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The thing is I think the cross doesn’t take away suffering exactly. It gives it meaning. It makes it a story. So now when we have our sufferings that would otherwise be banal and pitiful and small and ugly, they get taken up into the story that goes “just like the time a God came down and died and saved the world”. And maybe that makes them a little beautiful.

Woah , my garage dog has arrived ,

Feel that in the air, boys? The ASCII art renaissance approaches ever closer

Today's aesthetic is cassette futurism

new atheists deride religion as “primitive superstition” but when you hear their take on what religion is it’s clear they have the shallowest concept of it

the wayfarer and their destination

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so many amazing words in the english language. you have clandestine and precarious and serendipity and iconoclast and then you also have staunch and sludge and slurp and smudge

Brandon Sanderson coming to the correct conclusion that Mistborn had too many male characters in it, and fixing his error by giving us Shallan, Siri, Vivenna, Steris, Marasi, Jasnah, Venli, Navani, Tress, Yumi, Akane, Eshonai, Sylphrena, Lift, Cord, Rysn, accidentally writing Navaniel, and correctly having MeLaan dump Wayne and Jasnah dump Hoid.

Now put more husbands in the fridge besides Gavilar and all will be right in the Cosmere.

As someone who's been a lover of traditional folk music from the British Isles for several decades, one thing I've learned is that "True Love" didn't always mean what you think it means. In the older songs, "true love" is not some mystical quality, some type of connection that is magically better than other Loves. No. A love that is "true" merely means that your Love is "true TO YOU." "True" as in faithful and loyal and trustworthy. A lover who will stand by you and with you no matter what comes. True the way a good sword is True. True the way a good knight is loyal. The contrast is "False Love," which is a lover who betrays you, who cannot be trusted.

"True Love" isn't something you find, it's a vow and a choice that you make, every day, to BE TRUE.