one of those generically cheerful Bless this Home (and all who enter) signs, but instead it says Memento Mori (remember that you must die)

so, i made a thing

Not quite the same concept (sorry to add on), but this is the sign I have right inside my door

@ellynneversweet your TAGS: #I once visited a cousin’s house where she had ‘friends’ ‘relax’ signs and bit my lip the entire time so as not to ask where the matching ‘enemies’ ‘beware’ signs were

spotted for sale at a recent country crafts fair.

@elodieunderglass At NO POINT in this video did I know what was going to happen next

Oh wow. Thank you so much for thinking of me!!

kitten

man. what on earth.

ok i flipped it. sorry

Reblog if you are

I can’t believe I watched that whole thing. Smh. That’s how I know I am.

where are the notes

we fucking broke it, guys

another for the tumblr history books

what

wait wait what

the notes are broken!

hmmmmmm

that’s uh

that’s

interesting.

@hellsite-hall-of-fame do you have this one?

oh wow an ancient post from the depths of 2011

Should the gif be on the first message -?

Broken notes, broken gif… So ancient.

The fact i guessed “bored” before it even formed the E was. InSane

….whoever writes this show has 100% wiki-walked before.

….whoever writes this

show has 100%

wiki-walked before.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Rapunzel ☆

everyone please give a warm welcome to NEW SET

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

. . .

If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

Hoenn starters I drew a while ago i was like oouughh!! fun project idea!! lets draw all the pokemon starters in my style!!! and then i Did Not Do That

Also meganium. did the other two but they're ugly so nuh uh

We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?

If we don’t buy it, they’ll lower the price, just like the 3DS. They make more money from 2 million people buying it at $60 than 1 million at $80

Don't even buy the console, don't let them think they can get away with this

I refuse to live in a world where a console cartridge costs eighty fucking dollars

Snufkin doing whatever the fuck he does during the winter

This is so cool but all I can think about is how if you tried this where I grew up you would just get 40 thousand ticks.

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

the boy with the fire starter created the sparks for the girl on fire.

the boy with the fire

starter created the sparks

for the girl on fire.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

#he wouldn't fucking say that but i'm getting kind of attached to the guy you invented who did say that

“Are you saying that Jesus isn’t fully man” he’s literally not. He’s half deity. Why did you word it like that?

“Jesus was fully human and fully divine” is conventionally accepted doctrine. It’s called the hypostatic union. It’s in the Athanasian creed.

Sounds like wormnoodless is recapitulating Eutychianism (Christ exists in one nature and of two), which was rejected by the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451, instead adopting Dyophysitism (Jesus Christ is one person of one substance and one hypostasis, with two distinct, inseparable natures: divine and human), which is still the main belief of most major denominations.

Sorry, wormnoodless, you’re a heretic.

@apocrypals, do I have it (mostly) right?

Correct

Anything other than “fully God, fully man” is heretical

#sometimes the nature of tumblr is that someone accidentally reinvents the great schism (1054) all over again