Reblogging because when he was small, my big godson swapped cards to get me a combee pokemon card and it was one of the most loving things someone did for me and I still have it, very precious.
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I like a Justin Bieber song, and I need to talk about that.
I won't lie, it's not really a position I expected to find myself in. The Biebs has been around long enough for me to remember him in his youngest explosion onto the pop scene. And he's a dad now and stuff.
But he's released a record that does exactly what it says in the title, and it's giving me feelings. I'm not in the pulpit right now because I'm busy running a different kind of community space, so y'all are going to get it instead.
I have a particular relationship with the word Hallelujah. So I'll also admit that hearing it in a song that wasn't being sung by Leonard Cohen (or k d Lang.... IYKYK - and if you don't, do yourself a favour and go look it up and listen) gave me a bit of a start.
See I have a tattoo, and that tattoo is the word Hallelujah. Because I had a friend - she had many tattoos and we had a conversation once that was all "what would you have tattooed on you" and I said that if it was Cohen (lots of hers were Cohen) then it would say "Love is not a victory march, its a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah" because I think it's true. And she died - really suddenly and in a way that slapped us all in April 2020. And I jokingly said to friends "well I have to get that tattoo now". But that's a lot of words and it would be expensive. So Hallelujah seemed a good option. For Cohen, and for Caron, and for me. And I had an envelope of money from a few gigs that I hadn't looked in and when they told me how much it would be I looked in the envelope and that was how much money was in it and so I got the tattoo.
And in the now almost six years since I got it I have thought a lot about the word hallelujah - what it means and then what it means for me in the now, to have that word printed on my body. It's just little, and most of the time it's covered up because it's high up on my arm. And it's just..............there. In fact the first people to see it outside my partner, my child and the people who happened to be visiting us on the day I had it done..........................were the people who gave me my covid vaccine. And they said "nice ink!" and I told them they were the first people to see it.
The word "Hallelujah" means "Praise the Lord" - you say it in triumph, in gratitude; it's joyful - almost boastful. But it fulfils the request that we praise God in all things. It's not a Sunday word - it's a word for every day - all things and all times. Carrying it on me has reminded me of that. It helps me hold my faith in ways I could not have imagined when I sat in the chair at Almost Angels wondering what people in church would think of me for doing it - yet somehow knowing in my gut that it felt right to do. Something in me went quiet when it was done - like an exhale.
You say it in sadness too, I think, Hallelujah. Not because you are happy so much as you are acknowledging Gods presence in all things. Bieber is a Christian, has spoken openly about this, so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. But what delighted me was how everyday it was. A man sitting in the morning light playing a guitar kinda normal. Looking at his life and seeing that it is good and saying thankyou. This song is exactly how Hallelujah can be used. It has surprised and delighted me to find this.
Thank you Mr Bieber for this reminder. Hallelujah.
Justin Bieber "EVERYTHING HALLELUJAH": Good morning, caught us dancing in the sunrise Baby's crawling on the floor And we don't have to go..
Lets take a material that can last decades with the right treatment and care and fucking replicate it with the most dogshit ugly flimsiest animal extinction microplastics smells bad unsexual rips in four days garbage disgusting saran wrap we can think of. Ostensibly for vegans.
I am stuck with fake leather shoes because I can’t afford leather in shoes that fit my feet (wide feet problems). But they can’t be repaired well and don’t mould to your feet the same way. But the equivalent would be £200 for a pair of every day shoes. ……..
My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.
I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.
The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.
"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.
I agree. But if someone MAKES you homeless (as happened with us) then you should be able to say they dehoused or dehomed you. Because it’s a violent act.
I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground
Cash is important. It helps you see and understand your money and what it looks like. It helps you understand the value and interactions of money. If you’re someone like me who struggles to conceptualise number, it’s crucial.
I’ve worked with people and used the CAP method of money management and cash is crucial for people not overspending. I honestly don’t know how they are doing that in my town now where there is only one or two high street banks left and a couple local building societies. They have banking hubs but no cash handling. Post office is mad busy. Everything is digital and problems are rife.
“Creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. This stuff really is valuable, if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. Creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it.”
It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products
Likewise, the new all-star audio books featuring people like Keira Knightley, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Gomez, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and more, only seem to have happened because Stephen Fry - who did all the original audio books - said he thought she radicalised and "was a lost cause" (x)
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