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fauux
1 year ago
But when the bus tour guide, who had been so kind to my family and me, saw me wearing it with the bayonet that I had recently purchased, I watched her expression change. Her eyes faded of grief and sadness.
daliwali
1 year ago
hell ya... the okc 3s is the only fighting knife in my collection, i have it simply because it doubles as a bayonet. i think your site is one of the first i saw on neocities.
fimvie
1 year ago
this seems like a great representation of how rulers tend to see their troops - not real people with thoughts and beliefs but just some NPCs that are only useful as long as they are in the battlefield
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Beliefs are only useful to the extent that they inspire constructive actions within ourselves and those around us. Truth is the balance. How do our motivations and our perceptions interface with our experiences and our effects upon others?
letslearntogether
1 year ago
One doesn't want to get stuck within "toxic positivity" or "pronoia". But getting stuck within a combination of "negativity bias" and "learned helplessness" is also harmful. Where is each person's "locus of control" in regards to each situation?
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Sometimes people, including myself, skew towards complaining about life, yet don't even try to create something constructive instead. Personally, I have gotten to the point where I've recognized that being constantly depressed is harmful to me and hope is the only viable option.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Oh yeah...I most identify, in both theory and in practice, with the "desert mothers and fathers" who lived in self-sufficient "cenobitic monasticism" in order to avoid "theocratic rule" by a corrupt "priesthood" (i.e.: the "Essenes", not the "Pharisees", "Sadducees", or "Zealots").
letslearntogether
1 year ago
While some parts of modern "Christian Anarchism" (and its associated "liberation theology") touch upon their ideas with less mysticism, most of the more esoteric strains of Judaism/Christianity seem to derive from them as well, including Gnosticism.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
For example, this is evidenced by the origins and contents of the Nag Hammadi Library, as well as their similarities with contemporaneous Merkabah and Hekhalot literature from which Kabbalah springs. I'm particularly interested in this kind of study: https://web.archive.org/web/20160316053521/http://odeion.org/gematria/
daliwali
1 year ago
I don't think that abandoning hope in a better world here and now, is a good idea. But I also don't think that being concerned about karma, or any form of retributive justice in the afterlife, amounts to anything productive (even if it's real, doesn't affect this life).
letslearntogether
1 year ago
One can also make direct connections with other teachings, particularly Pythagoreanism/Plotinism and Buddhism, through groups like the Therapeautae of Alexandria. But I would argue that there is a "primordial tradition"/"perinneal philosophy" that permeates all true "alchemy" and which is present within most esoteric spiritual teachings, independent of time and place.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Fundamentalist interpretations sometimes degrade into justification for tyranny. For example, many of the groups that were persecuted during the Inquisition (like the Cathars and Waldensians) tended to be more egalitarian, holding beliefs opposite to that of "dominion theology", and teaching that no human intermediaries were needed to experience "theosis"/"henosis".
letslearntogether
1 year ago
@daliwali - Sorry for the post mix up. That is fair. To me, Justice is always restorative, never punitive. Likewise, constructive knowledge must be applied... I'll shut up now 😂
zazilicious
1 year ago
Wrote a very personal exploration of why I am still alive, despite everything going on in the world
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https://www.churchpop.com/jesus-chinese-8-beautiful-paintings-life-lord/
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/takeandread/2012/05/what-do-jesus-buddha-krishna-lao-tzu-have-in-common-a-qa-with-richard-hooper/
was thinking about this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-De_zAKxwU
Ooo...deep and heavy...Interpretation: People sometimes cling to beliefs that have saved them from their own trials, even to the point of separating from relationships as their perceptions seem to drift too far apart.
We can care deeply about another, but we can never control them, no matter how close we might be (e.g.: I've had relationships where I did everything that I could to reach out through our mutual pain, but they still ended). I do not condemn.
How can two experiences ever be compared when all are unique? May you be given comfort and insight beyond what any person is able to give, a balm for the constant spiritual pain. 🕊️
And thank you for sharing. A song for a song: https://youtu.be/watch?v=mVs4FRBZnRE