[boobina]

we exist for love btw

[sonia-marmeladova]

[log6]

Undialectical, Revisionist, Petty Bourgeois, Reactionary, Opportunist, Individualist, Idealist, Insurrectionist, Adventurist, Ultraleftist, Vulgar, Empiricist, Denigrative, Counterfactual, Anti-Marxist, Unscientific, Liberal, Positivist, Revanchist, Decadent, Ahistorical, Relativist, Proundhonist, Standpoint Theorist, Renegade, Dogmatist, Sophist, Collaborationist, Counter-Revolutionary, Reformist, Modernist, Vain, Ignorant, Kautskyite, Right Deviationist, Philistine, Labor Aristocratic, Imperialist, Infantile, Reductionist, Chauvinistic, Fetishist, Uneducated, Legalist, Establishment, Utopian, Apologist, Cryptofascist, Lassallean, Interventionist, Campist, Electoralist, Bootlicking, Naive, Restorationist, Philosophizing, Arrogant, Preposterous, Capitalist, Jingoist, Asocial, Uncritical, Incoherent, Class Traitor, Corrupted, Illiterate, Colonialist, Comprador, Anti-Communist, Metaphysical, Mechanist, Essentialist, Sneedian, Moralist, Nationalist, Erroneous, Negationist, Denialist, Demagogue, Formalist, Patronizing, Defeatist, Unsubstantiated, Emotional, Particularist, Doctrinairist, Profane, Déclassé, Rightist, Fallacious, Capitalist Roader, Denouncable, Factionalist, Vandalizing, Unserious, Commandist, Careerist,

[patricide1885]

^ You if you have a problem with my posts

[charl0ttan]

of course you have blue curtains and subtext

[nullheaven]

A wise old native american chief once met a libtard in the forest. The

[jennytmiss]

If YouTube’s new AI flags you as “underage” and asks for an ID or your face, DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM.

Uninstall the app. Close the browser. Leave a 1 star review on the App Store and/or Google Play Store. Call them if you can, and don’t email as there aren’t any humans that see those.

Let them know that this new policy unfairly targets gamers, those with autism, those who watch cartoons, etc. It was never about protecting the kids.

[sonia-marmeladova]

I cannot emphasize enough how much I truly do not care about children having unlimited access to the internet, and how much I wish every single website required photo ID to keep children off of their websites. "Gamers and those who watch cartoons" are oppressed? Fabulous.

[devilishdescent]

getting murdered but i can’t even afford the name brand stuff so im getting snawed in half and scrabbed to death and shit

[manjaro-official]

and now you're just somebiden that I used to joe

[servitum-amoris]

Another fun thing of Christianity vs. Animism is the spiritual realm.

To them, it's a place of constant, horrific warfare and battle.

In Animism, we're just one big family. Some of us are more friendly than others, but we're just singing and eating food and sharing gifts. :)

[sonia-marmeladova]

A belief system that conveniently conceives of spirituality as 'good times' totally divorced from the challenges of being a moral and good person. Quirky! Christian spirituality is a battle because evil is worth rejecting and good is worth fighting for. However, it's not all 'warfare.' More often than not it is peace and rest. The fruits of the Spirit are "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."

[justanotherepiscopalian]

Angels and demons in (traditional) Christianity are weird because they're an integral part of the faith's worldbuilding yet are largely removed from the Christian's conscious experience.

There's an innumerable host of demons swarming the whole earth trying to tempt souls. They're also engaged in constant battle with an even more innumerable host of angels. Can we see these demons and angels? No, except in the extraordinarily rare cases when they choose to present themselves before mortals (or when God wills it). Can they interact with the physical world? Demons, probably not; angels can, but who knows how often they do. Can we perceive their spiritual warfare upon/within us? Only faint shadows for the most part, but then again you might just have an upset stomach or be mentally ill--who's to say. Don't think about it too hard. Also a few specific angels are saints

[sonia-marmeladova]

A few things here. Angels and demons can interact with the physical world because they supersede it. They are beyond time and pre-existed the world even, so their experience is probably far bigger than we can even imagine. For the same reason demons can manipulate the human imagination and, to a certain extent, the human body, because these things pertain to our materiality. They can also influence the intellects of humans, although demons have no good motivation to enlighten a human intellect. More likely its angels who do so. Aquinas has quite a bit on the angels that all flows from natural reason, if you're interested.

The Bible hints that the angels who dwell in the created world (as opposed to, say, those before the throne praying) keep the cosmos in harmony - they maintain the laws of physics, move the stars, etc. They keep the order. The universe is full of angels doing things all the time. Angels are also associated with individual nations and communities as a kind of guardian and guide. Fallen angels might have also had nations, and maybe these were the nations that fell into demon worship (such as those who committed routine child/human sacrifice).

Also, all angels are saints. A saint simply means a person in heaven, and all angels enjoy the beatific vision. But we don't know all of their names.

Some of us do call on the angels regularly. Catholics maintain each person has a guardian angel from conception, who prays for them and guides their heart and mind every day. There are special prayers asking for angelic help, including to the angels Michael and Gabriel. We call on the angels during Mass. There are some places where Michael appeared and left relics. And personally I have known people who have seen angels in one time or another, whether at the sacrifice of the Mass, or requesting special favors from their angel in the spiritual life.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Would like to reiterate that Christians cannot be possessed.

Christians receive the Holy Spirit based on the finished work of Christ alone.

This means the Holy Spirit never leaves us.

Not even when we go astray and get involved in things Christians shouldn't. Not even when we sin in a big way. I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Thank you.

[sonia-marmeladova]

"The Holy Spirit never leaves us." Peter would like to have a word with you.

 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

Pretty obvious to Peter that some people can be in relationship to Jesus and then leave Him. Other places in Scripture make it clear that you can make your soul an uninhabitable place for the Spirit. Plain experience proves people raised in the faith can reject it - or embrace it again.

It's also, honestly, dangerous to tell Christians they can never be possessed. No demon can possess you without consent, I'm sure, but just because you were once saved in Christ doesn't guarantee you will always cooperate with those graces. Many people fall away.

[tomyfellowplutonians]

The Assumption by Juan de Jesus Mundra Ochoa

[awanqi]

Paintings of the story of the Assumption of the BVM

[sonia-marmeladova]

@shoutsofmybones

[sonia-marmeladova]

Been awhile. How has everyone been?

[francesderwent]

when it comes to the dating outside the faith conversation, which has circled around a few times in the last couple months, I think there are a couple points it helps to remember:

1 Corinthians 7:12-16! Paul tells us there is a mystery of grace in marriage by which an unbelieving spouse may be saved!! it’s not guaranteed, but it’s a beautiful possibility to hope for! he was speaking largely about people who had become Christians after marriage, but the point still stands. if this is what Scripture tells us, we don’t gain anything by trying to be more pious than Scripture.

when it comes to married Saints, Zelie and Louis Martin, who were both equally enthusiastic about Jesus when they got married, are the exception. our most well-known married Saints were married to someone who was either not a believer at all or not a fervent believer. look at St Frances of Rome and St Elizabeth of Hungary and St Monica and St Rita! saints are examples of heroic virtue, going above and beyond what is usually possible, so we don’t have to emulate their extremism in every way. but it would be a mistake to think that marriage to someone less religious is inherently bad or unholy. again. we don’t gain anything by trying to be more pious than the saints.

and my own personal take: what makes a good partner is not necessarily piety or “practice” of religion, but openness. somebody who really lives for others and keeps their commitments and recognizes good where they find it, even if they don’t practice a religion (right now), might very well be a better spouse than someone who lives for themselves, flakes out every time responsibility rears its head, and is blind to everything in the world but their petty inconveniences and sufferings, even if that person goes to church on Sundays. that’s because worldview is more than just skin deep! the first person might be far more capable of appreciating your faith as a good and beautiful thing than the second person, because the second person is gonna balk every time you try to nudge them to give more or try harder. and that is actually the litmus test: whether your significant other sees your faith as a good thing, something that they love about you, or whether they see it as an annoying inconvenience.

it’s fine to say that personally you don’t think you’d like to marry someone who doesn’t share your beliefs. healthy and prudent, even. but it’s not okay to say that someone who marries outside the faith is less Christian or less holy for it.

[sonia-marmeladova]

i'm not sure it's about being "less Christian" or "less holy" (although concerning that latter bit, with absolute certainty holiness will be much, much harder by marrying outside the faith). it's more that marrying somebody outside of your faith is wildly imprudent at best, and the main reason people even have this conversation is they are unwilling to sacrifice their personal, self-interested, but also natural desire to be with a certain person for the sake of their faith, which explicitly asks us not to marry unbelievers. i notice you left out what Paul says about partnerships with unbelievers: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

i am a little shocked that you mention St. Monica and St. Rita - women for whom being married to unbelievers/men of poor faith was an incredibly painful, painful cross. it is one thing to already be married to someone who becomes this way, and for God to bring good out of that situation. to intentionally do it is, frankly, a kind of sin against your children.

i have to wonder if you're unmarried, and therefore speaking from zero experience regarding what married and family life is really like. these things will become extremely, painfully, abysmally apparent to you when you have children and are put to the test through various trials that push you to your very last thread. then you would see how marriage to an unbeliever becomes a huge open wound in your family, and the worst part is - you would have chosen that for your family, knowingly, when the Scriptures explicitly advise against it.

[sonia-marmeladova]

in case any one was wondering i switched to a flip phone and my life has been better and holier ever since. i have 2839283928 more hours in my day and no longer doom scroll or use my smartphone to deal with negative emotions. in case you needed the push, here it is.

[pawgsaxoneuropa-deactivated2024]

A close up of the death panels on at Mary’s church Sparham Norfolk the last Anglo Saxon designed church to be built and was most probably finished by the Norman 1067AD.

[femalemalice]

I love slinging off my bra and just going the fuck to bed instead of whatever this insane shit is