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I said some time with tears, "Ah me, I'm loath to die!" Lord, silence thou these fears. My life's with thee on high. Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.

@suzania You hit me with an axe one time.

Five shows to get to know me 1. Firefly 2. MST3K 3. Lois & Clark 4. The 80s version of Beauty & the Beast 5. Seinfeld Shameful mentions, which are like honorable mentions but shameful: Daredevil/Jessica Jones, Buffy/Angel

(btw we're talking about the virgin conception, not the virgin birth, right? 😱)

Man, even reading scripture very narrowly with no philosophical excursions (which I would say is outside normal Christian readings of the Bible but I think I'm gathering is your preference?): I don't see an obvious rule that yields "yes God can keep the sun from 'moving' for O(hours) but could never hack human reproduction."

during the Easter sermon our priest was relating a story about what people found most unbelievable about Christianity and he brought up the virgin birth. I personally have always been confused by this apparently common piecemeal acceptance of my religion. “Well I can believe he healed the blind, but manna from heaven?” etc I don’t understand this. If you are willing to accept an omnipotent creator God with complete and total power over the universe, why would anything be too difficult to swallow? It seems to me there is only one act of faith, a core and important kernel that you must trust, and anything else trivially follows

@suzania @Zheschool I don’t know if this is a bit but I’m reading it in continuity with your AI takes. (Not mad but perplexeded.)

@Zheschool I don’t mean that— I think that physically touching the moon is wrong, and going to it, knowing more about it than what we perceive by looking at it with our naked eyes or at most a weak telescope degrades us

@suzania Dante and Beatrice go to the moon, and investigate its spots, but that does not diminish its glory. If something gets less valuable the more you know it; it might not be that worth knowing!

Yarvo? No I don’t think I know who that is?

tfw you get a Tlon Messenger invite but you're not* a weirdo. 😮‍💨

Then welcome, harmless death, by thee to heav'n I'll go; My lord his death shall save me from the shades below. Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.

What means my trembling heart, to be thus shy of death? My life and I shan't part, though I resign my breath. Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.

My life's a shade, my days apace to death decline. My lord is life; he'll raise my dust again, e'en mine. Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.

@selentelechia In the last year we’ve built a small social circle that is not centered around church (although mostly similar religiosity levels among us), and I’ve been surprised how nice it is to decouple friendship from, idk, institutional considerations if nothing else.

church doesn't fix this, guys, I grew up in church, I've never seen a church environment that was actually socially enriching along the axes I care about it's mostly a bunch of really fucking boring conversations about Jesus

I think part of my issue making friends locally is that I don't WANT to "make mom friends," want to make friends based on other criteria but most of what I do in a day is either about the kids or isn't social

the gentle and joyous passage of arms at ashby

@guyatthediner And that we're all tempted to overcriminalize things a bit. I think it's a real stretch to say that taking life or speaking a lie are unconditionally wrong.

@guyatthediner My own take is that real sin is never morally necessary, Jesus didn't live a sinless life just because he avoided sticky situations lol, and if we're backed into saying "well then Jesus probably sinned _in a sense_" sure whatever but we've mostly outrun our terms.

Something interesting I've noticed in this vein: Sometimes when people allow a consequentialist concern to override a usual deontological rule they say something like "It wasn't moral but it was the right thing to do". Although that might just be on TV.

@eigenrobot @selentelechia These are part of my daughter’s running life narration script, said the voice.

shes down @selentelechia she wanted to hear _Cookies_ and i replaced every instance of "eating cookies" with "watching episodes of pokemon" i asked her afterward if she had any willpower and she grinned and shook her head no

tfw you’re listening to some aggressively mid Hillsong shit in the car and Jesus chooses THAT MOMENT to break down a stronghold in your heart.