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Kaitlin Ruiz@kaitlinruiz.bsky.social |
I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.
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sri in madrid
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thereβs another alternative to despair too good old fashioned rage can get you out of bed in the morning donβt let them take it from you without a fight every bad guy has a plan until you punch them in the mouth
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Vulpine
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I'd forgotten about that one. Not much Catholic left in me besides a ton of historical/Biblical trivia and a thing for Latin and ritual. But there's enough that the thought of "Oh I have to add that to the confession list..." did cause a slight chill up my spine.
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Dominique Ramsey π£π
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I grew up Protestant Christian, with the lesson that "fear is not of god". I've kept this in mind ever since, too. It's helped me stay sane and I don't like being in despair for too long
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Cosimo Kramedici
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Doomers are my sworn enemy
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John Castiglione
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Fine fine you are right β¦.
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π¬ π The Reel Jon
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Admittedly I was raised in a much more chill, less dogmatic parish, but I didn't realize despair was a sin. I mean it makes sense, giving too much into despair takes you away from God, whose forgiveness and love is supposed to take away your sin.
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Heather
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"Despair is for those who see the end beyond all doubt, and we do not." Gandalf, JRR Tolkin. We cannot know the future for certain and that means there is always room for hope.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.
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Tiberius Gracchus
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Hope is the poor manβs bread. An old turkish saw
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Kristi Wallace Knight
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I did not know that despair is a sin in Catholicism. I like that.
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Kai
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I'm very not-Catholic and appreciate learning of this tenet. Filing it away for *those* times.
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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky
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Ellery
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Lots of good Dorothy Day quotes to this effect.
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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch
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Agreed, heartily. I rarely think in terms of sin (once in a while), but YES on despair being Not Good For You. Also, it's pretty contagious. So that's a problem as well.
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bonque, ben
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An apparition of Marilla Cuthbert just appeared before me and yelled at me for ten minutes straight about "turning my back on God"
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