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I have never seen someone escape the cycle of suffering and reach true and perfect zen the way that one of my D&D players, an honest-to-god tenured college dean and professor, does when he inhabits his 7 INT bardlock elf prettyboy. Brain goes in a jar on the shelf for two hours. Nothing between those pointy ears but one jingle bell rolling back and forth. Refers to his patron as his "sugar mama" and That Warlock Cantrip as "Elvis blast." You can SEE the player knowing and suspecting things and gleefully not acting on them. I love it so much. Next week I'm gonna see if I can bait him into fucking a vampire milf. I bet it'll work
UPDATE: despite the best efforts of the orc fighter/paladin, he did in fact fuck the vampire milf
Hi my name is Don Quixote of La Mancha the Knight of the Rueful Figure and I have a rueful figure (that's how I got my name) with purple bruised ribs and tall stature and gaunt features and hair turning gray and a rather hooked aquiline nose and large black drooping mustaches and a lot of people tell me I look like AmadĂs of Gaul (AN: if u donât know who he is begone!). Iâm not related to Lady Oriana but I wish I was because sheâs an incomparable flowering beauty. Iâm a knight errant but some of my teeth and grinders are missing. I have long lank limbs. Iâm also a defender of damsels, protector of orphans, succourer of the needy, righter of wrongs, undoer of injustice, and I wander a magic countryside called the mountains of Spain where Iâm in my first year of knighthood (Iâm forty-nine). Iâm a gentleman (in case you couldnât tell) and I wear mostly armor. I love my great-grandfather's forgotten corner of the house and I cobble together all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a doublet of fine cloth with matching shoes and velvet breeches and a helmet, morion, visor, breastplate and backpiece. I was riding outside La Mancha. It was early morning so the rays of the sun fell obliquely and the heat did not distress me, which I was very happy about. A lot of giants stared at me. I put up my pasteboard visor at them.
"I would never-"
You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.
I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.
ngl, its wild to see that people shitting on a non-transition trans person & lowkey associating that "real/true" trans people have to go on HrT & have top + bottom surgery
its giving transmedicalism never left yalls mind & that the trans community never truly healed + you also never decolonized gender & all those years were performative
I genuinely believe that a lot of the reason that the American left is so ineffectual and self-sabotaging is because of how deeply and unrepentantly calvinist it is.
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean by this.
Absolutely. So I am a person who grew up very much ensconced in Good Christian Values in the US and as an adult had to painstakingly deconstruct my cultural Christianity in order to assimilate into Jewish culture. It was hard work, let me tell you. It's been almost a decade and I still occasionally find things I need to examine.
Bottom line: I know what I'm talking about because I've lived it on both sides.
The US is absolutely saturated with cultural Christianity in general and the calvinist values of the original settlers in particular. The vast majority of people in the US are either Christian or culturally Christian. Because of this, everyone who does not do the immense amount of work to deconstruct those views and values and actively replace them with something different is going to be coming at the world from this viewpoint.
One of those views has to do with equating purity with integrity. Purity of thought, purity of actions, and purity of associations. Anything impure must be shunned and cast aside. Once someone or something has been deemed impure, you must immediately cut all ties too or you will also become impure.
I'm sure you can see how this plays out when trying to build a coalition around a specific area of advocacy: coalition building is damn hard when everyone you might ally with is viewed as being fully 100% endorsed for all topics and purposes by you once you ally with them. This creates three major problems: 1) You have a much smaller pool of people to draw from, once you've vetted them to make sure that you fully agree with them on everything, 2) it means that your cause must be every cause and you must form full-fledged opinions on every major topic regardless of whether it relates to your focus area, so that ultimately every cause is seen as so thoroughly related that it's hard to focus on just one issue, and 3) you ultimately end up with a bloc of groupthink, because to remain in the coalition (and therefore within its protection) you must tow the party line on the other issues. If you don't, you risk being cast out due to the purity of association thing.
The purity of actions piece makes it exceptionally difficult for people to come back from mistakes, which inevitably everyone is going to make. There is a process of sorts, but the "accountability" I've seen from the left is far less focused on learning from your mistakes and correcting the harm you caused to the best of your ability, and far more about accepting whatever unreasonable demands, public shaming, and abuse people want to heap on you for an indefinite period of time. There is no clear ending to it and no guarantee of real forgiveness, but it starts the second you flinch and admit that you screwed up. This process is so demoralizing and painful that many people leave and never return. The ones who do are unlikely to ever admit a mistake ever again.
The purity of mind thing makes it really difficult to interrogate these issues at all. Christianity itself has become something of a persona non grata in leftist spaces because of how terrible the church as an institution and many individual Christians have been to various minorities. So many people have deep, irreparable spiritual wounds from Christianity that discussing cultural Christianity or unpacking the ideas they absorbed from it is itself a trigger for their religious trauma. So things like the above analysis? Not something that is likely to happen unprompted and often gets a massive emotional reaction when pointed out to people by outsiders. Nevertheless, these ideas are all carried over from people's Christian or culturally Christian backgrounds and then never unpacked and examined critically.
And even if you can get past the trauma reaction, there is a huge barrier of understanding that cultural Christianity actually exists, is a real factor in society, and is something people need to be aware of. Namely: Christianity itself tries to separate itself from culture to be able to infiltrate every possible other culture, and therefore the very idea of religion-as-culture is difficult to fathom for those inside of it. There is a resistance to questioning doctrine and what has been deemed to be the right beliefs, and there is a resistance to understanding how this is a meta version of the thing itself.
Another mental purity thing that comes up is that Christianity has correct belief ("faith") at the heart of its core beliefs. If you stop believing, you are no longer a member in good standing, and that is also really the only way TO leave. Therefore, to leave, a lot of people simply stop believing in the core required religious tenets without unpacking anything further. Pointing out to them that there is much more work to do and in fact that it has just started, causes major breakdowns because they did the One Thing They Weren't Supposed to Do. They quit believing in the actual spiritual elements, and have accepted all of the fury and threats of hell that came with it. So if you say: "My guy, you just substituted this particular leftist work for the Bible and The Revolution for Revelations, you might want to reconsider that and look at how it's effecting your advocacy," expect waterworks and gnashing of teeth rather than introspection and commitment to change.
And as someone who's done that work?
It's maddening.
Oh and by the way, you might (those of you who are engaging your critical thinking skills and not just taking my word for it) be thinking, "Sure, okay Avital, but if the American left is culturally Christian, how much more so must the American right, who are actually often fundamentalist Christians, be! If what you're saying is true, why aren't they having these same problems, hmm?"
Great question! Glad you asked!
Two things:
A) Well, actually they are having many of those same problems (think about the whole bizarre RINO, uhh Thing, for example); and,
B) There are a number of other factors that contribute to their ability to work with (or at least around) these problems in ways that the left can't or won't, but a lot of them boil down to the following:
They accept authority and appeals to authority far more than leftists
They are frequently single issue voters (the forced birth movement in particular is notoriously bad on this level) and so can be convinced to ally with the actual scum of the earth if their one major issue is addressed; this does not create a purity issue because their locus of purity centers on that one issue rather than a larger framework of social justice where all issues are intersectional
Probably a lot of other reasons; I'll tag @batboyblog to see if he has additional thoughts on the civics/voting side of things
But most importantly from my perspective on this post: they are actually Christians, so they have the theological framework to address these holdups internally. The big problem with leaving Jesus behind but still applying those views and beliefs to secular issues is that when things don't make sense, there's no home base to center corrections on.
A lot of this actually runs sorta contrary to actually Christian theology (especially vis a vis forgiveness) and so Christians are often able to actually course-correct by returning to that doctrine when needed. But if you are applying end times theology to The Revolution without even understanding that that's what you're doing and are unwilling to even consider examining that? It's a lot harder to then fix what you won't see.
So @goose-onthe-loose your tags:
I've been kinda waiting for someone to say something to this effect because this comes up a lot when cultural Christianity is discussed.
The thing is that it's not that these are specific to Christianity, such that they only appear in Christianity and nowhere else, but rather that when people from culturally Christian places act on these values, it is almost always because they were raised in a Christian culture. Also, even if other cultures have similar ideas around purity, it is going to manifest differently because they have different underpinning justifications and history behind it.
pulitzer prize winning newspapers be like "can fish feel anything? we just don't know. anyway, should chatgpt be granted legal personhood?"
A staggering amount of people are more willing to accept that a computer program experiences consciousness over an entire class of vertebrates and it's driving me insane
fish have rich and complex lives!!!
"trans men transition because they hate women and femininity" I've literally never seen a group of men who felt so guilty and ashamed of their masculinity and being male or who loved and supported women and femininity as much as trans men in my life but ok. just throw away their support it's whatever
I am OBSESSED with Napoleon's mom, like imagine skipping out on your son's coronation as self-made emperor because you're mad at his wife and having to be 19th-century-photoshopped in and then when asked about him you're like "WELL LET'S HOPE HE LASTS"
When you talk about mutual aid, a certain strain of leftist pipes up to say âyeah but youâll never fix the problems that way. The only way to fix the problem is to overthrow capitalismâ
And I just wonder how they think that will happen. Will you need food to overthrow capitalism? Will you need beds? Clothes repaired? Medicine synthesized? Will you need to know the people around you and have them be willing to fight on your side, or hide you, or tend your wounds? Will you pay for your precious munitions, or will you as a community learn to build the infrastructure to make and repair them?
Mutual aid is the supply line of a revolution. Feeding people, housing people, living in community, meeting each others needs. These are not only the means by which we win, they are also the end goals of any true radical movement.
Donât wait for the mythical moment where the people will get so hungry that they rise. Feed people, talk to them, get them on your side. Build something worth defending. Practice now. Live now.
having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.
Itâs practically 2014 and you guys still donât know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes
A tarot deck where The Fool is just a tiny mirror that reflects your face
had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called âwhat do you serve?â and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was âare you the spider? or are you the web?â and it had an option for each but I didnât click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed âI think Iâm the flyâ and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said âyou serve truthâ and the description just read âwhat you know will kill you but you will die laughingâ so like. good morning everyone I guess :/
OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep
âWhat you know will kill you but you will die laughingâ needs to be added to that list of profound statements from unlikely sources.
the funniest part of any Robin meeting the JL is that every Robin is so distinctly different from the previous one in terms of personality and vibes that the league literally gets backlash. and like, I don't blame them. not to mention that they are non-meta children that dress as a traffic light and fight crime alongside batman in gotham on a nightly basis. i'd also be a bit concerned. Batman, literally The Night of Gotham personified in the League's eyes, coming into a JL meeting: This is Robin, my crime-fighting partner. 11-year-old Dick Grayson, dressed in the brightest primary colours possible, vaguely hidden murder behind those eyes, never stops moving even for a moment: Hi! Superman: That's a child. That's-- Bats that is a child. You let a child--? Batman, deadpan: You try to stop him. Would you rather he try and murder a grown man with a wire?
Batman: This is Robin. 12-year-old Jason Todd, with the biggest grin on his face, about 3 books in his hand, stars in his eyes and a distinct street-kid drawl: Hey!!! Green Lantern: That's ... that's a different child. What?? Jason: I stole his tires :) Batman: Tried to. Jason, stage whispering to the League: basically did. Green Lantern: that is a different kid, right?? I'm not seeing shit??
Batman: This is Robin. 14-year-old Tim Drake, bo staff clutched in his hand, a wary and tired expression on his face, more on the quiet side, the literal walking definition of don't judge a book by it's cover: hello Flash: Where do you even find these-- Tim: I found myself.
Batman: This is Robin. 17-year-old Stephanie Brown, literally blonde, with a shit-eating grin, eyes full of nothing but mischief and the most explosive personality you've ever seen: hiya!! Superman: I give up. Stephanie: I know, I have that amazing effect on people.
Batman: This is Robin. 13-year-old Damian Wayne, a literal wet cat that will hiss at you, has a sword, the most judgemental stare you'll get from a teenager, ready to jump anyone there: Green Lantern: WHY DOES HE HAVE A SWORD?! Batman: ... he came with the sword.
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