#but the invisible string theory is too good of a coincidence to not use

[kinkleydiaz]

bi buck and the bucktommy relationship are both huge storylines by themselves, so i'm really grateful we got a taste of it this season, even though we had fewer episodes and so much going on. i don't know where they are going to take that relationship, but even if they are not endgame, i really want to keep them together for a while so we can get to know tommy better and then decide if he's a good fit for buck or not. right now a lot of people are jumping to conclusion and the truth is we didn't have enough time to develop them in the best way possible, so chill.

[blingblong55]

Invisible String Theory- Simon 'Ghost' Riley

F!reader, fluff, establish!relationship

One single thread of gold tied me to you

The invisible string theory: All your favourite people will be hidden in plain sight until the universe decides you are ready to meet them.

As you sit with him, you can't help but think of all the moments in your life when he wasn't present, because now, he is there, holding you in his arms. You two are looking through the scrapbook he made for you, photos and souvenirs of your story, so far. As you look through you find a picture of task force 141, they were in the u.s., in the background, a lake with some people near it. Then once you look at the next page, there you were, with your friends in the same lake, a group of men in the background of the picture.

You had set for a small holiday in the u.s. because you wanted to study there the next semester. You couldn't help but notice that the same group of men was him and the task force and in his picture it was you and your friends as the background. You two were so close to each other, living different lives without knowing that the love of your life was not too far from you.

But at the time, he nor you were meant to cross paths. He wasn't ready for the life he now has and you weren't ready for his love or the life he has given you. It's beautifully strange when you think of it, so close yet so far from the one you'd be going home to. At the time of the photo, he was still very dedicated and not looking for any sort of romance, let's be clear here, when he met you he wasn't even ready for it and at times he feels like your love is so good it must be fake.

When you were in that lake, you were still a student, holding onto that degree like your life depended on it. You went out, visited parts of the world you never knew about, made friends and lost some in the process. But, in some beautiful way, he was there, unbeknownst to him, you were there too.

When he was at that lake, he was nothing more than a soldier, holding onto a mask to feel like he belonged. He lived a life full of guns and war, a helmet on his head and a knife at hand, he lost men to these wars but made a family with a group of fierce men along the way.

You look at him, a proud smile worn on his lips. He found that photo one day before he finished the scrapbook. To be honest, he was looking for a photo of you before you two met and by some beautiful coincidence he saw himself and his team. So of course he had to use that one. You were the girl a guy like him could only dream of, a goal that would never be obtained by a man with such a life as his. No soldier gets this lucky, especially not him.

You were his sunshine, the one he'd waited hundreds of years for. He wasn't much of a vocal man, you got the best of him, you are everything he could ever want and more. His mask kept him safe on the field and was a shield to protect Simon but when he is home, a single smile or a hug is shield enough for him. Ghost is just a soldier, Simon is a man, with wants and needs. Anyone can see it in his face, he is one lucky son of a bitch to land such a woman like yourself.

You once told him something he can never forget about; if he was lost in the light, it's okay because you can see in the dark. Love like this happens once if you are lucky enough and if dodging bullets or surviving betrayals wasn't proof enough he was lucky, one look at you and he'd know he was more than lucky. Soap always reminded him, of his fortune when he landed you. Gaz and Price did too, they knew you were valuable to a man like Simon. A fragment of a life he was worthy of.

So, if the invisible string theory is real, you and he are proof of it. You both hid in plain sight, meant to love the other when the time was right and what a time it was when he first met you. All the strings pulled by his hand and luck landed him with the greatest woman of all time. His love, his little piece of heaven and the proof that the theory was in fact real, at least to your love story.

A/N: felt the need to explain the page of the scrapbook so you get the idea of what I tried to write about.

[teawaffles]

Forbidden Games: Chapter 8 / End

“I didn’t know you put steel plates in your coat…… Are you really a university professor?”

“I’ve been kidnapped by a criminal organisation in the past. Since then, I’ve been a bit more careful about my own safety.” [1]

William explained it away without a second thought, as Sherlock handed him back his coat.

With their victory complete, the two men had freed the young noble and watched Alan and his men being taken away by the Yard. Now they were standing in front of the club building, and idly chatting near a carriage.

“Well, I was somewhat worried they wouldn’t fall for our trick.”

“That part was indeed uncertain, but I was confident that Alan would stop the match. He’s the type of person who will not enter a game unless his own safety is secured; once the possibility of defeat is introduced, he’ll promptly call off the match.”

“Exactly. In fact, that guy didn’t even point his gun at you, but just tried to start a new game,” Sherlock agreed.

Although he had also predicted Alan’s movements, he knew it was not an easy task to manipulate their opponent into terminating the match.

William had set Alan up with a revolver that may or may not have fired on the next turn, and skilfully sowed enough doubt to push him to stop the match of his own accord.

Sherlock admired the university professor for having succeeded in such a high-stakes bluff.

“Anyway, I’m grateful to you for getting us out of there, Liam.”

“It is I who should be thanking you. We were able to eliminate some concerning elements which might have endangered my students, and with that we are even. ……However, I do apologise to Dr Watson for accompanying you this far on your investigation.”

“Even if he was jealous, I know John would never hold a grudge. For now though, I’ll have to take the credit for your achievement.”

“You speak too highly of me. In fact, it was precisely because you were able to understand my intentions, Mr Holmes, that we were able to succeed. If it were anyone else, the situation would not have been resolved with such grace,” William chuckled.

In a serious tone, Sherlock continued.

“However, Liam…… did you know in advance that Alan was going to suggest Russian roulette?”

William put on the coat he received from Sherlock earlier.

It was thanks to this coat that Sherlock had avoided a fatal injury despite being shot. But looking at it another way, one might also think that William had predicted that Sherlock would be shot.

To predict the events of their final match beforehand, one would need nothing short of divine intuition. However, the man who had been asked this question simply flashed a troubled smile.

“That would be reading too far into the matter. Regarding this coat, the steel plates were prepared just in case I found myself in a tight spot. When it comes to a fight, as you pursue dangerous criminals on a daily basis, Mr Holmes, I believe you are better suited to use it. Then as far as that last game was concerned, since we heard about it from another party in the hall earlier, it was conceivable that this coat would be put to good use.”

“Hmm…… Well, that’s true.”

William’s humble explanation convinced even Sherlock, albeit grudgingly.

——Sherlock thought over the matter.

Suppose that in today’s case, even without the job from his client, Alan and his accomplices had been scheduled to be taken down. If one were to do thorough research ahead of time, based on Alan’s nature, one could expect him to force his opponent into a game where he has the upper hand. If that was the case, what if one was able to obtain prior knowledge about the game itself?

Indeed, the man who had told them about Russian roulette said he’d heard about it from another social circle. That is to say, knowledge about the game had spread to this club from a third party. Then that party could have also deliberately spread the word about how to cheat.

With these preparations in place, they would enter the club and contact the target. Because they knew the exact game and trickery their opponent would use, they could then employ that knowledge to manipulate their opponent. And a certain detective’s investigation would prove the perfect opportunity to do so.

It was a possibility, Sherlock concluded.

This person had thoroughly examined their enemy’s humanity, the means they would use, and the number of people he had with him, then used that knowledge to vanquish him. In addition, they would have needed an information network spanning the entirety of Britain’s high society, and Sherlock knew of a certain mastermind who possessed just that.

Just then, he remembered how that man had looked at him before the game began, and the feeling that had struck him in that moment: of his entire body being entangled in strings.

He’d gotten the same feeling when investigating some of his cases. Upon solving a “riddle”, it felt as if everything had been designed to be as such — as if he had been manipulated with invisible strings, and he’d felt helpless to resist.

A string that came from his gaze. And another that he occasionally felt manipulating him during the investigation.

If he were to follow these two threads, the person at the other end of them would be——.

Having advanced his deductions up to this point, Sherlock glanced at the man beside him.

“What’s the matter, Mr Holmes?”

That man looked at him with an unconcerned expression.

“No, it’s nothing.”

Sherlock shook his head, as if to shake off his thoughts.

These theories were only possibilities, which could never leave the realm of speculation. As that man had said, it was more reasonable to see their victory as the outcome of a series of happy coincidences. Surely there was nothing to be gained from crudely pursuing this train of thought.

Even so, if it was this man at the other end of those strings…

That thought sent Sherlock’s heart racing.

“Since the case has been solved, let me see you off at the station.”

As the conversation died down, William opened the door to the carriage.

Sherlock uttered a word of thanks as he climbed in, the determination in his heart renewed.

——Just you wait, “Lord of Crime”.

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

As he’d stood next to Sherlock, William’s thoughts about the case had also been racing through his mind.

A mathematical formula cannot become a theorem until it is “proven”.

You must solve all the riddles I have set, and prove the existence of the Lord of Crime. Therefore, even if the worst possible scenario — a shootout — were to take place, I had to make sure you survived.

William, who had manipulated the entire case from behind the scenes, smiled once more. As planned, the detective had made it out alive.

The “Lord of Crime” had strings extended in every direction. William eagerly awaited the day Sherlock would follow them and hunt him down.

Thus ended the untold case in which two extraordinary men joined hands.

The crime consultant, William James Moriarty.

The consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.

The game of geniuses betting on the future of the Empire, continues.

Footnotes:

[1] See Chapter 4 of the manga (“The Case of the Noble Kidnapping”).

T/N: I thought this story really puts Chapter 47 of the manga (“The Two Criminals, Act 4”) into perspective. Also, these events actually took place at the tail end of Chapter 31, before William saw Sherlock off. The more we know!

[automatismoateo]

More atheism quotes via /r/atheism

Submitted August 13, 2018 at 05:26AM by SamK7265 (Via reddit https://ift.tt/2OwN1n0) More atheism quotes

People really seemed to like my recent post on my favorite quotes regarding atheism, so I figured I’d make another post with a bunch more of them. Here they are:

“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.” -Ferdinand Magellan

“Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” -Isaac Asimov

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” -Blaise Pascal

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.” -Anonymous

“I don’t know if god exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn’t.” -Jules Renard

“By all means be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” -Richard Dawkins

“A cult is a religion with no political power.” -Tom Wolfe

“Your god is the best god. In fact, he’s the only god. All other gods are ridiculous made-up rubbish. Not your god though, yours is real.” -Ricky Gervais

“A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” -Frederich Nietzsche

“Agnostics are just atheists without balls.” -Stephen Colbert

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion, it’s called religion.” -Robert Pirsig

“All thinking men are atheists.” -Ernest Hemingway

“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.” -Sam Harris

“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” -Christopher Hitchens

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” -Isaac Asimov

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

“If people are good because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” -Albert Einstein

“I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” -Susan B. Anthony

“When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you’ll understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” -Douglas Adams

“The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.” -John Adams

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” -Steven Weinberg

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Edward Gibbon

“I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the Bible.” -Penn Jillette

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” -Richard Dawkins

“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -Galileo Galilei

“What’s the difference between a cult and a religion? In a cult, the people at the top know it’s a scam. In a religion, those people are dead.”

“You cannot reason a person out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.” -Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” -House

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." -Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is, always was, and always will be nothing more than the sum of everything we do not yet understand.”

“A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.” -Albert Einstein

“Why would I want to die only to end up in some celestial North Korea where I worship a dictator from dawn to dusk?” -Christopher Hitchens

“Is the good loved by the gods because it is good, or is it good because it is loved by the gods?” -Socrates

“The great thing about science is whether or not you believe in it, it’s true.” -Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.” -Noam Chomsky

“What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? Someone who lays awake at night wondering if there really is a dog.”

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.” -George Carlin

“Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.” -Aldous Huxley

“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” -Bill Murray

“The only problem with atheism is you never have the opportunity to definitively say you were right.”

A scientist, a magician, and a theist walk onto a stage. The scientist says, “I can fly, watch me!” and proceeds to pull out a wing suit and fly. The magician says “I can fly too!” and levitates with invisible strings. The theist says “I can also fly! Now prove that I can’t.”

“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.” -Rowan Atkinson

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow just can't handle money!” -George Carlin

And my favorite of all...

“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.” -Richard Pryor