trying to live it.

That’s the formula for everything that’s right about our Faith. And something we cannot do enough.

Today’s Readings

[viejospellejos]

[thejediavengeroftheinternet]