Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@Satsuma @coriander @aescling no i want to try your pesto also

@Satsuma @aescling @coriander actually though i just want to get that falafel place again that was dope

@Satsuma @aescling @coriander maybe if i am working late sometimes i will get fed dinner too 🥺

@aescling @coriander yes but you worked at a shop which actually monitored when you were and weren't online lol

@coriander honestly i feel you; i’m trying to move to the East Coast just so i can work PST and still sleep in until noon

@coriander hopefully in a week you can shift the work hours to the part where you feel pretty good and the sleep hours to the part where you feel like death

@oddtypeofdragon i promise the angry urban cyclists exist it’s just been a while since i’ve been on a server which followed a bunch of them :)

@coriander ashegao but willshecaum?

@coriander @KitRedgrave i write zelda fanfiction because i haven’t finished figuring out a dozen different language families and their evolutions over thousands of years yet

@coriander @KitRedgrave i am also in this boat so my sympathies

@coriander @KitRedgrave this is how you know it’s good

@gaditb (quoting Wikipedia here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_righteousness> because idk what the fuck protestants believe) « in the case of serious sins, Protestants believe that they continue to be treated as God's children, but as disobedient ones that require discipline, while Roman Catholics believe that the bond with God is largely severed, and restoring it requires "a new initiative of God's mercy and a conversion of heart normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation." »

right so like theologically the deal with catholics is that god literally does need to come down and bless your heart and you need to accept him and work with him to become a good person, especially if you are a person who has seriously sinned

with protestants you can do whatever the fuck you want and you still have “salvation by faith alone” so idk what the fuck blessing the heart means or does in that worldview. maybe it means something but I Don’t Get It Because That’s Not How I Learned It, and the thing i learned Doesn’t Exist in protestantism generally lol

(i think @coriander is generally interested in me going off on opinions?? but idk lol feel free to correct me if i am wrong)

@gaditb @coriander in any case in American Protestant Christianity as i generally understand it blessings are something you Earn or Have Earned by being Good and Destined for Salvation, so the phrase “god bless” kind of falls apart if you look at it too closely

this is of course making a whole lot of assumptions about the actual strain of christianity that this phrase originally appeared in which i don’t know, but

@gaditb @coriander like if you can’t even bother to stick a real bible quote there though that is like the lowest possible effort christian

@gaditb @coriander no i think i’m just more jaded and, having spent most of my life surrounded by christians, think very few of them have any sense of what god is to the point where envoking his name would have any meaning to me

this is probably my own theological upbringing as a catholic biasing me against protestants or something, but