#justposing

[wildpixar]

As an old Estonian saying goes, "A good child has many names" - such as the Blackbird aka Common Blackbird aka Eurasian Blackbird aka Turdus Merula.

[leagueoffigures]

#justposing #gundamfight #gundamfighter #domonkasshu #domonkasshuhypermode #shininggundam #shininggundamsupermode #gundam #thisismygunpla #ggundam #toy #toyphotography #toyphotographer

[neel1983]

After a long time #mood #interior #selfisolating #selfietime #tgif #justposing #withlove #anotherweekdown #quarantinelife #lockdown #wfh (at Mumbai, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbiBgCFb5U/?igshid=1ald64xr2d0c3

[kavitakabira]

#lockdown #exercise #justposing https://www.instagram.com/p/B_UazUaF4Vx2bxhBwVNnfyEHbPWM-cY6hGl_7o0/?igshid=bjc3201a1s6

[theintoxy]

Kitni Dilkash Hai, Uski Khaamoshi.. Saari Baatein, Fazool Ho Jaise.. 🤐 . #AngryYoungMan #JustPosing #BnW #BlankAndWhite #Colorless #Black #Depth #Emotions #DeepEyes #Artist #Musician #MusicProducer #Singer #Songwriter #Composer #BefikraSquad #BefikraSquadStudio . #InT #Intoxy #Khamoshi (at Befikra Squad Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8w-ZFjl7_b/?igshid=p12jh2pxzhja

[everydaymarvin]

#postoftheday I was in the mood for #justposing today! ☺ I hope you all had a wonderful Monday! 😊 I recorded a new video 📹 today all about the famous waffle house! 🏡 Of course it probably won't be ready for another week or 2 but I feel good knowing I finally got my thoughts 💭 recorded on camera 🎥 about my experience there. There is still lots of good times 🎉ahead for my Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. 👍 I look forward😉 to sharing them all with you! Best, Marvin 😀 P. S. As always thank you for your support. 💖Sorry about not getting around to liking your posts lately. I will sure put it on my list of things to do! 😎 #everydaymarvin #youtubecreator #lookingatthecamera #posing #positivevibes #lookinggood #feelinggood #nanoinfluencer #likethispost #likethisup #blackguymagic #mondayeveningselfies #mondayselfiepictures #browneyes #blackhair #blackguyswithbeards #picsoftheday #starinthemaking #youtubereviewer #timetoshine✨ #iamsillyguy (at Bryan, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4vt02DBeIP/?igshid=lu5uh1r3g8lj

[gouravsoni]

अरे इस योद्धा के जीवन में और है ही क्या ? 2 गज़ ज़मीन, 2 निवाले, 1 खुला आसमान, 1 सवारी, 1 तलवार और एक "काशी" ।। Bajirao❤️Kashibai #justposing #nothingserious #friends #filmy #bollywood (at Indore, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NU_T5lxSt/?igshid=fadqmyszhpii

[taleinthetail]

I think @cocacola should hire Leo as their full-time dog ambassador. Don't you agree??? #leothelab #dogmodel #justposing #dontfeedyourpupcoke #fortheloveofcoke #cokeaddict @thecocacolaco @worldofcocacola #goodies #dog #pet #lab #labrador #yellowlab #allthingsred

[eye-v-why]

#justposing #andwhynot #mothersday https://www.instagram.com/hunthergatherer/p/BvrliPIAxv2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4fxupfoh8x9i

[rishabhdatta]

I admit, I'm not so good at posing but still I'm taking this risk and just posing here with Guitar! 🎸 #JustPosing #RishabhDatta (at Mumbai, India)

[lovepeaceblaze]

[paddlefit]

This is why we can’t have nice things. #tryingtotakeapicture #justpose #paddlefit #certification (at Saluda Lake Landing) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wUXbXncl6/?igshid=8kwem4an96v7

[jadebarbiedoll]

I rarely go out, but when I do.... Little Red Dress 💋 • • • • • • • • • • • • #funtimes #downtown #downtowndetroit #ladyinred #littlereddress #redlipstick #slimthick #brownskin #justpose #michigan #happyholidays #nightlife #littledress #instagood #instalike #holidayparty #positiveenergy #positivelife #positivevibes #lovelife #loveit (at Chroma Detroit) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmg8pUbrnAY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[themousefromfantasyland]

Aslan is not Jesus

At least, not the traditional one!

I really loved Narnia as a kid. As a kid raised in the church, the Christian undertones were ridiculously obvious and fitting for me. As a non-religious adult who had a bad falling out with the church, they just bring memories of a religion that my parents forced down my throat. Yet, I still miss Narnia and its magical mythological landscape.

I recently listened to an audiobook version of "The Last Battle", the last book in the series, the book in which Aslan destroys Narnia and let everyone faithful to him come to his country. C.S. Lewis treated his religious symbolism with as much subtlety as a train crash.

Although Aslan is basically Jesus in a alternative universe, and some religious groups love to praise the overly religious undertones, the Narnia depiction of Jesus is one who doesn't completely fit in in with teachings of mainstream Christianity, and if Lewis had used the character without any symbolism and allegory, I'm sure his Christian audience would not had defended the books the way they do.

Aslan walks with Pagan Gods

Narnia is filled with gods, and although they are very submissive to Aslan, they are very expressly told to be gods, the main example being the River Gods and Wood Gods, male counterparts of the Naiads and the Dryads respectively.

In Prince Caspian, Bacchus, the roman god of wine and his followers, the Maenads, appear, along with Silenus and his donkey. Aslan basically calls them in, and they serve the role of physical representations of the joy of old Narnia returning after the Telmarine domination.

Although the narrator expresses fear that they would be dangerous to the Pevensies without Aslan presence, Jesus presence, they pratically have a G-rated Bachanal, and lion!Jesus is one of the guests.

C.S. Lewis pratically glorifies the pagan gods and their rituals as animistic manifestations of the natural world, and they are as important to the well-being of Narnia as Aslan himself

This made the books the focus of the attack of more radical Christian groups who considered them heretical and blasphemous. Josh Hurst of the evangelical magazine Christianity Today, said that: "not only was Lewis hesitant to call his books Christian allegory, but the stories borrow just as much from pagan mythology as they do the Bible"

Nature is a very important, but overlooked, detail in the Narnia books. Both the Telmarines and the Calormenes are foreign enemies that tried to conquer Narnia, and both tried to take control and destroy its natural resources, making the Narnian gods angry.

In "Prince Caspian", one River God claims for Aslan to free him from the bridge that the Telmarines built upon his domain.

In The Last Battle, the Calormenes use a fake Aslan to trick the Narnians into cutting down the trees and selling them, killing the Dryads in the process.

This is due of Lewis hatred against the agnostic modernity, with all its mechanization and deprivation of nature, and his deeply childhood love of fantasy and mythology. He believed that even the pre-christian pagan times were being better than the modern world.

Colin Duriez, author of three books on C.S. Lewis, suggested that he believed that to reach a post-Christian culture one needed to employ pre-Christian ideas.

He argues that Lewis believed that pagan mythology could act as a preparation for Christianity, and that it was necessary first to turn people into good pagans, and then make them into Christians.

While traditional Christianity saw in the pagan gods and cults a worship of the Devil, Lewis was sympathetic to them.

Aslan isn't Worshipped like a God

In Narnia there aren't churches or temples to Aslan. They don't make sacrifices to him. The closest thing Narnia has to a organized religion, with temples, chants and sacrifices, is the Calormene cult of Tash, and he's basically this world's god of evil and is described as opposite to Aslan is every way.

Aslan, on the contrary, presents himself to the Narnians as a legendary king or a spiritual leader rather than as a god wanting worship.

Even in the last book, where Aslan effectively judges the Narnians, his judgment seems based more on morality than on direct servitude to him, since Emeth, a Calormene worshiper of Tash since childhood, is allowed in the Aslan Country, under the guise that since he used his faith to do good, he was worshipping Aslan all along.

"I take to me the services which thou hast done to Tash. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him."

Some christian scholars HATE this premise, since they believe faith in Jesus is the only reason a soul can reach Heaven. You can still be a follower of Jesus and end up in Hell, but following Jesus is the only way that a soul can reach Heaven in the end of the day.

Quick rant, I remember that when I was a kid, Jehovah Witness distributed flyers saying how faith in Jesus was more important than good actions in regards to reaching Heaven. I became so angry, thinking about all the good and selfless people who would be inhumanly tortured simply by not believing. I became much more angrier when I realized that in theory, by the Bible, that was true. One of the many reasons why I'm NOT A CHRISTIAN

The Magic Paradox

I'll be short, God HATES magic. There are thousands passages in the Bible saying how much God despises and loathes any religious ritual that isn't a direct worship of him.

It seems strange then how much his son is chill hanging out with creatures and entities that the early church would have considered as nothing more than demons, and using as his main source of power a spiritual energy that the church still hates to this day.

The church hates magic. Old testament God ordered expressly to kill anyone who is caught practicing it.

Yet, Aslan never condemns the use of the magic. Worse, magic is expressly said to be part of his and his father's nature, as in the Deep Magic, a set of laws placed into Narnia by the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, Aslan's father, in the beginning of times.

In "The Magician's Nephew" is revealed that travels between worlds were once possible, and that the ancient Atlanteans knew about it, hitting about the possibility of magic and magic creatures in our world.

If magic existed in our world, Aslan as Jesus existed too.

Aslan is not the biblical Jesus, he's the "Real One"

That is the impression I have reading these books. By justposing his magical world full of Christian allegories to our world, C.S. Lewis creates a Aslan/Jesus that doesn't fit in with common biblical canon and that creates a lot of theological inconsistencies.

My personal theory is that as C.S. Lewis was a bigger fan of fairy tales, children stories and mythology, he created his own personal Jesus, a Jesus who fit perfectly with his mythological landscape and necessities, a Jesus that was closer to the mythical and adventurous gods, closer to his mortal followers and distant from the unfeeling and overly formal church.

Maybe that was one of the reasons why Aslan brought all those human children to Narnia, he wanted them to know who he really was, and not how the church presented him as.

[gamreedwayne]

When you hit those high notes.... #justposing #notalways #singer #songwriter #musician #song #singing #guitar #sing #pop #singersongwriter #guitarist #livemusic #vocalist #instamusic #vocals #voice #acoustic #singers #live #newmusic #talent #rock https://www.instagram.com/p/CPvhwagjnQp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[agalper]

She had to cross many creeks To find the peace That all hearts seek. 💕 學習在挑戰當中找到平安🧘🏻‍♀️ . . . 📸: @yoginisteph #iLOVEyoga! #imapoetandididntevenknowit #poetryofinstagram #poetry #poems #dancerspose #yogapose or #justposing? #yogaeverydamnday #hiking #hikingpoles #hikingbuddy #washington #melakwalake #naturehike #washingtonsummers #summertime #happyhapa #newfriends #community #getzen #letyourlightshine #breakinginnewshoes @vasquefootwear #blistersgalore #ouchies #poorfootsies (at Melakwa Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk36j85HUUJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1io3x3a3pqhlb