Yatsufusa 2025-07-03 15:49:34

Not to come between you and your faith, but every religion has more and less... "strict" followers. And that includes their teachers.

Easy examples include:
- Christians who lie (*points at every Christian politician who ever lived*)
- Jew who eat and drink food that wasn't prepared according to Jewish law (because they'd have to be rich or _starve_)
- Muslims who consume things that are not halal (Does everything you consume have a little 'Halal' logo? Even medicine and hygiene products?)

As I said: I am not trying to start beef with your Islamic teachers but if 'you' are trying to live your life strictly based on the rules laid out by an author who lived 1400 years ago, you will experience issues which they could not have foreseen.
They might have had their own thoughts on unionization, labor laws, public health care, recycling, pollution control, or Discord's horrendous privacy policy - but those weren't really topics those days. Same with Transhumanism: If you own a smartphone, you could be considered a Transhumanist.

As humanity advances and adapts to new situations, so do their rules adapt to the world they are living in.

Yatsufusa 2025-07-06 13:26:48

@Ov3for For what it's worth, I think I understand your viewpoint a lot better now. You should give yourself more credit in this regard.

I have shown you some options, but the decision remains your own, of course. There are some fantastic artists on Newgrounds who happen to exclusively draw objects or landscapes, so it's not as if you were sabotaging yourself (unless you were specializing in anatomy before and removed those works from NG before you wrote this post).
I'll send you links to two of them as motivation. (I try to avoid posting "promotional" links to other artists in News Post comments.)