#bystanders

[acerdime]

Alfred Pennyworth is a Bystander

Feel free to present new evidence to me (politely) from DC media if I get stuff wrong, as I have limited information. All I ask is an open mind.

Considering how much writing there is confronting Bruce’s abuse of his many children, I am disappointed but not surprised to see an extreme lack of responsibility assigned to Alfred. Alfred’s emotional distance due to his employment and British culture did Bruce a disservice and likely contributed to his emotional ignorance. Yes, he’s very cool-headed, but that’s not always what a child needs. I have seen many comics in which this emotional distance is tempered with warmth but certainly not all. If Bruce (& Jason & Damian) is as abusive as he is in canon, has met little to no resistance, and few to none of the batkids have been parented more by Alfred in response then Alfred has failed in his duty as an adoptive grandfather, parent, caregiver, and responsible adult. Even if he was lacking the title of grand/parent, he has a responsibility as an adult to ensure the relative health, safety, & happiness of the children he cares for. I know people idolize him. He’s legendary, immortal (jokingly or not), badass, sassy, and a jack of all trades. I know he’s amazing. I also know he’s human and every human has flaws. Failure is also not a state of being. Failure is an event or response, what matters is how you react to it. I believe Alfred can learn to intervene in his foster son’s abuse and protect the children in his care.

#dc #dcu #detective comics #alfred pennyworth #unpopular opinion #batfam #batfamily #bystanders #bruce wayne #cw child abuse #tw child abuse #cw child neglect #tw child neglect #bruce waynes a+ parenting

[theblackestofsuns]

"Bystanders"

Pharagonesia & Other Strange Stories (1988)

Moebius

Epic Comics / Marvel Comics

#Pharagonesia & Other Strange Stories #Moebius #Epic Comics #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #Bystanders

[limeskye]

Eastenders - Ben Mitchell goes into cardiac arrest

#eastenders #bbc #ben mitchell #cw overdose #cardiac arrest #defibrillation #whump #oxygen mask #worry #bystanders #callum #ballum #cpr #unconcious #eeedit #eastendersedit #collapse

[momentsbeforemass]

What’ll it be?

(for someone who’s stuck in neutral)

What’ll it be? What’ll you have?

It doesn’t matter how you ask it. The answer to the bartender’s eternal question? It has consequences.

It marks the designated driver. It shows wisdom in an unexpected place, revealing someone who knows their limits.

And it can separate a night you’ll want to remember, from one you’ll always regret.

Today’s Gospel is the parable of the sower. Well, really just the last part of it. Where Jesus tells us what the good soil represents, what the rocky soil represents, etc.

This one shows up a lot in the readings. So we get to hear this one a lot in church.

But whether it’s the explanation by Jesus that we get today, the short version we hear at Mass during the week, or the long version we hear on Sundays. There’s something missing from every version of this parable.

Bystanders.

The truth of the parable of the sower is that in this life, there are no bystanders.

There is no safe place to stand out of the way. No matter how much we’d rather not get involved, we already are.

We’re stuck. We have a choice to make. We don’t just get to pick which type of soil we’re going to be.

We have to pick which type of soil we’re going to be.

And just like the bartender’s eternal question, our answer to that question has consequences. Eternal consequences.

So what’ll it be?

Today’s Readings

#Involved #Already involved #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Bystanders #Bartender #Sower #Moments Before Mass

[justtorzaplease]

When you die, you are judged based on how many people you killed. You smirk, smug, knowing your hands are clean. But as smooth, sandy hands examine yours, you feel your breath halt, flecks of blood slowly rising in a sickening display of death and love and hate. A little girl who saw your comments online, dead. That boy, only a year younger than you who had begged you for help as his bully chased him, dead. The kid in home group, face bloody and bruised because you passed on a rumor, dead. Those millions of victims worldwide, who suffered because you stood by and watched, doing nothing to help them, dead. Actions have consequences. But so does doing nothing.

~

Bystanders do more harm than good.

#original writing #my writing #writing #bystanders #do nothing or everything? #I like this idea #roughly based off of the Egyptian afterlife #how they weigh the hearts #political?

[arinewman7]

Bystanders

Lyubov Yugina

acrylic on canvas

#Lyubov Yugina #art #artist #painter #painting #Bystanders #acrylic on canvas

[aronarchy]

#repost of someone else’s content #The Anarchist Library #antiblackness #racism #police brutality #murder #bystanders #complicity #direct action #anarchism #insurrectionary anarchism #abolition #police abolition

[omelas-simulator]

Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas Simulator

You are a citizen of Omelas. It is a perfect city; a Utopia, where everyone is genuinely happy- except a single child, on whose suffering this Utopia rests.

It lives in an abandoned tool closet in a basement, three feet long and two feet wide; there are mops still in the corner. It looks six, but is actually ten. It is feeble-minded and slow; perhaps due to fear, malnutrition, and neglect. It is afraid of the mops; it closes its eyes to block them out.

It lives in its own excrement and has sores all along its buttocks and thighs. It is terribly thin, without calves, belly extruding; it lives on a half-bowl of corn meal and grease each day. It is so, so afraid. It is alone, except when people come to kick it, and it used to plead to be released, but now it does not.

Everyone is told of the child when they are old enough, usually between the ages of eight and twelve. They are all told the following, which is undeniable and true: were the child to be let out, or a single kind word spoken, all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither away. Some cannot bear to know of this suffering, and they walk out of Omelas, saying nothing. They are the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Check the reblogs or this blog for followup questions on the choice you took

#poll #ethics #utilitarianism #consequentialism #deontology #morality #omelas #the ones who walk away from omelas #ursula le guin #long #bystanders #ethical dilemma #omelas simulator

[biblebloodhound]

The Divine Warrior (Isaiah 59:15b-21)

The Lord looked and saw there was no justice. He did not like what he saw.

The Lord looked and was displeased    that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one,    he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;so his own arm achieved salvation for him,    and his own righteousness sustained him.He put on righteousness as his breastplate,    and the helmet of salvation on his head;he put on the garments of vengeance    and wrapped himself in zeal as in a…

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#armor of god #bystanders #common good #deliverance #divine warrior #god&039;s justice #injustice #irresponsibility #isaiah 59 #justice #oppression #prophet isaiah #rationalization #rationalizing #redeemer #responsibility #righteousness #salvation #spiritual armor #spiritual life #unrighteousness

[tenth-sentence]

Offering violence and experiencing violence from police and bystanders, members began to leave the WSPU and by 1914 it was said to have only 5,000 members, compared to the peaceful NUWSS, which reported 50,000.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #violence #police #bystanders #police violence #wspu #women's social and political union #nuwss #national union of women's suffrage societies #membership

[qupritsuvwix]

#genise carter #kitty genovese #kidnapping #murder #bystanders

[wickedzeevyln]

Unseen

Her brown eyes did nothing but see through me, of the hundreds of faces that show up in that classroom that stay with her, it is I whose face that sours hers, I may be acerbic, and she is a shark that can sense fear in her students. She was taking her masters struggling with her thesis and when she hears that I could potentially help her out, I suddenly came into existence, someone with a name.…

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#Abuse #Appreciation #Background #Banished #Brown Eyes #Bystanders #Challenges #Classroom #Community #Connections #Corporate Events #Curse #Dignity #Dynamo #Empty Promise #Erwinism #Existence #Faces #Fear #Flood #Fulfillment #HELP #Impetus #Inspiration #Invisibility #Invisible #Laboring #Leah Darow #Learning #Life

[theperfectsmile]

the sickest most awful thing is when you have a friend going through bullying and you know you need to stand up for them and when you do the bullies just justify why they need to bully you now. I mean at least we're going through the torment together. <3

#perfectsmile.txt #bullying #online harassment #online bullying #cyberbullying #rumors #mean girls #stand up for each other #stand up for your friends #bystanders #cyber bullying #abuse mention

[aropride]

REBLOG if you think they FUCKED RAW !!!!!

#text #sui joke #sry 2 the innocent bystanders (random ppl clicking tbe post to see the original) #im not even really a frerardie but one guy in my notes got mad abt it so i was like WELL I AM WHEN ITS FUNNY ! #so srry abt this post U understand

[thedailymobile]

“Triple A Street Scene”

© EricBrazier.com

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#bystanders #Funchal #Madeira #Mercado dos Lavradores #Old Hospital Street #people #Portugal #Rua Hospital Velho #shooting the breeze #street scene #Streetphotography #the old skippers #travel

[kstarvibes]

Kim JungGi's Last Schedule Since His Passing And His Answer To A Bystander's Question, "Do You Have Any Advice That You Think A Future Artist/Illustrators Should Never Forget?"

“JungGi’s Last Schedule” Screenshot Korean artist and illustrator Kim JungGi was born in 1975 in the city of Goyang located in the province of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and began his career as an illustrator at 19, while being with enrolled at a Fine Arts School marjoring in Art and Design. Later, attended Dong-Eui University in Busan for three years, which included his official mandatory…

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#Advice #Answer #ArtistIllustrators #Bystanders #Forget #Future #JungGis #Kim #Passing #Question #Schedule