#intellectualising

[redseasfire]

(divine) source? trust me bro

let's be real, a lot of us feel it, but can we actually ascribe meaning to intuition in a way that communicates it accurately to those that don't believe?

i was having a conversation with a friend earlier today, and he sits in a very skeptical camp around the idea of what he put, in less friendly terms, 'basic' spirituality.

the idea to me that there is such a thing as 'basic' spirituality is arguably an affront, or at least, demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the 'vibe' itself. i think some people either don't know, or maybe are new to exploring this dimension of themselves - and sure, maybe some people take it as a facade or inherit it in a way that is either unfair on others, the wider perspective of spirituality as a whole, or whatever. but i don't think anyone should realistically be judged for that - i know through my own profound personal experience, that there is divinity that exists, and that permeates, throughout all life. intuition spans far beyond the conscious, and even the unconscious - the trained, and the untrained. inspiration, and creativity: meaning, really. these are all drawn from the same collective wavelength, that we all tap into, in my eyes. whether we know it, or believe it, or not.

i'm a big fan of the idea that, through cultural/spiritual/intellectual osmosis - and the passage of time, with individuals and their unique endeavours - we will traverse the landscape of spiritual enrichment and fulfillment in such a way that's (hopefully) exponential for ourselves, but for the collective, be it for those that live in the here and now, or for those in the future, and beyond.

personal truth is a core belief of mine. the universe, i believe, subverts our attempts to ascribe meaning beyond the accepted norm through either science or objective reality. i know there is more out there than we are currently capable of measuring, or at least, more than we are capable of demonstrating as being measured, to the wider world. i'd argue that there is something more fundamental than objective reality, but some sort of harmony between this trinity of the spiritual, physical, and objective, which ultimately forms into subjective reality - but then there's a 'true' reality, which some manage to tap into, and at times pay ultimate costs for being exposed to, or trying to draw from.

i sort of look at it like an approved run of the news. there's an editor, and only a certain amount of creative freedom bleeds through the end product, if any. and i'd argue that the universe is so fundamentally subversive in the sense of its ability to regulate these things, that we cannot undo it, or influence/change the ultimate path that this is following. it is the core principle axiom - god, the divine, or the universe, serves the dish of life, that we can only hope to have a say in its recipe. and heck, maybe we do? and we just don't quite know it? this is just a slice of my own interpretation, a slice of pie that i've attempted to review and find a basis for. really, it is all a form of our own unique tastes after all. (shitty analogy?)

but ultimately, maybe through a concerted effort, maybe the wider vision can be changed - and maybe then we can intellectualise concepts that many view as pseudo-scientific or outright falsehoods, or fabrications.

i have a lot of thoughts about this, and i don't expect people will want to read this. but have one of my diagrams that i did which i think exemplifies my attempt to make sense of this topic!

let me know if ya want to hear or see more :)

[shesnake]

this was in response to a now deleted tweet by an adult about disney channel "falling off" and I think about it all the time when people my age complain about teen media

[occasionaldaniel]

Went down a rabbit hole of old online corresponce and diaries that I keep on a backup drive last night. Because I really needed the reminder that my brain has beens its particular brand of messed up for at least twenty years.

At least the correspondence was sweet and supportive when it wasn't just delayed teenage angst, and I'm still friends with that person today. So... Uh... Silver linings I guess...

[soulmvtes]

this morning has been nice, the sun came out n it rejuvenated me a little so i cleaned and tidied my room, burned some incense and let some fresh air in, finally sorted a pile of clothes in my wardrobe that have been there a while, did some reading for the week and i just feel a bit more calm and ready for the week ahead :)

[fairycosmos]

the feelings of shame are there and i can't change that, but i'm not going to pay them much attention today

[possiblyunhinged]

Can we please stop attempting to intellectualise racists like Tony Hinchcliffe? His racism isn't new. His whole career relies on unheard children who grow up to be dysfunctional adult men feeling like edge lords or like they're part of a group of equally minging people.

A crossover with Trump's audience, then.

My most dominant thought about Tony Hinchcliffe is that he looks like his breath stinks.... So... Yeah

[akajustmerry]

did you guys know I actually had a plan to do weekly recaps of the richonne show on my un-used substack but after the first episode I realised the only coherent thing I'd write after each episode would be "true love is REAL. Peace and love on planet EARTH 🥰"

[mediapen]

my twitter for you feed is insane. thousands of likes on posts saying anything that isn’t criticism of aaron bushnell is romanticising and promoting political suicide and martyrdom to impressionable teens. aaron bushnell should’ve chosen a more effective protest tactic. aaron bushnell should not be held up in any way because he was us military. aaron bushnell should be congratulated for acknowledging the reality of american empire, even though he arrived at that conclusion suuuuuper late and im morally superior because *i* would never be coerced by an insidious predatory recruitment process. do you fucking hear yourselves. a man died literally calling for a free palestine whilst leveraging his position to force attention to us complicity in genocide and you, the terminally online 'left,' are still obsessed with overanalysing the act and not fucking doing something about the cause

[pynkhues]

https://www.tumblr.com/pynkhues/766723296317358080/really-interesting-point-about-louis-often

The thought was sparked by this anon but it’s more generally about how some people characterize Louis as an eternal victim with next to no agency: it’s clear a lot of them have zero experience with depression or living with someone who struggles with depression. Louis is not having a depressive episode every time he’s struggling with something, and not every decision he makes can be brushed aside with a ‘but he was depressed!’.

Signed: someone who’s fresh out of her latest episode and is feeling saltier than usual about this.

Yeah, it’s interesting, anon. I definitely think you’re onto something with a portion of the fandom having a limited understanding of depression and it’s scope, whether that be because it hasn’t touched their lives or because they’ve lacked the resources - financial or otherwise - to manage and learn about it.

I do wonder too if - - mmm, look, this is more picked up from previous fandoms than IWTV, but I do think sometimes people in low chapters can project onto characters in an attempt to absolve themselves too? Like if Louis’ not accountable for the choices he makes when he’s at his lowest, maybe they’re not either? As a result, absolving him or waving off his flaws isn’t so much about defending his character as it is about defending this avatar of themselves? Maybe? Although interestingly I find this is usually with female fans at male characters, and rarely is the same grace, defensiveness or projection extended to female characters, so I might be way off base there.

I’m sorry though that you’ve been struggling lately 💖 I’m glad to hear you’re doing better.

[onewomancitadel]

Just remembered an ask I sent (cries) right after V8 finished airing where I pointed out we'd probably see Pyrrha in V9 because Achilles is met in the underworld by Odysseus. Can't figure out if I were right because of allusion reading or right because they thought they'd add her back in again to stir fandom drama. Could be both.

I did like the implementation though as a vision to psychologically torture Ruby (Achilles is very unhappy in the underworld) and in a somewhat similar case Jaune. Yippeeee

[st-clements-steps]

Ohhh, crunchy! 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 24, 36, please :D

Hey, hey, hey, lovely, the questions are from here

2. A minor or extinct house you need more lore on; you think I'd go Mallister, but no, I want to be part of the people making the Mallister lore, I have stolen them from GRRM, they are mine now, I'll share them obviously with other patrek, patrek, patrek enthusiasts. All those really borderline magical houses intrigue me, House Reed and all the other Crannogmen please; the Knotts and the Liddells and the Flints of the mountains, all those nomadic northern ones; that one at the edge of the Iron Islands, House Farwynd, are they Selkies? Are they warging into seals? Are they just a little bit like Shetlanders? Also it's kind of basic bitch of me, but House Dayne, they're very bloody sexy but I just want to see their real depth. (Also were House Poole once Crannogmen, their name kind of fits?) 5. Dead female character I need to save: Kyra. Obviously. Also I really should save Elia because personal affinity reasons. And then I think I'd have to save Lyanna too (I have written a POV of an older, saved, her, thanks to Eva being galaxy brained, and oh it was so interesting). Also Dacey so I can marry her please. Plus let's save all the live women, Jeyne P. and Jeyne W. and Pia especially. 6. A book or character you didn't like at first but have come to love - had a difficult initial relationship with feast and at first I found Brienne's chapters tricky but I came to really enjoy them. (I love her and I love wee Pod). And I didn't dislike Arya at first, but I was a bit bored by her, she just seemed quite like all those tomboy preteens I'd read as kid, Scout and Lyra and Tyke Tiler (British 70s children's novel that was still the kind of thing forced upon you in English in 90s Britain). But actually once she gets to Braavos, I'm much more enthralled and the Mercy chapter, oh, it floors me. 9. Build your small council - Tyrion, Gilly, Missandei (even though she's 11), in fact let's go Shireen too, and Wex (master of whisperers), and then before Tyrion kills me for making it a model UN class project, Barbrey, Arianna, Davos, and one of Asha's ratboys to be master of ships (She's busy ruling the Iron Island in my head). 10. A quote so good it makes you crazy -  Tyrion ruminating on the inevitability of history (and it feels like nature and nurture too, how generational trauma gets woven into us); It all goes back and back, Tyrion thought, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads. Theon arguing vociferously that trauma does not need to be physical; The noose I wore was not made of hempen rope, that's true enough, but I felt it all the same. And it chafed, Ser Rodrik. It chafed me raw. Sansa realising how her trauma has a molded her; My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. (I love this, I steal it for characterisation constantly, because being porcelain is such an interesting image especially)

And finally my boy Jon being a poet; The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice.

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it, but Arya would run out laughing and shouting, wanting to touch it all. 15. Favourite Parent - Cersei (she's a terrible parent I realise, but she's the only parent who lives in my pocket) 24. A ship that gives me the ick - Jon Arya (actually find shipping her with anyone very difficult, she's very 11 in my head, I know its weird because I ship Sansa with a whole raft of people and there's only 2 years between them, but it is what it is, but also for me the idea of them being romantic very much diminishes their current love for another, why does a heartfelt sibling (or platonic in some other sense) relationship need to be really just oh its actually all lust filled romance?) 36. All the dub-con, non-con that gets sexy, I'm just there scrunching my nose, wondering if there's something GRRM needs to properly address with his therapist rather than continually writing into asoiaf. Oh and the timelines piss me off no end, House Stark in charge of the North for 8000 years! Eight Bloody Thousand? Really? And there's been basically no systemic change in society over that time? Was feudal back then? Still feudal now? Hardly any linguistic evolvement over those thousands of years? Etc. Thanks so much.

[thenarrativeofjohnsmith]

[vigilantejustice]

just got done thinking last night about how lucky it is that the thread of suspected ocd that has run through my entire life has mostly been real mild and liveable as a rule (things like. can’t take the password off my mac because then someone’ll break into my house to steal it or don’t touch the work phone because it’ll ring if you do or if you think about doing a nice thing but don’t do it a bad thing will happen etc etc) only to see three ambulances this morning and get mildly concerned about having been the perpetrator of a hit and run without realising

[cangrellesteponme]

hate it when someone has a Very Bad Very Misogynistic Take but the only people telling them they're wrong are Very Bad Very Transphobic Idiots so you can't just be a normal person and go "hey maybe rethink that" without being associated with those fucks

[batsplat]

i wonder if you follow some of the current relationships on the grid, like maverick and fabio. even though they’re not as high-profile

I follow them!! I do it on a slightly more... hm, how do I put this. on a more shallow level? where I'm keeping up to date with the news and gossip' but wouldn't have much to offer by way of like. analysis. hot takes. I enjoy it in quite a casual manner yeah

I feel those two specifically I did have a general level of investment in, given yamaha is kinda. y'know. my Guys. also I thought fabio messing up that whole camp and disrupting the succession plan was fun and interesting!! maverick was supposed to be the big hope for the future, and then fabio completely supplanted him. basically already did that within a few months of 2019 if we're being honest, like the writing was extremely on the wall with regards to maverick's potential as a title contender. in many ways, those two were genuinely the most interesting rivalry of 2021 - not because they had great fights (they didn't) or because it was particularly competitive (it wasn't) but because it was compelling. ofc it was all a bit more complicated than that, but fabio essentially spooked this guy enough that he blew up his own engine and got insta-kicked out of yamaha, which was. very unprecedented. that was fun!! love head loss

I do also think it's interesting that fabio has had two teammates pre this year and he... kinda didn't get on that well with either of them by the end of his teammate stint? which you wouldn't really think given what a generally affable guy he is, but it's indicative of his role as a disruptor within that whole structure: he ended up giving his teammates such good reasons to Resent him. an unexpected starlet who made everyone else suffer in his presence. cute

[dracfields]

i fell victim to one of the classic blunders (started to read a book about sade and read more than half of it in one sitting)