I've been reading Exodus lately and I've just gotten to the portions where God gives the first commands to the people via Moses (twice), and then goes on to give detailed instructions about the tabernacle and how it should be built, and I'm just... we think art is unimportant?? we think things only mean as much as their functionality?? we so easily fall into the trap of believing that beauty means nothing, that it's cheap and only worth whatever mindless distraction it brings, that it's barely more than a cheap sensual thrill, that buildings should just be practical and plain and cheap, that everything should be functional but ultimately disposable, that paintings and dresses and mugs and curtains and carpets are just pretty but have no real value, that beauty is fleeting and vain and therefore shouldn't be thought about too much, if even looked for at all... we fall into these traps so easily, and we forget that there are chapters upon chapters of painstakingly detailed plans to build one portable worship tent, and those plans have been handed down through thousands of years of human history, because beauty and art and skill in craft is important
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Macau: Onion rings are vegetable donuts.
Vegas, used to Macau being dumb: Sure...
Macau: Your stomach thinks all potatoes are mashed.
Pete: Okay?
Macau: Lasagna is spaghetti flavored cake.
Pete:
Macau: Lobsters are mermaid scorpio-
Vegas: Jesus, that one is a little-
Porsche, interested: No, no, Macau, keep going.
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i wish I had the financial security to stand out in front of a Planned Parenthood ALL FUCKING WEEK and shame women for having body autonomy.
These people really have nothing at all productive going on in there lives on a Tuesday morning?
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Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn
Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished
And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue
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I'm turning 30 this month and as a self-imposed rite of passage I'm planning on attending service at the nearest mormon church and seeing just how many books I can steal
Ideally while wearing my packer under my skirt and my BDSM Master ring (which happens to be shaped like a shield)
Updates to come
(I was mormon for 19 years and the church still considers me a member, I'm allowed to do this)
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I can't put my hope in myself, because I'm fickle. Nor in my attitudes, because I don't always make the best decisions. I put my hope in God, who has been constant since the beginning of all things.
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༻`` 11 Feb 24 — Sunday
100 days of productivity 42/100
Took the weekend to rest and finish off homework (I got all the physics finished!). I'll spend the week cleaning, making notes and doing coursework. Also did a bit of research on a few small topics that interested me and aterted (finally) reading the bible. Just 1 chapter today.
30 day new year momentum challenge 3/30
What does your ideal study plan look like this week?
Reviewing notes pretty much right after school and again before bed, adding a bit to my notes and doing at least 1 question either of 1 subject or from each, depending on how many I really do and how much homework I've been given that day. My goal is still to study 2hrs per day and I've hit that twice so far, but I've also hit above the 1hr 30 mark a good number of times.
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