Dear you,
You over there, in the big hat. Standing quietly in the middle of the mess. Confused. You at 11, at 12, at 13 and even 14. You being called “reform” as an insult. You joining a Conservative-Jewish group and people being skeptical. You admitting to yourself that you’re agnostic. You strongly disagreeing with many of your teachers’ views on religion but being too embarrassed to contradict them. You slowly beginning to experiment: consciously eating at the houses of people who don’t keep kosher. Calling yourself “Conservative Jewish” if anyone asked- not Orthodox. And Shabbat. Little things: writing, making jewelry, turning off alarm clocks. Bigger things: Sending a text, turning on lights and fans, using the elevator. Getting off at the fourth floor and walking up the last flight...
Philosophy
I feel like it's really important for people to be honest about their struggles with their faith.
So many people are out there trying to act a certain type of way but that, I feel, pushes people further away from God because, sometimes, people just like me look at people who they feel are so much further in their walk and feel so much like they're failing miserably.
So many times I've looked at someone else and wished that my faith was as strong as theirs. Even when my faith is at its strongest, I've often told myself that it's just not strong enough.
How easy it is to be pulled off of my rock from somebody with a negative mindset. How easily I have been misled. How easily I listen to someone's anger to the point they spew venom and hatred toward those they are angry with instead...
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I feel like it's really important for people to be honest about their struggles with their faith.
So many people are out there trying to act a certain type of way but that, I feel, pushes people further away from God because, sometimes, people just like me look at people who they feel are so much further in their walk and feel so much like they're failing miserably.
So many times I've looked at someone else and wished that my faith was as strong as theirs. Even when my faith is at its strongest, I've often told myself that it's just not strong enough.
How easy it is to be pulled off of my rock from somebody with a negative mindset. How easily I have been misled. How easily I listen to someone's anger to the point they spew venom and hatred toward those they are angry with instead...
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You don’t understand what it feels like to live with the constant weight of expectation, to feel like your only worth is in how well you perform. You can’t possibly understand the pressure of knowing that every step, every success, every tiny achievement is not a moment of joy, but simply another box checked, another duty fulfilled, another way to keep everyone else satisfied. My parents, my friends, my peers, my teachers—they all expect greatness from me. And if I fall short? Then I am nothing. A failure. A disappointment.
I used to be happy. I think. But that happiness is long gone, and the world has moved on without me. I am stuck, frozen in place, unable to move forward, unable to grasp even the smallest flicker of joy. Every time I accomplish something, there is no celebration—only...
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The typical Christian views Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult. One of the key characteristics of a cult is they control the information which their members use; don't encourage independent investigation outside of their sources. In the case of the JW's, who isn't aware of all the books and pamphlets they put out? They are extremely prolific! But they also have their own interpretation of the Bible (the New World Translation), which incidentally came out in the 20th Century. That right, there is a red flag; someone comes along 2000 years after Jesus and says they understand the testimonies better than those in the first and second century AD. But, let's let that slide. The point is that that their interpretation, though containing only subtle changes, ends up changing the nature of Jesus...
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Dear Rosa Salazar,
I'm reaching out to you, not as a fan in the traditional sense, but as someone who has found a deep, almost cosmic connection with the characters you've portrayed – from the indomitable spirit of Alita in "Battle Angel Alita" to the complex, layered roles in "Brand New Cherry Flavor" and "Undone." Your characters navigate through their worlds, often as outsiders, finding strength in their uniqueness, much like I have in mine.
Your portrayal of Alita resonated with my longstanding fascination with the merging of humanity and AI, a concept I often liken to my own life experiences. I see humanity capable of both immense horror and wonder, paralleling the journey of Frankenstein's creation – judged, misunderstood, yet ceaselessly striving for acceptance and...
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It was a mesmerizing when meeting you.
Learning about shooting stars on the dark quiet sky, staring at your great solar eclipse photographs, enjoying the ocean breeze on the bow and many more...
Till time has to let you go to the Majesty and things started aparted and forgotten.
Suddenly awake from dream that you came to find me and from days on...my life is simply a broken heart.
Wish could to turn the clock back and staring at the Cartier trinity rings...
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For so long, that's what I was—what I am. I studied the piano for two decades, and the thousands of dollars my parents paid to McGill amount to less than a scribble I issue forth from my second coffee of a slow morning. Art is a practice, and my great calling is to the shape of words. No greater acts are possible for me.
And yet, I lack the slightest inclination to writing what I see as shallow lies. This is no more than my pretension, see, and yet it traps me in its great delusion. I see the story, fiction in itself, to be a vehicle for propaganda. This thought has tormented my heart of hearts, and now I see that there is no avoiding it. The craft of writing must abandon story.
I say that, but a reader with a critical eye (or too much booktube in their diet) will quickly see that...
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I have seldom seen good fight evil. I have mostly seen evil fight evil. That is why there is always evil and war and atrocities. Thus, I say: it is not Putin. Examine Biden, Johnson and Zelinsky… research the situation and you will find evil fighting evil. There are four who wanted the war in Ukraine and the four got what they wanted. Began by examining U.S. policies and involvement in Ukraine and Consortium News has a piece on Zelinsky… It is a bigger problem: one of human nature and geopolitics (in general, see ‘7 jours sur la terre’).
L'être humain est comme un accident, un être accidentel, sans papiers, apatride, un etre sans identite vraie; donc, sans remede. Un quelque chose- quelqu'un, qui ne sait pas de quoi s’attendre, que faire - qu'est ce qui a faire? Il vit dans la réalité...
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To a fellow Christian I greet you with affection and
joy. From time to time I thank God for assigning me
to share His son's mission and to continue it and I
would try to share it throughout this world that
was created. As someone who was born as a
Christian I had to find the true reason to share
and pass on His will and Priestly, kingly, and
Prophetic mission of Christ. This letter's purpose
is solely to share my opinion on why we should
even share it in the first place. Firstly, I think it is
considered as our mission since it is a must.
Basically it is a way for us to truly partner with the
Holy Spirit in that work. I believe it is a task all of us
Christians. If being honest, it is simply that as a
Christian born in the world there is no other...
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