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5 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
idk what to do with this information but i need u to know that at the first ecumenical council, at nicea, first big christian meeting, ever, this is it, deciding what christianity is + what it will be, the first canon, the first thing they wrote down, says: dont cut your dick off
as we have an interest in being pedantic and galaxy brained, yes, im aware that you could technically say that the first council was the council of jerusalem in the book of acts but [guess what] that was also about cutting your dick. im not even being disrespectful. this is real.
once again a simple foray into history has pressed our face against the glass that conceals “the mysteries”
he knew

its real
lets pull up some Historical Context

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6 Jul
been watching a lot of docs with wife, who is, nobly, limited in energy due to being with child. watched one about marriage recently where a guy just interviewed people about the concept of marriage. this was a fascinating case study in what marriage "is" without religion. [..]
in this documentary, they ask all these different people what marriage is. and they're giving all these weird but slightly wholesome answers. but no one mentions anything supraphysical. its all very pleasant, but you can feel there is something missing, and it never comes.
it occurred to me that without any knowledge of God's existence woven into the situation, marriage really is just a piece of paper. i suppose thats obvious, its kind of a cultural talking point i guess, but theres "the idea" and then there is seeing it actually played out, right.
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5 Jul
the term 'firemen' is the best example of everyone intuitively understanding symbolism. they arent "fire men": they oppose fire. theyre antifiremen or really, "water men". yet "anti" sounds negative and fire has a more fitting set of signifiers than water, so we call them firemen
"fire" has the set of symbolic signifiers that we associate with the so called fire man. it is powerful, moves swiftly, has a connotation of imminent danger, its masculine, whereas water has a set of signifiers that would be totally inappropriate - its calm, cool, and nourishing.
in a sense this is all abstract and supraphysical, yet we all intuitively understand this because thats how we're hardwired (semiotic universe), so even though they bring water and deal in water we named them after the thing they actually oppose, theyre obviously "fire men".
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4 Jul
i refuse to believe that any straight man has ever complained about this

i legit feel like im looking into an alternate reality when i see intrafemale beauty standards
do women know how straight men see the women theyre paired with

shirt: looks great
dress: looks great
tunic thing: looks great
pajamas: looks great
intermediary clothing items like shirt-dress that we dont know what its called: looks great

we’re just excited to be here
i am both respecting and uplifting women, on the fourth of july
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4 Jul
theres an unintuitive inverse relationship between art vibe that the society wants + general social vibe. when things are the worst people want to see something positive. if you just lived through ww2 and saw a thousand dead bodies you dont want to see a drawing of a dead body.
it polarizes within individual artists, some naturally make stuff about their situation, like kathe kollowitz for example, while some take on this inverse effect i described above. but i do feel that in general, socially, for the masses, what i described is the case.
if i was locked in prison for life with my friend and i could show him one picture would i draw a bleak dark picture of the prison we were stuck in? personally i would not, probably.
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3 Jul
lets look at a tibetan buddhist embryology chart

i dont know a ton about it but have been looking into (normal non esoteric) fetal development stuff recently and its pretty interesting.
this is a newer painting but im going to bump up the contrast here a little so we can see it more clearly. tibetan medical teachings are supposedly derived from this buddha called the medicine buddha, who is blue. fittingly, he's the first thing in the picture. go figure.
theres a text called the blue beryl that is attributed to him that is basically one of or the foundation for tibetan medical teachings. this is a cool little node of information because while i am obviously not buddhist the medical aspect of this world is very interesting.
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3 Jul
lots of people posting regarding realizations about other peoples cognitive differences and things like that. obviously it opens you up to accusations of thinking youre a galaxy brain urself or something but its something i have thought a lot about and i have one or two anecdotes
all of this dovetails with a certain theory of spirituality and esoterica that i have outlined at the start of one of the painting shows i did about egyptian stuff. ill pull it up later but for me its not innately negative, people are just different. i mean obviously, right.
my first real experience with hitting “a wall” that i couldnt get over with someone was in highschool. i think a hidden aspect of the larger discussion here is that a lot of people are completely insulated from spending extended periods of time with non-filtered groups of people.
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