5:15pm - Plan for Next Week (Monday - Saturday)
With midterms out of the way and only two weeks left in class, planning for next week is my first task of this study session. I do all of my planning using iCalendar and Google Calendar. I do this because of the reminders I'm able to set for my MacBook and my phone.
5:25 - Begin Taking Notes for Next Week
For the next 20 minutes, I will be taking notes to prep for next week. I take my notes digitally using Microsoft Word and always love how they turn out.
I didn't get much done in the 20 minutes, but I did get a good start. When originally writing my notes, I never pay attention to grammar as they are meant to be quick. At the end of the topic (week) I go back and rewrite anything necessary and improve any grammar or spelling issues. By mainly, if I can read them and can get through the week with them, that's all that matters.
5:45 - 15 Minute Break
While some may question why I take a break after 30 minutes of work, it's to refresh my mind and allow my eyes a break from the computer screens I work in front of. During this time, I usually read my Bible or another book I've been reading. Today, I'm reading my Bible - especially scripture surrounding Jesus Christ's rebirth from the dead.
6:00 - Bible Study and Journaling
Considering I read from the Bible during my break, I start to deep dive into my Bible study and journaling for the week.
I read Luke 24:1-12, the scripture for which we get the Christian traditions of the Easter holiday during this session. After reading the scripture, I wrote down anything that stuck with me in my journal.
6:30 - Long Break from Work to Watch Hop
An Easter tradition my girlfriend started me on a few years ago is to watch the movie Hop. Thus, to wind down a bit, she suggested watching the movie. I agreed.
8:10 - Return to Bible Journaling
My next session includes reading Esther Chapter 1 (Esther 1:1-22). Just like with Luke 24:1-12, after reading, I took notes on what stuck with me.
8:30pm - Wind Down for Bed
After completing my Bible journaling, I decided to curl up in bed and wind down with a book before falling asleep.
Today was very productive and I'm happy to say that I'm proud of myself for what I achieved and accomplished. While I did take a ton of breaks and did get started late, I still got a lot done - especially considering I didn't have anything that needed turned in.
Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian community in Jerusalem including bishops and priests! The Christian community is literally fighting for their lives right now in the Armenian Quarter. Christians: more of you need to stand up with us against this violence! This has never been a Muslim issue. (28.12.2023)
Chancellery Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
28 December, 2023
A MASSIVE AND COORDINATED PHYSICAL ATTACK WAS LAUNCED ON BISHOPS, PRIESTS, DEACONS, SEMINARIANS, AND OTHER ARMENIAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN JERUSALEM WITHINONE HOUR OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. SEVERAL PRIESTS, STUDENTS OF THE ARMENIAN THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY, AND INDIGENOUS ARMENIANS ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Over 30 armed provocateurs in ski-masks with lethal and less-than-lethal weaponry including powerful nerve-agents that have incapacitated dozens of our clergy broke into the grounds of the Cow's Garden and began their vicious assault. We stress again, several priest, deacons and students of the Armenian Theological Academy along with indigenous Armenians are seriously injured. ARMENIAN CLERICS IN JERUSALEM ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AGAINST IMPUNE PROVOCATEURS.
This is the criminal response we have received for the submission of a lawsuit to the District Court of Jerusalem for the Cow's Garden, which was officially received by the Court less than 24 hours ago. This is how the Australian-Israeli businessman Danny Rothman (Rubinstein) and George Warwar (Hadad) react to legal procedures.
The Armenian Patriarchate's existential threat is now a physical reality. Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and indigenous Armenians are fighting for their very lives on the ground. We are calling on authorities around the world and the International Media to help us save the Armenian Quarter from a violent demise that is being locally supported by unnamed entities. We call upon the Israeli Government and Police to start an investigation against Danny Rothman (Rubinstein) and George Warwar (Hadad) for organizing their continuous criminal attacks on the Armenian Patriarchate and Community, attacks which seem to have no end in sight.
Israel is a State of law and order and such criminal behavior cannot be tolerated and go unpunished.
Very interesting (concerning) that while there’s a general consensus of “of course there’s queer Muslims and Jews and Christians we love them!” But that love is conditional. You can be religious but not too religious. You can be spiritual as long as it’s not actually that important to you. You can be observant of your religion’s dogma and traditions as long as you keep it away from everybody else.
But I don’t want to cut myself into smaller pieces. I don’t want to take a part of my life and culture and being and hide it away behind closed doors. It’s just…hypocritical and disappointing when people, who clamor about their love for the contradictory and self-authentic, hate when they’re confronted with it.
There is something deeply funny to me about the fact that, of people who pray the rosary (at least in the United States); the Catholics tend to be super conservative, and the Episcopalians/Anglicans tend to be gay.
I cannot express the anger I experience being unable to do anything about anything while Christians salivate over the idea of the Israel-Hamas conflict being a sign of the Rapture
The small detail I noticed while rewatching Nimona (what is it, 10th time? Idk)
Okay so. Since the artbook came out, I've been trying to analyze the information we were given and the one thing that caught my eye was this line (in the "Environments" part)
Now, the symbolism of Gloreth as a religious figure is super prominent throughout the whole movie (cmon the characters are literally screaming "my Gloreth!"), but these comparisons... Gloreth as Jesus, knights as saints (ironic considering most of the irl Christian saints were common folk), Institute as church (probably megachurch YOU KNOW THE ONES) left me thinking: are there any more religious references besides those explained?
AND I!! DID!
Look at this scene. What do you see? And I don't mean it in a "Oh it's Nimona trying to find acceptance" way, although it's also correct
I mean it in a "a shady figure gives an innocent girl an apple which she accepts" way. In a way other people of Gloreth's village might've seen it
Where else have you guys seen a story where a girl is given an apple and that leads to the great downfall? Adam and Eve and apple as a forbidden fruit, duh!
Nimona, although trying to find acceptance, is in a position of the serpent, the one who made Eve and Adam leave the garden of Eden!
If we dig a little deeper we can even see this in a sapphic baby gay kinda way. Two non-boys, one accepting an APPLE (a FORBIDDEN FRUIT, I'm reminding ya) from the other. And when they're "outed", Nimona is blamed for being friends with a human girl, being dangerous, turning this little girl "gay" even
i would hope it doesn’t have to be said but either way, now is not the time to make jokes about “rbr’s downfall” or to say that you “always knew/thought he was weird/bad”. you can be sad and disappointed but at the end of the day, even if they’re still unspecified they’re serious allegations about the high profile team principal and ceo of the current championship holding team and they should be treated accordingly.
the investigation needs to be supported, the potential victim/victims should not be brushed off but supported and i believe regardless of whether the allegations are proven to be true or not, there should be a call on red bull racing and f1 at large to change because i already see (mostly) men brushing this off and calling women in motorsport the problem and it just shows that this is a symptom of the misogyny that is embedded in this sport and its organisations.
don’t reduce this to a gotcha moment in your idiotic fan wars.
Yesterday was not too bad of a day but I did spend 5 ½ hours at church yesterday.... at least 4 of which were spent staring into space... I was so exhausted by the end of it and was home only after 11. Planned on getting some chemistry revision done after mass, but I was expecting to only wait around for 2 hours, not over 4....
Today my mum had a kind of heart to heart with me, mainly because of yesterday's talk at mass and confession. It was nice but very strange.
Didn't get any studying done today either but I did get down and wrote out a page of notes! It's really not much but considering I did practically nothing this past week, plus the lack of wanting to do anything, I'm happy that I did something. Excited on getting back into some routine tomorrow.
30 Day New Year Momentum 4/100
Honestly, I may have forgotten about this challenge but I'm looking forward to getting more involved with it again!
What book are you currently reading?:
A Hundred Years to Arras by J. M. Cobley
I've got 100 pages left and it is amazing so far!!
I met my ex today to give him some stuff of his that I still had and to talk about a possible friendship between us. It went rather well. We decide that we won't have contact for a while as I need to fully move on before I can be friends with him. It's still hard, but reading the bible during this last week or so has been really helping. I honestly would never have expected to be interested in Christianity, but life is full of surprises when you are open to them