"24 Wherefore God Also Gave Them Up To Uncleanness Through The Lusts Of Their Own Hearts, To Dishonour

"24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."

One must be careful when one claims to worship the Lord. Its far too easy to start worshipping the creation instead of the Creator.

I think about this conversation Bono recounted having with Franklin Graham all the time. Source. 

Ancient magic was an uninspired attempt at a backstory considering what Harry Potter has done in the series.

Apparently based on reviews the new Harry Potter game's character conceit is that the player character is, somehow, capable of seeing "ancient magic," and that's why they're stuck with/granted the task of doing... whatever it is you actually do in the game.

This seems like a very silly thing to even bother making up from scratch for the game, given that the Harry Potter Dimension allows for options like:

a weird relic spit out your name and now Wizard Law means you have to do the thing

a prophecy said it would be your job, have fun

the whole school had their doing the thing potential evaluated by a weird relic, which spit out your name based on unknown criteria

everybody else very sensibly ran away from the thing

everybody else very sensibly ran away from the thing several times in a row, which has left you the de facto national expert in the thing

spent your summer internship learning how to do the thing, which the professors found very fortuitous as they don't feel like doing the thing

signed a weird relic out of the school supply closet, didn't read the fine print on the loan agreement form, now required to do the thing

one of your ancestors claimed to have done the thing one time, so everybody's pretty sure you should be able to do the thing no problem

burned down the new magic science lab, got assigned doing the thing as detention

twenty other students could potentially do the thing, you're the only one whose guardian signed the permission slip

technically agreed to do the thing by forgetting to check a box on your wizard school FAFSA, so you can either do the thing or pay back five years worth of tuition by the end of the week

Most players aren't going to look very hard at whatever hand-wave a game comes up with that lets them jump into playing, and canonically wizards excel at ignoring anything that's not currently trying to eat their soul. Might as well have some fun with it instead of pulling a Supernatural and coming up with like, double-secret probation magic.

What he says: im fine

What he means: in Toy Story 2 Woody is treated as the rarest of the toys from Woody’s Roundup when he’s the main character of the show. That would mean he would have had a higher production number than any of his costars, and in fact probably would have been made for the longest and earliest of the toy line. Stinky Pete, by being the fan unfavorite, must have had a smaller run, and less of his toys would have survived in the 50s as kids would have needlessly damaged or destroyed him making him the rarest of the group and Woody the most common. If anything, the plot of Toy Story 2 should have revolved around Al stealing Woody’s hat as it would have been the item most sought after by collectors as it’s easily lost and not attached to an otherwise common doll. Fundamentally, Al’s apartment should have been littered with Woody dolls in various states of damage, all missing hats and maybe a handful of decent condition Woody dolls needing a hat while Stinky Pete is the rarest and most expensive as a collectors item.

"Experienced writer with a strong attention to detail," you mean?

Don't sell yourself short 😊

Vaguely intimidated by authors of fantasy whose bios are like, "her work is a complex tapestry informed by her degree in advanced mathematics, her fluency in four languages, and six years living in a yurt for research reasons," because I feel like if I ever had to write such a thing, it would look like: "No credentials, is just Really Really Obsessed With Things." :P

Save the gunpowder for explosives and booby traps.

Get some big clubs and knives to finish off the survivors.

Why use a bill? Trade for that taco with a 12 pack of chicken eggs and a nice woven basket.

having cash is like having secret money. like whos gonna find out i’m buying tacos with this crisp $20 bill??? not my bank account, that’s for sure