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@unscriptured Asked:

❛   you   look   really   pretty   right   now.   ❜   (baby)

【❖】   ――――    Mama,   Tiny   and   Daddy   they   were   all   gone   now.   They   want   her   to   believe   that   Otis   was   gone   too   but   she   don’t   believe   it.   Solitary   was   meant   to   break   her   but   Kitty   always   kept   her   company.   For   the   longest   time   Kitty   had   been   her   only   remaining   companion   but   as   of   late   somewhere   in   the   darkness   she   started   hearing   another   voice   that   often   stayed   for   hours   talking   to   her   making   her   forget   about   the   prison   bars   that   surrounded   her.   They   all   thought   she   was   crazy   talking   to   herself.   Well   fuck   them   ‘cause   they   don’t   know   shit   about   shit.   They   think   they   want   inside   her   head   but   that’s   the   last   place   they   ever   want   to   be.   Insane   laughter   is   already   bubbling   under   the   surface   at   them   thinking   they   could   handle   even   half   of   what’s   inside   her   head.   Little   do   they   know   she   resides   rent-free   within   the   depths   of   their   own   minds,   a   malevolent   tenant   that   will   not   vacate   until   they   split   like   a   rotten   tomato,   splattering   across   the   floor   in   a   bloody   heap.

Her   head   twitches   a   she   hears   that   familiar   voice   speaking   to   her.   Baby   smiles   coyly,   blue   eyes   glinting   in   the   dim   light   of   the   cell.   She   tilted   her   head   slightly,   golden   curls   falling   in   front   of   her   face   as   she   listened   intently   to   the   voice.   ❝   I   just   bet   you   say   that   to   all   the   girls.   ❞   She   teased,   that   same   insane   laughter   bubbling   out   once   more.   It   was   a   strange   comfort,   knowing   she   wasn't   truly   alone   in   the   darkness   of   her   cell.   ❝   I   know   they   think   they've   won,   but   they   have   no   idea   what's   coming.   When   I   go,   I   wanna   take   you   with   me.   ❞   She   had   plotted   and   planned,   weaving   an   intricate   scheme   in   the   shadows   of   her   prison.   The   others   had   watched   her   warily,   sensing   a   shift   in   her   demeanor   but   were   unable   to   comprehend   the   storm   brewing   within   her.   None   of   them   knew   just   how   capable   she   was.   Staying   behind   these   bars   like   a   caged   animal   only   made   her   more   dangerous.   It   was   kill   or   be   killed   and   she   be   damned   if   the   grim   reaper   was   punching   her   card   any   time   soon.

[khyatigautam]

The Unscriptured | Sourish Roy | Book Review

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Redgrab Books Pvt Ltd (16 May 2024); http://www.redgrabbooks.com Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages Imagine if Vivekananda had actually wrung a police officer’s neck and survived even after his Mahasamadhi. Suppose Sri Aurobindo had written a theoretical exposition on the principles of The Bomb. Consider if Indian history had always been connected to a recurring…

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【❖】   ――――    Baby's   laughter   echoed   through   the   darkness,   a   wicked   symphony   of   mirth   that   reverberated   within   the   confines   of   her   cell.   She   couldn't   help   but   delight   in   the   thought   of   the   chaos   she   was   about   to   unleash   upon   the   world.   Belial   had   become   more   than   just   an   ally,   a   confidante,   and   a   dark   friend   —   she   had   become   a   part   of   Baby's   very   being.   A   part   that   she   would   protect   with   every   ounce   of   her   strength.

Looking   up,   her   eyes   locking   with   Belial's.   ❝   You   tell   me   they're   coming.   I   know   this   much   already.   Otis   would   never   leave   me   here   to   rot.   ❞   She   whispered,   her   tone   dark   and   full   of   menace.   Baby's   gaze   never   left   Belial's,   her   eyes   filled   with   curiosity   and   intrigue.   But   she   knew   that   if   she   were   to   survive   in   this   world   of   monsters,   she   needed   to   become   the   monster   they   all   knew   her   to   be,   the   very   monster   that   landed   her   in   this   shit   hole.

For   a   moment   she   almost   saddens   because   the   way   she   traces   her   face   with   her   fingers   and   speaks   about   how   beautiful   she   is   makes   her   think   of   her   Momma.   Then   she   rehears   all   the   horrible   things   that   pig   said   he   had   done   to   her   sweet   beautiful   Momma.   Her   body   suddenly   feels   like   it’s   free   falls   hundreds   of   mines   when   it’s   sitting   still.   Baby's   gaze   returned   to   the   chains   that   held   her   captive,   and   a   fire   ignited   within   her.   The   thought   of   the   pain   she   would   inflict   upon   those   who   dared   to   harm   her   sent   electricity   coursing   through   her   veins.   She   would   not   be   weak,   nor   would   she   let   her   captors   break   her   spirit.

With   newfound   determination,   Baby   focused   on   the   calm   moment   before   the   storm.   She   would   wait,   bide   her   time,   and   when   the   opportunity   presented   itself,   she   would   strike.   The   walls   of   her   cell   would   be   stained   with   the   blood   of   her   tormentors,   and   she   would   make   sure   they   knew   the   cost   of   underestimating   her.   She   was   about   to   pout   when   Belial   told   her   to   wait,   but   she   had   missed   her   dear   friend.   ❝   What   shall   we   do   in   the   mean   time   ?   You   know   the   bitch   is   pissed   I   broke   her   nose.   She’s   gonna   want   some   payback.   ❞   Baby   snickered.

@xxgotthedevilinsidexx || meme continuation || from here!

belial's no stranger to watching this particular family. they've earned quiet the curious eye from time to time with their antics towards fellow human beings. seems like they could be more vicious than some brothers and sisters that've come and gone from hell's corridors. unyielding in their bloodlust. unwavering in their devotion and love for one another. unholy in the things they are capable of when self-preservation.. or searching for a simple good time comes into play.

the demon stays in the shadows. having come and gone on her own free will ever since baby was pushed into the cage that is now her home. don't worry darling. you've got a little guardian devil looking out for you. and very soon.. the women who have put her through hell? are going to end up bloody, broken, bruised and DEAD. ripe for the taking. more souls sent her way by those beautiful hands she reaches for before tugging the killer into the dark recess of her cell.

blue eyes squint. her fingers tenderly trace along baby's forehead. come through her messy blonde hair. oh they will pay for the state they put her in. but not by belial's hands. what good would that do? baby deserves her own revenge. "soon. soon. we'll devour them together. let them taste what it is like when they hurt someone so beautifully made." of course the demon sees baby as lovely. vera. the years spent observing her stretched far beyond baby. the madness that crept into her brain? delicious to taste. to play with. to push towards an edge that now...

keeps her sated when she's hungry. builds her power. and now.. she will do the same for her vera. won't she? "your brother. he's coming for you. he won't let you rot in here. but first? i think you should paint the floor with their blood. not yet. bide your time. with me.. hm? i missed your company.." says the flesh version of the voice that's been in her head til she needed it not to be.

[mariacallous]

With the suspect accused of killing Minnesota’s Democratic house leader and her husband now in custody, investigators will have a long list of questions to ask about what the alleged shooter believes. The emerging biography of Vance Boelter suggests a partial answer, one that involves his contact with a charismatic Christian movement whose leaders speak of spiritual warfare, an army of God, and demon-possessed politicians, and which has already proved, during the January 6 insurrection, its ability to mobilize followers to act.

Reporting so far describes Boelter, the 57-year-old man now facing murder charges, as a married father of five who worked in the food industry for decades, managed a gas station in St. Paul and a 7-Eleven in Minneapolis, and recently began working for funeral-service companies as he struggled financially. At the same time, Boelter had an active, even grandiose, spiritual life long before he allegedly carried out what authorities describe as a “political assassination” and texted his family afterward, “Dad went to war last night.”

To some degree, the roots of Boelter’s beliefs can be traced to a Bible college he attended in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute. A school official confirmed to me that Boelter graduated in 1990 with a diploma in practical theology.

Little known to outsiders, the college is a prominent training institution for charismatic Christians. It was co-founded in 1970 by a Pentecostal evangelist named James Gordon Lindsay, a disciple of the New Order of the Latter Rain, one of many revivalist movements that took hold around the country after World War II. Followers believed that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit was under way, raising up new apostles and prophets and a global End Times army to battle Satanic forces and establish God’s kingdom on Earth. Although Pentecostal churches at the time rejected Latter Rain ideas as unscriptural, the concepts lived on at Christ for the Nations, which has become a hub for the modern incarnation of the movement, known as the New Apostolic Reformation. NAR ideas have spread far and wide through megachurches, global networks of apostles and prophets, and a media ecosystem of online ministries, books, and podcasts, becoming a grassroots engine of the Christian Right.

Many prominent NAR leaders have connections to the school. These include Dutch Sheets, a graduate who taught there around the time Boelter was a student, and who went on to become an influential apostle who used his YouTube platform to mobilize many of his hundreds of thousands of followers to the U.S. Capitol on January 6. More recently, Sheets suggested on his podcast that certain unnamed judges—“including Supreme Court justices,” he said—oppose God and “disrespect your word and ways,” and he prayed for God to “arise and scatter your enemies.” Cindy Jacobs, an influential prophet who is an adviser and frequent lecturer at the school, was also in D.C. on January 6, praying for rioters climbing the Capitol steps.

During his time at the school, Boelter would have been exposed to the beliefs that motivate these movement leaders. He would have been taught to see the world as a great spiritual battleground between God and Satan, and to consider himself a kind of spiritual warrior. He would have been told that actual demonic forces can take hold of culture, political leaders, and entire territories, and thwart God’s kingdom. He would have been exposed to versions of courses currently offered, such as one that explains how “the World is in an era of serious warfare” and how “the body of Christ must remember that Jesus has already won this war.” He may have heard the founder’s slogan that “every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer a day.”

On Saturday, Christ for the Nations Institute issued a statement that read, in part, “We are absolutely aghast and horrified that a CFNI alumnus is the suspect. This is not who we are,” and “CFNI unequivocally rejects, denounces and condemns any and all forms of violence and extremism, be it politically, racially, religiously or otherwise motivated.” The school clarified that the slogan refers to the founder’s belief that prayer should be “intense, fervent, and passionate, not passive and lukewarm, considering that spiritual forces of darkness are focused on attacking life, identity in God, purpose, peace, love, joy, truth, health, and other good things.”

Precisely what Boelter absorbed or rejected from the school remains to be seen. On an archived website, Boelter claims that he was “ordained” in 1993. Tax documents from 2008 to 2010 show him as president of something called Revoformation Ministries. He claimed to be writing a book called Original Ability, promising readers “a different paradigm on the nature of man” and warning that it “may change the way you see yourself, other people, and God.” Boelter claimed that before the September 11 terrorist attacks, he had gone to Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank to “share the gospel” with militant Islamists.

In recent years, Boelter traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where videos show him delivering guest sermons at a large church, chastising Christians who don’t fight abortion and homosexuality, and saying that “God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America” who will “correct his church.” As law enforcement searched for the suspect across rural Minnesota on Saturday, a childhood friend of Boelter’s told reporters that Boelter had texted him that he had “made some choices.”

Minnesota authorities said that they’d found “voluminous writings” in the suspect’s vehicle and at his home, and that he’d kept a notebook that mentioned about 70 potential targets, including politicians, civic leaders, and Planned Parenthood centers. Boelter is now facing federal murder charges for the fatal shooting of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. State prosecutors have also charged Boelter with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly shooting and wounding State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. If Boelter’s beliefs were a factor in the shootings, the question is not exactly what radicalized him, Frederick Clarkson, a senior analyst with Political Research Associates who has been tracking the NAR movement for years, told me: The worldview that Boelter appeared to embrace was radical, he said.

“Everyone brings faith to their life and the things they do—the question is, in what ways does your faith inform your actions and your decision making?” he told me. “Without knowing exactly what motivated the shooter, we can say that being oriented into this kind of NAR thinking, to my mind, it’s just a matter of time before an individual or group of individuals take some kind of action against the enemies of God and the demons in their midst.”

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@unscriptured Asked:

" Stop   licking   the   damn   thing! "   (murphy)

【❖】   ――――    Murphy   glanced   up,   his   tongue   freezing   mid-lick   on   the   empty   whiskey   glass.   The   stranger   sitting   a   few   seats   away   from   him   had   a   stern   look   on   her   face.   ❝   Who   the   ‘ell   are   you   ta   tell   me   what   ta   do   ?   ❞   He   retorted,   clenching   his   jaw   in   frustration.   He   wasn’t   intentionally   trying   to   come   off   as   an   asshole   but   recent   advents   had   left   him   trying   to   drown   his   sorrows.   Murphy   studied   her   a   moment,   taking   in   her   sharp   features   and   the   glint   of   mischief   in   her   eyes.   He   gestured   to   the   bartender   for   another   drink   before   turning   back   to   the   stranger,   his   gaze   softening   slightly.   ❝   Sorry,   wasn’t   tryin’   ta   be   rude.   ❞   Murphy   couldn't   help   but   feel   a   pang   of   curiosity   at   the   mysterious   stranger   who   seemed   to   have   appeared   out   of   nowhere   to   scold   him.   He   took   a   sip   of   his   fresh   drink,   the   fiery   liquid   burning   all   the   way   down   his   throat.

Things   certainly   hadn’t   been   his   way   as   of   late.   The   last   job   he   was   on   his   brother   mysterious   went   missing   and   despite   his   best   efforts   to   find   Connor   he   kept   coming   up   empty   handed   at   every   turn.   Without   his   brother   he   felt   empty,   like   a   crucial   part   of   himself   was   missing.   But   as   he   sat   there,   drowning   in   his   thoughts   and   the   burning   sensation   of   whiskey,   he   couldn't   shake   off   the   feeling   that   something   was   off.   Murphy   leaned   back   in   his   seat,   studying   her   again.   He   shifted   uncomfortably   in   his   seat   being   unable   to   shake   such   a   nagging   feeling   as   if   god   all   mighty   himself   was   trying   to   give   him   warning   of   caution.   He   had   always   been   wary   of   strangers   approaching   him,   especially   in   a   place   as   dimly   lit   and   crowded   as   this   bar   but   this   was   something   completely   different.   ❝   What’s   yer   name   ?   ❞   He   asked   quietly,   his   guard   still   up   but   his   curiosity   piqued.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Fallacy: God Would Not Command What We Cannot Do

Many argue that God wouldn’t command something we’re incapable of doing. However, this assumption is flawed. A command does not imply ability.

Verses like "Choose life..." or "If you are willing..." do not prove human capability. These are imperatives, not statements of what we can do. What we ought to do does not mean we can do it.

This idea is also unscriptural. God gave the Law for two purposes: to reveal sin and to magnify it, leaving no one with an excuse for claiming self-righteousness. As Martin Luther said to Erasmus, "When you are finished with all your commands and exhortations from the Old Testament, I'll write Romans 3:20 over the top of it all":

"For by works of the law no human being will be justified in His sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20).

The Law was not given to prove free will but to show human inability. It reveals what we cannot do, not what we can. Nowhere in Scripture does God’s Law suggest that natural man is morally able to obey it.

The consequences of Adam's sin are clear: humanity is spiritually powerless. We are unable to:

Understand God (Psalm 50:21; Rom 3:11).

Perceive spiritual truth (John 3:3).

Know our own hearts (Jer 17:9).

Walk the path of life (Jer 10:23).

Escape the curse of the Law (Gal 3:10).

Receive the Holy Spirit (John 14:17).

Hear, understand, or accept God’s Word (John 8:47; 1 Cor 2:14).

Bring ourselves into God’s family (John 1:13; Rom 9:15-16).

Produce repentance or faith (Eph 2:8-9; Phil 1:29).

Come to Christ (John 6:44).

Please God (Rom 8:8).

Humanity, in its fallen state, is utterly incapable of coming to God. Salvation is entirely dependent on God's grace, not human effort. This truth compels us to recognize our helplessness and trust in God’s mercy and power alone for redemption.

Preemptively Addressing the Objection from Deuteronomy 30:11: "It Is Not Too Difficult"

Deuteronomy 30:11 states that God's commands are "not too difficult" or "beyond your reach." Some might interpret this to mean that humans inherently possess the ability to obey God's law. However, this interpretation fails to consider the broader context of Deuteronomy, which emphasizes humanity's dependence on God’s grace for obedience.

The Context of Deuteronomy 29:4 and 30:6

In Deuteronomy 29:4, we read, "But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear." This highlights the spiritual blindness and inability of humans apart from God's intervention. Yet, in Deuteronomy 30:6, God promises, "The Lord your God will circumcise your heart... so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul." Here, God commits to transforming the hearts of His people, enabling them to love and obey Him.

Together, these verses show that while God's law is near and clear (30:11), true obedience depends on God’s grace to overcome the hardness of human hearts.

God's Grace Enables Obedience

The commands in Deuteronomy 30:11-19 must be understood in light of God’s prior promise to circumcise hearts (30:6). Without God's transformative grace, the commands of the law are impossible to fulfill. This is why Deuteronomy 30:11 cannot be read apart from 29:4 and 30:6. Obedience is not the result of human willpower but of God's work in us.

Philippians 2:13 captures this truth well: "For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." Obedience flows from God’s grace, not from our innate strength.

Understanding the Imperatives in Context

Deuteronomy 30:11’s call to obedience does not suggest that humans can obey God apart from His enabling grace. To interpret it this way would ignore the indicatives in 29:4 and 30:6, which make it clear that God must first transform the heart. The commands of God are “not too difficult” because God Himself provides the grace necessary for obedience.

The Relationship Between Imperatives and Indicatives

The Bible consistently pairs commands (imperatives) with declarations of God’s grace (indicatives). The imperatives call us to love and obey God, while the indicatives remind us that such obedience is only possible through God’s enabling work. Jesus underscores this in John 15:5: "Apart from me, you can do nothing."

[galarian-weezing-on-prep]

friend keeps trying to get me to read barth, but i am a kuyperian (with the asterisk that i'm sublapsarian), and i just therefore do not agree with barthian nonsense, especially his unscriptural agenda against natural theology

and stating that is exactly why other christians can't be assed with the reformed tradition, because all of that is gibberish to 90% of them lol

[albertfinch]

Daily Mcditations And Affirmations - November 16, 2024

The preacher's words need to inspire and exhort to a higher purpose from where we are living now. We get delivered from Egypt (the world) and settle for church (the desert) when there is a promised land flowing with milk and honey with signs and wonders flowing with miracles and deliverance of unsaved loved ones.

The biggest problem in America -- the American Church is telling people you can have God and have the world. It is unbiblical and unscriptural. We are not here to gather people -- we are here to see lives transformed -- see people’s thinking changed. It's not about accepting Christ. It's about surrendering to Christ. It's about giving up everything you have so Jesus can live through you to advance His Kingdom in the earth.

Works prove to the world what God has done inside my life.

Affirmations:

I shake myself up, and declare, "Truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord!" (Micah 3:8)

God is calling for me to arise and take a strong stand against the works of darkness (Jude 1-4). I am to take the land.

I walk worthy of the Lord - I am fruitful as I equip new Believers into an understanding of their Christ identity, and I increase in the knowledge and wisdom of the Lord. (Colossians 1:9-12)

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[haggishlyhagging]

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested, that bears with tremendous effect on the laboring class, and indeed on almost all who are obliged to earn a subsistence, whether it be by mental or physical exertion—I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and of women. A man who is engaged in teaching, can always, I believe, command a higher price for tuition than a woman—even when he teaches the same branches, and is not in any respect superior to the woman. This I know is the case in boarding and other schools with which I have been acquainted, and it is so in every occupation in which the sexes engage indiscriminately. As for example, in tailoring, a man has twice, or three times as much for making a waistcoat or pantaloons as a woman, although the work done by each may be equally good. In those employments which are peculiar to women, their time is estimated at only half the value of that of men. A woman who goes out to wash, works as hard in proportion as a wood sawyer, or a coal heaver, but she is not generally able to make more than half as much by a day's work. The low remuneration which women receive for their work, has claimed the attention of a few philanthropists, and I hope it will continue to do so until some remedy is applied for this enormous evil. . . . There is yet another and more disastrous consequence arising from this unscriptural notion—women being educated, from earliest childhood, to regard themselves as inferior creatures, have not that self-respect which conscious equality would engender, and hence when their virtue is assailed, they yield to temptation with facility, under the idea that it rather exalts than debases them, to be connected with a superior being.

-Sarah Grimké, qtd. in Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

[churchblogmatics-blog]

Every so often I like to check in with theologically conservative Calvinist opinions of things (the tradition of thought I was raised in), and I'll be darned if even their description of Barth's doctrine of creation doesn't sound way cool - not sure why they can articulate this beautiful idea that isn't at all unscriptural and then be like "nope this won't do"

"To summarize, Barth’s interpretation of Scripture regarding creation is determined by his judgment of the nature of the relationship between God and man. God freely chooses to love mankind and to reconcile mankind to himself by means of his incarnate Son, and it is this decision that leads him to create. This free choice of God is the core of Barth’s doctrine of creation. In this way, creation is rooted in the triune God’s work of reconciliation. If not for God’s free choice to love man, there would be no creation. As such, creation provides the historical stage in which God’s reconciling drama can be played out. Furthermore, this reconciliation is the very reason for creation. It is because of God’s covenant—not because of scientific proofs or philosophical treatises—that creation exists. Thus, for Barth, the doctrine of creation itself is rooted in faith in the reconciling God through Jesus Christ his incarnate Son."

- Jarred Jung, Trinity, Creation, and Re-creation: A Comparison of Karl Barth and Herman Bavinck’s Trinitarian Doctrines of Creation, Themelios - Volume 46, Issue 1

[azspot]

But I, quite to the contrary, believe the idea of a hell of eternal torment to be unscriptural, logically incoherent, depraved, psychologically destructive, and morally corrosive. And I believe also that far more have been driven away from real faith by the absurd doctrine of eternal torment than have ever been coerced into earnest belief. I do not think that people can be persuaded to love God by teaching them that God is an omnipotent brute of obscene, irrational cruelty.

David Bentley Hart

[bloodsalted]

𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐑. REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !!

NAME : dixon. been going by it for too long to change it. thought about it a couple times but it's stuck with me for a handful of years now. oop! also not my real name.

PRONOUNS : she/her/numbnuts/idc!

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION : i lose track of tumblr ims very easily. discord is preferred and i will give it to any mutual that might want it!

NAME OF MUSE(S) : dean winchester is my main. i have jack kline @lasthymn and a human oc that gets demon possessed kinda dual muse at @unscriptured . my multi is low activity atm and i'm just replying to what i got at the moment. my spn brainrot is very real.

BEST EXPERIENCE : meeting all the people i have here and enjoying our time together. hanging out with @hostiae / @devourcr at eccc. generally, just the experience of meeting such lovely, awesome partners that become friends and people i cherish. even if we don't speak often. i really do adore the people who i get to share this lil orbit with.

RP PET PEEVES / DEALBREAKERS : not reading my rules. becomes obvious when you don't. especially with a couple character or plot types i list that i don't feel comfortable writing and they get pushed on me. always read rules so you start out on a good page. it's so important! using roleplay to make yourself seem better than others. whether that be that you're more virtuous than them (as my buddy ava said) because they write things you don't like (rant to a bud, get your feelers out, block and move on??) or way more hip, progressive or whatever for plots you do or won't do or fcs or graphics you use. we're all just here writing. it's not that serious. have fun with it. curate your experience. screw anon button on. you'll be way less stressed. and a tiny one. refollowing on repeat. but that just gets a block eventually. and super easy to handle.

MUSE PREFERENCES : flawed heroes, burdened souls that are good people deep down, the distant person that has walls because of self-preservation, kind souls that've been burned too many times that they are cautious to warm up to others. misunderstood, thoughtful types. characters that still need to learn themselves and grow. on the complete opposite side? completely unhinged psychopaths, sociopaths, whatever else that falls under that line.

PLOTS OR MEMES : ava said this really well. memes are the easiest way to get my attention. i don't mind sending them in. or having them sent (though rn my inbox is a little big but i'm working on it, might just take me some time!). and then from there as we build up, if we match well, plotting is something i LOVE to do. i get that some don't though and i'm always more than fine winging it to see what happens. pretty flexible. but i really do love things that stick between muses.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES : i write a lot most of the time. usually on accident. sometimes i get carried away and am enjoying myself. i, in no way, expect replies to match length and i mean it. i just need smth to work with. i've been keeping some posts purposefully shorter. especially meme replies as i work through my inbox. we can expand or shrink as needed!

BEST TIME TO WRITE : usually really late at night. i'm a night owl with insomnia and, as much as sarah threatens to beat me with a chair? i find sleep difficult. writing helps that!

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S) : i don't know? i'm probably more like dean than i am any of them. but i try to make better choices that won't end up with me getting hurt. though there are people i'd let the apocalypse happen to save. some people are just that important. sorry world. if we're going down. we're going down together at least? dean and i have very very similar music tastes. though some of my stuff would be thrown out the window. we both have stupid humor. we're loyal. i do like my jeans, t-shirts and flannels. but we are VERY different in many ways. or it'd be boring to write someone just like me.

TAGGED BY: @murderdeals TAGGING: anyone who follows me! i'd love to know more about you! tag me so i can read! and this means...YOU'RE IT!

[shammah8]

It was then that she realized she had come into agreement with a spirit of infirmity—a familiar spirit.It is not uncommon for people with certain conditions to gather around, and build community with, others based on their shared afflictions. While I am an advocate of support groups, we must be careful not to build “community” around demons. Unfortunately, many people have unknowingly granted agreement to demonic entities because they have believed a narrative that was untrue and unscriptural. For example, they may think that their condition is chronic and hopeless. Beloved, this is a lie from the pit of darkness.

You can be healed! You can be free! You can be whole in every area of your life. However, demons do not want you to believe this is possible or walk in this truth. They will torment, harass, oppress, and afflict in order to maintain their open door—the door of agreement.☕️Kynan Bridges

[raccoonshinobi]

Sunday, October 1

Happy is the one who finds no cause for stumbling in me.​—Matt. 11:6.

God’s Word forms the basis for our teachings and beliefs. Even so, many today are stumbled because they think that our way of worship is too simple and that what we teach does not match what they want to hear. How can we avoid being stumbled? The apostle Paul told Christians living in Rome: “Faith follows the thing heard. In turn, what is heard is through the word about Christ.” (Rom. 10:17) So we build up our faith by studying the Scriptures, not by participating in unscriptural religious ceremonies, no matter how pleasing to the eye these ceremonies might be. We must acquire strong faith based on accurate knowledge because “without faith it is impossible to please God well.” (Heb. 11:1, 6) Thus, we do not need to see a spectacular sign from heaven to prove that we have found the truth. A careful examination of the Bible’s faith-strengthening teachings is enough to convince us and to dispel any doubt. w21.05 4-5 ¶11-12

Examining the Scriptures Daily—2023