#but yeah God is good and God is faithful
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Found a reformed baptist church up my way that I'm gonna visit in a few weeks
#God knows i have intense social anxiety#and I have been interceding for all my backslid family members#and then outta the blue last week my neice texts me that she cut back on working sundays and feels like going back to church#so we're gonna go together#but yeah God is good and God is faithful#i went to a legit Christian school from grades 1-8 and somehow managed to never bmget baptized#so that needs to happen asap
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while i get where this comes from and it’s true to an extent, i reeeaaaally don’t like how people try to explain “trans men don’t [necessarily] have male privilege” with things like “some trans men don’t pass”.
like sure that’s the most obvious example (someone who is seen as a woman won’t have the privilege that comes with being seen a man) but you’re still acting like being a passing trans man is just a free opt-in to male privilege which is………kinda the issue.
#personal#ohh don’t be weird on my post please this is just on my mind#i’ve seen it so many times just in the last few days#like yeah a passing trans man receives more benefits than anyone who’s seen as a woman#and i’m sure most people making those arguments DO understand that it’s not that simple#but very few people engaging in these kinds of discussions in good faith would argue that someone seen as a woman has male privilege#(note: VERY FEW people engaging in GOOD FAITH)#i see people be like ‘everyone thinks all trans men pass’ and like…….WHO is thinking that who’s also gonna listen to you here#maybe it’s just my grew-up-in-a-conservative-religious-environment thing but your experience is not universal#i would also like you to consider whether ‘anyone that looks like a man has male privilege’ is consistent with your other views#1k#(oh god guys please)
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the catholic rejection of it all
#one piece#op#trafalgar law#monkey d. luffy#gear 5 luffy#song is big god by florence and the machine#religious symbology? in my shounen anime protagonist? it's more likely than you think#im 24 years old it's the end of 2023 it's MY turn to finally make a cringe amv for christmas#to be clear. i dont think law sees luffy as his god. but i definitely think he's helped law regain some faith#i.e. catholicism (yeah hardy-hah one piece character is an ex-catholic its all very silly but let's take it unironically for a second)#it would've drilled into law as a child to believe in one true cause (that cause being god). and that will supposedly carry him through lif#give hope purpose etc. but a lot of former catholics choose instead to find that in something else. in law’s cause:#the freedom and hope corasan gave him#the freedom that luffy brings. the will of D. the goodness in the people around him#it's a transfer of faith that feels real and tangible#it's a neat concept and I don't see it talked about much#CJ's op watch-through#corasan#donquixote rosinante#sun god nika#CJ's edits#op analysis#amv
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i was on the most random nostalgia kick and rewatched the prince of egypt yesterday and let me just say... that movie is truly one of the greatest animated films of all time.
#it's sooo good#i'm not religious but i enjoyed it from start to finish#i used to be christian (not my fault�� raised that way) and even though i left the faith a long time ago biblical stories still fascinate me#like they're so interesting when you look at them as simply ancient mythology#and one thing i really appreciate about the prince of egypt is that they don't shove any religious message down your throat#the focus is on moses and ramses's relationship#and... wow. i did not remember it being that deep. i was NOT expecting to get so invested in their tragedy#i really liked the sort of grey area they both fell into and how they weren't just starkly good and evil#like ramses being the way he is because of what his father drilled into him‚ his fear of being the “weak link” and dooming his empire#and ofc moses unleashing the plagues and even allowing ramses's son to die in order to free his people#but i loved how they showed he was torn up about it because yeah! the egyptians were his people too!#and i loved how ramses didn't immediately hate him when the plagues began! he still loved him and saw him as a brother‚ however misguided!#but then moses proved he was willing to do anything for the hebrews' freedom. only then was their relationship beyond saving#this movie made my heart hurt a little. the deteriorating relationship of two brothers at the centre of it all... god#i have so many thoughts and feelings#it's so good. and ofc the animation is stunning. it's definitely a favourite of mine#some things from your childhood hit different when you revisit them as an adult because man i did not grasp all these layers as a kid#text#personal#misc
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idk how to even phrase all this, but.. I just really need gay dudes to stop assuming that any gay/bi guy who presents masculine (whatever that means) is like, unexamined and self-hating. I understand that DL guys have traumatized us all but operating under the assumption that liberation has a certain look is…. not very sound.
#And no I’m not claiming masc gays are oppressed. Please god nobody try and shove those words in my mouth#I assume some people will try to refute this entire point by citing how masc guys are so desired#and I’m like. Yeah that’s kinda my actual point. There’s this simultaneous hunger for masculine men while also a complete lack of faith#in their self awareness and compassion for others in the community.. and I just.#don’t think that’s a good juxtaposition.
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The whole point of Mahabharata and the introduction of kaliyuga is that absolute pureness will not suffice. That to be good is to suffer. That if you keep taking what the world gives you, you will die empty-handed, everything you own taken away. That is the whole point of Bhagavat Geeta. To give what you're given, not to keep bending until your back breaks, NOT to keep suffering because that is the good thing, at the hands of someone who has done nothing for you. It is insane that this man who claims to be so clever and smart is so, SO willing to become literally stupid just because it's the Good thing to do. It is unfathomable to me. This is pure stupidity no matter from what way you look at it. There are all sorts of religious shows to tel these idiots that you MUST take back what you're owed. It's literally YOUR right. It is literally what you are SUPPOSED to do. When you keep giving what you have rightfully earned out of the labour of your blood sweat and tears, you are not doing it for the goodness. It's going nowhere. God is laughing at you and is probably angry that you're wasting opportunities and resources and the blessings you were provided with for your benefit. Especially when you're not only responsible for just yourself but for people in your family as well. Especially when you're already so so close to suffering that you need all the extra resources you can to make sure you don't suffer. The whole point of Krishna is to accept the impure within you, to fight for your own self. Rama is become so relevant these days because people here are braindeads. This is not the satyuga, the moralities of that times will have you beaten down bleading on the ground. This is kaliyuga, in order to preserve yourself you need to weaponise cunning to save yourself. That's how it is supposed to be. You sit down and take and you keep on taking from every single person that comes across you. You think this is patience? To be unreasonably lenient to strangers and so hard on your family? Your wife and daughter? You think yourself so smart but you are so obviously stupid I laughed at your face because of it. You are hell bent on wasting away everything you are in the name of a false ideal that will not only leave you nowhere but will also drive you mad and who will take the brunt of it? Your wife. Your daughter. Because man is a coward who is so so scared of another man be it his own son. He will scream and shout and the littlest faults of his wife and daughter but not the son, he gets to be a no-gooder, he gets to be free with it in the name of I-dont-care-let-him-do-what-he-wants-hes-a-no-gooder-anyways. Not your mother or sister because they are women and you must service them because it is good and noble but your wife and daughter are not women who deserve the same treatment, no, you can blame them for the stress you've acquired by your own stupidness and claim to be all high and mighty. This man needs to open his eyes or I swear to god I will lose all respect.
#cannot believe this man pays 6.5k rent and just gave away more than the place he lives in in just fucking 4.5k#like he was legit close to suffering into building that house and all throughout it his wife was to blame bc she wanted a house#only to in yhe end fucking put the house up for rent like bitch stop me from throwing hands bc im so fucking close#and that too at fucking 4.5k????#IS HE INSANE IS HE FUCKING STUPID WHAT THE FUCK#hIS OWN BROTHET IS RENTING ONE FUCKING SMALL ASS ROOM FOR 3K AND THIS MAN JUST RENTED. BRAND NEW PRETTY ASS HOUSE WITH BIG ROOM SPACEOUS#LIVING SPACE MASSIVE KITCHEN AND PRETTY WASHROOMS AT JUST 4.5K?????????????#AND HE PLANS TO GIVE THE OTHER ROOMS AT 3K??????????????????????#AND HIS AIM IS AT 20K TOTAL ERANING WHEN IT HAS THE FUCKING GOOD POTENTIAL OF 40K????????#GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES FUCKASS STOP WITH THE GOOD PEOPLE BULLSHIT MY FUCKING GOD#honestly#my faith in men#has evaporated#theyre just born stupid#this man gives away his money to his ungrateful ELDER brothers (legit lakhs of it)#gives away money yo his sister and her children#doesnt even think of having it returned#yet hospitals are too much to take to for his own family#and everytime we ask for anything its “what is the need”#like yeah whatever your money blah blah but maybe dont marry and have responsibilities that you owe your family?#KARNA WAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE HE WAS DAAN-DEVTA FOR FUCKS SAKE#im so fucking done oh my god#mahabharata#mahabharat#ramayan#krishna#karna#family#father#idiot
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“Oh your queer? What’s your favorite music artist and don’t say *lists a bunch of music artists that have been stereotyped with the queer community*”
IM GOING TO RUN THROUGH DRYWALL YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE NOT UNIVERSAL-
#YES A LOT OF THOSE BANDS ARE GOOD BUT LIMITING QUEER EXPIERENCE TO JUST A HANDFUL OF BANDS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED IS INFURIATING#‘ta/lly hall cho/nny j/ash h/andsome d/evil’ YOU DONT KNOW ME#yeah I like will wood a lot and a lot of these artists but god my music taste is fucking diverse of course I like this stuff#BUT I also like stuff like fucking- sisters of mercy#or loreena mckennitt#or Aurelio Voltaire#or blackfire or blind guardian or nat king Cole or fuckin- THE DOORS???#OR MUSE OR NINE INCH NAILS OR THE DOORS#OR lingua ignota OR A-ha OR U2#OR Orville Peck Or human drama OR angelique kidjo#THE LIST GOES ON DO YOU WANT ME TO CONTINUE????#FAITH AND THE MUSE
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oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty
#text post#Gonna go ffffucking crazy- people have to bend so far over backwards to make Boromir bad that they just full out ignore his entire characte#and bend even further over backwards to make the elves all better than him too like jesus christ#oh is it BOROMIR who would be bitter about dying in the defense of Rohan??? whose despair is just so self serving and requires legolas to#slap him out of it yes uhuh that seems reasonable seems like BOROMIR would just hate the idea of dying for allies he so clearly loved#when in the full actual canonical scene of his death he dies for two random guys he met five months ago and all he has to say about it is#he failed he is sorry he has paid#BOROMIR definitely doesn't deal well with his own looming death and would definitely snap at other people about it ignoring all the decades#he has been under the looming shadow of death and has been known as not-grim and loved by many and has done his duty almost like#that is literally all his life has been up until this point#and of course of course it's ARAGORN who he's supposed to be fighting for because he's SOO impactful on Boromir's psyche he meant so much t#him apparently ggrsfsfgrrffffggfrgr#everyone wants to hit boromir oh yeah he's so annoying his hopelessness is such a burden and everyone else has to deal with him#if ANY of you go looking for what I'm talking about and do anything about it I'll slaughter you myself these are such inside thoughts the#comic is good#I shouldn't even be angry it's the natural conclusion from a story that tells you Boromir is bad but does not spell out that it's because h#isn't 'faithful' to god#they just tell you he is 'too despairing' and he 'desires power' and he 'doesn't have hope' (hope being a proxy for faith and Boromir not#believing in Aragorn means he doesn't believe in Eru's chosen leaders and his 'grand plan')#despair being a sin because it means you are selfishly giving into your own desires for a good life for you and the people you love#rather than accepting that all is God's plan and this life is only meaningful if you are defending Eru's right to the throne of the world#But that isn't spelled out so for despair to be treated as evil in the story people apply a secular understanding of 'bad despair'#already a TERRIBLE idea btw genuinely awful to percieve hopelessness as a personal moral failing#I suppose thats it actually the major reason it gets to me cus hopelessness and despair is a base aspect of my existence like#I am in despair pretty much constantly and I know a lot of other disabled people with similar sentiments#and the urging from people to 'have hope' is at this point sickening and infuriating and maddening to me it is disconnected from my reality#WHICH is demonstrably why I care about Boromir and Denethor so much no one meets them where they are no one sits in their reality with them#they are deeply relatable in their dealing with dispair namely; they just live and accomplish and strive along with their sarcasm and#black humour through their dark grueling lives and do what duty demands and try to hold onto their crumbling family relationships#and then they each have uniquely cathartic ends to those lives
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Fargo is a fantastic show and there’s been a lot of moments that have left me stunned, astonished, thrilled, chilled, absolutely blown-away, but bitch…………...I’m telling you…………..in 5 seasons, nothing has ever gotten me to a state of white-knuckled, gripping the chair, shock and awe…………………like that cover of Toxic……………
#I swear I literally gasped and gripped my recliner and my mouth dropped open and stayed there like a cartoon idiot that whole scene#(and yeah the moody atmosphere of the scene itself excellently conveyed the futile circumstances#of being a woman in the clutches of a man’s bruised ego and first brush with consequences#drawing out what we know is coming as Roy walks to that shack and we’re close up on him the whole way#not to attempt to make us the audience empathize with him but to isolate us with the fragile state of his self-worth as his humiliation#makes his abusing women and Dot in particular shed its skin its declarations of justice and faith in god#and show it for what it is: hate and fear and weakness and other things I wanna get into but wont#like yeah that was all good or whatever too)#but BABY CANT YOU SEE……..I’M FALLIIIINN…………#fargo fx#fargo s5#fargo s5e8
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"inherently evil" -- there can be no accord with these people
#again this is religious for them#this is just a rehashing of christianity#“we are all the children of god” and if you think about prioritizing your own then you're an inherently evil heathen#also “it's common sense to care about everyone equally” despite this not being a common believe ever in history?#again this reminds me of the early christians who would happily sacrifice their family in the name of their faith#these people would gleefully sacrifice their own for their ideology#also there's something particularly vile about this#because it's so easy to feel sorry for people on the other side of the world#it's a great way to feel good about yourself without having to do anything#but meanwhile taking care of your neighbors? that's well within your power#but if you make it wrong to prioritize your own then you don't have to feel so guilty about not doing anything#and before anyone says “it's possible to care about two things at once”#yeah i agree#but for these types of people prioritizing the other is consistent#it is perverse#especially because i've seen some of these people express a certain kind of joy about it#like i saw an article from politico i believe that was enthusiastic about the effects this hurricane will have#on the ability for racist white southerners to vote for trump#and i've also seen them express a callous disregard for them#like “haha NOW these hillbillies want government handouts???”#they hate you
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also ruby gillman was absolutely so much better than everyone says it was. idc this movie is so much fun
#im like objectively yeah THEMATICALLY it falls a little flat/shallow but its still fun#its vivid its interesting the soundtrack is a bop the characters are compelling its super rewatchable#i like you ruby gillman teenage kraken 👍#i kept expecting it to play into tropes/conventions that i find suuuper grating but it kept subverting my expectations!! dleightfully!!!!!#100% thought they were gonna do a 'connor falls for chelsea until he realizes ruby saved him' but no that boy was FAITHFUL to his crush#and chelsea didnt pursue him i was sooo worried that was gonna be an arc i would hate#and chelsea chelsea my darling horrible queen SHE WAS SO FUN she managed to play perfectly into her archetype WITHOUT#being annoying!!! AND still feeling new and fresh!!!#and oh my goddddd RUBY shes the quirky adorkable female lead who is actually GOOD idk#what it is about her but oh my god i didnt even realize that was her archetype until i saw the movie again bc she was so#Not Annoying#like . truly the only complaints i have are that it sets up thematic threads and doesnt follow through on a lot of them and#i personally find the art style a *little* unappealing but other than that its?? its a good movie????#mine#ruby gillman#rory rambles about movies
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*long, deep, belabored sigh*
#discourse#<- except not really bc i am vagueing#idk im just tired. and sad#for a lot of reasons. some of which are i think v much not the reasons other ppl are mad rn lmao#like. yes it has problems yes i wish it could be better yes this absolutely sucks shit#and that is all v much part of the reason i am tired and sad#but the constant neg abt every aspect of the server also has started grinding on me. well always has i think im just reaching a limit#bc i like it! i do! theres good parts and i like them a whole lot!#idk it just rubs me the wrong way bc even if i do agree with a lot of the criticism whenever it comes from this side of the community#it always kinda feels like its in bad faith to me. like its in desire to watch it burn first and actually improve anything second#and its just like. argh#and like on the flip side. god i love this server but why does it have to be run by a guy who is the way he is#negative#yeah i think this needs that tag too lmao#idk ive been thinking abt taking a break for a little bit here and i dont think i am#mostly bc it would involve unfollowing 90% of my mutuals and i dont really want to do that#but i just wish casually sticking around like this didnt also involve. all the bullshit that comes with being in this fandom(s). lol. lmao.#anyways. i am going to go eat dinner
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happy pride! yearly image reminder that Eda is ace
#tachyon-art#transformers#maccadam#transformers oc#oc: eda of unicron#tfa#asexual#i just bullshitted the shading bc it felt weird to color him w/o shading. im pretending its good#also this is HELLA improvement from just a year ago. is it the drawing tablet is it the experience ive gained since then or am i just a god#sorry if the placement of everything is weird too I tried to keep it faithful to last year's image posing but the design difference#but yeah eda is ace in case yall forgor! hes always been ace since mf day 1
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do you ever think about the fact that the entire phoenix wright: ace attorney trilogy happens because gregory edgeworth dies.
#I just… that one event… is the reason for everyone else#gregory dying is the reason miles moves away and eventually becomes the demon prosecutor which is the reason why Phoenix starts taking law#classes and Gregory dying is the reason why the fey family’s name gets sullied and is the reason why misty hides away which is the reason#why mia starts looking into the dl-6 case which is the reason she becomes a lawyer which is now she meets Phoenix which is when he sees how#much faith she puts in her clients and how it saved him which is why he fully switches to law and becomes a lawyer. and the whole reason mia#met Phoenix is bc he met dahlia Hawthorne and the entire reason he met dahlia is bc he just happened to be at the courthouse at that#one specific day bc he was doing personal research into the law bc he kept seeing miles edgeworth demon prosecutor and he wanted to save#him. and the entire reason dahlia was there was bc she was cleaning up lose ends from the fawles case which only happened bc her father left#her mother and took her and Iris away. and he left their mother bc she was Morgan fey and her power and influence was gone bc 1. she was#simply the lesser sister and 2. her family name was ruined and power was the only reason he was with her. and so her left and took his#daughters and remarried and dahlia convinced him to leave Iris behind and then. and then. and then.#just. GOD it’s so insane. the Phoenix Wright trilogy is SO well written EVERYTHING is connected#anyway. sometimes I think about the fact that the entire series happens bc gregory edgeworth is killed. and I go insnae.#also I love a good Gregory lives au as much as the next person. and like. would miles have ended up so much more well adjusted?#probably yeah! but literally NONE of these characters would be the same if he lived. god. it’s crazy.#ace attorney#ace attorney trilogy#Phoenix Wright#miles edgeworth#Mia fey#Maya fey#gregory edgeworth#phoenix wright ace attorney#manfred von karma#franziska von karma#dahlia hawthorne
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u know it’s bad when ur doctor literally goes “hey you need to take a break from Lent/going to Mass this year until we work through some stuff”.
#blue chatter#this is because I am at the point where I cannot walk into a church without shaking#I had two really bad experiences at Mass in a row and it was. honestly rly damaging.#neither of the churches in my area are really viable places for me to go right now#so either I try and find an Orthodox Church or smth#or I go to online mass#but yeah my therapist is specifically known for helping ppl work thru religious trauma n scrupulosity n such#and she was like ‘hey. building up your relationship with God is really important. if you go to those churches again it is going to be bad’#the goal is getting to a point where I can live my faith and be close to God in a safe and healthy environment#bc the panic and guilt spirals and anger is not it girliepop#point being. I will be observing Ash Wednesday at home this year.#and be talking with my therapist about a good Lenten devotion that won’t cause more harm than it helps
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Prev. post was also brought on by me thinking Lael deserves to curbstomp SOMEONE, to go apeshit just ONCE, but I don't think she ever will. Oh absolutely she'll defend herself. Absolutely she's killed when the situation's called for it and will again. But, she is a not a creature of vengeance and rage. She'll never get lost in that particular sauce.
#OOC / HOLLY.#like she absolutely deserves to wreck Aumvor and Myr.kul for example#she deserves to know the role they played in the Crown and get them good for it#yeah she'd hunt Aumvor down if she did know and Myr.kul wouldn't exactly get off either but like#her primary motivation would be 'they are vile and dangerous and they will subject others to similar or worse fates if they aren't handled'#it would feel so good to get them back for what they've done#but that would always be secondary to a consideration for other people#which is why she wouldn't necessarily hunt Myr.kul the way she would hunt Aumvor#because Myr.kul is a god attacking him is a more complicated matter#yeah I believe she could start a war against him and his faithful#but that would be bloody and would launch the world into chaos for decades if not centuries#with so many unrelated casualties#and killing a god has consequences for the cosmic balance#there's a reason Ao still lets these chucklefucks run amuck#first off you can't even truly kill a god in this setting you can just make it damn near impossible for them to reconstitute#secondly he'd just get replaced. he was already killed and replaced with Cyric once#and that didn't exactly work out!!#even if she did wipe Myr.kul and all worship of him from the face of the universe#someone else would take his place and there's no way of predicting whether that someone new would be worse#the devil you know and all that
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