#faith does not question

[foreverpraying]

Hand of Jesus by PeteWill on GettyImages

"Faith does not question that God will provide, though it sees not which way provisions should come in." Thomas Watson

#Faith does not question that God will provide #quotes #God will provide #faith does not question #does not question #question #provide #God #Jesus #Christ #Jesus Christ #Father #Son #Holy Spirit #Holy Trinity #christian religion #faith #hope #love #stress reliever

[tangledinink]

OH MY GOOOOOOD!!! THE TAIL WAAAAAAAGS!?!!!! THATS ADORABLE!!!

I really love how Donnie and Leo are comfortable being hugged by Gus! Leo seems genuinely happy to be receiving affection and, even with his injured shell, Donnie doesn't pull away from the contact! Plus Donnie was leaning on Gus!

I get the sense that the two of them don't really receive much physical affection from anyone but each other but I'm so happy that Gus is there and just showering them with it.

Is Gus the only staff member that the boys are close with? They obviously don't share information with Gus but other than that, how close are they with him? I'm just so curious about this additional lore about their home lives!

also I think they deserve more cuddles and it warms my heart to see Gus just hugging them with abandon <3

heck yeah tail wags <3 where do you think the gemini learned it from? ;3c

and there are a few other staff members that the gemini are relatively close with, which i've touched on in the past! gus is probably who they're closest with, though, and the only one they get any physical affection from. he's known them since they were first adopted by big mama, and his main 'job' at the hotel has long been to keep an eye on them and keep them safe when they're in the hotel. he has the 'late shift' and spends nights in a big dog bed out in the hallway of the gemini's floor, guarding their rooms while they sleep, just in case anything happens or they need him.

i would say they're very close with gus! he's like a 'beloved family dog' and 'protective dopey uncle' combo and did a lot of caretaking when they were little-- the only constant amongst the ever-revolving cast of nannies, aside from their mother's occasional appearances.

that being said, there's a reason gus shares the color of another gemini character rather than having his own. despite everything, the twins are well aware of where gus's loyalty lies at the end of the day, and who he answers to. and as lovely as their relationship is, it's not them.

#file under “lessons learned the hard way” #gus isnt a bad dude hes just dumb and loyal #he would never want to hurt the gemini. but he does have blind faith in big mama's commands and doesnt question her motives. #he loves the gems to pieces tho #when they were babies hed take them trick or treating around the hotel <3 and the twins would be like :D TRICK OR TREAT! #to absolutely unPREPARED guests just minding their business and who definitely did not have halloween candy on hand #and theyd be like uhhh.... #and gus would be standing behind the little gemini twins like Ò _ Ó #and theyd be like U H H HH H H H H H and figure something out #the gemini got a lot of cash and jewlery and watches when they went trick or treating #gemini au #gemini au asks #gemini asks #asks #anon

[reliquiaen]

Okay, a few years back I made this graphic to explain the Great Cycle. Now that I've mulled over DD2 for a few days, I'm updating it. Some of the same assumptions as before remain: The Dragonforged fought the dragon, his weapon broke, he tried punching it (lmao), but he did survive without killing the dragon, possibly there was a second Bargain offered in the face of his determination. So you don't have to kill your dragon to survive it. Also still assuming that different classes become different types of drakes because I just like that detail, even though we see nothing to confirm it in DD2 (except maybe for the wyrms in the post-game, I hope that's what those are, just a bit redesigned).

But this time, I'm making some NEW assumptions: A Great Dragon can be manifested directly by the Seneschal's will (I'm guessing this is why our DD2 dragon doesn't have a name, I suspect this dragon was created after Rothais defeated his - he didn't become a dragon OR Seneschal so it had to come from somewhere). The challenge a Seneschal poses to the Arisen can be anything; Savan gave us the opening of the Everfall and unleashed a ton of powerful monsters upon the world; but Pathfinder gave us what the world would look like without a Seneschal to oversee things. My assumption is that the Colossal Dragon that appears out of that final red pillar of light IS the Pathfinder (possibly using his will to force order back upon the world) and when we kill it, our Arisen becomes Seneschal (because Pathfinder says he won't be there to see the new world that's forming). So the challenge can be anything, not just the Everfall. I'm curious what happens to our pawn after that fight, though. And it's a much better Seneschal fight than the one against Savan, sorry Savan.

I'm also assuming that (given we see the Pathfinder rewind time and rewrite the world) the Seneschal can simply will the world into a state of being that suits them. This includes wiping memories of events. Though I like to imagine that our Arisen-turned-Seneschal didn't wipe memories of themselves or of the apocalypse-world. There was an entire plotline going through this game with Rothais and Phaesus where mortals are trying to get rid of the Seneschal and so it makes sense that they need to remember what would happen without the Seneschal's presence.

Anyway, thanks. I'll probably have more thoughts later, but this is the part that gets me most. I like to know how things work so I wanted to sort the Cycle out.

#dragon's dogma #dragon's dogma 2 #dragons dogma #reliviews #the great cycle #personal #i wonder where a ng+ will put me #i really am excited to play ng+ #but i need a break to rotisserie chicken what i've got so far #i'll come back to it with a fresh pov after a few weeks i think #there are of course still things i wanna know #what's the deal with the dragonsplague #it's not just a mechanic they added to troll us #but what is its significance #what happens to our pawn after we defeat the colossal dragon #they flat out state we infused them with will of their own #so do they become human after that #or does the plague kill them #and there are always timeline questions #what happens to lamond and this new dragonforged #how long ago were they arisen #what about rothais #he's not even really alive anymore but does he finally get to die #is the brinepocalypse something that HAS to happen periodically #to like clean slate the world #to remind people of the importance of the seneschal and maintain peace for a time afterwards #what happened to religion #there was a maker and faith-church in the first game #where's that now have people just forgotten to worship the seneschal #anyway

[soldier-poet-king]

Will my suffering never cease

- went to good Friday evening service even tho it's not a day of obligation, didn't go yesterday evening to Maundy Thursday for a variety of reasons

- priest manages to fit homophobia and transphobia into his sermon. Not even gay marriage. Just unions, that let ppl share taxes and have hospital visiting rights. And big bad scary surgery. Like. Completely unrelated to the matter at hand. Says SO LITTLE abt the Passion, managed to talk for 10 minutes without really saying ANYTHING. Takes Pilate's 'what is truth' and instead of engaging in the long philosophical and theological discussion around that question, decides to use it as a rallying cry against wokeism and a godless progressive society.

- my two ex best friends were there. Ran into them. + One's husband, who I introduced her to a decade ago. Like I'm mostly over that, no longer shitty and resentful, fully know that it was partially my fault and born from my own terribleness at 19 and undiagnosed untreated mental illness. Still uhhh hurts tho??? As a reminder?

- music bad. Ok I'm petty. I'll give the trads (1) point. I don't like guitar mass. I will NOT agree with the trads in assigning moral weight to my aesthetic preference. It's simply a preference, which does not make any musical form inherently superior to the others. But the triduum really lends itself to Latin hymns and chants, in my heart. My other fave church music is traditional Black spirituals. I would greatly prefer either. But just. If it sounds like an acoustic version of a pop love song. I just. I can't. I KNOW I'm the weird about Jesus romantically girlie. But I am not vibin with this folks

Literally would have simply Walked Out. Hit da bricks during the homily. But was with my family so 1) cannot out myself 2) did not have house keys on me, so I was suck regardless

Anyway I said I wasn't going to do fun things today but I'm so upset and cranky and I did chores all day, I am going to catch up on dungeon meshi. Marcille is my best favourite cringefail girl I'm obsessed with her and surely the wlw neurotic fussy mage who loves her friends will not betray me like this

#the duality of fran #faith tag #also like #.highly unlikely that i was the only closeted queer person there #and obvs extra full of the triduum a lot of non regulars attending #so GLAD that they decided to make it such a lovely and welcoming environment for THE BIGGEST MOST SIGNIFICANT WEEKEND IN THE FAITH. #surely this will encourage people and make them feel welcome and loved and cared for #yes yes there's that flannery oconnor bit abt not judging priests harshly #but also. its one thing to have a bad homily #not discussing the philosophy of pilates question is fine. i get most ppl are not versed in greco roman thought #but the absolute just. whining reactionary social conservatism #ON GOOD FRIDAY??? #even going as far as to be like 'those few of us who keep the faith' #okay sir. this isnt some uwu im so special and faithful unlike all those abomination degenerate queers #gonna get gay married for tax purposes/green card out of spite #(green card both ways i can get u cad citizenship lmao) #remove my reproductive system. idgaf. uterus free to a good home. all it does is give me health problems anyway #tho that last one is less dysphoria and more just. it's a fuckin pain in my ass medically speaking #also the triduum is THEE celebration for the gay chrisitans. its john the beloved. its judas. its projecting for us ok

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

the gossip at the Grace must have been fucking crazyyyyyyyy

#are will gonna start killing people? is Elgin in charge now? are the widow and the rootkeeper an item? are they gonna ban alcohol? #what's Dan's deal? is our god gonna eat all of us? does Paige have a drinking problem? #who's this new chick? is she Paige's ex? why is she riding off into the sunset with Hayward to kidnap her congressperson #who's playing at open mic tonight? are we gonna starve? is Alice ever coming down? #how on earth does Paige's ex know so much about mortuary science AND false faiths AND how to kidnap an elected leader? #can we PLEASE get a fuckin rooster god? just a mini one? a household one? are we communists? #did Paige's dead husband know about Carpenter (Paige's very real and very romantically inclined ex)? #who's gonna forcibly extract Dan from the DJ booth #so many questions so hotly debated. so few answers. and the rootkeeper won't shut up about 'transparency' #the silt verses #tsv spoilers

[kienium]

skyward sword is like catnip to queer people with religious trauma

#kie rambles #skyward sword #loz skyward sword #loz sksw #tloz skyward sword #tloz sksw #hello queer people with religious trauma. how is the childhood friends to goddess and her champion going #are the dynamics strained? is the protagonist questioning his love and faith? are there feelings of betrayal? #are you sympathizing with the enemy? overanalyzing zelda's connection with divinity vs humanity? her offscreen journey on the surface? #the difference between what is right and what is divine? the conviction of the hero to save his friend despite his inner conflict? #oh to be devoted to a god who remarkably loves you back #yet despite her power does nothing to save you. to receive god's apology and feel it is sincere enough to forgive. or do you? #anyway :3c i hope you're having fun. drink your water and dont forget to refill your meds besties

[kaltacore]

"sebastian and anders were supposed to represent opposite extreme views on andrastian chantry" oh okay i thought they were supposed to represent opposite kinds of religious trauma

#no like. both of them are andrastians. both of them didn't end up here by their own will. not completely at least #and sebastian fully gives himself into it but there's still a part of him that. enjoys things he shouldn't enjoy as an andrastian at all. #he likes violence. he's up to revenge every single time. he doesn't dislike the idea of being a prince himself but he knows the chantry doe #he does come back to become a chantry brother willingly but he breaks the rules every time he's conflicted. which is ohhh #he clings to his faith but is it what he really wants or is it the only safe thing he has left #meanwhile anders distances himself from andrastianism but big part of his stances is still based on the chant of light #still thinking about him not believing that corypheus is really a magister because it's all chantry's propaganda #and then when it's made sure that corypheus actually is one of these guys he questions if the chantry is right about some things. oh boy #(this is also ironic because no. chantry doesn't know shit. go ask merrill about dreadwolf you know) #they're so very not normal!! no way #sebastian vael #anders #dragon age

[intricatecakes]

I'm sorry I'm so out of the loop, but is Israel literally saying they want a genocide?

South Africa has documented quite a few quotes in their case, you can read them here.

#anon #free palestine #answering in good faith that you are genuinely curious #real question is: why does the oppressor have to openly claim their crimes for someone to see them for what they are? #apologies i didnt answer sooner!! it's been a day

[brainbubblegum]

HEY YOU!!!! 🫵

Are you a Christian?✝️

Is your faith wavering, but you’re still latched onto your beliefs because if you don’t, you worry about the possibility of going to 🔥HELL🔥????

Do you worry obsessively about the end times and the pain dynamics of burning in a lake of fire for all eternity and how that would all work out, like if your soul would get used to it or if the fire would find a way to hurt more over time, like what is eternal torture even??? 🔥🐥🔥🍗🔥🪨🔥

Do you worry about questioning your faith for even a second, because you’re certain that the moment you did, the antichrist would reveal himself and everyone but you would be raptured????? 🙂😈

Do I have the book for you:

#Christianity #book recommendations #Elaine pagel #religon #visions prophecy and politics in the book of revelations #I grew up very brainwashed so these fears were always on my mind as a kid #I broke out of most of the bullshit by the time i graduated high school but the fear still lingered #but several years ago I read this book and it was like a weight had lifted from my shoulders #everything makes sense #but right now it’s more important than ever to question the Christian faith #america is supposed to have a separation of church and state and you wouldn’t THINK THAT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS #Biden’s a democrat but he’s still VERY!!!! CATHOLIC!!!! #so please read this and understand what the church is actually based on #I’m out of my phase where I think Christianity can help certain people with trauma #now I’m in my phase where I know Christianity does more harm than good #religious trauma mention

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

Viktor, Aphelios and Ezreal welcome Hwei with open arms to the one and only League of Twinks ™. Ezreal brings cute chockers, Aphelios gives mascara and Viktor offers him Ibuprofen.

#League of legends #ezreal the prodigal explorer #aphelios the weapon of the faithful #hwei the visionary #viktor arcane #i count arcane viktor cuz now it's canon amd technicaly he hasnt been through his twink death #and he does belong there dont question me

[hell-propaganda]

The fact that God hasn’t struck me down dead means that he is allowing me to speak. I have an important role in this whole game whether you like it or not. Jesus let Satan say his piece in the desert and try his shot, and today, you’re reading this post

Worship means nothing if it’s your only option

#last line originally read faith but fuck it #not faith in the sense people usually mean #when talking about religion anyway #you can believe in gods existence without believing in his just rule #Satan invented that when he issued his challenge #now god has to prove that people will choose him even when they know there’s other options #it isn’t a fair game by any means but he does have to let other sides have a voice or else he’s proved to be a tyrant #which is the whole question anyway #if god didn’t care about his reputation he would’ve killed Adam and Eve right away as started over #this whole thing is about proving a point and ending a debate #you can’t have a debate with only one side speaking #so listen to demons every now and then #my posts #religion #propaganda

[amethysttribble]

We need to start using the term rage bait on tumblr there’s so much of it, and it’s never called out for what it is

#I’m letting the hate in my heart win on this one #but- #does that seem a little aggressively worded? #is that in bad faith? #does this knee jerk angry analysis not in any way shape or form interrogate the thing they’re mad at and instead just get angry at it? #do you feel an immediate need to agree and then instantly feel superior when you do? #do you deride the strawman? #have you never seen an example of the behavior described but you will loudly agree that those people are awful anyway? #if someone were to call you out on this would your first instinct be to think they’re a secret member of this never before observed group? #and other questions to ask yourself when YOU post! #tribble post

[rinielelrandir]

If you follow me and in any way, shape, or form think the Israeli civilians killed and kidnapped on 07Oct (including children! including old people! including goddamn peace activists working for Palestinian liberation longer than some of us have been alive!) *deserved* what happened by virtue of being Israeli? Do me a favor and unfollow me. This is me showing you the door, please see yourself out, I do not want to have a conversation with you about this. (See tags for caveat.) Because killing of non-combatants is never okay.

It literally does not matter which "side" you are on here. To be clear, I do not agree with being on any "side", this isn't a fucking sports match. These are real people being straight up murdered. Palestinian and Israeli. Both for having the misfortune to be born the wrong country or the wrong religion. That will always be wrong. Hamas is wrong. The Israeli government is wrong. Because killing civilians is always wrong. That's it. That's the takeaway. You don't get to say "Palestinians have a right to self-defense" as a justification for 07Oct. Self-defense does not extend to civilian targets. To non-combatants. To CHILDREN.

And to be quite clear, I will not accept "Israel has a right to self-defense" as a justification for the killing of Palestinian civilians but I'm largely not seeing that from Jewish leftists, including Israelis and including Zionists. I'm largely seeing them call for a ceasefire and for peace and condemn the Israeli government and its actions.

But I *am* seeing fellow western leftists, particularly non-Jews, defend Hamas and the 07Oct attacks in their desire to stand with Palestine. You have to stop doing that. Hamas are not the good guys, you can read their damn charter documents online. You can read analyses of them by experts - Hamas is a religious extremist group intent on imposing jihadist control over the entire region and eliminating all Jews. It's not something they've been secretive about. They routinely kidnap, torture, and kill PALESTINIAN peace activists who they learn have met with Israeli peace activists or in any way worked towards a 2 state solution. They use global aid donated to Gaza for themselves while letting their citizens suffer. Their most prominent leaders don't even live within Gaza, aren't even at severe risk. These are all things you can verify easily and readily just by doing some basic research anywhere that isn't Twitter, tumblr, or Al Jazerra.

So if you want to justify killing civilians? If you want to support a terrorist organization? If you are going to unilaterally condemn all Israelis for the crime of being citizens of a country whose government you disagree with? Please see yourself out. And when you do, please keep in mind that I am a nonzionist telling you to kindly consider availing yourself of the sea. I do not support Israel and I work with actual Palestinian liberation organizations when I can. I've been doing so for the better part of the past 5 years. I attend a synagogue that is actively involved in Palestinian liberation as well as the first nonzionist havurah in the US. I'm not exactly new to this.

But I am also a Jew. I do not support Israel, the government of the nation state, largely because I do not support the concept of nation states as a whole. I find the system inherently violent. But I *do* support, Israel, the people. I am a Jew by Choice. I have chosen to throw my lot in with Israel and her people. They are MY people. If you gleefully call for my people to be slaughtered, I want nothing to do with you.

#caveat that if we're actually friends you are free to reach out for a conversation about this #the no conversations bit applies only to followers #mutuals who are not irl friends i will allow good faith questions but know i will likely be less forgiving than if we were friends #also no content tags for this bc i really don't want it being found #but yeah i'm having a ROUGH time lately with all this #basically every single one of my jewish friends has a family member or friend on a casualty list #or a missing list from 07Oct #and if they don't they know someone who does #i have a friend from that havurah i mentioned who had 2 longtime friends in Israel affected #both were elderly peace activists living on kibbutzim and working for palestinian liberation #one was killed and the other taken hostage #and i just i can't handle the people saying 'everyone deserved it' #really? really??? #did *they* deserve it #did the children killed deserve it??? #(i have a dead sister if you tell me anyone ever deserves their child to die i will personally fight you) #oh and did the bedouins who were also at the music festival and also killed deserve it? #bc ya know hamas didn't just kill israeli jews that day #they also killed bedounis (who are generally considered palestinian) #bc hamas is an extremist terrorist group and that's what they do

[butchviking]

i feel the same about my nose like ive hated my nose ever since i was a child and desperately wanted a nose job for over 10 years so what would you say to me, do you think i should have one?

i think that's completely up to u.

#ask #anonymous #this does not feel like a question in good faith this feels like u are trying to back me into a corner. #i will never tell a woman that she should change her body because she doesn't like how it looks. #but i will not condemn a woman for doing that either. #all any of us can ever do is what we think is right for us. and no-one else can tell us what that is.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

thinking gabriel thoughts (again)

#the guy who cut down minos without a second thought is the same guy who was the only angel to care about the ferrymen. fucking dies #his terminal entry literally says hes popular in heaven because of his radiant personality. he does nothing but insult v1 in 3-2 #get you a man who can do both #minos swears revenge on him while the ferryman literally worships him. #the skeleton in 1-4 who is worshipping him even after their life is long gone and the mural in 4-3 with traitor written over it #he looms over the narrative even when hes not there #he encourages even those in hell to Be Good and Have Faith but destroyed minos for trying to make a better life #different characters have extremely different views of him and all of them make sense! #heaven's specialest little boy can be hell's worst nightmare. as a treat #i also think about minos a lot by extension #i was just chilling on the wiki when i got hit with the 'he thought it unreasonable that people were punished for loving' and cried #like even as someone whos aroallo. it got to me! #it also raises the question of how much homosexuality is part of that. to me #is heaven ultrakill homophobic. discuss #i mean they do have Major bisexual lighting. in lust. #yeah sure theyre in hell hell is eternal punishment but he really was just. trying to make a peaceful existence #also the sisyphean insurrectionist lore fucked me up a little #ultrakill on the surface looks so simple but then you open up the wiki and its 'yeah the ferrymen tore their own flesh off their bones' #'king minos attempted to make a peaceful civilization in the lust layer and was killed for it but he lingered bc hes op' #'yeah actually the sisyphean insurrectionists are like that because the angels took away everything they didnt need for the punishment' #and you just have to live with that information now. you wont go back to blissful ignorance. you cant. #or thats just on me for taking lore too seriously. v1 doesnt care

[mulderscully]

nurse she's psychonanalyzing brandon flowers again

#the amount of like #questioning his faith he does in his music #and how he always admits he is mormon bc he knows he's be in a really bad place (drugs and alcohol) if he weren't #and how he talks abt how he supports gay people (and the queer undertones of a LOT of song not just mr b) #anyway: #the killers