Made a discord sticker for study dates with my friend! Feel free to use it (noncommercially of course)
[ID: Two cats facing away from each other. The one on the left is gray and wears orange headphones while staring at a laptop screen. The one on the right is orange and draws on a tablet with a stylus. Light orange text above and below them says, “Parallel play / tonight queen?” End ID.]
i think that when god made stealing a mortal sin he didn’t know that walmart would ever exist
I’m absolutely not a rabbi, but I’ve been thinking a lot about this, actually, and what stealing might mean to gd. and I know this post is probably a joke but like I said. been thinking about it a lot.
So what a lot of people may not know is that the Torah is mostly like. a farming manual. A day-to-day life guide for 6,000 years ago. And so it has instructions for harvesting, of course. But it says specifically that you shouldn’t reap all the way to the edge of your field, and that you should leave that for the poor. It also says that you shouldn’t take the fallen grapes from your vineyard, and to leave that also for the poor. And a lot more little things like that.
So why is it encouraged? Why doesn’t it count as stealing for the poor to take the food you grew?
I think that gd’s definition of stealing would, in this case, punish you if you did take the fallen food from your fields, because you’d be taking it from the mouths and bellies of people who clearly desperately need it. It’s not the poor who are stealing, because they are simply trying to survive. I think gd wants us to remember, in our harvests, in our successes, that we have a duty to give what we can to those who need it, and if we don’t, that’s stealing from our fellow human.
In other words, pouring bleach on edible food thrown in dumpsters is stealing, and a mortal sin.
“‘But whom do I treat unjustly,’ you say, ‘by keeping what is my own?’”
“Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring into this life? From where did you receive it? It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the theater, then bar everyone else from attending, so that one person alone enjoys what is offered for the benefit of all—this is what the rich do. They first take possession of the common property, and then they keep it as their own because they were the first to take it. But if every man took only what sufficed for his own need, and left the rest to the needy, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need…”
“Is God unjust, dividing unequally the goods of this life? Why are you rich, while the other is poor? Isn’t it, if for no other reason, so that you can gain a reward for your kindness and faithful stewardship, and for him to be honored with the great virtue of patience? But you, having gathered everything inside the empty bosom of avarice, do you think that you wrong no one, while you rob so many people?”
“He who strips a man of his clothes is to be called a thief. Is not he who, when he is able, fails to clothe the naked, worthy of no other title? The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.”
gordon ramsay getting multiplied by one: oh my god no. no you’ve got to be bloody joking. this is unbelievable, let me tell you. i’m the exact same but a process has occurred. fuck me.
As of now, Florida and Kansas have passed bills that align with KOSA.
So many people have held back on speaking out against KOSA or signing petitions because “it probably won’t pass.” But we have proof that it very well can and will.
So what can we do right now?
The same thing we’ve been doing: bring awareness and protest.
Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:
This is the most important thing I’ve learned about grieving. It never goes away. Time doesn’t make it smaller. Time, if you do the work, makes you bigger. Self expansion is key. Self expansion through creativity and passion and communication. My grief used to be all of me. Now it is a part of me. An important part, but just a part. I love this visualization so much.
I’ve always felt uneasy about wanting to get people to pay attention to the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza by saying “if Israel isn’t stopped, it’s only a matter of time before it happens to you” because why not care even if this wasn’t ever going to affect you personally
But seeing as how Israel had targeted a clearly marked vehicle of World Central Kitchen today, killing 4 of its staff operating in southern Gaza who are Australian, British and Polish - just goes to show these people again that Israel is setting precedent and making sure the world understands that it’s not “violating international law”, it is in fact changing the standard and setting the stage of what counts as a crime and what is permissible and can be done with complete impunity and no consequences.
i feel like a lot of the ‘i hate kids’ crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid’s limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they’ve ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they’ve ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody’s told them yet that they can’t run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
some of you in the notes.. i would say read the room but you didn’t even read. the post
When you have the Resurrection Ritual and Narinder asks you to resurrect someone, something about his line after finishing the quest caught my curiosity:
[ID: Narinder saying “Ha! Hahahaha! I cannot begrudge supplantation by one such as yourself. Why contain death? And with none to stand in your way. You are, after all, the last God left in the Lands of the Old Faith.”]
That’s what got my curiosity. When he said, “Why contain death?”
Then Haro told Lambert:
“He was unalike the rest of his kin. While others dealt with flux; chaos, famine, pestilence, war. Things in which their constancy must transpose. And yet he was the inevitable; the obstinate and irresistible. The one who waits.
Truly peculiar, ‘twould then seem, has appetency to invite the novel and the new, break ancient vow and primordial bond alike. Traditions stagnate and appetites augment, nonetheless. Doubt tears faith asunder.”
When Narinder got bored, he created the Resurrection ritual that broke “ancient vow and primordial bond alike.”
Why contain death? If a god could resurrect, it spells bad to the other gods. Sacrifices are no longer sacred and death as punishment is no longer consequential when pledging yourself to another god could bring them back.
As one of the characters has said, a god is nothing without their flock.
But did Narinder care? No. If that meant he would be the last God left in the Lands of the Old Faith, then so be it. If the crowns of his siblings starve and die, it will be fine because his siblings would still be alive (like what happened to Haro’s crown).
Maybe, as far as Narinder was concerned, he had thought it through with his siblings in mind.
But Shamura had to choose between Narinder and their godhoods because power isn’t something you just let go of. And so the strife between Narinder and his siblings began.
And I like to think, in a complicated way, it’s one of the reasons why Narinder would have let go of his grudge after you complete the Resurrection ritual quest. Because finally, someone understood.
i think so much about v1 & kitr. it’s so important to me. i know kitr isn’t necessarily canon considering it’s literally just pitr’s cat put into the game but i constantly think about how silly and sweet it is that blood murder machine over here is best friends with a little kitty cat
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