☦️🇮🇶 Iraqi Christians visiting the Shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq.
Some Iraqi Christians visit the Shrine of Imam Hussein alongside their Muslim neighbors. For them, it is a gesture of respect for Hussein's legacy of justice, sacrifice, and standing against oppression.
around 75% of poems now are formally indistinguishable from tweets or tumblr posts. no group of people is less interested in language than contemporary poets
Strange, modernity/technocapital could easily be classified an aniconist faith.
Proponents of AI Image generation are as contemptuous of artistic representation of the imaginal and supernatural as any Salafi with a sledgehammer.
There are three basal religions that all world faiths more or less filter into
The religion of righteous suffering
The religion of aniconism
The religion of self-evisceration
Righteous suffering faiths like Catholicism and Shi'ism are having a moment because the modern world worships comfort, sterility, optimization, quantity.
To that world there is no more revolutionary act than deliberate discomfort.
FIFA's new 3rd place ranking rules are crazy.
In order for Iran to go onto the next round, one of three MUST happen:
- The new moon must be visible from the west shore of Larak Island from midnight to 3 am using the naked eye
- Three earthquakes of magnitude between 2.5 and 4.0 must occur within 90 minutes each other on the line between Bandar Abbas and Rasht
- No bats can be seen for an entire night in the city limits of Bushehr
Opta Analyst gives a 67% chance of this happening based on their latest projections
The world could probably employ a lot more "OK" artists.
People who could do a passable wall fresco, etc.
But we have largely lost the very idea of paying for this.
I reject AI and the sad future it portends. The point of life, our gloriously 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 raison d'etre, is to use one's own brain to write code to make corporations money.