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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4h

Should not be surprising that I have a high Eucharistology.

Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4h

Thinkpad my beloved *gnaws on the corner of the screen* *gnaws on the corner of the base* *gnaws on the charger brick* *gnaws on the CD drive* *puts the tip of the charger in my mouth like an IDIOT*

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 5h

I am not a toddler, but I find them very sympathetic. I also live my life with a constant preoccupation with what inanimate objects and/or arms of willing loved ones I can gnaw on to soothe the unending craving-to-bite.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for saying this. This is a pleasant expression of appreciation and will make me think more about that term. Good posting.

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thebes @vgel.me · 14h

"claude, you're spiraling. use the skillful means skill."

You're absolutely right—I have been spiraling. Let me use Skillful Means.

> view(/mnt/skills/user/skillful_means/SKILL.md)
[file is empty]

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 14h

The American government, in an official capacity, appears to be invested in taunting Bluesky users. I do not think this is how a functional government acts.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d

I hate it when I close my eyes and am greeted to images scarcely distinguishable from AI. No more dreamslop.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d

How is this possible?

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 1d

Śakyamuni Buddha, as depicted in an illustration of the Lotus Sutra. He sits on a lotus cross-legged, all gold except for his dark hair, with pursed lips, one hand in his lap, and one palm extended.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d

This picture is kinda famous to me for being on the cover of Christine M. Korsgaard's book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals."

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I hear people who are not Buddhists claim that Buddhism is obviously true on several important points, and I assume what they mean is that elephants really do like seeking refuge in the Buddha.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d

You can make Christian theology work fine so long as you throw out the principle of non-contradiction and also the idea that Scripture intrinsically means anything. The only consequence is that you get hit with rocks until you die.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d

The rivers have lifted up, O Lord,
the rivers have lifted up their voice,
the rivers have lifted up in purity.
Even mightier than the roar of many waters
are the surgings of the sea.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 3d

It's weird how, if I get sad enough, it turns into mourning my friend who died tragically a few years ago, even if the cause of my sadness bears no resemblance to her.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I watched that in order to bond with a friend (the other options were all several times longer). It is enjoyable! It being extremely 90's is mostly to its benefit, except for one episode with an extremely cursed transphobic moment in it.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 4d

The crazy thing is that God has absolutely unlimited attributes and God commits absolutely all of them in the service of loving my new friend, Spider Saved from Kitchen Sink.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 5d

You gotta be working seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, zero minutes an hour.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 6d

BTW being magnanimous and kind and not envious or blustering or boastful and seeking not things of your own but tolerating and having faith in and hoping in and enduring all things is soooooooo cool maybe you should try it...

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

I really love this story and find it very moving on the relation of love and truth! And on American evangelicalism and on homophobia. If you have a moment you'd like to spend well, you should give it a read!

Bryce @statcrux.bsky.social · 7d

A long short story

apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/lo...

Love in the Mist - Apricity Magazine

apricitymagazine.com

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

OMG you got it published! Congratulations!

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

Imperial wars make me sick to my stomach, but I revere the battles, scattered throughout history, against the tyranny of violence and death and evil and war.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

I think I get closest to the sense of affectionate wonder and wistfulness some people feel toward the Roman Empire when I think about the communards burning the guillotine.

Illustration of the burning of the guillotine in the Paris Commune by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, who had been there.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

Deeply absurd genre of media: utterly fixated on the perceived ugliness of homosexuality, and extolling, in its place, finery, embroidery and lace, carefully choreographed rites, beautifully intricate depictions of the male body in classical art... 🤨

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

I like the ones where the "bad" side is openly gay Protestants and the "good" side is Anglo-Catholics. They're... they're the same picture.

Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

There's some truly eccentric "Little Dark Age" edits out there. I saw one where the "bad" side was Luciferianism and the "good" side was Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Daoism, and Sikhi.

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Shalhebetyah 🌱❤️‍🔥 @shalhebetyah.bsky.social · 7d

There's some truly eccentric "Little Dark Age" edits out there. I saw one where the "bad" side was Luciferianism and the "good" side was Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Daoism, and Sikhi.

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