Hark! The Herald angels sing!

A song yet unsung in the hearts of men

[catholicmasculinitymanual]

No one is spelling this out for younger generations, and the trash in the media is set to make them all sexually-steered mindless drones.

If you or the person you're interested in:

Cannot or will not definitively lay out where you currently are in your relationship (beyond establishing an introduction & friendship)

Verbalized no definitive plan of pursuing a romantic relationship towards a monogamous & healthy committed future

-you ABSOLUTELY should NOT get physical feelings involved. (These are just the basics but let's start there.)

You are not their primary interest. People who use multiple partners see being exclusive as "confining" & keep things vague on purpose to avoid boundaries.

Avoid frequently being alone while dating, or prolonged cuddling/making out that could lead to heavier behavior. Lots of people use physical connections to mask a lack of real empathy or any capacity for an exchange of vulnerable intimacy, so having those physical boundaries firmly in place will help you assess things more rationally as your attraction grows.

It's easier to see if you really want a relationship with someone without steamed-up rose-colored glasses, and people who only want to use you for sexual experience will quickly show themselves the door.

[strike-another-match]

"christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheist" "atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are christian" stop fighting. all human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are californian

[whatishowedyouinthedark]

it's so important to have your favourite couple of poems memorized. like, if you don't have a poem memorized that you can recite to yourself standing on a windy bluff overlooking the crashing sea, what even is the point

[loveridden1999]

[thebarefootcajun]

“I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.” Flannery O’Connor

[apenitentialprayer]

Do not say: "How is it that former times were better than these?" For it is not out of wisdom that you ask about this.

Ecclesiastes (7:10)

Is there any affliction now endured by mankind that was not endured by our fathers before us? What sufferings of ours even bear comparison with what we know of their sufferings? And yet you hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were so much better in former times. I wonder what would happen if they were taken back to the days of their ancestors — would we not still hear them complaining? You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them.

Saint Augustine

[burr-ell]

YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN HANDLE CRITIQUE. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN EMBRACE BEING TOLD YOU WERE WRONG. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH UNPLEASANT TASKS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN DELIVER DISAPPOINTING NEWS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU KNOW HOW TO BE DISAGREED WITH. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE CORRECTED. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE TOLD YOU MESSED UP. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU ARE ABLE TO DO HARD THINGS.

[acatholicrose]

[asystolle]

NEW GIRL 3.01 - All In

[orthodoxadventure]

Let’s say a prayer for all those that are left with long term physical or mental disabilities because of an attempted suicide attempt

[philosophybits]

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[vines-are-plant-tentacles]

[castellankurze]

This image is older than some people talking about 40k on tumblr. I think this happened in 3e which was over 20 years ago.

[gunsandfireandshit]

This is from a European tournament in 2009 and the strategy was dubbed the "Kroot Conga Line"

[platinum-iridium]

just watched a youtube video about how private equity is buying up youtube channels and slowly hollowing them out, influencing the content and output. also saw some of ashley st clair talking about the coordinated right wing social media strategies. also seeing the insane rise of (usually right wing lbr, though just generally sowing chaos) bots on twitter. dead internet theory is being vindicated like crazy. this site might really be the last bastion of real internet users.

[platinum-iridium]

sorry gyns here's the video

[quakebeforetheauthorityofgod]

“Gods chosen people are the Israelis”

God can choose and unchoose whoever he wants, he literally does it in Genesis 4.

“And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, ‘for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:’ for Cain had slain him.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭4‬:‭25‬ ‭YLT98‬‬

[francesderwent]

we think pining is romantic because fidelity is romantic. the reason it pulls at our heartstrings is less the idea of a longing that can never be satisfied and more the idea of someone being faithful to their love even when they’re not getting anything from it

[trans-gothic]

[dat-eyebrows]

@gendernewtral holy shit what??

[gendernewtral]

an update to my insulin pump (a model which is highly recommended by doctors because it has software you can update, unlike other models) would allow my doctor to see more of my medical data because of the way my pump would now function.

i technically had the choice not to update it, but if i didn’t, my insurance company would not cover the cost of fixing or replacing it if something happened to it. they could say that the damage came from not updating the system, even if the damage was completely external.

some of the software updates have been beneficial, and have made my life easier. however, the choice to use these new system has always been made for me. i can’t afford to replace this $3000 device that allows me to live without injecting insulin upwards of five times a day.

disabled people already live in a world that is hypermanaged by people who have absolute control over our health and safety. anyone with a prosthetic, hearing aid, or pacemaker can face the same problem i did if the manufacturer decides they need to exert their presence in our lives more than they already do. the “cyberpunk dystopia” is already here, and if you want to change the ever-growing vice grip of “smart technology,” help disabled activists. we’ve been here all along.

(if you want a short primer on what it’s like to be disabled and rely on technology, read Jillian Weise’s personal essay in Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility).