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Today I went to hear a Nova survivor speak on my campus. This is not the first survivor I've heard, but her story was by far the most horrifying I've heard so far.

Here's just a few of the many things worth mentioning:

Her sister came back from the festival with half of the people she arrived with. The others were murdered.

The speaker saw a girl get shot and killed while she was speaking to her. She barely escaped situations from which there were no survivors. At some point they (she and her friend) were hiding in some sort of shed (not really a shed but I'm not sure how else to describe it) and then they saw Hamas members running towards there. So she, her friend, and a few others from the shed, ran. Later they learned that everyone who had stayed was murdered.

There is more I could mention, but what this strong and incredible woman went through is not the point of this post. The point is what she did after.

She said that, even though she was alive, after she made it home she felt more dead than ever. And, considering the hellish nightmare she went through, that feeling makes complete sense.

But she took her life into her hands. She's going around campuses and conferences talking about what she experienced. She made it entirely clear that she has a lot of strong faith in Hashem, something that did not lessen in any way after her experiences.

The point of this post is that she didn't just survive. She lived.

I came up to her after told her that her ability, her strength, to carry what she carries and go on being the brave and amazing person that she is, is awe-inspiring. (I wish I could've been this eloquent about it, consider this a spruced-up paraphrasing of what I said, but that's the gist of it.)

To look into her eyes and know what those eyes witnessed was just a feeling I cannot describe. But she was there. She was standing right there. She survived and she lived.

That feeling was Am Yisrael Chai. She took her pain and turned it into advocacy, into the mission of spreading the truth.

This is what Am Yisrael Chai means. It means we take our pain, we take what we witness, and we don't just survive it. We don't just push it down. We take it and use it as building blocks for a better future. Just as this incredible person, this survivor, used her experiences and turned them into advocacy and truth.

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

what if you were GAY and your girlfriend was the personification of DEATH and then your SON died and she had to reap his SOUL or whatever because it was her JOB and then you never forgave her but she still LOVED you and then you projected your GRIEF onto a random teenager while battling through DEATH trials with PATTI LUPONE

You think THATS a denim jacket?

Surely you

That punchline hit me like a sack of wet mice

Like a sack of what

THIS POEM GOES OUT TO THE BLACK MOLD IN THE BATHROOM

(shaking dice in cupped hands) c'mon daddy needs a new pair of money

Max: I would like you to meet my girlfriends.

Max: (gestures to Chloe who is on crutches) A danger to herself.

Max: (gestures to Rachel who is straightening her clothes) A danger to others.

Rachel and Chloe: (gesture to Max) a danger to small towns

Max:

I have a feeling I’ll be getting A LOT of use out of this gif these next 4 years.

Too many people fucked around and are about to find out about based on who they voted for.

And here's the image version for anyone who wants that one:

When your MRI prep is turning your stomach into a dirty bomb

woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

they were playing running up the hill yesterday at the bar and I realized that when kate bush says she is "running up that building" she is probably using the stairs. and not running up the side of the building. like naruto

no it's definitely the naruto one

It's the stairs before the deal with God, then the Naruto run up the walls after.

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I’ll have what he’s having

Pay ur respects that twink was obliterated :(

I haven't played Undertale but