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ISTG, he is all over my feed and i’m not even complaining.

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obsessed with Rob Jetten phase

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my pov when i get home:

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In my head, they are a couple and they are my dads

Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan at the The Cinema Society  Screening of Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” on March 31, 2014

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Edvin for 1 minute: 😐

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PLS THEY ARE JUST SO CUTE

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In our Ethics class we were asked to share our views on Morality. I just want to share mine here.

I basically grew up in a church. A Sunday school kid, attended every religious camps, became a youth leader, became Sunday School teacher, became a worship/song leader—they even call me ‘pastor’ at that.

But, after 19 years I figured out that religions do not make sense to me anymore. Well, it did not happen overnight. It took me years of doubt and research and a lot of emotional scars and trauma—religious trauma.

It all goes down to existential and identity crisis, questions on morality, and the hypocrisy of some church goers (also the questionable credibility, mistranslations, and the inconsistency of the bible).

I used to believe that without God I am just evil and misguided and as they say: I will go to hell. But is that right? That we cannot be a good person if we don’t worship and recognize a higher entity? Picture this: Japan is one of the countries in the world that has the highest number of atheist citizens but has the lowest crime rate. So, is it really religion that makes us ethically and morally correct? I think not and also the numbers tell otherwise. (see: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most- atheist-countries)

I do believe that over the millions of years that the human evolved to have a consciousness, we have also acquired the ability, the instinct, to examine how right or wrong an action is. Right and wrong is very different from good and evil. In a scenario that an action is done for the right reason but with the wrong action cannot be determined using the religious based perspective because there is no in- between; there is no scale.

I do believe that morality is subjective, but the Christians believe otherwise. Their argument is that you can’t just decide whether an action is morally correct or wrong. In an argument I had, they presented the idea that if drugs make them feel good that does not make it morally correct. So, they need a written law to guide them—the bible.

There are moral values that are deemed right by our ancestors but what were also their basis? How reliable are their scales of morality before establishing those values? What gives us guarantee that the old moral values are the must-have values we should possess right now. There's none. A moral value is a concept that covers the all the good for everyone. So, if you say you do drugs just because you like it and it feels good, well that refutes being moral because that's a catalyst to your own physical degradation. You’re a terrible caretaker of your own body.

Moreover, the bible does not give a clear view on morality. I was a Sunday School teacher, so I know a lot about what the bible says. It says there that we should disregard the laws of the Old Testament because we must follow the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament but still people are cherry picking laws from the Old Testament to justify their hatred among several group of people. We can’t just ignore

the law about not eating fish or shrimp but implement the others, that’s hypocrisy. There are numerous opposing statements in the bible and a lot of mistranslated words. One of the most famous is the word “homosexuality” in the bible. The word “arsenokoitai” means child molester, a phedophile, but in 1946 they changed it to homosexual. And they used it to shame the LGBT community up to this day and that’s not very morally correct at all. (see: https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has- %E2%80%9Chomosexual%E2%80%9D-always-been-in-the-bible/)

Those are just some of my reasons why I left the church and disagree to their teachings in morality (I still have a lot). The bottom-line is, it’s okay and your right to have a moral independence. My religion made me feel bad about myself and made me want to end my existence because of my sexual orientation and has caused me irreversible religious trauma because of their incorrect teachings in morality and that the idea of me going to hell shoving down to my throat made me question the things they implanted in my childhood. There 4,300 religions and 2,407,650 known and worshipped gods in the world, how sure are you that the one you are born in is the right one?

With all that being said, I believe that morality is being morally and ethically free.

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he is so hot 😭

Sebastian Stan as Jack Benjamin in Kings 2009

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just in case you need a reason to smile today

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so, we have no Season 2 confirmation yet on Young Royals?

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guys i was literally on top of the world

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sebastian stan playing tennis in 2009 is living in my head rent free forever

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my birthday is June 23 aksjajs i was so happy when i saw that

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i love showering it's literally like... im clean now! lol. and i no longer have mental illnesses

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Tell me which actors do see portraying the RWRB characters!

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help where can i work as a freelance graphic designer 😭 i cant afford things

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