#scruples

Because he's making trying to watch the DR3 anime really difficult.

In return, have a 2 year old drawing of him that I did for a button commission

propaganda:

that last one doesn't have an english edition, but it's really popular in Germany rn and even got a film adaptation. That book was also a bday gift from my bff ♡

Scruples has been sitting in my shelf for a while. I've heard it described as booktok smut before booktok so I want to read it and compare it to todays published smut haha. There's also a tv adaptation available for free on youtube!

I've been eyeing Greek Lessons ever since a bookseller in Luxembourg recommended it to me. It also won han kang a nobel prize of literature

16th Century weights and measures seem like they use they same system as when my mum tries to give me a recipe over the phone

I like these two diagrams as a way of explaining why it’s not always better to be stricter with oneself. 

Some people assume that moderation in the spiritual life is a code word for lukewarmness:

As a result, they don’t have any defenses against any immoderate religious practice, so long as it points to being stricter. Someone mentions Saint so-and-so, who lived on nothing but the Eucharist, and the person thinks, either, “that’s what it takes to be a saint” or even, “I know my diet from now on.” This mentality was behind the Jansenist heresy in the Church, which basically held that any concession to human weakness made one ineligible to receive Communion.  This mentality is also characteristic of the spiritual disease of scruples.

The correct way to think about moderation in religious practice is expressed in this diagram:

Here the moderation in religious practice is virtuous, a “mean between the extremes” in the ancient description of virtue. People with scruples often don’t understand this, which is why not only do they keep adopting stricter and stricter standards for their behavior, but why also they find themselves in despair when they fall short of those strictest standards.