INTUISI is the foundation of a dance mix i'm working on, i'll post it when i'm done. finding music that seems to intuitively fits with it has been a journey, we'll see how it turns out...!
my pleasure, it's a current favorite
I have an overwhelming, staggering, bone-shatteringly strong preference for art that is not emotionally direct, particularly things that convey a sense of mixed emotion or liminality.
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Utada Hikaru has some new music out. I've enjoyed the direction her music has taken over the last few years, though mostly I listen to things that are more sharp and less directly emotive. Seems like she's doing more of what she wants with the skills she's acquired.
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i guess i'm going to go ahead and put this product on the market. God spoke to me
i had a dream last night i was hired to market a beer called "How to Use Your Farts". the ad we made showed a guy working on a project with a screwdriver and when his girlfriend came by to bother him he let out a visibly yellow fart that hung in the air. after smelling it she sat down and joined him
Mf realising that they have to look for essence, embrace simplicity, diminish selfishness and reduce desires
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Before you take information about Taiwan seriously, please consider checking if the person sharing it is even in this part of the world. The things westerners say about Taiwan are often ridiculous and people just take them at face value.
Talking to westerners about China, Taiwan, and their intertwined destiny is often about as fun as being stabbed in the balls with a knitting needle.
Newsflash: People are just over here living their lives. They have healthcare and democracy.
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The second most critical element in any attempt to take Taiwan is that the first 48 hours after China takes action will be the most critical. Any discussion about the fate of Taiwan should take these two factors into consideration or it just isn't a serious discussion.
The majority over here in Taipei think that China will try to blockade us in 2027 and wait for the government to capitulate. This is probably a fair estimate, so a more realistic discussion is what the US and Taiwan's surrounding nations might do in response to that.
Taiwanese punk goes pretty hard, it's majorly its own underground scene though. Noise art also is its whole own thing in Taiwan, and it is SERIOUSLY a thing. Whew.
In Taiwan I sometimes run into people who think Ed Sheeran is some kind of hard rock, which is not that different from being in hell
The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)
CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"
Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"
The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
this guy has the ability to turn his tongue off
Yeah word to that. There are some Muslims who see it this way and I am among them.
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It is important to pay attention to people whose presence on this Earth brought such great peace to the world that it's difficult to accurately describe the scale.
I prefer to live in a cosmology that is filled with friendly divine beings, I'm also prone to this view because I've had some personal experience with Zen and 觀世音 the Bodhisattva of Compassion that added a lot to my life.
I also practice Zen, as Zen meditation has added a huge amount to my life, and I still visit Taoist temples in Taiwan occasionally and pay respect to the 神 ("gods"), though I see them more as saints or wali than deities. There is no God but Allah.
I also see Krishna as having been a prophet of his time and don't see this as being in inherent disagreement with Islam.
This will make the majority of other Muslims super uneasy so it's not something I typically bring up in conversation. I do put the Qur'an first in my priority however.
I personally take the view that the the Tao was in part or total a work of Revelation, and the Tao informs my Sufism.
In Taiwan one mostly encounters folk Taoists, Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians, with occasional run-ins with Vedic religions (my Chinese doctor is a Hare Krishna, she is very cool).
Sikhs are quite special.
Right, I remember. I've done some reading on it but I'm not deeply familiar. My specialization is mostly East Asian religions, and I know Islam because I'm Sufi. My practice and beliefs within Islam are mostly Sunnah but not always strictly so. Generally I think we should, as Jibril said, read.
I used to be a major stoner and that was something I loved the hell out of when I was younger. It treated some symptoms of an illness that has since been diagnosed and treated better, however I've also found from an artistic perspective that it creates the sense that one is doing more than one is.
For the most part it's just something that hasn't been Adding a Lot to my life recently. There have been times when it seemed OK but in recent days it has mostly been a drain on my wallet, not producing nights that I found particularly edifying, and producing day-afters that were hung over.
Is that so? I had no idea, thank you for sharing about this.
Fasting is incredibly clearing. Many religious people view it as something we do for God and this is a view not without honor, however in my view we are asked by God to do this for our own benefit (as with many religious obligations).
I would also have the experience of going out with friends who were drinking and /really/ not enjoying it if I wasn't drinking, but something in my attitude about that has also changed.
It has been a bit challenging explaining to bars that I don't drink though, as there aren't really DDs in Taiwan.
