#Enlightenment and progress

[scklbz]

Opinion | Lessons from Alexandria: A Cautionary Tale for Modern American Politics

By Jet Espinosa In a city once hailed as a beacon of knowledge and tolerance, Alexandria drew people from across the ancient world. It was a place where scholars, thinkers, and believers from diverse backgrounds came to share and preserve their wisdom. With libraries that housed invaluable knowledge in science, philosophy, medicine, and the arts, Alexandria was a symbol of progress and…

[lightsandfire]

25-11-2023, part one:

I got my first whole fleece! It's from a Walliser Schwarznase (Walliser Blacknose). I already got rid of all the dirty and matted parts (pictured is the whole fleece before cleaning), and I took the very dirty edges off to do an experiment on cleaning.

The length of the fibers is +- 10 cm and the locks are very soft. There is quite a bit of vegetable matter, but I think that's to be expected. Look at those curls though! So pretty! I'm thinking about keeping some locks to use as texture while spinning.

Currently I'm scouring some of the dirty sides in warm water and dish soap, to see if they can be used for a test spin. A lot of brown water has been discarded already, so it looks to be cleaning up nicely. I hope it won't mat :)

The rest of the fleece has been rolled up in an old blanket and stored for now, untill the test spin has been done.

Now I have to see if I can borrow a carder from someone (or hand cards), so I can try to spin some up! (Once it is clean and dry, that is). Goal will probably be to spin a sweather out of this.

Updates wil follow in the next days/weeks! I'm very excited :D

(Part two)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Death - Within The Mind

[philosophybits]

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment

[denkilightning]

ftm jay who first comes out to ras because he knows ras has done 7000 worse things to care

jay: i am not a woman.

ras: ..... alright. what do you wish to be called?

jay: captain.

ras: .... i meant gender-wise.

jay: the fucks a gennderwhize.

ras: ..... i see. if thats okay, we shall settle with he/him for you. and burn all previous records of you.

jay: sounds fun.

ras: would you like to change your name as well?

jay: no.

ras: ....... okay

[silasbug]

"I was young and sweet,

and then something happened.

Something overwhelming. Something everlasting."

(quote from: "Crying During Sex" by Ethel Cain. thank you @into-the-undercroft for whipping my ass to stay on track, ily.)

[araiz-zaria]

[bleue-flora]

Ch 12 Good Cop 'Bad' Cop

[orangepterodactyl]

(WIP)

recently discovered leipzig is really cute and adorable and uhhhhhhh i'm love her

[scklbz]

Opinion | Lessons from Alexandria: A Cautionary Tale for Modern American Politics

By Jet Espinosa In a city once hailed as a beacon of knowledge and tolerance, Alexandria drew people from across the ancient world. It was a place where scholars, thinkers, and believers from diverse backgrounds came to share and preserve their wisdom. With libraries that housed invaluable knowledge in science, philosophy, medicine, and the arts, Alexandria was a symbol of progress and…

[the-healing-mindset]

For some of us, our upbringings may have made us feel as if we had to be in control of things to a painstaking degree. We don't though, and that's a good thing. Put down that burden of control. Even though conditioning may convince you otherwise, it's perfectly fine to just let some things be.

Source: Facebook

[lesbianlenas]

in my class today we were discussing an article and i said smth abt how i thought it was interesting how the article mentioned smth in regards to how a conservative media outlet phrased smth and this guy raised his hand and he was like idk if we can expect them to have done that intentionally and i’m like. this is the problem. leftists MASSIVELY underestimate how manipulative and purposeful conservative news media is just bc the things they say are so ridiculous to them. if u don’t think that the way any media presents itself is not intentional then u are not thinking hard enough. esp media outlets that are incredibly biased and propaganda heavy. ppl who work in media know exactly what they are doing whether what they are trying to propagandize abt seems ridiculous to u personally or not. but it is informing the way a lot of ppl think and their word choices are intentional.

[vintage-tigre]

There's a story that's worth knowing for anyone interested in the progress of humanity. It manifests in different ways, one of which is a joke:

"A drunk man is searching for his lost keys under a streetlight, and a policeman asks what he's doing. He says he lost his keys, and they both look under the light. The policeman asks if he's sure he lost them there, and the drunk admits he lost them in the park.

The policeman asks why he's looking there, and the drunk says, 'Because this is where the light is."

This anecdote, often attributed to Nasreddin, has been used by Sufis to illustrate people seeking enlightenment from exotic sources.

It has also been employed in the social sciences since at least the 1960s, referred to as "the principle of the drunkard's search.

The "streetlight effect" refers to the common human tendency to search for answers or solutions in places that are well-illuminated and easily accessible, rather than where they are most likely to be found.

This metaphorical concept underscores how people often choose the path of least resistance in their quest for knowledge or understanding, even if it leads them away from the actual source of their inquiry.

"Fear is always in relation to something; it does not exist by itself. There is fear of what happened yesterday in relation to the possibility of its repetition tomorrow; there is always a fixed point from which relationship takes place" - So, are we courageous enough to fully embrace the present and dissolve all conflicts and fears?

Catastrophe

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Death - Flesh And The Power It Holds

[philosophybits]

A single man would have to live excessively long in order to learn to make full use of all his natural capacities. Since Nature has set only a short period for his life, she needs a perhaps unreckonable series of generations, each of which passes its own enlightenment to its successor in order finally to bring the seeds of enlightenment to that degree of development in our race which is completely suitable to Nature’s purpose.

Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

[personal-blog243]

Thoughts on a particular brand of Christian interpretation of the Bible that grooms them to support authoritarianism…

(Disclaimer: I am not an expert please don’t use me as your only source on this topic)

in my experience most Christians have an extremely hyper-literal interpretation of the Bible that I don’t necessarily agree with, particularly not when combined with the doctrine that the Bible is completely 100% inerrant and infallible and is the absolute highest authority and is the one and only completely true word of God in a very strict literal sense.

It’s a very brutally honest “facts don’t care about your feelings” way to view God and the violence of the Old Testament.

This means that most Christians really DO believe that all of the rape, slavery, war, genocide, etc. in the Bible is totally 100% genuinely perfectly fine with God and that that must be what God himself actually wants to this day in a modern context as well!

Your personal morals be damned. Your feelings about all of this are irrelevant because it is what the book says. Most Christians really believe that if you want to identity as a Christian or a follower of Jesus in any way, you must accept and be perfectly okay with all of the bad things in the Old Testament as well. It’s all or nothing, take it or leave it. You can’t pick and choose. Facts don’t care about your feelings. This is what it means to be a real Christian whether you like it or not.

If you don’t like hearing any of that, or interpret the Bible differently, you clearly disagree with God himself about rape, slavery, homophobia, and genocide and that is all your fault. If you’ve got a problem with God then that’s on you. Surely God believes that you are wrong about these things and you are the problem. Do you think you are smarter than God???? Who are you to complain and question?

Christians are used to hearing these bad things and putting aside their own feelings and basic morals for the sake of the truth (or what they believe is true whether they like it or not 🤷🏼‍♀️). They are used to doing this for the sake of respecting tradition and authority and thinking their emotions and ethical philosophy doesn’t matter when there is a higher authority.

Just keep in mind that this is how most conservative Christians view both the Bible AND the U.S. Constitution! ����! They are authoritative texts that can’t and shouldn’t be changed and to have an ethical philosophy that is different from the men who wrote these texts is an attack on the abstract concept of truth and authority itself.

This is why they are primed for authoritarianism. They think that having a different understanding of the role of these texts and how to interpret them means you think you are smarter or better than the the founding fathers (in the case of the constitution) and of God himself (in the case of the Bible).

Obviously not ALL Christians necessarily think this way I’m just cautioning against this mentality of having to accept terrible things in the name of truth and authority.