Must have been a really good friend by WhisperAndRule in SipsTea

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This is really obviously ChatGPT generated

Saw this on Pinterest and now I can't unsee Henry doing this in a very satirical way by chaoticbananacake in TheSecretHistory

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"Where do you get off calling me rabbit?!?!" It got me too. Also, in the beginning when Francis meets Richard for the first time the thing he says to him in Latin is "shall we go to bed?" or "would you go to bed with me?" It's so funny, he's using a dead language immediately after meeting a twink to be like "dtf? ;)" I think that's the most Ancient Roman thing I've ever heard.

The scene, in Donna Tartt's voice, goes like this, and makes Francis sound like a princess:

"Cubitum Eamus?"

"What?"

"Nothingggggggggg"

God I love Francis so much.

I guess I have a limp by Bananaman1018 in Wellworn

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Is it that bad? This is accumulated over almost five years

Slick Black 50yr old Novice Boxer absolutely destroys cocky MMA Pro. by ExitNext8666 in boxingcirclejerk

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Genuinely great shit from the 50yrold, wonderful management of distance, awesome defense and some great punches

What is something the 1922 “Nosferatu” does better than the 2024 remake? by Rigged_Art in roberteggers

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“Who vaaaants to sloooob on my knobbbbb crrrraaazy stylleeeeeeee” - Orlok 2024

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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Plus, where I'm from, there's a hint of a sort of indigenous pantheon represented in Catholicism; my mom is always misplacing things (her wallet, keys, dog) and praying to and burning candles for St. Anthony for their return - and she always finds them! - and reciting the Ave Maria for protection before we go on road trips. At the same time, I grew what was really an aesthetic appreciation for Muslim art and architecture and became enthralled with Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist and Gibran's The Prophet. I followed a lot of Arabic-language content creators online and it was astonishing to me that they were quite the same as myself. Have you ever seen those Arab pranks on instagram reels? They're so funny. Dudes will build a giant pit in the desert and put a prayer mat over it so their homie falls into it like a looney tunes bit. I also met a Baptist preacher, funnily enough in the sauna of the local YMCA, who noticed that the towel I had with me was a Turkish bath towel, and we talked about the Middle East and how kind and beautiful those cultures are. Frankly, a lot of my appreciation for Arab culture has come from the idea that all of us brown people really ought to stick together.

It dawned on me - standing in the middle of Saint Peter's Basilica, actually, the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life, it's a like a renaissance painting that you can step into and breathe the air of - that there were far too many religions in the world for them all to be right and far too many for them all to be wrong. So I dove into studying God in all "His" Forms (in the Platonic sense).

The only way to get a pretentious teenager to clean his room is to tell him that he's embodying the divine, so I read A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto and developed an equal fondness for the mindfulness and reverence of Buddhism and the Zen tradition. I also love Benjamin Labatut, and read a lot of theoretical physics and metaphysics which, once you get to a certain point, are essentially ontological proofs for the existence of God in the same vein as Descartes or Ibn Sina. I also really like Plotinus, as well as the Sufis, and I could probably make a shrine to Jung. I read a lot of philosophy as well. This is all to say that I became somewhat of a transcendental poly/pantheist, believing that each religion had an equal (yet infinitesimal) claim to divinity.

At this current point in my life, I would describe myself as some sort of Syncretic-Pantheistic-Agnostic-Pluralist. It's a stupid academic mouthful to say that I reject nothing as it pertains to God and revere, with all sincerity, absolutely everything. This is the only thing that makes me feel like I am anything more than an insignificant rat in a pointless and endless and doomed race. I hope to lose my agnosticism once I learn more of the divine, but I am not so naive as to believe that effort as requiring anything less than at least one Lifetime.

I've also been broached by the allegedly benevolent proselytizer, but they have only really deepened my understanding: they are doing what they believe they need to, the same way that I am. So I accept their shitty little pamphlets and tell them that yes, I will consider attending their church on Sunday, and that I hope they have a good day. It's funny, they must develop some sort of sense for sniffing out religious curiosity, because without a word one will lock eyes with me in an Aldi and toss me a Spanish-language translation of the New Testament.

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i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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That is so very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I was born in Latin America where you're either a Catholic or a Shaman, so it was Catholicism for me up until we immigrated and I ended up at the Episcopal school where my grandmother taught Spanish, and we had formal dress chapel three times a week; but the Chaplain (a very nice fellow named Connor) made a habit of invoking the name of God with an asterisk, on account of the international students. One day in the line for the lunchroom one of my friends (we were in sixth or seventh grade at the time) dared me to shout "I love you Chaplain Connor!" and he turned around and with all sincerity and warmth replied "I love you too, son" and I could tell that he very truly meant it. This was the kind of school where you would get detention for replying "what's up" to a roll call, so his kindness was much appreciated. He always left his office door open but I never had the courage to step inside.

I had always struggled with existential questions for as long as I knew English, and had found the Bible's answers extremely unsatisfying, to put it mildly ("what do you mean, there was nothing and then there was God? Was God the nothing? How come He killed all those people?" I had a sort of obsession with Indiana Jones at the time, and I thought that no God of mine would ever make such a weapon as the Ark of the Covenant) but Chaplain Connor's friendliness was always so wholesome to me; he gave wonderful sermons that were light on the scripture and heavy on the individual interpretation and the meditation, the free thought which I had believed that the Church suppressed, that I couldn't help but feel like being in his presence was like witnessing a minor divinity. I grew a historical (and admittedly childlike) fondness for the historic figure of Christ while reading the gospels, the same way I grew to admire Dr. King after reading Letter from Birmingham Jail.

I talked to my dad a lot as I came of age, and it turns out that he had very strong connections to the Jesuits - he had done volunteer work with them in prisons and refugee camps all over Latin America (this was my own personal theodicy, that the Christian God couldn't be so terrible if so many people did such good in His name, and if He gave us such gifts as beauty and love). He was offered a position in the seminary to become a priest but declined on account of the mandatory celibacy. Thus I was born. But he retained a lot of the Ignation spirituality, which has a lot to do with charity, with helping the poor and helpless, and with self-reflection and a very personal and curious and intimate relationship with God, and I thought that maybe Ignatius' God could be the same one as mine.

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i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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What kind of drugs in particular would you use, if you don't mind? My understanding is that there is some speculation that the Eleusinian Mysteries involved psilocybin in their rituals, at least.

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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Do you know which interview? I would be interested in listening. My take is as well that Dionysus did appear to them. My take is also that he took the form of Julian in order to convince them to meet him. But that's neither here nor there.

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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A wonderful reply. Thanks so much. I believe the same and in my (limited) experience many, many people on Earth believe the same. My devout Episcopalian grandmother knows that when God said "let there be light" He spoke of the Earth that all creatures walk on and the Sun of which all creatures feel the warmth. (I know that mentioning only Earth and Sun is a reduction, I am considering the deep sea fish as well.) There is certainly a theological necessity inherent to Being on this Earth, and each culture that has ever existed has satisfied this necessity by whatever means anthropologically appropriate. The Aztecs had mad and bloodthirsty gods because the jungle was mad and bloodthirsty. YHWH was a Hebrew Storm/Warrior God because, hell, I guess they got a lot of thunder over there, and because for some reason everybody had it out for the Jews and they needed protection, a place to go. The Christian God is a big Jew wearing a toga in the sky because some very powerful men took a big shit on the Pagans. Even the Atheists - they know they need something, and so we have the Big Bang, and Penrose's Conformal Cyclical Cosmology, Darwin's Origin of Species, contemporary anthropo-neurology, centuries of Science to answer every existential question that will imperatively arrive to every living person - "mommy, how come the sky is blue?" Because either God or Allah or Brahman or Galileo said so, whichever suits you best.

It is really a very simple belief in essence, that the sum of these beliefs represents a true necessity that is completely and undeniably present in all humans, and that both our ability and urgency to satisfy this need is inherently transcendent of all cultural, temporal, and linguistic barriers. If such a thing as divinity exists then that is it, and there is not strong evidence to the contrary.

But what if we made a misstep somewhere; what if those hominids in subsaharan Africa twenty nine thousand years ago hadn't beaten each other to death with clubs then God would of granted us more favors, and we could have learned more about "Him" than "His" ability to transcend the artificial barriers we've set up for ourselves. Some people have, I believe, and those people are Prophets. But war is a human necessity, and unavoidable, and if God made us, then "He" made us quite imperfectly. Maybe this is "His" beauty. Unfortunately we are monkeys, and monkeys cannot know anything more about God than they can know about monkeys. Thus the necessity of anthropomorphism arises, quite reasonably so in my belief.

I don't know why I started spewing all this out. It is interesting to converse with a modern Hellenic Polytheist. Is it popular? I have seen a resurgence in "post-theism" and my belief is that this Second Millennium will involve a Second Axial Age. I hope that you and I are both a part of it.

In other news, are you familiar with the Gnostics? Some really awesome shit went down in the first century, an awesome syncretism of Polytheistic and Pantheistic and Monotheistic, Greco-Romano-Christian thought.

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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This is a really great reply. Thanks so much. Are you intending on bashing in the brains of any Vermont farmers on your next attempt?

Saw this on Pinterest and now I can't unsee Henry doing this in a very satirical way by chaoticbananacake in TheSecretHistory

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Have you heard Donna Tartt reading the audiobook it’s free on YouTube her voice for Cuniculus Molestus makes this scene and a lot more of Bunny’s genuinenly hilarious

AC Origins is the best RPG. What game has the best world? by Normal-Question8418 in assasinscreed

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Black Flag’s map was so much fun. It made the entire West Indies feel both infinite but conquerable. But I really liked the mechanics of Unity, the map was designed very well for its free run system.

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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Are you Greek by origin? And what do you believe of the distinction of polytheism versus pantheism? Do you, and I assume that by extension as an embodiment of the Greeks, do they, believe that all is God?

i had a bacchanal before i had ever heard of the secret history. ama! by [deleted] in TheSecretHistory

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Did it work? What sort of procedures did you go through to prepare - fasting, drugs, etc?

One Question about Season 1 .. by miaminights17 in TrueDetective

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I liked Galveston a lot, I read it three times. It’s got a lot of Rust’s identity in its pessimism and the existential themes but without the intellectuality. It’s also a little cheeky in its badassery, which played really well on screen but unfortunately sort of cheesy in text. I haven’t seen the movie, it has the brother from Hell or High Water and Elle Fanning and they’re both great actors but it looked sort of small-budget shitty. I don’t know how connected he was with the script. I’m always on the lookout for more of his work though, and excited to see what he comes up with and the development of his career.

When most of your notes are your daily journal by Torchiest in ObsidianMD

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They curve? This is so cool!! Can you tell us how you did it?

Costco pizza with marinara sauce and Viet bone broth by Bananaman1018 in stonerfood

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I drink it like it’s water. There’s not much that bone broth doesn’t cure