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20 year old beginner: one year of learning flute and butterfly knife skillz :)
Fun fact: Adults actually learn those “You need to practice!” skills better than children do.
Kids tend to want to do literally anything aside from learning this skill my parent is forcing me to learn.
Adults actually can sit down and practice things for hours on end. Adults WANT to practice to get their skills better. Adults deliberately set aside time every day to practice. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, it’s productive growth and not wiggling in your chair mournfully watching birds out the window.
Anything from Drawing to Weaving to Violin to fuckin flipping bufferfly knives like a pro - choose a skill and LEARN, dammit! None of that ‘Children’s brains are more malleable’ bullshit. Brain squish is not the end-all of learning!
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Happy Mother’s Day to Tony Stark because he is the best mother
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friends, lemme share this little gem with you
FIRST! The inner flap:
oh dear indeed…
some people crayons are jerks.
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i just have a lot of feelings about this book and think everyone should own it
i lovethis so much
trans… trans crayon?
Yes
Reblog if you’re a trans crayon, love trans crayons, or you thought this book was friggin adorable
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My mom said that today in church her pastor said in the sermon that Jesus told us to help the poor, and taking money away from public schools to give to charter schools only widens the gap between the rich and the poor. She then added that Jesus spoke against adultery and lust and would not have approved of bragging about sexually assaulting women. According to my mom, people got up and walked out.
The pastor also started the sermon by noting that she’d heard of another minister who read the entirety of the Sermon on the Mount at the pulpit, to be told by the so-called Christian parishioners after the service that it was offensive and they didn’t agree.
The Sermon on the Mount is straight up the words of Jesus.
I recently read an article that said, hypocritical Christians in America don’t actually worship Jesus. They worship America, and even then, it’s a very specific, self-centered idea of America.
YES. EXACTLY.
My mom’s church talks almost every Sunday about how Christians are called to welcome strangers and foreigners and does tons of stuff to help refugees because HELLO, IT’S RIGHT THERE. IN THE RED TEXT, NO LESS.
I don’t believe everything they believe, but I REALLY like those people.
What a lot of these people are is idolators.
Not in terms of the realness or unrealness of who they worship, but in terms of how they’ve warped their focus away from the reality and turned it towards a fantasy of their own construction.
By definition, an idol is an image with no god behind it.
What they have done is taken the idea of Jesus and created a false image of him, nothing like the reality, to carry around in their back pocket, or to wave around on signs, and pull out and shove in people’s faces to justify all manner of unChristlike behavior.
It is a “worship” that is fundamentally self-centered rather than deity-centered, wherein the deity in question is more of a pocketbook get-out-of-jail-free card than directive to live by, and more of a status symbol than a guiding light.
That people will, without a shred of self-awareness, rest themselves assured that Jesus would want them to tip their waitress with a Jesus pamphlet made to look like folded-up money (to take only one example out of many) is the ultimate dismissal of everything the original stood for.
There is a line in the Bible about Jesus meeting his false worshipers and saying “I do not know you.” It seems like plenty of so-called Christians have beaten him to the punch with how quick they are to say they don’t know him.
A lot of churches and organizations in America that call themselves Christian churches are in fact Christianist cults. They no more represent Christianity than Daesh represents Islam. In addition to the usual nonsense of so-called Christians being pro-war, anti-immigrant, racist, and so forth, there are a lot of sects/movements that are just completely toxic and not Christian at all, even though they use that label. If you are Christian and want to have some fucking nightmares, google “christian dominionist,” or “prosperity gospel.”
Still think this is the most realistic diagram of the difference between the theological Jesus and the Comfortable Reinterpretation of Jesus.
American Christianity is, at this point, like the Cult of the Emperor in ancient Rome, which is simultaneously both ironic and appropriate given the history involved
I’ve been saying for too long now: “Too many Christians want to be the Romans”
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What happens once you kill yourself? Because I'm ready to go.
What happens when you kill yourself is the world you lived in shatters.
Your mother, father and siblings will forever have memories burned into their retinas about every fight they had with you and everytime they hurt you, they’ll regret everyone and will hold them like weights upon their heart. They will desperately hope to apologize to you, but the closest they’ll get is above your gravestone and that is not as fulfilling as they lead you to believe.
Your outer family will remember the times you laughed and will be the first to say “But they were so happy!” Many people will say this, it doesn’t matter if you were or not.
A lot of people say you’ll never be forgotten, some will say they have. That’s the difference between those who cared and those who only minded.
Everyone you’ve met will remember the times you’ve smiled and the times you’ve cried. Your favorite color is now as important as ever - but sadly some will never understand what it was.
Your words will be held like gold, your revenge and sadness will be like tall tales told.
You’re missing out on a whole life.
The people who enjoyed you won’t get out of bed for days, they’ll want to join you in the yellow-gold hazes of Heaven or the darkness that is the Abyss, depending on what you believe in, as well as them.
Your more religious friends and family members will fret about your access to Heaven. Those who conclude they’ll never see you again will hold a weight that is heavier than many others. They’ll remember a lot, but as the memories fade away, it’ll be like you killed yourself all over again.
You’ll become an event to some people’s lives. “Oh, wasn’t that around the time they..?” and a curt “Yes.” will pop out of the mouth of someone nearby. Not hearing the words didn’t make a difference, despite many believing so.
You’ll become nothing, and everything. Many say the most important are those who’ve died as it’s a pivotal moment in people’s lives, as the death of the loved one is so heart wrenching alone, but when their murderer is their own hand, their own head, they feel the need to blame themselves. Your body will become little more than stone and decay, something nobody visits except once a year, often on the anniversary. Not because they want to, but because of the business you made for therapists, they’ve been told to let go.
That was the first step, a step many didn’t take.
Your family would have a room in their home where you stayed. They’ll refuse to move a single thing, let alone houses. They’ll walk in and cry because they’ll remember the time when you were 5 and you read THEM a story for the first time, because you finally learned how to read and wanted to show off to them.
Your brother or sister would walk in and tear up and remember what it feels like to hold you, and to see your smile. Your room will go from a dirty one to a sad one, and the depression den you may have made will only sink in worse, the walls will practically be painted blue with tears.
You would be missed, but you also wouldn’t. Some people don’t care, some people will fake it. Others will face (unhealthy) realizations.
Taking your life hurts. You, your family, your friends.
Your own hand is more dangerous than any other death, as it means that the regret is extreme, and often people like to follow in the footsteps of those who have proceeded them and they’ve done wrong to.I just want to reshare this. It’s almost exactly a year after a good friend of mine took their life.
Please remember to call a suicide hotline if you need help. I’m also avliable on snapchat & instagram if you need me. Please, please stay safe and know people love you.
Anonymous left a question.
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We have always been here.
Vintage MLM love photography post
Vintage WLW love photography post
Please add more if you have them <3
Forever
Meanwhile historians: “we need to remember how different cultures were at the time and what might seem to be a relationship was just one form of expressing close companionship”
I mean I know I always get wedding pictures taken with my besties.
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i’m a Heterosexual.
haha april fools!!!!!!! could you imagine if i was really straight. gross!! no offense to them. i respect the heterosexuals’ life decision i just am not one !!!!! 100% Not Hetero Here!!! haha
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since i only ever send rick rolls to ppl i figured id just post one for all my followers for april fools day this year to save myself the effort
happy april fools y’all
how bad could it possibly be
this is it. this is my favorite tag on this post
FUCK
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The Birthday Skeleton visited me a few days ago.
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Iron shoes are pictured on the bank of the Danube on January 27, 2012, marking the Holocaust in Hungary. Hundreds of Hungarian Jews had to leave their shoes on the bank before they were shot into the river by Hungarian militaimen during the World War II.
