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Hot chocolate frothed with butter is actually the modern man's Soma. The Indo-Aryans wish they had a potion this good. Indra wishes he got a sacrifice this good

and the Chinese text accomplishes this by rarely talking about specific things acting on specific things and talking about the patterns of nature and people instead.

or in the case of lines like "Crush the sharp," what is doing the crushing and what is the sharp. Although the DDJ is filled with political implication, it retains ambiguity on purpose. Daoism is the study of relations, and cause and effect,

Another interesting thing often lost in translation of the DDJ is the fractal nature of it. A lot of lines are typically translated as imperatives, or with the Sage as a king or ruler, but most of the text is intentionally ambiguous about the position of the Sage,

Every instance of Laozi referring to the Dao as "Mother" or "Feminine" is preceded by an epistemological statement "Seen as named." "This is just a name." When he refers to the Gods he even says "Image of the Gods." He consistently refuses to give his symbols power over reality.

Making an album

inked line art of an atheris style snake, in a roughly S shaped pose, in a physical sketch book; a pencil and a ballpoint pen sit on the page beside it. Small bits of Zy's blanket are visible in the background; the sketch book is sitting on the blanket.

not going to have it finished in time before the end of the day, but here's the work in progress of the line art that I'm going to use for my Year of the Snake painting

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Wake up from dreaming and now I’m here in another dream

They're good af

Many fail to understand that Slavic genes are a necessary prerequisite to the bear domestication skill tree. Constantly see Asians and Germanics and Mediterraneans etc etc getting attacked by bears misunderstanding this obvious fact

bringing back one of my classics ~

✨Making of - “Eros and Psyche”✨
A thread:
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Rednote post written mostly in Chinese characters with the words Pierre Polievre written in the Latin alphabet

So humiliated to find out that Chinese people are aware of Pierre Polievre

100IQ scold here. i am a low information person with absolutely no context for anything you just said. but, uhmmm, i'm detecting mighty yikes properties in your post. can you explain the obvious theoretical and rhetorical content of your post to me like i'm five years old?

a scene from twin peaks. windom earle asks major garland brings the following: "garland, what do you fear most in the world?" to which he replies "the possibility that love is not enough"

REST IN PEACE DAVID ):

Been reading Brave New World and it's charming how quaint it is. It's just like real life, a hedonistic, painless, commitmentless society, but unlike real life everyone in the book is happy instead of sad. Makes you think

Oh William... your wine sure seems... viscous... and red.... Seems normal actually, it must be very delicious!

That's another way to put it yeah! Our view of history forgets the ordinary people often because history wasn't written by them. I think this is pretty clearly true and observable, and you don't need some citation to say it; so it's a good example of my post's point.

Not sure what this has to do with marxism or bullshit detectors, it's a very observable trend in any study of history

Class is quite real in ancient societies, and their social norms and rituals were generally more "out there" because they had the potential to be out there, while the lower classes had incredible spiritual and artistic variety, their norms were more often pragmatic and material in concern.

I have like 10 posts on this site but I'm already blocked my approximately 50% of accounts I encounter on here what is going on

Yeah that's why a priori insight into the 4th dimension is so important!

How

My upcoming Dao De Jing translation will be notable for being one of the rare Dao De Jing translations done by someone who can read 上古漢語

You can literally just do stuff. You can literally just be there for your friends without getting emotional. You can literally just do random acts for homeless people. You can literally just grow a garden and give vegetables to the neighbours.

A lot of people seem to not realise that you can think. Like you’ll say something like “history is written by specific classes which biases our view of it towards eclectic social norms and rituals,” and they’ll be like HUH WHERE DID YOU READ THAT???

Don’t forget your daily meditation on death. You wouldn’t want to live as if you had something to lose.

Eight hour workdays are a bit strange because now that I have plenty to do with my life I can confidently say working 8 hours a day is quite literally impossible (sober)