#simple solutions

y u always gotta make it complicated, meatbucket??

(for someone who needs to hear this again)

When someone speaks or posts, without even trying we know who they’re listening to. Where they get their information from.

The perspectives and biases (left, right, or whatever) that are baked into their information sources become obvious from their assumptions. From how they understand what other people are saying and doing.

It’s easy to spot the limits that a given set of perspectives and biases puts on someone else’s thinking. How it hobbles their understanding of things.

Especially when their perspectives and biases are different from ours.

Truth be told, you and I are just like them. Our preferred perspectives and biases aren’t better than everyone else’s.

Our preferred perspectives and biases just create a different set of limits on our understanding of things. Limits that we think of as normal. Or healthy. Or right.

Because they’re ours.

What’s missing from all of it? The big picture.

Oh sure, we’ve all got pieces and parts of the real thing. But that’s all we’ve got.

It’s a natural weakness of human thought. We like to make things simple. Even if they really aren’t.

We’ll focus on one aspect or one idea that makes sense to us. And then try to use that one thing to make sense of everything.

Whether it works or not.

Think of Maslow’s classic line - “if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

When you put it that way, the problems caused by using one aspect or one idea to understand everything, the problems caused by “hammerism,” are obvious.

It’s exactly what John the Baptist is talking about in the Gospel. When he points out the limits of earthly thinking. The limits of hammerism.

No matter how easy or comfortable it may be for us, in the end, hammerism will always fail us. Leaving us unable to connect with others. Setting us up to be blindsided by life. Because it’s only part of the picture.

What’s the alternative to hammerism?

God’s perspective. The big picture itself.

Our default mode? Limiting ourselves to the easy and the comfortable.

God’s default mode? Sending the Holy Spirit to teach us everything. In its fullness.

So that we can connect with others, no matter how different they may seem to us.

So that we won’t be blindsided by life.

So that we can understand the big picture.

As the Gospel puts it, “God does not ration the gift of the Spirit.”

If we’re done with hammerism. If we’re done playing. God is waiting and wanting to give us the big picture.

The best place to start?

By putting down our hammers. And with a quiet heart, offering up the prayer of Samuel – “speak Lord, your servant is listening.”

Hi everyone! Crowelys--angel has blocked me without responding to my message/to me and I just wanted to put this out there as its own post because I can no longer reblog the original.

I approached moki with literally no ill intentions, nor to start any discourse at all cause that’s not my modus operandi. I just wanted to talk about this ask that moki responded to. I did not send this message in any way for the sake of drama or discourse and that implication alone in relation to this specific issue is a big problem. Nor did I in any way do anything disrespectful so I’m confused about that. Asking someone if one is Jewish as a Jew myself could literally never be disrespectful in the context of talking about antisemitism. I need to know if I’m talking to a fellow Jew or goyim when talking about antisemitism and that’s just the fact of the matter.

Antisemitism is getting to be a huge problem in this the Good Omens and if you’re not willing to engage in conversations about it other than ‘this is my opinion, take it and if you have a different opinion then gtfo’, then maybe you shouldn’t engage in it. I really don’t even care about if moki is Jewish anymore cause either way this is gross behavior.

If you wanna unfollow me that’s fine I don’t do callouts or discourse like this at all usually but moki has created a double edged sword with this where if I don’t speak out then people will continue to engage around this in a way that it cannot be spoken about and if I do then somehow I’m the one causing ‘drama’ and ‘discourse’ and I’m the problem.

What if they teamed up with the Empty, though?

Seriosuly. The Empty has got to know some secrets about how to kill angels. The Empty currently has a deal with Cas. What if Cas could get out of that deal by promising to kill Michael?