#THE FAITH

[ambrayah]

Bellevue, Iowa

[guerrilla-operator]

THE FAITH

[wiirocku]

2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV) - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

[deancain]

Sam meets Dean’s eyes. Grateful. The worry leaving his face. He believes Dean.

[shiawase-jouhatsu]

[infinitysisters]

“The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.

…𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲.

It is a story and in that sense one of a hundred stories; only it is a true story.

It is a philosophy and in that sense one of a hundred philosophies; only it is a philosophy that is like life.

But above all, it is a reconciliation because it is something that can only be called the philosophy of stories.

That normal narrative instinct which produced all the fairy tales is something that is neglected by all the philosophies—𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞. The Faith is the justification of that popular instinct; 👉🏼the finding of a philosophy for it or the analysis of the philosophy in it.👈🏼

Exactly as a man in an adventure story has to pass various tests to save his life, so the man in this philosophy has to pass several tests and save his soul.

In both there is an idea of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧; in other words, there is an aim and it is the business of a man to aim at it; we therefore watch to see whether he will hit it.

Now this deep and democratic and dramatic instinct is derided and dismissed in all the other philosophies. For all the other philosophies avowedly end where they begin; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲; 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

From Buddha and his wheel to Akhen Aten and his disc, from Pythagoras with his abstraction of number to Confucius with his religion of routine, there is not one of them that does not in some way sin against the soul of a story.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞; 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧.

Each of them starves the story-telling instinct, so to speak, and does something to spoil 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞; either by fatalism (pessimist or optimist) and that destiny that is the death of adventure; or by indifference and that detachment that is the death of drama; or by a fundamental scepticism that dissolves the actors into atoms; or by a materialistic limitation blocking the vista of moral consequences; or a mechanical recurrence making even moral tests monotonous; or a bottomless relativity making even practical tests insecure.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲; 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲; but there is no such thing as a Hegelian story or a Monist story or a relativist story or a determinist story; for every story, yes, even a penny dreadful or a cheap novelette, has something in it that belongs to our universe and not theirs.

🔑Every short story does truly begin with creation and end with a last judgement.🔑”

G.K. Chesterton,

The Everlasting Man (1925)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BATTLE-SCARRED ARTIFACTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF AMERICAN HARDCORE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the now over 40-year-old skate deck from the private collection of Andy Rose, author of "There's Something Hard in There" blogspot, a relic of his teenage hardcore punk past.

"I was no Z-Boy, that's for sure. Not even close, man.

Alva, Adams, Peralta and the others would have laughed me out of town.

However, I could get my skateboard going at my own pace and have a blast while riding The Strand along Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo as a youngster. My friend Sean and I "bombed" the mammoth hills by my home in Redondo without flinching (well, maybe a little bit at first). I couldn't ride the ramps as well as my buddy Brian or shred the bowls like the ragers at Skateboard World in Torrance, but who cares?

Skating for me was something to do during those Southern California summers, and it usually involved music, as well: everything from BOSTON to ZEPPELIN to BLACK FLAG to MINOR THREAT. You can't beat that."

-- ANDY ROSE (author & founder of "There's Something Hard in There" blogspot, c. February 2015

Source: https://theressomethinghardinthere.blogspot.com/2015/02.

[napunk-history]

Glen E. Friedman: My Rules (1982)

The Faith

[vamprisms]

shut da hell up

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[hamletthedane]

Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

[guerrilla-operator]

The Faith // You're X'd

How can you agree with me? Did you think I didn't see? You drink, you fuck behind my back You're not my friend, I don't need your crap

[winderlylandchime]

I’m seeing a bunch of posts that make me think most USAmericans don’t know about The No Surprises Act.

It was passed in 2021 (thank you Biden) and essentially states that if you don’t have insurance or your insurance doesn’t cover a service you need (or want) you are entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of care. (If your insurance does cover the service, you should be able to estimate the cost of care based on your deductible and co-pay.)

As a healthcare provider who does not accept any insurance, I am very careful to not violate The No Surprises Act. Why? Because for every penny more than $400 that the Good Faith Estimate was “off” (or if it wasn’t provided), you are entitled to a refund for that amount.

Y’all. Ask for a Good Faith Estimate. Get it in writing. Compare it to what you are paying. If you are not provided an estimate or if it’s wrong by more than $400, demand a refund.

[ambrayah]

"The more [the Christian faithful] have been immersed in the fervor of charity, the more they have imitated Christ in his sufferings, carrying their crosses in expiation for their own sins and those of others, certain that they could help their brothers to obtain salvation from God the Father of mercies."

Pope Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina

[shiawase-jouhatsu]

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