Renée

Just a silly little Canadian doing their silly little PhD in a terrifying American city

[valentineua]

Ascent of the Blessed (c.1505-15) - Hieronymus Bosch (Ascent of the Blessed is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made between 1505 and 1515. It depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. )

[cauterizedheart-deactivated2025]

[smokeandsong]

[dosartistas]

(vía Mary Magdalene with Angels)

Mary Magdalene with Angels. Completed  c. 1490. Medium, limewood.

This piece is located in Munich’s Bavarian National Museum, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Tilman Riemenschneider.

Tilman Riemenschneider was a master sculptor and woodcarver from the late medieval.

[twinpeaksfirewalkwithme-deactiv]

good morning followers. today I bring you anthony bourdain little hoop earring appreciation post. tomorrow? the same.

[twinpeaksfirewalkwithme-deactiv]

and when I said “tomorrow the same” I really meant it!!!

[puddeneen]

[wishiwasthemoon-tonight]

Robots are fucking warm, actually

[wishiwasthemoon-tonight]

Like, unless they have complex cooling systems and shit, they’re gonna have moving parts in them, gears and stuff, making their brains and shit work. Those create kinetic fucking energy, which warms them up, just like computers

[hampop]

My robot boyfriend, overheating because he refuses to move the dog off of his lap: *HEAVY BREATHING LAPTOP NOISE*

[redwing]

I think what you fixated on during the first 2020 covid lockdown pandemic informs a lot about how your upcoming covid years would eventually play out . MBTIs but for mental deterioration in isolation

[mephistopheles]

i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE

[mephistopheles]

me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:

[mushroom--soup]

[surnumanaja]

english: catnip

estonian: Nettle™ for Women

[anamericaninestonia]

[01101010-01100100]

being a person is insane

[illumineeti]

[dash-n-step]

the english language is truly a wonder

[scribeofpnakotis]

all hail william the werewolf, proto-enby

[wretchedly]

Diversity win! The werewolf in your village goes by þei

[thepleasuregoblin]

"uhhh Mormons don't actually believe that" I assure you their actual beliefs are even more absurd

[cryptotheism]

Google "Mormon Bigfoot"

[dontkillcoyotes]

Alright I’ll google it

[dontkillcoyotes]

[angelsfire2023]

What.

[lemuel-apologist]

So, funnily enough, that was technically retconned (ie, they taught it to everyone up until a few years ago, when they decided they didn't want to anymore).

The church nixed it in 2014 in a Gospel Topics essay and again in 2019 in a press release.

Funnily enough, I was still taught it in Seminary as late as 2020. Also, these decisions kind of fly in the face of previous doctrine stretching back a long time, and the idea of calling it a "caricature" of Mormon belief is more than a little infuriating to me.

[laineysbucketlist]

Wait what do you mean we don’t get a planet anymore? Isn’t that literally in the pogp?

[lemuel-apologist]

I don't know about the POGP (that's actually the book of scripture I've read the least), but I do know that there's record of it in other places.

Take, for example, these sections from D&C 132:20 and Chapter 47: Exaltation from the Gospel Principles handbook:

(Note about the above: the list does not end at 2, but I cut it for brevity's sake.)

There's also this portion from Chapter 10 of Doctrines of the Gospel Student (it's a quote from a talk by Spencer W. Kimball, so it IS doctrinally relevant).

And THEN, there was this section from the 36th Chapter of the 2002 Gospel Fundamentals book, under the subsection about the celestial kingdom:

So everything about the doctrine of exaltation points to it including literal godhood and planet creation in an infinite chain of divinity, but for some reason TSCC officially likes to pretend it doesn't. (That's insane, considering I was able to find most of these in the Gospel Library.)

[laineysbucketlist]

Why would they retcon that!? That was one of maybe three or four things about Mormonism that I still think was pretty cool.

[kngshxt-deactivated20180831]

I want you to be my baby daddy frfr

im sellin nut 500 a ounce!

[pettyness-deactivated20180903]

it don’t take that much to get someone pregnant lmao

[kngshxt-deactivated20180831]

okay it only take 2 cups of sugar to make a cake but walmart gon sell u the whole bag

[mutualintelligibility-archive]

"It’s often unhealthy to hyper-analyze your sexuality to the point where how you experience it changes where you belong. This is why the idea that broader terms are somehow more restrictive is baffling. Continuously breaking labels down and creating terminology for each facet of one’s identity shrinks communities until it’s just one person convinced that they’re the only one who relates to their experiences. It isolates people and ignores the importance of individuality within a collective identity."

On Hyperpersonalized Sexual Identity

[barefeetinsoil]

The author also dropped some gems in the last paragraph of the short article:

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

women be downloading pdfs

[just-another-keysmash]

And men….don’t….?…?

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

no men can’t read

[diendane]

I’m not sure what this says but I like the way the letters are shaped.

[sonofmeatthawsmoth-deactivated2]

many communists and anarchists have just taken bourgeois morality and reversed it, like when they say ridiculous things like “all stealing is good.” Stealing is sometimes useful, necessary, or fun, but it’s not “good” anymore than it’s “bad.” They’ve taken a aspect of bourgeois morality - “stealing is wrong” - and reversed, but still defining values in terms of bourgeois morals.

Anyway, here’s an example of when stealing is wrong: when it’s from me

[ursulaklegay]

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

[foulserpent]

you ever just…. fall into a burning ring of fire? and go down, down, down as the flames get higher? and like it burns burns burns etc. the ring of fire lol