Death, be not proud

Christian • Linguistics major • Musician • Incurable nerd (more academic than fandom) • I speak Latin with lots of enthusiasm and less skill • I mostly lurk and reblog but someday yall will start seeing my thoughts on your dash

[legitimately]

JOY HAS A HABIT OF RETURNING. BTW

[greater-than-the-sword]

HATE this "Christian" take "It doesn't matter what we do to the earth, it's here to use up because the apocalypse is nigh". HELLO? Jesus is COMING BACK, and what do you think he's going to do when he finds you DESTROYING HIS STUFF?

[greater-than-the-sword]

We need to talk about "Dominion" for a second too. Like you know this means divinely appointed rulership. Yes: Humankind are the divinely appointed rulers of creation.

But what does this MEAN? Given what we know about the character of biblical leadership do you really think this means God appointed man to subjugate the earth into whatever it is we like in our own image and destroy whatever we don't like and make sure whatever is there exists to serve us and nothing that doesn't? To be maximally extractive?

No way, we are there to make sure the creation is flourishing in accordance with God's design!

I even heard preachers who had the nerve to say animals were created for man's enjoyment. No?? They were created to give glory to God, of course, like everything in the universe.

We have a unique responsibility to them as their rulers, not some kind of mandate to take whatever we can.

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[horizon-penblade]

We can't use aircraft because the fbi has access to all the flight data how many times do we need to go over this

[computersaresadtoo]

XP/98 remix

[aloe-jelly-deactivated20170907]

ok what the fuck

[jas-old-account]

It sounds like some digital boss theme

[basiliskfree]

I had to draw this.

[sonpat-rides-again]

This is a classic

[allysdelta]

When the Tumblrites cry "it's that chocolate guy!" that's Amaury

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[heterokatedison]

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner

[jorolle]

this post is the equivalent of a newspaper from the day of the outbreak being blown past by the wind after you wake up in a post apocalyptic world

[kosmogrl]

[the-sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

today’s the only day you can reblog this

“There Will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury

[zybilna]

Been reading some of the abilities for Eureka lately.

[dullwitandravens]

[swan2swan]

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

[luimnigh]

[ladydevoir]

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

CS Lewis when he's got one page left to wrap up his book.

[romanceyourdemons]

in the comments he revealed that he replaced all his overheads with color changing smart bulbs too. and that he owns one (1) lamp. unclear if it changes colors or not

[theonion]

[targetedknowledge]

[spaghetti-gremlin]

[Video ID: a video of two snakes in an indoor enclosure. one snake is smaller than the other, but both snakes appear to be completely white with black eyes. the snakes each stick their tongue out several times throughout the video. each time they do, a party horn / noisemaker sound is played. /.End ID]

[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[magpie-trove]

The only antidote to fear is responsibility: the refusal to believe that there is nothing we can do, the decision never to take refuge in blaming others, making them the scapegoats for our frustrations and fears. It is easy to complain: to say it is someone else’s fault. Courage is born the moment we decide not to complain but instead to make a personal protest against the evils of the world by doing good, however slight. An ethic of responsibility yields individuals of astonishing resilience – people able to survive any setback and face any future without fear.

—Jonathan Sacks

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary