#critical spirit

[curtklingermanposts]

Critical Spirits

The Purpose of Speaking Truth in Love

Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ. The purpose of speaking the truth in love is to benefit the recipient of what is being said, with the intent to help him or her to grow up into Christ. Scripture plays a major role. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect (complete), throughly furnished unto all good works. It is important to note that truth is God-centered. Factual statements do not necessarily constitute truth, especially if they are used against others! For example, using factual statements in order to use someone’s past against him. Another example, would be using Scripture out of context to manipulate others. Using factual statements to vent is not exactly love, either. Truth is all about intent. In short, without love, there is no truth. When reading the entirety of Ephesians four, we find truth provides discernment and stability. It combats deceit, and false teaching. The more truth we have, the less we can be deceived. Truth causes growth; and without it, people remain immature.

Those With Critical Spirits

Clearly, those with a critical attitude will have a difficult time speaking the truth in love. They tend look for faults in others, and generally find them -whether they actually exist or not. The Pharisees found fault with Jesus; but in truth, the fault was with them. Self-righteous people tend to be fault-finders. In many instances, they will use Scripture against others. Here's an irony: knowing the Word is part of maturity; however, using the Word against others is a sign of immaturity. A person’s ability to site chapter and verse might seem impressive, but if he does not couple it with love and wisdom, he can actually become a stumbling block to others. A critical spirit is a sign of bitterness, which often gets projected on others. It’s one reason one can meet a total stranger, and instantly resent him. In this case, he is holding someone in unforgiveness, and the stranger reminds him of the one who hurt him. The appearance, speech, attitude or mannerisms (or the combination of any) of the individual triggers the resentment. This may be something of which to pay attention. If we find ourselves instantly detesting a perfect stranger, we may have something with which to deal. What faults do people tend to find in others? The ones they themselves have. Other people can serve as a proverbial mirror. We see it all the time, people pointing fingers at others, while doing the same things, or having identical traits, themselves. We should probably take advantage of those mirrors. The Lord might be trying to show something. Hmmm. Of course, a person could just go using other people’s faults to cover their own. Here a couple scriptures with which to close. Ephesians 4:31-21 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Matthew 7:1-5 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

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#perfectfaith #fault finding #critical spirit #love #forgiveness #criticalilness #judgment

[postersbykeith]

#quotes #Sinclair Lewis #I am convinced #free spirit #inquiring spirit #critical spirit

[nonagalleryart]

My partner is doing very interesting things at UK Games Expo this weekend. Come see to find out more...

#Fanart #Nona Gallery #Illustration #Art #Critical Role #caduceus clay #taliesin jaffe #DND #RPG #Caduceus is my ace kindred spirit #UKGE #Comic Con #Games Expo

[soaring-trash]

Will you hold me?

Always.

#critical role #critical role campaign 3 #critters #bells hells #critical role fanart #fanart #laudna #delilah #delilah briarwood #ashton doll #laudna’s old hut #matilda bradbury #imogen temult #imodna #imogen x laudna #she’s here in spirit

[capnpen]

Quick Thought – Friday, August 26, 2022: Two Birds

Quick Thought – Friday, August 26, 2022: Two Birds

Read Matthew 7:1-5 “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3 Reflect We can learn a lot from birds. If you’ve ever driven on a road trip you’ve undoubtedly seen buzzards circling in the sky over their next meal. It’s not unusual to see one or more of these birds picking at the carcass of a dead animal in the middle of…

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#Bible #bible study #bird #buzzard #casualty #critical spirit #criticism #death #devotion #Holy Spirit #hummingbird #life #meat #nectar #Quick Thought #relationship #worship

[yudol-skorbi]

these sure are....a hell of a bells......

#critical role #sketch #bells hells #fanart #i am tired guys #fearne calloway #chetney pock o'pea #imogen temult #laudna #fcg #dorian storm #ashton greymoore #its almost exactly a year since i watched c1e1 #fucking hell #anyway #i have almost no free time to draw things i want to draw #so here is sketches i did science i started c3 #dorian storm please come back i miss u #imogen was born to admin mlp lore wiki and watch spirit five times a day #forced to experience The Horrors and Save The World Or Destroy It

[finncakes]

of course i finally finish this after they have new outfits

#critical role #ashton greymoore #orym of the air ashari #orym #ashrym #cr3 #bells hells #the human spirit is incredible. haven't looked at this for MONTHS and now suddenly got thr motivation to finish it #oh well....ig i will draw new one with their updated outfits #sorry i haven't been sharing as much art #i *have* been drawing just. for myself and friends :']

[autism-alley]

look obviously i don’t know the guy but i feel like 2009 rick riordan would fist fight 2024 rick riordan

#or at least send him a strongly worded email like he did to the production of the movies #my man you already wrote the story #the movies committed the sin of sexing up his children’s story #now the show is committing the sin of removing the story’s spirit #if that sounds dramatic to you. same but once i thought about it? yeah. #i rly fucking hope disney is more to blame than rick but the show is not automatically above criticism bc rick is involved #and i am just being silly with this post but i am itching to post my own critiques #i have been rb’ing critiques i agree with so i won’t repeat those but i have points of my own to make #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo show crit #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #ris raves

[magscherer]

*hands you an animatic from THAT scene* imodna be upon ye! 🥐 (also available on youtube)

#posted this on twitter a while back as well! #im way more active there but ill try making a post dump here :) #anyways im insane and deranged the spirit of laura bailey possessed me and I made this in 5 days #I literally do not remember Existing as a person during those 5 days lol #art #my art #animatic #storyboards #cr fanart #cr #critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #cr 3 #bells hells #critical role campaign 3 #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #imogen x laudna #southerngothic #cr 3 ep 65

[curtklingermanposts]

The purpose of speaking the truth in love is to benefit the recipient of what's being said. Now if a person has a critical spirit, they will have a tendency to look for faults in other people. And generally they find them. And the question is, how does that affect the relationship, and what does that have to do with truth? Remember this, the Pharisees found fault with Jesus; but in truth, the fault was with them. www.perfectfaith.org

#perfectfaith #perfectfaithshorts #snackbites #theguyoutside #faith #judgment #critical spirit #fault finding

[darthluffy]

So much about that damn kiss was great, but I love the way you can see Laura, Matt, Ashley, Talisen, and sorta Travis all brace when Laudna starts with “Obviously I care for you an immense deal…” They were all preparing for the friendzone and you can see visible relief when Laudna instead kisses Imogen again

#imodna #imogen temult #laudna #critical role #bells hells #they all wanted this so much #Ashley’s reactions deserve their own video. the guys are trying to be more restrained but you can see how much they’re rooting for this #I’ve rewatched the 3 minutes like 50 times now. probably more actually. #travis is my spirit animal. big man who likes combat and lesbians. very relatable.

[bruitist]

Watching the new intro and someone was paying attention in flower symbolism class! That's Lycoris Radiata, baby!

#critical role #laudna #now I wish laudna could meet lily #(my spirits bard) #so they could do 'same hat'

[soaring-trash]

Redraw of that one shot, you know which one

#critical role #critical role campaign 3 #critters #bells hells #critical role fanart #laudna #fanart #imogen temult #imodna #imogen x laudna #not really #but she’s here in spirit #critical role c3 #criticalrole fanart #cr 3 #c3 #cr3 #criticalrole opening

[sloshr]

After watching through Side Order... I have a Few Thoughts.

[Spoilers ahead]

My Review of the Side Order DLC - Its little more than Gameplay.

Initial Opinion

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Overall; I like the gameplay mechanics initially, but the story absolutely feels lacking to me, imo. It feels like they were really banking on Side Order being Hard but... multiple of my friends finished it on their 2nd or 3rd run through the Spire.

That in itself isnt a problem! But... everyone felt sort of unsatisfied? There were no developments in the story, as we, Agent 8, were just assigned the task to Get to The Top of the Spire -> The Player Does That -> You beat a Boss -> Credits Roll (?)

On my watchthrough I literally said Please Say Sike 😭 because, dont take this poorly, but they were advertising Side Order as;

• Difficult (stated Multiple Times in basically every Trailer)

• Story Driven (You Uncover things as You Climb)

• Character and Lore Intensive (as shown by the trailers with all the concept art as well as promo art)

I dont feel like it was wrong to expect more based on how it was advertised.

But... if you complete the DLC in 1-2 runs, which is Very Much Possible, no buildup happens at all. The story was banking on the player struggling, and putting all the content behind repeat runs, which falls through and Doesnt really work/feel satisfying if the main goal is achieved in such a short time. I Feel like anyone who regularly plays Salmon Run will likely have a similar experience. And I feel kind of cheated? Because what we got was something that was Tell Not Show rather than the Show, Not Tell formula. And in my opinion, it really doesn't work as well at all. It puts all the major lore that the game has set up behind repetetive climbs (which never change btw, despite each climb being generated differently, its the same after a while) and you get about 1 Sentence of Exposition, with a Modlog from Marina if you are Lucky.

Side Order was (to me), after watching it all;

• Not Difficult, But Repetetive Gameplay (This easily runs people down, which would be fine if the tower had more than 1 setup or phase)

• Inital Story Setup with no complexities or stages. You climb the first Tower, Save Marina, Climb the Second Tower, Beat Order, and the credits Roll. In its most complex, you could fit what Side Order's Story is in 2-3 Sentences. Rather than Lore being revealed During the story, it feels Pushed to the Side as all of it is either in Text the player may never see (different climbs) or care to read (Marina's Mod Log)

• Use of Character Drops with no explaination / mention (The Agent 4 Boss, Anyone?) (This felt very Bait-y, with No Payoff)

Rating

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If I had to give Side Order a Rating

4/10. At Best.

I am a bit disappointed with this as I feel like I was promised more, Storywise, and honestly a bit gameplay wise. I think it fails where other DLC has succeeded Due to being Built in such a way where anything engaging is stuck behind barely changing gameplay. It is not built in a way where the experience cant fail to show you whats important to the characters and the worldbuilding. It relies too much on telling you whats happening rather than the world showing you. Its too Simple, and It Doesnt Work, personally, in a series that contains Octo Expansion.

Which is Sad to me!! It had so much wasted potential and I really hope this isn't the last we're going to see of the concept, we get to see ideas actually built into the story, and... maybe find Agent 4.

Conclusion

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Tldr; Side Order had a good concept, but failed in execution for being simple and gameplay dependent, which was ultimately disappointing due to it being advertised as something more for all involved.

It was an alright attempt. The experience will just be known to me as... well. Baby's First Rouge-like. Nothing worldbreaking.

(PS, this isnt meant to be mean spirited or overly critical, I just love the Splatoon Series so I give it Tough Love. This is just my personal view on the DLC)

Thank you for Reading! Feel free to share or add any thoughts!

#This is Just my opinion but Ive seen a couple people with similar experiences to me and wanted to make a post to see if anyone else #feels the same about the whole DLC #if anyone has any experiences to share feel free! id love to hear #sorry if this seems mean spirited or overly critical - i really do love the splatoon series with all my heart #its tough love #splatoon #review #Side Order #Side Order Spoilers #Splatoon 3 #Nintendo

[sparring-spirals]

every time ashley chooses to play Some Lil Guy in these oneshots another part of my soul is healed

#ashley johnson understands the spirit and soul of A Little Guy i think #oppy is. lovely. #critical role #cr spoilers #daggerheart oneshot #cr cast #oneshot #idk if im tagging chars for this sorry folks

[tadfools]

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #critical role #dimention 20 #baldur’s gate 3 #these three things fit the spirit of this to me #dnd memes