bring on the rain. bring on the thunder.

1 week ago

"LMAOROTFLBTCSTCNDBFOOTWIFOAGWLLBGWTHROOTSAIAKBAYB"

- Laughing my ass off rolling on the floor, biting the carpet, scaring the cat, nearly dying by falling out of the window in front of a guy who looks like Bill Gates who then, horrified, runs out on the street and is accidentally killed by a yellow bulldozer.

1 week ago

So You Want to be a Death Eater

Welcome to this helpful guide to being a Death Eater. This leaflet should provide you with all the information you need to become a successful servant to the Dark Lord. It will if you know what’s good for you. Please read every page before eating.

Aims of the society:

World peace *
To be evil
To conquer the world
Elimination of all Muggles
Elimination of all Mudbloods
Elimination of Albus Dumbledore & the Order of the Phoenix
Elimination of (miscellaneous)
To serve Lord Voldemort (that’s me!)
To create sanctuaries for endangered breeds of snakes

* This statement is a lie.

~~Warning: link contains HP spoilers~~

1 week ago

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2 weeks ago

"Explode” will be as transitive as I want."

- Katie Groneman

Notes: 1 / 3 weeks ago

"Music is like sausage. Sometimes you want to enjoy it without knowing the details of what goes into it."

- Tom Morello

Notes: 1 / 3 weeks ago

"They didn’t feel like the type of song you wanted to die singing. … if you’re not crying, why are you singing it? If you don’t believe in it with every ounce of you, then there’s no point in singing it."

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Jonathan Mark Foreman, on selecting songs for Switchfoot’s newest album, Hello Hurricane.

Jon has the single greatest musical influence on me as a songwriter and song-listener. He is consistently one of my greatest influences period, affecting everything from my perception of money and friends to my reliance on God to my love of the sun, stars, and shadows. I’m trying to find the right direction to take in my amateur songwriting, and Jon sets the bar high.

Notes: 1 / 1 month ago

Win

1 month ago

Notes: 2 / 1 month ago

Be an Adaptive Mate

In regards to relationship advice today, one can hardly escape hearing some things repeated over and over. “You won’t know who to commit to until you get experience.” “Experience as much as you can while you’re young, and never settle.” “Get out of a relationship in which you give more than you receive.” But one of the most widely supported of these secular proverbs is “Don’t change yourself for anybody else.”

It is widely acknowledged in the Christian community that committal is essential to any serious relationship. But that last bit of advice on adaptation seems to go under the radar a lot - I suspect because the vast majority of church-goers won’t negate it, and only a handful would speak against it.

I guess that makes me one of very few. No, I’m not talking about being a left-handed linguistics major. I mean there’s a lot in the Bible that suggests that God is very supportive of the idea of adaptive mates.

***

I recently got in a relationship with a beautiful girl at my university who, while we agree on many things, has quite a different view of the dynamics of relationships. She’s told me several times that she does not want me to change myself in any way for her sake or as a result of being with her.

I cannot agree. In the Christian life, humility says “I need change” and it is pride that says “I will not change.” Taking advantage of an opportunity to change oneself for the better can never be wrong. If I can become more outgoing or more responsible in order to better serve my girlfriend’s needs, then it is wrong to not make that change.

Calvin often pressed that “humility is the soil in which all good things grow.” It is humility that first brings us to accept the Cross, and humility that enables us to seek sanctification, that constant change we pursue which brings us ever closer to our Lord. Our Lord, who changed himself for us so much as to become exactly like us, who accepted the change from life to death, and who received in exchange us, and an eternal kingdom.

1 month ago

"There’s always room for deprovement."

- Rich Holdeman on total depravity

1 month ago

"The gospel gives you psychological freedom to handle the wrong things that you will do. You won’t have to deny, spin, or repress the truth about yourself. These things don’t make it impossible to know who you are.
Only with the support of hearing Jesus say, ‘You are capable of terrible things, but I am absolutely, unconditionally committed to you,’ will you be able to be honest with yourself."

- Tim Keller

Notes: 1 / 1 month ago