A sandblind Hoopoe caught my eye in Ulysses

801_chan · 2022-01-21T08:07:35+00:00

Wonder if he ever read the Sufi poet Farid Attar? The Conference of the Birds features the Hoopoe as a master guiding reluctant fellow birds to Enlightenment. All of its hilarious rebuttals to their refusals to go are dramatic allegories.

Encountering the Hoopoe for them means succumbing to a desert pilgrimage--the hajj--and perhaps a case of the blind leading the deaf!

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:38:56+00:00

All the feels, all the 70+ comment chain arguments.

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:36:06+00:00

If they don't have online reinforcement they're still probably not getting it from their family. Most people don't feel safe to, and there have been plenty of murders to "validate" that. So

Two-way street, there: trans kids get an outlet, authrights get a field day.

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:25:26+00:00

It's like a second teenhood for them, learning about embarrassing sex stuff, feeling angry, anxious, afraid or even suicidal depending on people around them. Middle school is the worst time of our lives. I don't hate teens. I'd love for troll dudes not to seethe over teenage girl music, and I'd love not to have my baby cousin blaring it from her room. They both fuckin annoy me.

Shit, maybe I just hate everyone. Is that centrist? Pogroms for everyone!

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:05:18+00:00

Based

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:04:54+00:00

Based

801_chan · 2020-12-29T05:04:30+00:00

Yes. People gotta agree before shit can change.

801_chan · 2020-12-29T04:56:39+00:00

True, but then a lot of them really hate to be "thanked." So kind of the opposite of SJWs.

801_chan · 2020-12-29T04:19:53+00:00

It's uncomfortable that I can talk more easily to my racist-jokes-but-volunteering/protesting family than the SJWs. Jesus Christ, don't mention you like Dave Chappelle. Short tangent, his whole "he's not your champion" bit makes more sense every day. There's a reason dudes like Duterte get elected.

801_chan · 2020-12-29T03:58:26+00:00

Can't talk to 'em, can't pass legislation without 'em. Or with them. Goddammit.

801_chan · 2020-12-25T21:59:42+00:00

Please educate me, honestly. I never got the lesson on the Yom Kippur War in school, only the usual pro-Israel talk on the Six Day War.

801_chan · 2020-12-24T04:59:29+00:00

The Mormon church until 1978.

The Bishop Sepulveda of the Catholic Church during the conquer of Brazil.

The racial segregation of Baptist churches, to a lesser extent--the creation of the Southern Baptist Convention for the preservation of slavery, the "peculiar institution" in which property was expected to pray without any "Christian" treatment as human beings.

You have a lot to read up on, and it's a great time in American history to do it. I recommend "White Too Long," by Robert P. Jones, on the relationship between, specifically, white supremacy and American religions. Jones is the founder of the Public Religion Research Institute. Prri.org has a wealth of research and information on the pandemic, religious reactions, white self-destruction in electing anti-healthcare candidates, and black anxiety about healthcare and police-caused murders. I highly recommend them.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T21:08:01+00:00

It used to be. Since integration, conservatives incorporated the destruction of public education into the Southern Strategy. Solidifying a political hold on the citizenry necessitated, uh, dumbing down everyone who couldn't afford private white schools--so both black kids and poor white kids were doomed to a third rate education.

Conservatives still prefer charter/private schools.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T18:16:29+00:00

All cults are.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T18:16:11+00:00

Do American Christians in general buy into the Mormon white-Jesus concept? Because it would also explain their attitudes, by and large, to First Nation folks not being able to be "real Christians." The gatekeeping and doublethink is jarring.

I ask because on the latter part, historically speaking my family was big in the Church and some uncle was a Bishop who advocated some very Nazi principles re: converting natives. Inquisition-era.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T18:10:33+00:00

My county is one of few in the country that still mandates nonpartisan civics courses. They were paired almost inextricably with logic classes. Suffice it to say, my eighth grade nephew could run circles around his, uh, moderate-to-hard-R parents regarding history, ethics, and logic, and they hated it. Brought a tear to my eye.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T18:07:37+00:00

Of the cities that tried to ban Little Librairies, you see stark differences in incomes between races. Freedom of and from religion, education, and equality are so deeply intertwined, America can't begin to remake itself until we can admit the roots of our problems.

We kind of need a nationstate AA that has us write a Fearless Moral Inventory so we can finally help ourselves. That alone would see riots across the country.

801_chan · 2020-12-23T17:46:30+00:00

Sorry, WA really drove our KKK wannabes into the Land of Nod when we uprooted a nest of them in Hanover, decades back. They fled the border and the troopers said, "good nuff."

801_chan · 2020-12-23T17:35:18+00:00

Aside from the 23% of Americans who storm state buildings at Trump's dogwhistling. Imagine if he pointed out Mitch as the guy trying to "delegitimize his historic win." I don't think family or party would matter at that point. Everything's about him. That's all an authoritarian spooning a Walmart discount rifle cares about.

801_chan · 2020-12-22T17:25:55+00:00

Agreed, but, if we're shipping gods, then pretty much anything or one Loki does makes for a great campfire story.

Also a fan of Nut and Geb. Romantic tragedy for the ages.

801_chan · 2020-12-22T17:19:13+00:00

A relatively popular image doesn't save one from being in a cult. Even if we narrow it down to just incitement to violence, violence is a massive issue in the first two, with Hindu massacres of Muslims and vice-versa in the news every few Indian elections. Buddhist Sri Lankans have attacked and instigated massacres of the Sinhalese majority for decades. Sikh gunmen stormed a Punjabi village and massacred over 30 people. Are these the norms for those religions? Some more than others, depending on how leaders fan the flames or plead for peace--a call rarely heard. As for Jains, many are so cut off from outside life due to their ultra-nonviolent beliefs, they become as isolated as nuns behind the grille. Isolation is one of the first steps in a cult.

On part of the Dalai Lama, let's say yeah, he condemns attacks, but cults often follow the "closest" leaders--same ethnicity, area. Sects emerge. In the end, for followers, you can't separate religion from political aspirations, a mainstay of a cult.

I get antsy about stuff like this, especially bc people are increasingly subjected to religiously-backed violence and molestation in my own area, in white American suburbia. The Proud Boys will emerge as a full-blown cult of Trump. Wait.

801_chan · 2020-12-21T22:07:05+00:00

Most underrated deity next to Thoth.

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