#u chose the religious root

[peanutblowandjobsandwich]

i just think society will heal when we stop trying to dictate what anyone else outside of n'importe quoi religion can or cannot do bc of said religion. but yall think it's just catholicism n christianity is the problem which is the problem bc thts the mindset tht but catholicism n christianity where it is today but anyways

[96rh]

hey folksss!! im ser n im super hyped to get to know everyone + also bring ryu han to the dash. i have a skeleton of a profile here / an intro underneath w some quickfire plot ideas but otherwise feel free to like this and i'll hit u up to plot, or alternatively feel free to dm me first :^)

ryu han, 27, 2nd year masters' student in criminal law currently living in yellow hall with the power of necromancy, commitee member of together for daehan

only son of the ryu family, a pretty big name in the corporation world (idk what they do exactly but they'own a conglomerate so we can start there)

his family is also notorious for being in a lot of shady dealings though, of course, a paper trail is rarely left so there's never quite enough evidence to accuse them of anything

shoved into the law division of the company where his abilities manifested at 11 during a hit-and-run case (details withheld but it wasn't pretty)

linked his app above regarding his powers but tldr (tldr in a tldr ik its outrageous sorry) he can raise the undead momentarily and manipulate them

as the only one with an ability in his family his parents were super stoked until he left home when he was around 18 because he disagreed with his family's criminal actions and their moral alignments

kindaaa big news in the business world that followed with a lot of "wow he isn't like his parents maybe there's some hope left for them"

in reality, his leaving-the-family was basically orchestrated to get the public slash ryu family enemies on his side. he's still loyal to them in every way, receives money from them, is in contact with them etc but maintains a facade that he lives away on money he earned solely by himself

post-undergrad, started to intern (and still does) at a not-so-big-deal law firm (that pay for his residence, living cost etc but this is basically a paper law firm that's controlled by his family in the end. people just don't know)

takes part in a lot of cases that aren't really national news but are subtler parts of his family's plans ie the factory worker who saw something they shouldn't have getting into a truck accident, the disappearance of a secretary who questioned too much -- he "uses" his power to mitigate the fallouts of those deaths ie by telling the families he communicated with the undead, passing on last words etc but it's just all soppy stuff to get them off their trail

or he summons the undead so they can do the dirty work for him .. the feeling of blood on his hands is sort of physically and emotionally difficult to wash off

literally at university so he can make a bigger name for himself (hence his participation in student politics) and get deeper into the legal system for his parents @_@ can't really imagine a life without them nor is he willing to acknowledge how deeply evil his whole family is but he'll cross that bridge when gets to it

spoiler alert: he is never getting to that bridge

personality wise he kinda thrives off making people feel subtly uncomfortable. doesn't break eye contact when talking, makes off-handed comments that you only realise the biting undertones of five minutes after you leave the conversation, smiles a little too much and especially at the wrong times. not really likeable, not really dislikable, either

all this to say he seems like a walking paradox. you might know he renounced his family's evil ways and chose the life of a just, morally righteous lawyer -- but why does it seem like there's something inconsistently unsettling about him?

regarding how much guilt he feels about participating in his family's dirty dealings -- growing up going to church every sunday means there's a lot to grapple with in terms of religious guilt and whether he's doomed for hell but once again he will cross that bridge when he gets to it and he is never getting to it. it's much easier to pretend he doesn't feel bad and that evil is rooted in nature, not nurture.

quickfire plots include: someone who knew him before he "left" his family; someone who's understandably suspicious of him but can't seem to figure out why; alternatively someone who completely believes in his facade and thinks he's the absolute apostle of justice; ex-friends that fell apart; an ex-friend whose relationship deterotation between them hurt a pinch too much; fwbs; someone he has a soft spot for because they remind him of his younger sister (who's currently 15); someone who he leans on when he overexerts himself and ends up sick; someone who wants to use him to get to his family; someone who keeps seeing him with nosebleeds in the library and isn't sure how much more spare tissue they have left

[sunsetbullets]

religious trauma & the good omens 2 finale

! ! ! spoilers ahead and also a very confusing rant bc this finale made me think about my religious trauma and how it stills affects me ! ! !

i'm a firm believer that azi just made the most terrible decision ever seen on earth instead that the fuckass metraton drugged his coffe or miracled a change in his heart . . . because religious trauma can just get into your head in a way that really fucks u up . . .

like what comming from and being in the "good" side does to aziraphale is pretty well developed and showed across the episodes from both seasons. even that now he's together with crowley in their own side, he stills firmly believes in heaven = good, hell = bad.

and because of this belief that is deeply rooted into him, he can't help but associate all the things that made him love crowley to little remaining pieces of heaven inside her. for aziraphale, what makes crowley stand apart from other fallen angles angels is that she saw the flaws in the great plan and choose to fight it.

but i don't think that aziraphale believes that it was crowley's free will to go against the great plan, but the remaining bits of heaven inside her fighting the bad demonic side and making her fight for the right things, the way god planned it all.

he mistook crowley's kindness and goodness with humanity because he's blinded by the perception that all good things and influences belong to god and to heaven.

the heaven that aziraphale chose to return stills the same heaven that hunted him and almost burned him to non-existence simply because he did what his heart told him to do, because he saw the flaws in the great plan and choose to fight it, even if his morals constantly made him think that he was doing wrong by being against god's wishes.

and we can't deny that he tricks himself away from guilt by believing that's all part of a bigger god's plan, that all he did was right and god proudly agrees with it even if the entirety of heaven does not to.

when this is the aziraphale we know, is not hard to believe that the metraton would not have much work to do in convincing him to going back to heaven.

and the metraton is said to be the voice of god herself ... this is such an important detail to remember, because aziraphale can deal with being rejected by heaven by reling in the omnipotent & silent presence of god silently telling him that he did no wrong. but when the voice of god speaks, how can he not hear it ??

like,, do you guys have the slightest ideia of how many times church people say the most evil and hurtfull things in the name of god, just like the metraton, to manipulate and trick people into staying into religion ???

and one of the main points of churches that make people stay, is the feeling of belonging, even that they are saying things that hurt you deeply inside using god's voice, they also make you feel loved and seem.

even after being kicked out of heaven to their own side, aziraphale stills deeply believes that heaven is the only right choice, in his heart he knows that he is a good being, and so is crowley . . . he feels that they belong to heaven, like all good things.

he can recognize all heavens wrongs such as killing job's kids for a fun bet or drowning everybody else but noah's family and some pair of animals, or to end the entire world just for a war between heaven and hell. and he desaproves it all, to the point of going against it because he choses the good side and all goodness belongs to god (even if god's wishes for all this harm to happen anyway)

and you guys realize how tempting it is to go back to the good and right side but also to a position that offers you the power of changing all the institutional failures of heaven ?? not only that but also allows him to still being by crowley's side ??

his angelic brain got corrupted to the point that he can't see that all heaven (him included) do is to hurt people but geting away with it by using god's name and goodness.

he can't see that being back in heaven would hurt crowley more than leaving him behind. because he believes that she deserves forgiveness and deserves heaven.

he got heartbroken after she refused his proposal but he didn't run back to her (even if crowley stayed there and waited and hoped for it to happen) because aziraphale is certain about his beliefs and if he cannot change heaven with crowley, he can change heaven for her.

that's why aziraphale smiles in that lift ride.

he thinks he will comeback to get crowley to heaven and finally be able to be toghether with the love of his life after he changes heaven for even better . . .

[symptoms-syndrome]

Ok here's the tea

So like, it's a server of entirely queer Koreans. And like a MONTH ago, there was sort of a fire because someone said smth like "Korean Christians are all inherently bad people," and I was like "Hey maybe we should avoid making broad generalizations about people who are like. In the server with us. You know, to be respectful." And I was real nice about it and all that jazz. Because I'm a real patient person TBH. I have a pretty high tolerance for Bullshittery. Anyway it turned into a whole Thing because there's like two or three people in there who think they're the shit dot net because they learned fun buzzwords from twitter like "strawmanning" and "gaslighting" and "respectability politics." Which is extremely frustrating because it's absolutely impossible to have a reasonable conversation with them because they do not in any way shape or form actually know what these words mean. One person, completely out of the blue, chimed in with "are we not allowed to complain about white people then?" and then two messages later said that I was strawmanning for making a comparison (I said that while Christianity may have roots in white supremacy, that does not make all those who participate in it inherently white supremacist, similarly to how the beauty industry is also rooted in white supremacy but not all those who wear makeup deserve to get shit for it.) Which is insane bc bestie you're the one strawmanning here.

Anyway it eventually died down (after that person wrote a whole big essay about how they're being silenced and tone policed etc etc etc despite not even being the person who made the original comment, only chiming in to add shit to the fire.) But then yesterday someone who I think is new randomly replies to some of these, again, MONTH old comments, which sparks an outburst of shit again. And this happened last time, but like. The "what about complaining about white people" person was like "um well some of us don't have positive relationships with whiteness/christianity" in a real passive aggressive way and I'm like. Seeeeeeething RN. Like sorry I didn't trauma dump in graphic detail like you did but seriously what a dick fucking move to just assume that I looooooove whiteness and Christianity just because I told you to be mindful that there are some people who are Christian in the server. Like I did not even say you can't criticize Christianity. Anyway this bitch is going offfffff about how the server is sooo unsafe for POC and sooo white and this would never happen in a Black/brown led server (which is insane given that like. First off that's kinda racist of u for a lot of reasons but a lot of the mod team is literally brown in addition to the Korean so like.) and it's like girlie if u think it's so awful here why are u still here. Like I've been in servers where the vibe is rancid and I hate the way it's moderated so I simply Don't Stay in those servers??? What's ur fucking problem???

But anyway they're all like "uwu you simply wouldn't understand, I need a space specifically for People Like Me who have faced racism and Christian oppression" and I'm like GIRLIE I would also be part of those spaces so like!!! Ur not gonna be free from me!!!

and likeeeeeeee not to invalidate anyone's trauma here but their trauma they dumped was fairly middle of the road in terms of like, religious trauma so I COULD absolutely win this pissing contest if I also chose to traumadump I just do not want to at all and also morally disagree with doing so so like. I won't. But I am like. Committing acts of violence mentally RN like girlie what the hell fuck is wrong with you.

[motownfiction]

ophanim

Will is in the sixth grade, and he’s just now realizing how ridiculous his spelling tests actually are.

It’s not like he’s had much to compare them to. Everyone he’s ever known went to school at St. Catherine’s. He doesn’t really know anyone from outside this school, either. Not well, anyway. Sure, there are a few neighborhood kids who attend public schools, like the one with the bird and the one with the jaguar, but Will doesn’t talk to them. He’s too soft, too protected, too baptized, which he doesn’t necessarily think is a good thing. He just knows he’s not worthy of talking to kids who already smoke in the boys’ room. No matter how much he thinks it looks cool.

But even without talking to other kids at other schools, Will is pretty sure his junior high spelling tests are … off. Different, maybe, would be a nicer way of saying it. Every test has fifteen words. The first twelve are normal. Perfectly acceptable words that someone around the age of twelve should know how to read, pronounce, and spell. But then, by some requirement from some teacher without any real credentials, the final three words must be religious words. Catholic words, specifically. These are usually the hardest words on the test, and they are usually the least practical. Even if you grow up and still go to Mass on Sundays, you probably won’t need to know how to spell cherubim and seraphim without a dictionary handy. Plus, if you grow up and still go to Mass on Sundays, don’t you think God will forgive you for spelling those words wrong on a sixth-grade test? Will knows he’s overthinking it, but if it doesn’t make sense to him, then why should he care?

One of the Catholic words on today’s spelling test is ophanim. Will doesn’t remember seeing that one on the practice sheet, and he doesn’t remember Lucy ever practicing it out loud in the cafeteria, either. Ophanim. What in the world is that? He raises his hand to ask a very tired Ms. Dupont, and she just says, “The wheels in Ezekiel’s vision.” 

It doesn’t help at all. Which one is Eziekiel? He can’t keep track of any Bible stories to save his life. Maybe he could if they talked about anything interesting in religion class. Instead, they just make get-well cards that may or may not ever reach their intended recipients. Busy work is the root of all evil. He’s pretty sure that’s what Jesus must have meant, anyway. Will spells ophanim in the way that makes sense to him. When he gets back to school on Monday, he discovers he was off by one letter. He chose a U instead of an I. Same mistake he made with cherubim and seraphim. Maybe he’ll never learn. Maybe he doesn’t have to. He’s a vowel away from a perfect score, and that’s where he seems to always be.

(part of @nosebleedclub february challenge -- day 18!)

[thefictionshelf]

when are we going to talk about the fact that most ‘LA spirituality’ ( i cant think of a better name for it, u know what i mean, like, rich yt woman shit ) is at best borrowed, and at worst bastardized, stolen, and commercialized indigenous,  and asian religious and spiritual practices. That it is so divorced from it’s origins,  we get none of the financial or visibility benefits from it’s proliferation, all while seeing our cultures twisted and disrespected. ( Dear yoga instructors, if you are going to chose to use the Sanskrit names for yoga poses and routines, at least learn how to say them correctly, my god. ) And that, when those woman and their activities are made fun of by (largely) yt men ( which in and of itself is rooted in insisting that the interests of woman are frivolous ) they are making fun of some of the oldest sacred traditions in the world. I just saw a yt man, who self-identifies as a progressive activist, describe people who believe in and I quote, “astrology, crystals, and CHAKRAS” as anti-science, and that he “couldn’t stand them”.

[santmat]

Biography of Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj, the Great Scholar Sant (on the Occasion of His Jayanti — Birthday Commemoration)

Today We Remember Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj (12–20–1920 — 6–4–2007)

Maharishi Santsevi Ji Maharaj is a renowned saint, an exceptional Spiritual Guide, and a unique social reformer of the 21st Century. Shri Santsevi Ji is the fourth Guru in the Santmat lineage of great spiritual masters: Sant Tulsi Sahab, Baba Devi Sahab, and Maharishi Mehi Paramhans Ji Maharaj. Shri Santsevi Ji was born on December 20th, 1920 in a small village of Bihar State, the most impoverished state of India. His family name was Mahavira. From his early childhood Mahavira was greatly interested in religious and spiritual matters. He enjoyed reading the scriptures and the poetry of saints. He was particularly fond of the Ramayana, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Ramacharitmanas, and the Shri Guru Granth Sahib.

After attending middle school he began home schooling. His intellect was keen and his heart tender. He found joy in teaching and tutoring younger students and in nursing the sick. He always felt great compassion for the sick and oppressed. This led him to study homeopathic medicine in order to help the poor and to nurse the ailing. Through his experience with sickness and death, Mahavira witnessed the impermanence and suffering that pervades human life. As a result, the seeds of detachment became firmly rooted in his heart. He became detached from the worldly life. After considerable reflection, he chose a life of renunciation, even though his family members exerted great pressure to persuade him otherwise.

In 1939, Mahavira came in contact with the great sage of the Santmat tradition, Maharishi Mehi, who had a hermitage in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Upon seeing Maharishi Mehi, Mahavira felt drawn to him, as though he had known him for many lifetimes. Mahavira was also greatly intrigued by the principles and practices of Santmat. He approached Shri Maharishi Mehi for initiation in Santmat. Maharishi Mehi soon became very impressed by the sincerity and devotion of this young man and agreed to initiate him. Mahavira began his meditation and service of Guru, and also continued his work as a tutor.

In the heart of Mahavira a keen desire arose to remain permanently in the service of his Guru. His desire was fulfilled in 1949 when Maharishi Mehi gave him permission to stay in the Ashram in his service. Mahavira devoted his days and nights to taking care of the needs of his Guru, thereby following the ancient Vedic model of the Guru-disciple relationship. He never cared for his personal comfort when he was serving his Guru’s needs: cooking food, doing laundry, keeping track of expenses, editing his writings, and traveling to villages with him to teach the principles of Santmat to the poor, oppressed, and marginalized. Maharishi Mehi, pleased with this selfless service, gave him the name Santsevi, meaning “he who serves saints.” From that day Mahavira came to be known as Santsevi.

As Maharishi Mehi advanced in age, he began to transfer his responsibilities to Shri Santsevi Ji. He authorized Shri Santsevi Ji to give initiation to spiritual seekers, to respond to their inquiries, and to guide them through the inner experiences of their spiritual journeys. He came to be seen as the prominent disciple among Maharishi Mehi’s chief devotees. Maharishi Mehi often said, “As the English letters Q and U cannot be separated, so too Santsevi and I are connected. Wherever I may live Santsevi will also reside.” Shri Santsevi Ji remained in the service of his Guru until Maharishi Mehi’s passing at the age of 101 in July of 1986. After the passing of Shri Maharishi Mehi, Shri Santsevi Ji was immediately recognized as the torchbearer of Santmat. Since then, he has ceaselessly and selflessly been continuing the service of Santmat.

Shri Santsevi Maharaj Ji’s personality is charismatic as a result of his accomplishments on the path to the realization of Truth. Even though he is a learned man, his knowledge goes beyond the confines of the human intellect. Despite the fact that he never attended a class in a university or a college, a number of Ph.D. students are pursuing research on his writings. He has no formal education in any Divinity or Religious school, yet scholars from various disciplines come to him to understand the subtle interpretations found in sacred texts and literature: the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible, the Koran and the Shri Guru Granth Sahib, as well as various writings of the saints. He is well versed in several languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bangala, Gurumukhi, Nepali, Maithali and other dialects of India. He has written and translated about twenty books elucidating the subject of yoga, philosophy, and the teachings of Santmat. His exposition of sacred texts is prolific, arising from his profound personal experience of the Truth.

Santmat and Maharishi Santsevi Ji

Maharishi Santsevi Ji is the present exponent (acharya) of Santmat, the branch which is directly linked to the lineage of Sant Tulsi Sahab. The word Santmat, usually written as Sant Mat, literally means the “point of view” or the “conviction of the sants and sages.” Historically, the Sant Mat movement was not a homogenous movement; but the term is a generic label for the Sant movement in the northern part of India, beginning around the 12th century. The early sants, such as Kabir, Ravidas, Namdev and Mirabai, represented a shift in religious and social attitudes — on the one hand, freedom from sectarian boundaries and ritualistic confinements; on the other hand, direct communion with the Divine without mediation of any authority or liturgy.

The word sant is derived from the Sanskrit word sat (Eternal Truth, Reality). The root meaning is ‘one who knows the truth’ or ‘who has experienced Ultimate Reality.’ Thus, a sant is a person who has achieved Shanti (inner tranquility) as a result of union with the Divine, as in mystical enlightenment.

The word sant is translated “saint” in English. However, both in etymology and definition, there are significant differences that get lost in translation. The English word saint is derived from the Latin word sanctus, which has come to mean a “good person whose life is moral,” or a “holy being.” Thus, in English a saint is thought of as a “spiritual exemplar,” and the word has been attached to a wide variety of gurus and holy men and women. But, in Sanskrit, the dimension of inner unity with the Truth is inherent in the word sant. Some of the sants come from the lower castes, and some of them are even from the untouchable class, but they have enjoyed an honorable status in the tradition. (Although we use sant and saint interchangeably in this book, we imply the original meaning of the word sant for both.)

Santmat, the Way of Sages and Sants, as we prefer to refer to it, not only emphasizes a life of moral rectitude, but underlines the inner journey for God realization, or Liberation. Therefore, Sant Mat is not confined to the beliefs, rituals, and dogmas of any specific religion. It is universal in nature and embraces the truths found in most of the world’s sacred texts and religious traditions, even while not advocating any particular religion. Sant Mat encompasses a set of ageless moral values, a belief in a Higher Power, and even more important, a methodology for realization of the Highest Reality. This method elaborates the path of Divine Light and Sound through which one attains the state of absolute Peace within one’s own self. The unifying philosophy of Santmat leads the way beyond the boundaries of sectarianism, religious fanaticism, and communal distrust which plague our world today. Maharishi Santsevi Ji has taught the teachings of Sant Mat to more than a million people from multiple religions and from many countries.

— Maharishi Santsevi Ji Maharaj: A Biography, in, Sarvadharma Samanvy (Harmony Of All Religions), published by Maharshi Mehi Ashram, and the Sant Mat Society of North America

The Goal of Sant Mat Spirituality and Meditation: Our Path Back to the Source — The Inward Journey Back to God

“Sant Mat (the path and teachings as taught and practiced by Saints [Sant Satgurus]) delineates the path of union of soul with God. The teachings of the saints explain the re-uniting as follows:

“The individual soul has descended from the higher worlds [the Realm of the Divine] to this city of illusion, bodily existence. It has descended from the Soundless State to the essence of Sound, from that Sound to Light, and finally from the realm of Light to the realm of Darkness. The qualities (dharmas, natural tendencies) of the sense organs draw us downward and away from our true nature.

“The nature of the soul (atman) draws us upwards and inwards and establishes us in our own true nature. Returning to our origins involves turning inward: withdrawal of consciousness from the senses and the sense objects in order to go upward from the darkness to the realms of Light and Sound. [We experience this phenomenon of withdrawal as we pass from waking consciousness to deep sleep.] Another way to express this is to go inward from the external sense organs to the depth of the inner self. (Both of these expressions are the metaphors that signify the same movement). The natural tendencies of the soul (atman) are to move from outward to inward. The current of consciousness which is dispersed in the nine gates of the body and the senses, must be collected at the tenth gate.

“The tenth gate is the gathering point of consciousness. Therein lies the path for our return. The tenth gate is also known as the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, the center located between the two eyebrows. This is the gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense organs and enter in the divine realms and finally become established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the Soundless State. This is called turning back to the Source.

“This is what dharma or religion really intends to teach us. This is the essence of dharma.” (Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj, “Harmony Of All Religions”).

Know Yourself and Know God: “Practice ‘Drishti Yoga’ (Yoga of Inner Light) and ‘Nadaanusandhana’ (Yoga of Inner Sound, Surat Shabd Yoga). This will remove the layers of Darkness, Light and Sound (that conceal your Soul from the Supreme Sovereign Soul, i.e. God). You will, thus, get to know ‘Who You Are’. And, when you know yourself, you will also know God.” (Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj)

“Bienaventurados son las almas que en el mundo materialista de hoy en día tienen una inclinación hacia la espiritualidad.” (Swami Ji Maharaj SantSevi Ji)

https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/biography-of-swami-santsevi-ji-maharaj-the-great-scholar-sant-on-the-occasion-of-his-96th-jayanti-d47efe871de0

[grimhatesdeathflowers]

As many for mm2 u can handle 😔💞

1. how old is your sim?20 !!

2. when is your sim’s birthday?march 30

3. what is your sim’s zodiac sign?she’s an aries

4. what is your sim’s ethnicity?shh i’m still working on it fhhjf

5. does your sim have any nicknames?lmfao all the ones elliot likes to call seraphina tbh

6. do they have a job? if so what is it?she doesn’t have a job dfhjhg she a freeloader

7. where does your sim live?la !!

8. who does your sim live with?her husband elliot ;u;

9. what environment did your sim grow up in?she grew up in a rather cold household. her mom isn’t very loving, she just wants a beautiful and successful daughter to brag about

10. what are your sim’s favorite foods?she loves (and currently misses) sushi !! )): she also loves fruity candies, like jolly ranchers and the gummy life savers !

11. what is your sim’s favorite drink?root beer !!

12. if they have one what is your sim’s favorite color?it’s a threesome tie between green, orange, and red lmfao

13. does your sim believe in any cliches?she’s a hopeless romantic so any of the romantic cliches? she adores them !!

14. what is your sim’s sexuality?she’s pansexual !!

15. what is your sim’s gender identity?female

16. is your sim type a or type b?type b !!!

17. is your sim introverted or extroverted?she’s extroverted !

18. is your sim neurotypical or neurodivergent? she’s neurotypical

19. is your sim a pet person? if so what is their favorite animal?yes !!! her favorite is probably bearded dragons

20. does your sim have a best friend?not necessarily but she’s recently started hanging out with a new made friend, gigi, and i can see them becoming close friends soon ;-;

21. what is (was) your sim’s favorite school subject?she genuinely enjoyed math

22. is/was your sim a high, mid, or low achiever in school?high only because of the expectations her mom held on her and because she had nothing else to do at night other than schoolwork

23. are they planning to go or have they already been to college? if so, what would be or what was their major?she had plans that she didn’t end up following through with partly because of her dad and partly because she was done doing what her mom wanted

24. what are your sim’s political beliefs?she doesn’t really have any

25. what is one thing your sim wants to do before they die?she has about 500 years to do anything so…. she hasn’t really thought that hard about it yet

26. does your sim have a favorite tv show (cable) and/or movie?cable show she likes steven universe and her favorite movie is spirited away

27. is your sim a netflix viewer? if so what are their top 3 shows?yes and her top 3 are; ohshc, boys over flowers, devilman crybaby (it’s a love/hate)

28. does your sim like books? if so, what’s their favorite one?she read manga more than books but her favorite manga is lovely complex !

29. does your sim enjoy video games, if so what is their favorite one and do they play on pc or console?she likes them yes but she doesn’t play many. her favorite is kingdom hearts (the entire series) but she’s more of a pc player (it’s about those mods man)

30. what is your sim’s personal style?she’s a mix of high fashion and neon street style

31. does your sim have a lucky charm?she does not !

32. is your sim religious?nope !!

33. what kind of music does your sim listen to and who is their favorite artist?a mix of electronica and eletronica remixes on youtube and also just a lot of game ost’s, she really enjoys bohemianvoodoo !!

34. is your sim a festive person? if so what’s their favorite holiday?ye and her favorite is valentine’s day ! even is it doesn’t entirely count

35. what is your sim’s favorite type of weather?she likes summer so that she can actually dress in her favorite outfits without nearly dying from the cold

36. does your sim prefer to start fights or finish them?finish them mostly because she hates fights/fighting

37. does your sim have a dream job?she’s prevented herself from really having a “dream job” knowing her mom would probably shit all over whatever she chose but she thinks it’d be pretty neat to own a cafe

38. does your sim have any siblings?her half brother uriel !

39. does your sim get along with their family?not so much with her mom but she does get along with uriel

40. what is your sim’s favorite hobby?she likes to play with her makeup

41. what does your sim look for in a romantic partner?she’s had all types of different ideas in her head but as long as she feels comfortable with them and they can be silly with her, it’s golden

42. what is a secret about your sim?…… she’s killed a man

43. what is a wish your sim has?that she grew up with more loving parents

44. what is a flaw your sim has?she resorts to destroying things when she’s mad

45. how do others generally perceive your sim?probably as some dork weeb fhggjh

46. does your sim have a greatest achievement? if so what is it?yes !!! meeting and marrying her soulmate and starting a family with him ;-;

47. if they have one, what is your sim’s greatest regret?trying to impress her dad and taking someone else’s life

48. does your sim have a favorite emoji?honestly, whichever one it is she’s feeling at the moment

49. does your sim use simstagram?lmfao nooo

50. what is the last text your sim sent (and who did they text)?well it would’ve just been this 😘emoji but i’ll do the text before lmfao,“for now I’ll admire your beautiful face in person 😌” and it was to elliot

[nom-compos-mentis]

teenage pregnancies

i’m bored so i’m scrolling through my yt feed and documentaries abt diff issues or news keeps popping out in my feed so i got curious and watch them. i saw this documentary called “nuwebe, trese, katorse” and i got curious, i thought it’s a crime documentary but not. it’s abt teenage pregnancies of a 9 yr old, 13 yr old and 14 yr old. i know that teenage pregnancy happens here in the PH but didn’t think we’re the 2nd country to have teenage pregnancies and it just shocked me. in the documentary, one was raped by their step father (SO FUKED UP, HOPE THE GUY ROTS IN HELL), then 2 were in lower class near the train who didn’t care that they got pregnant and in their place, it’s normal for ppl to get pregnant at 13+ and I WAS SOOOO SHOCKED by that. esp when the pandemic hit, a lot of lockdown babies were conceived bc they stayed home. i honestly blame the country, poverty is rising and duplicating bc they’re unaware. ofc it’s normalize for them to have babies at a young age and maybe they can take care of their babies but they’re minors? what abt education? we all know EDUCATION is such a big thing at the country (or not bc u kno lmao) but anyways, it shouldnt be normalized to waste ur childhood taking care of babies. i guess they chose their life and accepted but what could they have done? do they have resources to study, have jobs?  the corruption of the government, not actually helping poverty and just having more debts each generation. alsooo, not having RH bill and sex education in the country? sorry not sorry but we are so CLOSE MINDED. time is changing every year, why are we still stuck in the past? in the roots? always choosing things we are comfortable with and thinking every generation will be the same, telling us to grow up-- how abt u grow up and open ur eyes? abortion isnt legal, divorce, same sex marriage-- BS! not everyone is abusing it, some of the people needs it bc of certain reasons, u shouldnt forbid them bc of ur religious beliefs. i believe in God but i also believe in the free will of the ppl to marry who they love, right to not conceive a child if they dont want to or abort a child they’re not ready to. idk why we’re so close minded abt these things, this is the consequence = political dynasties, poverty, teenage pregnancies, abuse and such. but still, it’s still not right for teenage pregnancy to be common!!! :(((( im sad bc esp in the new administration, i dont think he’s gonna be able to fix it cuz we dont even know what he’s gonna do :<< okay that’s all. i like these documentaries, it makes me feel like im not dumb and aware abt these social issues in the country t_______t

[reachunityindiversity]

INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS AND  BELIEF SYSTEM

Introduction:

Charlize Anne U. Artille,17 years old.Was born December 5,2004.And Catholic.

Interestingly, faith -defined as a general religious attitude or accepted set of personal beliefs - was not present in the ancient worlds of Greek and Roman culture. Rather, the concept of faith singularly and directly originates in the Hebrew scriptures (Hellwig, 1990). Hellwig traces the notion of faith through the New Testament, the Church Fathers, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and into the Modern Era.

The reality of religious conflict:

This extensive literature review explores how the role of religion in conflict and peacebuilding has often been depicted in binary terms.

Interfaith Dialogue:

Interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions (i.e., “faiths”) and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels. It is distinct from syncretism or alternative religion, in that dialogue often involves promoting understanding

Individual must believe that religion  has constructive role to play in resolving conflicts.

Reflection:

Prelims:

Religion has an impact on all things in life, including philosophy, history, and ideologies. Everyone has the option of believing in God or not believing in God, which is fine because not everyone can fully embrace religion. Religion has a lot of meaning in terms of social science, not merely views and such. Religion, according to social science, binds people to the rest of the world. Religion has both detrimental and beneficial impacts, but it is responsible for the advancement of civiliZation.

Hinduism:

It's all a grudge match for power and the title of God. They also have a variety of Judaism, which is their belief in God and commitment to their religion. It also has a lot of sacred writings, origins, and history.

Christianity:

Christianity's roots can be traced to its development as a result of Judaism. What I discovered here is that the early adherents of this religion had a difficult time. This religion was a teaching of Jesus' life. Christianity grew as a result of Peter's teaching and Apostleship (one of the 12 disciples God chose to represent the birth of a new Israel) who conveyed the good news and Gospel of Jesus to the world's socially and spiritually needy. The Sacred Context of Christianity is extensive, and it is essentially how Christianity came to be. This religion has only a few beliefs and behaviors. They, like Judaism, have a number of religions, each of which has its own set of beliefs and commitments.

Midterms:

RELIGIONS OF THE DHARMA:

Hinduism:

Their religion, in my opinion, is mostly built on the involvement of families in the faith. They also have a number of books, like Mahabharta, which is 15 times longer than the Bible and is actually an epic poetry rather than a bible. This religion has a large number of Gods in addition to a large number of books. They also have a lot of festivals, which is what sets this faith apart from others. Along with the celebration, they have this school of thinking that includes yoga, which distinguishes it from other religions because yoga is rationally and spiritually tied to them.

Buddhism:

This origin was amusing since the father did everything he could to prevent his son from being a life savior, but when he watched people dying and becoming old, he became a life savior. Budhha has many teachings because he went through a lot before finding his calm. When I look at the lesson again, I notice that this religion does not have many texts, but it does have a lot of rituals and teachings. It's most likely due to Budhha's style of doing things.

Daoism is a religion that originated in China.

Daoism:

In this religion, the phrase "You are doing something by doing nothing" or something along those lines has stuck with me the most. I don't recall the exact phrase, but it's something along those lines. However, learning about this religion was enjoyable because it began with "Laozi worked as a government archivist but became disenchanted with official corruption, and recognizing his impending shame, he fled Chu" (as stated in module 9). According to what I've studied and remembered, Laozi wrote a book called the Dao De Jing, and when I looked into it, it was reported that while Laozi was leaving his town or the Chu, the guard who let people through on the other side told him to write a book, which Laozi did for roughly how many days. There are five core beliefs in Daoism.

Confucianism:

This was the most difficult lesson because it made me realize that religion and philosophy are one and the same. This lesson taught me that religion is mostly about being human, and that as a society, we should live in harmony as individuals should live in harmony.

Finals

Shintoism:

I paid attention in this session, and the narrative about Izanami and Izanagi was interesting and made me want to visit Japan even more. What I discovered here is that Japan has a lot of Gods who have to do with things and how they were created.

In the Philippines, there are a variety of indigenous religions.

"WE ALL BELIEVE IN THE SAME GOD"

[xtruss]

Biden’s Afghan Pullout Is a Victory for Pakistan. But at What Cost?

Pakistan’s military stayed allied to both the Americans and Taliban. But now the country may face intensified extremism at home as a result of a perceived Taliban victory.

— The New York Times | April 15, 2021 | By Mujib Mashal, Salman Masood and Zia ur-Rehman

Pakistani soldiers in South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, in 2009. Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Near the peak of the American war in Afghanistan, a former chief of neighboring Pakistan’s military intelligence — an institution allied both to the U.S. military and to its Taliban adversaries — appeared on a talk show called “Joke Night” in 2014. He put a bold prediction on the record.

“When history is written,” declared Gen. Hamid Gul, who led the feared spy service known as the I.S.I. during the last stretch of the Cold War in the 1980s, “it will be stated that the I.S.I. defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the help of America.”

“Then there will be another sentence,” General Gul added after a brief pause, delivering his punchline to loud applause. “The I.S.I., with the help of America, defeated America.”

In President Biden’s decision to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan by September, Pakistan’s powerful military establishment finally gets its wish after decades of bloody intrigue: the exit of a disruptive superpower from a backyard where the I.S.I. had established strong influence through a friendly Taliban regime before the U.S. invaded in 2001.

A return of the Taliban to some form of power would dial the clock back to a time when Pakistan’s military played gatekeeper to Afghanistan, perpetually working to block the influence of its archenemy, India.

But the Pakistani military’s sheltering of the Taliban insurgency over the past two decades — doggedly pursuing a narrowly defined geopolitical victory next door — risks another wave of disruption at home. Pakistan is a fragile, nuclear-armed state already reeling from a crashed economy, waves of social unrest, agitation by oppressed minorities and a percolating Islamic militancy of its own that it is struggling to contain.

If Afghanistan descends into chaos, Pakistanis are bound to feel the burden again just as they did after Afghanistan disintegrated in the 1990s following the Soviet withdrawal. Millions of Afghan refugees crossed the porous border to seek relative safety in Pakistan’s cities and towns.

Afghan men waiting for tokens to apply for a Pakistani visa in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in October. Credit...Parwiz/Reuters

And more: A Taliban return to power, either through a civil war or through a peace deal that gives them a share of power, would embolden the extremist movements in Pakistan that share the same source of ideological mentorship in the thousands of religious seminaries spread across Pakistan. Those groups have shown no hesitation in antagonizing the country’s government.

While Pakistan’s military played a dangerous game of supporting militants abroad and containing extremists at home, the country’s Islamist movements found a rallying cause in the presence of an invading foreign force next door, openly fund-raising for and cheering on their Afghan classmates. New extremist groups kept shrinking the civil society space in Pakistan — often targeting intellectuals and professionals for abuse or attack — and even found sympathizers in the ranks of Pakistan’s security forces.

Pakistani generals have resorted to a mix of force and appeasement in tackling the country’s own growing militancy problem, said Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. But a strategy for countering the spread of extremism has been elusive.

“It scares me, it scares me,” Dr. Siddiqa said. “Once the Taliban come back, that should trouble the Pakistani government, or any government. It will be inspiring for all the other groups.”

Said Nazir, a retired brigadier and defense analyst in Islamabad, said Pakistan had “learned some lessons” from the blowback of past support to jihadist groups. The country would need to tread more cautiously in the endgame of the Afghan war.

“Victory will not be claimed by Pakistan, but tacitly the Taliban will owe it to Pakistan,” Mr. Nazir said. “Pakistan does fear the replay of past events and fears a bloody civil war and violence if hasty withdrawal and no political solution occur simultaneously.”

Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said that although Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment are “undoubtedly celebrating” the Biden announcement, greater control in Afghanistan is far from assured.

“It will be difficult, if not impossible, for Pakistan to control the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan as the country spirals into a civil war,” he said. “Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other groups are already operating in Afghanistan. There is no way Pakistan can control this hodgepodge of groups, which have different interests, leaders, and goals.”

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a deputy leader of the Taliban, arrives in Moscow for an Afghan peace conference in March. Credit...Pool photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko

From the moment of its birth as a country in 1947, Pakistan found itself surrounded by enemies. The new borders drawn up by British officials instantly mired Pakistan in a host of territorial disputes, including a serious one with Afghanistan, which still lays claim to what most of the world sees as Pakistan’s northwestern regions.

It was at the peak of the Cold War in the 1970s, as the Soviet Union pushed to expand its influence in South and Central Asia, that Pakistani leaders found a formula of deploying Islamist proxies they have stuck to ever since. The United States armed and financed the training of the mujahedeen insurgency that would defeat the Soviet Army in Afghanistan and topple the government it propped up. Pakistan’s army, particularly its intelligence wing, would serve as the handler, host, and trainer.

Through the ensuing civil war in the 1990s, Pakistani generals helped a younger group of fundamentalist Afghan fighters known as the Taliban sweep the fighting factions and establish a government with control over more than 90 percent of Afghanistan.

But when the United States invaded in 2001 to chase Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda after their terrorist attacks on American soil, the Americans also turned their sights on Pakistan’s allies in Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban. Pakistan found itself in a difficult position. In the face of President George Bush’s “with us or against us” ultimatum, Pakistan’s military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, reluctantly went along.

The decision had an immediate blowback: Pakistan began facing attacks from the Pakistani Taliban for siding with the U.S. military campaign against their ideological brothers in Afghanistan. It took years of military operations that cost the lives of thousands of Pakistani forces, and displaced countless people in Pakistan’s northwest, to quell the group.

A Pakistani Army officer inside a school where Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed 145 people in Peshawar in 2014. Credit...Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press

At the same time, Pakistan’s military kept working to help the Afghan Taliban regroup as an insurgency to keep the United States in check. Even as American officials relied on Pakistani help to conduct the war and intelligence operations, some were bitter about the double role played by the I.S.I. The killing of Bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. forces in 2011 was one rare moment when those tensions played out in public.

But Pakistan’s generals were also successful in making themselves indispensable to the United States — offering a nuclear-armed ally in a region where China, Russia and Islamist militants all had interests. Effectively, it meant that the United States chose to turn a blind eye as its Pakistani allies helped the Taliban wear down American and allied forces in Afghanistan.

Afghan government officials, meanwhile, were becoming increasingly distraught that their American allies were not coming down harder on Pakistan.

On one trip to Afghanistan soon after being elected vice president in 2008, Mr. Biden was urged by President Hamid Karzai to pressure Pakistan into rooting out Taliban sanctuaries on its soil. Mr. Biden was reported to respond by saying that Pakistan was 50 times more important to the United States than Afghanistan was.

In recent years, as American officials sought a way to leave Afghanistan, they again had to turn to Pakistan — to pressure the Taliban to come to peace talks, and to lend help when the United States needed to move against Al Qaeda or the Islamic State affiliate in the region.

With the U.S. intention to leave publicly declared, Pakistan did away with any semblance of denial that the Taliban leadership was sheltering there. Taliban leaders flew from Pakistani cities to engage in peace talks in Qatar. When negotiations reached delicate moments that required consultations with field commanders, they flew back to Pakistan.

When the United States finally signed a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban in February last year, the mood in some circles in Pakistan was one of open celebration.

A supporter of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party throws stones at the police during a protest in Lahore on Tuesday. Credit...Rahat Dar/EPA, via Shutterstock

Pakistan’s former defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, who had repeatedly visited the halls of power in Washington as a U.S. ally, tweeted a photo of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban deputy at the talks in Qatar.

“You might have might on your side, but God is with us,” Mr. Asif said in the tweet, ending with a cry of victory. “Allah u Akbar!”

But there are signs that extremist groups within Pakistan have already felt emboldened by the Taliban’s perceived victory, giving a glimpse of the trouble likely to be in store for Pakistani officials.

The once-defeated Pakistani Taliban have increased their activities in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Ambushes against security forces have become more frequent.

Just how wide the problem of extremism might stretch has been on display in recent days on the streets of two of Pakistan’s main cities, Lahore and Karachi.

Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, a movement that sees itself as protecting Islam against blasphemy, thrashed uniformed members of Pakistani forces and took dozens hostage for hours. Videos emerged of Pakistani army officers trying to reason with the violent protesters. Officials said two policemen had been killed, and 300 wounded. The showdown continues, as the government moved to ban the group as a terrorist outfit.

“The state was not able to control the stick-wielding and stone-hurling members of the T.L.P. that paralyzed most parts of the country for two days,” said Afrasiab Khattak, a former chairman of Pakistan’s human rights commission. “How will they handle trained, guns-carrying Taliban militants?”

A Pakistani soldier on guard at the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan in 2017. Credit...Caren Firouz/Reuters

— Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

[newstfionline]

Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya

By Hannah Beech, NY Times, Oct. 24, 2017

SITTWE, Myanmar--The Buddhist abbot tucked his legs under his robes and began to explain.

Rohingya Muslims do not belong in Myanmar, and they never have, he said. Their fertility allowed them to overwhelm the local Buddhist population. But now, somehow, many Rohingya seemed to be gone.

“We thank the Lord Buddha for this,” said U Thu Min Gala, the 57-year-old abbot of the Damarama Monastery in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar. “They stole our land, our food and our water. We will never accept them back.”

An overwhelming body of published accounts has detailed the Myanmar Army’s campaign of killing, rape and arson in Rakhine, which has driven more than 600,000 Rohingya out of the country since late August, in what the United Nations says is the fastest displacement of a people since the Rwanda genocide.

But in Myanmar, and even in Rakhine itself, there is stark denial that any ethnic cleansing is taking place.

The divergence between how Myanmar and much of the outside world see the Rohingya is not limited to one segment of local society. Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude.

Government officials, opposition politicians, religious leaders and even local human-rights activists have become unified behind this narrative: The Rohingya are not rightful citizens of Buddhist-majority Myanmar, and now, through the power of a globally resurgent Islam, the minority is falsely trying to hijack the world’s sympathy.

Social media postings have amplified the message, claiming that international aid workers are openly siding with the Rohingya. Accordingly, the Myanmar government has blocked aid agencies’ access to Rohingya still trapped in Myanmar--about 120,000 confined to camps in central Rakhine and tens of thousands more in desperate conditions in the north.

The official answer to United Nations accounts of the military’s mass burning of villages and targeting of civilians has been to insist that the Rohingya have been doing it to themselves.

“There is no case of the military killing Muslim civilians,” said Dr. Win Myat Aye, the country’s social welfare minister and the governing National League for Democracy party’s point person on Rakhine. “Muslim people killed their own Muslim people.”

When asked in an interview about the evidence against the military, the minister noted that the Myanmar government had not sent any investigators to Bangladesh to vet the testimony of fleeing Rohingya, but that he would raise the possibility of doing so in a future meeting.

“Thank you for advising us on this idea,” he said.

The Rohingya, who speak a Bengali dialect and tend to look distinct from most of Myanmar’s other ethnic groups, have had roots in Rakhine for generations. Communal tensions between the Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists exploded in World War II, when the Rakhine aligned themselves with the Japanese, while the Rohingya chose the British.

Although many Rohingya were considered citizens when Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent in 1948, the military junta that wrested power in 1962 began stripping them of their rights. After a restrictive citizenship law was introduced in 1982, most Rohingya became stateless.

Even the name Rohingya, which the ethnic group has identified with more vocally in recent years, has been taken from them. The Myanmar government usually refers to the Rohingya as Bengalis, implying they belong in Bangladesh. The public tends to call them an epithet used for all Muslims in Myanmar: kalar.

The nomenclature is so sensitive that in a speech this month, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and de facto leader of the government, referred only to “those who have crossed over to Bangladesh.”

Some ethnic Rakhine politicians are hailing the Rohingya exodus as a good thing.

“All the Bengalis learn in their religious schools is to brutally kill and attack,” said Daw Khin Saw Wai, a Rakhine member of Parliament from Rathedaung Township. “It is impossible to live together in the future.”

Buddhist monks, moral arbiters in a pious land, have been at the forefront of a campaign to dehumanize the Rohingya. In popular videos, extremist monks refer to the Rohingya as “snakes” or “worse than dogs.”

Outside Mr. Thu Min Gala’s monastery in Sittwe, a pair of signs reflected an alternate sense of reality. One said that the monastery, which is sheltering ethnic Rakhine who fled the conflict zone, would not accept any donations from international agencies. The other warned that multifaith groups were not welcome.

The abbot claimed that the authorities in Rakhine had stopped a car owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross that was filled with weaponry destined for Rohingya militants who carried out attacks against the security forces in August. Mr. Thu Min Gala claimed that sticks of dynamite had been wrapped in paper with the Red Cross logo. The Red Cross denied these accusations.

“We don’t trust the international society,” the abbot said. “They are only on the side of the terrorists.”

At another monastery in Sittwe, an elderly abbot, U Baddanta Thaw Ma, halted my conversation with a young monk by slapping the air in front of my face. “Go! Go! Go!” he yelled in English, before switching to the local Rakhine dialect. “Go away, you foreigner! Go away, you kalar lover.”

Public sentiment against Muslims--who are about 4 percent of Myanmar’s population, encompassing several ethnic groups, including the Rohingya--has spread beyond Rakhine. In 2015 elections, no major political party fielded a Muslim candidate. Today no Muslims serve in Parliament, the first time since the country’s independence.

A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s “Muslim-free” villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions.

“Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children,” he said.

Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, “I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.”

Social media messaging has driven much of the rage in Myanmar. Though widespread access to cellphones only started a few years ago, mobile penetration is now about 90 percent. For many people, Facebook is their only source of news, and they have little experience in sifting fake news from credible reporting.

One widely shared message on Facebook, from a spokesman for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s office, emphasized that biscuits from the World Food Program, a United Nations agency, had been found at a Rohingya militant training camp. The United Nations called the post “irresponsible.”

The Myanmar government, however, insists the public needs to be guided.

“We do something that we call educating the people,” said U Pe Myint, the nation’s information minister. He acknowledged, “It looks rather like indoctrination, like in an authoritarian or totalitarian state.”

In Yangon, Mr. Pe Myint this month gathered local journalists to discuss what he called “fabricated news” by foreign reporters and a “political war” in which international aid groups favored the Rohingya.

Last month, a mob in Sittwe attacked Red Cross workers, who were loading a boat with supplies that locals believed would only go to the Rohingya.

Even among officials who might otherwise champion human rights, frustration has been directed at foreign critics. Quietly, some defend Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s failure to call out the military and protect the Rohingya by saying it would be political suicide in a country where hatred of the Rohingya is so widespread. They see the recent international pressure, at best, as ignorant of domestic complexities and, at worst, as intent on hindering Myanmar’s development.

U Ko Ko Gyi, a democracy advocate who was jailed for 17 years by the military when it ruled Myanmar, evoked national interest.

“We have been human-rights defenders for many years and suffered for a long time but we are standing together on this issue because we need to support our national security,” he said.

“We are a small country that lies between India and China, and the DNA of our ancestors is to try to struggle for our survival,” Mr. Ko Ko Gyi said. “If you in the West criticize us too much, then you will push us into the arms of China and Russia.”

The humanitarian situation has grown desperate within Rakhine while the official block on aid largely continues.

Throughout the state, ethnic Rakhine have been warned by community leaders not to break the blockade. Last month in Myebon Township, in central Rakhine, women’s activists prevented international aid groups from delivering assistance to an internment camp where thousands of Rohingya have been sequestered since the 2012 sectarian violence, according to foreign staff.

But U Tun Tin, a Rakhine trishaw driver, needed the money and delivered food to the Rohingya camp. Shortly after, his wife, Daw Soe Chay, said she was accosted by a crowd that forced her to a nearby monastery.

Inside the religious compound, they beat her and sheared her hair. Then the mob marched her through Myebon, wearing a sign calling her a “national traitor.”

Despite his wife’s ordeal, Mr. Tun Tin said he did not regret having sent supplies to the camp, where Rohingya say their rations are running low.

“They are human,” he said. “They need to eat, just like us.”

[soft4sanha]

tagged by @fourseasonsofastro (omg thank u for tagging me 💜💜💜 i appreciate it and i love ur blog!!)

Rules: Answer 20 questions and then tag 20 people

Nickname: Bien  Zodiac: Scorpio Height: 154 cm/ 5′0-5′1 ft Last thing I googled: how much to tip at salons (lol ahahah) Favorite music artist: ASTRO ofc!!!!! but for western it’s The Maine Last song stuck in my head: Replay Special stage by Astro (probs for months now ugh) and Idea of You by Arty and Eric Nam! What I’m wearing right now: black shirt and pink shorts  Why I chose my url: my fave is sanha and he loves potatoes soo...(gamja = potato in korean) + im always willing to be sanha’s potato so it’s all good What did your last relationship teach you?: I’ve never been in a relationship but okay from my kdrama/anime/manga knowledge, just straight up talk to each other if u have problems (im just so tired of miscommunication being the root of all dramas) (i usually like chill and peaceful slice of life romance but im also lowkey livin for the angst yo) Religious or spiritual: Not really that religious (my family is) and im not sure what spiritual meant but I like to believe in signs! (like if i see this, then this might be it) Favorite color: I always look for blue or pink when i buy stuff  Average hours of sleep: maybe 6-8??? Lucky number: 12 (its just easy for me to remember bc its my birthday eheh) Favorite character: Kagura from Gintama (++many more but i remembered her immediately even though ive drifted apart from anime 😢) Number of blankets I sleep with: 1  Dream job: ooops is it time for my life crisis??? i still dont know :(( my dream is to find my dream job lol

Tagging: idek if i know 20 people 😭 feel free not to answer!! :)

@parkj-nwoo @eatingrocky @binnieheart @moonbinniez @arohanaa @leedongmilk @eccentricsuzuya @xstelmar @thatfangurltho @arohawe @mystic-astro-trash @jakganim @gttae @wannabeyourmoon @jinjinwooz @p-jinwoo @emiko99 @yorozvra @nappingsuga +@anyone who wants to!!

[melt-your-headache-call-it-home]

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged you are supposed to write 92 truths about yourself, and at the end, chose 25 people to tag

i was tagged by @goldun-days thank you bby<3

LAST:

1.) drink: Tropicana smooth orange juice

2.) phone call: Arran

3.) text messages: Arran as well lmao

4.) song you listened to: State of Dreaming by Marina And The Diamonds

5.) time you cried: last week 

HAVE YOU EVER

6.) dated someone twice: Yeah when i was like 14/15 mainly cause Tom was nice and i got guilted by my friends into it. It was chill tho only for 3 months the first time and a week the second lol It’s chill we bros now lmao

7.) been cheated on: Most probably, i mean all the signs were there but they werent gonna admit it so they blanked it instead (i used to date proper cunts)

8.) kissed someone and regretted it: Ermm yeah mainly cause it’d be truth or dare and they’d be sloppy lmao

9.) lost someone special: Noooope and i dont ever want to thanks

10.) been depressed: ooooo bby idk...yeah 24/7

11.) gotten drunk and thrown up: Yeah and its like either weirdly relieving or im screeching like pterodactyl and crying 

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

12.) Blue

13.) Pastel black 

14.) Blue

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU…

15.) made new friends: yeah i have!!!

16.) fallen out of love: nah boi still love my guy arran, my dude

17.) laughed until you cried: Erm ive laughed so hard my eyes water and i cant breath but not like full cry

18.) found out someone was talking about you: ooooooo bish u better believe it and i may have made one passive aggressive tweet and then fazed them out of my life lmao

19.) met someone who changed you: Erm yeah i guess so

20.) found out who your true friends are: Yeah pretty much but i hope to make more in September as well

21.) kissed someone on your Facebook list: My dude ive kissed quite a few people on my fb list, mostly truth or dare tho

22.) how many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: Almost all of them except like a few 

23.) do you have any pets: I have a pure white cat named Gandalf

24.) do you want to change your name: nah ive made my peace with it

25.) what did you do for your last birthday: i was twenty and with Arran we went round london, had a fancy tea, went back and opened my presents then had dinner, it was pretty chill.

26.) what time did you wake up: 12:05pm

27.) what were you doing at midnight last night: Watching youtube stuff with Arran

28.) name something you cannot wait for: To move to uni and start my degree and feel like i have a purpose. Oh and the day i have emotional stability and am not riddled with mental illnesses lmao

29.) when was the last time you saw your mother: Monday afternoon

30.) what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: That i didnt have such a messed up childhood. Like if i could id rewrite the bad parts.

31.) what are you listening to right now:   There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey. You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet by P!@tTD

32.) have you ever talked to a person named tom: Yepp I dated one, was friends with one and probably have spoken to countless strangers called Tom unknowingly 

33.) something that gets on your nerves: Me

34.) most visited website: This or Instagram

35.) elementary: my dear watson 

36.) high school: Musical????????????

37.) college: Leila was stressed and sad but she’s going back for round two in September

38.) hair color: It’s blue but with black roots and shaved parts cause i got a fancy haircut and now i have an undercut lmao 

39.) long or short hair: I was supposed to grow it out then 38′s answer happened so it’s v short and masculine

40.) do you have a crush on someone: probably Brendon Urie I love him so much but it’s been so long lmao

41.) what do you like about yourself: My hair is blue that’s about it

42.) piercings: Ears and snakebites

43.) blood type: idk red???

44.) relationship status: in a relationship 

45.) nicknames: my mum is the only one who really calls me these; leilabug, lala, Troll,Gromit and Clever Little Bean Sprout. Sometimes my aunt or nan will use a couple of them but not often. 

46.) zodiac sign: Sagittarius

47.) pronouns: she/her  they/them

48.) fav tv show: heck idk i watch a lot of crap

49.) tattoos: a geometric unicorn stick and poke but i have some planned for my 21st

50.) right or left handed: Right!

FIRST:

51.) surgery: none boi

52.) piercing: Ears

53.) best friend: omfg either craig in nursery or Lacey in Infant school. 

54.) sport: Basket Ball

55.) vacation: my mum, my aunt, my aunts kid, my uncle, my sister and a family friend and me all drove in two big cars to the isle of wight and it was lit. I was like 10 and i wanna do it again next year for the banter

56.) pair of trainers: They were the best okayyyyy they fucking lit up every time you made a step and ive wanted them ever since. i finally got another pair for my 20th, after 18yrs long years of waiting lmao

57.) eating: first eating?????

58.) drinking: first drinking??? ??????????????

59.) about to see: im so confused

60.) listening to: Panic! At The Disco - Always

61.) waiting for: Arran to come home cause im hungry lmao

62.) want:Emotional stability and food

63.) get married: yeah 

64.) career: I’d love to be a working artist but i doubt it’ll happen 

WHICH IS BETTER

65.) hugs or kisses: Kisses cause i hate being touched at times

66.) lips or eyes: Eyes

67.) shorter or taller: I like taller partners but apart from that idm

68.) younger or older: Slightly older. 

69.) romantic or spontaneous: spontaneously romantic

70.) nice arms or nice stomach: ughhhhhhhh i love both 

71.) sensitive or loud: Sensitive 

72.) hook up or relationship: Relationship

73.) troublemaker or hesitant: Bit of both 

74.) kissed a stranger: Yeah when i was younger and not shackled to my partner who i love and care for

75.) drank hard liquor: Yeah i guess

76.) lost glasses/contact lenses: contact lenses that i paid good money for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

77.) turned someone down: yeah it always makes me feel uncomfortable

78.) sex on first date: kind of???????????????????????

79.) broken someone’s heart: yah i guess

80.) had your own heart broken: yeah boi but i lost weight so it was good lmao

81.) been arrested: no

82.) cried when someone died: only in movies so far

83.) fallen for a friend: erm yeah that’s kind of how all my relationships happen

DO YOU BELIEVE IN…

84.) yourself?:heck, im trying to

85.) miracles?: not like religiously but miraculous things do happen i guess

86.) love at first sight?: nope, it’s just lust, love comes with time and personality

87.) santa claus?: not anymore my dreams were shattered 

88.) kiss on the first date?: i have yes

89.) angels?: no

OTHER…

90.) current best friends name(s): Zoe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Arran is kinda like my best friend but he’s my boyfriend whereas Zoe is like the OG lmao

91.) eye color: Brown :/

92.) favorite movie: The Little Mermaid, Anastasia, Interview With A Vampire. I have loads but ive gone blank :c 

It says to tag 25 people but no

I tag: @the-leviathans-mansion  @biancamakesmejumpoutofwindows

@red-eyedsoul @strawberriedd @hateintheseveiins @lightninginmyeyes 

id tag more people but my laptop is lagging v much. You don’t have to do this if u dont want but if u wanna go for it!!!!!!!!

Thanks!!

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Under the cut you will find Mary’s app, minus the para sample + the ooc info!

* DEVELOPMENT :

Character Name, age, pronouns and house:

M A R Y / M A R I A ;; her name is biblical and means sea of bitterness, rebellion and wished for child. These fit Mary quite well: while she tries hard not to be a cynic, a bitterness sits inside her and makes her look at the world with a dark look; she’s filled with determination to do what is right and to stand up against those who are in her eyes wrong, and she is thus rebellious (she also grew up pranking her sister and brothers quite a lot), and Mary waswished for, as her parents are nothing but loving.

The Mary/Maria thing is, I think, a confusing one and I will clear that up right away: Mary’s mother is Puerto Rican and her father is Scottish, and when she was born they could not quitedecide if they wanted to name their first daughter the English or Spanish name of Mary/Maria. Her birth certificate says Mary, and it’s the name she goes by at Hogwarts, but to her mother and extended maternal family, she has always been Maria. As she’s proud of her Puerto Rican roots, Mary doesn’t keep quiet with this, and loves the fact that she kind of has twonames.

A G A T H A ;; this name was picked because of the famous writer Agatha Christie, whose books Mary’s parents loved deeply. It means good woman, which I do truly think Mary is, despite her faults and flaws.

M A C D O N A L D ;; a Scottish surname of a proud family that lives in the Scottish highlands. A long line of farmers, they’re hardworking and no-nonsense, but have great love and respect in their heart. Mary loves her name, except for the fact that a lot of people tended to sing Old MacDonald whenever they saw her or her siblings in town: it simply grew annoying.

A G E ;; sixteen years old. Mary was born October 25th 1959, which makes her a Scorpio:

       Positive traits include magnetic charisma, ambition, drive, a penetrating mind, curiosity, intensity of focus, emotional depth, consistency, persistence, willpower, and the potential for inner transformation and regeneration        Negative traits include selfishness, obsessiveness, vindictiveness, hypersensitivity,ruthlessness, cynicism, an inability to understand the word “moderation,” and jealousy

P R O N O U N S ;; she/her.

H O U S E ;; Gryffindor.

Choose five of the follow questions to answer.

What is their patronus?  Why does this fit your character?

The P H O E N I X is a creature that’s constantly reborn, that constantly rises from its ashes. One of my most important themes for Mary is that she always gets up. Always. Whatever might knock her down, whatever might make her feel more lost than anything, she gets back up. I feel like this fits in with the Phoenix beautifully ( and while I feel a little guilty using a ‘rare’ patronus, I cannot help but love this one so much for her ).

Phoenixes are also creatures that are associated to fire a lot and while Mary had quite the fear of fire as a child, she is firehearted. She’s warm and compassionate and inflammatory and spirited. She’s someone who can burn entire empire and walk over its ashes as well as give warmth to those who need it ( she will usually pick the latter, but in the future she has no trouble fighting back with gritted teeth ).

This bird also doesn’t die, and Mary is ( in canon ) the only one of our beautiful trinity who comes out of the war physically & mentally healthy, unlike Lily, who dies and Alice, who loses her mind. Many others she loves die too, and to her it will more than often feel like a burden than a gift; for what is life without your loved ones there by your side?

The Chinese Phoenix is also thought of as a gentle creature, and while Mary has her rough edges and dark sides, I do believe she is gentle in her core. With her friends, she’s warm and loving and barely ever brash, and with strangers she will hardly be rude unless they give her reason to be.

In Chinese culture, when a house was decorated with a Phoenix, this meant the people living there were loyal and honest. Mary is loyal to her very core and could never be moved to betray those she love; she would die, if she could keep them safe. As she’s not a good liar, Mary’s also honest; she’s not always happy about this fact, as it doesn’t always benefit her, but it does make her an outspoken individual.

What is their wand and their wand core?  Why does this fit your character?

Sycamore, Dragon Heart String, 12 ½ inches, reasonably supple.

                   The sycamore makes a questing wand, eager                    for new experience and losing brilliance if                    engaged in mundane activities. It is a quirk of                    these handsome wands that they may combust                    if allowed to become ‘bored,’ and many witches                    and wizards, settling down into middle age, are                    disconcerted to find their trusty wand bursting                    into flame in their hand as they ask it, one more                    time, to fetch their slippers. As may be deduced,                    the sycamore’s ideal owner is curious, vital and                    adventurous, and when paired with such an owner,                   it demonstrates a capacity to learn and adapt that                    earns it a rightful place among the world’s most                    highly-prized wand woods.

I think this fits Mary quite well; she gets restless when there is nothing to do and doesn’t feel inspired when she’s doing something that doesn’t interest her. Mary, even though her spirit is somewhat damaged at the moment, is a vivacious being, someone who does not do anything half-heartedly.

I chose the Dragon Heartstring, mostly because I really didn’t think a Unicorn Hair core would fit; Mary would, even though she hates it, dabble in some darker spells if it could save lives. I also didn’t think the Phoenix feather core fit as well as the Dragon one did. Dragon Heartstring cores fit fast learners, and Mary definitely is that. The wand is also temperamental, and so is Mary.

What is a song lyric that represents your character?

i’d rather be spitting blood // than have this silence fuck me up (…)  i’d rather have broken bones // than feel myself turn to stone                                               ( troye sivan, the quiet. )

How would your character react if they saw an older student bullying a first year Muggleborn?

First, Mary would understand; she has been in that situation more than often, has seen her best friend Lily end up in that situation ( even having been bullied by someone who called her a friend ) and knows what it is like. She knows how it makes your skin crawl with a feeling of powerlessness; how useless the anger you feel usually is, as these pureblood elitists will not change their mind because of you; she knows how somewhere, even though you may not like it, there is also fear sneaking in the back of your mind, because this is what a great part of the wizarding community thinks.

Secondly, there would be anger. Because of her understanding of the situation – better than most, considering last year – she will feel an outrage, because this shouldn’t be happening. Bullying in the first place is something that makes her feel nauseous, but when it’s based on something like this, it also causes a rage. She will use this to speak up, to show the older student that this not okay: because Mary will never sit idly by and watch injustice happen under her nose. She’ll snap and her words will be cutting and her eyes will be narrowed. Fear will not be present, not when there is something to be done.

Lastly, there would be comfort. Once the older student vanishes ( which, hopefully, is sooner rather than later ) she will look after the younger student her brothers do for her with soothing words and a few promises she cannot keep. Mary is compassionate and warm, and while it could become a weakness, it is a strength at present time: it makes her stand up to injustice and look after those who need it.

Is you character a virgin?  How do they view sex?  What’s their sexuality?  Does their gender align to their canon gender?

Mary is not a virgin. She lost her virginity just before Christmas break last school year at the age of sixteen to someone who did not mean too much to her in that way: they were both a bit more than tipsy, both attracted to each other and both filled with the energy that had been pulsing through the party. It was no bad experience; Mary doesn’t feel regret about not losing her virginity to someone who meant a little more to her, as in her eyes it’s not a big deal.

Even though Mary was raised Christian and is still religious, her thoughts on sex do not really fit her upbringing: she feels no need to wait for marriage and doesn’t think sex should just be between two people. No, Mary thinks sex is something that people should simply do if they want to, and not do if they don’t want to. She, herself, has not yet has sex with someone sheloved, and this is something that doesn’t bother her at all: she is, after all, young, and she’s having fun.

    ( internalised ) biphobia tw for the coming paragraph

Her sexuality is something she did struggle a little more with than sex in general. Mary is bisexual, and this is something that wasn’t much of a surprise to her, but it did take a while for her to figure it out. Mary was confused about liking girls for a few years, was not sure how shecould, as she liked boys as well. She knew some girls liked girls and she was okay with that, but she felt like that wasn’t just the case for her. Eventually she came across the termbisexual, and a weight seemed to roll off her shoulders when she did. Mary took the label and applied it upon herself, coming out to her friends with a slight nonchalance but a relieved grin still on her lips. She hasn’t told her family yet and knows she won’t until she really has to. With all the things going on around her, she doesn’t wish to deal with the potential reaction her parents might have.

Still, there is no shame surrounding her sexuality. Mary might not have come out to her parents, but she is not necessarily quiet about her sexuality to her friends and other schoolmates. She takes pride in it, actually —– Mary might be an insecure person, but she does take pride in the ways she can identify. She’s proudly half-latina, she’s proudly muggleborn and she’s proudly bisexual.

Mary identifies as a woman and has never questioned her gender much. She’s got sides that are very traditionally feminine and sides that are more traditionally masculine, and she won’t let people judge her for either of those. She can wear lipstick and play football, can wear dresses and still kick ass and she takes pride in her being a woman.

What’s the best thing that’s ever happened to them? What’s the worst?

T H E   B E S T ( discovering she’s a witch )

Mary turns eleven and this is what she knows: she’s a farm girl, she prefers speaking Spanish because then she gets to roll her R’s, she has two brothers and one sister, she is good at history and bad at maths, and strange things happen to her. Strange things that no one can quite explain, strange things that excite and frighten her at the same time. Strange things that happen when she’s happy or angry or scared.

                     One time, Carlos cut all the hair off her favourite doll’s head                      and Mary got so angry that his favourite car exploded in little                      pieces of plastic.

Mary turns eleven and a day and she knows all the same things and this: she is a witch. Suddenly there is an explanation for all these sparks and explosions, and Mary for a moment looks at her parents in fear, because doesn’t the bible say magic is evil? But the MacDonalds are accepting and open-minded and shake their head, because if magic flows through her daughter, there is no way it could be evil.

And so Mary accepts the truth and makes it her own. She’s a witch, and she’s proud and intrigued, as there are a thousand things she does not know yet. She gets her books and her wand and her robes, and her parents tell her she can take one of the family cats with her so she doesn’t have to miss him, and Mary dreams of a beautifully big castle with endless opportunities.

This moment in her life, of course, leads to many more beautiful ones. It leads to her meeting Alice and Lily, who soon become two new siblings of hers. It leads to her discovering that she has great power and that she can use it in incredible ways. It leads to her finding out about Quidditch and actually making it on the team — Mary played football back at home, you see and the team very much reminds her of her siblings and the sport of football, too. It leads to tasting Fizzing Whizbees and Chocolate Frogs. It leads to learning about new creatures and parts of history she did not now yet. It leads to meeting people who inspire her constantly. It leads to her growing as a person and a witch.

It also leads to things that are less pretty. It leads to her discovering that discrimination is a big part of the wizarding culture as well. It leads to her hearing slurs thrown at her and her red-haired sister. It leads to moments where she fails at spells. It leads to tumbling down stairs and losing her way and feeling overwhelmed with all these things that are new to her. It leads to being the victim of an Unforgivable curse. It leads to her being told that there is nothing they can do. It leads to her feeling lost and unsafe at a place that had become her second home. It leads to Hogwarts being attacked and Mary finding herself in a battle at sixteen years old. It leads to her seeing the dead bodies of people who taught her, of people she saw in the hallways. It leads to her learning of a war where people like herself and her friends are constantly killed for the things they are labelled to be.

Still, it’s the best thing that ever happened to her, and even though there are many bad things that happened because she entered the wizarding world at age eleven, she would never go back to just being a muggle.

T H E   W O R S T ( mulciber )

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was pure coincidence that it was her who had been there. It had not been personal, but it was, of course it still was.

You cannot take someone’s will away and say it wasn’t personal. You cannot cause mental harm to someone and say that it wasn’t even that bad. You should not even be able to get away with a thing like that, but Arjun Mulciber did.

He did, and left Mary fractured and confused, even if she didn’t like to admit it.

Perhaps the fact that it was random, that it could all be blamed on coincidence, was what made it even worse: Mary felt guilty wishing this hadn’t happened to her, as that would mean it would have happened to someone else. Another muggleborn, who was condemned for something they had no power over. And while she hated what had happened, while it made a cold feeling run over her spine whenever she thought of it, she could never wish it upon someone else.

                                                                          – / –

Here’s the thing about someone taking away your will and forcing you to do things: it makes you distrustful of your own body, makes you feel unsafe wherever you go. While no physical harm had come to Mary when she was cursed, there was plenty of harm caused mentally. She had suddenly grown paranoid and scared, was damaged in a way she didn’t like to think about.

Mary, in all honesty, felt weak the moment the curse broke and even weaker now that months have passed. Because she is still not over it, is still worried about seeing his face again, is still haunted by that one afternoon and all the things that followed.

Maybe, if he’d been expelled, things would have been better. Maybe then, Mary would be able to move on and feel a little safer in the castle that was supposed to be her home. But he was still at Hogwarts, he was still laughing with friends and taking the same classes she would take next year. He was still there, very much okay, and she was, too, but she was not okay at all.

Her confrontation with Mulciber is something that has changed Mary. It has given her a new kind of bravery, but also more fears. It has given her paranoia, but also determination. It has given her a reason to cower in a corner, but that is not her, and so it has also given her a reason to move on with her head high and her entire being filled with a determination to prove people like him wrong.

Because if there’s one thing she’s sure of ( and there are not many of those ), it’s that she won’t allow this to happen to anyone else as long as she has a say in it.

Is there anyone they would kill for?  Would they die for anyone?  Where does that list differ?

Mary is, in the end, a selfless being. She looks at the war and wishes to fight to contribute to the greater good, to stand up for what is right and work towards a future of freedom and safety. Because of this, she would have no trouble dying in the war if it was meaningful. If she could save a life, she would, if she could buy a group of people time by facing death with a raised chin, she would. Mary isn’t necessarily scared to die, but she is scared of dying for no reason, with no purpose at all.

When I say that Mary would die to save a life, I don’t mean any life, of course. Mary might be noble and selfless, but she’s not reckless. She’s seen Death Eaters, she’s been attacked by a purist and she knows that she wouldn’t die for them. She wouldn’t die for people who’d kill her if they got the chance, wouldn’t die for people who are even less aggressive about their discrimination.

Still, the list for people she would die for is long: on top, of course, are her family and friends. Then follow classmates and students that are not blood purists, civilians, other victims of the war, etcetera, etcetera. Honestly, Mary hasn’t spent to much time thinking about it, but in this sense she’s very much Gryffindor: she is ready to die in battle, ready to die a death that is glorious and heroic. Mary is loyal and committed and is set on taking a big part in this war, as she feels like she has no choice either way.

Killing, however, is a different story. It’s not only a sin, but also just something that is very much wrong in Mary’s eyes. Still, she is not naive and not at all pacifistic, and knows the Death Eaters do things much worse than kill. While she would never kill out of choice, she knows that – if she were to become part of the war – she might have to choose between killing or being killed, and as it’s a war, she thinks she would be able to. Not that she likes the idea of it much.

If her killing somebody would save somebody she loved, she would without a thought. Mary is very much human and would not think about the moral side of it all ( which she would, was it her own life that was at stake ), as she will go to the end of the world to keep those she loves safe. The people she would kill for are Alice and Lily, naturally, all of her other friends and her family members.

As for other people, I’m not sure. There’s a lot of different scenarios to consider and the options are endless and I won’t bore you too much with them. If Mary could save a life by taking a other, she would feel very conflicted ( if this life didn’t belong to a loved one ) and I think it all depends on the situation, on who these people are and what the stakes exactly are. I can’t give a proper answer, but I do know that Mary would kill to save some lives, even though she doesn’t know this yet. Of course, she will always try to stun first.

How do they feel about the war?  Do they plan on getting (more) involved?

Mary feels a wide range of emotions when it comes to the war:

    - She is A N G R Y. Angry, because the school that was supposed to be a safe place was attacked, because there is a movement in the world that is against a certain group of people, a group that is willing to use violence to reach their goal, which is based on a crooked ideology. She is angry that there is discrimination, angry because it makes no sense and is only making the world a place that is scary and filled with terror. Mary knows the effects discrimination can have — her mother is a Puerto Rican living in a small Scottish town, after all — and has always been very strongly against it. The fact that blood purism has such a large following makes her feel hot with rage, in all honesty, because it’s simply wrong.         A lot of her anger is also caused by a feeling of powerlessness. There is not much she can do, at this point, as she is still in school and has not even finished her education. And even if she was a fully qualified witch who no longer had to attend classes, there is only so little she can do. It’s frustrating to know that this war comes from a long, long history of purist thoughts and anti-muggle sentiments, and that it because of that won’t disappear as quickly as she would like. It’s frustrating to know that even though she might work her hardest and try her best to influence the world around her, it won’t be enough. This, of course, does not mean that Mary won’t try.

   - She is F R I G H T E N E D. Fear is a funny thing, Mary learned last year. It’s like a different person altogether, living in a corner of your mind, and even when you think they’re gone, they’re still there. Whispering, softly making your muscles tense because the world around you is slowly falling apart and so are you, and while it’s enough to make someone angry, it’s also really scary. Mary knows what some people are capable of, has seen it, has felt it, and it’s simply unnerving to know what they are willing to do for their cause.        Mary is frightened for the future and what is to come. She is terrified that the war will only get worse, that it will cost the lives of people she holds so very dear, that she will lose herself. She doesn’t like to admit it, but her fear is a thing that greatly influences her. It’s part of her, and Mary prefers to deny it rather than accept it, as she feels weak for being scared. Of course, it’s only logical that she is: this war is a terrifying one, after all.

   - She is D E T E R M I N E D. The two emotions mentioned before both lead to Mary feeling determined. She’s someone who gets up every time, someone who will never be fully beaten down no matter what. Mary is determined to stand up for what is right, to fight in this war and show people that she will not stand for this injustice, that there is no way to silence her besides ending her life. Last years happenings had great impact on her, and while they have left her spirit somewhat fractured and her heart filled with invisible scars, she is trying to use her negative experiences to learn.        Mary wishes to become an Auror, to practice the law the way she deems right. She wants to become part of the Ministry, an institution she does not back fully. That, however, is just another reason for her to work there: to be part of something that feels corrupt to her. The only way to make sure things are one the right way is to do it yourself, after all.

I don’t think I need to clarify it, but the answer is yes, Mary does plan on getting involved. She’s filled with determination, fear and anger and with those three emotions swirling through her being she will not sit by idly as a war rages on. Mary doesn’t know in what way she wishes to get more involved, as she doesn’t know what ways there are for her to do so. All she knows is that, eventually, she will. And rather sooner than later.

What’s their best class?  How will that skill benefit them as they begin looking for a job?

Mary is, usually, best at Defense. It’s a class that comes natural to her, something that she also just enjoys very much. It’s a very physical and practical subject, and while Mary is good at theoretical stuff, these kind of things simply come more natural to her. She’s able to channel her emotions into her magic quite well, which is why spells as the Patronus are ones that she likes most.

It is not, however, her favourite class: the teacher changes every year, of course, which is something that very much bothers her. It’s tiring to her that she has to adjust to a new professor each year. No, Mary’s favourite subject is Transfiguration: she holds an immense amount of respect for Minerva McGonagall and as the class is a challenge it’s something that constantly keeps her interested and alert. She’s not as good in it as she’d like, but she’s never been bad at it.

In all honesty, Mary’s quite a good student. She’s skilled in many departments of magic and very much enjoys learning. It does depend on the teacher how motivated she is. With History, for example, she’s not very motivated because Binns is not the most inspirational teacher, to put it lightly. She dropped the subject because of this, but does enjoy reading history books very much ( it was one of her favourite subjects in elementary school ). Potions is a class she struggles with a lot, but as Lily is one of her best friends, she’s able to get help if she needs it.

Mary’s skills in DADA will definitely help her with the goals she has set for herself. Of course, becoming an Auror is more than dueling and fighting against the dark arts, but it is a very big part of it. She’s got her mind set on doing some extra assignments for the class this year as well, just to become better at the subject and so she can feel more prepared should another battle come.

How did they react when they learned of Dumbledore’s death?

Mary didn’t hold the same amount of respect for Albus Dumbledore that most of the people at Hogwarts and in the wizarding community did: he did not back her up when she needed him to, and it very much shattered her blind admiration for the man. Still, she knew that he was an important person to Hogwarts and was doing very much to keep the place safe from the war.

When she learned he had died, Mary was shocked. Dumbledore seemed like someone who could not be defeated, an immensely strong force in this war who was on the good side. On her side. She felt grief, too, of course. While he had disappointed her before, he had still been a good man – flawed, yes, but still good – and it was terrible that good people were killed. Fear followed once her shock and grief had become less loud, as this meant only terrible things for the future of Hogwarts. Mary hadn’t felt safe at Hogwarts for a couple of months before the battle, but this feeling only grew when Dumbledore was murdered. Even worse, she knew that other people would also start to feel unsafe and she didn’t wish that uponanyone.

* WRITING SAMPLES :

Respond to the following prompt as though it was a short chat.  Be sure to include a gif.

“Yeah mate, I saw them snogging in the astronomy tower.  I know it’s a bit unconventional, but we’re in the middle of a war.  Love is all that matters at a time like this.”

“Whoa, slow down there, buddy,” said Mary, taking a sip of her coffee. “Love is all that matters? That’s … I mean, it’s a beautiful sentiment, but that’s not true. Not to be a smarty-pants, or anything, but morals and security and respect and all those things matter too.” A pause. “Still, though, really? Them, snogging? I had not seen that one coming at all.”

[maylocnuocplasma]

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Attractive try article writer. But not almost all what you write applies to the modern world. I agree considering the idea that most who remaining Nigeria illegitimately are looking for a way to be legal by getting married to any kind of female that comes their approach just to get a residence for the country yet don’t forget that a few of this person are mainly university graduate and would would like to work lawfully in the country likewise in the event give the prospect.

i connected with this Nigerian almost this past year when he came to my region as a you are not selected researcher. He came in Jan 2014 and was presume to keep in May of the same year. However , he overstayed and underplaying the extend to which he overstayed. He has said to get married to him although my single hadn’t recently been finalized confirmed. He provides meet members of my loved ones but this individual felt timid to speak professionally with my dad. Is this a negative sign? i’ve spoken together with his parents but they how to start that my personal divorce isn’t final. His father has got asked him about me personally but he hasn’t informed him the extend of our relationship.

Ibos are no doubt the center and excellent movers of this Nigerian financial system. They are ground breaking, creative, committed, peaceful, etc, but they love financial success more than anything else in life. You are able to play with an Ibo man’s your life, but is not going to play with his money! Hence when coping with an Ibo man, be sure to don’t get his finances; therefore , if you guard his wallet with regards to him, you can expect to always be his best friend. And this love designed for financial contemporary is one of the things that make these people very innovative and ambitious in no matter what they do anytime. Note this, any store, business, and so forth owned by a Nigerian in your country, go and find out, it is owned or founded simply by an Ibo man. These assertion is not just applicable in foreign nations alone, nevertheless also in Nigeria.

Slovakian singles happen to be that uncommon case where intelligence and beauty think together in a single body. They are really of a typical Slavic appearance, which has get a standard of beauty. The majority of are cute blondies using a delicate nose area and higher lips staying fuller compared to the lower. In addition, psychologists understand it saying such women are extremely giving and put others’ requirements above all.

The girl is a riddle, they say. Gowns definitely regarding Slovakian. From your first sight, you’ll think she is a relaxed, modest, and trusting little girl. Although don’t get that wrong! After having a few dates, she’ll gradually show you her inner passionate, sensual tigress. These women find out perfectly tips on how to intrigue the man and generate his fire burn.

Unfortunately, most of the previously mentioned class of Nigerians would rather prefer to come back residence and look for a wife, you understand why? Because our social and classic values will vary, stronger and as such, supports matrimony better. For instance, when a standard Nigerian couple is going through marital entrée, they would rarely throw in the hand towel like it is usually done in the western countries. Remember, relationship in Nigeria is a union of two families- the man’s and the woman’s relatives, and as such the families might step in if perhaps things are getting out of hand they usually would perform whatever they will to settle the situation amicably inside the family level. Nigerians generally, have undeniable respect with regard to their parents and would hear and comply with them at any time in time.

I actually am a Nigerian Guy and most of what you say holds true, apart from the partying of the Yoruba man. Igbo’s and Yoruba’s adore to party since its similar to going to the films or golf clubs. the social gatherings are generally during festive occasions, sites to be or marriage ceremonies. However folks are different in disposition and countenance thus generalizing based upon tribe is normally flowed. We detest persons, believe in family members, love and faithfulness which include my religious beliefs.

Therefore , the the majority of viable choice to meet Slovakian women for marriage is by using a Slovakian submit order star of the event site. These sites make it possible for foreign people to get in contact with the Slovakian brides of their choice with no stress. You can work with a translator as well as other dependable professionals in order to meet the Slovakian girl of your dreams.

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Making fresh relationships after a failed marriage is always challenging. They want to live a better life. Since Slovakia is not really among the abundant European countries, local women may wish to change their very own place of living to some Traditional western state. Often , the easiest way to do that may be to marry the resident of one other country and move in to have together.

Building agencies happen to be crawling around Slovakia looking for girls for manner brands. Slovakian girls include slender styles and noticable cheekbones. Slovakia girls always maintain balanced and healthy diet and way of life. Also, the height makes them perfect candidates for building agencies. Fitness center culture in Slovakia is very popular. You happen to be unlikely to discover a Slovakian girl that is away of condition.

I run a corporate organization and because of ridiculous thoughts like this my own HR employees do not take a look at nigerian applicants more than once because they suppose everything about that resume is a lie no matter the encounter. So genuine people seeking to make a life find it hard. You really don’t understand the ripple effect of this information. Western girls are not stupid mainly because u think some just choose to do stupid things when they can see benefits signs m guy is mostly a looser and a no person. Someone going out with an illegal immigrant realizes he is one particular but yet choses to continue.

What am I looking to say in essence? An Ibo man often carry at heart his money or profit in whatever issue this individual does in life- be it business, education, relationship, and so forth It is this kind of trait that earned Ibos criticisms from other Nigerian tribes, because in whatever they may be doing, they can be always conscious of what they would gain fiscally. To spa it up, Ibo man is just similar to a Oriental man in terms of- funds consciousness, creative imagination, and design.

You will be thankful for their speedy wit and comprehensible design which is rare to find. Slovakian women are very mature. They will willfully understand your goals from the marriage. With their stiff life concepts, they will adjust with everything to save the relationship. This roots to their childhood which educated them to become respectful in any marriage they build. With her down to earth persona, a Slovakian woman may ultimately end up being the messiah of your life.

Slovak women will be conservative because they grew up in a mostly Catholic region. No, it doesn’t mean that all Slovakian ladies are religious, but they usually take dating significantly. They are more likely to look for determined relationships, therefore you need to esteem them to that.

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Making fresh relationships after having a failed marital life is always difficult. Secondly, each important decision of a family group has been to be only when using the agreement of two sides. Brides cannot put up with the fact that no one conferred with them. Matrimony makes two halves together. They cannot separate you” and I”, combining that into we”.

Don’t weary her with political comedies. 40 years aged Slovakian female might nonetheless hold this sort of a chat, although young ladies will have nothing to say. That’s not mainly because they understand nothing with this field and so are stupid. They will just typically think it’s an appropriate topic to discuss. Talk about cinema, traveling, music, and mindset instead.

Quit spreading hatred rather channel your publishing skills to providing ethnical specifics in the various nationalities and what to expect. I stumbled with this and revealed it to my hubby, he laughed and said all you could just had written is applicable to uneducated, uninformed families. Educated well meaning Nigerian men are to choose from which can give you a happy life.

After taking garbage from some black males in these western world because of there inferiority complex. All of us black women of all ages are now taking crap from our own dark-colored brothers home because of ” foreign women ” will you be kidding me? These are they same black girls that carried these dark-colored men designed for 9 weeks in there tummy and yet what we should are getting is definitely, our Nigerian brother having us because second option in marriage. This really is madness, really.

Learn about her culture. Slovakia has an affluent cultural customs. There are a lot of historic sites you can travel to, especially through the https://bestrealdatingsites.com/slavic-brides/slovakian-brides/ countrywide holidays. As well, you should try to know the language. It is rather difficult, but learning the basics is going to put a smile on your Slovakian bride’s confront.

There will be simply no barrier in communication as most within the Slovakian women are very progressive in British. With their top quality of education, they have superb command over the English terminology. You don’t have to stress about her without any wit in terms of connection. As most of the women feature their college degrees, she will have the brains to impress you as well. You will not run out of topics to discuss, and that’s an essential part of every single relationship. Furthermore, you will be pleased to know that your wife is designed for any kind of discussion.

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