#Suffering

lisa rokusek

lisarokusek

I'm having feelings about the calls for civility I'm seeing today. First of all if you are focused on civility in the face of 200K+ dead, and kids with lost

Ariana Wehr

arianawehr

Every time I see someone at the top of the opera world mock our intelligence, suffering, and beloved dead from COVID, I think about the countless other singers who don’t.

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

erikaheidewald

putting aside personal beliefs for a moment and speaking practically - if there are two ways to approach this issue, one where the solution is to end systemic ableism and

Esther Ruth Kentish

EstherRKentish

I'm a serious witness of God's restorative power. The level of things you go through in life has a lot to do with who you are called to be. Often

Magnesium Papi/BowTied Mg🐍🪷

Grimhood

I’ve been thinking it over the past few days.My favorite combination of substances was heroin, oxycodone, Seroquel, carisoprodol, alprazolam, and clonazepam.This made me feel how I perceived “normal” to feel,

Alia Joy

AliaJoyH

When we are bewildered by our distant, unseeable God, we don't turn away; we live into the tension that even though we are afflicted and feeling forsaken, our gracious and

Cara

dontcara

My therapist recently recommended to me the book, The Deepest Well. I just started reading, but in the beginning the author, a physician, explains that those who have experienced childhood

Leonard Pierce

leonardpierce

It's pretty easy to dunk on this kind of thing, but it might be useful instead to understand what it means, where it comes from, and why it so well

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

I dunno i remember when there were novels about black ease, the few of them published, they were often denounced as fake and not real enough and i think that

Rev. Dr. Glenn Packiam

gpackiam

The palm branches were a symbol of revolution; the colt was a symbol of victory and royalty. That makes the first Palm Sunday less of “Church in the Park”, and

Jen Ramos (they/dude/siya) 🇵🇭♿

jenmacramos

I've been off twitter for the most part recently because I received some news about covid and the Philippines that has been hard to stomach. I don't think people in

Tom

tom_username_

1/ Here's another thing to consider:Materialism is the attempt to achieve non-suffering by diverting nature's naive course, e.g.- Lying to loved ones- Sexual gratification without love- Getting high on drugsAll

Paru!

parusaro

*nervous laughter* On a good day I can prepare and ship ~400 games. Triple that if they're prepared ahead of time. (Tomorrow SOME will be prepared ahead of time.) I

tritonal

Tritonal

“We are meant to enjoy our lives.Some of us have spent decades experiencing the opposite. We have learned from our parents, teachers, church, society, that life is a struggle, a

CJ the Gadabout

peglegcegjeg

For no particular reason at all, let's take a moment to talk about the concept of toxic positivity.(Thread 1/12) "Toxic positivity" does not refer to all positivity being bad. Instead,

Diana Butler Bass

dianabutlerbass

For the theological record, the “blood of Jesus” is not a magical talisman. Jesus bled because he was a victim, fully human, of political violence. His own blood did not