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Nature Of Nature’s Art style called Entopic Auscultation based on the imperfections inherent in sensory systems (you can always see your nose, your brain just ignores it; you can always hear your bloodstream, your brain just ignores it, etc.) and “tuning things out”.
the best way to end The Simpsons would be to gradually remove characters as their voice actors die, with no explanation given. until there's only one left.
architecture should use the hexagon more.
How the Perception-Reality Feedback Loop Works and How To Use It To Your Benefit And Avoid Delusion
simply perceive reality and make real what you perceive
if it's real, why do I need to make it real?
two of the coolest cities are Venice and Mexico City, and you could almost see them as opposites.
looking for Snake-Cathedral posts from his Cathedral-Snake period. will trade deleted posts of his that only exist in my memory now.
does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?
i can't post pictures in replies so here u go
thats the one! thank you!
I think of shrimp guy often and I hope he and his shrimp are doing great and if I ever meet him I would love to ask about them
He was never radicalized! He didn't deradicalize because he was not radicalized in the first place!
That post is from 2018, so the word is used in its original meaning there.
given that he uses it to describe himself, isn't the use ironic, not the way it was originally used? the way people used to use "virgin".
guy who pronounces "octopuses" "octopussies"
alternate universe where France got Jordan and Britain got Syria.
trying to find a way to have the Americas be known as "Brasil" in the world of Ich Sé Scadar... with North America being known as "High Brasil" and South America as "Low Brasil", naturally
thoughts at this time?
curl the NW end of Low Brazil upwards a bit so that it at least follows the Mississippi. it shouldn't go into the High Plains.
i drew this with my dick on a phone, PA getting in the way, riding the bus. this is not reddit, you do not have to infer Timelines. there is no Worldbuilding.
it was about geography, not timelines or settlements. the central plains are drier.
trying to find a way to have the Americas be known as "Brasil" in the world of Ich Sé Scadar... with North America being known as "High Brasil" and South America as "Low Brasil", naturally
thoughts at this time?
curl the NW end of Low Brazil upwards a bit so that it at least follows the Mississippi. it shouldn't go into the High Plains.
sneezing from sunlight always makes me feel like a particularly retarded dhampire. "one fourth undead on my father’s side" type of nonsense. i’d prefer spontaneous combustion to this shit…
the worst part is that it's an actual detriment to aircraft pilots.
there are at least two different caught-cot mergers, and people should specify which one they mean.
going to the UN to give an impassioned speech about how we need to stop recognizing nations with less than 10 million people. pointing out that the island I'm standing on has 1.6 million people, and the one next to it has over 8 million people. Cut it out, this is a joke, these aspiring micronations like Scotland and Catalonia aren't even proper cities.
nonsense. we need to stop recognizing "nations" with more than 10 million people. unleadable horrors, ungovernable monstrosities, scaled far beyond what the form can support, tied together by industrial extrusions (the newspaper, the radio, the teevee, the standard language, the imperial rites invented by the government and changed by its whim), whose monocultures incubate mass hysterias and senseless atrocities (hollywood, brony discourse, the iraq war, gamergate). the only real countries are those of the right scale to have a national epic collected from villagers and published in 1835
the only real countries are those of the right scale to have a national epic collected from villagers and published in 1835
European countries aren't real, all of their royals are inbred with each other and every national epic compiled after the Ossian prank is widely known to be yet another example of the Ossian prank. Most oral traditions that "survived" to the 19th century have an uncomfortable mixture of stories from the Biblical Apocrypha, Homer, and Benjamin Franklin because that's what they play on the radio.
And sure the people of Cagotstan will try to convince you that 54 different versions of Vulgar Latin are each the unique utterance of a separate "people" but you shouldn't believe them, they all speak Gallo-Roman or Italian or idiolectine Hiberno-Latin and all of these are mutually intelligible if you don't hold your mouth five different stupid ways.
the opinions of the european countries about their inbred germans are well attested in the literature. see masaryk et al. 1918, princip 1914, etc. compare this to the attitude of the extant empires, which have been getting reamed in the ass since time immemorial and have imperial garble in place of traditions and ancient rites. columbus day, proclaimed by america's very own inbred dutchman, whose wife's maiden name was the same as her married one, in 1934 to placate a lobbyist. your only holidays that weren't invented by the government were made up by marketers to sell barf-flavored chocolates. a nation has five thousand years of runesong; an empire has bloodsport halftime spectacle and It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!
five thousand years of runesong
nono you don't get it. the runesong *is* It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown! It's just translated into Finno-Sami. They're fake traditions, they're never more than 80 years old, it's all the backwater hicks inventing shit from the magazine in the loo last minute so they can claim they're too Volksich to made to wear pants and stop marrying their cousins to horses and shitting in the water before they drink it. Your national tales are the Jenkem of Empires, the only difference is whether it's "Rome's Caesar" or "Russia's Tsar" who shat out the poetry you fermented into a culture. No illiterate people has ever possessed a national heritage, no generations of farm laborers who shat outdoors ever had any sage wisdom they didnt hear from a christian priest, they barely had urban centers, they lived in the hinterlands, they copulated with their livestock and they ate tubers and they died. If the empire hadn't come along they'd still be doing it.
i'm not quite following the implied opposition between "jenkem" and urban centers, hives of grubby merchants who worked themselves to heirless death amid piles of horse turds and chamberpots emptied into the street, who never saw an animal that wasn't a horse or a rat, whose culture was gonorrhea and the grain dole, but no amount of comparative mythology fomenkoism can make up for the fact that the highest cultural achievements of the imperial cities are marx, freud, and popery. perhaps if you didn't insist on speaking the same industrial language product you would be less susceptible to such diseases
yeah you're most of the way there, what you miss is that the shit flows out of the empire, not into it. all your pastoral hallucinations are the product of freudo-marxist popery covered in fermented shit. it's been this way since long before Hesiod the city boy pretended he knew what an oxen was.
the seeds of culture flow through the empire, along with quite a lot of shit. even the habsburgs could ferment into worthwhile legends over the course of a few thousand years, if any of them were interesting enough to talk about
oh can it you godless liberal, that's just what they tell the prolechildrens in the mission school once they learn their letters so that they feel like their bookless families were part of the whole nation. The illiterate have no internal subjective experience, they can't "invent" anything unless a literate person told it to them first. They're philosophical zombie parrots.
literacy is a technology, not a medicine. it improves only those whose nature it is to improve themselves by it. before the modern states invented recruiting pipelines for missile jobs in DC, many of those people lived in villages, and the virtues that preadapted them to comfortable literacy found other realizations. most people do not have these virtues, and if given access to literacy will eternal september it into the kind of thing that invents qanon. if you really believed that culture is a function of biomass with access to the latest communications technology you'd be on tiktok
im not on tiktok because the pivot to video was made to accomodate the illiterate, that's why it's so popular. meanwhile im on the dying website where people still fill their mutuals' dashboards with 500 word essays arguing back and forth with each other about nothing. im not whiggish about social media technology or i would be on tiktok, but that was your premise not mine. im a literacy chauvinist, i like writing because it keeps out the undesirables. if the ISPs had wanted to exclude the calibans they'd have deliberately capped the internet bandwidth at rate too low to support streaming video, so only the people who could read a sentence could participate. no more eternal septembers after the influx of early 00s forumites willing to spend their evening arguing about whose feces built rome.
if you like text, this is a pretty good one: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
People love to make fun of Archeologists for how often we say objects were used ritualistically, as if we overuse that designation or just say it when we a don't know what something was used for. But that's only because people don't stop to think how full of ritual all of our lives are.
The meme is actually correct for the most part, hotdogs are ritually consumed during baseball games. Lots of people only even eat hotdogs if they're watching baseball. The expectation for us to eat turkey on thanksgiving is another example of us ritually consuming food. Drinking coffee every morning is another ritual we do. Going to the gym several days a week is a ritual.
"Ritual" doesn't necessarily mean "religious."
I don't know if this is actually true in the lingo of archaeology, and it's not who archaeologists in REDACTED use it. Or rather, it's not how it's translated into REDACTED. I don't think "formalised exchange" or "social script" or "annual big event" is all meant by "ritual". Archaeologists often do mean that is has something to do with cults superstitions or religion, and they often say it like that because religion, superstition, mythology, and politics are kind of all the same thing when you're talking about ancient Egypt or Babylon or people who do a rain dance. Is the rain dance ritual or agriculture, is it religion or irrigation? The people who say "ritual purposes" often mean to imply that it's all one thing.
you don't think people might be going to the gym several times in a week for more tangible reasons?
coffee every morning might more accurately be described as "addiction".
I suspect someone who goes by "Clavicular" might not be entirely serious.
what if the Aztecs were like that because of excessive nightshade alkaloids.
