this is what ancient greek philosophy is actually like
same except i was diagnosed with ADHD (which was recognized as a separate disorder from ADD at the time) around age 6 and my parents decided to pretend it wasn't real for... 30 years and counting.
i cut off my own mom bc she thinks being trans is a jewish conspiracy and refuses to talk to me about literally anything else because i'm trans, and burnt a 15+ year friendship because he refused to have a conversation that wasn't some stupid debate-me bro culture war bullshit, even when i literally cried and begged. sucks but i can't save them, and i won't be bullied for the sake of a relationship that's clearly already over for them.
you did the right thing. stay strong, friend. 🫂
star wars got a LOT more enjoyable for me when i resolved to ignore "canon" and approach it like SCP instead - if i like it i add it to my headcanon, and if i don't then i simply ignore it. really re-injects that element of wonder and mystery that lucasfilm has been feverishly working to excise since the 90s.
OOP is the author of something like seven published novels, one of which has been adapted into a movie and another of which may soon be made into a streaming series. Never feel embarrassed to say what you learned today.
"youre not supposed to know that yet" then why in fucks name did you ask lady?
PBS Spacetime's approach was a pair of videos titled "Why String Theory is True" and "Why String Theory is False" and between them that pretty much put it to bed for me. cool math, cool worldbuilding, call me when they make a testable prediction. until then it goes on the scrap pile with aether and phlogiston.
i say do watch the ones about string theory and mond so you can see why/how they're wrong
"rationalism" is the choice religion of 87 IQ brainlets who think they're geniuses for being able to read Voltaire.
my favorite is the tiny area in mississippi/alabama that says "the devil's beating his wife" when there's a sunshower.
What is this picture?
This is a painting I made of the Sigil of Prith.
Huh? What is this about?
Prith, the gay demon, is a chaos magick egregore conceived of and created by a small group of likeminded queer magicians several years back when that "PRIDEMONTH -> DEMON" meme went around. I strongly feel it is time to make it public.
Wait is this some weird woo-woo nonsense?
Yes, and I am 100% serious about it. I'm not here to debate or evangelize.
Why are you posting this here?
Because every occult/witchcraft space on Lemmy is dead as a doornail and I want this to have exposure. The fascists are way ahead of us for mass coordination and activity on occult fronts and it's high time there was a response beyond just #bindTrump.
Okay I'm interested, what's it do?
Prith is intended as a general "protector spirit" type entity by and for the queer community at large, with three aspects relating to Protection of the community from hostile forces, Arbitration within the community to promote cooperation, and Restitution to make whole those who are wronged.
What do I do with it?
Apply whatever your existing practices around working with spirits, Prith accepts all and does not discriminate.
Where can I learn more?
I have made our original internal writeup from 2022 about the egregore available here in PDF format.
The document is incomplete!
Correct. This ain't no medieval grimoire demon, this is straight from the experimental frontier of postmodern occultism. Be creative and do it your way!
You're a crazy person, you should be organizing with your community and organizing protests and such instead.
There is zero reason to not do both, an important component of most any magick is taking action in the physical world. This is a supplement to and not a replacement for real-world activism.
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try vscode they said, it's the best code editor ever they said... what kind of warped sadist puts fucking spell check...
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adopting conservative positions and integrating them into the democratic platform has been SOP since Clinton
the dems are a conservative party with a vanishingly small "progressive" wing