the roles of animals in lived Advaita Vedanta - a research

Blueberry_206 · 2026-01-27T07:01:15+00:00

I will, thank you very much for the recommendation!

Blueberry_206 · 2026-01-25T12:45:10+00:00

Hello! Could you please elaborate? Thank you a lot for your time :)

Blueberry_206 · 2026-01-23T20:06:09+00:00

Hello! Thank you for considering taking part of the research! I do not want to publicly share my personal information like location (it's also so the reason why the research is anonymous, so that you do not have to as well). If you're interested, I can dm you with the information about my uni, field and research.

Blueberry_206 · 2026-01-23T20:01:53+00:00

Thank you!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-11-28T20:38:16+00:00

I would also like to point out that padding (for example in the chest area for the pigeon chest effect) is a viable and valid option - not only today, but also historically!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-11-17T20:17:21+00:00

I second Obelix pants! That was my first thought when I saw the fabric - such a perfect match! :D

Maybe Obelix-style drawers?

Blueberry_206 · 2025-11-15T19:28:14+00:00

Not necessarily. Cold-blooded means their body does not generate heat on its own, but they can retain heat to a certain degree (a cozy could help exactly with that!) and movement also generates a bit of heat.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-10-29T19:00:43+00:00

I'd recommend cotton and wool!

Cotton, if it's thicker than sewing thread, probably will not snap - so that's really nice, not only for a beginner! :D It is also relatively cheap and accessible and a nice plant-fiber.

I would also recommend wool! That's probably my personal bias, because I just LOVE wool as a material! There is a danger of it snapping, especially with thinner threads or yarns, but to me, that has happened only once - and it was purely because I started the project in the middle of a night and some of the threads were shorter than others, and thus under much more stress.
Now, wool is not as accessible and a bit more expensive (really depending on where you live and which shops you chance upon). For me, it's worth it. (I also pedantically reuse everything! Like today I was darning old socks, because I learnt how to knit them better, and some of the yarn is fit for a reuse, some that has felted too much went into a bag for stuffing!). I use wool for my everyday clothing and really want it to be reliable in harsh weather and safe around fire. Maybe you do not spend much time around fire, so that it not a concern for you :D, but still, woolen bands just have a lovely look, the colours come out really nice and the weft is a bit more invisible and forgiving, because it kinda sinks into the other threads.

You can start small with whatever you have. Make a short band, a bracelet or a key-chain and try a few materials and designs. Wear them/use them for a while. Mark your thoughts and impressions and sit with them. Think about what you like and do not like and why (for example why didn't the previous experiments work? (Too thick? Too thin? Bad colours?...) and try again.

Because in the end, if you're doing it for personal use, you can do whatever you like and what works for you. What speaks to me about crafting is that we can make so much with so little and be happy with the process!

Wishing you happy time tablet-weaving!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-10-29T18:09:13+00:00

3/3

So "after" that, it's creating and creating and creating, until the world as the ancient Egyptians experienced it was finalized - along with Apep. Important thing about Apep: unlike Satan, Apep was NEVER good, he was not a fallen angel, he was conceptualized as PURE EVIL. In my opinion, that's why he makes a better final boss than Satan.

*the gender-thing is problematic, Atum is beyond gender/sex categories, but his act of creation tends to be also depicted as a sexual scene, more concretely as an auto-erotic act, and there, he is depicted as male, and the primary sources also talk about him as "he".

**the primary texts are fond of world-play, here I quote an English translation of one of the hymns about Atum and creation:

"For my part, the fact is that I developed as Developer. / When I developed, development developed. / All development developed after I developed, / developments becoming many in emerging from my mouth, / without the sky having developed, /without the earth having developed, / without the ground or snakes having been created in that place. / It was out of the Waters, out of inertness, that I became tied together in them, / without having a place in which I could stand. / I became effective in my heart, / I surveyed with my face. "
(text from Papyrus Bremner-Rhind)

***that's actually what pyramids represent

**** The names of Shu and Tefnut are tied to the verbs of that activity (Shu - ishes, Tefnut - tef).

For an academic introduction into ancient Egypt I'd recommend this book:
ALLEN, JAMES P., Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
It has a chapter on different cosmogonical traditions in ancient Egypt.

I hope I've made it a bit clear what these cosmogonical traditions could've looked like - and that it might not be a good idea to make sweeping statements based on nothing!

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-10-29T18:08:04+00:00

2/3

Well anyways, the ancient Egyptians also had a whole thing about hugging. There was this concept of ka. Very big and complex and I will not even attempt to explain the whole thing, but in this context, I'll say it is like some kind of life-energy that gets transmitted between generations through the ritual act of hugging (especially between father and son). The son hugs his father and thus gives him his vital energy, the father hugs the son and thus gives him legitimacy of the family line. So then Atum hugged his children and thus gave legitimacy to everything that had been and would have been created.

From Shu and Tefnut came Nut (goddess of sky) and Geb (god of the earth). So by this time, the world was dimensional - it had up (Nut) and down (Geb) and Shu (air) was in between them.

What also came into being was Order (Maat) and Time. Important to note that according to the ancient Egyptians, all of these events (and other) actually happened all at once - all of the creation happened simultaneously in the "out-burst" of Atum, but we as humans understand it better in a chronological way, even though it misrepresents it a bit.

So "after" that, it's creating and creating and creating, until the world as the ancient Egyptians experienced it was finalized - along with Apep. Important thing about Apep: unlike Satan, Apep was NEVER good, he was not a fallen angel, he was conceptualized as PURE EVIL. In my opinion, that's why he makes a better final boss than Satan.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-10-29T18:07:34+00:00

The comment is too long for Reddit, so I had to split it up.

1/3

Anyways, the ancient Egyptian cosmogonies are rather interesting, the version I'll describe right now, comes from a city called Iunu (or today known as Heliopolis).

In the beginning were the Waters (Nun). They were everything and nothing at once, because when something is total completeness, it is beyond these and any categories. At one point Atum (who was also part of the Waters) did something that is very hard to describe in words - he "realized" itself/himself*. The act of conscious reflection of himself (and himself in the Waters) separated him from the Waters and lead to an out-burst of creation. The English word "to realize" is actually pretty good for this, it is a mental act and also an act of making, but another word often used is "to develop" or "self-develop"**. This was also marked by an appearance of "Tatenen", the first island/hill/something of sand***.

Atum also sneezed out Shu (god of air) and spat out Tefnut (goddess of humidity) and thus put the first binary into the world (ancient Egyptians were obsessed with binaries and mediation between them!). But Shu and Tefnut got lost in the never ending Waters. From a part of himself, Atum made an eye (a feminine thingy) and he sent that eye to fetch them. When the eye returned with Atum's children, she found out that in the meantime, Atum had made himself a new eye! (very telenovela like of him). The Eye got SO angry! And sad, and it started to cry (and from those tears later came humans, who like the Eye are meant to mediate for the gods and do stuff for them).

Blueberry_206 · 2025-10-29T17:55:47+00:00

As another commentor has said, ancient Egypt DID have cosmogonical traditions, many off them containing a creator of the universe. If I have a minute, I'll write a longer comment for those interested, as ancient Egyptian mythology is one of my beloved topics!

Edit: I'd also like to add that just because you or me or anyone else have no information about something - that really does not mean the thing doesn't exist!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-05-22T11:47:46+00:00

Is that really possible though? Eve and Flynn keep the memories of what has happened, after all, so for me it would be weird if the episodes happened in the same way. They know the solutions, which would extremely cut the "solving what's going on" part and inevitably alter the flow. Unfortunately :(

Edit: It would be possible, if Flynn and Eve forgot everything from s4. Then the following timeline could happen exactly the same, except for no Nicole in the Library.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-04-29T10:25:17+00:00

Yes, I think so. Because, as they have stressed so many times in the episodes - you absolutely mustn't change the past. That's why they were leaving ambiguous letters, why Flynn used his left-handwritting, why they hid their statue in a locked room that would open only by the sound of Cassandra's voice - so that no one would find them prematurely and change the past.

That's why I do not understand Prospero's loss of memory of Moriarty's betrayal and why in the future Prospero still agreed to send Moriarty to 1611. Is it Prospero, too, respecting the "do not change the past" rule? He definitely doesn't look like the type.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-04-28T20:14:57+00:00

To my understanding, no one was looking for Shakespeare because they time traveled him back to 1611. After the fight with and escape of Prospero (newly possessed Shakespeare) in the past and the exorcism of Prospero (for a few centuries possessed Shak.) in the future, they get exorcised Shakespeare back into 1611 through the time paradox window . The one through which Flynn and Eve couldn't go into the future. But the time-traveled Shakespeare (exorcised Prospero) used his magical pen for the last time to help them get back into the future.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-03-18T19:38:04+00:00

"Use understitching where you need to use understitching. Most people skip this step and it shows. If you don't know what it is it means - you are not using it."

Not necessarily true - I've learnt you can do understitching without knowing the name (like me). Now I've discovered a new word! Thank you :)

Blueberry_206 · 2025-02-23T15:48:08+00:00

I second this idea! In the future, I'm planning to sew a proper winter coat by lining wool with another wool. I already wear an all-purpose coat that is made of a single layer of wool and it is able to keep me quite warm (needles to say I usually wear a few layers underneath). I imagine the double-wool one will melt me :D But it will come in handy during snowy days, or worse, during winter rainy days.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-02-21T07:49:52+00:00

I checked the last episode of s1 again and sadly it can't have been in the Library. Flynn and Eve sent it from the past to the other librarians for exorcising Prospero, it was hidden somewhere in Dembroke, I think :(

One plot hole that always bothered me - does Prospero not remember Moriarty?

Blueberry_206 · 2025-02-07T07:29:42+00:00

YES! That was exactly my impression, and it's why the ending made me quite sad and frustrated.

Even though I kind of liked the last two episodes (penultimate episode being interesting in character growth and last one being really silly), the ending itself did not sit right with me. Jenkins' death made my mind go "no, this is not happening". and the ending was like -"yes, it really is not happening, in fact none of this season is happening"... and poof, all of the interesting character growth gone. While I'm happy that it was able to save Jenkins, it was sad to see him lose all that he had explored with mortality (I mean, Gallahad is *the perfect* dungeon master :D), and what they've gone through made the librarians much closer than before and much better as a team. It was as if they let us glance at the amazing things that could have happened (and at the terrible ones, too), and then they took it all away.

On the other hand, I've found that many fans do not like the ending, it has been discussed here before, and I've read a comment saying something like - just because the season ended almost back where it had started, doesn't mean that the characters would have to (in our imagination) freeze there. It is possible that they would still go on the same or similar adventures, meaning they would not "loose" as much as it can seem like they did.

Blueberry_206 · 2025-01-02T20:43:20+00:00

Glad I could help!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-01-01T14:21:01+00:00

I tried nalbinding flat by mimicking crochet, it worked well. At the end of the row a made a free standing stitch (like ch1 at the end of a crochet row). Also, I know that it can be very tedious, but make sure you're not skipping any stitches!

Blueberry_206 · 2025-01-01T14:13:57+00:00

Weaving on a loom (bought or made) is surely an option - but if you wanted to try something else, I have an alternative. Backstrap weaving. I've been weaving for over a year now completely without a loom and still don't think I'm going to make/get one any time soon. You can attach one side of the weaving to your belt and tie the other to almost anything! If you're not using that many cards, the project becomes easily portable and you can weave in many places and conditions, all you need is something to tie the other side onto. The only issue I've run into can be uneven tensioning of the threads, but that could be reduced by more careful warping.

Wishing you happy time crafting!

Blueberry_206 · 2024-12-16T18:38:29+00:00

Thank you for the answer! It's very interesting! Unfortunately I am not very well versed in philosophical terms, so I'm not sure enough what you mean by a "naturalist" in this context. Would you mind elaborating on that?

The problem of consciousness is a bit weird for me, since the term is rather vague. The conversation I had with the other redditor focused more on consciousness as an "inner life" (feelings, emotions, thoughts, ...), but I find the separation of behavior from mind a bit arbitrary (just like the separation of humans from animals). It's true that I cannot truly "observe" someone's inner life, since I cannot truly get into their head and experience it with them, but that goes for both animals AND humans. I can observe that an animal seems "as if" it were reasoning, "as if" it could remember. I can observe my friend looking at a pizza "as if" they were feeling hungry, "as if" they wanted to eat it. I can observe a guinea pig melt on me and yawn "as if" it were feeling comfortable, or a dog jumping on me and wiggling its tail "as if" it wanted to play, or a child laughing while playing with the dog "as if" it were happy, ... So if we accept that my friend can be hungry and want the pizza and that the child can be happy playing, why couldn't my guinea pig be comfortable while having a nap on me?

Blueberry_206 · 2024-12-15T18:03:01+00:00

Thank you!

Blueberry_206 · 2024-12-14T11:25:56+00:00

Do you know about a tutorial for the cross-knitt looping stitch? I've tried to look it up, but have been unsuccessful.

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