#object lessons

[shakespearenews]

You’ll note that some of these implements are ornate—“picks” feels like a lackluster descriptor. Fancy toothpicks were a mark of sophistication in Shakespearean-era Britain, so much so that the Bard of Avon mentioned them in several of his plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, King John All’s Well That Ends Well, and Winter’s Tale. They remained a big deal in life and literature well into the 1800s, making cameos in the likes of Sense and Sensibility (here’s a whole podcast episode about toothpicks in the Regency era; thanks to Stannie Holt for the tip) and Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #object lessons #material culture #toothpick #toothpicks #snackstack #much ado about nothing #all's well #the winter's tale

[2sfa]

Lessons On The Word Of God

For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. 2 Timothy 1:12. https://www.upliftingchrist.net/lessons-on-the-word-of-god

#word of god #object lessons

[virtualcoach-blog]

Making it Plain

Write the vision And make it plain. . .

Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain. . .” Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV The point of preaching is to share the gospel. We can use plain talk to share the plain truth. Too many times too many big words get in the way of simple truths being made plain. Preach it Plain and Simple Recently, I worked with a team to coordinate and facilitate a review on delivering lessons…

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#faith #help #Jesus #ministry #object lessons #parabkes #preaching #service #teaching #Word

[fellthemarvelous]

Holy forking shirtballs

I'm choosing violence today. I started this on Twitter, but I'm going to finish my thoughts here like I always do.

But what really blows my mind the most is the way that people look at Aziraphale's "choice" at the end, as if he had one to fucking begin with.

I'm sorry, but Aziraphale knows how messed up Heaven is. He told The Metatron, more than once, that he did not want to go back to Heaven! We can debate what each of us means by "choice" all night because my "choice" and your "choice" might be two different concepts. He could have been strong armed by The Metatron or he could have looked at where things were headed and realized he had no choice but to intervene himself.

You need to ask yourself what Aziraphale has a moral imperative to do.

What do we owe to each other?

Seriously, if you have not watched The Good Place, I recommend you go and watch it, because it absolutely shaped how I've viewed Good Omens 2 since its release.

My levels of frustration with the bad faith mischaracterizations of Aziraphale are off the charts. If you are blaming him for everything, implying that he should have to grovel and that Crowley has a right to hurt him back, you have missed the point of Good Omens entirely.

I defend Aziraphale, but I don't think one of them is more right or wrong than the other. They're equals. They're a group of the two of them, acting and reacting to each other throughout history. They're Alpha Centauri.

I cannot even begin to explain how fucking devastated I felt when Crowley said these words, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. What he said took a lot of courage because he's finally admitting something they've both been too scared to publicly define for 6,000 years. Crowley has had to spend so long with a rough outer shell because he fell and had to hide all of his softness.

The look on his face was one of pure joy when he created that nebula, but I think the fact that he got to share that moment with Aziraphale is what has always stuck with him.

So yeah, seeing Crowley with a broken heart at the end of "Every Day" was sad for me as well.

My brain still lives here!!

But Neil has said that Good Omens 3 is not quiet, gentle, or romantic. I imagine it's going to be more like the the first season in which they are not central to the plot. GO2 will help us make sense of how they ended up where they are when we see the bigger picture with all the other major players involved with GO3.

Aziraphale was still a soldier and accidentally got himself discorporated in his own magic circle in season one. He had a platoon waiting on him to start Armageddon, and he deserted them to go save the world with Crowley instead. Aziraphale is a deserter. I need everyone to remember that. He yeeted himself out of Heaven and sought out Crowley before even locating a body just to warn him about what was happening so they could try to save the world together.

I can't help but think of 1941 and that magician who had been arrested for being a deserter.

Aziraphale disobeyed orders. That took courage but it branded him as a traitor against Heaven. They tried to destroy him for it the same way Hell tried to destroy Crowley for his part in stopping the war.

Aziraphale and Job are the only characters we have seen interacting with God directly. Aziraphale has spoken to God before and he is determined to do so again.

Aziraphale knows Heaven is flawed, but he also knows it's supposed to be good. He wants it to be good. He does not like the way the system works and he wants to make a difference. (And I'm pretty sure he's also determined to talk to God without being intercepted by The Metatron.)

Since when is that a bad thing? I don't get it. And I've had this discussion before.

If you need to change the system by burning the old one to the ground, it's still change, and we don't know what Aziraphale has planned.

It seems to me that people just want to see Aziraphale fail because it would punish him for returning to Heaven instead of running off with Crowley.

Some of y'all take everything Aziraphale says or does and twist those things into malicious anti-Crowley actions because you think the only reason Aziraphale exists is to make Crowley happy, and if he isn't thinking only about Crowley then he's doing something wrong.

Aziraphale does not exist as a plot device to further Crowley's character. They come as a pair. They've been learning from each other for 6,000 years. Crowley challenges Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale challenges him.

You can be mad at Aziraphale all you want, but villainizing him is gross. Defending Crowley does not mean you have to tear down and mischaracterize Aziraphale anymore than defending Aziraphale means you have to tear down Crowley (but I don't see that happen on nearly the same level it happens to Aziraphale). Stop painting Aziraphale as an abusive partner, for fuck sake.

Aziraphale knows there are flaws in the system. He wants to make a difference, and since he has seen that Gabriel can change, then maybe the whole system can. He has to at least try, and if he can succeed then maybe he and Crowley can stop hiding and finally be together without having to look over their shoulders all the time.

Why is that a bad thing? He's just as protective of Crowley as Crowley is of him!

But don't forget that Aziraphale's wing was covering Adam and Eve too. As much as a wants to protect Crowley, he has a moral imperative to keep humanity safe as well.

He sent Adam and Eve into the unknown with a flaming sword so they could protect themselves.

As much as he wants to be with Crowley, there are 8 billion people on Earth heading toward the Second Coming and Judgment Day. They'll work together to fight alongside humanity in the end. Aziraphale should not have to humiliate himself just to earn Crowley's forgiveness. That's a rancid notion.

The Resurrectionist was a whole ass moral dilemma for Aziraphale, which is why I brought up The Good Place earlier, but that's a post for a different time.

Aziraphale has his own motivations and they're just as important as Crowley's, and they don't have to be chalked up to Aziraphale being the bad guy. Weird, I know, but shades of grey.

"To the world."

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale defense squad #yeah i'm being bitchy #no i don't care if you're offended #no i'm not interested in your aziraphale hate #i'm not interested in hearing takes about aziraphale being toxic from people who can't even be objective #some of y'all need to watch the good place because you need a lesson in moral philosophy #we should be able to have discussions about the characters without gross takes calling aziraphale abusive #az and crowley approach everything from wildly different perspectives because of where they are #just admit y'all shit on az because he doesn't look or act like crowley #I'm so done with the shitty aziraphale takes #they aren't even interesting enough to debate #they're just annoying

[demodoggonetired]

Every day I live for the way people will draw Eddie or Steve drapped over the other like, ah yes this is my living cape that goes everywhere with me and makes snippy comments about things

#not even just about people but objects too #'that spatula is a horrible shade of green and clearly needs to be taught a lesson' #steddie #my posts

[cuppatealove]

Reading The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe with my son on Easter Tuesday and he was so shocked and confused and bereft when Aslan died. Then we had to stop for a very gloomy lunch before we could read the next chapter, and it hit me that he was getting a better understanding than anything we could have taught him about what the disciples went through on Easter Saturday. I mean, we had just been talking about it three days earlier, but of course when you know there's a happy ending coming, you don't really feel it. And Aslan was finally here, after all this hope and expectation, and he was meant to make everything all right again 😭 He'd even already made the connection to Jesus when the witch's gang were kicking and hitting and jeering at Aslan, but he never in his wildest dreams thought he would become alive again! The joy and wonder and absolute glee he felt in the next chapter — he figured it out just before it happened because he cottoned onto the homage — preached the whole thing more eloquently than I could ever have hoped. And oof, if I didn't feel it all with him, too, as if for the first time ❤️ Well played, Mr Lewis, well played.

Also yesterday I caught him saying "I say!" so a positive experience all round 😃

#the little cuppas #I resisted the urge to make any sort of object lessons out of it #I know lewis would be the first to say just enjoy the story #and let those layers of meaning come on the 3rd 5th or 10th reading #it took him a bit to get enthused at first but around chapter 6 or 7 he started begging for one more chapter! #and since he had a day off school we ended up just polishing off the whole thing #my voice may never recover 🤣 #narnia

[tarotmantic]

i will never justify why i like deh bc i don’t have to actually. i can just like it no qualifier needed

#this is inspired by a post but by no means a direct response #im just sick of anyone who ever says they like deh following it up with an ‘even though it sucks’ #u can just say u like it #also it doesn’t suck okay it’s not problematic bc that doesn’t #doesn’t mean anything #the story isn’t trying to tell people to lie about knowing dead kids it’s not a moral lesson #the music slaps #have ur issues with it whatever but stawp with the shame #no media is without flaws #deh is not objectively bad as much as people want to believe that #honestly no one gets to clown on deh when dark romance is insanely popular on tiktok #by which I mean clearly we can understand that media doesn’t have to reflect real life morals #it doesn’t have to be pure and clean #im literally so cold rn #that’s unrelated #let people enjoy deh guilt free #let the tiktok girlies enjoy mafia stalker fiction #live and let live! #do i main tag this #dear evan hansen #deh #dear evan hansen (2021)

[daddyspatheticmutt]

Daddy just taught me a important lesson! cunts were born with a hole designed specifically to be used by Men, they're just objects. all cunts are objects for Men to use however They want. thank you for helping me learn my place Daddy🥰🥰 i so happy being Daddys dumb object

#puppy #daddy #dumb wh0re #me #object #stupid slvt #lessons from Daddy

[bunnieswithknives]

I actually have an idea for swapping the teachers! Maybe instead of swapping the ones that are commonly associated with eachother, the ones with similar lessons could be swapped! [ Ex. Warren and shrignold since their lessons are both relationship related or electricity and Colin Since they're both lessons about electronics ]

having thoughts rn

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #two of us au #none of this is set in stone #a lot of the characters are very hard to separate from their lesson because they're. ya' know. objects that relate directly to that them #some of them keep their lesson but swap motivations #and some of them swap lessons but keep their personalities/motivations #i left out Food and the Lamp but they barely show up anyway so im ignoring them

[thinkingimages]

'Pearl Oyster and Pearl Mussel' object lesson card by Oliver and Boyd, 1880-1884

Object lesson cards holding small objects, drawings and text were used in schools from the 1850s to the early 1900s. Their aim was to help children learn by seeing, touching and thinking, rather than just by reading, listening, copying and reciting. This particular card gave children information about the products of the pearl oyster, which lives in sea water, and the unrelated pearl mussel, which lives in fresh water. It failed to discuss the lives of these animals, the number destroyed by the pearling industry each year, and the dangers faced by divers who work in the industry. The formal language of the text suggests it was designed for teachers to read and then convey the information to students in simpler terms.

#Pearl Oyster and Pearl Mussel #Pearl Oyster #Pearl Mussel #Object Lesson Card #Object lesson cards

[dendrochronologies]

when diane seuss said, "i will make sure you are fed and clothed. i will listen to you endlessly. i will protect your privacy even if it means removing myself from the equation. do those sound like wedding vows? are they indiscriminate? well then, i am indiscriminate. i am married to the world. i have worked it all out in front of you. isn’t that a kind of nakedness? you have called for a love letter. this is a love letter," nothing more romantic has ever been written, i fear

#I'M WRONG BUT I'M ALSO RIGHT. #diane seuss #i almost got the object lesson part tattooed on my body..... i may be misreading it completely but it's everything To Me #HEART-SHAKEN

[fizzycereal]

Here take more of me trying to draw humans 😎

WARNING BLOOD, KNIFE, & BRIGHT COLORS

Tee hee funni idea for au 😎

Basically when I first created Atlas he was going to be very different. This is how he would of been. Poor Bj 😔

@homobrainjuice 😊

#lesson learned #don't ever steal his goldfish 😔 #osc #art #humanized version #object oc #my art <3 #homobrainjuice #unbalanced breakfast #did this while being sick 😎😎😎😎 #tw:blood #tw knife #cw eye strain #cw knife #sillllly ass au 🤯🤯😱🤯🤯🤯

[imminent-danger-came]

this is poetry to me

#thanks object complementizer lesson page #poetry tag

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Noivous

#entering the afternoon I have been dreading #ct scan and driving lesson back to back #which both will objectively be fine it’s just gonna take all of my xp

[howtodrawyourdragon]

What the... Okay, I know I should be focussed on the trio getting Toothless so they can make him spit out Ziggerastica, but all I can focus on is that Hiccup just has a broom out of nowhere? Who keeps giving these kids weapons??

#the trio should take some lessons from the kids from stranger things #or horrendous is like h in that he can just make the object he needs appear in his hand #httyd books #httyd book 3 #how to speak dragonese #liveblog #hiccup horrendous haddock III

[toaster-trash]

I have a really vivid memory of being like around 7 and having to do some kind of “mental health/social studies” class thing, I think mostly “how to manage your emotions” or “how does your body react to X emotion?” and stuff like that, and I remember it was mostly just questions like, “what do you do when you’re angry to manage it?” or “how does your body feel when you’re anxious?” or “who do you ask for help from when you need it?”

And I can’t remember exactly what answers I put but I just remember almost every time, the teacher coming round, looking at what I wrote and going “ummm no I don’t think that’s right 🥰” and NEVER elaborating and just moving on to everyone else’s and going “yes, that’s right!”

I have one memory of stopping the teacher and going “but why” and she just said “It just isn’t!” and then when 7 year old me went “but why” again, she just walked away

?????? I would LOVE to know what I wrote because I am 100% certain childhood me was completely and utterly truthful but also, what was the point in that mandatory class if you’re not going to explain to the kids you’re teaching why how they’re processing their emotions or interacting with the world is wrong

Anyway Alexa play Willard! by Will Wood

#honestly this is a problem I have with the education system in general #Ive had this kind of thing happen a lot #(although specifically when I was a kid and had more balls to constantly ask “but why why why why) #where it’ll give you information and try to teach you shit #but only the BASE level bare minimum of that topic #especially with things like social studies and mental health #but honestly with a lot of academic topics too #it’s like schools try to sum up the world in a 30 minute lesson #and then get surprised and annoyed whenever they’re asked to elaborate #don’t even get me started on the philosophy lessons we had to do for R.E #it was genuinely like ah yes #pick out examples of objective immortality #and instead of like #ACTUAL examples of things that are objectively wrong #like you know #raping children #it was just like #telling a friend’s secret to someone else :( #?????? #well what WAS the secret #are they in immediate danger? is someone else in immediate danger? #then YES #you SHOULD tell someone #and that doesn’t make it morally wrong #and when I SAID that #the teacher just went #yes but that’s not really the point is it #??????????? #I was 14 and raging #The Education System!!!!!