the bank has signed me up for an afternoon class on home ownership, despite the fact that i was clearly able to demonstrate that i appreciate caring for a dwelling at a very high spiritual level and have, non coincidentally, seen every episode of king of the hill multiple times
bank woman (the bankess) was not even aware of african villages wherein there is a home at the center that contains a tiny recapitulatory model of the entire village itself, was not aware that "temple" and "template" are related, of a building as a blueprint for the cosmos. ok
perhaps i should be teaching u, bank maiden, about "ownership of the home". how do u justify ownership in your worldview. on what basis does one claim that they can own things. is it purely darwinian. is it just evolution, genes duking it out, temporarily owning homes. is that it
have u even thought about identity of the home persisting through time. on what basis. what if i change out all elements of the home, replace the floors, the roof, everything, is it still the same home. will this be covered in this class. unlikely. oh, clean the drains, yes, ofc
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so ive been looking into 1800s american christianity, particularly the more (respectfully) atypical or fringe or weirder manifestations of it, those that could be said to have somewhat uniquely developed in that time. i have turned a corner in understand the cause and effect here
there is definitely a surge of novelty and “new schools” (not gonna say this every time but i mean this all from a theologically neutral perspective). the conventional explanation i always got was basically “well, new county, new vibe, they needed new religious stuff”.
i generally dislike this kind of top down backwards causality explanation of social trends because i dont think it explains how individual people on the ground are acting. its not like these people thought this way, “hey, new nation, lets make a new form of christianity for it”.
have a lot of baby tweets in the drafts. ur gonna have to deal with that for a minute. can you believe i had an ultrasound and my wife had her first ultrasound on the same day and while i was getting mine i only got to relay this excellent joke set up to one person. such a waste.
also you know they have this test thing or something that you have to do where they cut the babys heel and take some of its blood and apparently you cant opt out of it. they say its for some state database. havent looked into it yet but tell me thats not some nefarious op, fr
i have the young college age nurses taking my blood and passing it around into whatever labyrinthine passages exist behind those metal doors, like some kind of vital smoking device, now they require my childs blood, how much blood does this machine take to run, one has to wonder
heres how i explain what NFTs are to people. im posting this as i wake up + have coffee this morning because ive seen 100s of posts explaining it from a negative angle and i can tell they dont get it, so, if you have no idea and want a short amateur simple explanation heres mine
im both neutral in the sense that i havent done anything personally art-wise with the tech, and also an amateur in that im not a crypto guy really, i am just casually into it, but sometimes thats the best person to get ur foot in the door with a simple non insider explanation.
(last caveat that this is not my field) - the big moment things clicked with me with all the bitcoin and blockchain stuff is that basically bitcoin solves a very simple problem that you would naturally have when making digital money which is that you can duplicate digital stuff.
in some ancient philosophy, im thinking of china, a casual reader gets the impression that “heaven” is a kind of active “zone” that influences earth, an omnipresent positive force “out there”. space, our main cosmological principle in the present, is the exact opposite of this
as opposed to being engulfed in a positive benevolent omnipresent divine force thats at home just beyond the sky, the modern person is forced to conceptualize themselves as literally floating through an infinite black abyss that, if accessed, would brutally murder them instantly.
this conceptualization of what is beyond earth, this cosmology, is implicitly present in all space related imagery and themes. every rocket, nasa shirt, picture of a planet, reminds the viewer of their cosmology - just like religious art. it says, dont forget, youre in the abyss.
spiritual ethnography note. i have noticed, many times, that having a premise of “larger christendom is corrupted, we’re going to return to the scripture and the origins to the maximum possible extent” often comes with, at the tail ends of the bell curve, abandoning the trinity.
of course there are people are groups that do this that do not abandon the trinity. obviously. but i have seen many times that on the tail end of the distribution in there, becoming some type of non trinitarian is a motif that comes up over and over, in isolated separate groups.
im totally open to the possibility that there is even nothing inherently pathological in that premise, maybe. you could be fair and say any spiritual vector taken to an extreme produces certain results. of course.
gonna post something right now. i posted this sometime late last year but something was wrong with the font i used so it just kind of slipped under the radar (maybe). i fixed it. its kind of long so, please enjoy a special episode of [m99], for ur viewing pleasure, here: