#weird spiritual shit

[lucyhaswings]

A special sort of torture comes with being an extremely passionate individual while also not believing in the idea of “true love” that’s been sold to us sense the beginning in this reality. It’s needing to be fucked in a way that doesn’t even exist in the here and now. It’s remembering the feeling from past lives, in other worlds where love was still bound by energy instead of social constructs. When it was easier to meet somewhere in the after. When love was understood on a soul level. Before we got the idea that love means owning one another. Before love was built on the idea of many. It’s a funny thing to long for something that doesn’t exist in this life. For things from a past life. Besides this, there are these peanut cluster like things from one of my more recent lives that I miss dearly in this one.

[quoigenicfromhell]

I think more of you guys need to be in mixed origin servers for old fucks only. I think it would probably help. Talk to systems in their late 30s and realize that the origincourse doesn't matter and strictly dividing people into boxes just does not fuckin work

[spiritchill]

Things are about to get weirder.

[mewtwo24]

Okay but like. Two things about the volume 8 statue [redacted] chapter.

Firstly. By god no amount of "yeah it was unhinged" comments on this website prepared me for whatever the fuck that was. I need at least 5 business days to process.

Second, was I the only one who read that scene as:

Hua Cheng, teeming with self-satisfaction to see Mu Qing near writhing with scorned disgust and fury: this was a 100% successful trip

Xie Lian: our statues are fucking in Mu Qing's palace oh god oh fuck what do you m e a n successful

Hua Cheng, smirk getting even bigger: this was a 100% successful trip

[tearlessrain]

seriously can catastrophes stop happening for five minutes my brain is already fried from the ones we're already experiencing

[burnandblind]

There's a lot going on..so I can understand how philosophy, ontology, and spirituality can seem trite.

But. I think the reason humanity is still in this mess is because most people have been ignoring the spooky shit and meaning of life stuff

Bc it is that stuff that really changes you.

[anghraine]

Sometimes it's interesting to be a firm agnostic but also to feel a strong attraction to the concept of the sacred and/or mystical. I'm not sure attraction is even the right word—but art that leans into a sense of sanctity or mysticism is intensely appealing to me in a very fundamental way, especially when coupled with a sense of grandeur or glory. And ritual, I love a good religious ritual.

My family's religious background is Mormon, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox, so it's not really surprising. But it's like, despite the standard religious damage, and despite being deeply skeptical of anything smacking of the supernatural, I love entering the headspace of characters with a strong religious sensibility, I love visual art caught up in the sacred, I love fiction that can give you a sense of the mystical in ritual, I love when I'm expected to believe there's something sanctified in a building or relic or rock (real or not), I love visual or narrative art that can truly evoke a sense of the divine.

At the same time, I don't believe it. Nor do I wholly disbelieve it, I'm just like ... eh, idk, this is not in the realm of knowable information. But damn do I feel the appeal of religious conviction.

(This whole train of thought got started because I was thinking about how much I love playing clerics, lol. Anyway)

[appulfox]

hi I don't wanna kms anymore, my system got bigger, I'm in a safe place with the loves of my lives, I'm healing, and I'm doing SO much better. I still have a lot of pain, but I don't hate myself anymore and am learning to start loving myself 💚

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

author i'm beefing with: "i feel slight revulsion about the word 'spiritual', it's got negative overtones, aren't you deluding yourself and others with it, keep it to yourself"

same author, literally twelve (12) pages later: *spends a page describing spiritual experiences, sharing them with the world, but insists they don't count as "spiritual" because they're about the physical material world*

my dude it's not just believers who try to have it both ways, huh

[dirtytransmasc]

this post is gonna seem so fucking random, and its really not at all important, tiktok is just being tiktok, and I have something to say that really doesn't mean shit but would get me flamed on that hellsite, and I hate not saying whats on my mind, even when its in my best interest so I'm saying it here, cause I can, just ignore me.

there seems to be this devote group of people in the SoC's fandom (*cough cough* I've only seen them on tiktok, and they're always those types of fans, that just like, care way to much about others opinions. *cough cough*) who hate people who see the dynamic of kaz and wylan as a father/son-esque relationship, like getting all types of mad about it. again it was like 5 or 6 people, but it was enough to make me really think about it and then proceed to get pissy, cause I'm a stubborn asshole at heart who can't just drop something once it's pissed me off, and it really only pissed me off cause someone said interpreting them like that was "infantilizing gay men" and I just... no, please no, that's not at all whats happening, I promise.

so here's my unnecessary two cents, cause I can't just move on;

what would you like me to call their dynamic hmm? kaz is only a bit older in age, but forced himself to mature and take on burdens that make him much older then he is, burdens he won't let anyone take off his shoulders. while he is very much like a mentor or older brother to wylan, trying to be who he needed after losing jordie, his role within the group as a whole puts him into much more of a caretaker role. he's the dad of the group, he is provider and protector, he is the brawny brains so to speak, a very paternal energy as head of the 'family'. he is the protector of his crows, he takes care of them, all of them, in his own fucked up ways, being what they need him to be. he would do anything for them, even if he tries to hide it, and this typically ends up with him in one way or another taking on a nurturing role of sorts (describing this man is so hard, cause his internal vs. external actions are so fucked by his mental state. going above and beyond for him and like bare minimum to the average person, and I don't know how to verbalize it). factor that into the fact that wylan lacks a father figure, a good one at least, he naturally plays that role in a very similar way that an older brother or mentor would fill the void of a younger sibling/mentee. wylan also looks up to and takes after kaz a lot, which points into the father/son-esque vibes. all in all, no they aren't your traditional father/son dynamic, but like, that's the closest simple term I can slap on them, cause I'm not giving this little speech a million times. their dynamic is messy and layered and complicated by both of their metric tons of trauma, paired with the overall found-family/trauma-bond thing those littles shits got going on over there. let them be messy and let me just sat father/son for my sanity, I beg (if someone tells me I'm infantilizing wylan cause he's gay/dyslexic/autistic-coded I'm gonna have a stroke, I just want my boys to be vaguely happy and have some semblance of family alright, and sure, maybe my daddy issues play into it, but that's none of your goddamned business)

please say I'm not the only one to encounter those fans, and please tell me this makes sense to someone, I beg of you.

[july-19th-club]

i love talking to Religious People but i dont love it so i called my mom earlier and my brother stopped by and to both of them i talked about my 8am religious thing and i was like - well, the UU thing sounded *fun* - it kind of felt like that was cheating - and my brother (practicing dirtbag catholic electrician who goes to mass and sits there having intrusive thoughts about the crusades) goes "yeah, well, it's not supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be reflective" . ok mister 500 years ago i would have chopped peoples heads off. first of all probably not they didn't send tater farmers on those kinds of things . second of all my mother goes "not supposed to be fun? where'd you get that idea?" like.........why didn't YOU get that idea? like. you grew up in the same religion i did and you don't have weird issues about it. unfair

[cypheragent]

i complain a lot about people on here not knowing anything about natives which would be sort of whatever and like on some level i can even understand it but where it becomes an issue to me is how people with little to no knowledge of natives and most issues we face decide to pretend they care every once in a blue moon and end up reinventing the noble savage stereotype in a performative attempt at "allyship"

[burnandblind]

The Further Reaches of Human Nature

Science is the study of the natural world. The testing of hypothesis through various means of measurement and observation.

It is through science that we build a clearer picture of reality. I know that.

We live in a messy and chaotic world that tends towards organization.

I take a multi-disciplinary approach to everything.

I also take a beginner's mind, a skeptic's mind, and an open mind. Then I make sure to have an artist's heart, a lover's heart, and an adventure's heart. Finally: the soul of a beast, the soul of a man, and soul of a god.

This is how I approach mundane reality.

This is how I approach the things science and humanity doesn't want to confront.

This is how I approach my Self.

What is the nature of our reality? What is the nature of our existence? What is humanity capable of? Where and how did we start?

Many of these questions have been answered in part by science.

There's always more to the story. I mean that in a conspiratorial way. Not in a flat-earth sort of way.

The supernatural, the occult, the ufo phenomena, the afterlife, the nature of consciousness/the soul. These things are a part of our reality as well.

Some of them have been more well researched than you can imagine.

There's no need for me to lead you to any rabbit holes. The world is rife with them. You've probably had a spooky experience yourself, once or twice.

Even with all this going on, I wonder if people really know what this all means for us. For our species.

I can never have a proper conversation about this with anyone.

Oh well. We'll see.

[vampire-nyx]

By the way for anyone that it really bothers, I believe in and have fun with astrology, I don’t understand the aggressive hatred toward it but regardless I don’t support shitting on peoples beliefs or spirituality because you think it’s silly to believe in or because a couple people who believe the same thing were mean to you or made you uncomfortable

[butchlifeguard]

on my soapbox again but. not every opinion should be an identity because then every dislike turns into oppression

[shoppinghauer]

Lmao "i have a peer reviewed neuroscience article" and? That doesnt make everything you said correct. Its almost as if that train of thought is... a fallacy lmao