Super fast full-body refresher! Get up from your desk and reintroduce yourself to your body for a few seconds! Try this out:
You can use anything lying around that has a little weight or do it without any weight at all. In this case I used a large water bottle. The stretch will be much more effective with something heavier in your hands.
1⃣ Stand tall and open up the neck and chest to the ceiling by rolling the shoulders and dropping your head back.
2⃣ Imagine your spine is a chain and roll down one link at a time - start with your chin to your chest. ☀️☀️JUST LET YOUR ARMS HANG, ONLY SUPPORT YOUR WEIGHT IF USING ONE☀️☀️ you should have no engagement in your arms, just your hands.
3⃣ Let the weight pull through your back all the way to wherever your “bottom” is, even if that’s above your knees right now. If you find a spot that feels really good, hang out there for a few seconds and maybe weave back and forth a bit to loosen.
4⃣ At the bottom, soften your knees and reverse your chain back up, one link at a time, until you reach the top and can open your shoulders and neck again.
#stretchandalign #backpain #workbreak #stretch #fullbody #openup #stretchoutyourstress
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What the hell. Who doesn’t need more weird shit in their dreams?
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Tumblr feminists really need to stop perpetuating the idea that the women killed in witch burnings/witch hunts throughout the centuries were actual “witches”. They were not neo-pagans who spent their time reciting spells and burning improperly utilized sage. Most of these women could have been found guilty due to many innocuous activities. Breaking biblical rules, having too many or too few children, birthmarks, financial independency or dependency, having arguments, being close with other women. They weren’t killed because they were practicing mystical magyk out in the woods and chanting at the trees, I’m sorry to remind you all of that but its simply not the case for the majority of women who were killed. Its a huge disrespect to their memory to change their narratives in order to prop up modern paganism. This is literally only a step away from claiming that those tried during the werewolf trials were in fact actual werewolves who were just “misunderstood.”
Werewolf trials?
*Werewolf* trials?
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#tbt #backmobility part 2: 1. Zombie/Thriller circles - letting arms and shoulders totally loose and knees soft, dip towards one side, trail fingers around to the other side, and raise inside shoulder first to stretch the side as you come up. Roll to other side and drop the same shoulder. Switch sides to even out, raising and lowering the other shoulder to slant. 2. Quick hips forward arms overhead stretch to a hike position diving between the legs. #stretchandalign #samanthafaulhaber
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As an artist, I like to begin from the launch point of my own voice and then change it not at all. That’s where I find the voice for Sparks Nevada.
If you’re going to play Sparks Nevada, you need to, no matter what the circumstance, not want to be there. Whatever’s happening around you is a nuisance and everyone around you is dumb. Except, of course, for Croach the Tracker…
As Sparks, you are a problem solver. You’re a Marshal. You are the law of the land. So have my voice, and not want to be there. And there you have Sparks Nevada…marshmallow Mars.
— Marc Evan Jackson on how to play Sparks Nevada, long version (short version here)Isn’t it nice how people twist their religious scripture to suit their weds but when it’s used against them it’s suddenly not okay
I talked to a monk about this quote once (we have mutual friends, and he came to a New Year’s Eve party at my shared art studio). He said this isn’t even talking about homosexuality. That the bible never actually says homosexuality is wrong. What that passage means is this:
Women were treated as subservient and it that you shouldn’t treat other men as subservient, like they are beneath you. It is not talking about homosexuality. If it was, it would say it outright since the bible lists other things outright.
I take the word of a monk who have studied the bible extensively more than a self proclaimed Christian.
The above text, I would like to point out is from the point of view of this translation of the original Hebrew. I spoke with my cousin’s rabbi on the matter and his response was different, saying that it was a mistranslation. See, the true translation says that a man shall not lie with another in the bed of a woman, which is to say, the Hebrews had a shit ton of rules about when a man was or was not allowed in a woman’s bed and private quarters (including, if she didn’t want you there, you weren’t allowed there. Hebrew women were also allowed to divorce their husbands and the image of the ‘oppressive Hebrew people’ is an image that was propogated by Christianity which, historically speaking, doesn’t treat the Jewish people too well and liked to paint them as being rather barbaric and backwards and cultish with their traditions, which, another piece of fun info, their traditions were one of the main reasons why the Jewish people were less likely, in medieval times, to die of the plague. Because washing your hands and avoiding the dead and vermin and the like was a lot of help. Of course the Christians persecuted them for not dying but that’s another matter. I’m sidetracked). So the verse is literally saying ‘Don’t fuck in some lady’s bed because that’s just goddamn rude’
Also, whenever a Christian brings the book of Leviticus up, you should feel free to point out that these are rules that were given to make the Hebrew people prepared for when the son of God came to earth. In Christianity, it’s believed the son of God was Jesus. So by following the rules set in Leviticus or pushing them as things we should follow, they’re saying that Jesus was not the son of God, and that Jesus did not, in fact, die for our sins. Jewish people believe, in their faith, that the son of God hasn’t yet been born, so many choose to follow these rules.
Most people of course roll their eyes when I explain the translation of the verse (full breakdown found here) but it’s always fun to point out the nature of the rules in Leviticus and the implications of following them.
I’m a theology student and I am on the verge of crying because of how accurate this commentary is. Historical context is simultaneously the most interesting and most important part of interpreting any texts.
Most religious people seem to base their beliefs on things that are severely mistranslated. I wish they would do their research before using the bible for hate.
I studied theology extensively and was going to become a theologist until I switched majors. The above commentary is 100% accurate and what I try to stress in a lot if conversations with Bible Thumpers.
Jesus also affirms the homosexual relationship between the Roman Centurion and his “slave”. The particular Greek word used to refer to this special slave was “pais”. Greek language studies and contexts show that a “pais” was a male love slave. Regular slaves were called “dolos”. The Centurion makes this distinction clearly when he asks Jesus to heal his slave (pais), and then to prove his status he tells Jesus that his slaves (dolos) go when he tells them to. But this slave (pais) was special. He was the Centurion’s lover.
Hearing this, Jesus was so amazed he says he had not found ANYONE ELSE who had such great faith. He then blesses the Centurion and heals his male lover.
Matthew 8:5-13
THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT SAME SEX COUPLES.
In short, the English adaptation is a mistranslated farce.
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I just wanna talk for a minute about this shot. This right here is a triumph of writing, directing, editing, acting, and everything in between. All of it comes together, but the performance is the glue of it. Sebastian Stan sells this look so well, and it tells you everything without a single word uttered. Lesser filmmakers would have stopped the scene dead here to give us a series of flashbacks to spell out what’s going on in the mind of James Buchanan Barnes as his memories come back in a flood of pain and grief and loss. Instead, they just let the performance speak for itself, because the actor fucking crushes it here. I am a huge, HUGE fan of scenes where the filmmakers don’t spell it out in some flashback montage or exposition, and just rely on the film storytelling adage, “show, don’t tell” by letting an actor act. It’s such a perfect moment, the climax of the Steve and Bucky arc for this film, in a movie full of great choices, resulting in a direct assault on the feels. Fuck, I love this scene. fuck-me-barnes
like, I saw the tears in his eyes the first time in the theatre and I just lost it. 15 months later: still not over it.
They set it up so perfectly. They had hit points:
- Is he wearing a parachute? - Demonstrating Steve’s ability to fall from tremendous heights and live.
- The Smithosonian exhibit - this is Bucky. This is who he was to Steve.
- Who the hell is Bucky? - reunion and reveal
- He must have survived the fall - paralleling Steve’s survival skills with Bucky’s.
- The man on the bridge, who was he? - setting up the fact that the memories are there and available, so we already know that Bucky has the memories and is still in there
- Like when we were kids - Steve offers the alternate POV of the same relationship. Specifically being smaller than Bucky, and having Bucky’s hand on his shoulder and “the end of the line”
Which means that when we get to the point in the gif, we already have all the relevant information. They are not spoon-feeding us. They are expecting us to remember exactly what was said and done before, which is a refreshing change.
And that goes for Bucky looking down at Steve with blood on his face, which is so important, because Bucky remembers Steve. Not Cap. Not the uniform. He remembers that skinny little punk who was always smaller than him. And Steve saying his words back at him just seals the deal.
Never thought about that last part.
Damn.
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