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I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

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bro LMFAOOOO

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Having "a lot" of followers on tumblr is funny because probably 80% of them are ghost blogs who haven't been on here in like a decade.

It's like, no no, those aren't my followers, that's a graveyard! I'm the caretaker of a thousands of tombs. I love them, but they've been dead for seven years.

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are there any particular rigs or other tools used for something like megafauna hunting? Not necessarily combat/taking out a critter that's a danger to the area like the fighter jet dragons, but like, folks are gearing up to go bag a big critter for food/resources. Or would both of those scenarios be similar enough that there's not really any difference between the tools that would be used?

Megafauna hunting is a pretty important job under the Amber sky. Keeping any settlement or trade route safe will require regular tending by rangers.

Creatures can get quite large and extremely aggressive. Many also feature explosive healing factors that make them highly resistant to small arms and blades. The average modern combat rifle would struggle against Amber skies megafauna. They are not usually hunted for food given the effort involved.

However, oftentimes its not a question of actually killing the creature. These mega-organisms are often a keystone species that keeps herbivore populations in check. Most of the time, hunters just want to scare them away. The death of a mega-organism can risk ecological collapse.

Hunting rigs tend to be extremely light. They need to be quiet. So rather than focus on bulky armor, they go all in on speed and agility. If the turbo hog can crush a tank in one headbutt, why even bother with armor? A mech cant sneak up on anything.

If you actually need to kill a mega organism, hunting tools tend to be tranquilizer rounds and cutting tools that resemble oversized butchery implements. It's not uncommon for a town to retrofit a combine harvester, or a rototiller, into an absolutely fuck-off huge turkey carver.

You hunt in groups. Tire it out, trap it if you can, and cut off it's head before it heals.

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They should make an actual "banned books" store that only sells classified government documents

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Guys I’m going to make a hot take

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Cant totally agree there honestly. Yes jung was totally far more of an occultist than a man of science, but saying the psychological reading of alchemy isnt there is a bit dubious to me. For instance the chymical wedding of crc are basically entirely focused on alchemy as self improvement and make it fairly clear physical matter or immortality is not the goal

From day six, after all but three alchemists are deceived from participating in the real final stage of the great work - “Here we had leisure to look a while at our companions through certain crevices made in the floor. They were now very busy at a furnace, and each had to blow up the fire himself with a pipe, and they stood blowing about it like this, as if they were wondrously preferred before us in this.”

And shortly later: “Now it was also time for the Virgin to see how other artists behaved themselves. They were well pleased because, as the Virgin afterwards informed me, they were to work in gold, which is indeed a piece of this art, but not the most principal, most necessary, and best. They had indeed too a part of these ashes, so that they imagined nothing other than that the whole bird was provided for the sake of gold, and that life must thereby be restored to the deceased.”

And in day seven, as the order is given their vows- “(5) That you shall not be willing to live longer than God will have you do. At this last article we could not choose but laugh, and it may well have been placed after the rest only for a conceit.”

The rest of the text makes it fairly clear that it is concerned with an inner journey/self improvement/understanding the nature of the self. For instance there isnt any subtlety made about ‘the virgin’ being the protagonists feminine reflection.

So its certainly there. Does jung carelessly knock everything else off the table to focus on it? Perhaps, but still.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL READING OF ALCHEMY DOESNT TAKE SHAPE UNTIL PARACELSUS IN THE 17TH CENTURY.

Chymical Wedding is a result of the post-paracelcian shift. It is clearly intended to have a personal spiritual reading akin to how Jung reads it. I would go so far as to say Jungian psychology barely diverges from the theory of the self put forth in Chymical Wedding. It's dope. It's one of my favorite occult texts of all time.

JUNG was not just applying the psychological reading to Chymical Wedding. He was applying it to fucking ZOSIMOS. Who was writing in fucking 300 AD. He read Chymical Wedding, and retroactively applied his reading to the previous 1600 years of alchemical history, making the case that ALL alchemical texts were actually just ancient psychological textbooks. Which his bullshit.

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great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

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What's wrong with Jungian theory? This is said genuinely, my mother's a psychologist who swears by it but I don't respect her as a professional so I'm interested to hear what's wrong with that dude

Jung was an occultist and I mean that in the most literal possible sense. The man cast spells. His interpretation of historical alchemical texts, while interesting, is entirely ahisorical, and has done significant damage to the scholarship around these texts.

His interpretation, is that Zosimos was never talking about chemical at all. That the entirety of Zosimos's work is actually a coded discussion for discussing a sort of proto-psychology. This is a nonsensical conclusion that he could only arrive at by delusion, or willful misinterpretation of historical materials. It also deliberately ignores the entire field of classical ontology.

Also Jung was a bad philosopher. His ontology is childish and fearful. His theory of cognition lacks no experimental basis, and is based on interviewing several Europeans about their dreams, and deeming those conclusions to be true of all humans forever.

All that said, he was a fantastic occultist. The red book is delightful. But anyone who takes him seriously as a sober philosopher needs to read Deleuze.

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This is your signal to let yourself write the deranged, uncomfortable, disgusting fiction that you've been thinking about.

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thoughts on breatharianism? Or Wiley Brooks in particular. i've been fascinated by it for years and how it's such a perfect encapsulation of the health/spirituality scam culture that's come to exist that it almost feels like a parody.

there were literally ancient Greek mfers who would trigger heightened physiological responses through ritual starvation. Time is a flat circle full of religiously significant semen retention.

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It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.

I mean look at this thing:

A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!

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Tumblr is unique bc like. It's collaborative shitposting and you can't opt in or out. You can just say something about your day then an evil wizard shows up to turn your post into something humorous

Every other site is just one and done, but here a post is a welcome mat to be funnier than you

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how do we generally differentiate b/w esotericism and mysticism academically speaking? i know they dont mean the same thing but im not sure how

Mysticism means two things:

Mysticism 1 - People trying to have a direct interaction with some transcendant Other.

Mysticism 2 - People writing about Mysticism 1, trying to elaborate on what the fuck they're talking about.

Esotericism is basically a text whose meaning will be obscure to the uninitiated. A text that is intentionally incomprehensible, except to people who have the right knowledge going in.

Many mystical texts are by nature esoteric, but not all esoteric texts are mystical.

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being inside a slime or some kind of ooze is actually really enriching for adventurers and lets them explore new avenues of self expression so if you want to make an adventurer really happy you can throw them into one of us

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