#a bladeless knife with no handle

[stoppit-keepout]

[Image is a screenshot of text reading: The great Persian poet Hafez wrote, "Start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret." I still have no idea what I mean when I say God, but I see it everywhere. I mean it intensely. I write poems and, yes, books about it. I read about it constantly, which seems, counterintuitively, to only deepen its secret. Close your eyes. Imagine in your head a bladeless knife with no handle. Do you see how the image recedes from view the more language I add to it? A bladeless knife. With no handle.]

written by kaveh akbar

[madmonksandmaenads]

Are you one of them horny gnostics what actually doctrinally love sex? the sarcophiles or whatever? sarcocrats? carco- look google is unhelpful I apologize.

The word you're looking for is Carpocratians the followers of Carpocrates, sometimes also called Libertine Gnostics. To answer the question....uuuuuuhhhh.... I am the kind of Gnostic who all the other Gnostics would be mad about being in the same poorly defined theological box as me. I think I could hang with the Hermetics though.

[polyphonetic]

I'm a Barbie bara

In Barbie Samara

With Ken in saunas

We practice Dhyanas

I'm covered in hair

most certainly a bear, oh

boy's love fusion, let go of illusions

[forlorngarden]

angel what are you doing on a drainpipe

[rustbeltbabey]

a bladeless knife with no handle. a bladeless knife!!!! with no handle!!!!!

[ceratinus]

I'm like if a bladeless knife with no handle was a girl

[inkwell-god]

Imagine for a moment, a bladeless knife, lacking a handle

[owlyfisher]

do you see how the image recedes from view the more language i add to it...

Just saw a pigeon walking around with no head

[sexhaver]

i think part of the reason im an atheist is that my aphantasia makes me completely immune to the metaphors and arguments religious/spiritual people sometimes make. jorge luis borges said that he believed in god because he could close his eyes and picture a flock of birds, and even though he obviously couldn't count them, their number was still finite, and God knows that number. cool logic but you lost me at the step where you close your eyes and see anything except black. or i just saw a post talking about how God is something secret that recedes as you define it: "close your eyes and envision a bladeless knife with no handle. notice how the image fades from existence as i describe it more?" nope, never saw an image to begin with, sorry

[butchniqabi]

thinking about a bladeless knife with no handle

[welcometothewarren]

Tinnitus is a variety of sound that is heard when no corresponding external sound is present.

i hear something holy in the whining and whinnying of tinnitus. like god is tonguing my ear between the waves of a sound that isn't there, like the echo and the oscillation of an immaterial bell is calling me home, like like like like this repetitive nothing really is something, like this sound i found in the absence of sound is putting a knife in my hand, like the knife in my hand is a bladeless knife with no handle. like the closer i get to absence the closer i get to you you you you. like it is a common occurrence. like waking every morning to clear the blood from my ruptured ear is a fair price to pay for your whispering, too close, too close, and never enough. like the jaw dislocated in sleep is the natural consequence of trying to match your volume. my head is ringing. does it make sense? can you make it make sense?

clear as a bell.

[oysterie]

A bladeless knife with no handle friday give it up for a bladeless knife with no handle

[chansaw]

a bladeless knife with no handle

an exploration of shauna’s bloodlust and thirst for violence throughout her time in the wilderness. the burden of being the butcher; how a girl wielding a knife becomes a knife herself.

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

kaveh akbar bladeless knife with no handle but its me wifeguy stepdyke with no wife no stepchild

[ceratinus]

Now obviously we have the ability to think at a much higher level than a fucking real single-celled organism but the metaphor stands. It requires some creativity but it stands. All part of the same body. The same flesh. Bladeless knife, with no handle. Yknow?