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Queer, Anglo-Catholick, autistick. CW - mentions of NSSI. Also I have a non-shitty blog: jfrepton.blogspot.com

[powerburial]

the idle fantasizer has fallen victim to another reverie

[quakebeforetheauthorityofgod]

The Biblical conditions to be saved

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

“He that believeth on him is not condemned…”

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life…”

“Every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.”

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

“Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”

“Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart… thou shalt be saved.”

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father…”

“…the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.”

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.”

“He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

“Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.”

“The sheep inherit the Kingdom because they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick, and cared for “the least of these.””

“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

[pommegf]

St Giles’ Churchyard, Camberwell

[orthodoxadventure]

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Catholic prayer cards (19th - 20th centuries)

[ftmtftm]

Sometimes I really want to take everyone under the age of 24 (as of 2026) by the shoulders and say:

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

It's terrifying. I know it must be terrifying for a lot of the young people on Tumblr too. I hope one day we're able to bridge all of those complex feelings into something collective and positive so we can do our best to prevent similar traumas from happening to future generations.

[anglocatholicboyo]

call me brown the way i'm bored of education

[anglocatholicboyo]

Fuck you i hope your fajitas never come out sizzlin

[tomicscomics]

05/01/2026

Education?!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: This cartoon references a lot of verses, so here's an explanation for them all:

Matthew 1:18-24 is about the Annunciation (Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the Son of God). This takes place "when Mary and Joseph were betrothed but before they came together." In this context, the word "betrothed" is being used for the stage of ancient Jewish marriage where the bride and groom had entered into the marriage contract but did not yet live together. So Mary and Joseph are legally a couple, but Joseph doesn't take her into his home until the end of this section after the angel reassures him in a dream. The taking of the bride into the groom's newly built home was the final stage of the marriage.

Matthew 22:1-2 is the beginning of one of Jesus's parables where He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a king preparing a wedding feast for his son. The Bible is just lousy with wedding imagery when it comes to God's relationship with mankind; or rather, marriage is lousy with imagery pointing to the ultimate destiny of humanity to unite entirely with God in life-giving, self-giving love.

Matthew 26:26-28 is where Jesus lifts the bread and wine at the last supper and declares them His Body and Blood of the covenant. Jesus's cup is the cup that all other cups and covenants reflect all throughout the Bible. THIS is the big one, where God pledges Himself once again to mankind, IN THE FLESH!

John 13:33 and 14:1-3 are where Jesus talks about leaving the disciples for a time, then assures them that He's going to prepare a dwelling for them in His Father's house. He adds that, once He's done, He'll come back for them, to take them to Himself. In light of the other verses compressed into this fun little amateur Bible study, we can see Jesus is once again using very wedding-coded imagery to speak about heaven and the anticipated union with the Divine.

Thanks for reading! As a reward -- and because I can't post something without a joke (per MY covenant with my patron, St. Lawrence) -- here's a classic: "What do you get when you eat all the potatoes?"

[uuiuu-deactivated20150720]

Ainu Robe, about 1900, northern Japan

[uuiuu-deactivated20150720]

Ainu Robe, about 1900, northern Japan

[artycles]

“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.

[ijaazat]

green? green <3

[anglocatholicboyo]

hey guys i'm kinda going through it rn, do pls pray for me🙏🙏🙏

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's time to kill the idea that we can only grow and heal when we're uncomfortable. You heal every time you have a good conversation with someone. You heal every time you laugh. You heal every time something makes you smile genuinely. You heal every time you have fun creating something - anything. You heal every time you get so absorbed in something fun that you forget your struggles for a while. There is, in fact, lots of healing and growth to be found INSIDE your comfort zone.

[thefloatingstone]

Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

[thefloatingstone]

Things I have learned since making this post;

The running theory (I can’t remember if it was definitive proof or not but I try not to make concrete statements on history any more) is that what caused the sinking of Doggerland was not the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean….

What flooded Doggerland was a massive fucking CHUNK of Norway FELL INTO THE OCEAN and it caused the largest tsunami we have physical evidence for on earth and it fucking flooded Doggerland IN ONE SINGULAR DAY with a rush of water so strong, large and powerful it literally had the force to rip people to shreds when it hit them

[kedreeva]

Doggerland on Wikipedia

[brightwanderer]

I do think about Doggerland, fairly frequently! And I feel it’s important to point out that its disappearance absolutely was because of “the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean”. By the time of the tsunami, the land area would already have been reduced to a handful of small islands.

In general, a true tsunami (caused by displaced water) is never going to permanently submerge an area of land, because the water displacement is temporary and it will return to where it came from (causing huge damage on the way, of course). However, with islands that were already barely above sea-level, it’s definitely possible that such a huge inundation just obliterated their topsoil and left them below water level.

It’s hard to say, though, because the end of the last Ice Age was a wild time for water moving around and getting into places it shouldn’t. In particular, as the glaciers melted you’d often get huge meltwater lakes forming behind dams of ice and rubble which might then burst, suddenly dumping nearly inconceivable amounts of water all over the downstream terrain. One of these bodies of water, Lake Agassiz in North America, was so huge that it covered multiple states, and it’s thought that it drained very suddenly into the Atlantic ocean about 8000 years ago (i.e. contemporary with the flooding of Doggerland), dumping so much water into the ocean that global sea levels rose 1-2m over the course of a couple of years.

And if you’re wondering - yes, it’s theorised that this event, or the combination of the others like it, was responsible for the flood myths that exist in so many cultures. Coastal and lowland settlements around the world would have found themselves in a period of time where the sea just kept rising - not overnight, but inexorably and seemingly without any end in sight. Many, many cultures would have retreated to higher ground, only to find a few months later that the water was once more lapping at their doors.  In some ways I find that even more profoundly terrifying than the idea of a wall of water sweeping everything away.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Has everyone seen xkcd Time?

You should probably see xkcd Time

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/mobile/

xkcd Time - at your own pace

[o-craven-canto]

That’s not the only case!

That region had tropical climate, even at the peak of the last glaciation. There could have been a thriving agricultural civilization in those bygone river valleys 10,000 years before it started all over again in the Near East, and we wouldn’t know.

[cansomebodytellmewhatsgoingon]

Oh, dude, the amount of outburst floods that happened at the end of or during the Pleistocene is OBSCENE. The Altai Floods, which created giant ripple currents like sixty feet tall. The Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis, which could explain the lack of Paleolithic sites on Turkey’s northern coast because they all drowned. The Missoula Floods. The Missoula Floods. Floods with the height of skyscrapers that would hit you like a truck going down the highway. Floods that were 50x more river flow than the Amazon and happened in an area 38x smaller. Floods that happened SO often and were SO strong that they literally created the Channeled Scablands and is partially why the area isn’t very forested because all the topsoil got scrubbed away.

And don’t even get me started on the Zanclean Flood, because WOW

[pied-piper-pluto]

Someone else might have already mentioned Some Facts About Doggerland, a piece of writing that gives me huge emotions every time I read it, but if not please enjoy!

[mumblingsage]

To fellow Doggerland fans, I also want to shout out Julia Blackburn’s Time Songs: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land.

[mumblingsage]

In honor of this post coming back around on my dashboard, here are more maps of Doggerland through the ages, from Barry Cunliffe’s Europe Between the Oceans.

[stupidusernamepolicy]

At the bottom of the Adriatic Sea there are remnants of roads from the Stone Age

[leothil]

Re: xkcd Time mentioned above: xkcd 1190 was a story that updated with a new frame first every 30 minutes and then every hour for over 120 days back in 2013. For people who can’t or don’t want to log into GitLab (which is where the provided link above sends you), explainxkcd has the full comic as a gif animation as well a plot summary and links to other resources, if you want to check it out.

Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

This site lets you play the full comic and allows you to pause on whatever frame you want, which can make for an easier viewing experience than the very fast-moving gif.

Time (xkcd 1190) by Randall Munroe -- Explore a wide variety of topics from large numbers to sociology at mrob.com

[thefloatingstone]

Oh so THIS is why this post is circulating again

[teary-prayer]

“If you filled your hands with sand and threw them into the sea, would the water dry up? No, neither could our sins defeat God's immeasurable mercy."

St. Issac the Syrian