武功山wugongshan, Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province

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You know how Jesus is the Word, the Logos, a form of expression and the ordering principle of the world, the one that created everything out of nothing, taking the primordial chaos and defining and limiting and ordering and giving meaning to all the things created, making it into something that makes sense, and how man was made in God’s image, a sub-creator, using words to tell stories to make sense of our experiences and express ourselves? Yeah.

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I think it’ll be important to remember that Athena, the god with the best PR, would be/was the goddess of propaganda…  

She’s the goddess of “smart war”, and propaganda is definitely part of this. I mean, just look at Arachne: the mortal make a piece of art that deviate from the “authorized” narrative, and bang, changed in a spider so the gods get the last word on what is true. 

Likewise, with Medusa (reminder: before Ovid, Medusa was born a monster and wasn’t raped by Poseidon/Neptune), she silence a victim of abuse of power by dehumanizing her and putting her in the category of monsters. And pull the “But she did it to protect Medusa”, because latter she’s the one guiding Perseus to murder Medusa, and mount her head on the aegis. If that was a protector, you wouldn’t need enemies. 

Ovid being himself an exile because he made a poem the emperor didn’t like, it wouldn’t be a far stretch that Athena in the Metamorphoses is meant to represent his patrons who abandoned him the instant the emperor got mad. A goddess that is supposedly a protector of the artists, but really just ensure that arts follow the narrative of the gods. 

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again! Its ok to have tv shows that tell white stories! Like please there is no need for the white lotus to be diverse! The point of it is that its seriously some white people shit and THAT IS OK! As long as we have other shows that also tell black stories and asian stories as well as shows that are diverse in their universe WE ARE GOOD! Not every show needs diversity but the TV landscape itself MUST be diverse!

Original Source: Granny Facts

Toxic pro-choice culture is:

A client of mine’s daughter had pregnancy complications and ended up miscarrying in the hospital. When she was discharged, heartbroken, she and her husband were leaving to begin to make plans for a little funeral when one of the hospital staff stopped them and said “here it is,” handing them a brown paper lunchbag with the body in it, and walked off without any kind or consoling words. Striken by the indignity of it, left without instructions, and still recovering, they didn’t know what else to do except take it home and put it in their refridgerator so that it wouldn’t decay as fast while they tried to make funeral arraingements.

Can you imagine the horror? You just unexpectedly lost your child, and it’s body is handed to you in a rude sack, leaving you with no other options except to keep it in your fridge?

And my client, as she was telling me this traumatic story, tearing up herself because she shared her daughter’s grief and loved the grandbaby that didn’t make it, thought she needed to emphasize to me how much of a loss it was because “it was a wanted baby.”

The pro-choice culture where I live is so vulgar and prominant that hospitals toss the remains of your unborn child to you as if it was nothing, and a greiving grandmother feels like she has to justify her sorrow by clarifying that it was a “wanted” child, to not go against the culture of “it’s perfectly fine to abort your pregnancy if you don’t want a baby!” But there is no difference between an unborn child who is wanted and one who is not. They are the same from every biological and moral standpoint.

It’s simply alien how much more acceptable it is to talk about supporting abortion rights than grieving the death of a “wanted” unborn child. In their hearts they know the dichotomy, but it isn’t okay to try to address it and solve it, since pro-choice is the only acceptable stance to most people.