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it's like this: fma 03 is my wife. mangahood is her equally stunning twin sister. but she's not my wife
actually its like this now: fma 03 is my wife. mangahood is her sister I have almost nothing in common with but no particular beef with, so I simply smile at and engage in polite superficial conversation with her at family gatherings
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Op turned off reblogs but I MUST
my contribution: characters w any strong religious belief or disbelief are poorly written bc the writers are casual cultural christians or agnostics who have rarely properly reflected on belief/disbelief personally, societally, and philosophically
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good lord this thing is useless
idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great
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ive been slowly reading through hans kung's On Being A Christian and hes more theologically liberal than I would like (rejecting miracles except maybe the Resurrection but hes vague about that, seemingly rejecting the Incarnation/Trinity/divinity of Jesus as metaphorical) but I still find him quite interesting and have a lot more respect and time for him than Spong and others because he doesnt settle for liberal demythologising as an easy reflex.
he clearly thinks that miracles etc are difficult to sustain in the Christian faith today but he makes this argument not by opposition to a broad group of people who are 'fundamentalist' by dint of believing in literally supernatural events but by appeal to philosophy, historical critical studies, the problematic implications etc. i feel like he makes a positive case for a demythologising that isnt about denigrating literal belief as childish or primitive, but the vibe is more like 'hmm well here are all these problems, so im offering you a solution!'
and ofc he writes as a catholic responding to traditional catholicism not to evangelicals so I get why spong etc have a real bone to pick w fundamentalism. but despite my disagreements I think kung thinks through things a lot more carefully
SIGNAL!!! BOOST!!! I don't care if this doesn't fit your blog's aesthetic, reblog EVERY TIME!!!
I know things are scary because they're going to strike us down with their powerful kicks, but here's what YOU (yes, YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW) can do
1. nothing
2. we're so fucked
WE'WE ALLLG ONNA DIE
If Jesus intended for self-hatred to be part of the religion he taught, he wouldn't have said to love thy neighbor as thyself.
Obligatory adding on one of my favorite quotes from The Universal Christ (Richard Rohr)
Not going to directly reblog this person because a young person who doesn't want to get married doesn't need to hear "marriage is good actually" BUT I see this a lot on Tumblr and I'm worried that some of it stems in a complicated way from homophobia and from world-negating philosophies like gnosticism. And I don't want to get into what I mean by that because we'll be here all day what I want to say is NO the best queer marriages do NOT fall short, and I know because I'm queer married in one of the best marriages ever.
A healthy marriage between people of faith (I'm in an interfaith marriage) isn't like "I'm married to this person instead of God," it's like "I'm married to this person WITH God." My husband and I were handfasted by my pastor and we read Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ("even two can be overpowered, but a three-stranded cord is not easily broken") during the ceremony and our three stranded handfasting cord is always on display in the living room: me, him, and God. Yes, on our own we fall short, but we are never alone, we are always with God.
Healthy marriages are also building blocks in communities and beacons and models for others. (This is not to say that individuals AREN'T, a marriage is just a different unit.) My model for a Christian marriage was actually an older hetero couple at my church and the way that their love reached beyond their marriage into the community. They were surrogate parents to young adults in the church who had moved far from home, for example. When I was getting married, I looked to them as an example. Now that I'm married, I know my marriage has done this for others because my little sister told me that my relationship was the one that showed her that SHE could find someone who loved all of her. (She's divorced from a man unworthy of being remembered and marrying a much better guy next summer!!) Healthy marriages bear fruit in their communities, just like individuals.
Do I find ultimate fulfillment in my marriage? No; I find ultimate fulfillment in God. I agree that pushing marriage as a means of fulfillment is harmful, but my marriage does not fall short. My husband and I don't collapse ourselves into each other in marriage; I'm me and they're them. We are united but distinct, much like the Trinity. This is part of what it means to be made in the image of a God who is Three and One. When we are united with others, we don't become them, we remain ourselves. This is true of Christian friendship, marriage, and community.
My other concern about this kind of rhetoric that heterosexual marriage can't be fulfiling is that it PREVENTS women who are attracted to men from finding good husbands. It creates an expectation that if you WANT to be married, WANT to have sex with men, or WANT to have kids, you will HAVE to settle for some loser who thinks he's babysitting his own kids. It is DIRE out there for straight people I won't pretend, but I do know straight couples who are happy, healthy, and loving who I look up to as models of relationships! NEVER SETTLE. The same goes for men attracted to men. You can find a fulfilling relationship if you want one! I don't know how because I went on my last first date in 2013 and everything seems like a nightmare now so godspeed but I've seen it happen.
I AM more fulfilled than I was as a single person. I was whole and complete when I was single, but I always knew I wanted to be partnered. It IS fulfilling for me to be married. This is one of my vocations from God, I have been given this person to love and have and help and to show the love of God. I love my husband and God loves my husband and God loves my husband through me. It is incredibly damaging though to suggest that EVERYONE will be more fulfilled in marriage, but my experience of marriage is I DO experience God's love through my husband, just like I experience God's love through my friends, my mom, my sister and the rays of the sun on a planet that was created by and through and for the Love that holds all things together and is making all things new.
This is not to say being married is better. It's better for ME. Being single is also wonderful; my best friend is unpartnered and happy and fulfilled and absolutely doesn't want to be married. Marriage is affirmed in scripture and tradition and singleness is also affirmed in scripture and tradition. If you want to be married, you should marry. If you don't want to be married, you shouldn't marry. If you want to have sex, you should have sex. If you don't want to have sex, you shouldn't have sex. The desires that God gave you are good. You don't have to put down someone else's call to affirm your own.
If you want to be married as a queer person, it's possible. If you want to find a good man, it's possible! This is important to me because my husband and I say to each other all the time that we had no idea that marriage would be this good! Growing up, everything told us that marriage is something natural and inevitable but you'll hate each other and your in-laws will suck and the rate of divorce is high but do it anyway. I know so many people who stick it out through shitty relationships because they think there's nothing better and it's important to me that everyone knows that doesn't have to be true. I love being married it absolutely rules
hot take but I can't stand the little rubber Jesus figures. I have been given three of them unwillingly and don't know what I can do with this woundless cartoon Jesus. they aren't useful for devotion. but I can't throw them away. they'll eventually be tossed in landfills where they won't biodegrade except to slowly leach microplastics, smiling the whole time.
they're probably made in factories by exploited workers to be passed around by middle class Christians. I wouldn't say they're idolatry per se but they are thoughtless, useless pieces of plastic that make a mockery of my faith but are still handed to me by people who profess to be Christian and somehow....like this thing?
the tiny plastic Jesus says "Christ loves you :)" in a useless way. its love is simply a warm feeling and happiness. its love is cute and clean and not groaning or bleeding on a cross. it offers nothing and demands nothing. it suffers nothing. and without suffering there is in fact no love. it's empty. the tiny Jesus is so offensive to me that I actually can't be coherent about it. but I just look at them and it's so offensive to me that we would turn Christ into cheap, mass-manufactured plastic for profit hey you know what it is idolatry I think
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The non-trinitarian heresies are interesting because they're terrible, but they're terrible in different ways.
Arianism is the most theologically problematic, because in Orthodoxy (and to a lesser extent in other branches) the point of Christianity is the union of humanity and divinity through the person of Christ, so if Christ lacks divinity or humanity than Christianity's whole purpose falls apart.
Modalism is the most biblically problematic, because the relationship between Christ and His Father is a major theme of almost every book of the New Testament, and so denying their separate personhood turns darn near every page of the New Testament into exegetical gymnastics.
Tritheism is the most philosophically problematic, because having three gods necessitates denying that God is the Ultimate Origin of All Things (since such a point is by definition singular), in the process turning Him into a being in the cosmos and raising the question of why He's worthy of worship or philosophically necessary.
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.
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ppl complain abt everyone being so boring/inauthentic/detached these days but the second u have interests they deem unusual theyll be like "waitttt thats giving neurodivergent..." like damn its so awesome that were pathologising giving a fuck about anything they dont sell at a tj maxx
You should be able to say βdonβt touch meβ to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something itβs this
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something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think
there are about 3 or 4 things that i think are noticeably missing from a lot of discussion of the film obsession online (admittedly on instagram of which i dont expect as high a calibre of discussion as tumblr, which i havent been checking as much), particularly around Bear - and i feel like this may be interpreted as defending or excusing him (they are not) but i think they are just about more accurately assessing his character:
bear's motives are fundamentally about inaction, not action. bear's complicity in the situation is that he doesn't do anything, doesn't seek help, doesn't want to acknowledge the situation is fucked up, doesn't want to accept he has inadvertently tortured nikki. his flaws are cowardice, laziness, self-centredness, hoping things will just magically improve baselessly - and analysis that frames his villainy as stemming from like an active desire to control/dominate or be egotistical doesn't seem to match the film. this doesn't excuse his actions, and re social commentary on misogyny i would argue better reflects the reality of men who benefit from the patriarchal norms that already exist even if they don't see themselves as like a redpilled manosphere type guy.
bear is not having fun - im not convinced this man is actually enjoying anything that happens past the little montage that ends with him asking about her dad at the restaurant. and obviously he ignores red flags before that (although evil nikky is very clingy when he drops her off and he tries to dodge) and he increasingly gets more and more stuck in the inadvertent consequences of his own actions, but like - he doesn't actually enjoy the situation either, and has no idea how to actually fix it. which imo makes things like SAing her worse because it's essentially like using the pleasure of sex to try and compensate for his own increasing confusion and unsureness about the situation.
relatedly, i feel like a lot of discourse tends to ignore freaky nikky being controlling/creepy/violent etc and how that shapes bear's response to the situation. which is obviously not to do a 'both of them are bad/mutual abuse' situation because freaky nikky is clearly a third entity distinct from real nikky and also kinda not even really a person so much as some strange spell thing. but if the film wanted to be about a straightforwardly domineering and misogynist man who turns a woman into his nice obedient tradwife sex slave with no complications it would be. and i suppose you can argue freaky nikky's obsession is supposed to be like a bait-and-switch from Bear's nice guy entitlement, which is true - clearly like, freaky nikky is not a moral agent whom we are supposed to like stand in judgment over. but a lot of the discourse like completely ignoring the way freaky nikky's actions shape bear's response to the situation seem like they are reading this as just like the handmaid's tale with mind control. but that's not the movie that was made. or to put it this way: bear could have said 20 min into the movie 'wow, this is fucked, she is possessed' and he would still have to contend with an obsessed stalker demon constraining his response to the situation.
bear clearly prioritises his own comfort and wants over saving nikky for the bulk of the film, and trying to undo the wish comes mostly when he can no longer pretend things are OK. however, he is also like a normal 20 something in like a small US town and it's also like, not unreasonable that he didn't immediately jump to killing himself or nikky to end her suffering. the way he responds to nikky asking him to kill her is fucked and extremely self-centred, but i feel like some commentary on the film is a bit like 'yes yes, we would all kill ourselves or euthanise our friends when theyre being possessed by torture demons, we've all been there'
