#that's faith. that's acceptance. that's devotion.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum at Popular Information:

According to some prominent billionaires, political pundits, and media figures, American universities have undergone a radical transformation. Institutions of higher learning in the United States, they say, are no longer focused on free academic inquiry. Rather, they are devoted to indoctrinating students on "woke" topics like critical race theory, systemic racism, and transgender rights.

"If I was gonna try to destroy the country, that’s how I would do it. I’d radicalize the kids. I’d give them the stupidest ideas and run them in their head. Boys can be girls, girls can be boys," Joe Rogan said earlier this month on his podcast, which attracts millions of listeners. "I think we’re sending our kids to cult camps. I think [students] get indoctrinated." "The amount of indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities is, I think, far beyond what parents realize," billionaire Elon Musk told Bill Maher last year. (Maher endorsed Musk's theory enthusiastically.) On X, Musk added that the "woke mind virus has infested [academic] institutions" to "a shocking degree." 

Venture capitalist David Sacks claims that "the far left" has taken over universities. According to Sacks, the "quid pro quo of our civilization is if you want the economic and social advancement that a college degree grants you, you have to go to one of these schools and submit to voluntary reeducation for four years."  Billionaire investor Peter Thiel says that "[o]ver the last three to four years" colleges and universities have become "more woke" and "even less meritocratic." He is offering students $100,000 to skip college because "I don’t think schools like Stanford or Harvard will go away or really reform."  Charlie Kirk, a right-wing operative with 2.9 million followers on X, wrote a book called "The College Scam," which claims that colleges are "brainwashing away the future of America's youth." In a March 2023 appearance on Fox News, Kirk claimed that "colleges need to fail" because they have been "going so far in the woke direction."

In the New York Times, columnist David Brooks asserts that "ideological activism is replacing intellectual inquiry as the primary mission of universities."  These claims are never backed by data. They are based on anecdotes or a general impression. But, despite a lack of factual evidence, the idea that universities have gone "woke" and are indoctrinating students with far-left ideologies has gained widespread acceptance. The best available data, however, does not support these theories. Open Syllabus, a non-profit group, collects syllabi from colleges and universities. The group has collected over 5.5 million syllabi at more than 4,000 American institutions of higher learning. The data is not comprehensive because Open Syllabus relies mostly on publicly available data. But it is the most robust database of what is actually taught on campus in the U.S. 

Popular Information's Judd Legum debunks the right-wing myth about colleges and universities being bastions of "woke indoctrination." The bad-faith attacks about "woke" colleges is part of the right-wing war on higher education.

[ghost--bot]

this is the dedication i want to see in my followers. and by dedication i mean madness

[hajihiko]

every time I come across Content that isnt my own I get the thoughts and thinks. Too tired to do anything about it except this ig

[bizlybebo]

fuckinf gay ass podcast got me crying on a saturday morning over demonkicks wtf

[sag-dab-sar]

Okay so I forgot I have this:

Which has the Protoevangelium of James which apparently has a BOAT load of Mary's life (things tagged PJ) as well as what seems like Mary's Birth (first book on list).

The font is so bad (think old book with thick font) I might not be able to read from this but maybe I can. Its just cool that I own it so I won't have my mom asking me why I was buying the Gospel of Mary which is what I was going to originally buy.

[itsyourchoicedevotionals]

Loving Someone

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1Corinthians 13:1NIV

What did Jesus say were the two primary commandments? “He answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself” Luke 10:27NIV.

Jesus took ten of the commandments and rolled all ten into two. If we love God we won’t have other gods in our lives— basically anything can become a god when it’s put first in importance to Yahweh i.e. gods of money/banks, influential people, traditions, medicine, government offices, sexual behaviors, idols of statue forms, ideologies or religions not serving Yahweh and a plethora of other things. Nor will we profane our Lord’s name.

Second commandment, loving someone will cause us to honor them; while keeping us from lying, stealing, killing them, committing adultery with someone, or desiring to have their stuff. “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” Romans 13:10NIV.

Love is active, and nice, it doesn’t expose the weaknesses of others. Writing to the church, 1Peter 4:8NIV “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” Holy Spirit nailed me on this one— ‘Debbie, how many times have you pointed out a particular flaw in someone? Did you do it to lift them up or put them down? Your every word is to lift up others. Some words seem mean and harsh when said. Praying for people is the best way, It’s My job to change them.’ Ouch! I relate this, because I hear others speaking the same way— warning to us all.

How do you confront an evil? We’re living in a very confused time. Satan has deceived people’s minds into living in lies telling them their identity is not in Christ, nor themselves, only in what their imagination. Back in my youth, such an identity crisis would put people into strenuous psychiatric care. “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” John 8:32NIV. Loving speaks the God’s truth— ]you were made in this body at this time by the loving God Who is lovingly concerned about every detail of your life.’

Can love confront a blatantly sinful lifestyle? Which is more loving— warning a sleeping person that the building they’re sleeping in is on fire? — Quietly, turning away and allowing the sleeping person to die in the fire? A normal person without any particular love for others would pound on all the apartment doors in the building to awake all their neighbors. People are applauded for running into a burning building to rescue someone. What’s the difference? Their burning building— their sinful lifestyle will take them directly to the real fires of hell. I’ve heard three separate speakers who were steeped in perverted lifestyles— say that Churches and Believers had loved ’accepted’ them as they were. The churches preached the truth about sin, including theirs. Believers openly answered when asked about their lifestyles, ‘your lifestyle is sin, a sin God calls an abomination and hates. You aren’t lost. Yahweh will help you escape that lifestyle through the blood of Jesus’

Do we really love others? Are we just noisy gongs, crashing symbols, mean, hateful, tongue-talking Believers in Christ? If we’re the latter, there’s a fix it Bible verse— “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1John 1:9ESV. He’ll wash away our sins, like they never happened. Then He’ll allow us to start over with His help. What will you do? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God we’ve sinned. Forgive and cleanse us please. Help us to act more like Jesus in every way of love, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

by Debbie Veilleux Copyright 2024 You have my permission to reblog this devotional for others. Please keep my name with this devotional, as author. Thank you.

[deathdxnces]

you need the closure of vengeance and i'll do what i can to help you have it and i have my own burdens and they're so heavy but i'll always help carry yours, too and you don't have to face anything alone and even if you do i'll give you what strength i have to help you with it and i don't know where your path will lead, but even if it's dark, i don't care what it makes you, i'll walk with you until the very end are top tier ship dynamics actually

[northwoodsfan]

Grace Nugget for 2.23.23

Grace Nuggets: Simple reminders of God’s great love for you.

[mrwilliamharon]

So what if I am not in full obedient? I have faith in him, also permanent; I am connected to him via devotion, Change is my new commitment; I seek in him my self-settlement, I live with hope in his acceptance.

William Haron

[yeslordmyking]

June, 21 (Evening) Devotion

“The foundation of God standeth sure.”

2 Timothy 2:19

The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,” and that “Christ also hath suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God”; “Who himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree”; “For the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.” In one word, the great pillar of the Christian’s hope is substitution. The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the guilty, Christ being made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, Christ offering up a true and proper expiatory and substitutionary sacrifice in the room, place, and stead of as many as the Father gave him, who are known to God by name, and are recognized in their own hearts by their trusting in Jesus—this is the cardinal fact of the gospel. If this foundation were removed, what could we do? But it standeth firm as the throne of God. We know it; we rest on it; we rejoice in it; and our delight is to hold it, to meditate upon it, and to proclaim it, while we desire to be actuated and moved by gratitude for it in every part of our life and conversation. In these days a direct attack is made upon the doctrine of the atonement. Men cannot bear substitution. They gnash their teeth at the thought of the Lamb of God bearing the sin of man. But we, who know by experience the preciousness of this truth, will proclaim it in defiance of them confidently and unceasingly. We will neither dilute it nor change it, nor fritter it away in any shape or fashion. It shall still be Christ, a positive substitute, bearing human guilt and suffering in the stead of men. We cannot, dare not, give it up, for it is our life, and despite every controversy we feel that “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure.”

Daily Bible and Devotional for Women - http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=daily.bible.for.woman

[capnpen]

Quick Thought – Sunday, January 14, 2024: Walking in Our Shoes

Read John 3:16-21 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” John 3:17 Reflect King Harvest was bored. Most nights, he amused himself by dancing in the moonlight, but even that had gotten old. He needed a pleasant diversion. Then it came to him. He had just finished reading “The Prince and the Pauper,” and he…

[dullahandyke]

i wont lie i am the type of man to look at art of sora n riku and immediately go 'wheres kairiiiiiiiiii'

[sag-dab-sar]

Candlemas Marian Altar

(Candlemas Marian Sacred Space?)

Info post I wrote about Candlemas!

I used my much prettier Bible which is KJV and have it open to the First Sorrow— The Prophecy of Simeon:

"Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” Luke 2:34-35 KJV

I also placed my Seven Sorrows rosary here. The white candle I planned to put a picture of Mater Dolorosa, to remind me of the 7 day Saint candles I used in Latine Catholicism of my childhood. I have sticker printer paper to do that. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do that nor print artwork to frame it because my printer is entirely broke.

Still it being Candlemas I thought it important to place the intended candle in this space. I obviously can't get any candles purified and blessed at a Church. But it is purified in my heart by its designation solely to Mary and it will never be used in any of my other traditions.

This is literally the ONLY space in my ENTIRE room where I could place these items, every other surface is covered and has been since I moved everything for the potential flood and never moved them back. The blur is because there are other items in the space because its so small. What I couldn't blur is a homemade cloth doll my Yaiyai made for me.

*In Christianity a "home altar" is set up as a place & reminder to pray. Thus "altar" "marian altar" "shrine" "kamidana" have different meanings in my religious practice.

[daisytarget]

It's been said before and I am not the last to say it but Work Song by Hozier is ALSO so Natasha coded. It's painfully Natalia Romanov.

[writers-potion]

🪽😈Good Traits to bad

Our perfect imperfections make us imperfect perfections.

Nice <> passive/unassertive

Strong-willed <> stubborn

Sensitive <> easily upset

Honest/communicative/trustworthy <> insensitive/brutal

Loyal/devoted/faithful <> tolerates bad behaviour from others

Perfectionism <> Never beign satisifed

Generosity <> Being taken advantage of

Being dependable <> People always depending on them

Protectivenss <> Overprotective, obsessive

Cautiousness <> Never risking anything

Ambitiousness <> Coming off as ruthless

Tidiness <> Obsessive and compulsive

Assertiveness <> Coming off as bossy

Pride <> Not accepting help

Being realistic <> Being seen as pessimistic

Innocence <> Being seen as naive

Optimism <> Not realistic

Diligent <> not able to bend rules

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🖱️References

https://townsvillepsychologist.com.au/personality-traits-can-be-positive-and-negative/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9359111719786856/