Awwyeah Rambles

This (side)blog primarily exists for banter and back-and-forth reblogs :P mostly silly, sometimes serious.

[lady-raziel]

FUCK QUICK DOES ANYOME HAVE A COPY OF THAT MEME WHERE TWO PEOPLE ARE TALKING AND THEN ONE PERSON SAYS SOMETHING BIZARRE AND THEN THEYRE DRAWN AS AN ALIEN

I need it STAT

[cassidy-cat-ghost]

[lady-raziel]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[lady-raziel]

I want to say unironically that this process of describing something to tumblr followers and then begging them to find it is a better search engine than the rest of the market right now. This was an act of desperation after increasingly frustrated searching and not even duckduckgo got me there but within 0.0001 second of posting on here--results immediately. the future of knowledge searching lies in direct crowdsourcing as we've all been enshittified back to "asking around"

[springsgreenleaves]

@awwyeah-rambles

[awwyeah-rambles]

Yup, exactly XD looking up that meme (or really, the XKCD) on my browser was not getting me anywhere and I knew my moots would have my back.

[awwyeah-rambles]

Does anyone (moots or tumblr peeps or whoever) have that meme format that’s like “everybody may not be into [niche thing], but everyone definitely knows about [thing very specific to niche thing].” “And 1-2 [things within niche thing].”? It’s got 2 stick people and the font is kind of handwritten-looking. I’ve been looking for it and can’t find it or a copy of it that I can just modify (there’s something at the conference I’m helping with that I would love to use that meme for with my coworkers).

EDIT/update: thank you @swinging-stars-from-satellites and @springsgreenleaves! I have now learned it is a XKCD and you can generate it on imgflip or another generator that swinging-stars linked in the comments.

[murderofsomeone]

every movie poster just looks like this to me now

[silly-blue-gosling]

[springsgreenleaves]

brought the indomitable human spirit with me to the gun fight. I'LL KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS

[awwyeah-rambles]

Heads up to the moots and peeps, I may or may not be on Tumblr/posting or liking mutuals’ posts much this week bc my company is running a conference and I’m going to be on site running support for in various roles. (I could actually use prayers for that, lol. Both that I’m not overly frazzled/tired and that I can show God’s love to all the people coming to the conference this week in whatever ways I can.)

[wordfather]

being overstimulated on your period makes you really understand what its like to violently transform into a beast. everything HURTS and is TOO MUCH and i wanna TEAR EVERYONE APART with my TEETH

[faroffsong]

Went to the beach!

And found a seaweed-y pine cone?

[scleroticstatue]

When there are two conflicting points where the authors had to choose one over the other,

What is the primary purpose of the Bible?

To accurately portray history and God's interventions/Historical-Providencial

To point to Christ/Christological

To tell proper doctrine/Doctrinal

To explain why humans need Christ/Anthropological

To explain how to be saved/Soteriological

To properly preserve worship practices/Liturgical

To convince people to believe in what the author believes/Missiological

To inspire humans to have a relationship with God/Relational

To teach about the future/Eschatological-Prophetic

Each book has its own purpose and no purpose comes out on top

The Bible actually has no specific purpose/no authorial agenda

Something else/very nuanced/no opinion

Remaining time: 11 hours

[springsgreenleaves]

All these Biblical polls of yours leave me considering how very divergent our views of God's omnipotence are.

[scleroticstatue]

Oh? I'm curious what you think about it, and what made you come to that conclusion.

I believe God cannot be fully omnipotent and fully good — the condition of the world disproves it — and I could not worship a god that was evil, so he must have some limits on his power that prevent him from overriding free will.

[springsgreenleaves]

Yeah see I believe in His omnipotence.

[scleroticstatue]

Okay, then why does he permit suffering and people to not believe in him? I can't justify worshiping an evil god. I can justify worshiping a God who is bound by the laws of reality — God can't make a square circle or create a world that we exist in that isn't finely tuned for our existence. Hebrews even says that God can't lie. The only way to have a consistent internal theology is to limit one of the omnis — all knowing, all loving, or all powerful — and this is not only the most likely candidate, biblically, but it's also the only one that fits with how the world works scientifically.

[springsgreenleaves]

Then what's the point of worshiping Him? Why bother with The Cool Guy in the Sky Who Can't Actually Do Anything?

[scleroticstatue]

What's the point in worshiping a god who can remove all of your suffering, prevent you from sinning, all without interrupting your growth, but doesn't? Why did an all powerful God make humans who even wanted to sin if he could make them differently?

You worship God because he's your father who loves you and wants the best for you. He knows how to get you where you want, if you listen to him, but he cannot — by universal law — force you to follow him. Because if he could, he would be cruel and not worthy of worshiping to not.

[springsgreenleaves]

I worship Him because He is God.

[scleroticstatue]

So, what you're telling me is that, because he holds a position, he has a right to abuse his children and call it love? That he causes suffering, anguish, and eternal torment, and still has a right to our love and sacrifice? That he can be evil and still demand to be called father?

I'm sorry, you're worshiping a demon because that's not God.

[winterinhimring]

The underlying assumption that God must be evil if He is omnipotent is the point of difference, I believe. I don’t subscribe to that and I am fairly sure that Bri does not, either. God can do anything which is consistent with His nature, but His nature does not include evil. Is the author of a book evil because he lets the consequences of his characters’ choices play out, even though he has the power (technically) to stop it all with a word? I would not say so. He’s obeying the rules of the story-world. God is the great Author of the universe and so His characters live, and He does not break the universe and us to prevent our choices from having consequences, either.

( @springsgreenleaves do you think that’s a fair analogy? I’m still hammering it out a bit.)

[scleroticstatue]

But God isn't an author. He's never once described as the author of the universe. (The only time he's called an author at all is the author is a questionable translation from Hebrews 12, the author of our faith, when it should be translated as Prince or Chief).

If my characters were actually alive, they would have every right to call me evil for what I've done to them. They would have every right to hate me for creating them in ways that make them respond like they do. I would be evil to create people who thought that slavery and rape and racism and torture were okay, just like, as a parent, if I raised children who believed that, I would be judged as being either very, very incompetent, or evil. An author is only not evil because the things they write about never actually happen. And when someone does try to make those things real like Allan Menzies and Timothy McVeigh, we rightly say that they're evil.

We are not God's playthings. We are not here for his entertainment or amusement. We are his children and his royal subjects. If he has the power to stop us from hurting ourselves and others, then he has a moral obligation as the King of Creation and our father. If he does not, he is not good. He has not, so he must either lack the power, the knowledge of how to do that, or the will to do good. If you want to hold that God is all powerful, all knowing, and does not make the world a paradise — even that he let the world become Fallen — you must reject the claim that God is all good.

[awwyeah-rambles]

I’ve been wrestling with the idea of God’s omnipotence since your post a while back about perfect being theory and creation Ex Nihilo and Calvinism.

The concept of God not being 100% completely powerful and able to do anything really, really rubs me the wrong way. That goes against a piece of God’s character that I’ve been taught basically my whole life. He is God, and part of that is that He is able to do anything—create life, raise people from the dead, make miracles happen.

At the same time/on the other hand, I very much hear what you are saying. That if God is all-powerful, then it is in fact evil and awful to let evil things happen if He could stop it. Now, I know that I am meant to rely on God’s truth and plan and not my own, and man should not question what he does not understand, blah blah blah. But I cannot deny that I would be enraged, disgusted, and deeply devastated by a person who could have 100% completely prevented an act of evil—an unjust murder, or rape, or abuse, etc.—choosing to not prevent it.

And on yet another hand, free will exists, and it would be an incursion on it to put parameters on it. Aaand that’s all the thoughts I can eke out tonight.

Oh also another thought for later: if God is omnipotent then He could change His nature so that His holiness did not instantly kill us upon being exposed to it. Thinking about Uzziah and touching the tent pole.

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[castalianspring]

Sadly, it's nowhere near that vivid of a blue in real life (not everything needs a filter!!), but it's still VERY cool and cute.

More pics at the Charles Darwin Foundation site (of the preserved specimen, mind)

[awwyeah-rambles]

@abyssalcitrus OCTOPUS ALERT

[hellallamerican]

its thursday! reblog this post if you dont want to feel this way forever!

[awwyeah-rambles]

Who on earth is mowing the lawn/landscaping when it is raining outside. I can clearly hear a lawnmower but it is very steadily raining.

Edit: okay it stopped. But also the rain stopped? Very strange.

[ijaazat]

summer

1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes

2. complete 40% of it

3. eat every fruit u can

[sanguinewolves]

yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔

[autistic-af]

Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[proteusolm]

interesting simultaneous stretch + yawn technique

[awwyeah-rambles]

@springsgreenleaves rats! :D look at that one’s most adorable yawn!

[theriu]

I remembered after the last big debacle that some people were suggesting we let @staff know when we LIKE changes and not just when we don't like them. So in that spirit, I wanted to say I really like the new post tab at the top of my dashboard! It's very convenient, and I love having a readily available button for my Drafts folder. (It also inspired me to finally clean it out - I went from 60 to 18 drafts this week XD;;;) Thanks for this good addition to the site, Tumblr Staff!

[ltwilliammowett]

Frigate L'Hermione

Source - Alban Husson

[awwyeah-rambles]

hey @abyssalcitrus I think it’s friggin’ frigate Friday