the great Tumblr post

by a male born 1985 Stranger on the Internet What then shall I do?

[realityhop]

"Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men."

— Imlac in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia (1759)

[barbariankingdom]

Born in 1815, George Boole was mathematician, philosopher, logician and he’s best known for being credited with devising the Boolean algebra and laying the foundations for the information age

[charlesfourier-blog]

[realityhop]

Born in 1772, Charles Fourier was a philosopher and utopian theorist best known for proposing communal phalanstères and advocating sexual freedom alongside cooperative reorganization of work and society. He argued for planned, self-sufficient communities where labor matches individual passions, property and income are distributed according to contribution, and social institutions (marriage, education, and the relations of the sexes) are reformed to promote harmony and equality.

[realityhop]

"And this tendency to see life on spiritual bedrock was mirrored by a thickening of the cortex, offering some evidence that sustained spiritual life is neuroprotective against depression."

— Lisa Miller, How spirituality protects your brain from despair (2023)

[realityhop]

"[C]ausality moves in both directions at once. Material conditions obviously shape people’s receptivity to certain ideas. But ideas have their own inner logic, and without the cognitive framing they provide, people will interpret their material conditions differently."

— Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018)

[realityhop]

"But what about human liberty? Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings? … Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate."

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1959)

[musicdeluxe-blog1]

curiosity (2012) // carly rae jepsen

honorable mentions:

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talk to me

just a step away

rate: “ recommendation “  

[albumarchives]

Sunn O))) | Monoliths & Dimensions (2009)

[artemis-maia]

-Kazuma Kaneko’s depiction of Lailah and traditional depictions

Along with Gabriel and Uriel, Lailah will always be my favorite angel since I love the explaination for the philtrum.

Lailah/Laylah (which translates as “night” (the word is also used for night)) is an angel of conception and a Dominion. She is said to have supported Abraham in battles and is the only angel with a definite feminine name in the angel hierachy (“lah” is a feminine ending). Her story is told in the Talmud and according to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there is a Tree of life or the Tree of Souls that blossoms and produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the Treasury of Souls. Gabriel reaches into the treasury and takes out the first soul that comes into his hand. Then Lailah, the Angel of Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born. She is in charge of conception and takes a drop of semen and places it before God asking him if the person will be male or female, rich or poor, weak or strong etc. God allows the child to have a free will regarding the choice of turning out good or evil.

Then she chooses a soul from the Garden of Eden and it enters the embryo. She places a candle on the head of the embryo and watches over it, teaches the Torah, about the soul, God etc. Before the birth, Lailah extinguishes the light and strikes the embryo above the lip, making it forget what was learned. The mark of Lailah is said to be the philtrum (the vertical groove in the middle area of the upper lip which every human has). The knowledge Lailah is said to have taught to the embryo is said to be hidden after the birth and is still present.

Lailah is a contrast to Lilith (due to the connection with night). While Lilith is said to devour children Lailah protects them. She is also closely connected to the Guardian Angel concept and is guarding souls in the afterlife.

[leography-17]

Video #08 Katy Perry / The Prismatic World Tour Live (2015)

[realityhop]

"I believe that the human person is not reducible to his or her passions but is capable of transcending them. If this is true, then the role of politics shifts [from the science of managing power] to creating the conditions for such transcendence, while also protecting those who are weaker from those who do not manage their passions virtuously."

— Angela Franks | FairerDisputations (2026)

[melonatures]

[realityhop]

"[Marquis de Sade] drives a wedge between sex and emotion. Force, not love is the law of the universe, the highest pagan truth."

— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

[realityhop]

"Developmental relationships are the ones that ebb and flow, navigating life’s many issues, and growing from them. Destiny relationships—those of fate and perfection and "the one"—often break when the mythology of perfect love with "the one" reveals itself in the cracks of our relationships."

— Esther Perel & Mary Alice Miller (2021)

[baileye]

A spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks".

The term was introduced in the early 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist

[realityhop]

"One of the reasons that people leaving religion can be skeptical of all spirituality is because the first knock you’ll get on your door upon exiting organized religion is from the astrologers. … The Christianity-to-witch pipeline is a quick ride. Like other spiritual paths, there are gems worth mining and rabbit holes worth avoiding."

— Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality (2024)

[carmensandiego-femslash]

Scientist Carmen Sandiego is gorgeous.