#religious absurdity

[transmutationisms]

so many people will just tell you they believe in manifestation magic if you just call it smth else

[jesusinstilettos]

Your life gets significantly better the day you stop pretending you’re a robot. You’re a silly little mammal, act like it motherfucker. Your ancestors made tools with rocks and sticks, ran around a lot, had sex, lived in communities, ate when they were hungry, rested, chanted together, felt the sun, breathed outside air, listened to the trees and birds. You have biological needs bitch!!!

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

rick baby if you're not going to hell nobody is

[camphelion]

omg hii.... hello. can anyone hear me..... its been 4 motnsh...... sorry my obsession is taking a break again so 4 everyone whose requests are sitting in my inbox i will hopefully do them whenn it comes out of hibernation 👍👍👍👍👍🏕️🏕️🏕️🏕️

[anonymoushotsexyperson]

Thinking a lot about how the inevitability of death is not talked about.

I know you got attention span issues pookie bear so I split this post into sections and you can read whatever your most into if you can't do the whole thing ^_^

SECTION 1 my first encounters with the idea of dying.

I wish I could literally hug John Green for writing the fault in our stars. People can say it's sappy or whatever but it is one of the only mainstream forms of media that successfully acknowledges the inevitability of death and the lack of control we have over it. Though it took a lot more than TFIOS to wake me up to the conversation of dying.

The first time I realized death was a thing I can remember so vividly. I was at least 4 years old, I forgot how the whole conversation went but I remember my dad saying

"well honey everyone has to die one day."

"even you and mom?"

"even me and mom."

He said it so casually while folding laundry in the kitchen not knowing my world view had just completely shattered 😀. I went into our shared bedroom ( I didn't have my own yet because POOR) and cried on my parents bed. I don't know what happened after that. I think I just shoved death into my back pocket and kept it pushing because it was too hard to really grasp at that age. It still is now, but it especially was then.

Section 2 Being someone aware of your mortality and not being able to cope with it.

I think about death a lot now, it's been a reoccurring visitor in my brain since covid. It surprises me that the average Joe doesn't think about death all the time considering the current climate of our world. Im not gonna lie i've developed a bit of thanatophobia (death anxiety). This is because I have always dug myself out of my depressive episodes using knowledge and through that knowledge, understanding my relationship to the world helped me fall involve with living in it. The idea that one day this experience will end and regardless of what you believe whether it's in heaven or reincarnation or whatever we really don't know what's coming next or if there is a next. I don't think i'd necessarily be too keen with an afterlife as well as the idea that an afterlife doesn't exist. Both seem pretty ass, because if there's an after life cool but like what happens after that? You telling me i'm just here for ALL ETERNITY NIGGA? But also the concept of just dying and thats just... it? Kinda stupid and DUMB if you ask me. I think what im really looking for here is control.

Section 3 Does no one talk about death because of capitalism?

Apart of me believes that this thing where people around me tend to avoid the conversation of death or respond like an npc when I do get them to speak about it is due to western cultures obsession with capitalism and power. Because if you contemplate your existence and how both big and small it is, all this capitalism shit becomes kind of extremely fictitious and ridiculous. Like yeah maybe people just don't talk about it because its SCARY but also what if it's so scary because we done talk about it and because we are wasting our lives as wage slaves and in some areas of the world, literal slaves. Also this makes me think a lot about how religions are used as a weapon of conservatism instead of respected as a philosophical and metaphysical analysis of the human experience. There is honestly so many examples of religion-especially religions associated with colonialism-being used to control people. This can be seen and interpreted many ways and most if not all of the most obvious interpretations probably ring true. But what i'm really attempting to segue into here is that religion is uses as a weapon by the powerful in all sorts of ways but the idea that it is used to keep us from pondering death instead of exploring what it's like is something ive been thinking about a lot. You can argue some religious folks specifically follow religion to relieve death anxiety and its always been that way but I think that it now exists on a dissociative level.

Also, the ignorant American I am, I couldn't tell you the part about western civilization playing a big role is from an informed experience it's more so a studious guess. I don't really know what the vibes in other countries are like when it comes to dying I have not gained enough international knowledge and experience yet. So thats where you come in reader. YES you. What do you think?

QOTD: why do you think the conversation around death and the inevitability of it is so hush hush? Where do you believe we 'go' after and how does that make you feel? If you are apart of a non western civilization do you see a cultural difference in our experiences?

[grandpasessions]

It is not absurdity that opposes mystery, it is nothingness. Mystery is a sign of being. Where it is, indicates a hidden plenitude.  As long as one has the feeling of mystery, one implicitly retains a religious dimension. For to be religious is to feel the mystery, even outside of any form of faith. A skeptic, to the extent that he experiences this feeling, risks one day taking a leap beyond doubt. I must admit that I do not always feel the presence of mystery. Sometimes I am totally insensitive to it. Thus in boredom, everything seems to me to be devoid of background, devoid of the possibility of leading to something, to some fortunately inaccessible but non-existent reality. Boredom, as a global evaluation of reality, is the antithesis of mystery. In boredom, nothing fascinates us any more, not even the nothing of boredom. (Mystery fascinates because even terror inspires something fascinating.)

Notebooks Emil Cioran

[just-a-little-unionoid]

You know I think we can resolve a lot of our problems and moral dilemma by asking ourselves "does this really matters that much?"

[thatgirlonstage]

You’ve got to be very careful with doing a deliberate misinformation on your fantasy lore bc it’s easy to just end up confusing your readers — give people too many layers of lies or wrong information to peel back and they’ll simply stop keeping track, whether because they got lost or because any revelations were so often later refuted that they stopped caring — however if you do have the skill to strike that balance it’s both enriching and very funny to have guys in your world who are Just Wrong about how stuff works.

[thematicparallel]

btw i still think about that play i watched when i was a college freshman it was an adaptation of gabriel garcia marquez's "i only came to use the phone" & they spoke 4 languages (english, tagalog, spanish, colloquial gay lingo) & it was so surreal heartbreaking wonderful it changed my brain chemistry forever

[gxlden-angels]

Looking back, it's so funny that my family still sees my neurodivergence as more of a prayer issue than a neurological difference especially when I got very overwhelmed singing during praise and worship, but was still told to sing and dance so they definitely looked to their side and just saw this

[jesusinstilettos]

I started sobbing last night because my partner started to say “you’re telling me that tomorrow we have to go to work??” In frustration but he cut himself off and instead said “you’re telling me that tomorrow… we get to be again? Wow!” And I’m trying to hold that energy throughout my day today while I’m in a nihilistic ass mood because damn I really need to just… be. And to appreciate and enjoy being.

[charmwasjess]

Can't resist: 7, 13, 24 and 64 for the fic-writer ask. 😁

YOU PICKED SOME FUN ONES!! :D

7 How do you choose which POV to write from? 

I think it depends on the needs of the scene. I use Dooku most often because I “know” him best and am the most comfortable with him - we’ve been together for such a long time and his stern-wry-humorous-earnest combination is closest to the mood of most of my fics. Qui-Gon is a fantastic walking camera because he’s got such an eye for seeing little details. Rael is good for seeing the emotional understory of a scene. Sifo-Dyas is incomprehensible but VERY funny. 13 what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

When I feel like things are stale or I’m having trouble writing myself into the scene, I think about the silly little “write from the senses” tip a lot. What does it smell like? How does it feel? What are the characters hearing? It’s elementary, but hey, it works! 

24 Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

I won’t use his name because you never know, but an author of some national fame once told me something like “I’m begging you not to write fiction” after reading a story I wrote (I was in an MFA program for poetry, but it was required that I do a course with the artist in residence and he happened to be a fiction author.) :’D He creepily petted my thigh as he said this to me. :’D 

Sometimes, I still picture his lil’ weasel face when I’m happily writing my old man yaoi and think “this one’s for you!” 

64 Something you love to see in smut.

:D Hell yeah, girl. Orgasm control, edging, overstimulation. Been going through an oral sex phase lately - something both vulnerable and hot there and I like putting Dooku on his stupid knees.

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This is a fun one! :D If you feel like it, send me an ask and I will kick my little feet in glee!

[stitchedgrave]

did i ever mention the day that my mother said that she would put me in a psych ward because i don't shave my armpits and this is a Sign from god that i was going insane. cause i remember this often it's so. girl what were you on

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"It’s hard to unsee the absurdity of religion.”

[failsquirrel]

the eternal question of if the fictional universe that is heavily analogous to the real world should have actual media from the real world or similarly named thinly veiled references

[ikebanaka]

Chewing on my hands and the fucking furniture because my current favorite fic hasn't updated in over twice as long as usual, after a serious cliffhanger

God gives his most dopamine sucking battles to his most ADHD soldiers, and brother I am in the fucking trenches