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“tumblr is an echo chamber where people only see opinions of other people they agree with” please be serious. i have longtime beloved mutuals who are swifties. your experience is not universal

purpleisnotacolor

some people will be like "ah yes, purity culture comes from the puritans, which were fanatic Christians, so purity culture comes from christian doctrine, and the two are basically synonymous", and then unknowingly praise Christians for expression the counter-christian ideas of... grace and forgiveness and not needing to be perfect.

purpleisnotacolor

alright people throw the term around a lot but what I've generally seen people to mean by "purity culture" is:

the belief that sex dirties you (even if you're married, it's just considered okay to be impure then)

therefore anything to do with sexuality should be hidden or avoided

something that is dirtied or damaged cannot be fixed again

an implicit or explicit understanding that pure things are more valuable than impure things

therefore the highest priority is maintaining purity. if you fail, boo hoo.

and this attitude is present in a lot of christian communities, but it's still wrong.

christian doctrine is:

sex is good and sacred, reserved to a man and woman in marriage.

it should be concealed to express it's sacredness, not dirtiness (this is open to cultural variation.)

redemption, salvation, forgiveness, etc. God makes things that were once bad, dirty, and broken into things that are good, pure, and whole.

human beings, from the most virtuous to the most evil, are unconditionally loved by God and more valuable than anything else on earth

the highest priority is having a good and close relationship with God

purpleisnotacolor

I also see people trying to counter it with what I'll call "impurity culture"

sex is dirty, but that just makes it edgy, interesting, and cool. any restrictions and standards are for squares

things that are pure should be dirtied and the dirt flaunted everywhere in celebration

something that is dirtied cannot be made pure again

dirty flawed things are superior to pure things, which are basic and boring and need to be transcended

the highest priority is deviating from purity, which is where you get your uniqueness and therefore your value from

arcenciel-par-une-larme

"The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites…He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”

-- C.S. Lewis

#Theology Thursday

krshush

Obsessed with this lil guy on a cake at my local-ish grocery store bakery???

krshush

VALENTINE'S EVE UPDATE:

WHOEVER THIS SPECIFIC DECORATOR IS, THEY ARE ONLINE, AND I'M SO SAD MY FAMILY DOESN'T THINK THEY'RE AS FUNNY AS MEEEEE

nishiotwo

I’ve got someone like that at my local store and these r some of my favs as of late. I’m obsessed with the shrimp

shadow-person-sd

I need a Lord Farquaad one

chipthekeeper

I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective

thegoldengals

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

chipthekeeper

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

#Village

animentality

bemusedlybespectacled

you fools. pepe le pew is quebecois.

tygermama

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merlinsbeard4332

Description of a skunk written by a Jesuit Missionary, published 1634 (via Wikipedia):

The [skunk] is a low animal, about the size of a little dog or cat. I mention it here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin. I have seen three or four of them. It has black fur, quite beautiful and shining; and has upon its back two perfectly white stripes, which join near the neck and tail, making an oval that adds greatly to their grace. The tail is bushy and well furnished with hair, like the tail of a Fox; it carries it curled back like that of a Squirrel. It is more white than black; and, at the first glance, you would say, especially when it walks, that it ought to be called Jupiter's little dog. But it is so stinking and casts so foul an odor, that it is unworthy of being called the dog of Pluto. No sewer ever smelled so bad. I would not have believed it if I had not smelled it myself. Your heart almost fails you when you approach the animal; two have been killed in our court, and several days afterward there was such a dreadful odor throughout our house that we could not endure it. I believe the sin smelled by Saint Catherine de Sienne must have had the same vile odor.

autumnhobbit

rescheduled my 6 month follow up appointment to a week earlier in hopes of addressing recent symptoms. please pray that i’ll be heard and everything can get addressed reasonably.

valtsv

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

valtsv

by talos this cant be happening

lilyblisslys

I bet it feels soooooo good to be a construction worker on a completely closed off chunk of road

lilyblisslys

This makes me literally so happy

mxrderscenes

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

galadrieljones

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

xalphafox

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

headspace-hotel

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

#Writing advice

incandescent-creativity

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

incandescent-creativity

javascript-official

We need to conquer space travel for the only reason that zero-g would allow for new never before seen pastries, you know how the top of the muffin is the best part? Well that is because it is exposed to air so it changes the chemistry, in normal earth gravity it is impossible to make a muffin that is all top part because it needs to be placed somewhere which would restrict air flow, however in zero g it would be possible to make a bubble out of muffin dough which gets optimal airflow and becomes an all-top part muffin... This is the dream...

termagax

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

theriu

@the-grand-bamboozler

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

theonion

Remarking that it seemed “a tad excessive” to own more than a dozen of the recreational bouncing devices, pop star Taylor Swift reportedly urged fiancé Travis Kelce on Thursday to whittle down the number of trampolines on their wedding registry to one. “That’s a lot of trampolines, babe, and you can really only bounce on one at a time,” said Swift, who scrolled through the assortment of indoor and outdoor trampolines with a look of growing apprehension on her face as the Kansas City Chiefs tight end pleaded, “Come on, babe, 13 trampolines—it’s your favorite number!”

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teaboot

Hi I'm so sorry I don't mean to embarass you but I think your headphones fell out of your phone, it must have happened at the bus stop, your phone has just been playing out loud in your hand this whole time and you didn't notice. So sorry, you must be so embarrassed, really I wouldn't have said anything but I know I'd be mortified if that happened to me and I didn't notice until I got home or something. I'd be so self conscious, can you imagine people thinking you were being disruptive and obnoxious on purpose. Haha yeah no worries have a great day