Stars, Hide Your Fires

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Wed, 15 May 2013 08:23:17 -0400

tastefullyoffensive: [sairobee]

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:23:06 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[sairobee]

facelessprodigal: I don’t really see him wishing a happy 4th,...

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:14:00 -0400

facelessprodigal:

I don’t really see him wishing a happy 4th, but I’ll take it.

Reblog if today is not your birthday.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:24:44 -0400

Merry Unbirthday, to you all!

writing-to-transgress: Ending a nice, warm Florida evening...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:31:25 -0400

writing-to-transgress:

Ending a nice, warm Florida evening playing with my boyfriend’s cat. (That’s a mesh laundry basket he’s sticking his head out of.)

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:06:48 -0400

Amazon Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in the USA

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:24:32 -0400

Amazon Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in the USA:

Alexandria, Va.

Knoxville, Tenn.

Miami, Fla.

Cambridge, Mass.

Orlando, Fla.

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Berkeley, Calif.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Columbia, S.C.

Pittsburgh, Penn.

St. Louis, Mo.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Seattle, Wash.

Vancouver, Wash.

Gainesville, Fla.

Atlanta, Ga.

Dayton, Ohio

Richmond, Va.

Clearwater, Fla.

Tallahassee, Fla.

My town’s on this list!

tastefullyoffensive: [via] Of all the excellent casting...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:32:20 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[via]

Of all the excellent casting choices in this franchise, why did Dumbledore fall flat?

azspot: Jeff Danziger: Congress and Newtown

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:57:08 -0400

azspot:

Jeff Danziger: Congress and Newtown

LOL!! We have these stupid cameras up in my city.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:26:01 -0400

LOL!! We have these stupid cameras up in my city.

Confirmation in t-minus 68 minutes…

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:52:50 -0400

Confirmation in t-minus 68 minutes…

tastefullyoffensive: [jonaszimmer] Totally me.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:06:02 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[jonaszimmer]

Totally me.

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:27:26 -0400

sarahsaurus15: I wanna know this kid.

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:59:15 -0400

sarahsaurus15:

I wanna know this kid.

Godless Theology

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:52:50 -0400

Godless Theology:

“My God, why have you forsaken me?” Dostoevsky splendidly presents the two sides of theology, the believing side and the doubting side, in two of the brothers Karamazov, Alyosha and Ivan. The one submits, the other rebels. The story which Ivan tells to illustrate his rebellion against God is a horrible one. A Russian landowner sets his hounds on a little boy. They hunt him to death, tearing him to pieces before his mother’s eyes. “What kind of harmony is that in which there are hells like this?” accuses Ivan, and replies, “Is there anyone in the whole world who could forgive, and who is allowed to forgive? I don’t like the harmony. I don’t like it because of my love for the world. I would rather keep the enduringly unreconciled suffering… . It isn’t that I refuse to acknowledge God, but I am respectfully giving him back my ticket to a world like this. Understand me, I accept God, but I don’t accept the world God has made. I cannot resolve to accept it.”

Here Ivan does not simply pose the theodicy question with its indictment of God — the question why God permits crimes like this. He asks the question about justice — about guilt and expiation. He asks who could forgive guilt like this, and in doing so he gives Alyosha the word he needs: “That is rebellion. You say: is there a being in the whole world who could forgive and is allowed to forgive? There is someone, and he can forgive everything, all and everyone, and for everything, because he himself poured out his innocent blood for everyone and everything. You have forgotten him. It is on him alone that the building will be built [he means the “harmony” of the “divine world,” the kingdom of God]. To him we can cry: ‘Just art Thou, Lord, for all Thy ways have been revealed.”’

Protest atheism there — the theology of the cross here. Rebellion over the “enduringly unexpiated suffering” there — universal reconciliation through the crucified God here. In the dissimilar brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky portrays himself. Both can be found in every true Christian theology — rebellion over the God who permits so much meaningless suffering in his world, and faith in the crucified Christ. And conversely, the person who does not believe in God and his justice ends up by no longer rebelling against the “enduringly unexpiated suffering” in this unjust world either, but gets accustomed to it.

Christian faith in God is not a naïve basic truth. It is unfaith that has been overcome: “Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief.” In the fellowship of the assailed and crucified Christ faith grows up in the pains of one’s own suffering and the doubts of one’s own heart. Here the contradictions and rebellions do not have to be suppressed. They can be admitted. Those who recognize God’s presence in the face of God-forsaken Christ have protest atheism within themselves — but as something they have overcome. So they can well understand the atheists who can no more get away from their atheism than they can get away from the God whose existence they have to deny in order to be atheists. Christian theology is theology for Christ’s sake, and in Christ it reaches out beyond the alternatives between simple theism and the atheism that corresponds to it.

orthodoxwayoflife: Crucified Christ by Viktor Vasnetsov,...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:47:10 -0400

orthodoxwayoflife:

Crucified Christ by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1885-1896

Confession

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:25:44 -0400

Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.

Most holy and merciful Father:
We confess to you and to one another,
and to the whole communion of saints
in heaven and on earth,
that we have sinned by our own fault
in thought, word, and deed;
by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.

We have not loved you with our whole heart, and mind, and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We have not forgiven others, as we have been forgiven.

Have mercy on us, Lord.

We have been deaf to your call to serve, as Christ served us. We have not been true to the mind of Christ. We have grieved your Holy Spirit.

Have mercy on us, Lord.

We confess to you, Lord, all our past unfaithfulness: the pride, hypocrisy, and impatience of our lives,

We confess to you, Lord.

Our self-indulgent appetites and ways, and our exploitation of other people,

We confess to you, Lord.

Our anger at our own frustration, and our envy of those more fortunate than ourselves,

We confess to you, Lord.

Our intemperate love of worldly goods and comforts, and our dishonesty in daily life and work,

We confess to you, Lord.

Our negligence in prayer and worship, and our failure to commend the faith that is in us,

We confess to you, Lord.

Accept our repentance, Lord, for the wrongs we have done: for our blindness to human need and suffering, and our indifference to injustice and cruelty,

Accept our repentance, Lord.

For all false judgments, for uncharitable thoughts toward our neighbors, and for our prejudice and contempt toward those who differ from us,

Accept our repentance, Lord.

For our waste and pollution of your creation, and our lack of concern for those who come after us,

Accept our repentance, Lord.

Restore us, good Lord, and let your anger depart from us;

Favorably hear us, for your mercy is great.

Accomplish in us the work of your salvation,

That we may show forth your glory in the world.

By the cross and passion of your Son our Lord,

Bring us with all your saints to the joy of his resurrection.

Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life.

Amen.

tastefullyoffensive: Infinite Chocolate Explained

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:23:11 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

Infinite Chocolate Explained

sonic-modus: glaserface: presentlyk: pasylree: #safetytipsfor...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:27:04 -0400

sonic-modus:

glaserface:

presentlyk:

pasylree:

#safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped.

“try becoming Medusa, or if that is too difficult, a basilisk.”

#laughs bitterly

Lord Stark! Control your temper!….damn northerners.

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:44:24 -0400

Lord Stark! Control your temper!….damn northerners.