#forsake the world

[yeslordmyking]

If You Return to Sin After Being Delivered From It, Your Punishment Will Be Worse

2 Peter 2:20-22

[20]For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

[21]For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

[22]But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

To learn something is sinful and to turn and repent of it, but then return to that sin is like a dog returning to it's vomit. It's better not to know something is sinful than to learn it's sinful and return to it after God has delivered you. Don't return to your wickedness, no matter how hard it is to be righteous. Ask God and the Holy Spirit for strength to walk in rightstanding with Him and not fall weak to flesh.

I know we can't be sinless, I know it takes time to change your lifestyle from habits and wordly mindsets, but in the end there's no excuses for knowledgeably sinning than to admit selfishness, wickedness, and to know eternal punishment is the result of such ignorant defiance of the Lord. Prayers that I myself, the lost and unsaved, and other brothers and sisters in Christ, completely turn from sin and backsliding. No matter how much it "made us happy", "satisfied us", seemed "harmless" to our souls, or how "miserable" we feel without it. Firstly God is the only thing that can actually make us happy and anything else is deception by our flesh. Secondly, we should rather prefer misery and holy suffering in our temporary lives far more than anything that risks the reward of eternal suffering and damnation. You don't have to be happy, you just have to obey God's commands and be holy. Maybe choosing that will have God bless us with happiness we don't see coming until we're truly righteous. I pray we forsake feelings and emotions, and only act out of holiness righteousness and purity.

#and maaaaaybe i condemn things that aren't actually unholy and sinful like loving fashion or watching superhero cartoons #but at this point if it even has a chance of becoming something i love more than God i completely drop it #i dream of nothing and want nothing and pursue nothing unless it's directly related to serving God #and yeah i'm sad that i can't return to watching sinful youtubers and movies or listening to 80s music and kpop because they're fun #i want to have fun. i want to be able to enjoy life without breaking into a cold sweat that God hates everything i enjoy and care about #but I should do what He commands even if it doesn't satisfy me the way i »think« temporary hobbies and dreams do #there's nothing in this world for us. we just think there is #forsake it all and be a vessel to bring souls to Christ. eternal salvation beats any happiness and satisfaction in this life. i can do it. #not suggesting everyone has to do what I'm doing but if you're attached to meaningless things that won't get you to heaven... let it go #boohoo poor widdle evil wordly me has a sad blah blah blah blah blah k i'm done trying to justify my wickedness now sorry bye 🫣 #God #Jesus #christianity #faith #turn from sin to God #repent of your sins #do not return to sin #forsake worldliness #forsake the world #hate all sin #deny flesh #deny self #be holy not happy #you don't have a life. you have a purpose #there is nothing but God #you are a sinner #you are wicked #bible study #bible verses #may it please the Lord

[free-boundsoul]

I can't remember if I've said it before but Blake would so body worship Bestie

He would make them feel fucking divine, the praise he would utter, the adoration in his voice, the lovesick devotion in his eyes...

Bestie (if they didn't already) would come to love their body, for every so called 'flaw' would just be another reason that they were unique, another reason that Blake loved them as much as he did.

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted blake #pplllleeeaaasssee Erik i need a ba #im a sucker for the yanderes but damn i love the 'villain will forsake the world for the person they love' troupe

[kuroshirosb]

My insignificant archeology gets me to the mysteries of the profound past, when the tiny light in the palm of my hand lights up the beginning of the world, like this.

"Go love this world," you said. Without knowing your name, similar to the way you breathe, the song of the Cretaceous rings out.

I asked if I could be born into this world, "Sure," you replied. The moment you chose me, I had chosen you, too.

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#pokemashe #dawn lyre #lucas aquila #barry cygnus #ashe’s art #rival barry #trainer dawn #trainer Lucas #cw blood #ok last time I’m posting these outside of the obligatory bump #i didn’t mention it in any of the infodumping I’ve done but like. #the big running theme with them and Sinnoh. outside of existing themes. but like the BIG IDEA #is about kids choosing to love a world despite being wronged horrifically #and learning what the true meaning of being alive is to them #and refusing to forsake a world that still is growing #just like they are #because they love it and the people who live in it #the secret third arc is them getting group therapy #these look so good up together aghh I’m really proud #and as usual the lyrics for the caption are from fish archaeology by Shannon

[remmicreates]

me: oh wow! I'm so excited to get to work on this fic idea i've had for literal months !!

Also me: *stares at empty google doc for 4 hours*

#im trying so very hard #why must the world forsake me #ive been texting myself the idea and context for it for so long #but the moment I try to write anything #my brain has never seen a word before

[bestworstcase]

i have transcended annoyance and become amused by the non-euclidean pretzel of fanon takes about why the ozlem shattering happened. it’s all so silly

#no salem did not ‘lash out’ because he lied to her #she calmly listened to the whole story #held out her hand and asked him to forsake his god with her #and then evidently let him just walk away #bc the fight sure didn’t start in her office! #and when she catches him leaving with the kids #she relaxes her hands and starts to look away #while ozma tenses—& then she catches that motion #and reacts to it. #the same way cinder reacts when rhodes draws on her #salems perception—accurate or not—is that OZMA initiated the fight #just as his is that SHE started it #and that’s like. ✨the whole point✨ #salem trusted him. he betrayed that trust in the most grievous way imaginable #and she still tried to reach out across that chasm #and he rejected her out of hand—is it any wonder #that she saw his weapon move and reacted the way she did. #equally regardless of her intended meaning ozma heard her condemn the world to death #like it meant nothing to her—is it any wonder that he was terrified #grabs you by the collar. shakes you #ITS ABOUT THE DEATH OF TRUST #it’s about ozma only half committed to her because he’s always waiting for the pain he was promised #and salem realizing that the man she loved was a lie and the stranger underneath sees a monster in her eyes #it’s not about salem having her happy ending and breaking it in a tantrum you weirdos

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

is anyone else just like terrible at work lately 🙃🙃🙃

#idk what's wrong with me but i am such a flop lately! #is everyone in general just weird right now due to the pandemic brain scramblies??? #because i definitely am and i can't figure out how to ... communicate successfully with others anymore #even when i think that's what i'm doing??? #clearly the standards for communication have changed during the pandemic and i can't quite figure out what changes i need to make #(besides ........... simplify. A LOT!) #being a meticulous type-A girl in a loosey goosey pandemic-addled world is not going swimmingly rn #pls i just need to forsake real life and stay home thinking about romantical pirates #dollsome's deep thoughts

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

John Calvin

#Christ #sufficient #forsake #world #John Calvin #Christian Quotes

[zukkaoru]

i need whatever maisie peters put in the last one to be injected straight into my veins. i think it would fix me

#it's already my most played song EVER on spotify and it's been like two months since i first listened to it #i've had my spotify account for over EIGHT YEARS #it's about the unwavering loyalty. the i will love you even if the world doesn't. there is nothing anyone can do to make me stop loving you #if everyone else forsakes you i will be the last one on your side. when you have no one else you will still have me. you will always have m #also thinking about it in the context of the aktgw siblings makes me so extremely ill #case in point: snowfall #hello grace here

[chiss-ticism]

I'm having Nod thoughts again:

Do you think Caine remembers how things really were?

He's doomed to walk the Earth eternally, lest he accept his actions as wrong and genuinely seek repentance for it, but how clearly do you think he remembers in Modern Nights? To my knowledge, I don't think it's ever explicitly implied or stated that he'd be exempt from the fact that memory is a fickle thing at the best of times, which is to say nothing for folks as long lived as the Cainites.

How much of what isn't muddied and blurred by emotion can he truly recall? Do you think he remembers the way Abel's face lit up when they'd joke around like brothers are want to do? The proud looks he must've gotten from Eve when he'd taken up gardening? The grief-stricken look Adam gave him before exiling him to the lands of Nod?

This is, of course, to say nothing of his time in Enoch and the squabbles his Grand-Childer got themselves into in the First City.

How can one truly, genuinely, repent if you can't even properly remember parse the events that have got you here in the first place after a certain amount of time has passed? A swirling miasma of emotions and trauma mudding the waters, diluting any chance at reconciliation. God In the WoD was never portrayed as infallible - [His] laundry list of fucks ups and overwhelming displays of neglect being more than enough to back up that point - but the more you delve into it, Caine's punishment seems more and more like an afterthought for something that had as many ramifications as it did. He never had a real shot at redemption, no matter how many emissaries [He] sent. Something something "the game was rigged from the start" something something

#[He] didn't even show up for the punishment - he sent angels to do it for him #TWICE - [He] did it twice. #because when Caine was considering Embracing for the first time - [He] either sent another Angel or the Angel took it upon himself to do- #something #Which is strange considering that he punished Lilith directly for disobeying [Him] and forsaking Adam #you can argue that the first time [He] was busy dealing the Fallen but afaik [He] just couldn't be bothered the second time around #unless [He] was trying to nudge Caine w/ reverse psychology like 'nooo don't Embrace [Enoch]' (side eye) #but that feels like it's bordering on hubris #RE “To my knowledge”: The only thing that comes to mind is the opening of the Chronicle of Caine #Where he remarks “I dream of the first times - the longest memory” #but that reads more like him talking to his childer in Enoch which would've been a significantly closer event than anything modern #pat rambles into the void #chiss is nod posting #vtm #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #Caine VTM #The Book of Nod #Vtm meta #Vampire the masquerade meta

[impossible-rat-babies]

I just. I love eyrie and their twin bc eyrie owes him so much and they didn’t even ask for it. he spoke for them, was their only friend for a long time, understood what they meant; they took care of each other in the only ways siblings can. they were inseparable and the absence of each other is still such a heavy grief

#it’s a grief in the way of knowing that he is still alive and yet they can never go back #there is no returning. the loss of innocence and out into the real world #it’s also got me thinking about eyrie and estinien becoming siblings after a fashion #so much of their parallels come down to choice #choice and the lack thereof in regards to family #Estinien losing his family and choosing to let that vengeance be that which keeps him going #eyrie forsaking family and making the choice to leave but it is done for their family #love a good thinking about the meta #oc: eyrie kisne

[yeslordmyking]

Stop obsessing over whether or not you'll get what you want in this life. It doesn't matter either way. Just do what it takes to get into Heaven, and stop caring about this temporary life. It's nothing. Even if your wildest dreams come true, it's always going to be nothing. Obeying God is everything.

#God #Jesus #christianity #faith #do not have care for this life #do not love this life #do not love this world #reject the world #forsake the world #do not pursue happiness. pursue God #dream killing #killing my heart to save my soul #you don't have a life. you have a purpose #serve God #temporary #only God can satisfy #nothing but God #only God #God is the only thing that matters #christian struggles #personal #self talk #may it please the Lord

[vulpixelates]

canon dnd devil lore is so utterly boring...

absolutely MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING (and racist) that anyone would write an entire race as just being purely evil in the first place, but what sense does it make that the bringers of justice after death would be pure evil??? chaotic, perhaps, for some of them, but entirely evil? no way

i will die on my hill of "alignments" between gods and devils being entirely based on what their "purpose" within the deity system is and the personality of the entity themselves and this being INFINITELY more interesting than "gods good and devils bad :)"

#was this post inspired by being sad about mizora being comically evil in bg3? YES. YES IT WAS. I JUST WANNA KISS HER #LET ME KISS THE DEVIL LADIES WITHOUT FORSAKING MY MORTAL SOUL OR WHATEVER HELLLLOOOOO #so rude... #also my homebrew world's zariel is so infinitely more interesting than canon zariel that they're barely even the same person anymore #i don't even recognize her in canon settings... #my WIFE would have never done karlach so dirty #she would have helped empower her to make gortash suffer for what he'd tried to do to her #negative #ttrpg rambles

[kuroshirosb]

had a thought.

dawn lucas and barry are essentially the closest the world has gotten to a human existing among the ranks of legendary pokemon. theyre basically existing to protect the world, on top of being having direct ties to the lake trio. so if you think about it theyre like them.

all of sinnoh's legendaries have domains or have gifted a miracle to the world of pokemon. (dialga time, palkia space, lake trio willpower knowledge and emotion, cresselia dreams, etc)

the sinnoh trio would be no different.

and in the text books written long ago, the passages from their time in hisui states that the three children with qualities like the gods gifted the world love.

not like in a “the world suddenly knows how to love” but moreso the gift was THEIR love

#pokemashe #dawn lyre #lucas aquila #barry cygnus #LSITEN #THEY HAVE INDIVIDUAL ARCS N STUFF BUT THE MESSAGE BUT LIKE TOGETHER. #THEIR ARC ENDS WITH THEM CHOOSING TO LOVE THE WORLD #AND PROTECT IT #DESPITE THEIR HARDSHIPS #its full of love and hope and they want to see it and the people they love continue to flourish #so if they were to give a gift to the world #it would be love #they love the world and their families and their friends and each other so much #and like. comparing that especially to team galactic and how they choose to forsake the world cuz of their hardships #god i can go on about team galactic and sinnoh trio+cynthia and how they foil each other so much #i dont know if they would be celebrated in sinnoh as much as the legendaries #i think most people would believe the text surrounding the trio's time in hisui is dubious #but like #idk #explodes

[viktoriakomova]

talking about one person's [my] response to your fuckass takes on ethnicity and identity politics in gymnastics in terms of "stans in the chat" is crazy actually

#you should have kept ur mouth shut for everyone dumbass! #sorry you dont understand the implications of a franco algerian girl born in france choosing to compete FOR ALGERIA #because france tried to strongarm her into complying to their nonsensical will to centralize and she refused #it would have been iconique for her to forsake FFG and compete for any other country. literally any other. #but to choose ALGERIA instead? due to her ethnic ties to algeria? defecting from france to ALGÉRIE? #and then winning a WORLD SILVER MEDAL (narrowly not GOLD)? not just iconic but also legendary !!!!

[pearlescentpearl]

tfw you get distracted from writing fic bc your brain wants to wrestle with the implications of Eldamar being outside the protection of the Pelóri

#silmarillion #I don't feel this was a malicious or on purpose thing mind you #the elves didn't want to lose their beloved starlight! #and the threat of Melkor was gone #(at the time) #but it kinda feels like one more layer of removal between the Valar and Arda #and Eru's children #the Vanyar are the closest to the Valar and to do that they had to leave Eldamar #leave the home of the elves #forsake entirely the Arda they used to love #the Pelori will only come down at dagor dagorath #is that also how long it will take for the Valar to rejoin with the Arda they used to love too? #to live outside a fortress to keep (melkor) the whole world out?

[mumpsetc]

Gotta admit, your bot rant intrigues me. I definetly agree with what you said and all but it makes curious, how you rewrite the bot plot to make it not as bad as it actually is given the choice? <:) (Also want to take this as oppurtunity to say I love your takes and art by the way!)

First Off: Omg Tysm That's So Sweet of You :]]]] 💕💕💕

Second Off: My Issue With the Bot Situation is I Feel It Squanders the Concept of Bot Being Based On Bow, a Person Who Did Exist and Also is Still Around. S3 Has Several People Who Knew Her, Her Miraculous Return From the Dead Should Raise a Couple of Eyebrows. I'm Not Crazy About Test Tube and Fan Making Her, I Feel Its a Odd They Did This When They Explicitly Learned Not to Project Their Feelings Onto Other Concious Beings Before, and Also I Simply Don't Think Either of Them are This Disrespectful. Both of Them Were on Marshmallow's Team, They (In Theory) Would Know How Much Bow Meant to Her.

S3 Keeps Gesturing At the Theme of a Show Being Dragged Out Long Past When It Should've Finished and I Think Bot Should Be a Thesis Character for This, and I Think the Weird Walkie Talkie Voice Should've Been Responsible for Her Existence. We Don't Know Anything About Walkie Talkie Because She Doesn't Do Anything, if She Did Make Bot That Would Make Sense With Her Whole Goal of Keeping ii Running and it Would Add Some Tension ans Complexity to the Series. How Did She Do This and Why? Are There Other People Involved? Isnt This Horribly Invasive? You Could Still Have Test Tube and Fan Adopt Bot or Whatever Idc But If She Was Made By a Shadowy Faceless Entity Using the Likeness of a Popular Dead Celebrity to Boost Ratings of a New TV Show That Would Say Something Right? There's a Statement Being Made Here, What's the Statement of Test Tube and Fan Making Bot Other Than "We Did Not Learn From the Egg Baby."

#Like Imagine Mephone Finding Out He Worked With Someone Whos Also Doing Some Weird Robot Child Abuse? #Or How ii Contestants Like Paintbrush Who are Very Aware of How Theyre Percieved Would Feel Knowing Theyre Profitable Enough to Bring Back #After Death? #This is Kinda Creepy and Raises a Lot of Questions About the World Outside of the Show and How They Regard the Show Itself #Idk S3 Keeps Forsaking Unique Ideas That Match the Plot and Characters for Cookie Cutter Generic Schlock #Also This is Unrelated Fan Left His Kid #When He Got Eliminated He Didnt Even BOTHER Trynna Get Back #This Guy Left His Fuckin Robot Kid!!! He Told Test Tube He Was Getting a Pack of Smokes and Didnt Come Back!!!! #He Doesnt Deserve to Be in the Found Family Test Tube Was a Single Mother Here Basically #ii negativity #Dreamy.txt #Awseriously and Schoolunchtray Made Good Posts Abour Bot Too Thats Why Im Thinkin Bout Her #It Would Also Make Them Fucking Around Aimlessly On the Island More Interesting Cuz Like #They Dont Know There are Weird Clones of Them #FUCK THE HORRIBLE IMPS IN THE NEWEST EPISODE COULD BE REVEALED TO BE WEIRD LAB MONSTERS OR SOMETHINF!!! #AE LET ME WRITE YOUR FUCKING SHOW I MADE THE DOGASS POKEMON EPISODE LORE RELEVANT!!!!!! #If iii Revealed the Object World at Large Was Like Antiviral Id Forgive It for Everything Its Done to Me #Objective Criticism