#heavenly rewards

[pearlsforthesoul]

GOD REWARDS TRUTH (check your behavior)

We are all familiar about behaviors & how we interact with them. Good behavior gives a certain return, bad behavior a different return & no behavior still another. We want to encourage ourselves to be on our best behaviors. Why? Why Not? Isn’t best foot forward the way to get the highest & best results? The opposite applies as well for the poorest results too CAN YOU IMPROVE? If you hesitated…

[1whoconquers]

What Is Mine: The Promises to the One Who Conquers in Revelation and Their Connection to John 16

The phrase “to the one who conquers” appears in Jesus’s messages to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. Each promise is a reward that belongs to Christ and is shared with those who overcome. These promises are directly tied to what Jesus declares in John 16:13-15—that the Spirit reveals what belongs to Him. Let’s examine each promise and its connection to Jesus as the source of these divine…

[compassionmattersmost]

Faith and Actions: Bridging Belief and Righteous Living in Modern Christianity

A Note on Diverse Beliefs Christianity is a rich and diverse faith, encompassing a wide range of beliefs and interpretations. This post aims to explore the relationship between faith and actions as seen through the teachings of Jesus and various scriptural references. It is shared with respect for all perspectives and an invitation for open, thoughtful dialogue. Our goal is to deepen our…

[canisalbus]

For some reason, I was always under the impression that Machete (through various misfortunes and happenstance) just sort of... BECAME a priest - I wasn't aware that be actually WANTED to be one :0 what was his reasoning for that line of work? I mean, I guess growing up in and around the church might foster an interest, but...?

Well, priests were held in extremely high regard at the time. Apart from nobility who had the benefit of proper education, they were usually the only people who were literate, and being able to read was a massive advantage. Social classes were extremely rigid, if you were born a peasant you died a peasant and so on. But if you managed to join the clergy, had luck on your side and didn't do abysmal job, you might be able to ascend to a higher status, accumulate more wealth and live reasonably comfortably regardless of your origins (to my understanding the main reason people didn't choose this path to escape poverty and hardship was because of the literacy requirement. I've read that some village priests could only write their name and memorized everything else, but for the most part you had to be able to write, read and speak at least passable Latin). Committing crimes against men of God was a severe offence, more so than regular laypeople, and (at leasts in some eras and places) priests themselves couldn't be tried in regular courts and had their own ecclesiastical courts instead, all of this made clergy kind of a protected class.

Machete spent his early childhood in a monastery, after his parents left him there (he was sickly and his family was stretched thin and couldn't care for him anymore. Before orphanages monasteries sometimes housed orphans and foundlings until they were old enough to be apprenticed). He grew up in a strongly religious environment so a certain sense of spirituality and fear of God was ingrained in him from early age. He was a quiet, meek, punctual and polite kid, and because he didn't like to play outside and was so well behaved, he was allowed inside the scriptorium and the library. He was inquisitive and very fascinated by books so the monks taught him to read, and when they commented he'd make a good priest he was instantly entranced with the idea. He wasn't interested in preaching, but if there was a chance he could be safe and respected, even regarded as holy, he felt he had to do everything in his power to attain that. Sure he was sort of guided and trained towards that goal all along, but he also genuinely thought it was something that would give his existence meaning and significance, after being discarded by his birth family and feeling vague worthlessness and lack of belonging ever since.

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[deadmegumi]

This is the most anon hate I've ever gotten in my life and its cause I stated canonical facts about dead DECEASED in the ground worms eating his corpse anime character itachi uchiha. Like I didn't even call him ugly or anything I was being nice. Also you cant really call sasuke ugly as an itachi fan and vice versa they have the same face that's thing one and thing two. also using boruto for evidence is insane you know what else boruto has well it has a jiraiya clone and the villains are space aliens and everyone looks ugly bc the artstyle is ugly and the protagonist is a bum and no self respecting naruto fan on planet earth considers it canon. pause "self respecting" and "naruto fan" in the same sentence 💔💔💔 we gotta both kill ourselves bro you and me right now lets meet up and die come on

[peppermint-whiskers]

I WILL FINISH THIS CHAPTER OF HELL'S HOTEL EVEN IF IT KILLS ME

SPAMTON AND JEVIL ARE WATCHING OVER ME, I HAVE A S N A C K, AND I GOT A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEP

THIS CHAPTER IS GETTING WRITTEN AAAAAAAAA-

[pawjamas]

haul from the mall ! :3

[the-everqueen]

ao3 wrapped: 3, 27, 29, 30

3. what work are you most proud of? "came in the game," hands down, because i used to think i couldn't write long fics, and i did it when i thought i had nothing creative or worthwhile in me. (on the job market, dissertation defense, post-grad ptsd) also it's a rarepair in a fandom that largely ignores anything beyond Thee Main Ship.

27. what do you listen to while writing? whatever album is the current earworm.

29. favorite line/passage you wrote this year? impossible to pick just one. i think i'm hilarious. that being said, this passage from a wereverse WIP continues to make me laugh:

As he’s learned since grad school, third-wave coffee shops are the place to score. Overpriced weed, freaky sex, the occasional cigarette. Ain’t nobody got repression and a dependence on semi-legal substances like a dude who can taste whether his coffee is French pressed or a pour-over. It’s more effort than at a club, sure, convincing some guy you just met that he’s into men and also wants to take you home and let you fuck him nasty, but Cori pulls it off with aplomb. Call him the patron saint of bisexual realization or whatever the fuck. At any rate, he manages to find a PhD student in biochem who is more than happy to swap hours in the lab for an hour exploring his newfound attraction to blondes.

30. biggest surprise while writing this year? that these WIPs just keep getting longer.

[shararan]

Does anyone else experience the thing where you have a ship you like, but they're not among your top faves, and yet they're the ones you enjoy writing almost the most? Cause Bingjiu is becoming that for me

[tyrannuspitch]

i need to think more about asgardian religion. but i also need to sleep. but ummm thor's faith as a fundamental need vs thor's willingness to radically rebel and leave everything behind vs thor's awful tragic soul-crushing life vs loki's tendencies towards doubt and nihilism vs loki's occasional stark black and white patriotism vs loki condemning himself while thor refuses to let him go while their RELIGION apparently condemns him too..... i am rotating it all in my mind

i know it's loki who says of himself he wld go to hel even after an honourable death and he's maybe not the most reliable source, like maybe there ARE interpretations by which valhalla is not Just Point Blank Space Racist... but i am also just Intrigued by the possibility of a thor who DOES think loki is Fundamentally Damned but loves him regardless

[artemisnihil]

The Mahabharata makes a horrible argument for following Dharma. No one even likes Yudhishthira.

[1whoconquers]

What Is Mine: The Promises to the One Who Conquers in Revelation and Their Connection to John 16

The phrase “to the one who conquers” appears in Jesus’s messages to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. Each promise is a reward that belongs to Christ and is shared with those who overcome. These promises are directly tied to what Jesus declares in John 16:13-15—that the Spirit reveals what belongs to Him. Let’s examine each promise and its connection to Jesus as the source of these divine…

[a-fannish-disposition]

Marathoning Supernatural with my friend who has never seen it before, a summary:

[kdmiller55]

Lay Up Treasures In Heaven

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:19-21 ESV Just a few verses earlier, Matthew records Jesus saying, “Your…

[georgiasedify]

Hello, December 28th