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your friendly neighborhood christo-buddhist magician on here to make friends and mainline divergent opinions. i could be wrong, it has been known to happen.

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

@SanjayNadaraja @TylerAlterman i mean, them trying to control powerful men with sex and feminine guiles wasn’t very sci-fi

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

disheartening that clearly none of the women in the replies have read dune. “yay fun girl clubs, yasss. girl power!” the bene gesserit are not that. achieve absolute control over your emotions and offer your womb up to disgusting evil men just to capture their genes for your breeding program that will end up fucking up the entire world, and your girly club in the process, and then we can talk. honestly ironic that it is grimes of all people is posting this. not to mention that tons of women criticized frank herbert for being misogynist based on his depictions.

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

It would be useful to formally establish a bene Gesserit order.

There's nothing wrong w old boys clubs, but we shud have our own clubs and orders that focus on fostering both sisterhood and excellence, which I think are two inclinations that are often pitted against each other

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

my brain short circuited the first time i posted this and i forgot that i wanted to say “friendly rivalries” not “sporting disagreements”

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

too many archenemy relationships on here and too few friendly rivalries

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

too many archenemy relationships on here and too few friendly rivalries

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

mfw when i think back on times a girl did something “weird” and i realize she was dropping signs

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

reclaiming "trad" to mean that i value traditions in general instead of just performatively subservient mommy milkers

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

@nosilverv lmao, i posted this and people did NOT like it https://t.co/AFJwzv3ckE

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

all these folks cherry picking practices from living traditions with not a single clue of what their purpose is within the broader ecosystem. pick a tradition, stick with it for a few years and THEN MAYBE you can whittle away the things that weren’t relevant for you

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

@blissbrah

[Guy @nosilverv]

The theory is that spiritual wisdom is long-tailed meaning that for nearly EVERYONE the right thing to do is to just follow tradition that came down to us through the ages and for the MOST CAPABLE the best thing to do is to uphold/transmit/preserve and for PRODIGIES to comment

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

like think about how many flavors of feelings there are, think about how many thoughts one can think, the set of possible worldviews and ideologies and narratives and frames you could see the world through. imagine if your entire way of being suddenly lurched into a new region of reality space. i think it would fuck me up.

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

when i see a complete stranger living a vastly different life than me, sometimes i slip into a daydream where i am them and the best way to describe the feeling is like existential vertigo. looking into the gap between our lived experiences makes me dizzy and nauseous.

[brooke - vibecamp 6/18-21 @gptbrooke]

I wish I could inhabit other minds, for a few hours or a day

I try to imagine what it’s like to be other people but I can never really know where I’m off

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

to @gptbrooke’s point, i don’t think that the details of my daydream are correct, only the distance between our qualia. and man the shift in qualia i get even just from the daydream is so jarring it makes me want to puke

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

when i imagine this all i see is a bunch of people saying that any criticism of her is because of misogyny

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminal_warmth]

Sometimes I read drama on the TL and it makes me feel happy to be a mostly avoidant hermit bc adjudicating and managing that all in the court of public opinion looks really exhausting

Always remember that having fame or status you can’t trade for real money or power is a curse

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

today in the shadow household: “i am going to trigger you on purpose so we can see what you think when triggered rather than speculating. do you consent?”

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

@chercher_ai haha accepted!

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you can’t even do the moko moko sex dance of the asaru tribe of the papua new guinea highlands anymore because of woke

[shadow @ascetic_shadow]

@SeanMombo ha what’s wrong with it. i’ve never watched but have considered just because i thought a show based in yellowstone would at least be aesthetically pleasing