imani

27 🌞 London mad about period drama

[oyeevarnika]

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your potential even though all your elementary teachers really liked you and said you were gifted and that you were going to do great things

[fictionadventurer]

Do you guys ever think about how much Darcy's anti-people-pleasing personality was shaped by growing up with Wickham? Sure, Darcy was probably naturally more introverted, but when you grow up beside the kid who everyone loves for being so open and friendly and charming, but you know he's hiding a selfish personality, you'll start to see changing your personality to please other people as lying. Manipulative. If you don't want to be like that, it's easy to over-correct in the other direction, until you're neglecting basic courtesy for fear of being dishonest.

Darcy sees Bingley being genuinely kind and courteous, but that's Bingley's natural personality--Darcy can't pretend to be what he's not. When Wickham comes and everyone falls in love with him, it's just more proof of his dishonesty. Darcy's unpopular, but at least he's truthful. He can be proud and aloof on the moral high ground. He thinks he's being true to himself, but he's actually warped by Wickham. He's so afraid of being a scoundrel that he's not able to act like a gentleman. He rejects what Wickham is, but in the process, fails to become what he wants to be.

[minuty]

[rawcunningmaster]

[bornagain-melchlor]

[permanenteclipse]

The reason you hate when someone tells you to do something you were already going to do is because you had an opportunity to display responsibility but they needed it to be obedience. So now you feel you're being perceived as lazy and deferential instead of considerate and independent. Btw

[permanenteclipse]

Nobody else tell me what this is called in the DSM, stop pathologizing every possible experience, stop treating yourself like a fascinating case study in brain diseases instead of a person healing from mistreatment. We're talking about "wanting to be taken seriously" today, not psychiatry-approved "stubborn and petulant for no reason disorder"

[ofangelsandanime]

The rest of the post: "16 million Christians displaced. 19,000 thousands churches and 2,200 Christian schools attacked and sacked. This year alone, 7,000+ Christians have been killed, and 7,300+ kidnapped. Catholic priests are killed and kidnapped almost routinely. The worst of the reality is that the media is silent. Not one word of news or report. So, here is what we think can be done to help. First, we lack the insitutional advantage. So, the best option is to make noise, strategic noise to quarters that matter. Let us make documentaries, grant interviews on the international media, engage the UN, petition the US etc. Also, let's call on the Nigerian heavyweight churches to make active advocacies to the end that this carnage be addressed. With enough awareness, their will be attention, and with attention will come solution."

Our siblings are in trouble, and need our help to at the very least spread awareness. Also pray for them.

[bennetsbonnet]

Happy 30th Anniversary, Ep 2 of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

(First Broadcast 1st October, 1995)

[fiendforfreckles]

My siblings in Christ. Do not use the phrase “I’ll be praying for you” to upset or offend or trigger someone. Do not weaponize prayer to hurt people. Do not weaponize prayer to tell someone you’re better than them.

Praying for your enemies is the definition of a “but when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret” situation.

Do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners [and on social media] so that others may see them. If you’re telling someone you’re praying for them, it should be spoken only as a message of love and comfort and support.

So if it won’t make them feel loved and comforted and supported, go👏🏻to 👏🏻your 👏🏻inner 👏🏻room 👏🏻

[henk-heijmans]

Donkey getting some shade on a hot sunny day in Greece - photographer unknown

[random-brushstrokes]

Théophile Steinlen - Deux chats couchés sur un canapé (1896)

[purpleisnotacolor]

it's so fun seeing all this poetry on tumblr about "gods" when everyone's concept of a "god" is just a superhero who'll die from a lack of attention, and mine is a maximally great being.

[purpleisnotacolor]

"…what's a God to a nonbeliever?" a real and supremely powerful being who continues to be such despite being ignored? the same as math is to the illiterate? the same as the sun is to the blind? the same as a hurricane is to the person who ignored the warnings and stayed on the shore?

[ajeckaea]

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

-C.S. Lewis

[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

[zoltyx]

[civil-defense-system]

I cannot imagine being the family of someone who's literal gore video is being passed around as a meme

[civil-defense-system]

I think the death of anyone is pretty bad actually. I know it's crazy that's so extremist evidently

[takineko]

I hate how desensitized everyone is forced to be. You HAVE to accept that you're going to see porn bots graphic ads and someone's last few seconds of life just show up in your feed sometimes. In any other instance, someone forcing these images at you would be prosecutable, but online we pretend its normal.

[traditional-latin-math]

Kinda wild that saying "I don't think people should be shot in cold blood" makes people think they know your political affiliation, depending on the week.

[ablatheringblatherskite]

Every time I see someone post about how someone's life doesn't matter because they did something terrible, or that they deserve to die because of it, or that they don't deserve any pity or love or mercy or grace or forgiveness or redemption because they did horrible things... I just want to cry.

And it's worse when it's from a Christian. Because you know what?? That just doesn't seem Christ-like to me. God is a righteous and just God, but that's His job, not ours.

When it's you, it's sin.

[ablatheringblatherskite]

Also I will add: THIS ALSO APPLIES TO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

[ablatheringblatherskite]

@anachriva respectfully, I disagree! They could have been the most evil, depraved person in the world and even then we are called to love. And it's not that it's a Christian thing to do—it's that it's a CHRIST-LIKE thing to do. Jesus died for EVERYONE'S sins, REGARDLESS of what they've done, so it is not within our right to hate ANYBODY.

No, that doesn't mean tolerating it and accepting it. No, that doesn't mean not taking measures to ensure they don't do it again if they're dangerous. No, it doesn't mean being passive and letting them do whatever the heck they want. No, it doesn't mean taking mistreatment lying down. But that DOES mean NOT wishing death on them or believing they are less deserving of love, mercy, forgiveness, redemption and grace.

No person has a right to withhold any of these things. Because in the end we're all capable of great evil. And ultimately, the fact that they ended up doing things that are bad is a tragedy.

I'm not saying I've never felt hatred towards somebody, because I have. Dude, I HAVE, and I still struggle with it today. But I DO know that it's wrong, no matter how evil that person is or who many people they've hurt.

And yes, I am also very aware that forgiveness and grace are EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, especially when they've hurt people, and especially if it's personal. Good thing God is capable of anything, and that it's in HIS hands and not ours.

[kimbearablykute]

Also, forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting and not protecting yourself and others from that person. You can say to someone, "You are a human in the image of God and I hope to see you in heaven" without saying, "I give you free reign to harm others again." I feel like this is a nuance that both sides of the argument ignore.

[christiannerd]

Every time I hear people saying "it's ok to hate/want dead THIS person because they've done X really bad thing" I always point to Paul the apostle. Like, dude used to be on a murder spree, but God forgave him. There's not any exceptions here