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majingojira:

“Jesus never called for his disciples to Christianize culture. To make every aspect of culture about Christianity, and to marginalize and minimize those who were not Christian. He didn’t even call us to convert everyone to a new religion called Christianity- that’s not what the Great Commission is all about. No, Jesus called us to go into the world and proclaim good news- news of liberating love for everyone- and to make disciples, or in other words, invite people to follow in the example of Jesus. To emulate the life Jesus lived and work to create the world he dreamed of. And did you know that you can do that without ever making someone a Christian? In fact, did you realize that when Jesus told his disciples to go into the world and preach the gospel, there was no such thing as Christianity- it didn’t exist. He wasn’t telling them to make people Christian. He also clearly wasn’t telling them to make people Jewish- we find that out in the Book of Acts. He wasn’t asking them to ask anyone to convert from their religion, or their culture, or their social setting. Rather, he invited everyone in every culture and context to embrace a path of self-sacrificial love for the good of their friends, neighbors and enemies.”

— The Disease of Christian Privilege

(Source: patheos.com, via latining)

don-cosciotte:

So, our Lung is on fire.

It is already threatened by huge deforestation, to the point it lost 20% of its wildth in less than 30 years.

It’s been burning for around two weeks and almost no word has been uttered about it. I, sincerely, have come to find out about it just now. I’m shooketh ™️ because we’re really burning away this planet.

The Amazon Rainforest holds 20% of global waters, it’s an area of incredible value in termns of biodiversity and, nevermind, it’s a crucial climate regulator. Spread awareness, demand help.

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railroadsoftware:

did anyone actually ever read those animorph books

just stared at the covers for a concerningly long amount of time before putting it back where i found it

me too

Same

Here are some of the spoilers you missed out on by not reading Animorphs:

• Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.
  
• A child repeatedly experiences his intestines hanging out of his body while in various animal forms
• A child is mentally tortured until broken and never gets better
• A child in the form of a fly experiences getting splattered and smeared against a ceiling until his friends who are also flies at the time can peel his body off and take him somewhere he can transform back into a whole human before his insect mind fades completely
• A child is shrunken and experiences having her eyeballs digested out of her head inside her friend’s stomach while she’s in the form of a tiny elephant
• The heroes are forced to permanently imprison another child in the body of a rat because he knows too much and they abandon him on a tiny island with only other rats and garbage for company. Rumors circulate that the island is haunted but it’s actually his psychic screams reaching distant boaters.
• A race of devastatingly powerful, violent aliens turn out to be mental toddlers who don’t know what they’re doing and are just bred to think they’re playing one big game before they’re killed at age three so they don’t learn the truth
• An alien spends a few centuries hanging from the parasitic tentacle of a much bigger alien, surrounded by millions of rotting corpses attached to its other moon-spanning tendrils. They engage in mental warfare until one finally absorbs the other completely.
• It turns out another seemingly “evil” alien race is simply driven to kill and eat everything in sight because it was separated from its original world where food was continuous and the entire specie’s life is the torture of perpetual starvation
• A peaceful robot willingly removes its inhibition against violence to help in the war, only to slaughter a huge number of alien-controlled humans so gruesomely that nobody dares think about or speak of it again and it is the only thing left undescribed in a book series that already describes entrails getting torn out and skulls getting smashed
• A child stays too long in the form of a flea and instead of turning back into a human, accidentally turns momentarily into one big, giant flea that can only writhe and moan because it shouldn’t exist and can’t live at that scale.
• The kids discover Atlantis, then discover that Atlanteans are inbred mutants who paralyze any humans they find, dissect them alive to figure out how their organs work, then stuff the corpses as kitschy museum displays for their children.
• An ordinary ant gets transformed into a human child. It has no idea what’s happening and is so overwhelmed by its huge new brain and sensory input that it can only scream until it dies
  

I went to a hard core Christian elementary school and they had animorphs. I highly doubt this is what they were about.

OKAY, I thought that same exact thing, but I WANTED TO BELIEVE.

I just spent the last 3 hours fact-checking all of these and THEYRE ALL ACTUALLY REAL THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE SERIES!??

http://animorphs.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page <the pages here are bleak and not much information is written on most of them, but you can find each and every one of these there, like search “stomach” on the site and you can find the part about the tiny elephant getting burned with stomach acid, for example.

ITS ALL TRUE

If you didn’t read Animorphs as a kid you missed out, sorry buds.

All of these things are part of the series, and there’s a LOT more not on the list. This is just a brief snapshot, it doesn’t even go into the parts about the repeated and graphic important character death, the complicated ethics of chemical warfare and sacrificing noncombatants, the PTSD, suicide attempts and creeping paranoia, the multiple instances in which children are forced to try (and sometimes succeed) to kill family members, the multiple instances of genocide (2-3 of which are committed by our protagonists, depending on how strictly you define ‘genocide’), or that time one of the Animorphs beat someone to death with her own severed arm.

And let’s not even get into that thing at the mall with all those knives.

quick question what the fuck

Quick answer if Animorphs were published today it would have been squarely in the YA fiction category because they make stuff like the Hunger Games or the Maze Runner and all those ‘edgy’ YA apocalpyse books look tame but it was the 90s and the censors were asleep or something and thought 8-12 year olds would be fine with graphic realistic war violence

Exactly that. 

Fun covers and PG language misled The Powers That Be into thinking the books were themselves PG. And apparently some kids also.

Michael Grant ‘Gone’ series covers many of the same issues and is just as disturbing as Animorphs. It is shelved in with the YA stuff but honestly? Screw that, they are so messed up. I read them as an adult and couldn’t stomach to finish them. I think the cannibalism is what finally got me…anyways, Michael Grant is the husband of K.A. Applegate (aka Animorphs’ author) and she had a serious hand in the Gone series.

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petefoxshend:

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now

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pipistrellus:

my favorite part in attack of the clones is when obi-wan just fucks off to play space nancy drew on Clone Rain Planet with the alarming giraffe-necked aliens and swans in like “HELLO IT’S ME, the jedi who definitely… … was here before and probably, uh, spoke to you, and stuff” and theyre like “ah you are here for the order” and hes like “beg pardon” and theyre like “the order of millions of identical human men?” and hes like “RIGHT YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM HERE FOR THE ORDER OF MILLIONS OF IDENTICAL HUMAN MEN”

and then later when he SNEAKS INTO A CORNER TO FUCKING… facetime yoda… like “ok so we have these millions of identical human men who were apparently suspiciously ordered for us by someone???” and yodas fucking response is just “when countless sapient lemons life gives you…….. send those lemons into intergalactic battle you must”

 and obi-wan’s like “shit man you’re so right" 

There literally isn’t a frame of this scene where Obi-Wan doesn’t look confused as hell

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