Nobody ever talks about this but as far as we know Nebuchadnezzar went to heaven because the last we hear of him he repented and worshipped God
I actually JUST was thinking about this today, our Pastor was giving a rundown on how God used many pagan kings to accomplish His purposes, and good ol Nebuchadnezzar came up!
dash is dead im teleporting to the past
Reblog this post :) Especially if you’re on mobile, you’ll lose the post if you click the link without thinking. Take a note from your elders before you
Interesting note: It definitely uses whoever you're following now, not at that date. Even the 2020 one includes a lot of people I was absolutely not following yet in Feb 2020, which is actually kind of cool, I can see what they were reblogging from this fandom before I got into it.
Sorry you got the political argumentative side of tumblr, if you want you can join me on the flowers and nature side of tumblr, less argumentative over here
I've been seeing that! It's been nice to see flower and nature stuff on my dash from you, genuinely 😁
I'm pretty sure
refrog if you agree
Refrog
Tagged by @faithfulcottagecorescholar for 5 Boring Facts About Me
Tagged by @artist-issues for 5 Boring Facts about me
Oh I'm only supposed to do 5? lol
1. I have absolutely no desire to ever get my MArch and become a licensed architect.
2. I spend between 10 and 12 hours every weekday working.
3. My daily driver is white and has no identifying decals or bumper stickers.
4. I’m really into dressing modestly and I don’t wear sleeveless tops, shorts, or open-toed shoes in public.
5. I’ve lived in Ohio for almost my entire life and very rarely travel outside of trips for work.
1: i have hitchhiker's thumb and curved pinkies. In general my appendage dexterity disturbs people
2: i grew out my hair over the lockdowns and never got it cut. It is currently down to my waist
3: i wear a lot of black and gray clothing with colorful and flashy accessories
4: i exclusively wear minimalist/barefoot shoes and toe socks, but only ones that are covert. People rarely notice unless i take my shoes off or point them out
5: i never watched any of the pirates of the caribbean movies until this month, where @holyloved and i watched all of them during my last visit
1. I have a small list of specific movies I LOVE to use to fall asleep to.
2. I've watched Anne with an E through like 4 different times?
3. I've read A Walk to Remember about 5 times and I might read it again soon.
4. I am fascinated by The Old Testament and love talking about it.
5. I took French immersion for 7 years and yet barely use French.
What facts count as boring? I mean really, these all sound super interesting!
Ok, let's see...
1. I will always be the default boring brown hair white guy in video games.
2. I have opinions on what types of tortillas are good.
3. I prefer sleeping on my back despite always waking up on my side.
4. I hate the feeling of soap, especially the kind that makes your hands feel soapy even after rinsing them.
5. I well and truly believe 7 is the best single digit number.
@wisteria-honey @noots-wears-blue-boots and IDK a third person lol
you! tumblr user!
can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?
i think i could be trusted with The Book That Kills People from the classic manga series "No One Can Be Trusted With Power Of The Book That Kills People" imho
see the trick is i would only kill Bad People Who Deserve It. unlike the main character, “guy who kills people that he thinks are bad people who deserve it.”
Hello, yes, it’s Halloween Week and I’d like to say one more time, here, because nobody wants to hear it elsewhere:
The death and darkness is part of the Story the Year Tells, and ignoring it is bad, but so is treating it like a good thing.
The only thing good about monsters, evil, death, and darkness, is that it all ends. But if we skip to “it’s gone,” then we miss the use we have in remembering it.
If you take the shark out of Jaws there’s no emotional climax when the main character says “I used to be afraid of the water.” If Scar doesn’t rule the Pridelands for a while, nobody cares that Simba’s coming back. If Sauron’s blanket of darkness hadn’t spread so far over Middle-Earth— if Gollum as a nasty grotesque character hadn’t existed because he’s “too scary” and “too dark”—or even if we’d seen less of him—then it wouldn’t mean as much when the good guys win. You wouldn’t care as much when Frodo is tempted by the Ring, because you’ve never seen how bad that can get, because you never got to see and dwell on Gollum, for a minute.
Halloween is the Gollum of The Story the Year Tells.
The spirit of it, the part where we remind ourselves darkness and monsters exist, but we don’t live in an UNHEALTHY obsession with them, has always been that.
The World goes “let’s make evil and monsters celebratory and awesome.” If the church goes “no we shouldn’t celebrate evil and monsters, we should totally ignore them instead!” then who is putting monsters and evil in their proper place?
Who is saying, “evil exists, monsters are real, we were once dead, we were once walking in darkness, we were once monsters, that’s why it’s SO AWESOME that we’re a new creation in Christ?”
Nobody. The world gets to go “there’s no such thing as evil, evil is actually a cooler version of good! Witches are neat, werewolves are awesome, and vampires are sexy!” And Christians get to go, “no there’s no such thing as evil, Christians don’t think about evil, the just think about pumpkins and hay bales.” But actually all you’re united in is ignoring evil.
God uses death as His do-boy. He uses dead imagery to describe parts of the salvation story. He allows decay and rot and skeletons and warping to happen, on some level, because He fixes it. And in the fixing, it shows off His character. If you pretend the darkness isn’t real or isn’t relevant, then the darkness doesn’t go away. It just gets to decide how it’s perceived. If there’s a werewolf in the room with you and you go, “I don’t do werewolves,” and turn your back guess what, it’s just going to eat you from behind.
Do what the ancient people did. Tell stories about the monsters as a cautionary tale, and describe how to get rid of them, because as dangerous as they are, ha ha, they don’t get to win.
We’re supposed to take the way the world has warped good instincts and un-warp them, not pretend they don’t exist.
So what I’m saying is, carve jack-o-lantern faces with your kids and talk about how the light shines through the dead thing. Dress them up as goblins and werewolves and then don’t let them have any candy until after they’ve taken the costumes off, and go, “see, you were once dead in your trespasses and sins, but now, in Christ, you are a new creation!” And then give em the candy. Write stories about monsters that get cured when they don’t deserve it, or monsters that are unstoppable by anything except pure sacrifice.
But don’t write out the monsters, that’s not your job.
Happy Halloween.
im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to
spiderman dances to the beat
no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour
hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that
The most wholesome experience you can have in gaming is waggling your ship around and have others do the same in the loading screens before missions in Warframe
An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.
Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.
(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)
John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.
It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.
Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.
His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.
His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.
He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.
oh i love this whole idea
for the reputation Adam Sandler has, his movies I've seen are shockingly charming, and I think it has something to do with the fact that he's been married to one woman for over 20 years
I always thought that it was his reputation for his movies having him act like a doofus manchild, but I suppose I haven't seen too many of his movies so I can't fully speak on that.
You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.
Like imagine you find a 7 year old in the woods and she’s like my mom is gonna kill me because I’m prettier than her and she’s not kidding. You know this queen is that sort of person. So you and your roommates adopt the kid and tell her don’t talk to strangers. And she keeps talking to strangers and getting poison combs stuck in her hair and whatnot.
Like yeah that’s kinda stupid but also she’s seven. She likes apples.
Also imagine it from the hunter’s perspective. The queen tells you this bitch is prettier than me I need you to take her out in the woods and kill her. And then you see who you’re supposed to kill and it’s a 2nd grader. Like how are you supposed to react to that sort of situation? Kill a human child? No. Because you’re not a brainless evil minion you’re just some guy dealing with a cartoonishly evil monarch. Of course you let her go.
Bad look for the Prince of course. Even if she did age while she was in that glass case. He saw a dead woman and just decided to keep her. And once she stopped being dead he was like we’re married now
He did cause the evil queen to dance to death in red hot shoes though. That was kinda cool.
With the acknowledgement that I'm grasping at straws, is it ever directly confirmed that the Prince wasn't also 7?
See, I think that still works.
You are the guardsman assigned to protect the eight-year-old Prince. You are currently in the middle of the forest because he absolutely had his heart set on "going hunting", and the royal second-grader should definitely not be traipsing around the woods on his own. You let him go a little on ahead and he comes running back talking about how there's a dead girl in the clearing and there's no-one else around and he wants to take her home because she's really pretty, Hans, and she's all alone!
You let him drag you to said clearing and okay, that is one angelic-looking dead child alright, and on the one hand the quality of her clothes and the craftsmanship on the coffin (who builds a see-through coffin?) speak to potential Consequences if you simply carry her off, but also for the amount of vines that have grown on the coffin she looks extraordinarily un-decayed, so you should probably get the court alchemist's opinion on that, and there's no way he's going to come all the way out here in his embroidered velvet curly-shoes. And also this kid is technically assigned by God as your natural superior, or something.
So fine. You hoist the coffin onto your shoulder (it's not like the Prince can do it. He's eight.) and head back toward the castle, Prince chattering blithely all the way. And then you turn your ankle on a rock and suddenly there's a thump and a cough and a lot of shouting from inside the coffin and you have now become a key player in a tense political incident with the next kingdom over.
You should probably ask for a raise.
Tangent, but imo Disney did a reasonable job in 1937 defanging the creepiness, by establishing right at the beginning that Snow and her Prince were already courting before any attempted murder went down. Which meant that when the Prince finds her at the end, he’s seeing the woman he’d been intending to marry, so gives her the kiss he’d never been able to give her in life.
is there a show you’re still salty about its cancellation?
Was staring at a piece of infrastructure, pondering on the strangeness that, as sturdy as it was, it required maintenance and eventually replacement. That everything was like this – except for biological constructs that could perpetuate themselves. But they mutate. So – what if we could build everything out of biology? Our sinks and bridges become immortal – yet destined to become eerie, shifted, unrecognizable things within thousands of years.
this is an out-of-context journal entry you find discarded in an abandoned science lab in a horror game
The Infestation from Warframe
Might voice audiobooks, might run deliveries, might try to stream my favorite games. All I know is, the rent is due soon, and I've been assured it'll be ok. For someone who always wants to lay out a plan, it's unnerving, but obviously it'll be ok. Cause it has to be.
