Just now my heart longs for things that probably don't exist

If you have a moment, please take the time to support @lamahourani5. Her family has been through so much in this genocide, from having their house bombed and living in a cramped tent, to having to survive the cold. Lama is at risk of losing her son. I cannot even imagine how painful this must be for anyone. Even if you can't donate a large sum, every single donation for Lama counts. Just one dollar from you can change everything for them.

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maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores

if i was god and someone built and designed this place to worship me i would fucking smite them

I was raised evangelical. our church looked like an addiction recovery house, and I agree with you. no place of worship should look that soul sucking

Me: man, it’s been a day

Also me: time to watch Shiny Happy People!

Anthony: you swapped over to that little southern twang real quick huh

Me: iiiiiiii will throw things at you

For more than a year this has been the news; everytime I am to write a post for a family, I go online and this is all I get to see. Nothing has changed in all this time. The occupation forces still bomb schools without any repercussions- they murder hundreds of people-they lay down seige-they allow no aid to pass through and terrified Gazans remain at a loss as to what to do and how to survive.

So nothing changed and nothing got better, rather things are worse now than they were in October 2023. As it stands, the whole of Gaza strip has been bombed multiple times, causing people to be displaced over and over again and lose precious resources like clothes and shoes. I cannot stress how important these resources are when children have to live out in the open sand and when people have to travel long miles to either get a connection or food. My friend Siraj Abudayeh ( @siraj2024z ) has been displaced SEVEN times and 2 months ago his extended family was displaced when the occupation forces closed in on their camp. With the onslaught of winter Siraj has to provide all of his family members with winter clothes and shoes that they have gradually lost when they were forced to flee. He has to provide for TWENTY FOUR people. Currently your donations have helped Siraj to rent a shelter for 10 of his most vulnerable family members but this means that 14 others, including Siraj himself is still living in tents! He is so cold and so are his sons. The nights are terrible and the tent which went through the wear and tear of the weather for the better part of this year, is barely any protection at all.

So please, please donate to Siraj. He wants nothing expensive, he has said that he will buy the cheapest winter clothes that are available in the market. But please we must raise at least 3k for Siraj ASAP. He has received no donations for over 12 hours and is currently stuck at $93,426 CAD

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Once again, please remember that things are going to be much more difficult during this winter of 2024. The hospitals have been bombed all throughout the Gaza strip, making it difficult to seek treatment for even basic ailments. There are barely any shelters left standing where people might be able to retire to, to escape the winter cold and fuel to warm up is a luxury. Also the IOF has routinely attacked camps, after which people were forced to leave behind precious life saving items which were either destroyed or looted. So do not let Siraj down now, when there is an uncertain time ahead.

$232 CAD / $167 USD away from 95k.

In 11 hours today, Siraj received only 2 donations and we have failed to reach $95,000 CAD once again. I am not sure what is happening, but I can promise you that your donation would help a family survive through the winter. Inflation is tremendously high in Gaza, so what might seem enough to you to last a family for months, is often not the case when every other week there is a price hike due to dwindling resources. So please BOOST and DONATE.

If you need incentives to donate, then @esrah-rah-rasputin is offering art for various verified campaigns, one of which is Siraj's (x). For a donation of $5-$10 USD you can get gorgeous arts such as these

And for a higher price of $20-$50 USD you get art commissions such as these:

So please donate!!

trying to talk about cult trauma is so frustrating.

I say "I was in a cult" and people think of basement rituals and human sacrifices not an unassuming church right down the road. not of blue chairs in rows and coffee tables and children's play areas. my cult looked so happy, so average. it's so easy to gloss over the pain that place inflicts on everyone who walks through those doors.

I feel like I can't call myself a cult survivor to most of the people who I know because they don't fucking understand. the word is too sensationalized.

i need to move out next march and i cant find work in town so i really need help. its becoming increasingly difficult to keep living with my family because of my disabilities, so i need help affording to get out of here

tldr; my mom is in the hospital for the forseeable future so we are going to be missing half of our income for awhile. longer explanation under the cut

please help us. i dont know how else to ask

sending this to every single church member from my childhood who ever tried to get me to join their MLM

No release the grinding Jesus fanart. I’m begging you

im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes

Bluff, Danez Smith

There's something so tragic about the view of heaven and hell I grew up with. I was talking to my very evangelical grandmother the other day, and she brought up one of her friends who wasn't 'saved'-- how she'd witnessed to her time and time again, how desperate she'd been to get her friend to convert.

It's so unfair, both to her and her friend. Constantly, frantically evangelizing out of fear that your friend will be damned, and putting a divide in your friendship in the process. And to think, this eternal torture would take place simply for believing the wrong thing, for failing to say the right prayer. It's horrifying and it's tragic and it's all so entrenched in fear. There's so much fear.