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jayisabells · 9 months

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So here I was playong genshin and while the loading screen pops up I get this "tip":

A Message for "You"

As dark as night is, the stars still shine and the sun will still rise. Death longs to dominate all, but life will not fade.

Wtf, so I go to the genshin wiki to see if there are any other messages attatched to it. Then I find all three messages go like this:

A Message for "You"

We will meet again.

As dark as night is, the stars still shine and the sun will still rise. Death longs to dominate all, but life will not fade.

No matter how dark the sky and land may get, as long as your spirit emits warmth like a golden sun, there will always be hope.

Weird, but it seems to be in reference to the We Will Be Reunited quest. So maybe it was added to the game after that. But if memory serves me right, in the wiki this is listed as a Sumeru "tip." So it was added in Sumeru I guess. It also showed up while I was teleporting to Sumeru so that makes sense.

No idea what else it could be referencing too. I don't know when this was added to the game. Because sometimes the tips change based on the progress in quests I believe. (I think there is one about Rukkadevata like this). The only other thing I think it could be connected to is the Caribert quest or the Aranara.

I am assuming A Message for "You," you in quotation refers to the traveler not the player, hence the quotations. The abyss sibling's message to the traveler or just a message from Teyvat to the traveler. The traveler gives Teyvat hope, etc. Interesting if it is, because its kinda a direct reference to bad things coming to Teyvat, which was kinda clear already. Who knows?

#genshin lore #genshin theory #genshin impact lore #genshin impact theory #among one of the other weird tip things on the loading screen #gotta be one of my favorites simply because of the vibed #and then there is teyvat has its own laws #sounds like were fucked in fontaine lol #also The Rule of Three #(possibly about how things work in teyvat? this one is from Inazuma so it could be about fortune slips)#Good omens must occur three times for good fortune to truly descend #and you must forge past obstacles three times to succeed on the fourth.#the previous two tags here are the quote #mini theory #genshin impact

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trashworldblog · 6 months

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it's absolutely insane that the song that has the most quotes that i want to get tattooed is sandwiched between a song about skinning ryan bergara alive and a song that alludes to playing a brass instrument is like giving a blowjob

#sorry watcher if you see this. extra sorry shane if you see this.#i love puppet history so much. the duality.#btw the quotes are 'if im gonna stop this looks like a really wonderful place to do it' 'tell the critters that you love that you love em #thats enough' 'some shits just etched into the stars collamities you cant outrun' 'the sky will burn and boil the sea as mountains rend its #you and me' 'but im not worried anymore im with my favorite dinosoars' 'we're history'#and some short phrases like 'a cosmic kiss' 'the greens and blues be still my heart' that are still bouncing around my head for tattoo #designs. but yeah. i'll start with the first one and go from there lol. theres also that one hotdaga quote im thinking of getting but im not #sure. im so excited to get this tattoo though. im going to film a little vlog about designing it and getting it and probably blab about how #its meaningful to me. i cant wait for it to be on me to look at forever. its gonna be so wonderful. i hope shane gets to see it. especially #in person. that would be such a cool experience to me. especially since i got him to write the quote for me. fucking awesome #this is the first tattoo idea im 100% sure of. the song still gets me emotional almost a year later.

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bugeyedfreaks · 2 months

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Be funny if they made a reference to Ghostface in the reboot. XD Hell, just an episode referencing past characters the actors have played.

They technically did in the last episode of the show! In Octi Gone, a mysterious individual calls the girls' home phone during a party and threatens to kill Octi if his demands aren't met. They find out that the call is coming from ~inside the house~ (which turns out to be Mojo who's been calling from inside their bathroom).

#mojo ends up getting food poisoning from rancid banana cream pie that he stole from the party the girls were having at their house #...it was a very weird episode lol #but it does also have one of my favorite quotes that i always quote #''I'm gonna be the preeeeeeeetiest girl at the paaaarty!''

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queenlucythevaliant · 1 year

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Hello! 🧡 I'm curious how you balance viewing scripture as infallible while also not taking parts of it (Genesis in particular, to reference your recent post) literally. I've heard some people say that Genesis is meant to be a poetic version of creation and therefore not entirely truthful: sort of like a kids' story, how some details could be fudged without losing The Point. I get why God wouldn't give us all the details, and it's not like this is necessarily a core doctrine issue, but I guess what I'm asking is if scripture is infallible, why would it give an incorrect account?

Hey Anna! I'd love to talk about this! It's one of my favorite issues in the world, actually, so please be prepared for a whole lot of passion from me 😆

So the bottom line, like I said in my previous post, is that I believe that all Scripture is true and infallible, but that it ought not be read literalistically. This is not the same as saying that some Scripture is less true by virtue of using poetic language, nor that I believe that details have been fudged. For me (and others who interpret Scripture as I do), it comes down to analysis of Biblical language, style, and genre.

So okay, let me start by defining my terms:

History = A text detailing true events that actually happened. These accounts may use symbolic, metaphorical, or otherwise figurative language in the service of conveying these events. A history is also not necessarily complete in its detail or exact in its chronology unless the text itself makes those claims (ie it's possible for histories to backtrack and tell events again from another point of view; this is pretty common actually.)

Biblical figurative language can take a variety of forms depending on the genre of the text we're discussing, however in general it is used to express truths that cannot be expressed in other ways. I'm gonna quote Lewis again here, as I think his discussion of Biblical symbolism in Mere Christianity is really great and relevant. This is from book three, chapter 10 (Hope):

There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of "Heaven" ridiculous by saying they do not want "to spend eternity playing harps." The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned because for many people (not all) music is the thing known in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity.

Crowns are mentioned to suggest the fact that those who are united with God in eternity share His splendour and power and joy. Gold is mentioned to suggest the timelessness of Heaven (gold does not rust) and the preciousness of it. People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.

Figurative language is used throughout the entire Bible. It's in discussions of heaven, like Jack illustrates here, but it's also frequently used in the Epistles ("I have been crucified with Christ") and, in the Gospels ("You must be born again.") It's heavily employed in the prophetic books, Psalms, and the wisdom literature (not even gonna pick an example, it's everywhere). It's used frequently throughout the Pentateuch (God "bore [the Israelites] up on eagle's wings"). It is used in Biblical histories ("[Samson's] soul was vexed to death"), though not to the extent that I believe it's used in Genesis 1-11. Sometimes the text telegraphs that figurative language is about to be used, but certainly not always.

None of these things are any less true than the things described in what we might call "plain" language. Rather, imagery is a tool that helps us understand the deeper truth of a thing; it "expresses the inexpressible" without causing us to doubt that the images are about something real. Sometimes, the language even tells us something that occured spiritually/from God's perspective, but which did not literally happen in the physical world (again, "I have been crucified with Christ.") I think it's clearly a mistake to conclude that the presence of figurative language means that the story is merely figurative or that it's incorrect.

So I read the Genesis 1-2 creation account as a largely figurative account of historical events, and I think it's written that way in order to convey God's perspective of creation. Certainly a human perspective on creation would be (a) theologically un-useful and (b) impossible for an ancient person to understand.

To expound on point (b) a little bit: even a modern person, with all the geological, paleontological, chemical, and genetic evidence that we have, simply cannot comprehend the expanse of what we call "deep time." Modern scientists must communicate these things in metaphors: they use 24-hour clocks in which each minute is thirty thousand years and football fields with geological epochs marked off at the various yard lines in order to try to express that which the human mind is fundamentally not equipped to grasp. The Bible should and must tell the story of creation from God's perspective, and to do that it must use figurative language.

Thus, "Days" are figurative days, but as such they convey greater truths about the way that creation appeared to God: it was gradual and periodic and God was patient, yet it did not seem to take eons to him. It was like a week of diligent work that produced good results.

Likewise, when the text says that God speaks light and land and life into existence, we can read that as a statement of God's incredible, beautiful power over creation. The moon likely formed in the "Big Splat," when another planet collided with proto-Earth and flung debris into space (I'm not even gonna touch the formation of the sun-- waaaaaay outside my wheelhouse). To God, these things were as simple as saying, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night" and then making them. The complex natural processes involved were simple before the Almighty God.

Likewise, the billions of years that are took for life to evolve, from self-replicating auto-catalytic molecules to microbes to multicellular life that arose from endosymbiosis and horizontal gene transfer, and then all the way down the epochs of history: the beautiful Cambrian Explosion, trilobites and the first chordates, then Tiktaalik propping itself up in shallow water and its tetrapod descendants stepping onto land for the first time; those strange, fascinating club-moss forests of the Carboniferous, dinosaurs and archaeopteryx taking to the skies, the K-T extinction event and then mammals picking up the torch and growing larger, whales returning to the seas and their vestigial legs disappearing, life, life life... All of that, to God, was two days of creation in which he spoke and natural processes produced the glorious array of life that existed when Adam and Eve came to be. He had authority over all of it. He said "Let the earth bring forth living creatures," and it did! God made them as surely as if he had sculpted them from clay with his hands, as miraculously as if He had spoken a word and they had existed in a split-second.

It's all true! All truth is God's truth! Every word of Genesis is God's truth, not despite the fact that it's written using figurative language, but because it is. We can understand truths that science alone can't account for - that in all the vastness of protein sequence space, God formed rubisco and ATP synthase: not by random chance, but through loving providence using randomness as a tool. We can see deep time as God sees it, not as a yawning abyss that we can't begin to properly conceptualize, but as a week in the mind of our great God who transcends time.

(My concluding paragraph is going to be somewhat harsh toward YE Creationists, but it cuts to the core of why I feel so strongly about how we read Genesis. I'm going to put it under the cut so that no one has to read it unless they want to; I'm not trying to attack anyone. I hope you know that I say all these things out of a place of deep, deep love.)

Returning to what Jack said: "If [people] cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them." YE Creationists would have us read Genesis without allowing for any figurative language; they would disregard the scientific method in order to do so. To my thinking, if a creation in seven 24-hour days were the intended meaning of the text- if we were, like children, meant to take everything in it entirely literally- then God would be a liar, because then he would have created a world in which the speed of light and geologic strata and the fossil record and even the evidence of our own DNA and physiology are all lying to us about how we were created. I could not love such a God.

But because I, like Jack, like millions of other Christians, can read the text of Scripture and interpret the figurative language it uses, I can instead marvel at the wonder and glory of our Creator-God, to whom epochs are like days, who can speak natural processes into existence. Scripture is history and it's poetry and it's all true. All truth is God's truth.

#i would love to write a book on these subjects someday #once i'm an experienced expert in microbial evolution i'd love to either go back to school for an mdiv or collaborate with a theologian #to produce a pair of books: one targeted at scientific minded non-Christians and another targeted at YE-creationists #idk it's a long way off #but this feels like good practice #love you dearly anna my friend #thanks for asking this #i hope my answer was okay and that i didn't come on too strong lol #if you or anyone else would like me to recommend some of my favorite books/articles/talks on these subjects lmk #i'm abysmal at keeping track of my reading/listening so it would definitely take a while to hunt things down and compile #but i could manage it #i do have more than just cs lewis quotes in my wheelhouse but i tend to figure that he's someone we can all broadly agree on #all truth is god's truth #ask me hard questions

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trentcrimminallybeautiful · 8 months

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🍎🔥

🍎 favorite angst quote from a wip

Trent looks up at him and sees his stricken, speechless face, and his shoulders hunch even as he gives a tiny, humorless laugh, almost incredulous. “You didn’t know,” he says, with dawning realization, surprised and pained and giving an empty little smile. “Oh, that’s—you really didn’t know.” He laughs again, hollow but not mean, and says, “I’m not sure if that makes me feel better or w—” Ted doesn’t know why he does it. It’s hilariously bad timing. But he leans forward, hand coming up to cup Trent’s face, and kisses him.

🔥 wild card: dealer’s choice of quote from a wip

putting this under the cut bc it's ✨mildly spicy✨

And if Ted Lasso fascinated him, well, that was because Trent wanted to study him like a bug, not because he wanted Ted Lasso to systematically dismantle him. Whether that meant like a toymaker gently and carefully taking apart a toy piece by piece, tenderly making sure each part clicked together just right, slowly and gently putting it back together, hands on every centimeter of it, the inside and out, knowing it and how it worked so intimately that he could take it apart blind, all without damaging it, the toy held in careful, calloused hands, or—you know. To fuck Trent senseless and take him apart that way. Ahem. All of that was... not what Trent wanted. He wanted the bug thing. In a non-sexual way. (Ted was not a toymaker. He was an interesting bug. This was an affirmation Trent could tell himself until he believed it.) (And Trent was not a toy, he was a professional journalist. Or, metaphorically, an entomologist, picking apart a bug. Not the one getting picked apart. For fuck’s sake.) (…fucking hell, Trent, he thought to himself, why was that first part somehow far hornier than the second?) Anyway. Professional.

yeah uh. very normal & professional thoughts, babe

#idk if it'd acll that FAVORITE angst quote but i wanted a new one and i really use this ask game more for '[x] quote id like to share]' lol #anyway that second one is really really funny to me but also. 😳 bro wtf #askbox #anonymous #tedependent #ask games #my writing #wip

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