Lydia. 25. homosexual lifestyle enjoyer. christian. gnc degenerate. lustful woman. aspiring pacifist and yurodivy. she/they. mary magdalene stan account. pro-choice.
everyone is a heretic to someone.
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When Dostoevsky said, “Pain changes you, but it teaches. That is its mercy.” but Kafka said, “Pain changes nothing. It just repeats itself until you forget who you were before it started.”
“there should be some kind of test you have to take before having kids” -> wrong, extremely dangerous and highkey eugenicist and racist
“the youth should have safe and effective legal pathways at their disposal to make sure their human rights are constantly protected and upheld” -> based, centers the youth, gives minors more power to fight inequality and does not reinforce the idea that parents are immune to scrutiny from their kids
at its root, genesis 3 (the fall of humanity) is a mythology that tells a story of humans transitioning into agricultural societies and civilizations… and all the messiness that entails.
objectively funny that humans created agriculture and almost immediately was like “yeah we fucked up. it is what it is though.”
What’s really interesting is that there are multiple periods of history where we seem to have incorporated agriculture only to (as best as we can tell) knowingly and purposefully dismiss it, or adopt an intentionally mixed approach.
That exact thing seems to have happened among the indigenous people of the North American Pacific Coast, in Mesoamerica, and in the British Isles. Prehistoric peoples of all three areas knew how agriculture worked - they would pick it up when absolutely necessary - but would put it away again when conditions didn’t require it. Many were seasonally nomadic, with established villages they only went to and farmed when food was scarce otherwise.
(Examples from “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The authors similarly make a good argument as to why our ideas of ancient societies following a linear path from nomadic tribes to class segregated city states under priests/kings isn’t as cut and dry a process as we often assume.)
at its root, genesis 3 (the fall of humanity) is a mythology that tells a story of humans transitioning into agricultural societies and civilizations… and all the messiness that entails.
objectively funny that humans created agriculture and almost immediately was like “yeah we fucked up. it is what it is though.”
This is legitimately one of my favorite parts of the Bible. Like intellectually I knew the Agricultural Revolution came with a huge increase of disease and malnutrition and a decrease in human life expectancy but I thought “Well maybe it was worth it to them” and then the Bible’s like “nah it was not”
i am deeply sorry for what you are going through. i pray that things will improve for you at your workplace
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Thank you Anon and thank you to everyone who sent me such sweet messages. I am not officially unemployed, and I am finding myself feeling more and more human every second of the day since leaving my job.
Last year I sent in an ask to which you responded with a kind message and a Psalm. I want to say thank you. I think that was the beginning of a complete and total overhaul of my relationship with God. I was reading about the importance of intercessory prayer in a devotional, and thought I should remember to thank you, one of my intercessors on Earth.
These days my life is much better—so much so that everything feels like a distant dream—and my faith is stronger than ever. I want you to know of your impact on my life, and thank you once again for it.
x
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I am so glad to hear that your burdens are lighter, sweet Anon 🩷
