It’s so funny seeing all the Japanese “New Religions” attempting to make sense of the post-WWII world with diagonal overheard takes on Western philosophy, religion, science, and psychology arranged in ways no Westerner would think to, (while often really being a tool for the guru to draw followers to extract money, sex, or political power from) and realizing the vice-versa equivalent was Buddhism

This is the exact same thing as how you had to give the state your fingerprints to be a Scoutmaster or 6th grade teacher

trupowieszcz:

museum-of-artifacts:

Roman glass bottle in the shape of a fish, 1st-2nd century A.D.

https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/?m=1
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDkvCMI1Tl/?utm_medium=tumblr

this carafe i got in a ramen bar today, place of creation unknown, 2022

bad-bi-rep:

mini-wrants:

noodleincident:

republicans are literally insane

They literally made a 15 year old cry and called her a Satanist.

Excuse me. A bipolar Satanist.

oh my god this is the mural. the same people who whine about how getting fired for saying slurs is censorship think that a 15 year old drawing rainbows must be stopped by any means necessary. quick everyone, we need to verbally abuse and publicly humiliate children! to protect the children!

I will say this is gonna look real dated before too long, like all the ‘70s-ass stuff still up when I went to school

Oh shit, BTS got conscripted? Is anyone drawing the line to that time Elvis got drafted?

I am never sure what to think about the Tinder profiles that are like 25-35 year old petite Chinese women in slightly-noticeably-tight but otherwise normie clothes and an “About Me” section that kinda sounds like a travel brochure about love, I could totally see that as scam bait but FOB girls are kinda like that (even when they’re not baiting their own scams)

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

afloweroutofstone:

Maybe you’ve had success starting drama this way before, but I generally regard anonymous messages making extremely inflammatory allegations with zero supporting evidence of any kind as a sign that you are making things up

Is this me? This vibes like one of my haters.

I mean it’s not even wrong, I do think that those are coherent extrapolations of the ethics our society is actually structured by and that that coherent attempts to follow through the logic of reversing that end up undermining everything (the whole of society) based on it, and that this is the issue that the Christian ideal of turning the other cheek or the Stoic one of just sucking it up addresses, and we should appreciate that

Like, the Christian angle isn’t just excuse-making for edginess, I’m not Christian but growing up being taken to weekly Masses to hear stories of the weird child prodigy who taught the temple elders how they were wrong and realized that if you just abandon your family and don’t mind death that no one has power over you was a huge influence

At the same time I’m definitely also heir to the ‘80s-born “aw why’d they go and ban lawn darts just cause some stupid kids couldn’t handle and got themselves killed?” sense and that’s part of it too, the sense that not only do attempts to shield everyone from harm reduce quality of life but that ungating life from these kinda penalty-of-suffering skill checks benefits those who would reduce the average quality of the population who make it in

Like, into at least the mid-90s there was a sense of culture/counterculture, that there were the cool cynical edgy young types who still lived in the crime-filled cities, and did drugs, and were relevant, and then there were the churchgoing suburban normies

And we in the cool counterculture dismissed that as bullshit but the content of their issues isn’t too far off from today…

Like, when they saw Hollywood as a sin-filled and degrading place it was very much run by people who weren’t even hiding MeToo-ass stuff. When they demanded various codes of propriety and deference to motherhood it was very much so women who understood care of others as the highest calling had affirming life experiences. They fretted about children being abused and the moral content of children’s entertainment…

Like, that was very much the message of PCU (1994) – These Proto-SJWs And Take Back The Night-Era “Rape Crisis” Feminists And The Cultural Codes They Desire Are Fundamentally Identical With What The Counterculture Rejected, And Would Degrade The Chill Life We Have Finally Normalized

But the counterculture won, and hegemonized America, but forgot that now that they were in charge they needed to keep that stuff out

funeralprocessor:

tooies:

i think “take a hike” is like the funniest response to someone. like dude just get outta here. and go experience the wonder of nature for a bit

ancestral form of touch grass

kontextmaschine:

They say proselytism is basically a numbers game with converts a function of how much effort you put into missionary work, mediated by the chance the target is open to a new path (which goes up in cases of crisis and tragedy) and the wealth difference of the mission/convert (which affects the secular appeal of community membership). Mormons and Scientologists get so many converts because they deploy existing members to spend a lot of time seeking them.

Which makes me wonder how useful Chick Tracts could’ve been in evangelism – even if the recipient is in an vulnerable state, how likely is it that the specific subject of the tract at all corresponds?

Strikes me that distributing them was more for the benefit of the distributor, who got to have the experience of affirming whatever specific position to an audience.

@space-wizards said: “chick tracts were an exercise in evangelical autofellatio” is not exactly an earth shattering insight

“What that you know of today similarly presents as outward-directed recruitment but actually functions on inward-directed lines?” is a good prompt, though.

kontextmaschine:

When I was considering becoming an Army officer a while ago I read up in preparation, because that’s what I do, and I remember one piece of advice in a guide that was like “appreciate and indulge the platoon clown; he will be an invaluable renewable source of morale in the field”

One thread of Full Metal Jacket is about the media supplanting religion as the filter through which man understands the world – closing with the victorious men staggering off singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme as a hymn. Joker’s role in the Marines as cynical journalist is chaplain.

elfgirleargasm-deactivated20241:

I’m joining the war on “problematic” kinks on the side of the problematic kinks

official-kircheis:

oh no people are using the new artistic medium to BE HORNY
buddy I hate to break it to you but the time between a new form of creative expression being invented and it being used for dicks and tits has always been measured in minutes

3liza:

learning about primatology a bit has made me a lot more tolerant of human behavior i didnt, as a huge weirdlord, intuitively understand, especially noise-based stuff. like when people scream when they meet each other somewhere. its fine, that is just affirmative social signaling and primates love to hoot n holler. theyre bonding. its loud but its important for the cohesion of the social group which is vital for species survival. i get it

1989 meme about how people will look down at crackheads while freebasing

argumate:

cop-disliker69:

argumate:

cop-disliker69:

One of my professors in college described Wikipedia as one of the most successful communist projects in existence, and I think he was right.

People working voluntarily for the benefit of all.

awkward now that it’s increasingly dominated by a clique of editors obsessed with deletion and focusing on adherence to arbitrary ideological rules over joy

Ah, bastards.

the No Original Research rule that leaves it dependent on roughly summarising knowledge acquired from capitalist enterprises is also awkwardly apt.

well, now others won’t experience that same lack.

fatsexybitch:

kontextmaschine:

You know, Walker, Texas Ranger is probably rebootable

Already tried and failed

Ah, now if we’re talking about specifically Texas heroes, look up how many times The Lone Ranger’s been rebooted

Doubt they’ll get youth transition or the attempts to write gender fluidity into the core human narrative this push, but they’ll go into the back half of the cycle regularizing more than when the ‘70s wave resolved as “if you pay for it all including years of therapy out-of-pocket you can transition so stealth that people forget it’s even a possibility”

xenosagaepisodeone:

xenosagaepisodeone:

a philosophical school of thought that is eviscerated by a single soyjack image

>purchasing indulgences

>1517

crazy-brazilian: