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The Relationship Between Farming and Holiness

Analogies are helpful and here is a good one from a godly leader who now lives with Jesus. Jerry Bridges was a long time staff member with the Navigators, a discipleship ministry that started in the military but has expanded in to worldwide discipling movement.   Wise words from Jerry Bridges and his classic book The Pursuit of Holiness. Here’s the analogy that Bridges uses: “Farming is a joint…

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took my dumbass useless brain way too long to understand that five was trying to get a fudgenutter before killing the board because the sugar would give him energy to blink around.

i was so confused for so long why he licked icing from the cake. i thought he was just hungry and i was always like “okay that tiny bit of icing will do nothing to make you not hungry”

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"The three of them are sometimes similar but have different fates."

The characters :

Daisuke from Mouthwashing

Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4 (Megami Tensei's franchise)

Ryosuke Kawashima from Kairo/Pulse 2001

The fandoms be like :

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I'm still working on getting the gardening ending for myself, but I've been collecting some ponderings I'd like to write down. So:

A congregate of thoughts on Watcher lore (as of now):

• I really like that this DLC is right now three kids in a spiritual trenchcoat. None of them is normal. I bet they'd all be friends if they met.

• I really like the color coding of these 3, as for what I've assumed regarding to colors' symbolism in this world: - Black stands for Nirvāṇa, the Void, being outside of the reincarnation cycle - Gold/yellow stands for holiness, ascension - Blue/purple stands for damnation/stagnation - White stands for Saṃsāra, the cycle of reincarnation, the physical world (the Watcher lingers in the physical world, unwilling to leave it)

On the account of blue and yellow being on opposing sides on the color wheel, I'd also gander a guess that the Rot and the Void don't entirely agree with each other/may be on opposing sides.

• Therefore, I don't think the gardening ending was exactly what the Rot Prince wanted to achieve, supported by his last two dialogues with the Watcher:

[Greeting lines]. As with all great deeds, my work is not without great challenge. It has taken eons and the light fades. The paths close and change. I can almost feel... a will... at odds with my own.

[Greeting lines]. Forgive me if I go on! You have done so much for me, I will not burden you with my troubles. Please, rest here as long as you wish. You are always safe here, my dear friend. You, who were there for me.

My guess is that the content that hasn't dropped yet will introduce either a new character/s in a sort of godly roles, or will explain the powers playing behind the wheel flowers and the Cycle.

• A light at the end of the tunnel (or something white/bright with a way to it?) is mentioned by both Spinning Top (at her ending) and the Prince (both as a flowerbud and in that first paragraph I copied up there).

I don't know what to do with this yet, I just found it interesting. Something something the white light within the Void Sea in the original game?

• ,,Outer Rim...?"

The Buddhist cosmology says the world is made out of 9 mountains (Mount Sumeru [the axis mundi], 7 golden mountain ranges and 1 outermost iron mountain range [maybe the withered buildings here are made of rusted iron, buried in stardust]) and 8 seas (7 freshwater and 1 saltwater), with 4 continents within the salt sea who's inhabitants each have a little something extra (except the South I guess, that's where *we* are. well apparently all Buddhas appear here actually, so you know. that's a something).

For an interesting example, the north continent called Uttarakuru is said to house the wealthy, owning no private property, where their food grows by itself and they live in the skies (Iterator cities, nudge nudge).

The name of this region could point to the Buddhist cosmological map being a physical fact for this world. I'd like to think that the dimension hopping aspect to the Watcher's worming through the space-time is at least limited to 4 continents(/realities?).

Also a fan fact: in Chinese mythology it is said the waters flow and stars fall slowly, because a water god with a bad tamper, Gònggōng, broke one of the pillars supporting the sky. Combining this fun nugget with the established lore in a pearl that everything is once eaten away by the Void down below, I'd say it is safe to assume on 89% that the dust mentioned in that pearl comes from the heaven itself and creates a sort of a cycle of the physical matter.

Suppose stardust is what creates everything, powers everything (just as is said in science). Suppose the Starcatchers are superstructures made for conversion of it into desired forms, these ones perhaps in the West of the world specifically, because of their circular shape.

(Meaning Signal Spires are perhaps of the South, while original game- aka Pebbles and Moon- are in the North of this world.)

• I find it fascinating and validating that Spinning Top needed some sort of an Embrace from one of the Five Urges/Hindrances (the third one, companionship) to be able to pass on.

It points to my idea of what the religion is Really supposed to be about: the Five Urges are what they are- urges- and they cannot run rampant. The point isn't to absolutely *eradicate* violence, pleasure, companionship, hunger and desire to live from oneself. The point is to be able to control these things and not cling on to them.

Because if one clings on to something, they stagnate, they cannot progress, they rot and they *fear* losing the something more than they can truly enjoy it or they get far too lost in it to feel it right anymore. To cling on to life means being afraid of taking risks, trying something new and really Living.

But now that doesn't mean going for the opposite is the correct way to go about it- that still creates a desire, a clinging- an urge for death is just as good as urge for life. It binds. It's extremism without careful consideration for what is really the best to do, feel and think in any given situation.

(This goes for love, too, it is GOOD to love, but going too far becomes unhealthy obsession instead of love. Going the other way results in hatred, another utterly useless and harmful thing to harbor. Same as indifference - that is stagnation again, that isn't picking up something, working with it to move forward. Love is a forward motion that is required, but cannot be overdone because as so it would be bastardized into something else, possessive and caging.)

Spinning Top could move on only when she knew that the flipside of the Third Urge- a sickening loneliness- wasn't something to fear anymore.

• Yeah, I don't think we can count on backgrounds too much when it comes to size calculating on the basis that they are probably shaped around gameplay. Specifically thinking about how the spinning top toy changes sizes between it's in-game model and the art. When it comes to Ancients, I'd say the best one can do is do what feels right.

• The Rot Prince is some sort of a boosted up Preta, I swear to heavens. Hungry guy. Maybe the Rot as a whole is a Preta stand in, just way more physical.

• Can't believe my ,,Respawning is real" headcanon has been officially given the thumbs down... The *Strand* Theory is real. (Even though DP is separate from the Watcher, this at least explains why Artificer didn't just go back to the last shelter she slept in when her cubs were still with her. They went to a different strand, where a different Artificer managed the situation better and we are stuck in this reality without them.) (We see them in her Void ending either because they are the one thing her heart wishes for [the Void gives comfort to those who are passing, as far as I am concerned], or because the Void is where all the reality strands and times coincide into one another.)

• On that note, no Fucking wonder the Ancients wanna bail - we don't really know to what extend they were aware of reality's unwounding nature, but assuming it is Pretty Thorough, I too wouldn't wanna live with the knowledge that in one reality I might've died on my loved ones, leaving them broken, while in the other everything is just fine and dandy.

The endless wondering of ,,Did I die in a different reality at any point in my life? Did I leave these people I love behind to hurt, alone, and I can't do anything to help them? I can never know, I'm not allowed to comprehend..." would slowly kill anyone with a heart, I think.

• I wonder if the Prince is a puppet/the Rot made itself a puppet, - because the Starcatchers were Iterator-esque biomechanications with a different directive than iterating on the Big Problem and this is a consumed Starcatcher (something about its budding dialogue feels to me like there was a sense of a Self beforehand that was drowned out by the Rot and then was pulled forward again with additions) - because the Rot is at the edge of the universe (humming a tune) where a messed up slugcat decided to start ripping holes in the reality, therefore connecting different strands including to places where the Rot already existed as a plague upon Some Iterator, which gave spark to sapience and inspiration to a new mind

• The new karma set is definitely a droplet and the ripples it leaves behind. Makes sense, too, there's more ,,movement" within it the more Spinning Top yanks the Watcher around in time-space (accidentally, I'd guess. or the ,,blame" is more on Watcher *somehow*), messing up their physical existence more and more.

Maybe the karma symbols or the imagery itself have something to do with a combination of an axis mundi and the strand form of existence.

Something about there being a main timeline in which each action and decision creates a new ripple, a new strand.

• I wonder if the Watcher could've come across Spinning Top and effectively latch on/follow her, - because they were already dead/echoed (the dream sequence upon reaching the final karma level could mean they did go to the Void Sea and swam pretty deep but turned back and that resulted in Echo-ification? then again why can a lizard bite me. Spinny's laughing at me for it. Goddammit.) - because of their nature as someone who's so damn hesitant about things, who hangs in the backlines, only observes and learns. Very Echo-esque personality - because of their desire to have someone there

• Just realized that we have a canonical design for Spinning Top's mask, hot damn. ,,How do children's masks look like?" answered.

I don't know why, that kind of creeps me out.

• The portals existing outside of us are made by Spinning Top, I'm pretty sure. She's always over them.

Is it normal for Echoes to leave tears like that? I think if the Rot Prince met her and knew she's the one who started this whole journey that resulted in him coming to exist as a consciousness and to bloom, he'd see her as a friend the same way he sees the Watcher.

• I wonder if his approach to the Rot Triple Affirmitive is ,,it's going to get worse before it gets better". He has suffered, too- while he normally speaks gently, calmly, orderly, when he is a flowerbud he seems frantic to me. Like someone breathing through death before getting better.

• Is the concept of the Rot Prince created for the first time in all existences' or is he a repeating pattern, too? The Rot in the least seems to be a pattern, because of what Spinning Top says when we meet her in one of the original regions, eaten through by the Rot.

,,You shouldn't have come here. It's too far." Does that refer to this strand's/ripple's distance from the axis mundi/the water drop creating all these realities? The further out the little wave carries out, growing smaller and weaker, the more rotten through it is? Is it because still water is stagnation, just as the Rot is?

So the Cycle is change and movement, life and love, that exists in a hurtful matter not out of its design, but because it has to contend with absolute stillness/stagnation/the Rot? Or it's all part of the same system, truly designed like this?

Could a Mass Ascension be seen as an escape plan from a ripple growing old? Man...

• A quick attempt at illustrating the previous thought:

Some Pepe Silvia level nonsense going on here.

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Fake sticker idea of each persona Mc as a popsicle.

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The Jewish Sanhedrin recently wrote a letter to Donald Trump asking him to establish an International Divine Court and global Noahide Law. Do you know what happens to Christians under Noahide Law?

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It's the amount of inconsidered and even selfish to downright harmful messages that Miraculous continously sends to CHILDREN to validate Marinette's wobbling lips at any second she feels discomfort that gets me

This is a kids show

Every single episode since season 4 sends the same message "Marinette hurting people doesn't actually matter, she's owed consideration, care, and sacrifices so she can get her way because dont you see how pure her heart is? 🥺 don't you feel bad for being upset with the real victim? Don't you wanna make it up to her by putting her first 24/7?"

Revelator is just such an awful message to send to children. Both Ladybug and Alya say in the end that everybody (but clearly MARINETTE was meant) is entitled to have their secrets and to be allowed to only share them with whoever and whenever they feel comfortable with it.

That's so selfish. It's so selfish to say that Marinette's fucking comfort is more important than anything else when it's about Adrien's whole fucking LIFE. And shut up. That's literally the message. They are saying it TWICE.

Marinette is entitled to make this secret about herself because she shouldn't be forced to feel uncomfortable. That's the message. Marinette hurts people, but hey, she's actually so pure hearted and perfect, she always needs to be put first.

[whateverisbeautiful]

Richonne in Retrospect - The 💋 List

(every Richonne kiss ranked)

#4: The First Kisses (6.10)

The iconic, game-changing, OG Richonne kiss scene. 🤩 This is where Richonne's physical intimacy really took flight and man does it never get old seeing Rick and Michonne's very first kisses. Still as fire today as it was all those years ago, so of course it had to secure a spot in the Top 5. ❤️‍🔥 Reflecting on this scene in retrospect, knowing how many golden kisses would be in store for the remainder of Richonne's journey - including a miniseries with 100+ kisses - it makes me all the more appreciative of this season 6 scene that birthed Richonne's official romance and launched the many kisses to come 👏🏽...

It's this scene that proved that the longstanding chemistry between these characters pre-canon would elevate perfectly as Rick and Michonne finally acted on all their love and desire and became an official couple. I love the way their comfortable conversation and the mints lead to a handhold, which leads to them slowly looking into each other's eyes, which leads to their first soft and slow kiss, which then leads to the two going all in and making out in pure bliss. Slick Rick managed to get on top of Michonne with a quickness on that couch, and I love how Michonne was all the way here for it.

The way they can't help but smile throughout all these passionate kisses just lifts my spirit. This whole scene means so much to me and it warms my heart that this moment means so much to the characters too. They've found the one they were meant to love and the one their soul's most needed. And to see that bring them so much joy in this moment is great.

I often note how Rick and Michonne have had partners before but never like this. They kiss like they know this is different. Like they now know what true soulmate love should be. And again, I love the enthusiasm they both express over finally being together in this way. I'll never get over the fact that this kiss wasn't rehearsed. I love that. ☺️ Especially because Richonne's love already was so organic and then this kiss being a true first for the characters and actors makes it so compellingly organic as well.

All that sexual tension between Rick and Michonne had been brewing since the early prison days and the time had finally come to act on what their eyes had so often looked like they longed to do. These are 100% the kisses of two people who were already deeply in love. This next step in their relationship was just so right and you can tell every part of them knows this is right too. It feels like in this moment they're not just acknowledging they're in love and that they've been desiring each other for the longest - they're also acknowledging that this is who they want to spend the rest of their life with. This is it. I love that they seem to know that so quickly and that they never look back.

And considering my Richonne obsession began about here, this scene had quite the impact on my life as Rick and Michonne Grimes became and remain my ultimate definition of what true love should be. This is one of TWD's most joyous moments and it means everything to see Rick and Michonne experience their very first hot and heartfelt kisses and get such a rewarding win in embracing a love supreme with each other. ♥️

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