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Buddhist (Vajrayana)☸️💎Alleged “Right Wing Dharma Bro” 👹🇺🇸 Friend of Christians ✝️☦️ Brutalism Respecter 🟫🏰

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Eat black pills by the fist full. Spit them out gleaming white. There never was a golden age, and the world has always been as evil as it is now. Your sole true responsibility, though no mean feat, is to generate light.
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May all wicked schemes fail.
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Emotionally damaged people look at children and see tools
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@Chad_Naya @cIass_man Your son has a gay dork for a dad
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@DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ I hope that one day you have your turn as a scapegoat. Siding with the mob is evil, and you did it out of fear. Everyone knows.
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“The Right” is a conceptual gulag created by the Left. All that unites us is that we’ve in some way run afoul of leftist rules. Result is you’re in this prison rubbing shoulders w/ every conceivable kind of weirdo, & the one thing you share with them is contempt for the Warden
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Leftists avoid knowing too much about us, because they’re afraid that understanding will contaminate them. They have no idea what a hilarious circus of bizarre factional infighting they’re missing by lumping us into one big category.
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@PYeerk There is a definite streak of self-mortification in progressive thinking. Ordinary human responses are considered shameful, and becoming numb to them is a sign of strength and moral cleanliness. But deep down, the pain still festers. They can’t escape.
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Getting into arguments about the underlying meaning of pulp entertainment seems petty til you realize that some % of millennials actually hypnotizing each other into believing things like "Predator is rejection of masculinity" & you have to continue sharing the world with them.
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“Predator is a rejection of masculinity” is such a Letterboxd-brained reading- if anything it’s a rejection of modernity, a high-tech spec ops team getting wiped out by an even higher-tech alien who is only defeated after Dutch sheds his weapons and becomes a shrieking ape-man.
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The sex discourse sucks & is retarded. Here, I’ll fix it for everyone: casual sex is damaging to anyone who engages in it, so you shouldn’t do it. But if you did already, don’t freak out. Suffering & error are part of life, & your capacity to do good things in this world remains
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Immortality, as imagined by transhumanists, is a pathetic joke, because even if bodily longevity was refined & extended "indefinitely," subtler and subtler forms of death would be encountered. The World is Death. There is no *worldly* escape from time, loss, grief, change.
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@elonmusk @getpaidwrite On the other hand, freaky freaky
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@Martin_Durkin Not being British, I have no interest in the monarchy one way or the other. But your objection to ceremony and aesthetic care are so petty that it makes me sick, so... Long live the King.
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@strtrek @DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ For jumping on this bandwagon, you too deserve to lose your livelihood and become the focus of mob hatred.
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@Heghoulian Mainly it conveys the trivial, unserious nature of the message, and that the intended audience is not really the person being commanded, but rather those who already agree with the sentiment. It’s tribal reinforcement, not an attempt to persuade or even a serious attempt 2 coerce
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@MorganFailchild @phunkshun Wow, how gritty and proletarian of you
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Guys, if your woman “gets the ick” specifically because of tears, there’s something wrong with her and you should question why you’re attracted to such a stunted person.
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Why is there a whole industry of dudes working to decouple meditation from every doctrinal context in which it has been discussed prior to its arrival in the west in the 1960s?
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I really like talking about the effects of serious meditation, but I want to smash the word "enlightenment" with a hammer It implies that meditation is about: -Being perfect -Being completely wise -Being utterly holy -Being better than other people -Doing something that is
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@KnowIwana @strtrek @DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ "fighting social justice" is just rhetoric used to camouflage what's going on here: sadistic scapegoating, transforming a person into a symbol of evil rather than a human being, and focusing collective rage on them.
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@LeaMaric The really striking thing, as you mentioned, is the transference going on - a bunch of kids who look like the worst thing they do on a daily basis is play Call of Duty are being made to take on the burden of fear these women feel toward all those who CAN’T be criticized.
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@JeffNirenberg @SRevelare I think your words are wasted here, friend. It wasn’t an honest question
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@BlackRedGuard1 You fantasize about vengeance and power because you are weak. You will never conquer anything.
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This is more Satanic than any black metal album cover I’ve seen.
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@KnowIwana @strtrek @DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ This is how evil, weak, cowardly people disguise their malice as a concern for justice.
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There’s an important lesson in this. Having spent time in leftist circles as a teenager and in my early 20s, I was often struck by how *ashamed* my peers were of their natural reactions (pain, fear, disgust) to experimental utopian social relations.
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@sanrio_pilled Yeah. Still feels the need to point out that the businesses are "immigrant owned," etc, though, as though the arson and so on would be more justifiable if this were not the case.
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The Yellowstone memes are fucking gay, and so is most of the dissident right. Yes, Black Rifle Coffee drinkers hiding consensus lib politics behind fake cowboy shit exist. But much, much worse is that I see you fucking dorks trying to smuggle in your...
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I often observe that western Buddhists don’t seem to particularly believe in the Buddha or Buddhahood. I’m not sure they consciously realize this. My worry is that they think of “enlightenment” as a psychological state in rather limited terms.
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In addition to being evil, it’s boring. I’m tired of the same old blaring degeneracies. They stupify. The demons want your world to be small and dumb.
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Leftists avoid knowing too much about us, because they’re afraid that understanding will contaminate them. They have no idea what a hilarious circus of bizarre factional infighting they’re missing by lumping us into one big category.
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The histrionics and unrestrained moral vanity on display here is more than just embarrassing. This person would kill you - or have less doughy, cowardly, bland people kill you on his behalf.
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This is supposed to be some great philosophical mind on the Left.
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It needs to be said: if you are a westerner who became a Buddhist because you were *fleeing* Christianity - fleeing from the concepts of sin, faith, devotion - you are carrying subtle blockages with you that will forever hamper your progress on the Path.
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@tricksyrix Yup. Proles used to go around wearing leather jackets that would cost $1000 today, and it was considered prole-wear.
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@ZJemptv Hi. Just dropping by to say that I pray every day for the total collapse and social rejection of everything you believe in and represent, and that I already see it coming. History is going to look on your paradigm as a tragic aberration.
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Forever amazed that women saw men drafted into industrial warfare and worked to the bone for beans and were able to be convinced: “I want that.”
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@KnowIwana @strtrek @DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ And here you are, consuming stories of the deaths of your political enemies, as entertaining "morality tales." Do you ever wonder who you *really* are, underneath your "good person" politics?
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@TheSwoletariat_ @sanrio_pilled "organizing potential" is code for "my politics are about as real as a game of D&D." As long as you're using these shibboleths, you'll never have a politics that has something to do with the wellbeing of some actual people somewhere.
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...anti-family, anti-love, anti-honor, anti-risk ("longhouse," "stepdads") bullshit and cowardice under the pretext of attacking the former. You worship strength but you're weak. You worship beauty but you're ugly. You will have no
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Two people in my world are in the hospital today. One might be in pretty serious trouble. Please pray for both of them and those who love them if you have a few moments.
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@ActiveShootrRob @Howlingmutant0 There's a difference between notes, like "see X, Y and Z, pg. 123" and writing weird little soyjack smirk comments to yourself though!
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“Meditation twitter” is fucking awful. Just a word salad of Rigpa, Jhanas, etc, being bandied about with exactly the same frivolous incomprehension as people talking about Kundalini 20 years ago.
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@jhalifax I am voting for Donald Trump. And I vow to spend the rest of my life freeing the Dharma from the prison of your tiny white progressive subculture. ☸️👹
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I don't care if this makes me sound like some kind of prude: I hate the way people talk about sex and love on here. I hate the jadedness, the crudity, and above all, I hate the constant confusion of erotic love with social power dynamics and status games.
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This is not "acceleration." It's actually just that this guy is shallow and dumb.
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Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive.
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@KnowIwana @strtrek @DerekjAndersen @BevyHQ Gathered together for your enjoyment.
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Main problem with the "Jhana" thing is not that people are learning techniques to manipulate their experience. The problem is that this is being sold *in absence* of a coherent Buddhist (or any) view of the basic problems of mortal life and worldly awareness. It would not be hard
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@nealjclark1 He nailed it
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@nealjclark1 @_Gloaming_ I see this cover as manipulating the more cushy suburban sensibility averse to a more rugged, self-reliant lifestyle to demonize those who live said lifestyle as hostile other, someone to be scared of. Used to be fine to just accept both had their lane.
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@tricksyrix ...been going on for like 5-6 decades, and has less to do with finite resources and more to do with the ability of corporate powers to generate profitable solutions (synthetic materials) to non-existent problems (scarcity). Did we really need all the plastic, the soy, etc? No.
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@saturnine_grace It’s actually possible that this is historically true, but culturally and socially irrelevant. Ironically, this would make it in a kind of occult principle in and of itself - a revelation of history’s true nature as the compost heap of myth.
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Notice the cult-like language (“it gets easier,” etc). These people are constantly struggling to silence the inner voice that cries our for love, dignity, exclusivity, respect, genuine intimacy, trust, safety. Their moral discipline is in crushing this part of themselves.
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I don’t really understand the “have a heart” post or the reaction it elicits in some of you. I have a heart and it doesn’t stop me from believing in hardness, boundaries, standards, etc. in fact, I’m right wing *because* I have a heart.
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impact on anything real anywhere, and as cope, you will disguise this as fidelity to your principles. You hate yourself and you hate this world but you talk about Nietzschean joy and "Riding the Tiger." Meanwhile, you're speeding toward disillusionment and a lonely death which
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This is the final form of colonialism, needing to retroactively whitewash extinct peoples who can no longer speak for themselves as being indistinguishable from contemporary progressive bugmen.
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Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us.
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I try to be decent to left-leaning members of the sangha. The problem is, this is rarely reciprocated. Overwhelmingly, they can’t fathom being a Buddhist and not being a leftist, and they react very poorly when they encounter such anomalies.
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@nealjclark1 I don't like the weaponized softness. I like soft, wholesome suburban people. I don't like seeing them made into a bludgeon. It makes me sad.
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If you recoil from "religious" things (faith, ethical restraint, prayer, self-criticism, renunciation) & try to decouple "meditation" from them as though the historical connection is coincidental, the parts of your mind most severely in need of change will be left unchallenged.
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@Heghoulian In fact, I think it’s important to understand that some of these people do *not* want their command to be obeyed. They enjoy the outrage, and would be denied the opportunity to issue such commands if everyone simply complied
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It's not necessary to lionize western culture. I just want people to stop pretending its uniquely evil, the source of all global ills, and to acknowledge that this thing presenting itself as its "dismantling" is, in fact, the apex (and implosion) of western thinking, and will
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Haven’t been online much recently. Things have been tough in unanticipated ways. If you’ve got a moment, a prayer or good wish would be most welcome.
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Why does English authoritarianism always manifest in such a smug and prissy way? Really must add insult to injury.
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Twitter is literally a portal to the underworld because you’re constantly bombarded with invitations to resent & disgust. Within hours of being back & watching spiritually deformed retards sinking their snaggle teeth into each other, the call to deformed retardation is STRONG.
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@useful_emetic @feelsdesperate Joke’s on them, they’ll be made miserable by their lifestyle just like the poors, except with more expensive legal battles at the end of it.
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I see that samsara is suffering, but crave it still I fear the abyss of the lower realms, but continue to do wrong Bless me & those who have gone astray like me That they may sincerely renounce the things of this life
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@KarmaTharase @elonmusk @TimRunsHisMouth He will have done a good deed either way. Disrupting the uncontested power of people like yourselves to control the instruments of public discourse is quite literally worth billions.
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Calling secularized, fitness-culture yoga "demonic" and then commanding an AI homunculus programmed by cynical morons to draw this picture for you - which is more demonic?
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What if I told you that eastern mystical practices have wrapped their tentacles around American Christian culture, and that it's self-defeating to fight me when I point it out?
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@sanrio_pilled Also note: hostility toward the petite bourgeois, specifically - not the real holders of power, but middle class people who have committed the sin of comfort, stability and material independence.
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People who talk about “low value males” and “spent females” should be flogged and exiled. It’s just a really degraded and mercantile view of life in general.
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The desire to whitewash Aztec history is precisely that: a need to make them safe and palatable for progressive sensibilities. There is no real respect or interest there - just uneasiness that demands infantile pacification.
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I have no children, but I understand what Vance is saying here & he's correct. The dominant caste sees its sterility as a virtue. Not as an exception, not a burden, not a consequence of error, or a source of suffering to be endured. Not everyone needs to have kids, but...
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New TikTok trend using JD Vance’s recording saying single childless cat ladies run the USA is being used by millennial women supporting Harris for president. This is the culmination of a 2 year gender war that started with Rep pill creators & spilled into right wing politics
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It's Christmas, and I don't really feel like engaging these polemics, but a few things that really shouldn't go without being addressed:
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Here's a true story about a conversation with a Buddhist: On an airplane I once found myself sitting beside a sweet-faced, black-haired woman from Thailand who was a devout Buddhist. Determined not to miss this opportunity to learn about an Eastern religion firsthand, I peppered
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Much (all?) ideological aversion to Christianity seems to be, at root, resent for the spiritual demands it might place on you: acknowledgement of your own existential predicament, acknowledgement of your inability to truly master the capricious forces of life, acknowledgement…
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Same old thing: pleasant hour long conversation with someone who probably has a genius level IQ, covering history, anthropology, religion, etc. Conversation partner demonstrates sensitive, inquisitive mind, attention to complexity, paradox, exception, etc.
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@mattparlmer Is my reading comprehension terrible, or are you claiming that Midwestern decay & urban criminality is the fault of an influx of Southern whites?
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I am very, very worn out, and I would like to disappear into some decent storytelling right now. Please rec film and cinema. It can be slop. But well done slop. Horror, fantasy, crime, sci-fi, military, history, etc, anything with a good yarn.
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@streamgazer @SpiritofPines It's pretty bizarre that our culture puts people through such an abusive initiation ritual. It does *not* make people into good doctors, and actually probably encourages a sense of arrogant separation from laypeople.
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Few thing combine into such a wretched stink as smugness, stupidity, and concern with status.
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@SkylarJordan No. I don’t want to share a culture with you.
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you dread, because you do not live in anything outside of yourself.
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@SeanWel33239440 @JuanIsidro @VK_HM What a tortured game of mental gymnastics you've engaged in here.
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You’re going to see a lot of stuff like this in the next week or two. A lot of it is warmed over propaganda from the Chinese state, the function of which was to justify invasion and colonization.
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It should be illegal to talk about dating, romance, relationships, etc, on twitter. I can’t remember the last time I saw advice that wasn’t either just bad and stupid or designed to make the recipient feel like shit about life.
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@luso_brendan “do yoga” lol
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You don’t need these guys to explain things to you, you know. You can read the sutras, you can employ the same meditation manuals people used 500 years ago.
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Dear fresh religious converts of all types, dear bliss-meditators, dear catharsis-havers: you’re going to suffer. Life is going to throw stuff at you couldn’t begin to imagine beforehand. All that looks simple will be found to be complex when the noonday light gives way to dusk.
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The main problem with “vitalism” is that it’s all ism and no vital. It’s unreflexive, studied, intellectual, and ideological. Worse, in being ideological, it’s frequently bitter and vindictive, driven by exactly the kind of ressentiment that vitalist prophet Nietzsche spent so…
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The fact that this sentiment is expressed with the image of no-pants-anarchist jumping around in some kind of autistic fit completes it perfectly.
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Then we change the world.
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Narcissism makes people extremely flat and boring. Whether it’s outright vanity or preoccupation with one’s own suffering, it makes one cramped and sterile. If you are a narcissist of the second type (preoccupied with your suffering) this probably stings because you feel like…
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Me and my mutuals
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Chinese politician Qiang Nengxun dies in Peking. He was 56. Quiang served as Prime Minister from 1918 to 19 and founded the Red Swastika Society, the Chinese version of the Red Cross.
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Yellowstone fucking sucks, by the way - I agree with that much.
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If they succeed, they will open doors to personal Hells they never could have imagined, and this is entirely appropriate in every karmic and moral sense.
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Dear all: I feel a little edgy and off tonight, and would like to be reminded of mystery, wonder, and beauty. Kindly recommend underrated gem cinema in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Nothing too cynical or excessively dark.
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I mean, my mind is really blown by the admission of total fucking emptiness. She watches a man die in confused mania and is sent into religious ecstasy, and she thinks everyone is just. Like. Her.
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One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it’s the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed. In this fraudulent civilization where everything is fake and stupid,
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@nealjclark1 I’ve often observed that ethnonarcissists of all varieties don’t actually like their heritage very much or want to know anything about it. They prefer fantasy narratives (“I am a pre-Christian aryan Viking,” or “Black Americans carry the torch of African tradititions”) that...
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All civilization is sorcery. There is *no* civilization apart from sorcery. The moment man speaks, utters his first words, he is engaged in the re-ordering and manipulation of his world. The first image he scrapes in the dirt is his first magic glyph.
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Western Buddhists get over their infantile reactive anti-Christianity and attachments to a secular materialist worldview - (nearly) impossible.
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Always entertained by the shock of some western Buddhists when they encounter what Buddhism is in practice to thr great majority of its adherents
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@nealjclark1 As someone else pointed out, Mishima is significant specifically because he was saturated in illness and chose to remake himself, through fantasy and hard work, into the image of what he desired most.
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@tricksyrix I'm not sure, exactly. I've heard it framed as a lack of resources (e.g, increased population + consumer demand + finite wood, leather, etc), but I don't really believe this. I think the "eat the bugs" stuff we're encountering today is just the new version of something that's...
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Westerners love to use the doctrine of emptiness to neutralize things they find unpalatable in the Dharma. This is frustrating because there are a lot of partial truths being mixed in with errors (either willful or innocent).
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Extremely sad post, and the thing that bothers me most about it is he thinks the only reason anyone would object to him here is because they have a "2024 mentality." You shouldn't be allowed to have this much money and know so little about the past.
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Last night I went to a concert. The music was energizing. The setting was beautiful. My friends were great. And I danced, which is my favorite thing to do. This morning I feel pretty wrecked. The data confirmed what I subjectively feel: my restorative sleep dropped by 50%.
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@simplulo @mattparlmer This seems like an elaborate gymnastic attempt to blame black urban criminality in the Midwest on poor southern white culture. But the whole thing falls apart when you observe that the blamed southern whites are not engaging in high levels of crime.
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May every single soul gloating in the comments discover, firsthand, what it is like to become a pariah, abandoned by the world and made into a receptacle for the dark passions of millions of cowardly halfwits. Let it be so. 🙏📿
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Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, was stabbed 22 times in prison last week by an inmate who is being charged with attempted murder.
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