#doubters

[nando161mando]

In Memos to Quell Doubters, the Biden Campaign Touts Alarming Poll Results: Biden’s team emailed surveys showing most voters think he isn't fit to be president, is too old, and should be replaced on the ticket

[albertfinch]

Scripture Of The Day - Interceding For The Backslidden

"And have compassion on some, who are doubting" - Jude 22

Jude wants us to elicit an emotional response from his readers.  He wants us to graphically see and understand the seriousness of believers who have backslidden into a life of sin and disobedience. He wants us to "feel" for these critically ill spiritual patients.

Because Jude uses the word "compassion." he is telling us that the spiritualcondition of a backslidden believer is just as real and serious as the plight of a starving child, a dying man, or a destitute family.

When genuine compassion begins to flow from your heart, you cannot sit idly by and simply feel sorry about a persons situation.  Real compassion says, "I have to get up and do something about this."

INTO ACTION:

If you will allow the love of God flow through you, it won't be long until compassion for these erring believers begins to flow from you to them. Then you will be compelled to see them from their bondage.

If you know people who fit this description, it's time to let the supernatural compassion of Jesus Christ begin to flow out of your heart toward them.  By releasing a flow of this powerful force toward them, you could set in motion the very deliverance these individuals need from the power of darkness that binds their souls and keeps them in deception.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[agoatnamedscape]

Doubts.

Look at the lengths,

That I have to go.

Showcase my strengths,

With a source to show you.

That I got bandwidths,

Wave off doubters

Flex on ‘em, no ohana, no Stitch,

And her sideline hoes too.

On the path to respect,

You chose violence.

What else to expect,

‘Twas your greed that binds us.

Amidst the echoes of silence:

You search desperately,

But you will never find us.

Fucking shit!

Look at the lengths,

That I must to go;

Showcasing my strengths,

Yet I need a source to show you.

To cure your disbelief,

When it pass through my lips.

You waver like a tree leaf,

I wager truth flavored quips.

Look at the lengths I must go to,

For your strengths to show through.

Only, if you knew…

[a2zsportsnews]

Doubters were harsh on Kean at Juventus, claims McKennie

Moise Kean came in for harsh criticism at Juventus, so says Weston McKennie, who is unsurprised to see the striker thriving at Fiorentina. Kean left Juve to join Fiorentina in the summer, and has since scored nine goals in 15 Serie A games for the Viola. The 24-year-old, who has also had spells at Everton and Paris Saint-Germain in recent seasons, is Serie A’s third-highest scorer this season and…

[troubledontlast1]

They could never, so they hate you for it.

[theaspirationsinstitute]

[artsymeeshee]

Y'ALL LOOK (FROM THE WEBSITE THAT FINALLY GOT FIXED)

FORD & MABEL BONDING LOVERS WE'RE WINNING

[cadence-mefford]

Pink and Orange

I thought alone outside my home

I don’t know how to make my words elegant

You’re no good at this

Who are you again?

I count on you to find my identity

How do you have so much power over me?

All this doubt

PLEASE GET IT OUT

I question as I’m typing

Will I ever know

How to kill the angst in my soul

Pink and Orange

In the distance

Distrust is what defines me

Don’t let it be

Don’t be like me

Be free

[agreenroad]

Truth Telling Jesus Christ Was Punished With Torture And Death, For Being A 'Thought Criminal'; What Are Thought Experiments?

[idealog]

You've always loved ostracizing me.

The Genuine Jesus

Yes, I get you.

Maybe stop stealing MY NAME?

Judgers.

Jesus doesn't have infinite tolerance or patience for continued Iniquity.

Heed, and Grow.

[whitenoface]

Just to recap Lilia’s absolute love for his children:

Dragon eggs can’t hatch without “true love” aka “parental love.” Lilia believed he wasn’t capable of having those emotions, therefore he could not hatch Malleus’s egg if both of his parents died. And yet, and yet, Malleus hatched under the love and care of Lilia.

Lilia learned to love with Malleus (or a better way to say this, learned that he could love with Malleus)

Lilia sings Mallenore’s (Malleus’s mother) lullaby to Malleus often as a child

Silver was put under a spell by the fairies to sleep until the war was over. He could only be woken up by someone who truly loved him. Lilia finds him sleeping as a baby, still under the spell. Guess who wakes up?

Lilia upon meeting baby Silver, talks gently to Silver and says he looks a lot like Malleus when he was a baby. Lilia sings Mallenore’s lullaby to Silver too

He blesses Silver to be blessed by the night. He names him Silver because Silver radiates light, and “like the moon that lights the dark sky, Silver will light the dark path.”

Lilia does everything to learn how to raise a human, including buying baby formula/milk powder. He sings him to sleep.

Child Silver gives Lilia an acorn bracelet so that he can live a long time. Lilia responds, “…I feel I can live another thousand years with this bracelet.”

[a2zsportsnews]

Kyrgios vows to ‘shut up’ doubters with December comeback

Fiery Australian Nick Kyrgios plans to make a comeback at Abu Dhabi in December with his goal to win a Grand Slam and “shut up” those who doubt him. The one-time world number 13 has played just one ATP Tour singles match in two years after suffering knee, foot and wrist injuries. The 29-year-old has hinted at retirement several times, but told News Corp’s Code Sports on Monday he would return for…

[chonideno]

literally where can the zelda franchise go after totk. this is it. we've reached it. the pinnacle of video game entertainment. the whole dev team should just pack their stuff and enjoy a long and comfortable retirement. whoever decides their team has to follow-up on that with the next zelda game should answer for their crimes at the hague. what the fuck. I haven't even beat the game yet but what the fuck.

and how are AAA video game devs everywhere not losing their minds. how the hell did nintendo do any of that? and on that console?? you mean to tell me I can stack 15 differently shaped objects on top of each other and they don't vibrate violently into the skybox?? you mean to tell me the physics engine gladly accepts whatever I throw at it and holds it all together without dropping a frame while running on a machine that was outclassed two generations ago??? this is not witchcraft it's a grandiose demonstration of mastery over every aspect of game development that casts an immense shadow over every other AAA studio. fuck. fuck!!!!

everything about this game is crazy to me. the visuals are crazy. the soudtrack is crazy. the complexity of all systems and how they interact is crazy. the sheer amount of non-repeating content, NPCs, quests, dialogue, puzzles, environment variety - all crazy to me. every time I boot up this game I am humbled by the monumental effort and obvious love that went into every facet of the resulting experience. no cut corners anywhere. mirror-perfect chrome polish.

it's so rare we get something like that, in any field. I'd understand if nintendo never made a zelda game ever again because how do you follow that. god I hope everyone who worked on this game got the fattest check and the sloppiest head. I'm so happy I get to live in shigeru miyamoto's world

[6-epigraphs]

YODIUM 2025!!!!! YODIUM 2025!!!!!! YODIUM 2025!!!!!!

[kittykat940]

byler doubt? when we have the airport scene....

byler doubt? when we have the painting lie....

byler doubt? when mike wheeler was gay panicking over will byers s4....

byler doubt? when we got them standing next to the other canon couples at the end of s4....

byler doubt? when we got the miscommunication trope in s4....

byler doubt? when they are going to be a team in s5....

byler doubt? when they are literally babysitting holly together in s5 on bikes...come on lol

[kanonavi]

Spoilers for Simulanka Day 3

There's a conversation that I've had with friends from time to time about the fact that the world of Teyvat is, at its core, incredibly kind. Shockingly so, even for most fictional stories that aren't directed towards children. Even though the traveler has faced many antagonists on their journey, the people around them have always banded together to overcome those challenges. Even when people are hurt it's very rare for anyone to die, and many of the antagonists in question aren't pure evil and have their own reasons for taking the actions they take. They may not always operate on the same morality as the traveler or the player, and they might not be "good people", but they still believe that what they have to do is right, or at the very least necessary.

To put it more simply, Genshin is filled with characters that are made to be liked. Not every player will like every character, but very few of them are actively trying to work against you, and even when they do there's still something there to like. Except for like, Il Dottore, but he's likable for how unlikable he is (I have to say that or my Dottore enjoying friend will be sad lmao).

I got to thinking about this when playing the last part of Simulanka because it was a reminder of how, despite the kindness that they've been shown by Teyvat for the past three and a half years, the traveler's morality is still shockingly black and white in many situations.

We see this the most in how they interact with the Fatui. The Fatui, particularly the Harbingers, have cause a lot of damage in the past, but a lot of the grunts are just ordinary people following orders. the commission line in Mondstadt with Viktor, Golden Apple Archipelago 2 and The Chasm come to mind for times when we've interacted with Fatui grunts in a way that really humanizes them and shows that a lot of them really are just people doing a job. Some of them have just been surveyors or low-level guards, but the traveler and Paimon treat them like they're cartoon villains until proven otherwise (and sometimes even after proven otherwise).

The way that they acted towards Simulanka Durin before the party gave him their blessings also seemed to reflect this, especially in comparison to the other party members. Wanderer was obviously the most sympathetic to Durin, since his memories were like looking into a mirror for him, but Nilou, Navia, and Kirara all stepped forward to give Durin their support while the traveler was still showing doubts. They were thinking about how the residents of Simulanka might not forgive Durin, or how his form was too big and scary to coexist with everyone, which was an incredibly unsympathetic outlook even though they were ultimately able to change Durin's form.

It honestly reminds me a lot of how the traveler treated Scaramouche/Wanderer in Inversion of Genesis, like he was a person to be kept the company of only out of necessity as a means to keep him under control, even after Nahida said that she trusted him. Even though something did go wrong at the time, it still showed that the traveler's suspicion and distrust of Scaramouche was strong enough to outweigh their trust of Nahida, despite Nahida having proved herself many times to be wise and worthy of trust in the past. That mistrust and even disdain for him even carried over into when he reappeared with no memories, as the traveler was forcefully adamant that he needed to reclaim his memories and atone, to the point that it seemed like they were being a little bit mean about it.

It's arguable that Scaramouche deserved that treatment, since he was kind of a little shithead who caused a lot of harm in the past, but the traveler was also witness to how deeply he was hurt and manipulated in the past, and therefore would have some kind of understanding of why he turned out the way that he did.

Despite the traveler's usual helpfulness in Simulanka, Nilou, Navia, and Kirara all feel like contrasts to them. Nilou's whimsical outlook and positive mindset allowed her to grasp the magic of creation and even gave her the initiative to try and change Durin's form with magic in the first place. Navia is used to taking care of "the little guy", as it were, through the Spina, and was therefore willing to listen and empathize with the toy people who didn't want to undo the power of prophecy. (With those guys also being called "conservatives" or a "conservative radical" in English, that doesn't really have a good connotation depending on your political leaning, but Navia listened to them anyway). And with Kirara, while I haven't played her little sidequest yet, the description of her outfit described how the little cat burglar stole and returned the emotions of the cats that they hadn't been given when they were created, casting her in the role of someone who can understand the balance that anger, sadness, and pain bring to happiness.

The three of them, as well as the Wanderer, all carry Teyvat's fundamental kindness with them, and it was then coaxed out of the traveler only when all of them had already stepped forward.

It made me wonder if this is some kind of lesson that the traveler has to learn before reuniting with their sibling, that they need to be more willing to put their trust in people, or at least be more understanding of others. While the abyss twin hasn't divulged too much of what they've learned yet, they've made it clear that there are lessons that the traveler needs to learn about the world before they reunite. While that likely has a lot to do with various truths about Celestia and the sky being fake and all that, perhaps they're hoping for their sibling to learn that at least in Teyvat, sometimes people who cause harm to others are simply trying (or have tried and failed and lost hope) to find a path towards co-existing with others.

Since the abyss twin is supposedly born of Teyvat as well, perhaps they've already understood that part of this world from the very beginning and are waiting for their sibling to catch up.