So someone said something on reddit that really made me think.
This mentality has been something that I have increasingly hated over the last year. Because it’s true: Christianity isn’t just these 3 things. But many Christians ONLY harp on these 3 things while they brush over and ignore the rest. Where’s the outrage of the massive skyrocket in divorce in the churches? Where’s the people fighting for the lives of immigrants or caring for orphans? Where are the ones feeding the homeless, caring for the sick, fighting for the protection of your neighbors EVEN if they disagree with you? These things happen but they aren’t being seen. You know why? The broad brush.
You see, I see the broad brush being used even in churches. “All democrats are satanic”, “all republicans are Nazis”, “all ____ are wrong one some way. “ we say these things because they don’t agree with us. We put everyone else on blast instead of looking at ourselves and trying to change what’s wrong with us first. You want to know why Christians have a bad name right now in America? Ask Christians.
We need to stop blaming everything on non Christians. Yes, they will never see how we see unless God opens their eyes. But it’s not JUST that guys. How about the Christians that came in and cussed out my husband over a pillow? The world sees that. How about the Christians fighting online over masks, cussing up storms and calling masks satanic? The world sees that. How about the ones name calling, slandering, spreading rumors and being down right jerks online and off? The world sees that. The world sees the Christians who abuse. They see the Christians who claim Christ and beat their kids. They see the Christians saying they want to kill liberals. They see the Christians using fag regularly. They see the Christians against interracial marriage. They see the Christians who scream about abortion but do nothing to help the pregnant, orphans or widows. Yeah. The world sees that.
We believe the unchanged heart can’t see Christianity as good. So WHY do we keep trying to convince them there are false converts and true converts? They won’t understand that. Instead of telling them that, let’s try to HEAL those wounds. Let’s fix ourselves. Let’s clean up our churches. Put away ungodly talk and action and be Christ like. Love your enemy. Pray for the ones you don’t like. Go across the political line and help the one you voted against. BE THE LIGHT. Otherwise, we will never reach people with the gospel.
(FYI I’m not open to argue this. I don’t care if you want to condemn me for what I say here. If you don’t like what I’ve said please just scroll by. )
BURNING HOT TAKE
If Greta Gerwig is going to adapt the Chronicles of Narnia, she better try to understand the way the basic theology and allegories are infused with the story
If LOTR is reflective of the christian faith, then Narnia is VERY BLANTANT, in which , it’s literally a Jesus allegory
Better not be taking that away from the story
Would be nice if she started reading C.S Lewis’ other works and letter and diaries
Edit: I just hope she doesn’t misunderstand Lewis’s intent with Susan’s character, the typical white feminist rethoric, because Susan is basically based on himself!
One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.
As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.
Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.
it’s funny to me how the logic behind tumblr’s new layout changes are to coddle potential new users, to make them feel more comfortable by giving them a layout that’s more familiar to navigate
…..by making the CURRENT users feel LESS comfortable by giving them a layout that’s LESS familiar to navigate.
they’re prioritizing a hypothetical scenario over their established, existing userbase, some of which (like me) who have been here for 10+ years
So yeah I explained +pe added to the end of a word denoting a destination (just like +e in japanese!) and then +ha before that if the destination is not a static, named place (like “graduation party” versus “Asunción”) giving you a phrase like oho fiestahape [they’re going to the party]!
The question particles are +pa and +piko (the latter having greater emphasis, sometimes used like “HUH?”), and these can be added onto just about anything, transforming all that precedes it into a question.
This is really cool because that’s how you get all your “question nouns”:
mba'é [thing] -> mba'épa [what]
mava [someone] -> mavapa [who]
moõ [place] -> moõpa [where]
(if the context is clear enough though and you’re making a one word question/exclamation, the particle will be dropped and you can just be like, “mba'é??”)
The particle +icha (“ch” is pronounced like English “sh”) means “like this thing.” So cheicha [“me” + that particle] means “like me,” ndeicha is “like you.”
This is also how you build the classic Guaraní greeting, mba'éichapa, [mba'é + icha + pa] which literally means, “What’s it like?” Awesome!!!
i googled this on a whim and the first thing i get is nyt race science
just as an FYI for those who don’t know - the NYT publishes things that are lowkey eugenics and phrenology and race science CONSTANTLY. it flies under the radar except for journalism twitter calling them out but the NYT SUCKS. it is very hard to encourage people to find reliable sources online when the “reliable sources” like papers of record do shit like this, and the NYT is one of the WORST offenders.
tldr; Thomas Talhelm (PhD student, University of Virginia) interviewed over 1,000 Chinese college students from the wheat-growing regions in the north versus the rice-growing regions in the south, and found differences in their approaches to answering particular types of questions which could not be attributed to either pathogen prevalence or GDP. There was a correlation between holistic thought and rice agriculture, which requires an extremely high level of coordination, planning, awareness of neighbors’ needs, and community involvement because of how the crop grows. The study did not involve cultures outside of China. All of this occurred between different communities of Han Chinese people.It is an analysis of regional differences involving people of the same race.
tldr; The phenomenon might better be described as “rice agriculture versus non-rice agriculture,” but even then, there are cultures that score higher on holistic thinking than North Americans and Western Europeans that primarily grow crops with relatively lower community coordination (parts of Africa, South America, Russia, and the Middle East). Beyond this, the cost of crop production/effort to grow is not consistent throughout the world, because local growing conditions vary. The study is limited and needs to dive into other possible variables, but it’s not completely without merit.
The author of the NYT opinion piece, T.M. Luhrmann, is a highly respected Jewish anthropology professor from Stanford who primarily studies the way in which different cultures treat psychiatric illnesses, and how the West’s lack of compassion leads to poorer outcomes for the mentally ill.
Her opinion piece from the screenshot, which is all of 887 words, summarizes Talhelm’s study and then ends with 3 brief paragraphs condemning the individualism of the United States, Congress, and Silicon Valley.
Genuinely everyone on the internet needs to develop better news literacy & research skills and understand that in any publication, there will be some variation in the quality of the reporting based on who your writers / opinion piece guests are. Especially when it comes down to non-scientists having to interpret scientific findings for the general public. But this isn’t one of those cases - other than the poorly conceived illustration (which Luhrmann neither created nor approved), her article is absolutely fine. Other people may have run with the study and misattributed its findings, but that’s not on her or the NYT.
PLEASE send me any questionable articles by the NYT that allude to race science, and I’d be happy to look into them and dig up the actual scientific papers to determine if / how they’ve been misinterpreted.
idk what the article actually said because i clicked on the link and the website told me to give them $60
ill be honest your reply makes me angry. Don’t spread assumptions like this about articles based on the headline and a tbf absolutely horrendous caricature. like this is what @beemovieerotica means when they say people need better news literacy. Like it literally says in your very own screenshot that it is an opinion, not an actual news article. Sure the paywall on nyt sucks but maybe just don’t post about it then when you simply do not know.
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@kushblazer666 download uBlock Origin (or any other comparable, free adblocker) and click the “Turn off Javascript” button, and it will disable any paywall on any news article
Browsing fabrics is equal parts fun and infuriating, mostly because I’m tired of listings that say shit like “natural linen!” and then you go to the details of the listing and it’s a blend of linen and fucking plastic. Same thing with cotton. Even on the nice expensive fabric sites, they like to hide the fiber content at the bottom of the goddamn page and give the listings misleading titles.
See also: vegan leather. It’s fucking plastic. If I wanted plastic I would be shopping for fucking plastic! Get that shit out of my search results! God damn it! List it accurately or don’t waste my time! Fuck!
IF YOU MAKE ME ORDER SWATCHES JUST SO I CAN LIGHT THEM ON FIRE TO FIGURE OUT THE FIBER CONTENT, I HATE YOU
Okay? And? That means it would benefit everyone to have better fiber content labels, which is my entire issue. Fabric shops don’t label the fiber content clearly enough and it makes it harder to find what I am looking for.
I’m not sitting here telling people with allergies that they aren’t allowed to use synthetics. I’m saying that I, PERSONALLY, am looking for linen, and it’s really hard to find 100% natural linen without plastic blended in.
Notice: not only do your friends actually like you, they secretly like you twice as much as they let on
An experience that made me feel much more assured in my friendships was at college, a friend and myself were talking about a third friend of ours and how cool and knowledgeable and smart she is and how we feel like we could never be that cool. The next day I was working with a professor on some paper presentations we were about to have and when I came out of the staff room I was informed that these two aforementioned friends were having the same discussion about me. And it turns out we spent a lot of time thinking about our friends who aren’t currently in the room and gushing over how cool and smart and talented they are without being able to say all of it to their face.
Your friends secretly love you a lot more than they already express, just like you love them so intensely that saying it all to their faces would sound clumsy to your own ears. It’s true though
So many notes ppl confused by corn wielding Colima dog wait until you see the dancing figures…..blow your mind. Teach you true love
humankind…what more can I say. I can only aspire to have such deep and rich a human connection with anyone in this life that will be as radiant as a ceramic figural pair of dancing xolos
They’re also at the center of a roundabout
Mexican here, fun fact! While we call them “Dancing dogs”, they’re a young pup and an old dog, and the older one is revealing wisdoms right on the pup’s ear.
You’ll recognize the older dog bc he’s got wrinkles!! It’s a wonderful scene!!
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