Ray (stingray.bsky.social)

"Barbed and brightly colored, but shy." - literally just a fedora with gills." - @NecessaryBeing

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

If you're on Bluesky, you can find me at https://t.co/nRz492Neya.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

Any mutuals want Bluesky invite codes? Let me know. I have five.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@bambaiyya__ dm

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

If any mutuals want Bluesky invite codes, lmk. I have three.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

(I refuse to use Threads.)

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

If you're on Bluesky, you can find me at https://t.co/nRz492Neya.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

Imagine not stanning Dharmakīrti.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@lastpositivist Hume and Descartes count as Politically PoC.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@2Philosophical_ @waldenpod I think the argument that probably convinced most early moderns is that the classical account of teleology seems to require some sort backward causation to work. What do you think is a good response to this?

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

This is why I haven't watched Sátántangó yet. I don't support manspreading.

[atheopagan gab @atheopagan]

a person in the process of reporting an illegal immigrant is an immediate threat to the livelihood of that immigrant—even a threat /to their life itself./ a third party is justified in taking measures necessary to ensure this report does not go through, including lethal force.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@morallawwithin top ten anime betrayals

[Handful of Dust @dustintrampe]

Rare footage of GE Moore confronting an external world skeptic

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

assimilated into Hindu solar sects, and were able to precisely because of the pre-existing similarities between the two. They became a relatively powerful group, too, being accepted as Brahmin priests and securing many prominent temples & patrons.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

He cites the similar sacrificial rituals, etc. He may have had knowledge of the Zoroastrians who lived in NW S. Asia. He wasn't wrong about the similarities. In fact, the administrators of many of the major solar temples across northern S. Asia were Zoroastrian solar priests who

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

In the course of arguing that the Vedic religion is false, 6th C Buddhist philosopher Bhaviveka notes its many similarities w the "mleccha" (barbarian) "Maga" religion (as in Magi, as in Zoroastrianism), inadvertently coming close to realizing the two have a common origin

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

Me before posting a thread of controversial tweets:

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@kanebaker91 Are you a constructivist about simples as well?

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@oldwaterfeature still haven't watched thunivu smh

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

just incredible to me that there are thousands of people defending this

[collin @fiendformojitos]

This looks so fucking bad

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@SisyphusRedemed @Urbion6 This is something that's been plaguing Hollywood action movies in general for a while now. What's unfortunate is that we know Marvel can do much better than this - Winter Soldier and the first half of Shang-Chi had some decent action.

[Ray (stingray.bsky.social) @SomeStingray]

@SisyphusRedemed @Urbion6 The choreography is pretty mediocre, but the way it's edited is awful. So many cuts, plus they keep cutting away at the moment of contact, making the whole sequence feeling very disconnected and completely dulling the impact.