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@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social !!

Me too.

That's fascinating; I would imagine that's probably one reason that many traditions where people try deliberately to attain those states involve rituals and preparations for, e.g., taking entheogenic drugs or forms of meditation/practice that can induce such

my main interest in Jewish mysticism, though, is that I think it's the only element of the religious tradition that still bears traces of duotheism and goddess-worship, both of which I think it was very wrong of us to abandon

on one hand, I think it's extremely funny that commentators have said No, you're not ready to even think about this; but on the other, I appreciate the quasi-Wittgensteinian caution involved in declaring that sages and rabbis shouldn't embarrass themselves and confuse others by nonsense speculation

I'm not expert either, fwiw--many scholars/commentators in the Talmud basically said "really, do not even *try* to engage with Merkabah unless you know the Tanakh backwards and forwards and are 400 years old, don't even talk about it in front of students who might not understand"

do you mind if I ask what the connection is to one of the most esoteric forms of Jewish mysticism, though? Merkhaba really *isn't* about G-d having a physical body, but Christianity talks a lot more about God having a body, and it's, you know, realized in God's incarnation as Jesus

are you thinking of "non-binary" as meaning "intersex"?

wait what does this have to do with Jewish mysticism? Talarico isn't Jewish

people really don't read enough Clausewitz these days.

the two best financial bets are owning land and selling energy.

this is what end-stage terminal Star Wars fandom looks like. this man probably has only days to live, so it's really more about making him comfortable than anything else

I like that they found an actor who's got some heat because of his unique personal look, beauty, and physicality, and then they gave him a VO role as a stupid giant slug monster

I wonder if Warhammer miniatures are especially popular in Japan

I don't know if I could stay with someone who took my writing that personally

maybe that's like 8 standard deviations

wow, really nice pansexuality erasure, fascist

maybe I'm wrong. I don't know how well-attended their productions are.

it seems that this person has an obsolescent conception of who goes to see opera and why

A meme I made in the format of the internet-famous scene from the Playstation game "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" where Dracula parlays in a desultory fashion with Richter Belmost before their expository battle, but I made it so Dracula is saying "What? No, I'm Catholic--this is Jesus's blood."

and also it hurt my feelings!

it sounds kind of like he thinks they all fuck each other after they win and he wants to get in on it

fucking yikes

so gay that it will get retitled "Alexander the Gay," offending both gay and straight people, then switched back, but there will be an AI-related data corruption issue, so it will end up being "Alexander the Great Gay," which everyone will agree is perfect

they stuffed her into it with a murdered-dog-themed ramrod based on a sketch she drew, so it's a real insult-to-injury kinda deal

[tears up "True Ultra Magic Sex" posters in fit of pique]

i resent being obliged to pretend that "Markwayne" (not "Mark Wayne," mind you) is a real name