Books, Christianity, And Hobbies

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

LOTR abridged

Good evening, the LDS/Mormon Church does not believe in the true God Jesus Christ and therefore is not Christian and also they are a cult.

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

ohhhh I love love love this with my friends. This and like, gestures. I get so many things off my friends and like, the first few times I wave my hand in a specific way or say phrases I got off my friends, I always pause and think happily to myself that I just did a [name]ism. My joy shoots through the roof when I notice others doing something I do all the time

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

forgive the version of you that didn’t know what to do and could not have foreseen what the right choice was, if there even was one. forgive the version of you that made a choice and regretted it.

i don't know who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to gain weight in your twenties. you are a grown ass adult now. your body can and should not be the same as it was at seventeen. allow it to grow along with you <3

As someone recovering from disordered eating, I need you to know that it's physically imperative that you gain weight past 17. Your body isn't finished growing at 17. You need to be putting on more mass, and that includes fat and all the other things. If you're exceptionally healthy you could also put on substantial muscle in that time, which also weighs more.

I think Americans are a bit too comfortable believing that Buddhism is inherently a pacifist religion and that it bars us from doing any harm whatsoever. It’s a religion of compassion, not pacifism. Those things are not the same and you can’t use them interchangeably.

I never understood that, since Buddhist monks are known for kicking serious ass. Do people think the swords and spears and "claw their throat out move" are for meditating?

In my college class on studying South East Asian culture/religion I was actually part of a debate/roleplay where the king (our professor) listened to two advisors (me and another student) on whether we should invade a neighboring kingdom - and I used Buddhist teachings to justify war. I wish I could recall what my arguments were, but we had to pay attention to what sect of Buddhism was appropriate and the cultural issues/factors involved.

holy fuc

I didn’t even know it had a name

I made a tent out of it a long time ago. Worked great