#divisions

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions about ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else." Archibald McLeish.

[cambriancrew]

I think a common issue with people calling for a more divided system community is the pervading idea that if you relate to a certain group of people and not others, that your view is the very much predominant view among your section. And that everyone, or most everyone, in your section are like you and relatable to you wholesale and no one in your section is going to relate to people in another section.

But that's far from true.

I'm not saying that there's no differences or that the sections are all basically the same. But the differences are only trends, not global rules. And they're granular, not overall: we're all different combinations of smaller things so you might relate to a particular selection of someone's overall combination but not others.

For example, we're a traumatized endogenic system with a median subsystem. So there's a lot of traumagenic experiences — flashbacks, dealing with sysmates that self harm, triggers that effect sysmates differently — that we relate to. And we relate to OSDD-1 systems with regards to our median system. Conversely, we have some members which have eclectic spiritual beliefs, and it's not uncommon for traumagenic systems to relate to those beliefs because traumagenic does not equate to no spiritual beliefs.

If people want to be in communities with only systems of their same origin and diagnostic status, that's great. But please don't push the idea that systems of other origins and diagnostic statuses as so very different no one in your community could ever relate to those from others. That just pushes people from your community away.

[barbarosboitoi]

Lee Farrell my beloved

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Happy birthday 🐎🔵!!

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[marcypuppycore]

Weird similarities I've noticed that probably don't mean anything:

"There are monsters in the sky There are demons in the sea" - from "Other Worlds Than These" by Starset "Dead things in the woods. [...] Dead things in the water." - from ASOIAF

[webradio]

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Saved in Order to Do Good

1 Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

2 To slander no one, to be uncontentious, forbearing, showing all meekness toward all men.

3 For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving as slaves various lusts and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

4 But when the kindness and the love to man of our Savior God appeared,

5 Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

6 Whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 In order that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

8 Faithful is the word, and concerning these things I desire you to confidently affirm, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain respectable works. These things are good and profitable to men.

9 But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

10 A factious man, after a first and second admonition, refuse,

11 Knowing that such a one is perverted and is sinning, though he is condemned by his own self.

12 When I send Artemas to you or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

13 Zenas the lawyer and Apollos send forward diligently that nothing may be lacking to them.

14 And let those also who are ours learn to maintain respectable works for their necessary needs, that they may not be unfruitful.

15 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. — Titus 3 | Recovery Version (REC) The Recovery Version of the Holy Bible © 2016 Living Stream Ministry. All rights reserved. Cross References: Deuteronomy 9:5; Ezekiel 36:25; Matthew 5:47; Matthew 7:19; Matthew 18:15; Matthew 22:35; Matthew 25:34; Mark 10:17; Luke 1:47; Acts 15:3; Acts 20:4; Acts 20:34; Acts 23:25; Romans 1:29; Romans 2:4; Romans 5:5; Romans 6:6; Romans 12:13; Romans 13:1; Romans 16:17; Ephesians 4:28; Ephesians 6:21; 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 1:14-15; 1 Timothy 2:8; 1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 6:17; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timothy 2:25

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