I know I'm not saying anything particularly novel here, but it makes me want to scream, the way that in Christianity, the Bible–or, if you're Catholic, the Church and the Bible–is the only source of Truth, and everything else is of the world. And in context, "of the world" literally means "straight from the devil." So when you struggle with what the Church or what the Bible is saying, you have nowhere else to go to look for insight or understanding or answers–you are directed straight back to the Bible, the Bible is the answer to every single one of your questions!
Maybe at best, you're encouraged to talk to your pastor, or given a short list of pre-approved theologians to reference. But that's it. So when you run into struggles in your life, or find contradictions in the text, or someone challenges you to explain your beliefs, or you want to exercise your natural curiosity, or have doubts, you're immediately redirected and trained to re-imerse yourself in the source material, to continuously reindoctrinate yourself and reinforce that cycle of circular reasoning.
And breaking out of it is nigh impossible, without something external to jolt you out of it, some fairly significant impact to penetrate that rabbithole, or some slowly growing pain and sense of dissonance, and either way, tearing yourself away from that cycle is extremely difficult! But talking to someone still stuck in it is maddening, because everything circles back to the same source, over and over again, and when you ask them, why do they trust that source? How do they know it's the only trustworthy Truth? They say, well, because the Bible says it is. Why do you trust the Bible? Because it's God's word. Oh, how do you know that? Well, the Bible says so.
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We started rewatching Young Justice recently and all of the "sidekicks" were upset at being treated like children and being kept in the dark and not having access to information and i just?? I don't think Batman would believe in withholding information from Robin
Dick gets into everything everywhere all of the time there is no peace or privacy from him. And Bruce has never dealt with children before how is he supposed to know whats 'appropriate' for a child to know or have access to.
Speedy: it's such bs that they don't trust us with information
Robin: haha what?
Green Arrow: It's hard keeping information from my partner/subordinate but it's for his own good. He's a child and he can't be trusted with that sort of power yet. Do you struggle with Robin wanting access to information he doesn't have the clearance for?
Batman, who's never kept a single secret from Dick and couldn't if he tried: um. yeah. absolutely.
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I can't get the idea of Azula escaping the asylum with the help of Mai and Ty Lee.
And maybe two years later one person defeated Zuko and took the throne from him, putting everyone in danger because the new Fire Lord was going to declare war again.
While Mai and Ty Lee went to the cabin Azula lived in, only to tell her that she was the only option that could save everything.
But they find her with a baby who is only a few months old and emotionally dependent on her adopted son.
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Based on a different conversation I checked and there are no Irosami-focused fics over 50k not by me. I, on the other hand, have written nine in the last four years.
I may have a problem.
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