I’m at a point now, that when people say they don’t believe in God, I’m flabbergasted.
not because they don’t believe in a big man sitting on a throne made of clouds casting down magic onto the world
because I don’t believe in that either
but because when I talk about God I’m talking about the ground of our reality
I’m talking about goodness
I’m talking about mystery
I’m talking about that feeling you get when you just love your friends so much you want to cry
and how can you not believe in that?
when antitheists smugly ask me, “well, what if you die and it turns out there is no God?”
i have trouble answering
and finally I say, “I may be wrong about the nature of God. about what God is. but I am confident there is something in the universe worthy of the title.”
tumblr is like wading through everyone else’s garbage until you find something good and go “ah. this is good” and take it and display it in your own garbage pile
reasons that i was going 9 mph over the speed limit today: the lumberjack in the big red chevy truck behind me on this double-lined road was in a hurry and also was using a slightly more powerful bluetooth radio to play his music, but he was using the same frequency that i use, and he was just playing Party In The Usa onrepeat, so every time he caught up to me my music started fading out and “i pUT MY HANDS UP THEY’RE PLAYIN MY SONG” started blaring from my speakers and i was justly running for my fucking life
WHY AM I LAUGHING SO HARD I JUST KEEP PICTURING SOME POOR SOUL SWEATING AND STARING AT THIS TRUCK IN THEIR REAR VIS MIRROR WITH PARTY IN THE USA PLAYING IS THIS A SCENE FROM AN ACTION MOVIE
Is this that spielberg movie I’ve been hearing about?
Shout out to all my straight sisters I’m so sorry 😞
Jesus, leave his ass.
We learn fast to be very kind and attentive, tho.
My mom, who got her degree in Marriage and Family Counseling when she was 60, says studies show that women will sometimes sometimes leave a long term relationship to live on their own for a while before seeking a new relationship, but men will almost never leave a long term relationship without having a new relationship either in progress or just beginning. They don’t want to give up the caretaker they have without another one on deck or in the wings.
This is so sad
This isnt cute or quirky. This means hes a fucking hopeless user
Please date a man who actually acts like an adult.
Ok I lived with my ex for 2 years and he literally wouldn’t be able to get his own food if I wasn’t at home, I’d get home from work and he’d be angry at me for “making him starve”
My current partner has lived on his own for 8 years and the absolute most I have to help him with is maybe sending him $20 so he can make a bill payment on time
It made me realise for 2-4 years I wasn’t a girlfriend I was a fucking mother
Men who have been independent are capable of reverting if given the slightest excuse. When we married, my ex husband was 10 years older than me and had lived on his own for 8ish years. Yet (and I allowed this until I finally got fed up and took us to counseling) I did 80% of the cooking, because I was better at it. Same with the cleaning, shopping, social planning, etc.
After I left, in the first six months I got texts or calls asking me to please tell him:
The online banking password (dude, I left you, you should really change that)
Where I ordered his special-wecial organic underwear
Where the good cutting board was (my dad gave it to us at our wedding, genius, I took it with me along with the rest of the stuff from my family)
What brand butter we bought
What brand of local kielbasa we bought
Who his doctor was
What RMV office had the shortest lines
Where the old tax returns were (in the fucking box labeled tax returns)
The phone number for his best friend
I shit you not.
Then he had a heart attack (mild) and none of his family or friends were around to take him to the hospital. But instead of calling 911, he called me, who by then lived 45 minutes away. He lived 5 minutes from an EMS dispatch location. He called me, despite the fact that he didn’t believe me 8 months prior when I was feeling suicidal and I had to call a cab to go alone to check myself into the hospital for a 72-hour hold. I told him to call 911, hung up on him when he whined about “making a fuss”, called 911, called his siblings and then texted them “your brother is having a heart attack, I called 911 for him, come home,” and washed my hands of it.
Emotionally vacant men who won’t do household labor or emotional labor are not Nazis, but they aren’t good people, either, and you don’t have to put up with their shit.
Millennial women of Tumblr, please read this post.
And then please: make the decision for yourself to never stay with a man who expects you to be his mother and servant.
Ballroom Dancing AU: Pair of characters with busy schedules have to take dance lessons separately to learn a dance for their wedding, and they both fall in love with their dance instructor.
Fairy Tale AU: Heir to the throne wants to marry one person but are being forced to marry someone else, but then they fall in love with their arranged partner, and then it turns out that the original partner and their arranged partner knew each other in the past and were romantically involved.
1920s AU: Leader of crime ring seduces a member of a rival group and a corrupt police officer to help consolidate their power but then they get emotionally attached.
Journalism AU: Three reporters are all investigating the same story and first they fight about it and try to sabotage each other but then they realize they can more effectively uncover corruption as a team and make a name for themselves together.
Theater AU: Friends who might be in love audition for a show together, and one is cast as a lead and one is in the chorus. The lead falls in love with their costar, and the costar seem to be in love with the friend in the chorus, and this could be a love triangle but instead it turns out they all want to be together.
Arthurian Legend AU (aka fairy tale au part 2): Royal character conspires with “evil” magician to be kidnapped to get out of whatever royal responsibility they don’t want, and a knight/someone disguising themselves as a knight comes to the rescue, but they don’t want to be rescued. There are dragons.
