Cease Not Thine Belief;

the hours between 8-11pm should be reusable. optional mini time loop you can rewind and start over if you had more tasks to do or another book to read or the first three hours hanging out w your friend weren’t enough

“God poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese” sounds like a post you’d find on tumblr dot com, but it is in fact Job 10:10

Happy Good Friday ✝️

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”-Genesis 3:15 KJV

Even as far back as the book of Genesis, God revealed His plan of salvation for mankind. That even though the devil (the serpent) would decieve and manipulate to bring sin into the world, and have Christ crucified (bruise His heal), it would all be in vain! Christ would arise the third day, defeating death and the devil! (bruise his head)

Adolin: Man, my friends and loved ones are off leading interesting lives with their magic powers, meanwhile I'm still just regular and boring

Oh well, back to my totally mundane day of repelling an invasion and teaching an emperor how to fight with magic armor

normalize saying "Are the shades of Pemberly to be thus polluted?!" when things aren't going your way

what if your url somehow had something to do with your future

So I stopped saying the “r” word a while ago because I learned that it was considered highly offensive

And I 100% support that criticism, I’m wrong to have used it, and I’m trying to never use it again.

And I’d like the same societal shift to be afforded to OCD. Both because OCD is actually debilitating, so using it in a wrong way to make a joke or personality statement about yourself is insulting, AND because it perpetuates a lie that keeps people undiagnosed and without help.

If all people ever hear about OCD is “Haha that painting on the wall being crooked bothers me, that’s my OCD showing”

They will associate OCD with perfectionism and cleanliness, etc. and put OCD in a box. They will hear someone say “Haha I’m so OCD” at work and then go home at the end of the day and spend 5 hours researching symptoms of stomach cancer because they have a slight pain in their abdomen. Suffering from OCD but not realizing they have it because it bears no resemblance to what the other person just described as OCD.

“OCD? No, I can’t possibly have that. OCD is just like, wanting things straight on the wall.”

Bam. Another few years or decades of no diagnosis because of misinformation and misrepresentation.

I went undiagnosed for 7 years (and honestly longer, those 7 years were the worst though) largely because of the OCD myth that’s perpetuated. And I was one of the lucky ones who actually caught it rather early.

Using OCD in the wrong contexts (I.e., anything outside talking about the actual medical condition with accurate facts) isn’t just offensive, it is also something that keeps people from realizing they have OCD.

And therefore keeps them from getting help.

Unfortunately the worst part about this all is that the people who say “Lol that’s my OCD showing” or “I’m so OCD” genuinely do think they have OCD. Because they think that’s all it is.

That’s the equivalent of me thinking I have an eating disorder because occasionally I forget to make myself lunch. That is how ridiculous and misinformed it is.

Meanwhile people with REAL OCD are out there drowning in life under the weight of compulsions they can’t make themselves stop doing. Under their worst fears. Fearing waking up in the morning to more OCD.