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This is the social media equivalent of stopping withdrawals during a bank run.
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Peter Borah
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Peter Borah
@PeterBorah
A shadowy, faceless supercoder.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ekim 2013
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Peter Borah retweetledi
@SeishinWrites By far the best source for me has been this OSINT discord:
discord.gg/projectowl
It's a firehose, but a well-moderated one.
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@SeishinWrites Word of caution: I've been told (and from my own experience suspect it's true) that you can really screw yourself over by combining practices from different systems that might move energy in different ways. It may be wise to stick to practices from your tradition for now. [3/3]
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@SeishinWrites Other names include "odic force", "magnetism" (which comes from Mesmerism), "orgone" (from Wilhelm Reich), nwyfre (in modern Druidry). The most complete system I know of personally is in Franz Bardon's work ("Initiation into Hermetics"). [2/3]
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@meditationstuff Somewhat orthogonal to your point, but: I think if you _always_ do anything, that's already a mistake.
In the muscle tension example, I might try either of those, or ignore it, or see if I can feel it on an emotional level, or do an energy visualization, or...
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"I've got muscle tension in a spot on my back."
(A) "Therefore, I should (gently) attend to it."
(B) "Therefore, I should distribute my attention throughout my body, evenly."
(C) ???
People make choices in meditation based on usually implicit models of meditation/mind/etc.! 1/
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Peter Borah retweetledi
Just talking to my Chinese ex: two foreign sailors on shore leave in Qingdao just tested positive for covid. So now in the middle of the night everyone in Qingdao has to get up and go tested. Right now, not in the morning. Because of two cases.
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@sonyasupposedly Like, how would one know what sin is, if one wanted to try to avoid it?
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@PeterBorah On what level do you mean? Like metaphysically, or object-level, or?
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You shouldn't sin. Not only should you avoid sinning — you shouldn't even want to sin in the first place.
But your foregone failure to meet these standards can be wholly forgiven.
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@marshallk It would take a _lot_ of climate change to be an existential threat. Maybe if some of the scarier positive feedback loop possibilities happened? Though surely even then some people would survive in, like, Antarctica.
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Do *you* believe climate change is an existential threat?
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@meditationstuff @Aella_Girl I also think it's good to avoid double negatives in a poll, fwiw.
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yes/no should have been true/false, sigh. if clear enough please RT. @Aella_Girl
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PIV sex AMAB dudes (either cut or intact):
(1) you CAN'T orgasm in < ~3-15 minutes of PIV sex
(2) you ARE into "extreme" porn or hentai or narrow fetish stuff or etc
(no room for show results so I will RT at close and/or can ask me for interim screencaps if you're curious)
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@nosilverv I don't know that his sc picks are much different from what a replacement-level republican would do, though?
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What people don't get is that Trump appointed 3/9 of the SCOTUS. His legacy will already loom for 400 years.
LindyMan@PaulSkallas
If Trump dies from this virus his legacy will loom over America for the next 400 years like a ghost that haunts this nation. He'll be a permanent fixture in people's imagination
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@m_ashcroft @nosilverv I've had glimpses of how to get past it. Those glimpses involved acting """from""" the higher self/crown chakra/"""god""".
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@nosilverv I sometimes wonder if I am at least adjacent to this place.
How did you get past it? Did you?
I don't see it as a bad thing. Quite the opposite. But it does make acting like a normal human in society more challenging.
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@diviacaroline For what it's worth, it was already only like 85% before he tested positive. I've never been quite sure what that was tracking, but maybe it's not just covid risk?
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That said, I think only 75% to complete his first term seems way too low. I might bet on this.
predictit.org/markets/detail…
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My guess is that the White House doctor would tend towards downplaying the severity of his symptoms, so I think this is a bad sign.
Still unlikely he dies, but I think at this point it’s not unlikely he gets pretty sick.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House doctor: Trump received experimental antibody cocktail, remains 'fatigued' after COVID-19 diagnosis.
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@liminal_warmth In the past, I've found Dropbox much more seamless than Google Drive, but I don't know if the latter has gotten better recently.
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@grizwald87 @liminal_warmth Wouter Hanegraaff argues that the key distinction at the time the name "chemistry" arose was that alchemists thought they were rediscovering the wisdom of the ancients, and cared about things like analysis of ancient texts, while chemists didn't care about that.
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@limitoftruth @grizwald87 @liminal_warmth This is Jung's interpretation, and it's true about a lot of post-1800 alchemical books, but it doesn't hold water for early alchemy. Historians are starting to be able to recreate some of the chemical experiments alchemical texts describe.
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@grizwald87 @liminal_warmth As far as I can tell, alchemy isn't actually about metals or salts but the development of the psyche, written in code language
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@EpistemicHope @Morphenius This feels like overanalysis to me. An orthodoxy attacking a heretic is one of the basic moves of human society. It doesn't need a particularized explanation.
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@Morphenius, my guess is that you don't have much desire to wade into this again, but feel free to chip in if you feel like I've misrepresented you.
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