#malky reads

[sleepdepravity]

Why are you being a hater on lambeth

[acekindaneat]

From the work "If At First You Don't Succeed, Find A Loophole" by MalkyTop (@sleepdepravity) on ao3!!!!

(even with my busy schedule .. i had to draw today's update, it drove me insane)

[gryficowa]

Remember to boycott

By the way, don't give money to ao3, because like tumblr, it's run by Zionists (And Deviantart was bought by an Israeli company, so…)

Now that I have your attention:

[ao3feed-gelphie]

if you're standin' at the bottom i'll reach out for you

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/q3OfNLk by clonejail The regret never left her. It settled into her bones the moment she watched Elphaba soar above Oz after their horrific meeting with the Wizard and made a home there, a permanent reminder of what a coward she was. Words: 4703, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F Characters: Elphaba Thropp, Galinda Upland, brief malky mention Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/q3OfNLk

[marwyn]

Oh I was talking about the Valyrians being an offshot of The Great Empire of the Dawn or descending from them, you see simmilar theories about the Hightowers and Daynes as well. There are a lot of theories about the long night happening in the east and that The Great Empire had dragons and used them to defeat the white walkers. But there are also theories about Dany being the reincarnated Amethyst Empress and Euron (or insert characters) being the reincarnated Bloodstone Emperor, you see a similar theory with Rhaenyra and Aegon and how her death started the decline of the Targaryens and the death of the dragons which lead to the long night happening again.

Oh I see! Yeah like I said the gemstone connection between the Empire of the Dawn and the ghosts in Dany’s vision definitely intrigues me, and while this isn’t certain I’ve always gotten the impression that the ghosts are her ancestors so the idea that Valyrians actually descend from the Empire of the Dawn is a good explanation for the connection.

In regard to the Hightowers, the Bloodstone Emperor, and Euron, I think this essay is the first place I read about the link between all three i.e. the mysterious black stone (I still haven’t read all of The World of Ice and Fire whoops) and it breaks it all down pretty well even though I don’t agree with many of the author’s conclusions (e.g. Dany will be Euron’s lover and Corpse Queen AND he’ll end up killing her 🥴)

And I forgot to mention this before but I also think it’s interesting that Euron describes Dany like this in conjunction with the aforementioned ghost vision:

GRRM obviously loves drawing parallels between current and historical characters particularly ancestral ones so I could see the Amethyst Empress, Rhaenyra, and Dany forming a triad in keeping with Dany’s rule of three motif, in that the usurpation of two female sovereigns led to disaster and then here comes Dany who will succeed where those before her did not

[hms-no-fun]

number six for the Homestuck ask meme!!!

what got me into homestuck? ah, it's... [long dramatic pause] complicated

i didn't read homestuck start to finish until i think near the end of 2015, finishing sometime in spring 2016. that might be a little early in the timeline though? it's hard to say. my best friend at the time urged me to read it because he was obsessed, and this was around the time of that "is homestuck the modern ulysses" video and the michael lutz homestuck piece for vice, so there was a lot of-- wait hold the fuck the phone, that idea channel video came out in 2012 and that lutz article came out in 2019???? dude what lmao okay well i'm officially an unreliable narrator

point is he got me to read it and i did and i loved it but i didn't really understand a lot of what happened. then my friend and i had a big falling out (which served as a partial inspiration for dave's reaction to june in godfeels 2.1), and it wasn't until late 2018 that i encountered a lot of the homestuck renaissance material that would reshape my understanding of the comic to what it is today.

but the funny thing? i actually read problem sleuth when it was still ongoing! might've even read jailbreak before that? in the early 2000s i read a looooooooooooooot of webcomics, and i'm ngl that's a huge foundation of my sense of humor. ryan north, kc green, david malki, kate beaton, meredith gran, allie brosh, a bunch of others... and i mean, god, of course i read ctrl+alt+del, penny arcade, vg cats. the awful christian furry opus JACK (which i read years before sandman, unfortunately for me). andrew hussie was right in there with that milieu, so i always thought of them as just like... Another One Of Those Guys. so many folks from that scene emerged out of the same online edgelord gamer subculture that birthed the true classics of Adult Swim. so when i got older, stopped reading webcomics as much, then got back into homestuck, i was kind of shocked to see how reactionary people were about hussie's past? that was just the scene, man. and andrew, like everyone else in that scene whose work remains relevant, grew right the fuck out of it. that growth is a big part of what i love about homestuck, because the arc of the kids learning to be less awful over the course of its runtime very much resonated with my experience growing up and out of that scene.

i think there's a lot of stuff in early homestuck especially that can be tough to understand because it's so rooted in that early internet culture, when gamers were nostalgic for point and click adventure games and thought they'd never see one hit the mainstream ever again. ah, what innocent times... unfortunately it turned out that point and click adventure games were never good and that's why homestuck is a documentary

[musingsonimpulse]

Weird but Awesome Books, Short Stories, Comics, and Other Things to Read

Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die  -edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, & David Malki !                                 Read it here!

...Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes  -compiled by Marc Etkind

The Revolving Boy  -written by Gertrude Friedberg

[justletmeon12]

Image ID: screenshot of tweet from david malki ! @malki reading, "If a croque madame speaks to another croque madame about something other than a croque monsieur, that's called passing the béchamel test"

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[merthwyn]

When R’ Bunam was lying on his deathbed, his wife wept bitterly. Thereupon he said, “Why are you weeping? All my life has been given me merely that I might learn to die.”

Shalom chaverim. Recently we read about Abraham’s greatest trial of faith when God asked him to take his promised son and sacrifice him as a burnt offering. How are we to understand this test, and what might we learn from it? Abraham’s obedience is a central lesson of course, and his willingness to sacrifice his son demonstrated his faith in God. But this willingness reveals the utmost level of surrender, a “faithful crucifixion” of his life that bore witness to the coming Lamb of God who would be sacrificed to bring healing for the whole world.The story of Abraham’s “walk of faith

The story of Abraham’s “walk of faith” is one of testing and great perseverence. Though he had heard God’s call to “lekh-lekha” (לךְ־לְך), “to go” to an unseen land of promise and blessing, there were many troubles along the way. After he made the long journey from Ur of the Chaldees and came to the land as directed by God, he immediately encountered a severe famine which forced him leave the land and go to Egypt in search of food. While in Egypt his wife Sarah was abducted into the Pharaoh’s harem to be a concubine. After God plagued the king’s house and warned him to “let my people go,” the Pharaoh hastily summoned Abraham and told to take his wife and go back to the promised land (prefiguring the later Exodus from Egypt under Moses). When Abraham and Sarah returned to the land of Canaan, his nephew Lot separated from them and moved to the Plain of Jordan, near Sodom and Gomorrah, to find more pastureland for his growing cattle and herds. Some time later a war broke out in the Plain and Lot and his family were taken captive by the conquering kings of the area. Abraham marshaled his clan and rescued his nephew from captivity. After this he was met by the mysterious “Malki-Tzedek,” the king and priest of Shalem, who brought out bread and wine and blessed Abraham in the name of the Most High God, the Possessor of heaven and earth (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן קֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ).

Some time later God appeared to Abraham in a vision to reaffirm his original promise to make him into a great nation. After showing him the vast sweep of the stars in the night sky, God said “so shall your offspring be.” Despite his years of apparently fruitless wandering, Abraham believed God and God accounted his faith as righteousness (Gen. 15:6). The LORD then renamed Abram, meaning ”exalted father” to Abraham. meaning “father of a multitude.” He also renamed Sarai (meaning “princess”) to Sarah, appending the letter Hey (ה) to indicate his blessing and presence. God then made covenant with Abraham to inherit the land of Canaan forever; Abraham was 75 years old when he had this vision.

After he had lived in the land of Canaan for some time, Abraham began to wonder how God’s promise to make of him a great nation would be realized. The years were passing by and he and Sarah remained childless. Perhaps Eliezer of Damascus, his chief servant, was to be his heir? Sarah, also eager for a child, decided to take matters into her own hands and ordered her servant Hagar, given to her by the Pharaoh in Egypt to be his concubine. Hagar became pregnant but Sarah soon became jealous. She treated Hagar so harshly that she ran away but later returned after she was met by an Angel who promised that her child would also become a great nation. Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born (Gen. 16:1-16).

Nearly 25 years after the vision of the stars, when he was 99 years old, God again appeared to Abraham using the name El Shaddai (אֵל שַׁדַּי), “the All-Sufficient One,” and reaffirmed his promise that he would be the father of a multitude of peoples (Gen. 17). Soon after this revelation Abraham was visited by the three angels, one of whom was the Angel of the LORD himself, who told Abraham that Sarah would indeed have a son within a year. Sarah laughed at the announcement, but the LORD affirmed his words (Gen. 18:1-15). The other two angels then left to go to Sodom, to determine whether it would be condemned to judgment, while Abraham spoke with the Angel of the LORD and interceded on behalf of the city. Nevertheless Sodom and its surrounding area was destroyed by fire and brimstone, though Lot and his daughters escaped (Gen. 18:16-19:20).

When Abraham was 100 years old, Sarah indeed gave birth to a son! They called his name “Isaac” (i.e., Yitzchak) as directed by the Lord (Gen. 17:9), a name which means “he laughs”– and a play on words that expressed the great joy of Abraham and Sarah over the miracle of their son (Gen. 21:1-7). Abraham circumcised his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded (Gen. 17:10). After Yitzchak was weaned, however, Sarah demanded that her servant Hagar and her son be removed from the family so that there would be no controversy about who the promised heir of Abraham truly was. In sorrow Abraham sent them away, though God told him that Ishamael would survive and become a great nation. The LORD reaffirmed to Abraham, however, that Yitzchak was indeed the chosen heir through whom his descendants would come. “In Isaac your seed shall be called…” (Gen. 21:12).

The Torah is silent about the early years of Isaac, but many years later, when Abraham was 137 years old (and therefore Isaac was 36), he faced his greatest trial of faith when God asked him to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain… Wait, what? Is this for real? After all his years of hope and struggle, would it all come down to this: the sacrifice of his beloved son? a “whole burnt offering” of his dreams, the holocaust of his vision?

And what about Isaac? When was he asked to become the sacrificial victim? Did he understand what was being asked? Did he have some earlier premonition? He was no longer a child but a grown man. Abraham needed Isaac to agree to become the sacrificial victim, but how could he explain all this to him without sounding insane? Apparently he did not object, though it must have greatly alarmed him. This test was not just for Abraham but for his son Isaac, too, and it was to Isaac’s great credit that he willingly submitted to the request of his father to die on his behalf…

Perhaps you are tempted to think all this was a “charade” of sorts? That Abraham knew all along that Isaac wouldn’t die, that God wouldn’t allow this to really happen, and therefore he went along with just to play his part in the macabre drama? But there is no such indication given in the Torah. God’s instructions were clear enough and unambiguous. Abraham would sacrifice, that is, slaughter his son upon an altar and then burn his body as a whole burnt offering. I do not think it was meant to be a “prophetic parable,” because what sort of a test would that be? What sort of sacrifice? For his part, Abraham was ready to do God’s will, no matter what was asked of him. Indeed the very next morning after God asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham saddled his donkey and got things ready for the offering (Gen. 22:1-3).

Recall that the first “lekh-lekha” (לךְ־לְך) was a call to go to the “promised land” of God: “Go from your homeland (מֵאַרְצְ��ָ), and from your kindred (וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ), and from the house of your father (וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ), to a land that I will show you” (Gen. 12:1), and the second “lekh-lekha” was a call to go and annihilate the vision the promise of becoming the father of the nation: “Please take your son (קַח־נָא אֶת־בִּנְךָ), your chosen son (אֶת־יְחִידְךָ), whom you love (אֲשֶׁר־אָהַבְתָּ), namely Isaac (אֶת־יִצְחָק), and go to the land of Moriah (וְלֶךְ־לְךָ אֶל־אֶרֶץ הַמֹּרִיָּה) and offer him there as a burnt offering (לְעֹלָה) upon one of the mountains which I will show you” (Gen. 22:2). Go away from all you were - your history, your birthplace, your father’s house … and come to the place that transcends all that is natural and of this world, a place of resurrection and the world to come. In both cases there is a call to the unknown and the test to believe that God would lead him to the place of blessing, despite everything he faced (Gen. 12:2, Gen. 22:17). In the climactic test, however, God showed Abraham the cross of Messiah, the place where his Son would be bound and offered as a sacrifice for the healing of the nations. It reveals the heart of the Father who would give up everything, including his beloved Son, so that we may have eternal life.

According to the author of the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament, Abraham believed that God would raise Isaac from the dead after he completed the sacrifice: “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be called.’ He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back” (Heb. 11:17-19). Imagine Abraham binding Isaac’s arms and feet while saying, “After the sacrifice, I will see you again: you will be brought back to life!” No matter how we may try to rationalize this, it is clear that Abraham accepted God’s will - even if what was asked seemed terrifyingly preposterous, even insane…

They followed the cloud. After three days they reached the mountain, the place of the sacrifice. They left the others behind as they began their ascent. Isaac carried the wood that would burn his body. Abraham carried the knife and the torch. Together they built an altar of stones and arranged the wood for the fire. Abraham then asked Isaac to lay himself down on the altar as he bound the hands and feet of his son.

As Abraham silently looked upon the knife, all of his history, his hope, and his struggle was refracted back in the glint of the blade’s edge. Was he willing to go through with this? Even if God would bring Isaac back from the dead, would he be able to plunge the knife into the heart of his promised child, the heir of his life? He steeled his resolve and carefully lifted the knife above his waiting son. Their eyes met and both took a deep breath just as Abraham was about to thrust the knife down. At the very last instant, the Angel spoke: “Abraham! Abraham! Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me” (Gen. 21:11-12).

After a moment of utter shock, Isaac was released, unbound from death, and raised up to new life. For the Angel testified before heaven and earth that the sacrificial act was was “fait accompli,” an accomplished fact, and that Abraham had indeed offered up his only begotten son who had been raised from the dead. It was just then that Abraham saw the “ram caught in the thicket” that was to be sacrificed in Isaac’s place. But why a ram instead of a lamb? Because when Abraham had said, “God will provide for himself a lamb” (אֱלֹהִים יִרְאֶה־לּוֹ הַשֶּׂה) this referred to the coming of Yeshua, the great Lamb of God, but the ram was provided for Abraham in place of Isaac for the sacrifice. The ram was not the lamb that God would provide “for himself” to atone for the sins of the world and reconcile his justice with his love, but rather a sacrificial ram that was provided for Abraham in place of Isaac. This seems to be the right understanding since later Abraham called the place of the altar at Moriah “Adonai Yireh” (יְהוָה יִרְאֶה), in reference to the Lamb God to come who was to be provided by God himself in fulfillment of the prophecy (Gen. 22:8, Gen. 22:14).

The ashes of the sacrificed ram represented the dust and ashes of Isaac, and of Abraham as well. The “ashes of Yeshua” came from his passion upon the cross, and represent the atonement and exchange he made for the resurrection from the dead. God did indeed provide the Lamb - Adonai yireh ha’seh - and we will see this when we “ascend to the mountain” (Gen. 22:14). Yeshua later told the rabbis of his day, “Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.” When they objected by saying that he was too young to ever have seen Abraham, Yeshua answered: “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM,” which provoked them to try to stone him for blasphemy (see John 8:56-59).

Allow me now to consider whether Abraham might have been traumatized by the (near) sacrifice of his son. The sages say that when Sarah later understood what had happened, her heart gave out and she died. And Abraham’s relationship with Isaac may also have been fractured as well. Did Isaac hear the voice of the Angel? The Torah does not indicate that he did. Perhaps Isaac was also deeply traumatized by the ordeal and needed some time apart from his father. Later on, after Abraham commissioned his chief servant Eliezer of Damascus to find a bride for his son, there is no recorded dialog between the father and son, and while Abraham bequeathed everything he had to Isaac, the last time Isaac saw his father was at Abraham’s burial at Machpelah (Gen. 25:9). At any rate, the sacrifice at Moriah must have haunted Abraham during his remaining days, yet he pressed on in faith, later remarrying and having other children. Like the story of Job, from the whirlwind God’s blessing will come…

Recall at the outset of this article that I had wondered whether Abraham might have been tempted to protest God’s will for life, and that leads to the related question of whether you have ever found yourself protesting the course of your life and inwardly wrestling to accept God’s will… Do you struggle with the call to “take up the cross” as did Abraham - and follow Yeshua?

How much do you “need” to understand before you are willing to let go and surrender? Do you put God in the test - subconsciously demanding that he justify himself to you before you will obey? How did Abraham find the paradoxical strength to die to himself? How do we?

So much is beyond our control and we understand so little. We can either abhor all that happens that we cannot understand, or we can trust that God has a plan that, although inscrutable to us and sometimes seemingly cruel, is nevertheless the ordained way of our lives. Yes, “ordained,” for nothing happens in our lives due to “random” forces or by chance, for the LORD God Almighty knows the beginning from the end, and all of reality is His story to tell. God is the Central Character of the thing called “life,” and indeed He is the creative force and Author of all that exists. Faith believes that the story is about his vindication of love despite all the darkness, evil and shame that seeks to deny its fulfillment.

Reinhold Niebuhr’s well known “Serenity Prayer” expresses the balance we need to walk in the present ambiguity and “already-not-yet” fulfillment of God’s story. It begins, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” That’s most things of life. Nearly everything. “Who among you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” “Serenity,” or inner peace (שָׁלְוָוה פְּנִימִית), first comes from “acceptance” (קַבָּלָה), that is, receiving whatever is the case (קבלה של הכל), and not fighting it, not lamenting over it, not negotiating with it - just willingly accepting it as something God has allowed. “Thy will be done.” Whatever bothers us is likely out of our hands anyway, and it is tragically foolish to “play God” in any circumstance.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” yes, that makes sense, but the prayer continues, “and [grant me] the courage to change the things I can.” Though many things are indeed beyond our control, such as who our parents and ancestors were, when and where we were born, the state of the world we inhabit, and so on, some things are not. There are genuine choices we must make in life for which we are responsible and from which we cannot abstain. “Ought implies can” which means there is a moral order to reality and that we have the ability to make meaningful choices. We are born with a conscience; we have intuitive awareness of right and wrong, of good and evil. Choosing not to chose is itself a choice; saying you “can’t help it” and making excuses by blaming circumstances is “bad faith.” To decide means to “cut away” other options, and that requires courage because we don’t know the effect of our choices with certainty. We are nevertheless accountable for whatever we choose, and our judgments and reasons that justify our choices imply that we are responsible for how we think, for our attitudes, our values, and so on. Faith provides the courage to trust in the unseen good rather than to allow fear to devour our souls.

“Faith is nothing else but a right understanding of our being - trusting and allowing things to be; a right understanding that we are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.” — Julian of Norwich

The Serenity Prayer ends with the phrase, “and [grant me] the wisdom to know the difference.” This is very practical. Some things you can’t change and must accept; other things you can change and must choose. Wisdom is understanding what’s in your power and what’s not, and therefore knowing what you must accept (for the sake of inner peace) and what you must actively fight (for the sake of duties of your heart). Acceptance is based on necessity whereas courage is based on possibility; knowing the difference is wisdom.

Surely it takes wisdom to relate to God - for that is what we are talking about, really - how to find peace by surrendering to his will, and how to find courage to take responsibility for whatever you decide to do. The life of faith is not easy and tests are inevitable. God designed it that way and we must accept that. Yet we must choose to keep hope alive despite our finitude, brokenness, and inability to fathom much of anything. At times we will experience respite and calm; at other times we will struggle and fight. Either way we need wisdom. As Job said Adonai natan, v'Adonai lakach: yehi shem Adonai me'vorakh: “The LORD has given, the LORD has taken away; let the name of the LORD be praised” (Job 1:22). Whatever happens, however, we call out to God for his blessing and help. We seek His face. We will not give up, even if we don’t understand. And that is the Torah of Abraham, who courageously accepted everything and was set free by choosing to believe in the truth of God’s love.

Jeremiah 29:11 כִּי אָנֹכִי יָדַ֫עְתִּי אֶת־הַמַּחֲשָׁבֹת אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי חֹשֵׁב עֲלֵיכֶם נְאֻם־יְהוָה מַחְשְׁבוֹת שָׁלוֹם וְלֹא לְרָ֫עָה לָתֵת לָכֶם אַחֲרִית וְתִקְוָה׃“ For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD: plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

[dfroza]

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 10th of October 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Matthew, Chapter 18 • The Book of Judges, Chapter 11]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 10 and Psalm 10 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 19 for the 19th day of Astronomical Autumn, and Psalm 134 for day 284 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 2nd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

“Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Shalom friends. It’s that time of year again, the “High Holiday” season, and some of you might feel a bit of ambivalence about the holiday of Yom Kippur since it focuses on the ritual of purification for the sanctuary of the Temple, and this seems to have little to do with Yeshua and His sacrifice for our sins. After all, the Levitical system of worship is described in the New Covenant as “a shadow (σκιά) of the good things to come, instead of the true form (εἰκών) of these matters, and it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near” (Heb. 10:1). Since the blood of bulls and goats cannot truly take away sins (Heb. 10:3), the sacrificial system was intended to foreshadow the coming work of Messiah, who was born to die, in accordance with God’s will, and to offer his own body as a sacrifice for sin “once for all” (Heb. 10:5-10). “For by a single offering (μιᾷ γὰρ προσφορᾷ τετελείωκεν) he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified” (Heb. 10:14).

Now while it is wonderfully true that Yeshua functioned as our great High priest after the order of Malki-Tzedek by offering his blood upon the heavenly kapporet in the holy of holies “made without hands,” there still is a prophetic component to this holiday that applies to ethnic Israel regarding the prophesied End of Days. After all, the realm of “shadows” still applies in the case of unbelieving Israel, who has yet to behold the unveiled glory that awaits her... Therefore the psalmist prophetically cries out, "Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your Name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for the sake of your Name” (Psalm 79:9), and this refers to the hour when Israel will call upon the LORD for salvation during the End of Days, otherwise called the great Day of the LORD. This event is prefigured in the blast of the “great shofar” which will be sounded to announce Yeshua as Israel’s true Redeemer and King. Indeed, our Messiah will one day return to Israel, cleanse her Temple, restore her to Himself, and set up His glorious kingdom.

Since prophetically speaking Yom Kippur signifies ethic Israel's atonement secured through Yeshua's sacrificial avodah as Israel's true High Priest and King, there is still a sense of longing and affliction connected to this holiday that will not be removed until finally "all Israel is saved" (Rom. 11:26). So, on the one hand we celebrate Yom Kippur because it acknowledges Yeshua as our High Priest of the New Covenant, but on the other hand, we "have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in our hearts" for the redemption of the Jewish people and the atonement of their sins (Rom. 9:1-5; 10:1-4; 11:1-2, 11-15, 25-27). In the meantime, we are in a period of "mysterious grace" wherein we have opportunity to offer the terms of the New Covenant to people of every nation, tribe and tongue. After the "fullness of the Gentiles" is come in, however, God will turn His full attention to fulfilling His promises given to ethnic Israel. May that great Day of the LORD come soon, chaverim...

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Psalm 79:9 reading:

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Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

[sleepdepravity]

i've been reading magilumiere lately. i love akane.

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[mrbexwrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday, Mo!

What kind of humour (if any) do you like including in your writing? Puns, banter in dialogue, something else?

Can you share your favourite example?

Hi Sam! Happy STS!

I'd love to be able to write puns, given that they are the highest form of wit, but alas, I'm a terrible punner.

I like to think that I can write witty banter, but I think I mostly just write my own form of humour- which is bleak/dark.

(Small aside- I just watched Deadloch on Amazon and it's hilarious. Very much my sense of humour, but I appreicate that it's not everyone's cup of tea!)

My favourite example of my humour (under the cut due to adult themes & language) is when Morgana from Memento Mori outsmarts an addict. It's a snippet that I've shared before, but it makes me chuckle each time I read it:

“Just one more question.” “Alright, but it’ll cost you. Bernie’s been gone for a while. A handjob for the answer.” “Fine.” “Are you serious?!” Ylena looked at me, horrified.  “Where did the car go after Bernie went into it?” “Headed up towards Faifley, maybe to join Great Western Road? Now,” he led me to the lane that ran alongside the police station, unfastening his belt. “A deal is a deal.”  “Morgana, don’t do it,” Ylena tried to tug on my sleeve.  “Trust me,” I mumbled to her. Malky had his trousers around his ankles, his spindly legs exposed to the cold November air. His hand reached into his tatty boxers, and I turned on my heel, and sprinted away.  “You fucking cunt!We had a deal!”  I laughed, throwing my head back as I rounded the corner, easily outpacing the junkie who still hadn't managed to pull his trousers up.  “I can’t believe you!” Ylena lagged beside me. “I honestly thought you were going to do it.” 

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Embajador califica de genocidio ataques de Israel al pueblo palestino

Bogotá, 14 oct (Prensa Latina) El embajador de Palestina en Colombia, Rauf Malki, en exclusiva con Prensa Latina, calificó de genocidio los ataques del Estado de Israel contra la población civil en Gaza, Cisjordania y toda la Jerusalén ocupada. Por: Odalys Troya / Fotos: Yoel Ramos Salazar Continue reading Untitled

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Biržos žlugimų teorijos

Biržos žlugimų teorijos - jos gyvos ie įvairios. Jos pagimdo konspiracijų teorijas ir Nobelio laureatus. Žymus ekonomistas Bartonas Malkielis #stockexchange #crisis #money #investing #trading

Biržos žlugimų teorijos – jos gyvos ie įvairios. Jos pagimdo konspiracijų teorijas ir Nobelio laureatus. Žymus ekonomistas Bartonas Malkielis knygoje „Pasivaikščiojimai po Wallstreet‘ą“ rašė, kad bezdžionė užrištomis akimis, mėtydamas strėlytes į taikinį, gali išrinkti VP portfelio formavimui lygiai taip pat efektingai, kaip ir finansų ekspertai. Continue reading Untitled

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La visita di Antonio Tajani in Israele e Palestina, con tappe a Gerusalemme, Tel Aviv e Ramallah

La visita di Antonio Tajani in Israele e Palestina, con tappe a Gerusalemme, Tel Aviv e Ramallah. Da domani, domenica 12 marzo a martedì 14 marzo il Vice Presidente del Consiglio e Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, On. Antonio Tajani, si recherà in missione in Israele e Palestina, con tappe a Gerusalemme, Tel Aviv e Ramallah. La visita si inquadra nella strategia del Governo per una più efficace cooperazione con i Paesi del Mediterraneo allargato in campo economico, energetico, nella gestione dei flussi migratori e nella lotta al terrorismo. Il Vice Presidente Tajani incontrerà a Gerusalemme il Presidente Herzog, il Primo Ministro Netanyahu e il Ministro degli Esteri Cohen. L’intento è quello di rafforzare ulteriormente le eccellenti relazioni bilaterali con Israele. La visita anche allo Yad Vashem, il memoriale della Shoah. In agenda è previsto -anche- un confronto sulle principali crisi regionali. A Tel Aviv, il Vice Presidente Tajani parteciperà all’ultima tappa del Roadshow per la presentazione dell’acceleratore Business Innovation Factory (BIF) di Leonardo, dedicato alla selezione di start-up innovative. Sarà presente anche ad un evento per la promozione di importanti appuntamenti sportivi di livello internazionale che l’Italia ospiterà nei prossimi mesi, tra cui la Ryder Cup e il Giro d’Italia. «Israele è per noi un partner fondamentale», ha dichiarato il Vice Presidente Tajani. «Vogliamo approfondire la cooperazione bilaterale in ogni settore, con una particolare attenzione alle opportunità di crescita in campo economico, scientifico- tecnologico ed energetico». Il Vice Presidente Tajani si recherà -inoltre- a Ramallah per colloqui con il Presidente dell’Autorità palestinese Abbas, il Primo Ministro Shtayyeh e l’omologo Malki. L’Italia è impegnata in prima linea per il rafforzamento delle istituzioni palestinesi, anche attraverso un’apposita missione di addestramento dei Carabinieri rivolta alle Forze di Sicurezza palestinesi. Rilevante l’impegno della Cooperazione allo Sviluppo italiana, che finanzia attività e progetti in vari settori, tra cui quelli della salute, della parità di genere e dell’imprenditoria.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article