#goal oriented

[oh-dear-so-queer]

This near-obsessive focus on penetration and ejaculation – indeed, on "measuring" various aspects of sexual activity to begin with – reveals a profoundly phallocentric and "goal-oriented" view of security on the part of most biologists. Not just homosexual activity, but noninsertive sexual acts, female sexuality and orgasmic response, oral sex and masturbation, copulation in species (such as birds) where males do not have a penis – any form of sex whatsoever that does not involve penis-vagina penetration falls off the map of such a narrow definition. The fact is that both heterosexual and homosexual activities exist along a continuum with regard to their degree of "sexuality" or "completeness".

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[utterlyyinfatuated]

whats your type? Are you picky?

Not really, I just know what I want.

I like a gentleman in the streets but a freak in the sheets. 😂

[somu04]

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For more info...https://www.ecoleglobale.com/blog/the-foundation-of-effective-teamwork/

[witchyweighty]

Trying to start a new habit of setting 10 goals for myself every Sunday night to do for the week. Setting it as my phone background too so I’m constantly reminded of them. 💪🏼 I’ve eaten like absolute shite the past few days down to massive amounts of stress and upset, and not exercised at all, but absolutely determined to get back on track. 🎯

Also at least one person needs to vote on this poll so I don’t feel like a total loser and become despondent. I totally don’t rely on other people to feel things.

[blog-n-go]

.."But" Its...

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[inomniaparatus23]

Just turned thirty, I can't believe I've been living in this world for three decades. There's still so much I want to do in life, dreams I want to fulfill, places I want to visit. But to achieve all of this, I need to work hard to realize my dream of becoming a lawyer. To be able to help my family, friends, and those who supported and believed in me. I know it's scary, exhausting, and a long road ahead, but I'm ready. I'm ready to face it all. I'm prepared to confront the challenges head-on.

[journeytoleadership]

Quote Of The Week #321

[madewithonerib]

3.] Success & Sex-Oriented Culture

Over top of Corinth was a mountain & on the top of the mountain was a Temple of Aphrodite; and every single night 1K Temple prostitutes came on down into the city to ply their wares.

     It was the most success-oriented, & sex-      obsessed city, these were corinthianizers      no rules. Nobody came to Corinth to live      —nobody came there to have a life.

     They came to make it, they came to do

Now if you don't see any parallels between Corinth & NYC—you're a tourist all right, and I'm glad you're here. But now you know

This is absolutely true, you go to other cities of this country, you go to Boston or Philadelphia, there's a tradition, there's an aristocracy.

The people go there to live.

People don't come to New York to live.

     People come here to make it, they come      here to do. When Paul came to Corinth he      was beaten, he had a bad time in Athens      and he'd been beaten up actually almost      within an inch of his life in Philippi.

And he was so low that GOD had to come to him in Acts 18:9 & particularly appear to him & say I am going to show you that I'm still with you & I'm going to do a major work. I'm going to plant a Church in the biggest baddest wooliest city in the world.

………………………………………………………………… I'm going to show you the Gospel can change anybody. …………………………………………………………………

   •  I am going to give you a bunch of converts.    •  I'm going to give you a Church in this place

3.1] The Power of the Gospel

The last place in the world you'd think people would turn to the LORD. I'm going to I'm going to take Corinthianizers and you know in the early part of this book 1 Corinthians, Paul writes something that's pretty interesting..

Paul was extremely amazed.

     I think the Church at Corinth was a unique      Church in his Ministry — because it was a      sign to him the Gospel can change anybody

And at one point he writes in CH6 & he's making a long list: adulterers, idol worshipers, homosexual, prostitutes, greedy thieves, drunkards, & then he says “such were many of you”

     but you were sanctified, you were      justified by the Name of our LORD      JESUS CHRIST & in the SPIRIT of our      GOD & FATHER.

What Paul is saying is the Corinthian Christians are not bourgeois, straight arrow moral people—these were people who had done every [sinful] thing.

     They had been everywhere & when they      became Christians, the Corinthian Church      was unique in Paul's Ministry—because      when corinthianizers become Christians

     When this kind of person becomes a      Christian, you get one of the oddest      things & that is Churches that are more      brilliant than the other Churches

     And more troubled, & that's exactly      what you have in Corinth—& if you      want to understand that..

All you have to do is look at CH 13:1-3, which you have printed there.

You've got a picture of the Corinthian Church.

Better Than Miracles P1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Timothy J. Keller [1 Corinthians 13:1-3]

[sos-media-blog]

The Importance of Self-Discipline

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[camillcy]

A New day With New Possibilities #shorts

[shannonsketches]

Why is the anime so weird, it's not even the same series dude?? It's like,

Anime:

GOKU: I have a great idea to bring peace to the universe, and my leadership and compassion alone will unite us all. I have No Flaws and am A True Relatable Everyman :)

VEGETA: NO! I AM THE BEST AND I WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS UNTIL I AM RECOGNIZED AS SUCH!!!!

Manga:

GOKU: Vegeta what's cornmeal made of? I know it's what the corn eats, but what's it made of? VEGETA: Hey Kakarot let's play the quiet game until one of us dies.

[queer-and-tired-vampire]

The need to call someone 'honey' or 'love' platonically. Do you understand how much I want to have a silly little platonic kiss!!!!

[yellowocaballero]

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.

[iviin-855]

Bonus case where the defendant refuses to take any defense attorney except Phoenix Wright but Wright is out of commission for a few days. Maya remembers them going through some old family stuff and seeing some picture of an ancestor that was a defense lawyer so she decides to channel him and make him take the case.

That's how Ryunosuke ends up in court opposite of a suspicious Edgeworth and a clueless judge defending completely unprepared in yet another country

[sebille]

I'm trying to make a positive zenos posts bc all of my posts about him are so sad lmao

What are you guys favourite thing(s) about him?

[ssruis]

Otori group changing their goals from “quick and easy way to bring in more funds to the park” to “putting in the work to bring in more park attendance while maintaining the park’s original vision” & tsukasa not choosing the easy path to fame with the commercial opportunity and instead putting his full support behind the wms show & rui choosing the fast track to his dreams in curtain call but then ultimately staying with wxs (which was what he truly desired). And to a lesser extent - emu being told to slow down and take her time to learn and grow in popping in my heart/ohe and Nene refusing to just take the compliments her hero gave her and instead ask to undergo some really intensive training in canary.