#jps

[frenchcurious]

Lotus Europa JPS (John Player Special) Edition 1973. - source Classic Old Cars.

[thinkingaboutfilm11]

I just think JPS senna is neat

[grusik]

Street Art by PZY & JPS Berlin by michael_hamburg69

[redacted-cryptid]

Ive been reading a bunch of sartre

[mdr8400]

JPS (John Pugh)

[therealvikingstrash]

Jordan Patrick Smith filmed by his friend Amir Zia

[suzumetabi]

【小笠原諸島】さらば母島！…その前にせっかくなので海水浴

みなさんこんにちは

今回は小笠原諸島の母島にしか生息していないという

特別天然記念物ハハジマメグロを撮影したくて

山口県萩市から往復約4,000kmの旅をしてきました

第４話は一通りの撮影を終えた後のお話。

綺麗なビーチでのんびりして、ははじま丸で父島に向かいます

ちなみに今回ご紹介した動画シリーズに関連したグッズはこちらです

◇すずめの御朱印帳　https://minne.com/items/36761617

◇メグロちゃんグッズ　https://suzuri.jp/tokyo-sparrow/omoide/163994

◇海が大好きなひとへの　https://suzuri.jp/tokyo-sparrow/omoide/91731

よろしくお願いしますm(_ _)m

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[eupat]

[mafaldaknows]

X | X

[uchuta]

コレも去年の5月の北本。ロータス・ヨーロッパはJPSカラーもいいけどゴールドリーフも素晴らしい🥰 #Lotus #Europa #S2 #JPS #GoldLeaf #Oldschool #ThrowbackThursday (北本ヘイワールド) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cossno0S1UP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marlowe1-blog]

The Book of Job chapter 8

Bildad the Shuhite sticks his nose in

I think I might have blown my load with Eliphaz. One of the problems with the Book of Job is how repetitive it is. Job says something blasphemous and depressing. One of his friends says something toxic positivity. Job refutes that stupid friend.

Which makes finding quotes from Job out in the wild rather funny since these are quotes that the dumb friends are saying and as the text outright states, these friends are full of shit.

Only some of these friends are pretty repetitive in their shit. Like I'm going to need to start looking up scholars if I'm going to say anything new. Mostly classics professors. Maybe rabbis. I suppose Christians might have something to say that's worthwhile (doubtful but hey they do make pretty trees).

Bildad starts out with "How long will you say such things?" which struck me as funny, not only because already his friends are going "hey Job, maybe shut up so you stop bumming us out" but also because this is chapter 8 and there are many chapters to go.

Bildad's theme is like the rabbis who tried to find fault with Job. He keeps repeating that the blameless have nothing to fear. Sure Job's sons were probably sinful, but Job is fine. "Though your beginning be small, in the end you wil lgrow very great."

So Bildad is preaching the prosperity gospel. Look, believe in God and you'll get so much great shit eventually (oh hey there's my annoyance at the tacked on ending.)

But don't worry, Job, you'll be fine. Just look to the ancestors because our days on earth are a shadow yada yada but only those who don't trust in God will be uprooted. But Job, he's fine because the blameless (this gets repeated a lot) will not be despised.

So chin up Job. You're going through a bad time but if you're REALLY innocent, then you'll get everything you want.

So here's where I go into a personal story. When I was 12 or so my mom decided that it was time to get serious about this Christian bullshit and wanted me confirmed. She originally took me to a church that my aunt Sharon recommended (so why the fuck did she take that advice) and one time there was a guy who claimed to be a faith healer. Two things i remember.

First, he diagnosed a girl as having back problems because one leg was longer than the other one and held her leg. Second he asked for volunteers to go up and watch him "lengthen her leg" I went up with about a dozen others and we stood around and he moved her sock down her foot. The wisdom of letting some craggly old dude hold a teenage girl's leg as "faith healing" is just another fun factor in the world of evangelical Xianity.

But also a few people went "It's growing" and everyone else went along with them. Only her leg didn't grow and I seriously doubt that was an issue. But since we were all supposedly in agreement with the leg growing, we only told the truth to people who asked.

Second, the small group that I was in did more practice prayer healing. And I wanted him to heal my dry feet (my feet aren't dry these days. I don't live in Minnesota. I moisturize more) and I remember the guys prayer as he was holding my feet in his hands (yeah this was a fucked up church. It was called North Heights in Roseville, MN. If you are in Roseville, MN and are looking for a church, steer clear of North Heights) and he kept saying "Make sure there's NO DOUBT in your mind. Don't block the magical healing with any doubt!!!"

Look I was a dumb kid, not even a teenager yet and I knew that was a bullshit cover your ass statement. It was basically a way of making the "faith healing" subject still believe even when the faith healing didn't work.

So Bildad is giving us the equivalent when he keeps saying that G-d loves the BLAMELESS. If you're blameless then everything will work out. So when it doesn't work out, whoops! Guess Job was full of blame.

In the next chapter Job kind of agrees with that thesis but not really.

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

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[tampire]

I had enough of them