Dudes try to tell me their philosophies of absolute meaninglessness are superior to my philosophy of absolute meaning, my brother in Christ, you don't believe in superiority!

Saying that you can’t understand or have goodness without evil is like saying you can’t appreciate music without notes that are out of tune

if you hold on to that yearning for too long it becomes indistinguishable from cowardice

If there is anyone anywhere who has at some time burned with this faithful love of the Word of God; if there is anyone who has received the sweet wounds of him who is the chosen dart, as the prophet says; if there is anyone who has been pierced with the loveworthy spear of his knowledge, so that he yearns and longs for him by day and by night, can speak of nought but him, would hear of nought but him, can think of nothing else, and is disposed to no desire nor longing nor yet hope, except for him alone — if such there be, that soul then says in truth: ‘I have been wounded by love.’

— Origen, The Wound of Love

Honestly the past several years I've seen an uptick in people straight-up demonizing eating disorder sufferers. I only see eds mentioned if it's in the context of accusing something/someone of trying to cause eating disorders or covertly hide their eating disorder or a recovered person saying "look at me when I had an ed I was so so so sick but I'm not sick now I'm normal now I'm a better person now" or other people implying that eating disorders are like? A choice??? That someone participates in so that they can make other people feel bad (?) Like I feel like we've reached the point where people can only acknowledge their ed if they're putting ashes on their head the whole time and saying "I'm not a bad person I'm not a bad person I'm not a bad person."

— Sister Elizabeth Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”

2024 September 2

A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Andrea Vanoni

Explanation: Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles, sometimes holding glowing gaseous structures aloft for months. A prominence glows brightly because it contains particularly hot, dense, or opaque solar plasma. The surprising triangular structure occurred last week. Larger than our Earth, the iconic prominence was imaged by several solar photographers and documented by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory to form and violently dissipate in about a day. The featured image was captured in a color of red light emitted strongly by hydrogen. Below, solar fibrils carpet the Sun’s chromosphere, while the background sky is so faint in comparison that no stars are visible. Our Sun’s surface has been quite active this year.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240902.html

The Double Headed Eagle (1973) - Buster in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 1930

(nothing between me and god except a thin panel of aquarium glass) ahem *bonk* hey *bonk* excuse me *loud thunk* i have questions about the nature of things

Erkki Koponen (Finnish, 1899-1996)

Feeling Overwhelmed, 1924

Buster Keaton photographed by George Hurrell