Goldenpath
9d ago
I often see this line of thought from both the pagan right and more progressive Christians, but I'm not sure we -and Nietzche for that matter- aren't reading modern understanding of the world into ancient peoples heads. Jesus was not only literate but had rahbitical training iirc. He was a skilled craftsmen who did carpentry, he never had to grow his own food in a word that was 80%+ illiterate sustenance farmers. I just dont think Jesus was particularly wreched by the standards of the ancient world, although his execution was usually reserved for the less fortunate.
Goldenpath
13d ago
Thanks, I always enjoy these write ups by psychedelic users even if I'm a square who never intends to partake myself. Personally, when too stimulated by coffee and/or sugar I can get lost in my own head. I find it hard to describe without sounding pretentious or up my own ass, but suffice to say that I get so self absorbed I forget the passage of time and feel compelled to pace around without noticing. It's almost dream like and I imagine its at least a little bit like what psychedelics are like. Probably also an indicator that I shouldn't take them if a mild blood sugar spike can one shot me like that.
Anyway, I'm curious about the 'thinking alien thoughts without language' part. I know you werent compos mentis at the time, but I'm interested in what the actual meat and potatoes of these thoughts are. Like, if they were sensations, were they from your own home or totally removed from your environment? Did they have meanings you could understand in retrospect, or was your mind just forcing greater meaning onto random thoughts and stimuli?
Goldenpath
23d ago
"hence all the grooming by professors and creatives and academics and the like of adoring female acolytes (though this is not a lot different than "grooming" of groupies by rock stars back in the day)"
I don't deny that this sort of grooming happens, but I wonder why? I mean surely these sorts of people have the pick of the litter, if they asked girls out on a date or flirted normally surely they'd get alot of sucess.
Goldenpath
6mo ago
I know a woman well who's is in her 60s and very much a NYT liberal. She attends a Unitarian derived Church and even she invariably finds the speakers there to be some combination preachy, dry, up their own asses, or just plain cringe. I suspect that when the thing that unites you is politics more so than religion, that religion will inevitability appear fake, because it is.
Goldenpath
7mo ago
I'd agree that for better or worse the 'capital T' Traditional world is dying. I think an important factor that's often overlooked is that the ubiquitous preindustrial peasant sustenance economies that dominated almost the entire globe 200 years ago are gone entirely or radically diminished today in Europe, America, East Asia and increasingly the developing world as well. Most old religious and cultural traditions were made by and for people who lived in in societies that were arranged very differently from ours, and these traditions served the needs and aspirations of the people who lived in these types of societies.
Obviously there are differences; Rome isn't Babylon, which isn't the kingdom of Mercia, which isn't the Delhi Sultanate etc. However, there are some very broad comonalities in premodern agricultural societies that dont apply to today. We aren't as subject to the seasons or time of day for our livelihoods anymore. Our lives arent determined by the will of a military aristocracy. Corvee labor isnt really a thing. I feel that if the spirit of our traditions is to continue into the future, it will need to confront and interact with the world we have, not the one our ancestors did.
For a tradition to survive it needs to retain its core foundational ideas, while simultaneously adapting its teachings and doctrine to the industrial world and really decide what they want to integrate vs discard. Are vtubers haram? Maybe. Is launching a nuclear war moral in X or Y circumstance? Maybe not. But I think that having these sorts of ready made answers would be a massive boon for most religions, even if the rulings are arbitrary or rely on esoteric theology.
Goldenpath
8mo ago
I instinctively pictured the boss from Office Space.
Goldenpath
10mo ago
I believe it's from Fabius Bile, Clonelord.
Goldenpath
1yr ago
A small rule that I personally feel improved my editing: all adverbs and adjectives must justify their own existence. I find that they sneak into otherwise neat sentences and clog up descriptions which a reader's own imagination could fill out just fine.
Goldenpath
1yr ago
I'm generally pro nuclear and think it should be persued as an energy source, but I recall a friend who was anti nuclear saying that there are issues with long term storage of nuclear waste. I'm not by any means an expert, but if we ramped up nuclear production could this be a long term problem?
Goldenpath
1yr ago
Reminds me of this old warhammer ad. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=du0emDgJ-L4&pp=ygUYd2FyaGFtbWVyIHR2IGNvbW1lcmNpYWwg
As a ln enjoyer of strategy games, what do you mean by 100k LOC? Is that a financial term, I haven't heard it before.
Edit: you probably mean line of credit? Whats the game about?
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