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niedopalek

guys will be named after biblical saints and heroes and have nary a godly quality about them.

broken-horn-of-equius

Depends on which god, old or new testament.

apenitentialprayer

We really need to stop with this dichotomy. It’s antisemitic, and it’s inaccurate. The Old Testament is filled with passages about God’s love for His people, His desire to be in relationship with them, and His heartsickness when they turn away. The New Testament has passages about hellfire and the outer darkness, where there will be gnashing of teeth, an event in which God whips moneylenders, and a promise of Christ’s return with the host of heaven at the final Judgment that is going to go really, really badly for those who refuse to repent. God cannot be placed into a box. And He certainly doesn’t fit the stereotypes people make about the mean nasty “Old Testament God” and the nice, shy, wouldn’t hurt a fly “New Testament God.”

fancydreamlandzombie

In my own study what I found the difference to be was Christ acting as a mediator at all times. There were many times in the OT where God was like "welp guess I gotta kill them all" and ONE person would be like "wait! But... hear me out... what if we didn't do that" and God would ALWAYS stop and be like "hmm, okay I'm listening".

The difference is in those instances, God would come to the individuals to spare them and then the convo would happen. Given that Jesus is the Son of God, literally a part of him, he could have those convos and awareness CONSTANTLY.

The behavior wasn't different or out of the ordinary, but the way to get to the final result was.

Anyways that's my 2 cents

cursedtrekedits

“And now we'll get what we want: a burger from the Five Guys restaurant. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved my entire weekend. And all it cost was one shuttle trip, $13.99, and the diet of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.”

cursedtrekedits

followup caption by @oldmanyellsatcloud

cursedtrekedits

new franchise location, no more shuttle trips required

bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

makrustic

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makrustic

To everyone experiencing laging phones while viewing this post: yes that is the goal (sorry!) :)) ♥️

The pixel art is so good it gets your phones hung up on how good it looks. 👉👈

homunculus-argument

In order to not get trapped for days again, I set myself a strict time limit: If I didn't get this finished today, I wouldn't finish it. I need to get work done tomorrow and I can't spend another four days in a row thinking "ok today I'll finally finish that thing for sure". And I did! I finished it! Wanted to go for an iridescent clear plastic look.

the-upper-shelf

Been feeling a little under the weather for a couple of days, so here's some Togekiss doodles I did this week. Haven't given up on Inktober yet, just gotta find the strenght to scan stuff lol

tinyhunnybee

Sam & Max disco at the Elysium or something along those lines....

prokopetz

They spend three quarters of the game casually arguing about which one of them is an imaginary voice in the other's head. During the final act this becomes a puzzle solving mechanic.

jadedresearcher

neotelenta

@poinsettiya Sam and Max, and also Disco Elysium (which I'm currently playing through. A very fun game.)

pixel8or

hogsnout-deactivated20230817

As you might be aware I have big feelings about all besnouted creatures, but recently something has been grating on me. Sometimes, when people draw a snout animal, they draw the snout as a nose with the mouth as a separate entity underneath. This is a stylistic choice I greatly dislike because a snout or trunk is, by definition

A COMBINATION OF THE NOSE AND UPPER-LIP.

You can see here that the snout is not a separate entity from the mouth in these mammals, but is a fleshy protuberance emanating from the upper jaw.

You can see in this illustration how a more anatomically accurate snout position gives an anthropomorphic pig a degree of charm that an inaccurate snout position does not.

Snout positioning can make or break a character design for me.

marcy-the-martian

neotelenta

I didn't have 'propagate the narrative of sociopathic Peppa Pig' on my bingo card, but my lungs are devoid of air once again.

the-upper-shelf

Some Pokesona sketches!

jadeseadragon

Matt Wilson

petermorwood

Not exactly a spoonbill made of spoons, but I'm reminded a bit of that hammerhead shark made of hammer-heads...

existennialmemes

Two seemingly contradictory beliefs that we actually must strive to hold simultaneously:

You don't owe anyone anything

Meaning: you do not have to make yourself suffer for the convenience of others

We owe each other everything

Meaning: we could not survive without each other and everything we do to help another is crucial to ensuring our own continued survival

You don't need to be a doormat, but also don't get comfortable slamming the door when you have the resources to extend a hand instead.

missmentelle

Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment.

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions.

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements.

Hope this answers your question!