The good news: If Biden holds Nevada or manages to get Georgia he wins.
The bad news: Nevada is stalled at 75% reporting and it could be a WEEK before all the mail-in ballots are received and counted, Georgia is 98% reported and it's within 1%, it should never have been this close in the first place, the Senate and House races still don't have a clear majority, and IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THIS CLOSE IN THE FIRST PLACE
My chest hurts and I'm sucking up all my phone battery checking the results every 10 minutes and Nevada hasn't moved at all and I physically CANNOT handle waiting a dang week to know what flavor of Civil War is coming to finish off 2020.
I woke up to the newest bnha manga chapters, supernatural, soul eater saying non-binary rights, the elections, and Putin stepping down. Please, it's 6 am I gotta go to school Tumblr let me rest-
🦀🦀🦀🦀ORANGE BITCH IS OUT LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO🦀🦀🦀🦀!! On a more serious note to my fellow poc and lgbt+ mutuals please stay safe when heading out during these times!! Things are going to be a little dangerous for us so please try to stay safe. To non American friends celebrating with us thank you so much for your support it means the world to us ;-; and that’s all I have time for before heading out to work hwoehebei
I was thinking about the election and different ways that we can respond to it. You don't have to agree with this of course this is just kind of me shouting my thoughts into the void because I’m too traumatized to go to Bible study so instead I just tell my little atheist Tumblr following lmao hey guys ily thanks for listening to me rant occasionally i hope you’re all doing ok~
TLDR: Psalm 139:11-12 “If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,” even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as day.”
Long version:
Anyway my philosophy professor talked about how Stoicism as a philosophy is becoming popular again because the core tenet of Stoicism is that things can't hurt you, only your response to things can. For a lot of people this is comforting because it kind of combats the feeling of helplessness that can come from something as big and untouchable as the election. Maybe you can't control the event, but you can control your response to it.
I personally find this far less encouraging than I find it invalidating. The idea that comes with humans being the only moral actors in the world (which is an adjacent nietzschian philosophy) is that events themselves don't actually contain any meaning, actions in and of themselves don't have moral value apart from the moral values that humans assign them. Morality and value begins and ends with humanity. So natural disasters, death of loved ones, or doing bad things to other people aren't bad in and of themselves but because we perceive them as bad.
But to me, it seems like things are just really sucky sometimes. It seems like everything on the earth wants to be alive, and everything grieves when things die. There’s videos of chimpanzees crying over the loss of their friends, and empathizing with their caregiver who had a miscarriage. There’s videos of birds calling out and looking for their dead mates and of elephants returning to the graves of their lost relatives. It seems to me like the entire earth groans with the weight of grief. It seems like everything that’s alive cries out and sobs as one in this deep mourning. And it seems like it shouldn’t be this way. I just can’t accept that this is the best possible universe, the best way that everything could be. I can’t believe that these universal values come from only humans, coming from nowhere, moving toward nothing.
If things have inherent value, and value that comes outside of us, then the reason we’re hurt by bad things isn’t because we’re weak. It’s because bad things happened to us. The election isn’t scary because we’re scared, it’s scary because we’re afraid of the ways it could hurt us, hurt our loved ones. It’s scary because it’s evil. It’s this real legitimate external fear with a badness that comes from outside of us, that isn’t just as a result of human invention or imagination. Other people’s actions can be good or bad, evil or wonderful. Things people do can hurt because actions mean something.
In Christian philosophy/theology, this external source of meaning is God. Things are good because God is good, and when I say God is good I don’t mean he contains this character trait goodness but that he IS the definition of goodness and everything that contains this character trait “good” is called good because in a way it looks like him. So things that are good and wonderful are that way because they were made that way, they were written into the very fabric of the universe.
While in Stoicism we are told to simply not look at things that make us sad because they have no real value or power beyond what we give them, the Bible would let us grieve, because God is grieving. God grieves death along with all of creation.
But we also don’t have to carry the weight of the world. We aren’t expected to be able to save the world. That responsibility falls on God. If we believe he is who he says he is, we can rely on that promise. That no matter what happens he is in control. He is in charge. And in the end his purpose will be served one way of another.
This is why Isaiah 55 is my favorite book of the Bible, it goes like this;
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts. [So he doesn’t just say that his thoughts are different from ours because he’s going to do what he wants even if it’s bad, but that he has plans to bless us that are better than we could ever think to ask for, they’re as much higher as the heavens are higher than the earth <3]
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it produce and sprout,
And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.
For you will go out with joy
And be led in peace;
The mountains and the hills will break into shouts of joy before you,
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper will come up,
And instead of the stinging nettle, the myrtle will come up;
And [f]it will be a [g]memorial to the Lord,
An everlasting sign which will not be eliminated.”
In Psalm 139:11-12, David says, “If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,” even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as day.”
In the knowledge that God is in control, even when horrible things happen, we can rest in the knowledge that God will do what he wants, and that in the end we will have peace in heaven.
In Job 41 God said, “Can you draw out Leviathan (we think a big animal like an alligator) with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears? Lay your hand on him and remember that battle, you will not do it again! Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before me? Who has given to me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole earth is mine.”
Anyway if you made it this far kudos! Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions.
imagine being so bad at being a president that 5 states flip on you and your opponent wins the popular vote with over 5 million votes than you won last time.
I'm not american so you won't see me talking much about the us elections but I want to let it clear that my blog is not for trump supporters and it never will be, please leave
