gigasunlove:

“Because community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. Community happens when we hear each other’s actual voices, when we enter one another’s actual homes, with actual messes, around actual tables telling stories that ramble on beyond 140 pithy characters.”

-Shauna Niequist

YES!!

(Just because I completely agree with this doesn’t mean I am any less of an unabashed Instagrammer, though.)

Honesty

Why can’t honesty be a normal thing, something that everyone abides by?

Instead, honesty is actually RARE, to the point that most people don’t even expect it, and are actually surprised when they encounter honesty.

Honesty shouldn’t be some unexpected, refreshing thing. It should be a normal part of discourse. It should be so normal that it borders boring.

I don’t like boring stuff, and I’m all for defying norms, but I think the world would be much better if honesty were common to the point of normalcy.

"If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything."

"My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from this belief. I think Laura was looking for something rational, because she believed that all things that were true were rational. But this isn’t the case. Love, for example, is a true emotion, but it is not rational. What I mean is, people actually feel it. I have been in love, plenty of people have been in love, yet love cannot be proven scientifically. Neither can beauty. Light cannot be proved scientifically, and yet we all believe in light and by light see all things. There are plenty of things that are true but don’t make any sense. I think one of the problems Laura was having was that she wanted God to make sense. He doesn’t. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant."

"One of the great evils of idolatry is that if we idolize, we must also demonize."

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

This post is not from CNN.

But but but, wait, it MUST be, because the source says CNN!

THE SOURCE. SAYS. CNN.

SO IT MUST BE TRUE, RIGHT??

Wrong.

People, anybody can put a reputable website as the “source” link on Tumblr. But unless there’s another URL that leads to an actual article from that reputable source talking about the subject at hand (or if clicking on the fun little fancy reputable source link brings you to such an article), there’s no real proof that the “news” came from that source.

Okay?

So stop falling for those stupid reblog scams. It’s the 21st century. Do we really need to resuscitate the dumb chainmails of the 90’s, Tumblr-style?!

(Source: CNN)