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I still have agonizing periods where I wonder whether I actually believe or if I'm just going through the motions. But I always try to snap myself out of them by saying "Why would I bother going through the motions if I didn't believe?"

"Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, a demon, calling God "The Enemy")

As someone who has experienced some dark nights this is very comforting

When I don't feel much or anything from God (which is most of the time, tbh) I just think/pray the word "serviam."

"I will serve."

It's the opposite and inverse of what Satan said, "non serviam," "I will not serve."

Some days that's all I got, but that's all God needs some days.

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You are presented with two options.

A) The Universe you live in is one where no one dies, everyone exists forever in eternal bliss, but every so often one person will be torn from this bliss and sent to a dimension of eternal suffering from which they cannot escape.

You know your time is finite in this blissful realm, but it could happen to you tomorrow or millions perhaps trillions of years from now.

B) The universe you live in is one where no one dies, everyone exists forever in eternal suffering and torment, but every so often one person is torn from the suffering and sent to a dimension of eternal bliss and happiness, from which they cannot escape.

You know your time in this hellish realm is finite, you could escape tomorrow or perhaps millions if not trillions of years from now.

Please remember to reblog to give the poll a good sample size, and perhaps explain your choice in the tags.

A Christian character in a supernatural show who automatically assumes all the beings they meet are disguised demons, except the thing is they’re RIGHT like 90% of the time and the other 10% they’re angels. 

#PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE#characters: what could it be???#Catholic actively praying rosary: a demon I’m leaving now#Protestant: I’m with them bye y’all#they then proceed to get some coffee and have a lovely time fretting for their friends’ souls bc they wouldn’t leave skdjdhf  (via @distance-does-not-matter)

YES THIS IS BETTER the two protags are a Catholic and a Prot friend pairing and they keep being like “…y’all……”

#THIS will bridge the divide#very tired Christians of different denominations trying to convince their friends that NO that is NOT a woman’s ghost in search of peace#it is a DEMON and it wants to KILL YOU ( @distance-does-not-matter again because she’s a genius)

Catholic: why am I always the one to bring the paraphernalia???

Prot: because I literally Don’t Own Any I have so many pocket size bibles with fun covers though you wouldn’t believe. 

Orthodox: guys it’s chill I’ve brought so much gear. 

This would literally be the only supernatural show I would enjoy watching 😂😂😂

I would watch the heck out of this!

So I spend the entire day reading Fire and Hemlock by DWJ and now that I finished it I'm 140% sure that I just hallucinated the entire plot

🚨⚠️ATTENTION FELLOW WRITERS⚠️🚨

If you use Google Docs for your writing, I highly encourage you to download your work, delete it from Google Docs, and transfer it to a different program/site, unless you want AI to start leeching off your hard work!!!

I personally have switched to Libre Office, but there are many different options. I recommend checking out r/degoogle for options.

Please reblog to spread the word!!

Crypt Pad can be an option too!

I don’t use Docs very much at all, but this looks like a good moment to take a sweep through my account and delete anything that’s in there.

Currently reading the first Shady Hollow book. Absolutely delighted by it! If you like cozy mysteries, adult fiction with middle grade vibes, and talking woodland creatures... have a go! It's adorable, exciting, and Vera Vixen is my new favourite sleuth in more recent detective fiction 🦊

Full story here

“Light is time” is an art installation developed by Tsuyoshi Tane Featuring 80,000 suspended shimmering watch plates for people to walk through.

i hate you alternative wellness natural chemical free vegan non-GMO herbal intuitive whole foods healing raw high vibrational plant based cleanse gluten free superfood supplement blend bullshit!!!! You're not healthier and more balanced and connected to the Earth because your smoothies are full of unidentifiable green and brown powders you got from a subscription box to ✨URTH-CRUNCH VAGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT✨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You do not need to Buy Product

There is no advertisement on social media for whole, natural, pure foods 'cause they grow out the fucking ground

Go to a farmer's market. Start a garden yourself. Drill some holes in the bottom of a 5gal bucket and start growing stuff on your porch

There is no Product that will make you connected to Earth, because Earth is what you're fucking standing on, and what you see when you step outside is no less pure or natural or sacred than some exotified jungle in Africa

Nature is everywhere and FREE. Dandelions growing out of the sidewalk? Nature. Moss on a concrete step? Nature. A tree in a park in town? That's nature baby. Weeds on the side of the road? NATURE. She's everywhere!

And if you don't feel surrounded by nature already? If you don't see the bounty of nature in the world around you? Don't order some stupid product in a plastic package about it. Ask yourself WHY.

How come you feel the need to Buy Product that "Comes From The Dirt" one fuckthousand miles away? There's dirt beneath you. There's plants around you. How come your HOME doesn't feed you and provide for you? How come you don't find "healthy" and "natural" just by stepping outside?

Is there a farmer's market? Can you start a garden? Are there wild plants you can safely forage? WHY NOT? Is the Earth beneath you pure and unpolluted? WHAT HAPPENED?

What happened to your home? What has estranged you? I hope you think about it. I hope it keeps you up at night.

obsessed with the fact humans successfully made computers to do math so now we are making computers worse at math

Reading this made me so very happy. No way this AI chatbot is going to steal my job now!

bro i didnt share my new son $1.07 with you guys hold on

yall arent ready for her . u cannot emotionally prepare for him .

her name is $1.07 and he is the worlds least animal

he is so scared all the time

sometimes i'll go a week without consuming ANYTHING God-centered and i'll feel bitter and angry and a little confused about christianity, but then i actually make myself sit down and read one chapter in my bible or bit of a christian book or listen to a theological podcast and then i'm like. that's right this is literally the greatest thing ever and the Key to life and God is actually loving and merciful and kind and better than i remember every single time

(basically this is a reminder to go consume some christian media because you need it and it will help you desperately)

Monologue: Taylor Lautner on Failing to Stand up for Taylor Swift at the VMAs (2009) | "I Can See You" Music Video (2023)

I don't think modern swifties who never listened to country music growing up can really understand how good of albums Debut and Fearless are. Nowadays we think of these albums as part of the Taylor Swift Universe and important albums as Taylor's foundation. People often say "they're good for how young she was when she wrote them" before explaining why they are their least favorite Taylor albums....but like,,, no they were actually really good at the time they were written. Both albums successfully took common themes and sounds of country music of the time and applied it to the life of a teenage girl. Yet they somehow stayed true to what the country genre was? These were revolutionary albums upon their release. There's a reason Tim McGraw was such a popular debut single. There's a reason Fearless is the most awarded country album of all time. Both albums took then current country music and elevated it to a new level. I think now it's easy to think of the Taylor Swift sound as it's own genre in itself, and the country sounds of debut and Fearless can throw that off; if you don't know what country music was like at the time it can be easy to think of them as a piece of Taylor and not a piece of country music. But these were true country albums that are masterpieces in their own right, and swifties really should recognize that.

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts