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Regardless of the actual circumstances of your living situation, if you have to sell your labor to survive then you are part of the same class of workers that are abused by capitalism.

A McDonald's employee and a computer programmer at Google are both members of the proletariat because value is extracted from their labor and funneled toward the capital owning class.

The actual class divides we should focus on are not based on wealth but on who is doing labor and who owns the value of that labor.

The reality of the world is that if you need money to live you are not "the rich". The most powerful people in the world do not need money because they own capital and that is the true source of power in capitalism.

Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

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i believe every word of what this man says

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The emerald tablet is a short text attributed to hermes trismegistus, the (likely apocryphal) hellenistic initiator. The first known reference to the tablet is in an Arabic alchemical work from like mid 700 ad. So it's unclear if there's an actual tablet.

But the text is cited by alchemists throughout late antiquity and into the middle ages- even Isaac Newton had a copy among the works he personally translated.

Among several occult maxims it includes the famous "as above so below" maxim which became a core concept of the larger occult philosophy known as hermeticism.

The full translation of the phrase is actually "as above so below, as below so above" and is regarded as teaching the relationship between the macrocosm and the Microcosm. That the patterns found on a macro scale are repeated in a micro scale. So the fact that Isaac Newton can see an apple fall from a tree and then apply that knowledge to the movement of the planets is an example of "as above so below".

Wait, "as above, so below" is occult? I always thought that was a fundie thing used to justify bigotry and codifying it into law. At least that's how it's been used by pastors and others like that around where I have lived usually.

What fundie is quoting the emerald tablet????

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Finally someone said it

cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

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North Yatsugatake mountains / Nagano Prefecture by Seiuchi F

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by ruby_marylennox

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I think I could live here

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by Al Soot

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"The occult" is a pretty large topic but I think that term comes to us from a time when these teachings really did need to be kept secret and were forced to "hide in plain sight" in a way within the symbology of whatever the dominant religion was.

We can openly talk about these hidden meanings now, thankfully, because its very unlikely anyone will be burned on a pyre for sharing this information.

I also like to consider the "occult" as having a double meaning in the sense that it is a science and art that deals with unseen and hidden forces of nature.

Is it actually occult if you just tell anyone who asks? Like doesn’t the word imply something being secret?

Well to be fair, just because I talk about a thing on Tumblr doesn't mean people are gonna understand it.