that last post connects to thinking about religions;
Christianity has all the answers. Usually they're about obeying someone more powerful than you, and by sheer chance they're always provided by someone more powerful.
In Judaism, the answer is always about love and compassion if you ever want something which resonates more than "we've always done it this way."
In Buddhism, there *are* no fixed answers, and that's okay; the only reason it wouldn't be okay is you really want a fixed answer.
more Judeo-Japanese culture
the opposite of recontextualizing Chelm stories to be Zen parables is recontextualizing Zen parables as Chelm stories;
for instance, the learned man of Chelm who overhears two rabbis arguing about the objective existence of a big stone. One says "clearly, this is held in your mind," and the guy gets such a headache from having such a huge stone in his head that he has to lie down. When he wakes up from his nap, he doesn't have a headache and can't find the stone where it must have rolled out of his ears or mouth, so he concludes that life truly *is* a dream.
Conan the Barbarian, weed reference
THUMP tink tink
THUMP tink tink
between the times when the oceans drank Atlantis
and the rise of the sons of Arius
there was an age undreamed of
and unto this, Conan!
destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow
it is I, his sagaler who alone can tell thee of his chronic
let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
#drawings today, a ghoul lord’s pleasure boat somewhere in the Underdark, and more of the small D&D characters - druids and one of the monks.
when suddenly, out from the hills, rode the ENTIRE OGLALA NATION. And baby, they was open for business! #MovieQuote #CorrectedSlur
Okay there were some details of my current temp job that *didn’t* stick from training, thus I’ve been readjusting to include that material and referencing everything I can get at; there’s still part of me feels I’m as dumb as a post AND that I’m about to be yelled at or fired for being innately inept. These aren’t useful feelings.
… similarly there’s this funeral services thing that sponsors/is mentioned on the dance music station and offers eco friendly burial practices and my brain always fills in “like being skeletonized by dermestid beetle larvae.”
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