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@amicusadastra Lottery Extends: the dream of controlling one's destiny Obsolescence: the belief that one has the ability to control their destiny Flips: into gambling addiction, placing the bet becomes more important than winning Retrieves: fortuna or vice as escape from work/drudgery

If I’m going to do 10% of the projects I’ve discovered dormant in my library, I’m going to have to start playing the lottery. A serious volume placing together the critical work of McLuhan, Eliot, and Pound is necessary.

@FrankiePaul64 Jim Starlin's run was the greatest cosmic run of all time.

Comic Book Cavalcade!

@RackSpinner That Cap cover is so Jack Kirby...!

Stars Shined! THE SPINNER RACK, May 24, 1977! 1/2

@TheVallyD Nothing worse than a 'perfect' film that manipulates what you feel and think via production/editing like Spielberg. You can make discoveries in low budget and imperfect films.

Watching low-budget and/or bad films is basically a zen mindfulness practice for me.

@soulmeaning Good one Terri

"Prayer is the needle joining together the edges of the seen and unseen worlds." ~ Caitlin Matthews

@theralkia Jerking off to chicks from the past at least when I'm done their gone real fast -Circle Jerks

@BackintheBronze That Avengers with Antman was my favorite as a kid as I was into ants. I took that comic wherever I went.

George Perez's Teen Titans or George Perez's Avengers? Happy Sunday all!

@InternetH0F Bodybuilding is narcissism taken to extremes. The goal is not to be healthy or strong but to control others people reaction to you.

Brazilian bodybuilder Gabriel Ganley has passed away at the age of 22

@Floridap8triot @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul That is the scum of the earth right there.

Another day in the progressive paradise: a predator brazenly accosts a defenseless woman on the subway, while commuters avert their eyes and law enforcement remains a distant myth. This is the predictable harvest of soft-on-crime governance. @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul — your city bleeds.

@TheNetDaily To me this guy has found a spirituality in his constant training and looks well.

Meet the “most dangerous” inmate in Santa Rita 😭

@bfearless333 🙏❤️

I'm still on the mend. 🥹 I appreciate everyone who is patient with me, instead of consume and leave. ♥️🙏🏻

@AlphaBratAlina These egoic statements are spiritual killers.

The throne was always mine. They’re just now noticing 🔥🔥

@soulmeaning Step 4 was/is a gamechanger for me. Whenever a fear or resentment pops up now I trace it back to my root by asking myself what aspect/part of me does it threaten? Thank you for your responses. I enjoy your posts.

@Doug_Entropy Step 4 softens ego distortions. I've been in the rooms many times and listened to people painfully and obviously in the grip of ego distortions lecture others about all manner of things. A person like that does not carry a healthy message for others who are seeking sobriety.

Spiritual teachings that come from unhealed, unintegrated intellect/ego are prone to distortions. Everything downstream of that, no matter any bright, shiny, extravagant promises it makes, is fruit of the poison tree. How can you tell the difference? Spiritual discernment.

@soulmeaning Yes...!

@Doug_Entropy Many AA members do not work the steps, especially the crucial step 4, the moral inventory, which requires going within and working on the self. They do the first 3 steps and skip to step 12 and then they white knuckle sobriety, which makes their recovery brittle.

@SoberImposter No, if you are a friend of Bill W you did not regain control.

I didn’t get sober for a long while because I wasn't ready to face reality, but the day I chose sobriety, I regained control, clarity, and joy. My journey taught me the strength within us is limitless. Every step forward is a victory! 🌟 #SobrietySuccess #JourneyToRecovery

@theralkia I stole your 'even if you get what you want you won't be happy' line for my AA speaking engagement. Thank you...!

You could have everything that society tells you you need and still feel empty. What you really want is an open heart and the presence to sit in it.

@soulmeaning When your light shines thats when narcissists pull out their knives.

I learned this in art college. The brightest light casts the darkest shadows.

@soulmeaning Critical thinking as important now as ever...

I don't wanna be an AI Luddite, really I don't, but Grok AI literally lied to me when I asked about a certain issue. When I pushed back and corrected Grok, it immediately apologized and changed its answer. If it will lie about small things, it will lie about important things too

@jungianLaura I would not have the capacity for joy if i did not feel despair. And my joy can turn to mania if i don't have awareness to manage it.

“The grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good by enantiodromia, and what good may very possibly lead to evil.” ~C.G. Jung, “The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales,” The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, CW 9i, par. 397 🎨: Awakening the Pneumatic Champion, Adrian Cox.