i am extremely well-adjusted and mentally healthy as long as nothing goes wrong ever at all even a little bit

@roombagreyjoy

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

the phrase "but i didn't mean to!" in the context of causing harm is kind of redundant to me, because almost nobody means to cause harm. most of us just want to do the right thing. and i don't mean that in a wishy-washy "oh, we're all good deep down" way, i mean that even people who regularly do the most heinous shit imaginable will have a way of justifying it to themselves. the world is not populated by hollywood sadists and psychopaths.

suicide note that says "don't let them think the haters won I just had other shit going on"

I think it’s difficult for someone who wasn’t raised Christian in a majority Christian area to understand how much Christians hate other varieties of Christians. Maybe you have an inkling of the centuries of bloodshed and discourse that has occurred between Catholics and Protestants but after that, different flavors of Protestantism hateeeeee each other. There are sects that are way more adversarial towards other interpretations of the faith (FUCK evangelicals) and others that are chill about it but one of the greatest enemies in the mind of a Christian is another Christian that doesn’t hate the things their own pastor told them to hate. Because you’re making a mockery of God if you don’t think exactly like they do, obviously, and you should know better because you have the audacity to call yourself a Christian.

This is genuinely part of the reason European colonists came to America. French Huguenots were subject to a number of brutal massacres by French Catholics, the Puritans thought the Church of England was too tolerant to Catholic practices and ended up colonizing New England about it. It’s not like these sects of Christianity got to America and played nice with each other, the Puritans got here and started killing Quakers. The religious struggle between different sects of Christianity and the debate over what constitutes a ‘real Christian’ has been at the core of America since before it was a country.

"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fête? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.

you've obviously been to a village fete

@roombagreyjoy

there are some apples that were conceived with hatred inside of them

The opposite of “the elephant in the room” is “the centipede in the room”: something that’s not actually an issue but everyone is freaking out about