I don’t understand why so many people insist on trying to pretend false allegations aren’t a thing or that they shouldn’t be acknowledged, it makes the people who argue against you in bad faith sound more reasonable. Yes sexual assault happens, yes false allegations happen, and both things are weaponized against the existence of the other, this is one of the most nuanced issues so to pretend that only one should be acknowledged while the other is ignored (in either direction) is EXTREMELY intellectually irresponsible
@dreazsz I suspected she would be important just didn't know in what way. Her design felt striking in episode 1, she kept showing up in later episodes and she was honestly suspicious in the episode where they were looking for Uki. Plus she came out of the kitchen and uki was there
- They take enough for themselves only, but it's still too much, making the city slowly starve
- They want the benefits with zero contributions, contributing to city's slow downfall
I'm sorry, she is the villain, just realistic one
Y’all are dumb NO ONE is saying she’s evil, the morally grey villain trop is literally in every media today and we literally had those in LoK too Y’all are arguing against a point nobody made SHE’S THE VILLAIN IN THE SENSE THAT SHE’S THE ANTAGONIST TO OUR PROTAGONISTS THAT’S IT
The Faceless's plan to drain Elora's resources for a wild goose chase to Republic Forest is the ultimate act of selfishness. Risking the livelihoods, sustenance, and security of everyone who relies on Ellora just to chase a lost haven isn't visionary, it's reckless.
Agam's vendetta is fueled by the misguided rage of her father's loss disguised as stoicism and humanitarian care.
Thing about shounen is it's some of the only popular media for young men that portrays male friendships with a level of candidness and sincerity that men are told they should never feel, let alone show (by other men, mostly) so we see it in our media and joke that it's homoerotic
Paul begged God three times to remove the thorn in his flesh and God was like, “Nope ✋🏾 I know your character, my son. I was not born yesterday” 😭😂
But seriously, there’s a lesson here. Sometimes we keep asking God to remove something, and God teaches us to depend on His grace instead. Not every “no” means God doesn’t care. Sometimes His grace is what will carry us through what He hasn’t removed
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Dear bra companies, I am BEGGING you to stop making bras with removable pads. 😭 Nobody wants to spend 10 minutes trying to shove a folded-up triangle back into a tiny hole after laundry day. WE ARE TIRED.
"How can you enjoy Avatar: The Last Airbender and have conservative opinions?"
Idk, perhaps it's because ATLA is a hyper traditionalist show with a traditionalist main character and tons of deep religious/metaphysical/philosophical themes.
Also, it's objectively good art.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Men look at women's struggles and wonder how they can be so hard for women to overcome and come to the conclusion that men struggle worse than women.
Women will do the same, and come to the conclusion they struggle worse than men.
There's a reason why men's problems look easy to overcome to a woman. It's because women are supposed to help them with it.
And there's a reason women's problems look so easy to overcome to a man. It's for the same reason.
We need each other, and now everyone is suffering because we've been forced to depend on no one but ourselves.