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the void does in fact belong to women

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put a frame around it and belongs to whoever buys it

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im creating a playlist to listen to on 9/11 (SORRY). İf anyone has any suggestions for a wonderful jingle, i'd love it.

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you've already accepted that you won't be able to read long books like,

in search of lost time?

i didn't accept anything

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still want to hear your thoughts on catholicism being the fuel to metal

Just by paying

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For some reason, thinking about all the books im not going to read is what bothers me the most, that and not living in Rio de Janeiro alone.

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i was like this at the start of the year; today is my 29th birthday, and i feel like i was blown up by a car bomb in my face.

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People have to drink 3 times as much now to make the memories go away because of the tariffs. İ don't know how a man can stand to spend 80 years on earth paying taxes, i hope tomorrow doesn't come to anyone.

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Does anyone know where i can find/download the "DSM-5-TR Casebook"?

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Atika & Omar

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johnny cash

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Vampire Four-Day Work Week. that's it, that's all i got. Labor Day, What a privilege to be a slave.

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How i feel wearing this shirt.

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[geometrygirl]

So it’s been said ad nauseam at this point one of the inspirations behind “Dune” was Frank Herbert’s observation that messianism comes from the desert. This isn’t fully correct imo (although the messianic or prophetic or apocalyptic religions Herbert must’ve had in mind may look like “desert” movements to western eyes, or to those who take the religions’ origin stories at face-value). Judaism originates in the pastoral-agrarian hill country of Judea, and reached its full development in the urbanized, imperial polis of hellenistic Jerusalem. Christianity took shape in the coastal trade cities of Rome. The rise of Islam corresponds to the emergence of centralized urban dominance in Arabia, linked to the historic civilization-centers of Rome and Persia. It’s true that all three religions have origin stories based in the desert, but these are more from a city-dwelling outsider’s perspective ex. Moses, Jesus and Muhammed go into the wilderness to be purified, tested, receive the word of the god, away from the corrupted urban world, to which they inevitably return. But messianism and prophecy and apocalypticism seem more the products of complex, stratified urban societies (usually in periods of imperial transition) not desert nomadism, which is typically pagan. This is why it’s so unconvincing in “Dune” that Paul Atreides would amass a fanatic cult among nomadic tribesmen. What Frank Herbert got right is that messianism comes about in sites of imperial conflict over trade, which, in the world of antiquity, meant over some form of spice.

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Like tbqh to me the Fremen are not really desert nomads in the traditional sense either, they live in underground communities ranging from villages to cities composed of hundreds of thousands of families. It’s only from an outsider perspective they appear as simple desert dwelling nomads. The various films don’t really give a proper sense to the scale of the sietches conveyed in the novels.

And obvs there’s the difference in Dune that the religion of the Fremen is not “organic” but engineered precisely and deliberately by a complex, stratified urban society ex. the bene gesserit. I don’t think it’s explicit in any of the books but one can see some Fremen beliefs as more pagan, such as seeing the sand-worms as divine beings / avatars of god, distinct from the bene geserit mythology imposed on them from the outside.