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let people drink the 'Boris Broth' from the dark sarcophagus

@7SecularSermons @DefenderOfBasic Very constructive, and kind to share, Daniel.

@DefenderOfBasic Ecstatic feelings get RISCOVERED. Religions have INVENTED interpretatative frames ready for them. When I inconveniently got those feeling as a committed atheist, atheism lacked an interpretative frame. Here's mine. No compromise on atheism or empiricism. sevensecularsermons.org/why-atheists-n…

this keeps happening over & over. It's because religion is discovered, NOT invented

@sun_girlxo @QiaochuYuan If you're aware of an absence of tension, I reckon you're most of the way there! Fuel that awareness as long as you can, savour what your scrutiny uncovers. There's plenty to notice, and to notice slowly and peaceably.

@QiaochuYuan The other day someone asked me what relaxation *feels* like and I realized that I’ve only ever known it as an absence of tension. The person told me that for them relaxation feels like a warm energy running throughout their body. I’ve never experienced that but now want to!

i have no idea how to relax. guys. how do you relax. what are 3 examples of "purposeful relaxation activities". describe 5 memories of times when you were relaxed and the causes and conditions of your relaxation. link me to a 120-page pdf on the neuropsychology of relaxation

@QiaochuYuan Attempt stillness. Allow stillness. Observe what is not still, and attempt to allow it to be still. This is a task of fine balance, which is easy or difficult depending on how much you've practiced it. It's easy to have never practiced it in your life.

@QiaochuYuan Aspects of relaxation come in moments of immersion in tasks, in sports, in performance. An exercise regime of broad spectrum relaxation would need to be undertaken with great patience, as it is against your grain and just seems fruitless until it bears fruit.

@SmilingKylan @dominicknero I especially think Desperados and The Faculty are awesome

@dominicknero Robert Rodriguez movies are either awesome or totally junk. I could never figure that dude out. I'll always have love for him after Planet Terror and Machete (but only the first one)

do u ever think about how robert rodriguez made spy kids as a fun green screen action movie for kids and then 25 yrs later every mainstream hollywood movie is just spy kids

@vividvoid Mandy (2018) is exquisite and feels deeply mythical and sensitively honouring of the spirit though excruciating horror - and I haven't been able to map it to a particular tradition

What are the most beautiful, profound movies about religion or spirituality that you've ever seen? I'm compiling a list

@griggori @vividvoid I particularly like the stultified Pope Innocent III spiritually and physically encrusted in Vatican opulence and bureaucracy

@vividvoid It’s been years since I saw it, but Brother Sun, Sister Moon affected me. It’s about the life of St Francis.

I am also on the other twitter, with the same handle

How it feels to have 100+ tabs open

hello beautiful fern

@michaelcurzi Prefiguration, to prefigure, to take prefigurative action. Reification, to reify. Rendering. Realising.

We need a male coded word for the not-quite-woo thing 'manifestation' is adjacent to which is more like 'determining that xyz is going to be reality by performing it as part of taking action to enact it'. Like 'behaving like a winner' or ' dressing for the job you want'

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

@LucyXIV I think the "X" is to abnegate the virtual - connect to the real life, eyes on the road not on your phone, don't hit the squatch

@DejaCoup @eigengraulein @JasonKPargin What about interlacing your fingers? One is likely more right feeling.

Do you know what it means when they ask a man if he dresses "right" or "left" when getting clothes tailored? I feel like this used to be common knowledge

@JosiahHawthorne He explains himself well through his formative years in the fires of bulletin boards on the great podcast Ten Thousand Posts tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/unlocked-i-j…

@perroAsalariado @generalslug @SAMOYEDCORE "candy corn" is a US candy stereotyped for being very unappreciated, motivating the self-acceptance in the cartoon. The "cone" response amuses because it doesn't have the cultural reference, but still engages sincerely. vox.com/2015/10/29/963…

@generalslug @SAMOYEDCORE Okay, I don't get it. What's this?

this reply has been stuck on loop in my head for two days now

@drborgle I'm getting Adric

this gives so much "classic doctor who screenshot" vibes idk what it is

@IrateMaxwell @seanbeegee I occasionally search 'music video' (and exclude a couple of very productive languages), uploaded in the last week/month, and sort by most views. Plenty isn't for me, but I find it interesting to see trends, am introduced to new artists, and there's choreography and filmmaking.

@seanbeegee Do people still even watch music videos, outside of diehard stans? I think it's been a decade since I've actually watched one

@JosephOReilly3 @vividvoid I only know 'TPOT'/'this part of Twitter' for describing 'the milieu of contemplative/mystic/spiritual practitioners who tweet about it'. 'This part' sounding generic I wouldn't be surprised if it's used elsewhere though

@vividvoid Apologies for being late to the train but what is TPOT?

A brief scan of the ocean of spiritual materialism on TikTok has me thinking that either TPOT is light years ahead of the mainstream or a tiny, soon to be irrelevant curiosity

@vividvoid I'm not on that platform, but fwiw on YouTube I really enjoy 'SEEKER TO SEEKER' and 'Perlas de Sabiduría Milenaria' and 'Let's Talk Religion' for exploration and explanation that feels really wet with spirit, atop the responsible historianship I started out looking for.

I'm going to start making videos soon. Please drop your favorite spiritual / philosophical / meditation / culture / art TikToks in the replies.