I find it hilarious that Welcome to Tally Hall says that Rob’s the one who writes songs about love being awful when Zubin arguably did the best job of writing one with Cannibal
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Things you didn't know ab me:
1. I am not the sunshine
2. I am a willing victim of a cannibal
3. I'm half human and half machine
4. I'm Lance Armstrong (you're the necromancer tho)
5. I'm the Ruler of Everything
6. I'm the only one on your AM Radio
7. I am not the moon at night
8. I got shamed for claiming friends from either perspective of &
9. I won't hurt you unless you cheat
10. My friends are saying I have a undiagnosed mental illness
That one isn't a song reference they think i need a psychiatrist.
11. I'm no one if I'm nowhere in between
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The central lesson of Yoda’s teachings is that an “evil person” simply means, "person who is under the sway of fear, anger, hate and aggression and is suffering and spreads suffering as a result." It happens because these feelings and emotions within you are not challenged by your compassion and wisdom and patience. Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader because of his attachment: the fear of losing a person he wants to have, because he feels, he would be unhappy without her. Star Wars tells us, “evil” is not excusable, but understandable and comprehensible. If you understand and comprehend it, you can deal with it and keep it under check, not just within, but without. And if you fail to understand and comprehend it, that is the path to become "evil." This is not "space magic" practiced by "space wizards." This is simply how life is.
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There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
-- Robert Jordan
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something about God kicking Adam and Eve out of the garden for gaining the knowledge of good and evil
and Angels and Demons having very black and white thinking about the subject
and Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s character arc being about leaning into those shades of gray
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The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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Why does God allow evil to exist?
Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Matthew 13:24-30 NASB
“But God is perfect and all powerful, why can’t He get rid of the evil without harming the good?”
Because the evil isn’t just “bad people” among us. The evil is in our own sinful hearts. To get rid of evil, He would have to get rid of us too.
In our Baptism, in Confession and Absolution, in hearing the Gospel, and in Holy Communion, we receive the forgiveness of our sins won for us by Christ on the cross. But while we live here on earth, we still live with our sinfulness - though we are no longer slaves to it (Romans 6).
When Christ returns on the Last Day, then we can finally be resurrected in our glorified, perfected bodies and live with Him without sin and all its consequences. That will happen - just in God’s timing, not ours.
It may feel like we are waiting a long time and suffering under the weight of evil in this world, but when we are in the world without end, this life will seem like a distant memory, a blip compared to eternity.
Almighty, everlasting God, Your Son has assured forgiveness of sins and deliverance from eternal death. Strengthen us by Your Holy Spirit that our faith in Christ may increase daily and that we may hold fast to the hope that on the Last Day we shall be raised in glory to eternal life; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
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I finally saw the Dark Crystal (1982) last night. What a wonderful story of bravery and shadow integration, simple yet powerful. Brian Froud's beings always amaze me. December is going to be full of magic.
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