[correctopinionhaver]

[sentrys]

[deathandmysticism]

Oswald Croll, Hermetic Touchstone, 1647

[turnupthestrobe]

[beardedmrbean]

[catcrumb]

[cryptotheism]

About a year ago I was sitting in a really shitty corporate cafe and reading a book about medieval astronomy. There was a passage about how when we look up at the sky, we see titanic balls of gas all whirling about according to physics, but when a medieval person looked up at the sky, they saw literal divine clockwork turned by uncountable invisible spirits.

I was sitting in a shitty cafe, and I had a moment of realization. I knew logically that's how people used to see the night sky, but something about that moment just clicked. I felt what I can only describe as intellectual vertigo, as I realized "holy shit the world is really different than it was 700 years ago."

[cryptotheism]

I feel like y'all aren't getting this.

When medieval folks looked up at the sky, it wasn't with wonder or optimism. It was with the exact same boredom that we look at the sky with.

"yep. It's the sky. Stars are pretty."

The fact that they were seeing the divine clockwork of the universe was exactly as commonplace and uninteresting as it is to us. Sure there are some folks that really like the sky, some folks devote their lives to studying it, but to most folks it's just the sky.

It wasn't wonderous or enchanted, it was just the sky. Yeah the heavens are a great machine powered by innumerable spirits. This was exactly as normal as the sky being filled with impossibly large and distant fusion reactors. The heavens were full of living spirits that tended to their divinely appointed tasks, and nobody really gave that much of a shit.

[blackpyrefly]

girls aren't saying this about me yet but they will be

[arsenicinshell]

Papier mâché Easter Eggs boxes reproducing several motifs of William Morris Purchase

[totallykyle]

blessedhaus

[allsadnshit]

Me tonight for some reason

[kingcatnine]

the devious devourer

[energyprison]

the devilish dispenser

[oneheadtoanother]

[jareckiworld]

Adrian Ghenie — The Spanish Room (oil on canvas, 2023)

[youmegravity]

I need people to understand that sometimes autism is just this

[theweirdwideweb]

[kaceymusgrayes]

People being dropped from agencies and movie/tv projects left and right for supporting Palestine but Amy Schumer, Brett Gelman and Noah schnapp can just post incredibly disgusting, genocidal comments and face no consequence

[barbiesplasticsurgeons]