Wandering the unfeeling world

filipino. catholic. animanga enthusiast. frustrated poet. writer. roleplayer.

[my-dailydreams]

[liones-s]

AI has made the internet so much less fun. I don't want to question whether a photo of a bunny is real. I don't want to worry about someone making a deepfake just because I posted a pic with my friends. I want to read a recipe and know that the photo is a real cake they made. Yes I know I need to touch grass but also I think I should be allowed to interact online without second-guessing whether someone fabricated every image for personal gain

[liones-s]

btw this is about the tragedy of the commons. it's not about spending too much time online or whatever - it's about the fact that a handful of people are polluting the collective space to the detriment of everyone else, and that there is no way to stop them from doing that. it sucks and it's killing the internet, and I'm mad about that

[tenaciousmoneymuffinzine]

Never underestimate my ability to look for the Christian themes in any story, book, movie, show, anything.

It's very obviously not a Christian story? Too bad. I'll find the themes anyway.

I am unstoppable. Try me.

[thenamelessmonk]

A story with any truth in it is Christian by its nature because Christ is the way, the truth, and the life

[sunflower-chai]

i keep accidentally referring to “good friday” as “black friday” but i mean name a better deal than the free gift of eternal life

[engimemeing]

mmmmmm not a fan of religious characters in shows being encouraged to go against their beliefs portrayed as personal empowerment and A Good Thing™

[chichi2000fgh]

How is going against things you were taught to believe from birth and thinking for yourself not literally personal empowerment.

[emeraldboreas-deactivated201809]

Concept: a huge amount of religious people weren’t that way from birth. Another concept: a huge amount of religious people think quite deeply about their faith. Another concept to blow your mind: these days, being genuinely devout is counter-culture, whereas being non-devout is mainstream. So you want us to think for ourselves by doing what society expects of us?

[greater-than-the-sword]

Another concept is that sometimes a person may be taught something good from birth and their moral arc involves reaffirming it in the face of opposition

[calicofae]

“being kind takes zero effort” Lies.

Being kind takes enormous effort. Being kind means humbling yourself- it means saying no to your pride- it means forgiving someone instantly- it means putting someone convenience over your own for some time- it means acting as if the universe doesn’t revolve around you. Being kind is hard. Being kind is not butterflies and sickly sweet, half-witted compliments. It’s work. It’s serving others. It’s being silent when you don’t want to. It’s being honest. It’s being gentle. It’s being true even if the other person disagrees. Being kind is one of the hardest things a person can do and we need more of it.

[eternal-echoes]

I like how Kaoruko just redefined girlboss energy as someone who is strong enough to protect someone from getting bullied

[eternal-echoes]

This is such a cute way to know that your crush likes you back: in the arms of your best friend saying “can confirm he likes you too.”

[eternal-echoes]

I think there’s a tendency among us to see and romanticize romantic relationships as being inside this bubble with only with your significant other (or see our OTPs as being the only people in the story). But the reality is is that they have family and friends they came from that shaped them to be the person that they are. And if you really love them, you would embrace the totality of their person; what they treasure in the hearts and the other people they love in their lives.

This was such a great kind gesture from Rintaro because he doesn’t want to cut Kaoruko from her best friend, despite the bad blood between Kikyo and Chidori.

[vexheart]

This

[traumacatholic]

Prayer for Protection from Despair

Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others. Other people will glorify You by making visible the power of Your grace by their fidelity and constancy to You. For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless and that no sinner no matter how great his offences should have reason to despair of pardon. If I have grievously offended You, My Redeemer, let me not offend You even more by thinking that You are not kind enough to pardon Me.

by St. Claude de la Colombiere

[carharttlesbian]

sexual boundaries can never be immoral. not sorry. to say otherwise is rape rhetoric. 

[eubalaena]

this is literally about thinking trans women are just men

[kiefbowl]

pay attention and people will just tell on themselves

[radlearning]

tumblr post: rape and sexual coercion is ALWAYS wrong

some fucking idiot: what about when trans women do it????? checkmate transphobe

[greater-than-the-sword]

Holy shit guys. Apparently there's a company marketing "period pills" "to return your period if it's late" which are actually MIFEPRISTONE.

Nowhere outside the small print (the small print designated as specific to INDIANA) will they say that these actually "could be considered" abortion pills.

They do NOT tell people that the likely extremely painful bleeding they will suffer is not a real period but actually an early miscarriage.

They do NOT tell people to confirm pregnancy before taking these. Even if you are pro-choice, this should still shock you! Mifepristone is toxic as hell and you can't just pop it! On top of that, mifepristone will not end an ectopic pregnancy, so women could DIE from never confirming pregnancy and thinking they could not possibly be pregnant after popping one of these.

Furthermore, of course, there is the horrifying possibility that young girls could take these not even knowing what they do.

Rb to warn anyone who needs to hear this

[landrinha]

It will never cease to amuse me

The small "kill me" oh he's SO done

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

ACTUALLY you know what I have something to add to this:

that's Weird Al

"The Order of Our Father of Perpetual Refrain" is incredibly pleasing to say out loud. girl the alliteration

[landrinha]

Bestie I'll not lie to you, I didn't know who Weird Al was till people start tagging it in the post so I looked it up.

[iustuspeccator]

When you are posting on tumblr, do not add your commentary to the text of the post, in case others disagree with you and the original poster may come and say to you, "Make your own post," and then you will be in disgrace. But when you post, add your commentary to the tags, so that when the original poster sees them, they may say to you, ‘Friend, do not hide this in the tags'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who blog with you.

[iustuspeccator]

#on that appointed day many will say 'did you not say we should piss on the poor‚ and that you hate waffles‚ and that sharks are smooth?'#and then will i declare to them 'depart from me‚ for i am turning reblogs off and muting this post'

@library-windows friend do not hide this in the tags!!

[starlightandtears]

You cannot…mistreat children….because you think they’re gross or annoying…they’re children.

[starlightandtears]

This is going in the top 5 most contested/controversial posts I’ve ever written.

[girlfishes]

Since some pro-lifers here are deciding to unmask.

My family was involved in the pro life movement, and a first degree relative of mine worked at a pro-life pregnancy center for many years when I was a child. I was taken to protests and events, heard sermons about it in church and every night prayed for the unborn babies.

But when I became an adolescent I realized something about the nature of pregnancy and the labor that my movement forces on women for the sake of others.

A woman’s body does not merely carry a pregnancy. She builds it. Every bit more developed an embryo or fetus become is because of her labor, and delegation of her energy away from her own body.

At any point a woman can decide that she does not want to continue building a pregnancy. She has the right to decide that she does not want to divert any more of her own energy towards someone else. This is the principle of bodily autonomy. You can think that it is the right thing for her to do to continue using her own energy and labor towards someone else, but you absolutely cannot compel her.

You cannot compel someone to toil for someone else, even if that other person needs it to live.

[ave-immaculata]

Crucial context for the above: "deciding she doesn't want to divert any more of her energy towards someone else" never permits a woman to kill that "someone else." That's the alternative being presented here: Diversion of energy vs. willful killing of a human person.

We do compel people to toil for someone else, and we should, specifically when the only presented alternative is intentionally and directly killing that other person. In most cases, thankfully, that isn't the gravity of the dichotomy and yet we compel people anyway:

We compel parents to provide the basic necessities for their born children, such as food, water and shelter. We compel divorced spouses, oftentimes, to provide financially for their ex-spouse through things like alimony, even though this involves toil. Certain professionals can be charged if they see someone in need of their care and do not try to help them, even if they're off the clock. We have duties to other people, we have obligations to other people, and sometimes those demand things of us. The most basic obligation we have is to not kill our children.

A woman who gives birth is morally and legally bound to care for her child, even if she intends to transfer care of that child to someone else, until such a point that the child's care can be safely transferred. She has an obligation to get that baby to a safe haven box, rather than abandon it outside, for example. That might involve diverting her energy for that child. That's good and reasonable. If she's arranged an adoption beforehand, there is paperwork that has to be filled out. There is toil involved in those processes as well that (I hope) we don't want to be "optional."

In the same way, pregnancy does involve a lot of energy and toil. Undeniably so. But a woman has a moral (and should have a legal) obligation to not kill her child so that care can be safely transferred to someone else, assuming she doesn't want to raise the child herself in this situation.