#apologia

[lifeinpoetry]

On earth, I have mistaken a rock // for a voice. A voice for a listening.

— Cynthia Dewi Oka, from "Apologia," A Tinderbox in Three Acts

#quote #Cynthia Dewi Oka #poetry #A Tinderbox in Three Acts #out of my collection #Apologia

[bonebabbles]

slash did disrespect the dead but at least he's not leaving the bodies out to rot like a spectacle for all to see. HORRENDOUSLY low bar, i know, but ... eugh

Like... he left Misty's corpse out there for at least a day, maybe longer. Wind Runner and Gorse HAPPENED to find it, and that lead to the Bumble death scene. Clear Sky disrespecting the dead was a relevant plot point.

But the team doesn't remember their own books so they've just totally forgotten that!

#The thing i keep circling back around to is how PAINFUL it is that they cannot have villains with nuance #You're either Evil or Misguided #Slash is a BORING villain. He's flat and one note. So badly written that I hope they are ashamed of themselves #Clear Sky is what real monsters and abusers ACT LIKE #He's a FANTASTIC villain. He's absolutely terrifying in how he is forever framing himself as a victim #He forces the world to move and calls its screams of pain an injustice to his heroic heart #But the erins swoon at it and buy his justifications wholesale #The 'redemption' was just EXONERATION #APOLOGIA #And it ruins him. Makes him the absolute worst character ever put to pen in this series imo #Dotc hate

[sweatermuppet]

from apologia by paul guest, published in notes for my body double

[Text ID: It’s late again and the moon teaches me stealth and borrowed light and lowered gravity and before sleep let me say my apologies like a prayer, to you, let me miss you as long as I’m alive. /End ID]

#currently reading #paul guest #notes for my body double #apologia #ID included #free epub #free pdf #hi close friends of ig who saw me weeping abt this one <3

[occultboyscout]

Is Witchcraft/Magic Real?

"Do you hear, you who so rashly accuse the art of magic? It is an art acceptable to the immortal gods, full of all knowledge of worship and of prayer, full of piety and wisdom in things divine, full of honour and glory since the day when Zoroaster and Oromazes established it, high-priestess of the powers of heaven. Nay, it is one of the first elements of princely instruction, nor do they lightly admit any chance person to be a magician, any more than they would admit him to be a king. Plato -- if I may quote him again -- in another passage dealing with a certain Zalmoxis, a Thracian and also a master of this art has written that magical charms are merely beautiful words. If that is so, why should I be forbidden to learn the fair words of Zalmoxis or the priestly lore. of Zoroaster?" ~Apuleius, Apologia

"Is Witchcraft/Magic real?" Sure! Or no. Who cares? Ask more interesting questions.

"I don't think magic is real." Okay cool! I'm not talking about magic then. I'm talking about philosophy, or poetry, or history. "I think magic is real." Awesome! Let's talk about ritual, and spells, and grimoires. It's all the same stuff. If the question you're trying to ask is "can ritual affect the physical world" that's a great question, I think so! Let's talk about it. If the question you're trying to ask is "can a person shoot fireballs out of their eyes" the answer is probably not. But if you ask "is magic real" you sound like the accusers of Apulleius, and their insistence on fish:

"You would have made out a far more plausible case by pretending that I made use of such things instead of fish, if only you had possessed the slightest erudition. For the belief in the use of these things is so widespread that you might have been believed. But of what use are fish save to be cooked and eaten at meals? In magic they seem to me to be absolutely useless." ~Apulleius

You do not know what I do. You do not know what I am. You do not know what you're asking me.

#magic #magician #goes #magick #ceremonial magic #grimoire #spirit work #spirituality #apulleius #apologia

[darksilenceinsuburbiareloaded]

APOLOGIA | Partition | japanese antique furniture, object

@apologia_jp

#art #woodfurniture #wood #antiqueobjects #antiquefurniture #japan #apologia

[r3adingr00m]

It takes a special kind of historical myopia, racism, deep and willful ignorance, and decision to ignore actual facts about things like economy, trade, and both GA and UNSC votes to write something like this. I want to say these writers are sick but actually it makes me sick that people can write this kind of utter hogwash, that it’s accepted as truth, and then repeated. I could do a line by line or para by para take down but I’m not going to right now, I will just post this piece in its entirety. F* the WSJ, truly. The one part that I highlighted here, before deciding that someone who thought that the grotesque level of violence and starvation affecting babies, children, and people generally, was not worthy of printing, and somehow distracts from the core idea, what we should all and always focus on, the loss of Israeli life and the attacks on Israel, Is that it is now quite well documented that yes of course there were Ttax and Israel. Yes, of course there was a level of violence. It was unexpected and has an at least recent times been unprecedented, and that the events that took place where to some scale not even within the scope of what attackers had planned, the fact of the matter remains of the actual numbers of people killed by militants versus the actual number killed by Israeli military response is yet to be determined. So these numbers are also just inaccurate (unless one goes by some theory like an analogy to the felony murder rule). But it would take actual journalistic integrity to interrogate that, which this utter rag of a paper does not have.

The last paras, which are on a screengrab that won’t fit here- basically: more on divisions in netanyahu’s cabinet. Israel has had “tactical wins on the battlefield” but “despite these…a strategic victory seems far off.”

Also wsj, you’re missing a tag. And that tag is “genocide”. If you have space for two, the second is “famine”.

#wallstreetjournal #wsj #racism #Palestine #genocide #apologia #manufacturedconsent #fraud #integrity #journalism

[loneberry]

Michael Sells on Ibn ‘Arabi’s The Translator of Desires (1214 CE):

Ibn ‘Arabi’s defense of his spiritual love poems:

🔥

The best apologia in all of literature!!

#poetry #literature #arabic poetry #sufism #sufi poetry #ibn arabi #ibn ‘arabi #the translator of desires #mysticism #apologia

[wintercorrybriea]

antique furniture from apologia

#apologia #set room n design

[fidelishaereticus]

i have always wanted to eat the sun. better things make you an artist.

better things make you a man.

-

#apologia #poetry #original poetry #flash poem

[forgottenbones]

#apologia #instagram

[acostumbradoalfindelmundo]

Ninguna apología del sufrimiento me cae bien, eso incluye la que dice que solo se puede hacer buena poesía, buen arte, cuando todo está mal, cuando las cosas te salen como o por el culo. Limitar al poema solo al sufrimiento y la sangre me parece limitar la belleza a la mitad, la mutilan. A la mierda la dictadura poética de la tristeza, le doy su lugar en mi existencia pero jamás mi vida. Esa frase por ejemplo, la anterior, fue escrita con rabia, y salió bastante bien, así que también me cago en esa idea de que las cosas solo funcionan si se hacen “con amor”. Las mías también salen bien aceitaditas con rabia y desdén profundo. Un poeta así, que resalta únicamente el dolor y el sufrimiento, contribuye a la apología de la tortura, abona ese verso que dice que solo con sacrificio se logran las cosas, el mismo que se olvida de decir que la regla no se cumple si naces millonario y que a veces sufris al pedo y no pasa nada. Es una oveja perdida de ese rebaño. Con sonrisa también hay poesía de calidad. Una de las razones por las que me gusta escribir es por eso mismo: para joder, hay poco espacio para quienes somos perfectos, para gente como yo a la que le sale todo bien, con el poder de vivir en este universo mediocre inclinando la balanza de la injusticia a mi favor (me resultó mucho más práctico que combatirla o enfrentarla). No quiero una balanza equilibrada, quiero una desequilibradísima que me beneficie, mientras del otro lado sufren amontonadxs seres que no me devolvieron libros que les presté, ex’s infames, CEO’s vampiros (existe otro tipo de CEO?), dueños de empresas que sabían que iban a cerrar y aún así me contrataron por unos meses bajo engaño. Ese tipo de ejemplares (llamarles “gente” o “personas” me parece una exageración). Y escribo sobre eso, sobre mi gloria y su infierno, busco la belleza en mi sonrisa y en la de quienes quiero, si uso el hedor del dolor es para perfumar la poesía que habla de quienes desprecio. Cuidado, no me autoproclamo poeta, solo discuto con ellxs, y les digo: Si hoy un poeta no puede hacer eso, si no puede hacer algo bello con algo bello, si solo puede trabajar con el dolor propio y/o ajeno, entonces es medio poeta, o mierda poeta, o poetonto.

(foto: hacé un poema con eso la concha de dios)

Acostumbradoalfindelmundolandia: linktr.ee/acostumbradoalfindelmundo

#acostumbrado al fin del mundo #sufrimiento #poesia #poemas #arte #literatura #belleza #apologia

[wutbju]

All of us should take note.

THIS is an apology. Not a fauxpology. But a real apology.

#bob jones university #Apology #Apologia #Scot McKnight

[immaculatasknight]

Not see apologist

#Canada #Ukraine #diaspora #UCC #Yaroslav Hunka #NaziGate #scandal #apologia #Lubomyr Luciuk #parliament #denial #deflection

[bunny-bunny-boing-boing]

But most of all I sincerely wish I hadn't deleted my old tumblr.

#early 2010s that is #i was farrrr far back away from having transitioned and was basically a baby baby trans #but it seemed back then i actually had a soul #it shone brighter than it does now #i may already have been 18 19 or 20 then but i am crying because i will never be that young again #boing 🐰 #apologia #it was my dream diary #(that was the title of my tumblr for a while) #and it could have been one now had i not thrown it in the fire #✝ #it would have been like an antidote to 2024 #a break from daily life

[wisdomofanemptyheart]

I have several things I should and would like to be writing but here I am lamenting my paucity of imagination and wallowing in a largely unreasonable sense of loneliness.

I have mastered all known forms of solitude and one secret form but that doesn't make it easy

#writing #personal #apologia

[darksilenceinsuburbiareloaded]

APOLOGIA | Root stand, Showa period / Japan | Japanese antique furniture, object

@apologia_jp

#art #antiqueobjects #antiquefurniture #woodfurniture #woodobject #design #antiques #japan #japanesefurniture #apologia