#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?

[delightintheway]

"I AM THE LORD! And there is no God besides Me!…

Yet the people kindle fire upon MY altar And steal from MY sanctuary; They cease not from destroying MY holy things!…

For they are desolate and have no knowledge! They take not one word into their hearts And ignore My every decree!…

They have not known Me, Though I have walked among them.

Behold, they are dying and welcome death, though My life was poured out for them! They will not drink, they no longer wish to eat, that I might sustain them! For their every fountain is polluted, and the bread they serve is filled with rottenness!… Therefore, I shall vomit them from My mouth! For the lukewarm have no place at My table, and have no interest in the Truth as it really is; Truth has departed from them! Only pretense remains and is worn proudly. Thus falsehoods rise up, bearing chains of imprisonment; harlotries increase, bringing forth illness, infecting the whole of the body… Therefore shall their fornications eat their flesh as their new wine inflames them! For insolent cords bind the proud, and rebellion is a rope by which the foolish hang themselves, says The Lord."

Excerpt from: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Shiloh

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[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

[jedibamf]

If only... I would've been in Star Wars heaven. ❤️🤣😜

[vampire-squid-lesbian]

Me: I’m totally emotionally stable

What I’m listening to:

[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?

[delightintheway]

*NEW Video* Section 1 of 2: "THE LUKEWARM HAVE NO PLACE AT MY TABLE" (From: Shiloh - The Lord's Rebuke)

"For I am God over all the earth, and lo, I have indeed drawn back My hand that you may fall. Behold, My spirit is removed, that you may do all this wickedness which dwells within your hearts. For the nations have no favor with God, and the people called by My name do not know Me!... Therefore must I also stretch out My arm, and perform all I have spoken against them! I shall bring every word to pass, of which I have spoken in My anger; every Letter shall be accomplished, that My wrath may be satisfied!" Says The Lord

(*Please click the video above to see the WHOLE Letter) Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Shiloh

[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