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[elbiotipo]

It's fascinating to me that for our modern (at least on European-influenced societies) thinking, the classical Roman way of life is so familiar. When you read about it, the rethoric of the speeches feels modern, a society based on contracts and laws and litigation, with public works, a state bureucracy and standing army and trade economy and even spectator sports, a concept of philosophy separated from religious dogma and tradition, with even a limited understanding of a government by 'the people' and 'citizenship', even the names all sound familiar even if in completely different contexts, and no wonder since they inspired our current politics.

This all in contrast to medieval feudalism, which is completely alien to me. A society created upon family connections and oaths of fealty and serfdom with no such thing as an overarching state, not even kingdoms were any more real than a title one person holds, and all held together completely, utterly, to an extent I cannot emphasize enough, by the institution of the Church and the Christian faith. In a way we just aren't used today in our secular world. I simply cannot overstate how everything, every single thing, was permeated by faith in the Medieval worldview and the Church which took its power from it, we have an understanding of it but I think people just don't realize it.

[saeriji]

Lace divider stuff whatever

F2U with like & reblog , I edited pngs from Pinterest to make these. credit is greatly appreciated since this took me a solid 40 minutes

feel free to add to resource rentries, but it has to link back to this post or account.

tagging @smilepilled noticed you enjoy being tagged in things 🤍 unless i mistaked you for someone else

[literaryvein-reblogs]

some characters from Greek mythology

Welchanos - a young god of vegetation and fertility in Crete. Welchanos was associated with agrarian magic, with the vegetation cycle and seasonal death, and with the rebirth of nature.

Xanthus - an immortal horse. Achilles' charioteer Automedon once chided Xanthus and Balius for leaving Patroclus behind on the battle field and would that they did not leave behind Achilles as well. Xanthus, given the ability of speech by Hera, turned its head reproachfully and told Achilles that this time they would save him but that his day of doom was nigh, by the decree of inexorable destiny, which also caused Patroclus' death.

Xenodice - "Fair to Strangers." Heracles killed her along with her father. She fell in love with Heracles, but died of grief because she could not be his. When Heracles came to her funeral he had to be restrained from throwing himself on her funeral pyre.

Zacynthus - the first man to sail across to the island to establish a colony.

Zetes - along with his brother, Calais, are called the Boreades, and are generally described as winged beings, though some say that they had wings at their heads and feet, and others that they had them only at their feet, or at their shoulders.

[lotussokka]

inspired by my own tags on this excellent post

[sexhaver]

extremely bold words from someone writing a double-digit amount of paragraphs based on provably wrong etymology

[divinityschoir]

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[pjharvey]

i actually am like immensely grateful for having been able to talk about my experiences with mormonism with people on tumblr like i am so serious i pretty much moved to utah as soon as i had mostly deconstructed mormonism (and then it was paradoxically like i was even more immersed in the culture aspect of it after leaving the religious part) so i didn’t really get to be around people who were separate enough from things to like. listen to stuff about how i grew up and acknowledge how crazy a lot of it is. at college people did react with shock to a lot of things (which i needed) but it felt exploitative, and most importantly it felt like people didn’t have the nuance to understand why i still have a close relationship with my parents even though they are still mormon and i’m not. i feel like people on here actually listen. love u all!!!

[gladiatorcunt]

sick of talking stages i need an older man to take look at me and be like “they’re the one” and then boom i have a billion trillion gajillion dollars and a permanent home!

[shalom-iamcominghome]

For every person I unfollow with weird opinions on jews, I follow a few other jews instead. This has been for the better, even if I was bitter about hitting the "unfollow" button at first (sound off if you want to use this post to self-promo)

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Hi Avery! You may remember me from "my church is going on its RIC journey" several years ago! Covid set us back but we've made some progress with enacting inclusivity in our building, including participation in our city's Pride, officially naming two gender neutral bathrooms (i worked SO hard for this), celebrating RIC Sunday, and slowly starting a Faith and Diversity section in our library!

I wanted to ask though - the affirming committee (which I'm on) wants to include some resources on our church website for brand new allies who may know little to nothing about the LGBTQ+ community! Things like definitions, explanations of pronouns... I wanted to know if you had any advice or suggestions for places I could look, for both super basic resources and ones with a Christian lens!

Thank you so much for all you do!! - Moth

Oh hey, I do remember you; so glad to hear from you again! <3

Thank you for your part in moving your church further into affirmation. I know how frustrating such work can get, especially because it tends to move so slowly; but it is good and holy work, and what you've done and continue to do for your church matters so much.

First, I imagine you're already aware of it but just in case, Reconciling Works has its own webpage of resources, including basic definitions. Definitely makes sense to link some of those!

See this post for my recommendations for some queer Christian resources mostly related to sexuality. One of them, the Queer Grace Encyclopedia, is a database both of basic queer definitions and theology. You'll find a lot of great, simple but well-researched articles on there!

Next, I've got a Google doc masterpost of basic trans stuff, including pronoun practice and how to apologize gracefully when you accidentally misgender someone. I don't recommend passing the whole doc along to your church because Too Many Links gets overwhelming, but if you wander through you can pick out the resources you think they'd find most helpful!

I also have a Google doc of Christian-specific trans stuff; I recommend similarly that you pick out just a few to pass on for the church site. Especially some links from the Transmission Ministry Network :)

Posting this so others can add recommendations!

[chilope]

ok. i have a question. this is maybe insane.

i want to do volunteer work focused on homeless outreach (providing resources etc) but the only secular organizations doing this work in my city have limited volunteer hours that dont align with my schedule literally at all. the only options available to me are through church-affiliated groups.

as im sure you can imagine, i dont like churches! i dont want to work with them! and i dont like when homeless outreach comes with a side of evangelism. BUT. is it worthwhile to volunteer anyway? is it better to provide food and resources in the name of christ than not at all?

my gut says yes, but my experience as a person who was on the receiving end of that shit says no... idk! i welcome your thoughts

[shredsandpatches]

Fell down an old reviews rabbit hole on my lunch hour and once again am pondering the tendency reviewers have to discuss the Gounod Faust as though Marguerite is being punished by the narrative instead of just the world around her. Like, okay, it's not as clear about that as the source material (and Gounod was a conflicted but observant Catholic, whereas Goethe was not a believer), but. I feel like you see this the most from reviewers who really like the baritone singing Valentin, who is the main voice of traditional morality in both the opera and its source material--but while the operatic version of him isn't as nasty as Goethe's, you know a character is in the wrong when an opera chorus tells him to maybe ease up on the slut-shaming. Slut-shaming is like half of what opera choruses do!

[bijoumikhawal]

Mission?????

[hurricanehiatus]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Various Editors - The Now Prophets: Program Resource Book 1969 - Methodist Church (U.S.) Board of Missions - Fall 1968

[confinesofmy]

i've been thinking about it and i'm not cursed at all i'm just living in struggle county and poor. no one here is doing their job correctly. nothing ever works out. groceries are through the roof because of the monopolies the local stores have and when there are sales they don't update their system so you don't even pay the sale prices. i tried to get a dent in my car fixed through insurance and had difficulty reaching the insurance office, then difficulty reaching the body work places, then never got a callback after my appointment so i stopped pursuing it. i had weird lights on my dash a different time, took it in. they wiped the warning readouts and told me to take it somewhere else and when i did the readouts were no longer present so they couldn't do anything. that all took 3 hours out of my day for nothing. i bought new tires but they weren't a certified dealer so i don't get the brand warranty in its entirety, which i hope never becomes relevant. when i went to the doctor they gave me the wrong dosage on my script then wouldn't fix it without another appointment that i couldn't afford so i just quit taking it. the local pharmacy will run low on a med and edit your script to accomodate their shortage but then you run out early and don't have a script anymore and the pharmacy says it's your problem not theirs. mail often runs late so you'll miss important appointments and deadlines because if the office itself is 4 business days late sending out their mail and then the postal service is 3 business days late bam. that's you getting your mail a week and a half late. it's unlivable. you're not meant to live here.