#conditional forgiveness

[thinkingonscripture]

The Price of Forgiveness

Forgiveness comes at a price. Though it may be offered freely to the offender, it always costs the giver something. The word “forgive” translates the Greek verb aphiemi (ἀφίημι), which means to let go, cancel, send away, or pardon. Forgiveness refers to the act of releasing someone from a debt or offense without demanding payment or retribution. For example, in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus told a…

[angelofthe2000s]

Blah blah blah Buffy’s so mean to Spike blah blah. Have you considered that he deserves it? That he likes it, even?

[aroaceleovaldez]

Hiii! I hope this ask doesn’t come off as rude or pushy but I just have some questions about your opinion on Rick Riordan since I’m new the space of author critiquing.

I guess I’ll add I’m pretty young and a bit sensitive when it comes to things I like, so I automatically assumed since you post so much PJO content you liked his writing. But based on some of your posts, was I wrong? Again, I don’t want to sound pushy, I’m just new to being critical and honest when it comes to authors I like and would like to know your opinion on Rick Riordan specifically. Is he a bad writer? I just got wrath of the triple goddess and I’m not sure if I want to read it based on some of your posts.

Entirely focusing on writing itself and not the content within: I like Rick's old writing. His style when writing first series is dramatically different from his newer material, which I feel has significantly dropped in quality. A lot of the newer stuff feels very unpolished and gratuitous (towards the audience for marketing purposes, not his own interests) and he has a serious bathos problem that stunts the majority of the humor and sincerity that once existed in the franchise - and often severely gets in the way of a lot of attempts at inclusion and representation, to its detriment. Not to mention how condescending it feels towards the reader/presumed audience. It's also very clear he's trying to riff off of his previous success, including directly lifting previous sections and minorly rewriting them to try and achieve the same effect (not in a call-back manner, but just copying his own work).

I won't say his old writing is like, my 100% favorite or the end-all-be-all of literature. I have plenty of authors whose writing is more something that I think is structurally admirable. But Rick's original series writing is good! It became a pop culture staple for a reason! But the quality has dipped so severely as the series progress that it's hard to ignore and it's becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy the books for me because of this. Particularly very recent books like TSATS to me are so excessively full of simple structural errors and similar that it's baffling to me how it even got published or how we got here.

I think out of his post-first series writing, his works I've enjoyed the most are MCGA and Demigods of Olympus - particularly leaning towards the latter. It's simple but very enjoyable to me. TKC to me is mostly fine and enjoyable, and HoO is Just Okay. TOA is tolerable. TSATS and the marketing trilogy though are kind of unbearable for me.

I do love the franchise as a whole and it means a lot to me, which is exactly why I feel so strongly about the drop-off in quality recently. It feels like an insult to something I love and know can be better and has been better in the past - not from a personal perspective, but from as much of an unbiased perspective I can give as someone who has studied writing. So if he's a "bad writer" in general is kind of up to discretion i suppose.

[grantmentis]

Tereza Vanišová ties it on a nice assist from Danielle Serdachny · May 26, 2025

[xserpx]

I had a job interview on Tuesday, and now I have 2 face to face interviews tomorrow and on Friday. I'm glad they're giving me the time of day but I have a feeling I'm going to really struggle in the face to face interviews 😬

[contemporaryelfinchild]

Its important to me that Trigun is, fundamentally, at it's heart, about restorative vs retributive justice.

[mecharose]

the ace hate is not an online exclusive thing either. last year I had my (gay) college roommate laugh in my face over "it's so stupid how asexual people think they're queer - not you though because you're also a lesbian :)" the year before that my (gay) friends would tell me over and over "some asexual people have sex why not you?" "you've never tried it how do you know?" and my favorite, one of them would literally just constantly say "i hate asexual people"

meanwhile I just tell my (straight) roommates now "it's like having post nut clarity forever" and theyre like OHH THATS GAS and that's the end of it. forever. do you guys like want me to become a supervillain or

[thinkingonscripture]

Two Kinds of Forgiveness with People

For Christians, there are two kinds of forgiveness. The first is unconditional and the other is conditional. Unconditional forgiveness is one sided. It is given by the one who has been offended, even if the offender does not seek forgiveness or cease his sinful ways. This one sided forgiveness may also keep others at a distance so as to mitigate further harm against us and to avoid their…

[king-crawler]

SOMEBODY PLEASE FREE MY MAN SOUR BILL.

he doesn't get paid

During this entire scene all you can see is the tip of Sour Bill's Bald Green Head. its giving "Mike Wazowiski gets covered up by everything" energy

Sour bill is so exhausted and deadpan 90% of the time so whenever he IS shocked/concerned IT'S SAYING A LOT. i think he's just Genuinely Scared Of King Candy LMAO

not to mention his Genuine Fear upon entering the code chamber because his memory has been wiped

is he ok.

[lowpawly]

god I think the most common denominator I've noticed when it comes to internet hate mobs is ive never seen an apology from the subject of them that has ever been hailed as "good enough", and there are a lot of generous interpretations for why that is but I think overtime ive realized the honest answer is forgiving someone ruins the fun

[fisheito]

Do we reset the [xxx days since yakumo's been possessed/kidnapped/sacrificed/hypnotised/damselindistressed] counter if EVERYONE ELSe is also possessed. or??

[dem0nteef]

actually the goal of this blog is to summon and unite all "freak ex catholic manipulative kind-of-an-asshole-but-still-oddly-sweet perpetua" truthers for me to interact with

[theskyexists]

They could have done something really cool with Vi dying in the parallel universe. They could have included a shot of Jayce and... Caitlyn. I believe she was also in that hallway when the hextech exploded. Seeing an undercity kid dead due to her family's patronage, a kid her age, and the sister out of her mind with grief. Wouldn't that have shaped Caitlyn's outlook? As it seems to have shaped Cassandra's outlook afterwards? Maybe influenced by an affected Caitlyn. Especially since Caitlyn then is likely further tutored by a surviving Grayson on friendly terms with Vander and even Silco

Narratively it would simply have done something neat for the caitvi romance - making explicit the tragedy of them never meeting - but also the echo of Vi, even in death, shaping Caitlyn's view of the Undercity and its people and speaking to her empathy and power with her humanity and the tragedy of her life

[1tbls]

messing around in the gorgeous game "summer house", have some revachol-inspired apartments :)

i imagine the first was a duplex built during the suzerain, that's been subdivided into smaller units. inspired by victorian duplexes here in SF, a little bit of NY brownstone, and some haussmann details...

second was inspired by various old firehouses. i thought it would be neat if kim lived somewhere like that, because i don't imagine a lot of (west) revacholian homes would come with a garage for the kineema, and that man is Not leaving her on the street.

the last was actually my first build and not inspired by anything :p

[jacarandaaaas]

“We need more mean women in Disney movies”

y’all couldn’t even handle isabela madrigal

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Why would you need to ask for forgiveness from a god who has unconditional love?"

Divine forgiveness is both meaningless and immoral.