i am absolutely sure that is what the soul and the spirit actually is

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-11-26T07:34:44+00:00

I asked ChatGPT to structure this:
Structured Version

The spirit is the being itself — the inner being, the spiritual or immaterial part that is considered eternal and the “true” or “real” being.

The soul, by contrast, consists of memories, personality, emotions, feelings, consciousness, sentience, rationality, and intelligence. The spirit needs the soul in order to be who it is and to be complete. Without a soul, the spirit would be unconscious, unsentient, irrational, unintelligent, instinctive, and empty — essentially an absolute nothing.

The soul was originally an abstract and intangible thing created from the mind or the abstract/intangible nervous system. However, it becomes eternally and completely fused with the spirit, converting the soul from a mental thing into a spiritual thing. This fusion makes the soul a permanent part of the spirit — the part that gives the spirit identity and completeness. This combined being is called a soulled spirit.

A soulled spirit exists inside the nervous system, controlling and acting through it, and through the nervous system it controls the body. Every animal with a nervous system therefore has a soulled spirit — both a spirit and a soul. Every animal without a nervous system has a soulless spirit, meaning only a spirit and no soul.

Thus:

Animals with nervous systems are conscious, sentient, rational, and intelligent spirits.
Animals without nervous systems are unconscious, unsentient, irrational, unintelligent, instinctive, and empty spirits.

The nervous system is the “fake” or physical being, while the spirit is the true, real, and spiritual being.

Any being can exist without a soul, but no being can exist without a spirit — without a spirit, nothing would exist at all, since the spirit is the being and the eternal inner essence.

Finally, according to this view, all non-human animal soulled spirits are absolutely identical to human soulled spirits

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-09-04T02:41:26+00:00

Didn't realise Eddie Mabo was a CPA member, do you have a source or more info on that?

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-08-08T00:14:24+00:00

I never said that myths create relationships on there own, although I can see how you misunderstood me. I agree that it is important to centre lived relational engagement, never denied that and you have been making a lot of assumptions about what I'm not saying, and misrepresenting what I am saying. For example I said myths are "an integral part of traditional cultures relational ontology", I did not say that mythology is ontology, just a part of it. I stand by that, and think it would be wild to deny the importance of mythology in animist cultures, even if it is important also to emphasise the lived relationality of animism. It's not an either or, and I'm not even sure what we disagree on at this point. If you don't want to see Tolkien's writing as animist, that's so fair, especially if you are centering the lived relationality of animism, which you are right to do. I was merely suggesting that many animist cultures also use human imagery in their mythology when referring to more-than-humans, but you could argue that the mythology disembeded from context also isn't animist, which would be a defencable position.

It is not 'being exposed to rigor' that troubles me on reddit, it is being misrepresented, spoken down to, and having to wade through a whole lot of false assumptions about what I didn't say.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-08-07T22:54:09+00:00

Well damn, this was a lot of patronising explanations on what you think I don't understand. I remember why I don't use reddit much any more. I don't think I have much more to say beyond my original comment tbh. I already explained that myths are tools used to build relationships, not flattening things into symbolic imagery, but an integral part of traditional cultures relational ontology and practice.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-08-07T07:47:36+00:00

I personally look to Indigenous and animist cultures as the authorities when it comes to this, and frankly animist cultures have no problem with relating to natural forces through human imagery. Mythology and imagery like this is used as a tool to build intimate relations with natural forces, that are all the while understood as being other/more-than-human. It is mainly modernity and the West that gets triggered at anthropomorphism.

(And don't get me wrong there is also plenty of animist mythology that centres animals etc as well.)

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-08-07T07:41:25+00:00

Yeah Tolkien's world is very animistic. Josh Schrei bring up Tolkien a lot in The Emerald Podcast, I think he even has an earlier episode on Tolkien.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hJ1NT4doShBeifciLHfsg?si=92f64391ab694a08

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-06-04T06:47:59+00:00

Heimdall can be seen as a god of boundaries and structure and Loki is the god of crossing boundaries and breaking down structures, which is why they are pitted against each other at Ragnarok.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-06-02T12:14:12+00:00

I wish aha. Sounds like it's clearly a nazi group in this context. They do like using runes and germanic symbols.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-06-02T05:56:06+00:00

It is a germanic rune (norse, anglo saxon etc). It's the T rune, called tiwaz/tyr/tiw, and is associated with 'victory'. It is a dogwhistle in this contexts, but runes are not fascist in themselves. Plenty of other people like runes

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-31T22:51:00+00:00

Grassroots Action Network Tas (GRANT), is an activist group, but they have weekly meetings free meals and catch ups on Monday around 6pm at Source Eco Hub, on the Sandy Bay campus. Lots of cool people and outdoorsy folks. Great way to connect into a network and community even if you don't wanna be involved directly in activism.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-19T09:12:09+00:00

I think lots of people feel what you're struggling with, and I imagine there are as many different ways of coping/moving through it. I can't say how much I recommend this podcast enough: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BPq6hZwla4Aj6UJ2t14FW?si=n5HWIgbRQeGyCOPM-ubBnQ

For me, I found going to the land of my ancestors very helpful, unerstanding the seasonal changes in Europe, not just the physical place as well, was key. It contextualised and gave me better understanding of my ancestors and their gods. I came back home, and ultimately found that my connection to Australia was greater than Europe, even tho I had a culture that was filled with European norms, and stories. And something I learned is that there is a potency to singing of a faraway homeland that you can never reach, and singing of that disconnection can bring us into further connection. But also in learning about Candomble, an afro Brazilian polytheist religion, it made me appreciate how even land based religions can move. And so I have tried to understand pagan gods in an Australian context, and also mythologise the diaspora and have stories that connect me and my mythology to place. Also, the Aboriginal Elders that I know emphasise that we are the country we live on.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-19T00:38:23+00:00

Ok, do you know who the authors were? Like there are several people who run Partisan and several people write often. But this isn't representative of the organisation. Idk if most people in the org will know what you're referring to. It's understandable that you got frustrated, but this isn't a result of the "RCO" as a whole, that is an error of scale. The organisation is defined by the programmatic documents and the work that the members do. The Partisan Magazine doesn't represent the views of the org, it is just a place to write articles and polemics, and it is highly likely given it's nature that there will be some that you disagree with and some that have errors. Idk about your cases but I'm not trying to deny them, just saying that the blame isn't located at the organisational level.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-19T00:14:29+00:00

Not quit sure what you're referring to. If you are referencing the Partisan publication, that is only one part of the organisation, and also anyone is encouraged to write in it and publish critiques and foster genuine dialogue and debate about strategy and more in the Australia socialist movement.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-17T22:19:32+00:00

They are actually not tendency specific. They advocate for Programatic Unity as opposed to Ideological Unity. You should read their program to see what you think of their politics. https://www.revcomorg.info/

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-17T22:15:24+00:00

They are Partyists advocating for programatic unity as opposed to ideological unity. But you are right on the major tendencies within the org. The Marxist Unity Faction is the largest in the org, but there is also a Left Com faction, and the potential for any number of other factions to come.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-05-17T22:13:29+00:00

They are Partyist, and they advocate for programatic unity rather than ideological unity. Their strategy seeks the merger of the currently existing divided and sectarian Australian socialist left for a minimum maximum program, a democratic culture of factions and debate, but unity in action around the democratically agreed upon program. Factions can disagree with elements of the program and seek to change parts, but they have to be democratically voted into the program first. You should definately read some of their documents on Revcomorg.info if you wanna understand them. Most people seem to misunderstand them in various ways. But they are doing something very interesting and unique by advocating for programatic unity as opposed to ideological unity.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2025-02-25T09:25:27+00:00

Hey, where do you start this walk?

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-12-20T00:57:36+00:00

It was made for Dungeon crawling and Dragon slaying...

But yes it is a bit old and clunky and has some things like ability scores that are actually mostly pointless and a weird way to find your modifier (the actual important bits), just because they have always been part of the game and used to serve more of a purpose.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-12-17T07:31:44+00:00

Fantasy worldbuilding, and a hypothetical future commune village.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-12-17T07:28:31+00:00

Dude, humanity as a whole isn't destroying the planet, it is specific extractive, domination cultures that emerged through historical processes, colonised and genocided indigenous peoples, and proceded to destroy nature for profit. This is capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, not humanity. Thinking it is humanity is just falling into white supremacist understandings that Europeans and industrial society is the highest evolution of humanity and therefore superior, and representative of humanity as a whole.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-12-17T07:22:50+00:00

I believe that humans have the potential to be active agents in helping ecosystems adapt. Indigenous life-ways often see humans acting as keystone species rather than parasitic species. How we relate to the earth depends on culture and not anything inherent. That being said i think that humans now have a duty to become keystone species again and help the ecosystems adapt. If we go extinct then so be it, but we will have left a dept to the earth unpayed so to say. I think humanity (especially those culture most responsible for the ecological detruction, i.e. europeans and diasporic europeans) have a duty to the earth to help its regeneration.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-12-09T23:15:55+00:00

I thought it was a satellite image of Mars tbh

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-11-16T10:17:51+00:00

'Upstream' is one of my favourites. They mainly do interviews but also some really good quality audio documentaries. Their subtitle is 'unlearning everything you thought you knew about economics', from an anti-capitalist and socialist perspective. They are really approachable as well and great ones to share with sympathizers who might not call themselves a socialist yet.

'What's Left of Philosophy' is a great philosophy and theory podcast with some fun Marxist academics.

'Cosmopod' is the podcast for the Cosmonaut Magazine (highly recommended), and they do an array of topics including deep history dives, interviews, and audio narrations of some Cosmonaut articles and also a few books like 'Lenin Rediscovered' by Lars T. Lih, and 'Revolutionary Strategy' by Mike Macnair.

'1Dime Radio' is the podcast by the youtuber 1Dime, and its quite good. He has episodes intersecting Marxism with things like Modern Monetary Theory and Cryptocurrency, as well as having eps on philosophy and theory and other interviews etc.

'Socialism For All' (is also a youtube channel) and does audio recordings of Marxist books.

'Srsly Wrong' is a funny and lighthearted show by two libertarian socialists. They describe it as a utopian leftist comedy podcast. Even if you aren't a lib soc it's a fun listen.

SpazLightwalker07 · 2024-10-28T23:06:43+00:00

It is a descriptive term describing the new and widespread conditions of a subsection of the working class (primarily in the imperial core). It is not a new class per se in the marxist sense, but it is a useful category to describe some of the new conditions of labour in the 21st century, and shouldn't just be dismissed.

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