#the bible (religious text)

[sashayed]

time for me to review The Whole Bible. ready? ok. to be honest my favorite part of the gospels is Mark 8.22-26, when Jesus spits in some nice blind man's eyeballs and accidentally gives him cosmic consciousness. guy's just like "may i have a teaspoon of visual response to stimulus" and jesus is like "oh sure" and gives him God Vision. fuckin...ayahuasca sight that perceives the interconnectedness of all life. "oh is that not normal? does everyone not have that? nuts. ok try these eyes. are those more regular? great. maybe lie down by yourself for a while and please don't mention this to anyone"

[m-ilkiee]

"Omg ur exposing minors to bad stuff" if a minor can read and understand fanfiction, they can also read and understand the following words. RATED 18, DARK CONTENT, TW. INCEST, MINORS DO NOT INTERACT.

And if they can't understand simple sentences, then Wattpad is right there for them. Not tumblr.

You can bitch and moan about how writing shit like this is "bad", but really the closest thing you've read to an actual book with nuance is ... actually nothing, you don't read anything. It's always the smau writers who just entered tumblr, like shut up and sit down. If you're worried about kids, host a security seminar to parents to monitor their online presence or teach kids internet safety and how to use the block option. No one is obligated to hide their content from you because you think you're on a moral high ground compared to the rest of us. People like you are the reason why we can't say murder and kidnapping and call real pedophiles pedophiles because you don't want "kids" knowing bad stuff, but in reality you're doing more harm than good with your chronically online takes.

Respectfully take a break from smaus and pick up a book. I may not endorse many things but I'm on the side of artistic freedom and blocking people. I'm on the side of writing about darker topics and exploring trauma, because talking about pedophilia was how I discovered that I was assaulted at seven. Something I didn't know because adults with YOUR mindset refused to let me know that it's wrong for an adult to touch a child because "what about the kids."

I'm not saying children should be exposed to reading r 18 fics, god no. I'm saying that 1) people should write wtv the fuck they want without being looked at as a bad person. 2) kids should have a safe space, preferably with a trusted adult that is NOT on the internet who will not be afraid to talk about darker topics that can affect them. 3) enough of what about the kids or the mentally ill people, why should a kid be on my account?

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

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[coockie8]

"You can't create fiction about X problematic thing without explicitly condemning it otherwise your readers/viewers will think it's okay to do irl!"

Okay see well I was under the impression that since I'm not creating fiction for literal 5-year-olds that my readers/viewers would already be aware of the fact it's not okay to rape, torture, and murder people in real life without me spoon-feeding that to them like they're toddlers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you're over the age of 10 and still don't know that it's bad to hurt people in real life without a fairy tale telling you so, then that is 100% a you problem, like I don't know what to tell you here :/

[randomlynormalgirl]

“if i betray you, i betray myself. if i betray him, i betray my country. my country is very dear to me.” “dearer than i?”

except it’s about jesus and judas

[nastasya--filippovna]

When people in the Bible do it (sleeping for a LONG time) it's God's will but when I do it it's the deadly sin of Sloth.

[snakpple]

so who was gonna tell me that lucifer and michael (and by extension, the rest of the archangels) aren't actually brothers and that was just a thing supernatural made up

[jennyyyeeettt]

Bible verses that just hit (from : John 15)

Background

My reflection / explanation

Note

Background about "Christianity" :

When Jesus says "my father" he doesn't mean it literally. A flashback to the basics: God is 1, he's the creator of everything. And since that's a thing he can do, he created Jesus. What is different about Jesus is that instead of being born like any human, he was growing with a miracle because Mary wasn't married. And he wasn't just a kid he was a part of God. Cuz if you believe in God you know he is unlimited and immortal, and humans are limited and mortal... So now when Jesus says "my father" he means himself - in a way- he's setting an example for people how to view God, as a loving father, not as a Judge.

So when we say "in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit" we mean the same person.. More simplified its like how an egg has a shell, a white and a yolk amd it's still an egg. Or how a human has a body a mind and a soul (3 main things that makes 1 thing - and if 1 of the 3 things is lost it's not normal)

Aaand here's why the verses hit (for me):

1- he's saying that we're loved by God (he repeats it in more than 1 chapter over and over)

2- his commands are to guide us to a better life, it's basic morals and to help us live happily (lies never makes a person happy, in fact they weigh you down - hate and envy never benefit anyone, they just reflect the low self worth of a person, im not talking about the healthy jealousy that makes you wanna be better, I'm talking about the "I HOPE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENES TO THIS PERSON SO I CAN HAVE IT ALL" Kinda thing.)

Metaphorically : A person in a dark room (without commands) would feel free because they don't see the furniture (danger around) while the person in the light (following the commands/or trying to) they see furniture and they feel limited to a certain space but they don't get hit as much as they walk - sure we still stub our toes, or trip on stuff but its not the same.

3- God is happy when WE're happy with him. No one (mentally healthy at least) would like to be in a relationship or a friendship with someone who they hate... If u feel like your friend hates you, i don't think you'd love to be too close to them.

4- what Jesus is known for (which some Christian are not at all) LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Love God from all your heart, love your neighbor as yourself, love your parents, forgive people with no limits, don't judge and etc

(these are hard to follow for some people and they take it out on other people, I'm sorry if you're a victim, i was/ am too but i learned that God has nothing to do with this attitude :'3 that's why im reading the bible, so i can judge it on my own without influence of other people who judge and hate like they breathe)

5- God calling his disciples (and whoever follows him) his friends. It's self explained why he called them (and people who follow him) his friends

6- Love- again!! Repeated!!

The definition of love in the bible btw : in (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

[4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. [8] Love never fails.

7- he was so real for telling us what to expect, he didn't say that everyone will make everything easy for us when they know we love him. He's real. He said " people will hate you for following me" (ofc it doesn't mean every single person but some people really go out of their way to hate on other people just because their beliefs)

Note :

I'm not trying to sugar coat my beliefs - it's just my reflection on what i read and all the things i didn't notice before, i literally highlighted the whole passage when I read it bec i liked it and i needed a place to type it - I don't intend to start arguments. discussions, however, I don't mind.

[queenwendy]

I will NEVER get over Hector, prince of Troy, naming two of his horses the objectively awesome Swiftfoot and Flame while the other two are Blondie and fucking SPARKLE, who is apparently the best of the horses. And he just called Diomedes (master of the war cry) womanlike. Never change, Hector. Never change.

The names are listed in Book 8 Line 244 of Emily Wilson’s english verse translation. Somewhere between lines 180 and 190 in the original.

[Image ID: picture of a passage from the Iliad reading “With this he called his horses, saying to them,/‘Now Swiftfoot, Blondie, Flame, and godlike Sparkle,/repay me for the food Andromache”]

[cringelordofchaos]

I'm actually considering reading the Bible JUST so I can have some reference for a FAKE BIBLE FOR A FICTIONAL TUMBLR ROLEPLAY WTMF

[myroommatehoneydew]

Honey sometimes takes odd jobs as building inspector

She approves!

Bonus:

Mysterious creature box also inspected

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Christians who are super weird and paranoid about Eastern philosophy and religions are really weird to me. Like, let me tell you a secret about Christianity

[olskuvallanpoe]

I need to do more evil with the BA I have in religion

[miniaturecatmentality]

I was trying to remember the word hemokinesis and found this wiki article that references the actual Christian Bible as an example of the superpower

this is so fucking funny to me stop. Right after this was a quote from Jujutsu Kaisen

[candyn-gutz]

eden i thought u were my mutual kat aka pro-skater-roxas bc of ur icon

HAHSHAHA IM SORRY..... ...

[crazycatsiren]

I must say that the more I read the Bible, the more I find it a rather entertaining piece of fiction.