#breadth

[bills-bible-basics]

FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH -- KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List #Scriptures #BibleStudy #BibleVerses Visit https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ to see more. "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Isaiah 11:12, KJV "Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land." Ezekiel 7:2, KJV "And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." Revelation 7:1, KJV "And [the Devil] shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea." Revelation 20:8, KJV NOTE: Contrary to what some misguided Flat Earth Theory adherents erroneously believe, these verses are NOT implying that the Earth has four corners, or is square in shape. This Biblical language was used to describe the four cardinal directions -- north, south, east and west -- as well as the expanse of the Earth. You may be interested in reading my article entitled "Other Planets and the Flat Earth Theory". You can read this article at the following URL: https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/other-planets-and-flat-earth-theory.html If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/. Thank-you! https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/four-corners-of-the-earth-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list/?feed_id=256074&FOUR%20CORNERS%20OF%20THE%20EARTH%20--%20KJV%20%28King%20James%20Version%29%20Bible%20Verse%20List

[elodieunderglass]

This feels like a safe space to share that I really hate it in movies when they’re, like, crossing this wretched fuckoff gorge by a rope bridge and some jagoff cuts the bridge like - I do NOT want to even think about how much work and material and handcraft that was!! And then people had to install it as well!! Imagine how many commutes you’re fucking up! Stop destroying rope bridges assholes

[tenth-sentence]

But such a global version would also have drawbacks, particularly in loss of focus, and it would need even more pages than the book I did write.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[utsaahpsychologyclinic]

"The capacity of a social movement for effective action depends largely on the depth, breadth, and quality of leadership able to turn opportunity into purpose."

[emptyjunior]

Can't stop thinking about reverse Scott Pilgrim au where Ramona has to fight all of Scott's exes, Punk drummer Kim, Megastar Envy Adams with an army of groupies, Femme fatale Lisa Miller, Jaded obsessive Knives Chau, maybe an alternate timeline version of herself.

And when she's all done it's just kinda Wallace standing there and she's like Wallace what are you doing, I'm meeting Scott's ex here and he just gives this sad shrug smile and she's like Oh and then he pulls out the baseball bat-

[kerink]

do u guys ever think about how ford fell in love with bill cipher and not Bill Cipher ™️

like everyone else bill has ever dated has known him as the dream demon and king of nightmares and dimensional authority's most wanted. he can never be given a chance to be more than his reputation, not without putting his reputation in jeopardy and he's not gonna do that

but ford is ignorant to who bill is. yes he believes bill is a powerful being, but he doesn't understand how powerful or what that truly means. he lacks the context to see bill as anything more than as he presents himself

so bill can be whoever he wants. and i think it's so heartbreaking that, given that, bill chose to be himself. set aside the crown set aside the party hat and just sat with this naive wide eyed trusting human and showed him the last atom of his dimension. bore his heart and soul to this child who doesn't realize he's got god wrapped around his finger

[postersbykeith]

[chronicowboy]

a little while into them being together buck actually says yes one of the times eddie asks if he wants to go to basketball with him. and eddie's like. should i be worried. and buck's like. not if we're on the same team :). and eddie's like okay ❤️ yay ❤️. so they go to basketball and buck realises his mistake relatively quickly. because he and eddie haven't done anything remotely competitive since getting together and his competency kink is difficult enough to keep under control at work but suddenly eddie's confident and competitive and a little cuthroat and a lot sweaty. and buck is finding it difficult to focus on anything but his super hot fucking boyfriend. (he gets hit in the face by the ball three times and each time eddie comes over to check on him in medic mode and buck has to run away so his half chub doesn't graduate to full). anyway the game goes as smoothly as it possibly can and then everyone's talking about heading to a bar and buck's like. sorry guys we've got to go pick up our kid from a friend's. and eddie follows him to the car like a starry eyed duckling because of our kid but he's still going to give buck shit. chris is sleeping over at his friend's i know you know that. and buck presses him up against the side of his truck and says. how did i ever think this was about tommy. and eddie grins like a shark. and they get halfway to breaking several different public decency laws right then and there.

[miraculan-draws]

Even when it's painful, you lift me up, all in, tight-knit, second skin, won't quit--satellite faithful, floatin' like a rainbow

[realityfragments]

Expanding Our Prisons.

Offhandedly, regarding something related to recommendations, I wrote, ‘there are always echo chambers’ in the context of social media and recommendations. It’s an unfortunate truth about we humans and our perspectives, and I thought to expand on it here. We recursively play our roles in the Allegory of the Cave, where some of us ‘leave’ the cave and go explore outside of it. It was originally…

[fortjester]

forgiveness in the locked tomb series (redux!)

[serpentface]

Miniature dog and khait effigies for a Wardi funeral. These are clay figurines that have been painted and decorated with great care by a skilled artist. Both include real hairs from the individual animals they have been modeled after. The dog is collared, showing that it is a loyal pet rather than a lowly feral scrounger. The khait is fully bridled and ready to carry the deceased in their journey.

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It is believed that the souls of the deceased, once freed of their bodies, undergo a month-long journey to reach rebirth in the lunar lands. This journey is full of perils. It begins in the realm of the earth where the soul is naked and vulnerable and traveling through complete darkness. Evil spirits dwell within this realm and may try to capture the soul or lead them astray, and the way is twisting and obscured in shadows. Even after escaping this darkness, the soul still must travel an arduous and winding path through the realm of the sky in order to reach their destination.

A khait and a dog are traditionally offered as funerary goods (in addition to food, water, wine, clothing, weapons, and other needs) to assist the soul in their travels- the khait will ease their passage in their long journey and carry them swiftly, and the dog will navigate through earthly darkness and dense cloud by scent, and protect the soul from harm.

Ideally, one of the deceased's own living khait and hunting/guard dogs will be killed at the funeral (typically the most beloved of their animals, as who would be better company than that?) so that they can have familiar and loyal helpers in their lonely journey. However, there are tremendous class barriers to ownership and disposability of a khait, and well-bred working dogs (while significantly more accessible) aren't ubiquitously available, and many people do not consider captured feral dogs to be a worthy replacement. As such, funerals with full animal offerings tend to be limited to higher status individuals.

Everyday people still need protection on their journeys, and animal effigies can be appropriate replacements for the real thing. These effigies are usually designed with great specificity to represent known individual animals that have already died (often including the animal's actual hair, as seen here). The soul of the represented animal will recognize the effigy as its body, and can be called into the icon so that it may accompany the deceased. These effigies (along with any other necessary grave goods) will be placed onto the pyre and burned along with the body so that the traveling soul will be sent off with everything they need.

Some folk traditions have semi-legendary local animal spirits who will be represented instead of a personally familiar animal. This often develops around a small community 'sharing' one historically extant animal for their funeral effigies as a matter of practicality, developing a sense of attachment to this animal as an aspect of shared identity, and adding layers of legend to the animal's story with the passage of time.

For example, a very popular legendary guide in the northeastern rural parts of Ephennos is Chisnops-Inreña (which very closely translates to 'Orange Son Of A Bitch'), a legendary livestock guardian dog. The animal was said to have been the biggest, meanest, ugliest motherfucker around, but was an unshakably loyal and fierce guardian, as noble as a dog (not the noblest of animals by any means) can possibly be. He is said to have fought off everything from jackals to lions to cattle thieves in his day, and died protecting his herdsman master from an infamous man-eating king hyena, only succumbing to his own wounds when the great beast lay dead. His spirit was later used as a guide in his master's funeral, and local legend states that the same spirit has been seen following herdsmen and their cattle ever since, as not even death could keep him from his duties. Such a dog would make an excellent guide and protector in the journey to the afterlife, and effigies of him are favored in the funerals of northeastern Ephenni pastoralists.

A lovingly crafted Orange Son Of A Bitch

[utsaahpsychologyclinic]

"The capacity of a social movement for effective action depends largely on the depth, breadth, and quality of leadership able to turn opportunity into purpose."

[im-ignoring-canon]

I think it's more tragic that Jason knew Leo was alive, actually.

Jason's ecstatic! His best friend, his Person, the one he would choose over and over again. And he's alive. Leo is alive. It hits him like a truck, like the best truck in the world, that he'll get to see Leo again. Get to hug him again and tease him again and make him promise to never ever pull that shit again. The sheer joy of it shoots through him like the electricity which shorts all the power in his room when he finds out.

Except. Except it's too late. He knows it as he faces Caligula, knows they've just missed each other. He'll go to the Underworld alone. He'll never be reunited with curly hair and mischievous grins and tapping fingers. He feels like screaming at the unfair irony of it all. But he doesn't. He's Jason Grace. He does his duty. His last request is that Apollo doesn't forget, doesn't miss his chance or take it for granted. His last image is his best friend, reaching out. Jason knows he's not there though. He never will be.

[pilot-boi]

Despite everything, it’s still you

[secriden]

Not to be a Style apologist, but I feel like some viewers haven't quite picked up that Style's brand of wooing Fadel is quite literally intentionally designed (by both the writers and the character) to be as annoying and frustrating as possible.

Lets consider:

Style thinks his bff is in love for the first time in his life. He thinks Kant is genuinely down bad for Bison: let’s not forget his clear surprise when Kant agreed to give up the car. As far as Style is concerned, Kant is acting really out of character and it's because Kant desperately wants to be with Bison.

He also thinks the only thing standing in the way of True Love™ is Fadel, who according to Kant is being unreasonably difficult about Kant and Bison dating. He doesn't know that Kant has a secondary motivation, nor does he know about the mind games that Bison is playing with Kant. Worse, he has no frame of reference or context to make any of Fadel's animosity towards Kant reasonable.

Moreover, while I think we all agree that Style made a terrible first impression on Fadel, the same has to be said of Fadel towards Style. Like, yes, absolutely Style was in the wrong, but Fadel came off as not only condescending and impatient, but unreasonable (and very weirdly cagey) when Style tried to immediately offer a resolution. Again, Style has no frame of reference for why Fadel would first demand that he take responsibility for his actions and then immediately after claim to have no time to entertain Style's attempt to take said responsibility.

Also, it doesn't help Style's wounded pride that Fadel keeps 'besting' him at every turn. So at this point I think a significant portion of that initial attraction (in ep 1) has shifted to annoyance when it comes to Fadel. By the time he gets his hands on Fadel's information, I think he's more than a little invested in some payback. While I think Style very much still wants to help Kant (and Bison) out, at least a part of him figures as long as he keeps Fadel busy, he kind of meets his goal. And if he gets to embarrass, frustrate and otherwise harass Fadel along the way, all the better!

You can see him start to have some fun with it. He ramps it up SO much in ep 2. He gets to lean into that wild, brash, playful personality because he doesn't really care if Fadel likes him. Style gets to be dialled up to extremes, and I love that for him because he's honestly kind of justified because he knows so fucking little about what's really going on. I think it's only fair if the other 3 are playing 4D chess while Style only has the Uno game rules in front of him, he gets to be the most Unhinged about it.

So, yeah, while I absolutely agree with all the posts out there that recognises just how reasonable and polite and tired Fadel is, I do think we need to give Style some credit here. He's absolutely SO extra, but he's also the one, arguably, that has been lied to the most and I feel that he deserves some slack for that.