Edward W.

"(T)he very foundations of our studies: The recovery and the study of texts as they are, regardless of our tastes and prejudices"- O.Neugebauer.

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

南無地藏王菩薩

[Miyu @MiyuMara7]

Staying in the hell realm (twitter) to help beings here reach enlightenment

[Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman]

Peace Pilgrim on Money

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

@PeterWang873584 who cares. if the method he teaches works, it works.

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

the penis-kun copypasta speaks of these esoteric techniques

[邻家小医 @Linjiaxiaoyi]

性爱小技巧：
在男性射精前，摁或夹住肉棒的根部，肉棒不会管尿道有没有被堵塞，它会觉得自己已经射了，条件反射般抽搐，但精液一滴也不会射出来。抓住这个时机刺激龟头（时间别太久），就可以听到男孩绝望苛求的哭腔了。
而当你听够了求饶，放手让男孩尽情喷射时，他射精的质和量也一定会让你满意的。

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

I have just published on my blog a table showing the numbers corresponding to each of the 1000 characters of the thousand Character classic/qianziwen 千字文

https://t.co/A4uwx1pjuX

This may sound really obscure but I have been wanting to do this for more than a decade now.

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

there's a Facebook page called Chinese Ancestry Research that is exactly like this: it recently posted a table revealing that the three most influential people surnamed Li 李 in the 20thc-- Lee Kuan Yew, Li Ka Shing and Li Denghui - were all related. https://t.co/jtSidF6hRp

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

食物相剋中毒圖"A table of foods which conflict one another causing poisoning."

This rather curious piece of Chinese folk medicine shows foods that are [allegedly] poisonous when eaten together. It is often found in the back covers of divination chapbooks and almanacs...

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

@_space_punk_ this strikes me as the principle behind internet archive

[ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴜɴᴋ @_space_punk_]

Kinda reminds me of the FAST GOOD CHEAP triangle
Because the rich are so insanely ludicrously wealthy due to their hoarding of money, theyre remarkably willing to throw away genuine treasure for cheap if not free. You just don't get to control *what* treasure you get. The VALUABLE CONTROL ETHICAL triangle

[𓅡𓎡𓀀 @nameshapes]

offering energy to sickly plants is a very good way to build generosity.

[𓅡𓎡𓀀 @nameshapes]

twitter is the charnel ground of the internet age

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

六字大明王
The 6 word brilliant king,
功勳不可量
Its virtues are immeasurable
現前清淨眾
Now, This pure assembly
異口共宣揚
With different voices chants it together
唵嘛呢叭咪吽
OM MANI PADME HUM ...
https://t.co/VFp7I1XSE9

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽 ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

I was told that the last decan of pisces is the decan associated with lust and weird, deviant fetishes in particular

[Yakari Gabriel Torres @yakari_gabriel]

Pisces is such an extremely vulgar sign. It is Pisces that rules pleasure hence why people with Piscean energy tend to be so excessive - and if you doubt this, just look at Tokischa, Bad Bunny, Jhene Aiko, and how explicit their music is. All of them have mega Pisces stelliums.

Jhene Aiko isn't as sexualized because she's so dainty and fairy like. People forget she says things like "that dick made my soul smile" ... lol lol

[Eric M. Schumacher @emschumacher]

😭😭😭 No review has ever touched me like this one. I wish I could meet Judith. May the Lord bring her home in peace.

[𓅡𓎡𓀀 @nameshapes]

When you understand talismanic magic you instantly understand both environmental buffs via correspondences and also can make up your own magical feng shui custom optimised environments.

[Jeffrey Kotyk @JeffreyKotyk]

In Middle Chinese there are words for various dairy products. These were used to translate Sanskrit terms. The noun su 蘇 translates Sanskrit ghṛta (ghee), but in practice it was a kind of salted cheese. Lao 酪translates dadhi, which was basically yogurt. Ru 乳 translateskṣira, which is milk or more likely buttermilk. Tihu 醍醐 (probably a Xiongnu loanword in Old Chinese) referred to pure butter fat.

Dairy products are described in materia medica from the period, indicating that they were treated as medicine rather than staple foods, although certainly people enjoyed dairy at times.

One issue is that the region around the capital Chang'an 長安 is a low-selenium (Se) area. Horses and cattle could not thrive on the local soil. This would presumably meant that dairy products were luxuries. There was a large number of Iranians and Indians in the capital, so we can imagine local production of dairy by them, but it would have been resource intensive. Alternatively, the products could have been brought in from other regions.

Image:
https://t.co/8zQ4jXNbFn

[清涼殿 ―平安時代図典─現代に蘇る平安の暮らし @itimegasa]

これは海松紋とかいてミル紋といいます。
海藻です。
奈良時代には食べられたようです。味はしないそうです。

平安時代にも食べられていたのかも？
神饌(お供え物)としては残っていたようです。
今も三重だったか？食べる地域があるみたいです。やはり味はしないそうです。海ぶどう的な感じかなあ。

[utkarsh @gorakhvacha]

Stumbled across a video of someone praying at the sinsina baba shrine in Bharatpur, patron deity of Sinsinwar Jats. And it's quite literally a mutilated Jain Tirthankara image.
Really common practice in Rajasthan which makes you wonder if such reconsecration "works".

[Aaron Ghitelman @Ghitelman]

The best Jewish name change story I’ve seen comes from this New York Times obituary.

My friends’ grandfather A/B tested his last name. In a job search a Christian last name got a call back, a Jewish one didn’t. And the most Christian name he could think of was Pope.