#Scriptual

[nomadman108]

The Q&A in the Scripture Part 3

Welcome to another installment in our occasional series (see links to all previous installments at the end of this post) looking at some of the answers given by Krishna to his cousin Uddhava during a kind of Q&A session that takes place as both are about to leave their hometown which is on the brink of war. Krishna’s returning to Heaven, while Uddhava is heading for parts – and a future –…

[leroibobo]

a jewish incantation bowl in babylonian aramaic from 400-800 ce.

incantation bowls were bowls inscribed with scriptual quotes and buried face down to protect against evil influences. they were used by christians, jews, manichaeans, and mandaeans in upper mesopotamia and syria.

[yanderefairyangel]

"You are the Fire Emblem" but JPN edition

Japanese is one of the hardest language to learn and it's no wonder. It has so many subtleties and one of them is the fact that one kanji can be read several way and yet still mean the same thing.

For example 花 can be read as either "Hana" or "Ka" for instance in 3H's JPN name, the kanji 花 read itself as "ka". In Engage's case, Kagestu's name, written in full katakana has the word 花 written in its katakana form and read as "ka".

How to read kanji are in general indiciated as a side note or between parathensis : it's what is called furigana

Likewise, despite being written in kanji, a word can be read in it's "English" pronociation.

Example, in the final lyrics of the Engage opening, Ryo read the word 紋章/monshoo as "Emblem" it's English meaning.

And in Engage, there is a very special play with that peculiarty proper to japanese when it comes to Alear's Emblem name.

"You are the thirteenth Emblem : the Emblem of Fiery Bonds < Fire Emblem>"

"The Emblem of Fiery Bonds <Fire Emblem>... Me ? I have become the 13th Emblem ?"

Alear's actual Emblem name is 絆炎の紋章/Kizuna-en no Monshoo which literaly translate as the "Emblem of the Bond of Fire" but I translate it as the Emblem of Fiery Bond as a reference to the ending song's title... Yes, that's where it's name from since the JPN title is 絆炎. It's also worth noting that the opening refers to this in the 2 common chorus when it says 繋げ 炎/Connect the flame.

This is reinforced by how 絆炎の紋章 is between 「」 which is the jpn equivalent of our " "

However, the detail in that scene is that instead of reading the 絆炎の紋章 part, Marth and Alear only read the part between < > which contains the japanese title of Fire Emblem, ファイアーエムブレム.

The <> indicates that 絆炎の紋章 shouldn't be ready as "Kizuna en no Monshooshi" but as "Faia Emblemu".

This is also present when Alear summons themselves in chapter 26

And if you check the JPN wiki, this is also there

As you see the word 絆炎の紋章 is here quoted as Alear's emblem name. It is even in between " ". However, Fire Emblem in jpn is also there but between ( ) rather then < >.

This indicate that Alear's Emblem name in reality is Emblem of the Fiery Bond but that it is supposed to be read as "Fire Emblem" the same way a kanji can be read in different way.

It's a phenomenon that oftens happen in doujin songs where the lyrics are read differently then how it's written scriptually to create some sort of "pun"

In the case of Engage, it's a way of playing with the name of Fire Emblem.

[dgknightblue]

Hey! You should read this.

It’s an Interview with Grom. A brawler deathly afraid of Children.

[thatstormygeek]

Christian supremacism is based on the bedrock idea that Christianity is true and good. Hendricks challenges most claims of Christian supremacists. But he doesn’t really challenge that one. For him, as for them, true Christianity is spotless. But if Christianity is in fact perfect in love and wisdom, then where does that leave those of us who are Jews, or atheists, or followers of any other religious or nonreligious tradition? Hendricks argues that evangelical conservatives have embraced iniquity by turning their backs on true Christianity. My back is towards Christianity too, though—and Christians have in the past used that as an excuse to label people like me iniquitous, with extremely unpleasant results. Hendricks steps around many of the worst implications here in his discussion of evangelical Islamophobia. He references John 10:16, “I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.” Hendricks suggests that Jesus is saying here that some who serve him are nonbelievers.  The passage he says could refer to “anyone who would accept the ethical demands of his message and strive to live lovingly and justly, no matter their origin or religion.” True, ethical, unstained Christianity is available to anyone of any religion. Goodness and Christianity are so synonymous that wherever the first is—even in the hearts of Jewish atheists—the second is also. I appreciate that Hendricks wants to include Muslims (and me) in the fold. And perhaps that’s as far as a Christian witness can go and still remain Christian. But people who have been persecuted by Christians aren’t necessarily going to want to see themselves as belonging to Jesus, even if some versions of him would have them. It seems condescending—and condescension is certainly a thing Christianity has been known for, from time to time.

Given current events, I think I should also reiterate that the analysis here applies to other belief systems, not just to Christianity. You will occasionally see Jewish people who oppose Zionism arguing that Zionism as it is currently practiced in Israel, with all the war crimes, is out of step with Jewish ethics, Jewish scriptual beliefs, or Jewish traditions. There are some powerful arguments there, and certainly, as a Jewish atheist, I don’t see Israel’s current horrific actions as part of a tradition I want to claim. Nonetheless, I think it’s important to acknowledge that on some basic level, Judaism is just what Jewish people do in the name of Judaism. And currently an awful lot of Jewish people, in Israel and outside it, believe that Jewishness justifies and requires a genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of people and counting. I don’t think that this orgy of war crimes is the sole meaning of Judaism. But unfortunately, at the moment, it does appear to be one thing that Judaism means, and I think it would be an insult to the people suffering in Gaza right now to insist that true Judaism can only be good.

[terrifickid]

Chariot Mysticism

There are only two things that are totally fucking outside any grasp of mine.

1.) After all that, what the fuck will happen next to me?

2.) This chariot Mysticism shit.

I'm just terrible at these kind of puzzles. Foreshadowing is lost on me.

Well, the cosmic space bear is clearly ursa. I don't know why it's a dipper. But even in vajrayana there is amenominakanushi. The Big Dipper forms a svastika in earth pole precession and it's argued this is scriptual.

The cosmic space bear that moved into the dojo and taught me a space bear dance. And the gane-sha that followed me around Santa Cruz. And the angels that played shit right out of my phone.

And mountain dogs.

This stuff wasn't theoretical, it wasn't understanding structures or concepts. It was real beings I met and talked to.

And I figured it was just weird internet shit, but there's this weird cloud motif I find strange. 4 winds and shit. Thunder.

So just psycho shit. And the naval theme.

I mean what the hell are you talking about?

What the hell do I care about some ascension gateway?!

Anyway that might be the purple vortex.

Uh, it's secret shit for 1.

But, is it earth and air? Fire and water? Or is it absolute and subjective? Is it you and the total universe? Your mind and ultimate mind? And the relationship there - that's it's in union. This probably isn't it.

Chirality?

Is that onmyodo sorcery? Maybe where yoda comes from?

Anyway. That's the post post modernism arena. Who the hell is these guys? Team squawky.

So much for Chariot Mysticism.

Well, I think that's what premonitions are. it's not a sense like the eyes, it's a communication at the time. They'll say stuff in your head, they'll turn shit orange. They'll put a book on a table. Whatever. That's what I think.

This is different from psilocybin or schizophrenia hallucinations. Those are different things - categorically.

If it pisses actual content. Like if it was the 21 questions person. Than... Well...

Is this why I'm training on volcanoes next? Is this why I'm headed out with the venusians?

Chariot Mysticism is fucking weird.

I've got a ticket to Maui don't I?!

Take a hint.

AirBnB!? Am I gonna stay

A.) In an AirBnN

B.) In some dudes house

C.) In an erupting fucking Pacific rim volcanoe

I'm not going near any fucking such place nor any molten anything. If I wanted to throw myself in a volcanoe I would have done it yesterday.

[vedaadesigns]

LH: Research (LO1)

Bi Scriptual

The Book Bi-Scriptual

The book Bi-Scriptual documents and discusses sociocultural premises, technical requirements and practical considerations concerning multiscript design and typography. All eight in-depth presented writing systems are then described by specialists in the field and illustrated by work examples from international designers and studios. I looked into the comparison of the Devanagari script with the Latin script. I really liked the poster design with black and white photographs accompanied by a word in Hindi and the same word written using Latin characters. This has given me the idea to perhaps play around with phonetics and type.

[prophetmikael8]

RELAXING SCRIPTUAL CONVERSATION.https://youtu.be/uuJM43qpyyY?si=Af_cwVJZSrc226Mk&t=2

[god-whispers]

apr 24

a rose by any other name

"because of the fragrance of your good ointments, Your name is ointment poured forth." song of sol 1:3

perhaps many of you will think i am straying too far from scriptual importance, but i think not.  you see, the whole message of the bible is just really one big, long love letter from a Creator to His creation; from our God to us.  in His imagination we are not just another of His creation brought forth for His amusements.  we were created in His very own image; created to be like Him and oh, what a mess we have made of it.

be that as it may, His love and desire for us exceeds any limits we knew love could reach; that the creator would don our limitations, endure our temptations, feel our anxieties and enter the realm we most greatly feared - the unknown realm of death.  He would do all this without experiencing the shortcomings and failures we had succumbed to.  He would redeem His beloved creation from the vast canyon our actions had dug.  so it was in shakespeare's romeo and juliet - two families divided in such a way that only the tragedy of unfulfilled love could unite them again.

i love roses.  i have more than a dozen rose bushes in my front yard alone, each sharing their unique beauty and vibrant colors.  their fragrance and their prickling thorns remind of the pain such beauty sometimes requires.  i think of my Lord whose brow was pierced with harsher thorns and the sweetest of fragrances that emerged with His blood; blood that allows one to jump in and swim across the canyon of sin created by our depravity.

i know i might be getting too "flowery" here with my words, but even in my extremity i cannot come close to the love God has for His creation; His prized creation.  i don't always put a lot of stock in near death experiences because i will not allow my faith to stand on someone else's experiences.  it's just that i remember one man's story about having died and experienced the hereafter.  he remarked how he had angels almost approaching him with reverence.  when he questioned why, he was told this, "because we see in you the glory of our Lord."

we know and must always be careful to remember all glory belongs to our God alone.  He has said He would not share it.  "I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another." isa 42:8  but we are blood-bought and by His amazing grace we are allowed to be inheritors with His son, Jesus Christ.  "by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." 2 pet 1:4  we are reborn to grow "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." eph 4:13  all this so He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

now just try to tell me that isn't a love story than exceeds time and space itself; exceeds all of creation and the yet uncreated.  "in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 john 4:10

"do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." luke 12:32  all the time we thought we had an fervent love for the Lord.  His love for us exceeds anything we could ever know or imagine.

as so, whether we're left with romeo and juliet or we're left with the shulamite girl pursuing her beloved until He embraces her in exquisite passion, we're left with the question: would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?  the fact is: "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” acts 4:12

it's only in the knowing of what we are looking for that enables one to fill that vacuum inside; and it's not a "what" - it's a "who."  if one is seeking to fill that emptiness with any religion, including the "big five" religions, they are looking in the wrong place.  those most notable would be: hinduism, buddhism, judaism, christianity, and islam.  i would suggest He is not found in any of these.  He is found in a name, in a relationship, in a torrid love affair.  He is found in Jesus.  and no - no other name could smell as sweet.

[nomadman108]

New Series Coming Soon: An Introduction

Lord Krishna Namaste and greetings friends Not long ago I started studying an Indian scripture called The Uddhava Gita. It’s quite a lovely book actually: it’s poetic, actually it is a poem, or song, and beautifully written. The title means The song of Uddhava and is an account of a conversation between Krishna wearing his God of the Universe hat, and his cousin Uddhava. The story takes place…

[biglisbonnews]

Ntsal and Boharat unveil the very first custom typeface for a bank in Egypt Rather than relying on a “matching making approach” – whereby Arabic follows Latin letterforms – CIB’s bi-scriptual typeface honours both equally. https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/ntsal-cairo-boharat-cib-custom-typeface-graphic-design-030323

[harmlessdove]

Hello! First off, I do understand that the intercession of the saints part wasn't apart of the post, I wasn't expecting an anserw to that part of the tag so I wrote it in the tags and didn't include it in the actual text of my reblog.

My problem isn't necessarily with stating that Mary is considered blessed in the scripture or that she is a respected biblical figure for bringing forth Jesus into this Earth as a man(Jesus is God too obviously, but I mean in a physical manner/body). I have no problem with that being stated as it's all biblical sound and has scriptual backing.

My problem lies in the fact that Mary seems to be elevated to a degree that feels borderline heretical in certain Catholic spheres.

Uzzah was struck dead for daring to touch the Ark of the Covenant which contained the word of God. How much more can one be expected to be disciplined for defaming the Blessed Virgin Mary, who carried the Incarnate Word within her very body?

[sapphicsavant]

God and the Gay Christian Matthew Vines

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Today in Christian History

Today is Friday, January 11th, the 11th day of 2019. There are 354 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

1817: Death in New Haven, Connecticut, of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, a powerful advocate of sound doctrine. As hymnwriter, he had penned “I love thy kingdom Lord.”

1869: At the Springfield Baptist Church Augusta, GA, Reverend Kelly Lowe organizes the first African-American Sunday school.

1933: Pastors in the Hamburg, Germany, area issue the Altona Confession, offering Scriptural guidelines for Christian conduct in light of the growing Nazi influence on the State Church.

1942: Soviets execute Natalya Ivanovna Sundukova by firing squad because she had “propagandized” her Orthodox faith among other prisoners and refused to work for the atheistic communists in the prison camp.

Photo by James & Carol Lee on Unsplash

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

Mofftiss like mmmm yes we have many diverse and well written women in BBC Sherlock like

- Sexy Girlboss who is smarter than Sherlock until her uterus takes over and she falls in love with him

- Wife who is shown to actually be a Girlboss because she *checks hand* murders and manipulates people but it's ok she's good now bc Wifehood/Motherhood

- A Genuinely Sweet Kind and Wonderful Human Being who we have to see hurt, heartbroken, and manipulated every time she's on screen bc she is scriptually not allowed to get over Sherlock.

- Oh we think this ones a Bitch (and she is also coincidentally the only PoC recurring character of the show :))

- Mrs Hudson I genuinely have no complaints about how she was written she's fantastic like yes. Old ladies were once young ladies and some of them were fucking willdddd hell yeah.