william miller (millerites, got people amped for Jesus’s imminent to the day return in the mid 1800s) is the only case ive found stone cold documented of something im sure happens often - people convincing a doctor or therapist checking if theyre insane of their worldview. [...]
basically he read the book of daniel and ran the prophecy through corresponding with a few other parts of the bible and determined that it said Christ was returning in a specific year, in the 1840s (i am not saying i believe this although obviously i think its cool + interesting)
so he got really obsessed with it, spent years going over it, and was like yeah im totally correct, this is what it says. so he started telling people. they of course thought he was insane. specifically he got labeled, a very cool 1800s term, a monomaniac.
hey just on a quick serious note, as i guess this is part of my situation i have not mentioned for a while, if 2022 is the year youre trying to get straight and stop drinking and smoking weed all the time or doing drugs or something, you can do it even though it seems difficult
in fact in the beginning it seems impossible. u can still do it though. to be totally honest if you are a drug and intoxication based person, as in, that is what your general vector of energy has been pointed towards for some time, it might be the hardest thing you have ever done
but you can still do it though. i got off easy because i stopped drinking but then just replaced it with weed. once i stopped doing that i feel like honestly it took like a year and a half for the iron grip of it to release and for it to not be weird being sober with other people
i am very excited to get back to work once the holidays are over.
the book is still on sale btw (i have nothing to do with that decision). linked in my profile. my man here has large hands and obscures that it is actually larger than a normal paperback. very impressive:
if u dont know already, if u see a footnote or background historical note for something unless u actually go check + prove to urself that its real you should not believe it. once i started following footnotes and looking into it people literally just make things up all the time.
before the internet + searchable texts, i mean they probably still do it now, people apparently just made up church father quotes and stuff quite often. most times i have attempted to source a strange augustine quote for example the only thing that comes up is the book im reading
i have often wondered the concrete mechanism at play here like, if some guy 200 pages into a book before control+F searchable type existed just said “eh no ones actually going to check this” and started winging it, or if many fake quotes and documents were circulating, or what.
theres some fascinating inverse correlation for how the pop caricature of liberals and conservatives relate to individuals vs groups that i can almost articulate but cant. ie liberals are supposed to be worried about “offending” but this only applies to groups of people. [...]
in practice whenever im around them they invariably assume aspects of your own worldview are actually extremely offensive without even pausing for a second to consider it. likewise the pop caricature about conservatives is that they dont care about helping others. [...]
but to whatever extent this is true, this also only relates to groups and likewise has an inverse correlation with their relationship to individuals. if i had a flat tire i could probably wait on the side of the road where im from (liberal) for days and no one would stop to help.
hello my friends. how you you. still half on half off for the holidays but i thought it would be cool to do a [RECAP] thread for what we got done this year, as we are gearing up for the craziest year at the studio yet (next year). lets do it. flashback. montage. roll the tape:
will probably just slowly continue this thread until the new year.
i think this was the first thing i dropped this year: the inverted soviet propaganda series. honestly this took forever, but im really happy with how it ultimately turned out. heres the thread:
the weird thing that happens when you have something cooking for months is that you always want more of a response, but people were really into it. i thought they turned out really well: