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pratchettquotes · 6 months
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As Granny and Oats lurched from mud slough to bog, Oats reflected on the story in the Book of Om--the story, really--about the prophet Brutha and his journey with Om across the burning desert, which had ended up changing Omnianism forever. It had replaced swords with sermons, which at least caused fewer deaths except in the case of the really very long ones, and had broken the Church into a thousand pieces which had then started arguing with one another and finally turned out Oats, who argued with himself.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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upennmanuscripts · 5 months
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LJS 477 is a collection of sermons, probably compiled from multiple sources, belonging to a preacher, probably Dominican. It also includes excerpts from De animalibus, attributed to Aristotle, and Isidore's Etymologies. It was written in England, perhaps at the Dominican Convent in Oxford, ca. 1250.
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hdslibrary · 1 year
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XXX Sermons, Lately Preached
So now are you interested in 17th century sermons?
(Yes, yes, XXX = 30 in roman numerals, but we couldn't resist! Happy Friday!)
Farindon, Anthony. XXX sermons lately preached at the parish church of Saint Mary Magdalen Milkstreet, London : to which is annexed, A sermon preached at the funerall of George Whitmore, Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of the City. London: Printed for Richard Marriot, 1647.
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Do you know any good preachers of a more progressive/accepting persuasion who post their sermons/homilies online? The folks I used to listen to I very strongly disagree with on many things now *shrugs*
Sorry for the delay in answering!
I have an old masterpost of progressive church services & sermons, I imagine some of the links are broken now but that's a starting place!
I imagine others have great recs for you — followers?
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I would gladly kneel at your feet
To know the way reverence feels
To taste scripture on my tongue
As you deliver a most fervent sermon
Feel my words around you
Perhaps today they could be enough
To find your favor in full
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greatwargospel · 9 months
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gen3 synths canonically do not need food, sleep, and are resistant to disease (yet can feel hungry and tired?). they are biologically inseparable from human beings saved for a chip that can only be recovered upon death of the synth (purely to be able to program and give commands to synths); everything else is indistinguishable from a biological human. so i look to the skies and ask once again, why the Fuck did the Institute make generation 3 synths?
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An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.
—Martin Luther King Jr, "Conquering Self-Centeredness," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL, Aug 11, 1957
[h/t Scott Horton]
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Episode 7: Brandon Hawk on Old English, an audience of women, and why it’s called The Vercelli Book
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Vercelli Book, folio 106v
In Episode 7 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Lindsey and Dot chat with Brandon Hawk about The Vercelli Book, one of the four major surviving manuscripts containing Old English literature. We talk about the sermons, the poetry, Celtic inspiration in what decoration there is, and why it’s called the Vercelli Book.
Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Below the cut are more page images from the manuscript, links to the books discussed in the episode, and further reading.
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Folio 1r
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Folio 9v
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Folio 106v, with zoomorphic initial and a Celtic knot.
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Folio 112 r, another zoomorphic initial with Celtic knot.
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Folio 132 r
Further Reading
On the manuscript itself:
Digital facsimile at the Digital Vercelli Book.
Tony Burke and Brandon W. Hawk, "Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli, MS CXVII," Manuscripta Apocryphorum, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature, March 25, 2022.
For editions/translations of the Vercelli Book texts:
George Phillip Krapp, ed., The Vercelli Book, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 2. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936).
Donald G. Scragg, ed., The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts, Early English Text Society Original Series 300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Lewis E. Nicholson, ed., The Vercelli Book Homilies: Translations From the Anglo-Saxon (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990).
Accessible translations of the poems can be found at Aaron K. Hostetter's Old English Poetry Project, hosted by Rutgers University.
For studies mentioned in the show: Mary Dockray-Miller, "Female Devotion in the Vercelli Book," Philological Quarterly 83 (2006): 337-54.
Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition (London and Toronto: British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Amity Reading, Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self through the Vercelli Book, Medieval Interventions 7 (New York: Peter Lang, 2018)
Donald G. Scragg, “The Compilation of the Vercelli Book,” Anglo-Saxon England 2 (1973): 189-207.
Elaine Treharne, “The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book,” in Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin, ed. Alastair Minnis, and Jane Roberts (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 253-66.
Charles D. Wright, The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature, Cambridge Studies in Old English Literature 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Samantha Zacher, Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).
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Online Biblical Resources
Blue Letter Bible
Blue Letter Bible is a FREE resource available with lots of information to further study God's word. Such as tools to look Hebrew and Greek vocabulary indepth within the context of the original language.
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Grace to You Sermons: Introduction to Christianity
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dxsole · 5 months
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Happy Birthday Malachi~!
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Today is Malachi's birthday! Say happy birthday to everyone's favorite lil' cult prophet!
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buddhacatcult · 11 months
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JAMES CLEAR
Eliminating distractions or accumulating resources: Will either increase creativity and productivity?
“Atomic Habits” author JAMES CLEAR on eliminating distractions, instead of collecting resources, to increase creativity and productivity.
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believers-church · 1 year
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premakalidasi · 2 years
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On love and anger
Just as there are many different kinds of love, so are there many different kinds of anger.
Among the loves are found 1.) selfish, possessive love that's only for satisfying the lover's needs, and 2.) half selfish/unselfish love that is devoted to the well-being of lover and beloved, but is still qualified because it also involves the lover's ego and its needs, and 3.) unselfish, sublime love which extends to not only one's loved ones but every living being (this very much including one's nears and dears, and oneself), since one has realised the oneness of the individual soul, or Self, with all other souls, the universal Self.
Among the many angers we can find 1.) a blind, selfish anger that comes only from the ego, one that only cares for its own wounds and does not pause to consider others at all, friend or foe, and 2.) half selfish/unselfish anger that bubbles up at someone or something dear to oneself, or an innocent being harmed, but also because the ego falsely over-identifies itself with the victim, and 3.) truly selfless, righteous anger prompted by witnessing cruelty towards not only one's loved ones but every living being (this very much including one's nears and dears, and oneself), since one has realised the oneness of the individual soul, or Self with the universal Self.
Just as one can confuse selfish love with selfless love--the mother suffocating her child "for her own good" when it's but her own desires and wishes she is imposing upon the child, or a jealous husband claiming to "protect" his wife by cutting her off from her friends--so can one confuse selfish anger with selfless anger in exactly the same fashion. Once one thinks "I'm fighting for my group/darling," and presumes to speak for them all when in truth, one is speaking of but one's own desires and issues, using a figure or a group or a cause as a shield for one's ego to hide behind, then we can speak of selfish anger masquerading as justice. Just like the suffocating mother or jealous husband says "I know what's best for you," while what they really, subconsciously mean is "I know that this is how I want things to be," the ego is putting on the mask of a person, a group, a label, an imaginary picture of one's beloved without actually pausing to consider what those things and people truly consist of, or what they might think of this person's masquerade.
And yet the cure for this selfish anger is the exact same one as that for selfish love: putting down one's ego and considering things from multiple people's and things' perspectives, not just one's personal one. One must ask, in love and anger both, whether one is truly saying "I'm doing this for you," or "I'm doing this for all of us," or whether one truly means to say "I'm doing this for me."
Ask not "What about other people?" in that self-diminishing way women are taught to do: that perverted, unconscious way of ego-building through half-baked moralisation where you have been told "you deserve nothing" so often that you have to present some moral excuse for asking anything for yourself. This is what oftenest leads to this kind of selfish anger masquerading as selfless anger. Instead, ask "What about all of us? We are all children of this Mother Earth, all living parts of Her immense, sacred body; do not all of us, thus, have inherent worth? Do we not all deserve the love and the justice that are our birthright?"
And when you do, truly do include every one, value every one, even your enemy and yourself.
Once one can discover and uproot this excess identification of one's ego, one's personality with the other--the beloved or the group or the cause, what have you--once you can sever this addiction, this dependence on receiving something personally and let go of your ego in both love and anger, only then comes true happiness, then comes true justice, then comes true love.
And it will nourish you, too, because it's not a diminishing store: it's universal and neverending, like that metaphor of a lantern flame being able to light several other lantern flames without being dwindled. You, too, will become the recipient; since these things cannot be portioned and parcelled, it's not deducted from your portion of love and justice and happiness. That's the mistake one often makes, especially with that kind of excess, destructive self-sacrifice women are pressured into by other women. But here you aren't sacrificing yourself, because you are included in the beneficiaries, in the All; you are only destroying your ego, your selfish part, the needy brat within and letting the reasonable adult lead the way.
The above examples are but one, hugely simplified way of putting it, "it" being an enormously huge bundle of things. Of course there are more than these types of anger and love; these examples are only examples, but of very real phenomena. But it's a start. Nobody says it's easy to work on this; like most things worth anything, it's easier said than done. Most of us can only manage types 2.) of both love and anger, at the best of times. But it's possible to change this, piece by piece--even attempting to minimise some of the damage we can cause has massive consequences for the world immediately around us. Consciousness is the first step, and that's where the journey--of a lifetime!--of figuring it out for ourselves starts.
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enlargemycoast3 · 1 year
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Thank you Lord for a great outpouring of Your Spirit that is spreading throughout this nation and across the world. For the winds of the Spirit have begun to blow and the earth will yield a change, a crop of special favor from a God that sees, hears and knows the ins and outs of life. A divine interruption to our lives and intervention for a nation that has crumbled before us. A move of God that specializes in salvation for the needy and poor in Spirit. Open the gates and let the river begin to flow and cause Your people to dig deep into the wells of Your salvation. A river that doesn’t subside, but only increases in our lives as we allow. Bring forth a conviction to those whom dwell among the lost. We give You permission to move among the saved and the lost to bring about a profound witness of Your Spirit. Move Holy Spirit, move! Dig deep My children, go deep and yield. Come closer and feel My breath upon you and breathe in a fresh touch that will subdue the mountains in your life. Lay prostrate before Me and not cast stones to those whom yielded, but struggle. Leave room for the beggar who believes there’s better. Come and place a wager before Me and watch and see what I’ll do. Watch Me perform a miracle in your sight and cover you with My best. Believe on The One who sought you out and trust Me with your life. For I have great and mighty things to return to you and show you My goodness and love. Trust these waters that are moving today and let the small things go in life. Live out your days in victory and see the many things I’ve created for you to enjoy. Let Me be a blessing to you and begin again a profitable and trusting life. See Me as The One whom can turn water into wine and we’ll feast together at My table and you’ll enjoy My presence again as I come alive within you and shelter you from life’s harm. Present yourself as a living sacrifice to Me and I’ll blow away the storms that gather around. Believe in Me again with your whole heart and I’ll send angels at your request to illuminate the way that has caused you to struggle. Live in Me. Live in My love, says the Lord of Host this day Whom loves you beyond measure!
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Shut your mouth. Stop talking. Nothing you say matters anyways tonight. Your words are wasted here and will fall on deaf ears. They are too loud and meant for the choir. Instead, I want to know forgotten words from an eager tongue. I want to give your busy mouth a purpose for once and suffocate every witty retort you think you possess at the source. I want the sensation of muffled complaints to reverberate through me as you write soliloquies with that pink muscle, precise as a pen and used just as frequently.
Stay on your back as my thighs cradle your face, my palms flat to the ground as my own song begins. Slide your hands over me and grasp needily to keep me seated against your mouth. Faster and faster you work, wanting to be heard one way or another. Harder I grind down on your pout, forgetting my manners. My thighs part wide as you latch on to that bundle of nerves.
You speak through me as I cry out for relief, giving you a new voice as my frustrations pour into you and you lap them up hungrily. I spiral from within and as I feel that warm gasp of breath, I know it will soon be my turn to take up such writings.
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greatwargospel · 1 month
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fo3 has a cyborg paladin help create fresh water for all and fo4 has you bully farmers for supplies for the brotherhood.
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