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suffering and religion

(references coming soon)

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Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask questions, ask for advice, rant, vent, let something off your chest, or just have a nice chat.

please, please and please.

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Anna Haifisch

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I love opening my tumblr after a solid month away and seeing people still reblogging posts I made two or three years ago. Like woah you’re interacting with a version of myself that is currently held behind a paywall (time) and that’s crazy!

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I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

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I guess some things you can never leave behind, they don’t belong to the past. They belong to you :,)

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Andrew Garfield, in an interview with GQ

It's never-ending. The grief is never-ending. The love is never-ending. Like, Oh. That's the nature of love.

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Hermes is so good. I did a devotional act of taking the bus for him today and there was this very old lady I saw on the bench and I sat down next to her. She asked me for the time and we struck up a conversation and it lasted for almost an hour and ended with us exchanging numbers and she gave me a kiss and a hug goodbye I wanna cry

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Want to get back into deity devotion but I’ve not done anything in over a year. Any tips? Not sure what I believe at the moment but when I worshipped I felt good.

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Help! Why am I so burdened by my deep unwavering love for everyone who has ever crossed paths with me! How do I stop the horrors associated with unbridled passion and devotion!!

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Most people think forgiveness is free, and it is if you are the one who is being forgiven. Grace is indeed a gift extended freely, but forgiveness always comes at a cost, not to the offender but to the offended. Sometimes it's hard to forgive because you don't want to let go of your right to retaliate or expect compensation, to be hurt and have your hurt and your suffering acknowledged by the one who caused it. The thing is that rarely happens. Usually the offender does not feel the need to apologize or make amends and the offended is left with the pain and hurt brewing inside, poisoning the heart, but more often than not, this process takes time for it is a mourning process of one's self. The graver the offense, the more costly it is, yet it is more costly to not let go.

e.v.e.

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“Where are your pagan gods now?”

Gardening

Comforting your abandoned dead

Reclaiming

Rerooting

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Begging God to fix you!

(And other tales about religious trauma)

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You worship the Christian God because He resonates with you. He is ever bit as human as He is God. He sent His only begotten Son to die for you and you are forever indebted to Him because He is like you! You relish in that feeling of belonging and it drives you to the brink of insanity as you cannot help but to call out His name. I was upset when I didn’t relate to Christians because I never felt that belonging. However it’s because Jesus wasn’t written to be like me. He wasn’t built to claim my name and I don’t think I deserve eternal damnation for not identifying with what is all around me at 9:00AM on a Sunday.

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an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

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