I have a lot of personal context around disliking this holiday, but I especially loathe how 'hope' gets fucking weaponized to keep people strung along for their whole fucking lives without any actual intent to fulfil the promises.
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I have a lot of personal context around disliking this holiday, but I especially loathe how 'hope' gets fucking weaponized to keep people strung along for their whole fucking lives without any actual intent to fulfil the promises.
This is about that.
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so by provoking spiro spero’s doom, that mockery of hope, you think to win the passions of the people half-entombed within the stricture you’ve defined as sin? one hand the leash that chokes off every joy and leaves only the musts, the shalts, the nots- the other dangles Tantalus’s branch, but out of reach and dead, its fruits will rot. so what is hope if you’re denied a breath, reward eternal plucked out from your reach and promised to you only after death removes all chance to mend that contract’s breach? if contented life is what you hope to live beware of hope when wielded as a shiv
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