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“The Modern World is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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me sending an ask: oh no they didn't respond right away I hope they didn't hate my ask :(

me receiving asks: *sees ask* aww I'm so happy they sent me an ask I should respond right away! *forgets ask box exists and takes 10 years to respond*

#guilty

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help im being asked what i want

#when im asked what kind of gift i want #i suddenly have wanted nothing ever in my life

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also the people answering the man v bear question are chronically online and most likely live in a city and men online and in a city specifically are not normal

#its true #cities are epicenters of debauchery

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I want to watch a movie over Discord with the mutuals.

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i hate when you say something tastes/smells like chemicals and there's always that annoying git who goes "uhm aktchually everything is chemicals" like i didn't ask and i certainly hope you understand that there's a difference between bleach and salt

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Stardew Valley stream at 6pm CST tonight 5/15/24!

#👀

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how do manatees even survive as a species if they're way too peaceful. somehow nothing wants to eat them. not gators or sharks or whales

it's quite simple, they're their ecosystem's version of a megafauna grazing mammal! they're simply too large for most predators to bother. they are, in fact, fucking huge.

see, manatees don't actually live out in the open ocean. they live in rivers, estuaries, and shallow seagrass bays like this:

so the thing is, large macropredator sharks and superpredators like killer whales don't go here! they stay out in open deep water, so they never really cross paths with manatees in the first place.

there ARE sharks here, but they're small! adult manatees are completely out of their prey size range, and they're more interested in fish anyway.

alligators do live here also, but even a very large alligator can't really dream of preying on an adult manatee! again, they're simply too big.

so, yeah. this is just another case of "this mammal is able to get away with being a gentle giant by simply growing too large for any predator in its area to touch" and I think that's beautiful.

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yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they

#i would be more than happy to be locked in a a room with the Mummy dudes #i trust them #implicitly

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I'm more concerned that people like Harry Potter well into their 30s and 40s. Bet they watch Bluey too. Childlike adults make me physically sick

"I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story." - C.S. Lewis

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Yesterday my German coworker yelled at me because she firmly believes no world religion can know anything, for sure, about God, so there’s no way to call anyone “right” or “wrong.”

And it took all my strength not to say, “so you’re saying I’m wrong”

because truth in love, truth in love

But seriously. What actually is the deal with the discourse that goes: “you can’t know anything for sure about God.”

“Wait, yes you can, like I know you well enough to know for sure that you’re from ____ Place—“

“—no no, no, that’s different. This is about God.”

“How’s it different?”

“You can’t say someone’s wrong about God.”

“…Well, can I say anything that’s wrong about you? Like, if I say, ‘_____ Person likes to kick puppies,’ can’t you say I’m wrong about you?”

“Yes but I’m not God.”

“Right, but you’re a real person who exists, so there are some things that I can know for sure about you—“

“THAT’S DIFFERENT”

No it’s not! It’s not ‘different.’ Quit acting like it’s different. Christians don’t believe in a set of ideals or the properties of rocks or some mystical vibe that nobody can be right or wrong about. We believe in a living and existing deity with an unchanging, eternally constant personality, and will, and DESIGN, outside of ourselves. So we can be wrong about Him. You can be wrong about Him. Everyone can be wrong—OR RIGHT—about Him, because He actually exists.

He’s not some imaginary friend who’s open to anybody’s interpretation. You get to claim an independent identity, character traits, and a personal history, but the God of the universe doesn’t? What is happening?

I’ll tell you what’s happening. You’re fine with me believing in an imaginary figment that’s only real to me, but as soon as He starts having an effect on the outer world, as if He actually exists and you have to start making some decisions based on that fact, THEN you’re not fine.

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hard to leave Tumblr for any period of time because someone could drop a vital piece of personal lore that's essential to unlocking whatever they are vaguely posting about for the next several months/years

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Last night I finally found some poems that save my life a little bit

They were written by the Brazilian catholic archbishop Hélder Câmara, and very religious and spiritual in a beautiful way.

I think some people's religion calls them to live in a state of compassion and wonder that I find to be very profound

I don't know what I think about faith anymore but I think this guy understood something.

"Do not condemn us to be alone when together. Allow us to be together when alone."