Joshua 2: "Rahab the prostitute"
Matthew 1: "Rahab, the grandmother of the Messiah."
God has the redemptive capability to change labels and rewrite stories for his purposes and our better.
In under a century we went from hanging horse thieves to “we’re sorry this third worlder raped your daughter, but he’s too retarded to stand trial or know right from wrong."
Make Capital Punishment Great Again.
theres this move that philosophers do where theyre like "if P is true then Q follows, and Q is ethically terrifying so P must be false" and if baffles me that anyone would think this way
So Tobey Maguire is the only Spider-Man that organically makes webs, the others need web shooters, but that doesn’t really make sense lol, why can they not make webs?? So basically you can run on walls and have fast instincts but no webs lmaoo nigga you are cockroach man
This imagery is insidious because it implies that a country's government works for the prosperity of its own people rather than for the benefit of sub-saharan Africans or facilitating inter-ethnic conflicts among semitic desert tribes.
“Service men are not brighter than civilians. In many cases civilians are much more intelligent. That was the sliver of justification underlying the attempted coup d’état just before the Treaty of New Delhi, the so-called ‘Revolt of the Scientists’: let the intelligent elite run things and you’ll have utopia. It fell flat on its foolish face of course. Because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.”
- Heinlein, Starship Troopers
So Sauron had the ring for like 1,850 years.
Isildur: 2
The river: 2,461
Déagol: A few minutes?
Gollum: 478
Bilbo: 60
Frodo: 17
Technically, the river was the Lord of the Ring.
Anyway, don't crime today.
Bought my toddler toy dumbells and showed him how to curl and do shoulder presses. More importantly I taught him to flex and growl after a set. He now runs up to mom and flexes after a set while growling at her.
Today I realized that if I faced financial ruin and we ended up living in a tiny apartment eating instant ramen, I'd still be the luckiest man alive. It's great to feel blessed.
It’s hard to believe that “wives should submit to their husbands and husbands should love their wives” is a hot take. These things are unconditional btw, you should do your half even if you don’t think your spouse is doing theirs