das buch der bilder

if the thunder don't get you then the lightning will

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When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives answers where none exist, instead of helping us appreciate the sacredness of living with questions, when it offers certainty where there needs to be doubt, and when it tells us that we have arrived when we should still be searching — then there is a problem with that faith. [Belief] is more complicated that either the believers or the disbelievers among us are usually willing to admit.
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism

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Sherlock Co-Creator Live Chats

saladburps:

sherlockology:

PBS/Masterpiece are giving you the chance to connect with the series co-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat as well as other devoted fans in their exclusive series of live, online chats. For more information and to sign up for update check the PBS/Masterpiece Sherlock site.

I hope this opportunity doesn’t get abused.

*headdesk*

Zero to “Do you ship Johnlock?!?” in four seconds. God, I hope not.

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Tickets are on sale now for US and Canadian movie theater screenings of Frankenstein! Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature throughout the show’s run at the National Theatre - cinemas will offer the chance to see both of these versions.
In venues across the US on June 6 & 7 and varying dates - buy tickets
In venues across Canada on June 14, 16, 21 & 23 - buy tickets
ETA: You’ll have to buy tickets for both nights to see both castings. I can’t find out which roles are “reverse cast” and which are standard - does anyone know?

Tickets are on sale now for US and Canadian movie theater screenings of Frankenstein! Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature throughout the show’s run at the National Theatre - cinemas will offer the chance to see both of these versions.

In venues across the US on June 6 & 7 and varying dates - buy tickets

In venues across Canada on June 14, 16, 21 & 23 - buy tickets

ETA: You’ll have to buy tickets for both nights to see both castings. I can’t find out which roles are “reverse cast” and which are standard - does anyone know?

Filed under bbc sherlock frankenstein benedict cumberbatch johnny lee miller I live on the wrong side of the pond

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To any idiot who says, ‘You a feminist? Do you burn your bras, then, huh? HUR? You burn your bras, you feminist?’ you must reply, calmly, ‘Fool. FOOL. Bra is my friend. My bosomest buddy. My inti-mate. Except for that balcony-cup Janet Reger one that was an inch too small, and cut off the circulation to my head. Yeah. That one, I covered that one in petrol, and torched it outside the American Embassy.’

Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman (via falsesalvation)

MARRY ME, CAITLIN.

(Source: clenchuplegolas, via oh-you-better-run)

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Good enough to reblog, okay?

Me:
... Well I got it from the fandom, okay?
My Sister:
And if the fandom jumped off a bridge? Would you jump too?
Me:
Sarah, you don't understand. If the fandom jumped off a bridge, it's because there's a ship underneath.

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Pilkunnussija (lit. “comma fucker”)

Finnish. Means:

A person who believes it is their destiny to stamp out all spelling and punctuation mistakes at the cost of popularity, self-esteem and mental well-being.

Or as we say in my neck of the woods, “technical writers.”


Read more: 9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19695_9-foreign-words-english-language-desperately-needs_p2.html#ixzz1tG7iEhaD

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Ten Things I wish the Church Knew About Homosexuality

uozumi:

arcsupport:

5. It is no longer your personal religious view if you’re bothering someone else.

Jimmyrigby.org

I agree for the most part, however,

5. It is no longer your personal religious view if you’re bothering someone else.

I don’t think this should really apply because you could state that the entire basis of some religions are now null and void since they bother other people and their religious view points, which then kind of defeats the entire purpose of the rest of the argument because once you invalidate religion, how can you make an argument to be religious and tolerant at the same time?

I took the author to mean “bothering” in the sense of carrying your belief into someone else’s personal space, where you pester, assail, or interfere with their activities without invitation. Not “bothering” in the sense of finding a stance offensive when contemplated from afar (or anear). 

I’m bothered when missionaries knock on my door and disturb my Sunday. I’m bothered when street preachers step in my path and shove a pamphlet in my hands. I’m bothered when someone lobbies hard for legislature meant only to impose their moral beliefs on my activities.

 My $0.02!

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Ten Things I wish the Church Knew About Homosexuality

1. If Jesus did not mention a subject, it cannot be essential to his teachings.
2. You are not being persecuted when prevented from persecuting others.
3. Truth isn’t like wine that gets better with age. It’s more like manna you must recognize wherever you are and whoever you are with.
4. You cannot call it “special rights” when someone asks for the same rights you have.
5. It is no longer your personal religious view if you’re bothering someone else.
6. Marriage is a civil ceremony, which means it’s a civil right.
7. If how someone stimulates the pubic nerve has become the needle to your moral compass, you are the one who is lost.
8. To condemn homosexuality, you must use parts of the Bible you don’t yourself obey. Anyone who obeyed every part of Leviticus would rightly be put in prison.
9. If we do not do the right thing in our day, our grandchildren will look at us with same embarrassment we look at racist grandparents.
10. When Jesus forbade judging, that included you.

Jimmyrigby.org

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[On the sin of info-dumping] And yeah, you can argue that Leviticus is a chapter in the best-selling book of all time. But the key is that the bible doesn’t *start* with that chapter. The bible starts out with action. Right out of the gate you get you have magic, “Let there be light.” You get conflict. You get character development. You get a good antagonist, drama, betrayal, exile from paradise. That’s exciting stuff. Genesis really gets the story going. It sets the hook.
Patrick Rothfuss, Fanmail Q&A: The Biggest Mistake

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