#Lukewarm

[sokokoko]

When I say enemies to lovers, enemies means they both fight back against each other. Actively opposing one another. Actively fighting back, actively competing, one upping each other, swiping resources from under each other's noses, sabotaging one another, hitting back just as hard as the one who struck first. Tit for tat. An eye for an eye.

I like the phrase enemies to lovers more than rivals to lovers because rivals doesn't feel as serious to me. To be someone's enemy is a deeper thing imo.

To me, enemies to lovers is the one I hate who hates me just as much becomes bearable somehow. Hate eventually turns to love (there's usually a stage that looks somewhat like friendship in there).

Me liking enemies to lovers is about the transition from hate to love and exploring the thin line and how they slip over the line. And I like when they retain some of that competitive fire in the established relationship but there are ways in which the edges have softened.

Abuser x abused ≠ Enemies to lovers

That's something else entirely and doesn't sound fun. That sounds awful to try and portray as an actual romantic dynamic and not a commentary against/cautionary tale. This would hurt me to read.

Annoyance x the annoyed ≠ Enemies to lovers

Asshole x the one the asshole keeps bothering ≠ Enemies to lovers

Would potentially piss me off depending on how much the asshole doesn't respect the autonomy of the one they're pestering

Bully x bullied ≠ Enemies to lovers.

Not in the slightest. That is something else. These are all something else. I don't think bully x victim can be wholesome at all unless there's a helluva lot of repentance. Silent Voice style where the bully is filled with self loathing over their actions and works to better themselves. Even then, the weight of the bully's actions are still a raw wound.

Random rant I wanted to get out because I have a WIP where I want to tackle the enemies to lovers dynamic, but in the way that I consider to be enemies to lovers. The comments I see saying enemies to lovers is abusive annoy me. I feel like an enemy is respected, in some sense. If only for the danger that they pose or acknowledgement of their power and prowess.

Optimus Prime is Megatron's enemy, humans and the other Autobots are mere bugs and annoyances to him. An enemy must be on equal footing.

No power dynamics!!

Still exploring and working out kinks, but in my story, they're both college students in space and our earthling protag Killian accidentally insults Halite, an alien from a warrior/battle culture. She is the one to strike first and consider them enemies but Killian fights back. Enemies soften into rivals, tentative acknowledgment of their similarities, you're somewhat bearable to be around, to I feel like you understand me. They both have battlelust in their veins.

Edit: I should add my distinction between enemies and rivals.

A rival wants to be better than you. Is constantly trying to get ahead.

An enemy wants to be the agent of your downfall.

I think, in this way, an enemy can either be more sinister or serious than a rival would. Rivalry is fuelled by superiority/inferiority complexes/wanting to be better, the best.

Enemy(ship? hood?) Being enemies is about the emotion hatred. Hatred fuelled perhaps by the threat they pose or by one's enemy as a person. You and your enemy are like oil and water, unable to be mixed because you are so different.

But then you find out you're both liquids. You can both be poured. Both of you can be used to cook. Friends? Lovers?

And hatred has a lot of similarities to love. To the point where it would be called adjacent, while love's opposite is indifference. Because someone indifferent feels absolutely nothing for you, while love and hate are intense, passionate emotions.

[manateafortwo]

so we all know rin is aggressively unenthused with all his "lukewarm" and "half-baked" comments, BUT just imagine one day in the distant hypothetical future when something actually manages to impress him i just know he'd whip out the most nonchalant "that's hot" à la paris hilton

[ymoon01]

Nothing hurts me more than someone thinking or assuming that i was an atheist 😭

Proves to me that i was really a lukewarm back then and I didn't even know. I asked for forgiveness to my father Jehová, and Jesus Christ too because I didn't even called him once. I was really lost and confused.

I'm pleased to be back to his home stronger than ever. Now, i know better.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Faithful and True Witness

14 “And to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write: ‘These things says the Amen; the faithful and true Witness; the beginning of the creatures of God.

15 ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I desire that you were either cold or hot.

16 ‘Therefore, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot – I am about to spew you out of My mouth.

17 ‘For you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” and do not know how wretched and miserable you are, and poor and blind and naked.

18 ‘I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried by the fire, so that you may be made rich; and white raiment, so that you may be clothed and that your filthy nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

19 ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent. — Revelation 3:14-19 | Revised Geneva Translation (RGT) Revised Geneva Translation of the Holy Bible © 2019 by Five Talents Audio. Cross References: Genesis 49:3; Deuteronomy 8:5; Deuteronomy 21:17; Proverbs 3:12; Isaiah 55:1; Hosea 12:8; Zechariah 11:5; Matthew 13:44; Romans 12:11; Revelation 3:1

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What does Revelation 3:14 mean?

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

‭"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

�� Revelation 3:16 (KJV‬)

[starlightsugar]

Who is Luke? Why are they warm? Why are we using the temperature of this person’s body to measure temperatures? Not to mention that “lukewarm” is implied to be less than what is normally considered “warm.” And the average temperature of a human body is 98.6°F (37°C). In terms of weather, that is considered rather warm, implying that Luke’s temperature is under that. Why is that? Is Luke okay? I need answers

[darkestwizard777]

Saying Marie Isn’t As Strong As Homelander Isn’t Erasing Girl Power.

Marie is very powerful- even if I wanted to deny that I don’t think I could, Cate’s still my pick for strongest Gen V Character but it’s a closer situation than I expected.

not only for her Neuman Tier Blood Powers but also for her impressive durability- surviving even a casual Homelander is a feat in and of itself especially for a person with non-physical superpowers, but I think we honestly need to face up to the fact that it WAS a casual Homelander during that ‘fight’ because frankly it doesn’t make any sense for Homelander to have used his full destructive output on his own property.

His heat vision can slice through steel, why would he use that full blast against a Supe with unknown durability in a spot where his lasers going through her could kill dozens of Supes- you know the people he cares about?

That blast almost certainly had enough stopping power to but down a normal human but I can’t imagine any more than that was used.

also I’m sorry to say- the Blonde Man is the strongest Supe, the only one who comes close is Soldier Boy and Homelander had him handled too before it devolved into a three v. One.

I feel like this has devolved into me rambling so I’ll try to summarize my point.

Marie is a strong Supe but she’s not beating the Test Tube Baby designed from the ground up to be the strongest possible Supe, she survived a blast from Homelander and he didn’t actually want her dead after off-screening her friends so she stayed that way, can you honestly say in good faith that Marie is so durable Homelander couldn’t have killed her after knocking her out? Because that’s delusional.

[eremosjournal]

A highlight from tomorrow’s piece, “Lukewarmness as a Remedy for Cognitive Distortions” 

an anonymous contribution

#deconstruction #postchristian #excatholic #exvangelicals #exvangelical #lukewarm

[priest-iuput]

I am drinking the loneliest cup of tea, I’ve already forgotten about it twice

[thinkingnot]

who is luke and why is he room temperature

[oillampslit]

If a doctor said being ill is fine than we would say he is a not a real doctor.

When a pastor saids that it is fine to be in sin, can we not draw the same conclusion about him not being a real pastor?

[madame-mongoose]

The Librarian is so cool- wait, no… he’s so hot- well, not really. He’s very… lukewarm. Very lukewarm, ya. 👍

He would be so offended you called him that

[gramarobin]

[sillylilneurodivergent]

Guy, motivate me to read the Bible more

[wyrmrynd]

Wake Up You Luke Warm Pussies

Modern life is war and our parents didn't tell us, their parents didn't tell them and so on, back through to the time when tribute was recorded on clay tablets.

The battle ground has been shifting for thousands of years from physicality to abstraction. Morphing, mutating, permuting. All this time spent developing this abstract polysaccharidal gelatinous matrix and we are only 3 days away from its complete dissolution at all times.

We hide in these sugary dreaming structures. How do we emerge and rebase from our true nature without getting left behind by the barbaric nerds forging us deeper and deeper into these dreams? Where is the balance?

The battfield where our fate is decided is in the hands of people we've never met or hardly know they exist. Why do we honor them by accepting their rules? Because we fear their violence.

Do not shirk the fear a single day longer. Let its mortal poisonous barbs sink deep to inject and feel it burning. The pain reveals the truth.

Piss on the ashes of your heroes. So many wasted efforts only to reveal the same dreamless truths of power. Doubtless, with their sacrifice I believe we are not without nothing.

We fear the world so much that we are willing to enslave ourselves to the most ruthless of intellectual financial war lords available. Begging "please Papi don't let nature hurt me" and Papi abides since you pledge your life. You will have all the necessities if you only work for him. He will give you imaginary numbers and you'll still have to fend for yourself, fighting your peers for the scraps of the capable. Let them fuck our weak and dumb luke warm pussies just to stay alive.