#disclaimer i am not religious

[thylacid]

new tableturf strategy called bible where i place a cross on the board and then pass every round until it ends

#rowan talks #splatoon #disclaimer i am not religious

[deep-space-lines]

okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.

yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything

((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))

and then they fucked nasty the end

#my art #my writing #who fuckin sent this. fuck you. come off anon so i can kick your ass. (the thoughts this ask sparked consumed almost 3 days of my life) #i dont know what this even is #i just work here #disclaimer i don't come from a particularly religious background so like. #most of my knowledge of christianity comes from when my mom sent me to vbs for cheap babysitting in middle school or absorbed via osmosis #so i have no idea what im talking about except for when i do! hope this helps #i love how i say that like i expect biblical scholars to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction #if you are a biblical scholar and you want to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction please know i am not going to read the bible for this #ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #gabv1el #blood #love tagging ultrakill stuff with blood. hmm yes the floor here is made out of floor

[salsa-di-pomodoro]

Ok but can we talk about the absolute horror of being watched and monitored 24/7 that the ancients must have had. The citizenship drones being like an Alexa that's constantly following and listening to you (except it's five pebbles and not Alexa lmao). The fucking OVERSEERS. THEY'RE CALLED THAT FOR A REASON. BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THEIR CITIZENS AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENT ALL THE TIME. (I would talk about the fact that they all show arti fucking ads as well but honestly idk what else to say about that. Capitalism got yet another society 😔). That's some fucking nightmare fuel dystopian society settings we are being hinted at. You know the Big Brother Is Watching You thing. The book. Yeah that's what it reminds me of.

The Iterator Is Watching You.

#imagine not being able to escape being watched any second of your life #imagine being one of the first ancients who saw an iterator come into being #imagine being one of the first ancients who had to go live on top of them #imagine being one of the first amcients to be constantly scrutinized by the overseers #i bet they knew this wasn't really a good thing #no matter how religious they were. by the time of pebbles though they were far too religiously indoctrinated to realize this was bad #(as a society i mean. theres always some who disagree and figure out what's going on) #disclaimer i have never read the book i am talking about and only know it through references and pop culture. still tho yk what i mean #rain world #rainworld #rain world iterator #rw iterator #iterator #rw five pebbles #five pebbles #im tagging him too even tho hes only mentioned i wanna reach more ppl with this #pls i may not have said everything i wanted to say cause i cant get my thoughts straight rn but i want to hear what yall think about this #agh the whole situation is so fucked imagine being the Big Brother in this and not even having a choice in it. #imagine that everyone with critical thinking knows this and cant do anything about it. #not even mentioning the cataclysmic level rain the iterators brought. like dude who thought this was a good idea. #imagine all this + the end of the world and its ecosystem as you know it happening right before your eyes #and you cant even blame the person at fault that much bc they were literally fucking born into this #rw overseer #forgot this one #rw ancients

[glassprism]

"Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests!” - Luke 2:9-14

Hugh Panaro and Sara Jean Ford, Broadway 2014

For @vampyrekat and @pureanonofficial

#Phantom of the Opera #POTO Broadway #Hugh Panaro #Sara Jean Ford #so the idea is that angels are said to be scary therefore the Phantom is meant to be scary therefore Christine is a bad Christian #just a little religious guilt for Christine #gifset #random disclaimer that I am not a Christian

[inkshine]

According to the Over the Garden Wall art book, one of the original iterations of The Beast was a devil-like creature called Old Scratch, but it was changed to the Beast. But it’s crazy how much of the old Satan-inspired influence the Beast still has. Most depictions of a devil or devil-like character in a children’s tv show depict evil taken to a cartoonish extreme, where they have no personality but wickedness and have horns and a pitchfork. But the Beast? The Beast is what Christianity wants you to think the devil actually is. He is the fear of the unknown. He preys on and pushes those who are either genuinely malicious (Adelaide*) or lost and alone (The Woodsman, and to a lesser extent, Greg). He cares of nothing but his own survival and can and will hurt anyone to ensure it.

(*footnote: we don’t know if Adelaide was always the heartless, conniving woman we were shown in the series. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that she was once a better person, but something happened to turn her selfish and cruel. Whether this event simply allowed the Beast into her life and let him corrupt her, or changed her for the worse even without his influence, is unclear.)

#just a disclaimer #i am not religious #but I was raised Christian #And these are my thoughts based on my understanding of the Christianity I was taught #Discussing religion even in a fictional context can get heated so if anyone gets weird on this post I’m blocking you #Otgw #over the garden wall #otgw the beast #the beast otgw

[c-kiddo]

itd be cool if cad is in th tmn reunion because i want to feel the horror of someone who's family was made, generations ago, as a gift to god (who's home is literally a temple to her) be confronted with the fact that the god, who is nature herself, might be fuckin killed by god-devourer being released via moon laser

#sorry caduceus i like when a god dies in something because its so scary. like the end of princess mononoke is so cool #its like that in ma brain #kiddo say #rattling bars i want to see a deeply religious character's reaction to th shit thats happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also disclaimer i am behind on cr3 idk if thats how th killing god shenanigans works or not .

[fideidefenswhore]

Every single JS novel follows the same blueprint of Jane being appalled and horrified at Thomas More’s execution in 1535, she cannot believe evil skanky AB ~made~ Henry do this…. and then by May 1536 she’s always chilling in Chelsea (More’s house which was seized by the crown) like… tehe.

#it’s not even dissonance so much as lack of continuity? #like I understand why they lean in so hard to the same emotional blueprint of her reasons for #her involvement in ousting the Boleyns from power #but like somehow she’s always over this horror and not feeling the slightest bit of guilt or even uneasiness #about being served and kept in such splendor in the literal place which was the more family home ? #it’s … sommmething #*religious / emotional #disclaimer that this is about fictional iterations not the actual historical person #so hope off my dick #altho i am genuinely curious over what she might have felt about it … #about both that is. his downfall and her being lodged there with that sort of dark legacy hovering #I’m rewatching the Thomas more centered episodes in s2 #I can’t even remember if they mention Chelsea is where she’s stay in the s2 finale … idts ?

[dandyshucks]

most confusing response to that one post i made that blew up (what a funny saying btw fjdkdl) are the ppl being all embarrassed (and defensive??) in the tags like. bro u are creating art and that is beautiful. who cares if it's because of a blorbo. some of the most beautiful art in history have been made of ppls blorbos

#most notably are like. all the bible art BDHFDKL #blorbos from ur bible .... #religious art has historically been so lovingly crafted! all sorts of religions and cultures! #but even if its an airbrushed anime twink WHO CARESSS YOU'RE MAKING ART HURRAY !! YOU'RE IMPROVING ON YOUR CRAFT !!! #YOU'RE FINDING JOY IN CREATING !!! #why is that embarrassing!! why are u feeling defensive!! what in my post made that seem like a bad thing AUGH #(<- says the artist who frequently experiences immense amounts of shame for extremely normal things SBHDKL) #idk i just think art made with love should be free from shame ... (unless its hurting ppl. but in that case i dont think it is made w love) #(also i think ppl should try to draw all kinds of ppl and bodies but thats another separate topic i think) #okay i gotta stop putting disclaimers on everything i say fhfkdl. moral ocd BEGONE! [psychic blast] #(<- the psychic blast and command doesnt work 😔😔😔 i am still haunted by scrupulous brain gophers) #dandy.cmd

[echo-the-ghost]

tagged by @thegeekyartist to play my On Repeat playlist and share the first 10 songs that play, I know I just did this recently but it's fun and I'm gonna do it again, shhhh (skjldkjh just being silly, thank you for the tag!)

Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House

Empire & the Sun - The Moth & The Flame

She's My Ride Home - Blue October

The Watcher - Arch Enemy

Black Wolf - Nicumo

My Immortal - Evanescence

Satellite - Votum

There May Be Tears - Scott Cunningham Band

ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE - Bad Omens

New Ways - Daughter

not gonna tag people since my cooldown for being perceived isn't done yet, but if you see this consider yourself tagged 👁

#a couple repeats from last time I'm pretty sure but jhaldjdh it's fine xD #I feel the need to disclaimer number 8 is for sinister reasons not religious reasons and it is my friend's fault :] #also @thegeekyartist I aM going to have to check out your playlist because 👀 #I didn't know florence had a version of Oh! Darling (assuming that's a cover of the beatles song?) #I NEED to check out more paris paloma #and hozier and sammy rae #Ough I love music so much #echo rambles #tag games #music

[moncuries]

the birth of christ, Donald Jackson, 1998, illuminated manuscript - the St. John’s Bible

in preparation for a piece that subverts illuminated manuscripts and saint imagery, i came across the St John’s Bible and if you are at all into religious imagery in any way, check it out as a resource. each page is hand drawn and written by Jackson. in this particular image, christ is represented as this huge ass beam of light in gold leaf. kind of like a reverse alien abduction.

#religion #i am of course using this resource to pwn transphobes in a sexy way #anyway #again a disclaimer that i am not faithful/christian/any sect but religious art is an area of my studies! #so my sharing these pictures has nothing to do with conversion or preaching etc #just an art history enjoyer with a lot of gold leaf in my drawers rn

[pctaldrunk]

on the depiction of dao in c.yjm and b.ingchang's dao

I'll get to what all this has to do w/ B.ingchang in a few paragraphs, but I want to talk about dao in context of c.yjm, which I think is arguably underdeveloped...in both source materials that currently exist. Firstly, to establish the loosest sense of the word - dao is a path. It's merely a road of cultivation, a philosophical principle of the universe which an individual has chosen to follow as a guide through and interpretation of the state of being of the world. To understand and find dao and therefore achieve some height of cultivation is only to understand and embody the chosen principle and thereby let go of some worldly obsession. The twice that a specific dao is mentioned is in relation to the main characters. L.i Su Su practices 无情道 (the path of no feeling), and the demon god is intrinsically linked to 同悲道 (quite literally, the path of 'same suffering'/'suffering with'). Effectively - two canonically powerful cultivation paths that destructively symbolize universal good and universal evil.

And yet like a lot of dao - they are linked together in a circle - 同悲 is achieved through suffering, to cause others suffering, to realize that all living beings suffer and to be the sufferer and to be the person causing suffering is at the end one and the same against the backdrop of the cycle of cosmic suffering. 无情 is to be without personal emotion, to see all living things, from a blade of grass to an ordinary person to a villain as only parts of the universe without influence from within, to feel love only for the entire universe and therefore only act in the favor of the universe as an entity and not any of the millions of individuals within it.

Controversially, maybe - I think their effect is the same. Both are paths that completely obliterate circumstance and self and the individual. Both are elevated to godhood rather than the human experience - perpetrators of divine will, a will that exists outside of and involves all living things no matter what dao they choose to practice. 同悲 and 无情 both seek to change the world and the paths of others - assimilation, if you will, into the universal dao - to carry out a divine will - whether that will is for universal good or universal suffering.

And this is why I think...Bingchang sits at a unique middle between daos, and why I find it ironic that she's frequently referred to as a 'B.odhisattva on earth' specifically within the narrative. Her path remains incomplete - unfortunately she dies before she's really able to feel it out comfortably in the novel, but - I believe, overall it finds some of its roots in the concept of 无为 - noninterference. That all paths that exist for her and others are a path of the universe, that all things as they are and in the way that they are and choose to be - have their time and place in the world. That her own path in the world can only be borne out of herself and to do with herself, not about changing the paths of others. A "small" dao, rather than a "grand" one, but a dao of assessment and acceptance rather obliteration.

At the start of her narrative she's trying out universal compassion, and at the end of her narrative she dips a little into malice. The ends of her scale are a very wide range. I believe that eventually when kindness no longer becomes something she can give in abundance and without regard to herself, she realizes that 1) she has always been practicing kindness to her ability, rather than extended to the universe as an entity 2) she needs to reassess her dao and what is "worth it" to her, individually, in terms of that ability. Which is to say - discovering her dao is largely about discovering her limitations and her own obstinacies and obsessions and finding a compromise. She has a uniquely human dao, which is the dao of a great many regular beings who are neither gods nor devils - mercy where mercy can be afforded, unkindness where one cannot prevent it - all according to one's own ability and without interfering with or trying to influence the path of others, bending like water as necessary.

She's very aware that she cannot love and forgive everything in the world the same way and therefore cannot offer mercy to all - consequently she cannot condemn or judge everything in the world in the same way either, and cannot offer suffering to all. But she will make good with all that she can. Maybe one day, a long time later when she is finally at a point where she can accept all things and lay down all the things she cannot let go of - she will finally become a real god - but I'm inclined to believe that when she's referred to as a B.odhisattva "on earth" in the story, it's an indicator - she will always be flawed and individual in her humanity, contradictory as every complex person is, kind and cruel at once - only ever just doing her best.

So I think with regards to cultivation and who she'll become post canon in the grand scheme of this xianxia landscape - a middleman, a conveyer of small kindnesses and small understandings and small anger. Not a great goddess or a great evil but simply a still-learning, still-cultivating individual that wanders the mortal realm for answers that she still seeks to answer for herself.

#headcanons : when my time is up have i done enough. will they tell your story #𝐘𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆 : 恶毒女配 #((so)) #((s o)) #((i hav so many hnnnns about this actually)) #((disclaimer i'm not a religious expert and also idk if my chinesee brain did this in english quitee right)) #((am just here w/ my lil bit of IM SO EXCITED ABT THIS STUFF)) #((: ' D)) #((this is 900+ words)) #((SAVE ME)) #((tw long post but i thru it under a rewad more for u))

[horrorofthemoths]

#art #collage #angelcore #religious imagery #angels #archangel michael #saint michael #disclaimer i am not religious i just like angels #eyes #scopophobia #christianity #weirdcore #my art

[jesusology]

my jesus obsession extends to creating a story based around it with one of the ocs being SO jesus coded it is felt viscerally. i have a sickness

#t post #disclaimer that i always add here: i am not religious. as far as being a christian is concerned #i probably don't need to always say that by this point but i am NOT taking any chances

[kyuala]

sometimes im like.. super anxious posting stuff abt my faith bc of the way i live but at the same time... if u cant accept that part of me u cant accept me period

#like that is such an important part of who i am like God really is everything to me #and no amount of 'unconventional stuff for Christians' will ever change that #yes i smoke yes i drink yes i swear yes i party yes i twerk yes i hook up w strangers regularly including women #and that has literally nothing to do w anybody else thats between me and God #and we're good and where we're not i'll work on that #sorry just had to rant a lil bit bc im tired of being put in this box by both my fellow believers n my non-religious peers #it gets TIRING. its exhausting being a stereotype. try being nice and treating other ppl like actual complex human beings maybe #mari.txt #couple disclaimers i do not condone doing any of those things in excess im not crazy #also i personally do not believe same-sex relationships are a sin this is just an example of stuff ppl say are not for Christians #ive heard it from both sides that u cant be a person of faith and lgbtq+ and its fucking exhausting #i got so much guilt you'd think im Catholic #religion tw #ig? let me know

[donghuamuqing]

Vecna is the father, el is the son, and will is the holy ghost

#my post #i think will could also work as ‘the son’ seeing as hes more tied to vecna than el technically is #however el is directly related to what happened to vecna and the upside down while will is a victim of that #hes the spirit theyre chasing in s1 and gets possessed by the mindflayer is s2 #which is a very mental/spiritual… thing? like its not physical #will is not a physical actor until id say s3 when he gets to help out to get billy and the flayed #el is the son. it makes sense To Me #vecna is of course the father #id say it was papa but thats too on the nose and he also isnt a major character #hes major to the narrative and to the development of others but hes only present for 2 out of the eventual 5 seasons #and even then only works to develop el #vecna is the father since he made the upside down into what it is now #hes the original. papa did not have powers. he induced els powers #also disclaimer. im not christian. i wasnt raised religiously christian. i am talking out of my ass rn #my catholic headcanons ❤️❤️❤️

[jaeheewillalwaysbemyfav]

…and I thought the issue I’d run into with my theory posts was that someone would get mad that I lowkey called god an abuser lmao

#mine #honestly there’s a genuine interesting debate to be had about how we should refer to the big monotheistic three #and I am well aware of issues that occur when (mostly) gentiles use stuff like Judeo-Christian and abrahamic #but if you’re gonna come onto my post where I specifically asked for no religious discourse #(bc i warned that I’d be referring to biblical lore in a glib way to analyse a silly otome game) #and call me names #instead of blocking me like a goddamn adult #do you really expect me to take you in good faith? #i didn’t even use the fucking word judeo-christian or imply any kind of universality to the lore bits I was discussing #sure i guess I could’ve added a disclaimer about how the big three’s mythologies get mixed up a lot #but it had nothing to do with what I was talking about #because again. I Did Not Fucking Say Anything Was Universal #i just needed a quick and easy to understand shorthand that wasn’t specific to any one religion #bc oh yeah I’m also juggling not calling any one specific practice out #bc that wouldn’t be fair either #anyway this is why context and picking your battles matters #trust me if I ever info dump specifically about Jewish mythology you’ll know #there will be no room for ambiguity #hashed-tag jewish-prosecutor-Satan is best Satan