My Troubled Mind

The name’s Jade. Black heterosexual cis-male. 34. 🇺🇸-born. 🇯🇲🇭🇹-family. ♈️. 🗽. Single. ✝️. INFJ. Confessions, current events, human rights, anxiety, music, anime, wrestling, theology and other things. @GTAsoldier (my social media handle almost everywhere) DNI: TERFs, SWERFs, MAPs/pedophiles, fundies, anti-theists, racists, minors, tradcats, anti-LGBTQ+s, radfems, hoteps.

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Linktree. Make your link do more.

My other socials in case you want to get in touch.

I’m more active on Twitter than anywhere else.

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I wish to be more safe around people. I hope to be a safe person.

But sometimes, I feel unsafe within myself because I'm afraid of losing my cool or around others out of fear of their reactions.

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Some people don’t actually want accountability and repair. They just want your head on a stake with no chance of making amends.

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All we have is each other.

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Mawnin. I hope y’all have a good Friday.

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

-Marcus Aurelius

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Mawnin. I hope y’all have a good day.

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I have deep wounds that I can only trust that God can heal if not in this life, then maybe the next. Will They, however, is another mystery.

Whatever remedy God will offer, I may have to accept, even if its ends up destroying me. Resurrection is possible, but would it result in everlasting joy & peace or eternal separation from it due to Their judgment?

[galaxyedging]

I can't believe we've lost Anthony Head. I grew up with Buffy, watching him as a complex father figure. I know I won't be alone in my grief of this wonderfully talented man.

Rest in peace.

[mirielvairenen]

Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Christ Has No Body

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

[kateammann]

Blackburnian warbler, magnolia warbler, and black-and-white warbler 🖤

[highndivine]

My favorite kink is reciprocated energy

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Zen Easter - Jesus

Jesus’s journey from suffering on the cross to death to resurrection provides a good example for how to transform suffering into awakening. Crucifixion, death by torture, is an extreme example of suffering. Death is an extreme example of acceptance, of giving in to the inevitability of circumstances. Physical resurrection from the grave is an extreme example of awakening. Sometimes it is helpful to have extreme examples to point out a more moderate path.

In Zen we are fortunate to have to opportunity to resurrect ourselves constantly. We begin by noticing that we are suffering, that we are on the cross. We recognize our inherent divinity or basic goodness. We understand that we don’t want to be on the cross and we don’t deserve to be on the cross. As we learn to accept our circumstances, which include our experience of suffering, we can see into the nature of our suffering. We can see into the nature of suffering. At that point we give up our resistance and experience a peaceful, living death. As we continue to live our life with this realization, we experience resurrection.

Once we learn to transform our suffering and practice resurrection in every moment, we can help others learn to work with their suffering and their minds to experience their own transformation. When we remember our basic goodness, we naturally feel compassion for everybody as they bear their crosses. Happy Easter.

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Kristos anesti.

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This is ‘Un-alived J3sus.’ Full reflection titled: "we ought to not look away: a small reflection on suffering, witness, censorship and the Crucifixion" up on my (free) substack