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» Posted By Khirad On May 23, 2020 @ 8:10 pm Also… ‘Eid Mubarak!
» Posted By Khirad On May 23, 2020 @ 8:08 pm https://time.com/3834792/serj-tankian-armenian-genocide/
» Posted By Khirad On May 23, 2020 @ 7:28 pm Johnny has gone for a Soldier. Based on an Irish tune, used in the Revolutionary war. This James Taylor version is for the softer folk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqzEZhfYYs This is more how I think it would feel, – goth doesn’t pretend or play pretty with pain.
» Posted By Khirad On May 23, 2020 @ 7:10 pm Weekend Music Thread – School’s Out
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» Posted By Khirad On May 17, 2020 @ 5:43 am No recess!
» Posted By Khirad On May 17, 2020 @ 5:41 am Yes, I know my enemies!
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» Posted By Khirad On May 17, 2020 @ 5:30 am I don’t want to talk past each other but there is loads of love. Sanskrit had three words, Greek, at least two. They separated lust from the divine. Arabic does this, as well. English, for it’s flexibility has a severe deficit for different forms of affection. You posit an interesting question, and I do believe love, however you define it, is Darwinian. There was a great Adam Ruins Everything about the myth of the Alpha male. It varies, but, in our closest relatives, the male who helps out actually spreads its seed more than the most dominant. This is is also true in wolves. Unfortunately foxes, which is my spirit animal, do apparently have a Spartan attitude – though they are fascinating in how much they can adapt quickly, like we do. As to history… there’s the old dictum of if you had been born so and so you’d be Muslim or Hindu, etc. The best reply I ever got to that was something about destiny or the Holy Spirit. By that token I’d love to write the response to 300 if the Persians had won and Zoroastrianism spread. Or had Spain fallen to the Umayyads before the Pyranees, or the Ottomans gotten past the Carpathians. Or the Norse held back the Christians. What often happened, instead, was a cross-pollination. Every Christian, Muslim, and even Jew has the imprint of Zoroaster, just has he had the imprint of Indo-Aryan henotheism. Just as Judaism had the imprint of Babylonian religion [hardly any Egyptian religion, curiously – must have wandered a very long time]. The forms of Buddhism are strikingly more different than the schisms in Christianity or Islam. They, as well, melded with the older culture. I mean, Tibetan, Theravada and Zen are quite different in respect to adapting themselves to the culture. As it is Buddhism, there were few wars, however. Ashoka, being the most famous, and Tibetan warrior monks and the Sri Lankan war against the Tamil Tigers being among the most famous. No religion is above violence. I say this having read the Qur’an. Allah proscribes peace for real. But this was written/revealed at a very violent time. Muhammad is given a lot of crap he shouldn’t be. I mean, at least if you’re defending the Bible, you have no right to judge – for his time and place he was a liberal, as was Christ and Siddhartha and Zarathushtra. It’s always funny how misfits and political rebels become co-opted and the fetish of small-minded conservatives later. When it comes to Hinduism, I am a Shaivite. Whilst Vishnu is more associated with bhakti – or devotional worship [that would be a fourth love word in Sanskrit, come to think of it], I prefer Shiva, who retires to the mountain and gives boons to those who may chant his name for a thousand years, or who will just say fuck it. In the end, the pagans, the Native, indigenous religions may have had a lot right. We are where we are now, and sure, my Celtic and Germanic ancestors may or may not have been head hunters, but the Manichæan impulse to come in and burn the forests and see Satan everywhere? If we were honest with ourselves, we would find a middle ground. That’s where I am as a Unitarian Univeralist mostly atheist agnostic that still is moved and fascinated by religion. I started out angry at religion, especially Christianity. But, through my reading of religion, I almost fell in love with it. The culture, art, literature. I think sociologically, religion can be powerful for good, as well as bad. » Posted By Khirad On May 23, 2020 @ 12:59 pm I fail to see how this is anything new. Hindus beat you to it if not Raëlians. To each their own. » Posted By Khirad On May 21, 2020 @ 12:42 pm I’m an orthodox Unitarian Universalist [I say that ironically], and as open and liberal as we are, I’m not sure this coheres. I would like more information on what you are speaking of. I believe that many faith traditions have truths and I take from them what I do. I don’t believe in heaven or hell. I don’t beieve in someone watching over me. But, I leave open the prospect of spiritual experience. I’m basically a nice atheist. I’d like more of an explanation. And, I am not right. I just know what I know and don’t know. » Posted By Khirad On May 21, 2020 @ 2:10 am I don’t know where to even start. But, kesmarn, this is the discussion I wanted. I’m not here to say this or that about any faith tradition. I mean, I did start reading the Book of Mormon. I’m going into it not beileving in the Golden tablets. But for a charlatan, which Joseph Smith was, to spend that much time writing that, even plagiarizing others, took a lot of will. I’m willing to believe that in Palmyra, New York, during the Second Great Awakening, not everyone was overcome by avarice or deceit. I’d like to go deeper into that period. Even if Joseph Smith was a con-man, there was a culture ready for it. I’m reading the Book of Mormon, because, I’ve been meaning to for a while, and don’t know if I can get past the first book. It was given to my dad from a student. Where we grew up, – well, we had a lot of mormons. I would say, that, while their beliefs are bizarre, they are good, kind people. I would also say it is a cult. I defended them as Christian in a high school editorial, but the fact that they had a seminary next to my Junior High and High School gave me pause. And as I alluded to, with the rod, I spent time with evangelical Christians at a private daycare. Insert Catholic for Protestant. I painted Jesus up there – I believed. I still believe. But mine own eyes hath seeneth stuff and more I’ve dealt with through therapy and poetry. In fact, the non-denominational stuff was the worst. The big gymnasiums, come here, have fun. I later found out my ‘friend’ got points for bringing me there. I was brought somewhere to have me accept christ – even though I’d been to plenty of churches before. The love bombing of brother and hugs. I’m like, get the fuck away from me. I was never Mormon, so I don’t want to confuse people. But I also had my share of fucked up ‘Christian’ friends. If anything, my Republican friend in high school, was a lapsed Catholic. We lost contact after he married his Jehovah’s Witness girlfriend and they started a family, but when I saw he was a Catholic again, I was like – thank god. I’m not becoming a Christian again, but between Catholics and a cult? I’ll take Catholics – at least modern ones. Still don’t talk to him over political stuff, but I’m a reasonable person – and respect saving someone from a cult. I have not even begun… My transformation has been long, and I’m coming back to it. Let’s just say I still identify as a Unitarian Universalist. I think Dawkins is fine, and I love that he and Hitchens as I do, know the Bible and have read texts – I don’t think either ever experienced a numinous experience. Or, let me say this: when Sam Harris debated Reza Aslan, I thought they were talking past each other, and thought Sam Harris was being a dick. I like Sam Harris inasmuch as he recognizes the brain patterns induced by meditation and prayer. My point of contention is that we’re speaking English but speaking with different parts of our brains. For instance, the Left brained will say there’s no such thing anymore than there is such thing as an astrological sign. To which, I will say, I know there’s no such thing as a Right brain, but I would say there are things science has yet to discover. And quite frankly, this is was always makes them angry: I almost like the mystery. I don’t process life by a formula. I’m sure you can figure out a way to replicate the Mona Lisa or a Starry Night with some algorithm, it’s still not the same. I’m as cynical as the next person, but I believe god is within us. You can code my DNA, you can clone me in a different upbringing – I think he would be different than me. I don’t know what a soul is other than what I’ve experienced and what I feel. I believe genes have an effect on that, I am who I am. I don’t believe I was preborn, or meant to happen, or someone is looking down at me. But, I still feel Wonder at the world and something might be out there. Not aliens, or god, but, maybe god in another sense – if you’ve ever gone off trail when hiking or something – you can’t define it – and if you could I wouldn’t care. When you find that spot, and feel yourself. That’s god to me. Whenever you can find peace within yourself. By whatever name you call it. » Posted By Khirad On May 18, 2020 @ 1:32 am Coronavirus Report Card: Where Do We Stand? As an aside, I was watching a history of pandemics and plagues… I’m not saying bring back the plague doctor or bells and carts of bring out your dead, – but curve flattened or not – Donald Trump or not – people are going to die. I’m not an epidemiologist or a fatalist – but people are going to die. I’ve been made fun of for being a goth sort, but mostly because of the eyeliner and black in high school. However; it’s not that I celebrate in death, but I recognize the darker aspects of life. I don’t wish death or suffering on 99% of people. Unfortunately, this is mother nature. Some can say it’s the Chinese and wet markets – but if it hadn’t been this it would have been something else. I guess I have my own religion of sorts. You can only screw with mother earth so much, she will seek balance. I have no science for that, and I stress I don’t want my parents to die from Covid-19 or anybody. I’m just looking at it dispassionately on the other end of Trump’s complete lack of empathy. In fact, the fact that no one could have seen this coming? Fauci did. Epidemiologists did. A lay historian like me could have told you blithely something was coming. Like, the patterns of these things over centuries of recorded history? We were due… I, too, wish we had a leader to at least talk to us like adults about that, and mobilize the nation. I think it would be devastating to have a military coup, but… somebody be an adult at least. The governors are forming their own regional micro-states. It’s part of what made me think of resurrecting my perennial dream of Cascadia joined with the Republic of California and part of Nevada. The same person that wanted military parades – the wannabe dictator – says it’s all to the states. Fine. Go fuck yourself Mango Mussolini. At least Hitler and Mussolini wrote their own books…. if anything, the fact he’s such an idiot is our saving grace. And even Hitler was self-aware enough to admit he wasn’t a great writer. Even Hitler had more humanity than Trump. There is something truly disturbed with him. From his childhood. From his dad. I also think he is a sociopath. If he hadn’t been born to Fred Trump, another racist narcissist, but to a poor family, he’d be a serial killer stalking highways in a van. I’m sorry, but that is my firm belief; not hyperbole. I’ve never seen him have affection for animals, or a true sense of humor. Everything is transactional. Not one ounce of humanity. There is nothing there ‘there’ with him. It’s effing creepy to me and always has been. Who creates alter egos to talk about themselves? And then names their son after one of them…??? No, when I talk about how this might kill a lot of people, and probably will kill many more, I actually have sadness. Not sadness for the Stock Market, but for human lives. » Posted By Khirad On May 16, 2020 @ 6:25 am Too much to respond to. Just, bravo. I did want to, but you’re like me and sort of cover it all. I would add FDR though. We need a modern CCC. Hell, we need a Marshall Plan or Berlin Airlift for our own country. » Posted By Khirad On May 16, 2020 @ 5:54 am I don’t think I’ve shared my lame stuff here yet.
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» Posted By Khirad On May 12, 2020 @ 1:52 am Weekend Music Thread – Work To Do
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» Posted By Khirad On May 3, 2020 @ 10:42 pm Skinhead culture was working class and had nothing to do with racism at first.
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» Posted By Khirad On May 3, 2020 @ 4:45 pm I want to be clear how serious I am about border security!
» Posted By Khirad On May 1, 2020 @ 10:13 pm Weekend Music Thread – Shine a Light झिलमिलाते जगमगाते – Shining, sparkling » Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:32 pm
» Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:28 pm [Frank Sinatra] » Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:18 pm Dead Can Dance – Black Sun
» Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:14 pm Einstürzende Neubauten
» Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:11 pm And back again. Sisters – Torch
» Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:07 pm Yes, I went from Rammstein to this. My brain is a terrible thing to imagine living in, so don’t try
» Posted By Khirad On April 26, 2020 @ 9:03 pmComments Posted By Khirad
They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me!
Compromise! Conformity! Assimilation! Submission!
Ignorance! Hypocrisy! Brutality! The elite!
All of which are American dreams!
All of which are American dreams!
All of which are American dreams!
All of which are American dreams!
खुशियों में झुमकर – roaming in joy
और यहा जल रहे थे हम – and here I was burning
और यहा जल रहे थे हम – and here I was burning
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