Nah, she’s got this one old, worn out bastard pf a sasquatch, but she’s a free agent otherwise
Nah, she’s got this one old, worn out bastard pf a sasquatch, but she’s a free agent otherwise
Jfc, my wife does this. And it works every fucking time
According to Ponder Stibbons, he is obsessed with them.
Yeah, I feel that. If we accept things as they come, and accept when they leave, even the bad things are less bad because we know they’ll leave, and we can work on letting them go easier.
If we haven’t ousted every last one of them, by whatever means necessary, before those elections, we’re fucked.
Just got head!
Unseen alchemeticals looks like a blast :)
It’s the only horror movie that ever gave me a nightmare, even as a younger kid than I was when I saw it.
My parents were willing to let me watch horror movies pretty young, depending on the exact movie. Like, old school fifties and sixties era horror I was laughing about at 5. So they had gradually loosened the limits up because it never bothered me, nor did I get obsessed.
So we watched this one one night after I picked it out at the video rental place (vhs). It wasn’t scary per se, I did way more laughing than anything else because the effects were not impressive.
But the core idea of it, that stuck in my brain apparently, because that night, and a couple after, I had the nightmare of the Manitou growing in me.
I’ve seen it as an adult a few times, and it isn’t exactly a great movie, despite being a fairly classic example of body horror. Decent, not not great, and you have to overlook the era’s film making style.
I’m not aware of where it might be available, but YouTube has a few clips.
I’ve never had anyone, online or irl, know that it existed, much less having also watched it.
I mean, it is the central precept.
The precept is that stress stems from attachment to things. Thus, if you let go of attachment to a state, then you have less stress when it isn’t there.
Suffering, which is what the idea gets translated to despite it being more along the lines of distress or stress or upset, is an internal thing in that concept. We can’t control the world around us entirely, so there’s no easy to go through life without some degree of “suffering”.
When we cling to things that are transient, such as happiness or even sadness, we are certain to have additional stresses above and beyond the bad things life throws at us.
Since it is nearly impossible to actually hold a single state of being such as happiness, the way you avoid distress at its absence is by accepting that transience is the only truly permanent thing, and finding a way to let go of the “desire” to have that state. This extends to things other than emotions, since material or worldly things are most definitely something we cling to, that we have attachment to.
However, and this is very very important, there is no claim in any of that, that doing so is going to cure depression or anxiety. It can help in dealing with such things, but it would only be one tool to use. And nobody has ever said that using that tool doesn’t take practice or that it’s instantaneous.
You don’t just think “hah, I will not cling to this” and magically enter remission of depression. It takes the same level of time and work as talk therapy. You have to practice with the tools that help gain the ability to let go of attachments.
That’s why this comic isn’t a literal thing, it’s only a demonstration of the principle. And, it is important to notice that the person on the bench needs help to let go of the attachment to happiness. Just like we all need help to escape depression or other psychological distress. It isn’t suggesting that it’s simple, or easy, just that it can be done.
And, yes, I’ve dealt with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Have for my entire life so far, and still do. But the tools in the concept presented here do help. They help a lot. When you combine the acceptance of that concept with good meditation practices, good therapy, and a willingness to explore other tools as they come around, it makes a huge difference over time.
You don’t even have to be Buddhist, or practice Buddhism to make use of the tools. It isn’t really important to follow the other precepts of Buddhism, the eightfold path stuff. You just need to recognize that nothing is permanent, and that letting go of attachment to things will help.
Private security can be really good, particularly with the kind of funding he has.
However, what private security can’t do is close down access to buildings, block roads, and similar actions that require official weight to throw around. Not impossible to achieve the things that the SS can do, but it’s a lot harder, and a determined group or individual will find a way.
Don’t forget that the SS managed to let a sniper slip through on trump. So, even those full resources can fail, and if the asset is an egomaniacal jackass that thinks he’s smarter than anyone around him, it becomes even harder to close all the gaps in security. With the reduced reach of private security, even the top end military trained guys, there’s limits to what gaps they can and can’t close.
It does mean that any sniper would have a narrow window of opportunity, likely only one shot. But there’s other ways to get to someone that don’t require that kind of precision. Assuming the person or persons taking action don’t care about getting caught, there’s a lot of options.
If they also don’t care about collateral damage, things open up even more, and musk can’t prevent things flying over him the way a president can. When you’re talking about the potential for state actors, someone dropping a plane on him isn’t entirely out of possibility, though incredibly unlikely.
Man, that dude is going to end up with somebody putting a bullet in him. People have limits, and he doesn’t have the secret service covering his ass
I once took a box of the damn things over a period of a few hours when I was sick and thinking I was waking up after six hours of sleep when it had only been maybe fifteen, twenty minutes.
At one point, he-man and battle cat came out of the TV, my walls were breathing, and the floor was an ocean. Shit was trippin.
So, you know, don’t let your kids self medicate when they’re sick.
It is so absurd that this needs to be fact checked
Well, there’s a whole shit ton to unpack about identity.
Let’s start with definitions.
Ethnicity is essentially genetic. There’s usually an associated culture that goes with a given ethnicity.
Culture is the combination of practices, beliefs, and “tradition” of a given group, whatever that group may consist of.
Nationality is where you live.
Race is a loose grouping based on primarily skin color and the region one’s ethnicity came from.
Identity is the parts of those things you internalize, what you self label as.
So, based on what you’ve said in your post, you’re multiethnic, a mix of multiple peoples and places. You can freely choose which of those you integrate into your identity. It won’t ever mean that you aren’t those things, as regards external factors like the kind of hair color you have because of being north african in ancestry.
You could freely choose to integrate Mexican culture into your identity, or not. It would not, however, change your nationality.
If you move to the states, then you’d also have to deal with the legal side of things, which is not the same as identity. It’s an ugly truth, but race matters here, way more than it should. As such, you can’t really just pick your race on legal documents. It has to be as accurate as it’s possible to get, or there can be consequences. If you look white, but put down black, it’s going to end up being a pain in the ass for you.
However, since race itself is arbitrary in a lot of ways, there’s some wiggle room. There are some pretty damn dark white folks, and some pretty damn light Hispanics. And it isn’t like most people can look at someone and tell if they’re greek, arab, or south american. A lot of forms specify the difference between being white Hispanic and white, non Hispanic.
So there’s room to pick your race unless you’re black, in which case, it doesn’t matter what ancestry you are, you’re black and stuck with it because the us is fucked you in that regard. You don’t even have to be of African descent to get shoved into being black, you just have to be dark enough. Which is very fucked up, even for a country as fucked regarding race as this country can get.
So, you do have to be thoughtful in what you put in official documents, or it can end up fucking you later on.
But we can all identify as whatever we want, within reason. My pasty white ass could try to identify as black, but it ain’t going to end well, despite having grown up in a black neighborhood and having a lot more in common with my neighbors than the arbitrary similarities I’m supposed to have with other crackers. But if I want to internalize my Irish heritage, nothing is stopping me. Same with my German heritage, the traces of Polish, Welsh, Spanish, and Scottish. I can identify as man, as a southerner, as a resident of my state, of my town, as an american, as whatever, really.
Largely, as long as there’s no cognitive dissonance to overcome, most people don’t give a fuck about someone else’s identity. Like if my pale ass says I identify as black, that’s going to be strange enough that people are going to wonder if I’m an idiot, a troll, or pulling some kind of racist shit. If my big bearded ass puts on a dress and claims to be a woman, there’s going to be people that can’t accept the difference between the claim and the visual reality. Now, if I shaved and lost more muscle, it wouldn’t be as hard to overcome. You see what I mean? The more people have to think against their senses and preconceptions, the harder it is to lay external claim to an internal identity.
There is the flip side though. If you come here, claim the identity of whiteness, but you don’t also lay claim to the external factors of the culture of white america, then it doesn’t matter what your skin color is, you aren’t going to have much support. And yes, there is such a thing as white culture in the US. There’s actually multiple versions of it. It’s just hard to see since it dominates all the other race based cultures, and becomes the default american cultural base. But it is distinct from the more general american culture.
All of it is largely a construct though. Even ethnicity has a degree of arbitrary limits to it, since most ethnicities aren’t isolated enough in origin for there to be no bleeding between a given ethnicity and one a hundred miles away in origin. And, an ethnicity may ignore subethnicities in general usage, like “black” Irish largely being ignored as an ethnicity that’s distinct from Irish. And you’ll have regional variations that get ignored in the same way.
There’s really a lot to it all. More than I can reasonably pack into a comment and it still be readable by most people (screen reading is harder to follow than printed). So I’ll not belabor the subject.
The real advice is to not bullshit. Treat any paperwork as needing as direct an interpretation as possible, and leave identity out of it, relegating identity to non official usage
More like a pride of lions bringing down an elephant, or maybe wolves on a bison.
1v1 dragon slaying would still be more like a badger taking on a tiger.
Player characters (as opposed to non d&d dragon slaying stories) aren’t usually as ill prepared as a cat is vs a human, and rarely “hunt” alone. PCs have better weapons than claws and teeth, and the ability to coordinate attacks reduces the advantage of size and power the dragon has more than the comparison between a cat and a standard, unarmed human.
I do, however, love the idea presented :)
Hmmm, if you’re asking if the external flow of what we perceive as time would shift according to an observer’s state of mind, that’s doubtful.
But our perception of time isn’t the same thing as the flow of time. Our temporal sense is definitely subjective, and there’s been some research into that (though damned if I can recall the details without looking it up, and I’m getting a bit brain fried tired, so not up to doing so).
Anticipation, be it fearful or happy, definitely shifts how we perceive time.
Wellll, there’s not a purported real world thing for either. They were pretty much not wine, mead, beer, or any other human food or beverage.
The kind of thing you’re talking about is a fairly modern idea, and isn’t exactly backed up by writings of the greeks. They had mead, and they had wines. They had beers. So why would they not directly mention them as such?
The word nectar probably stems from the roots of nek and tar, meaning to overcome death. Ambrosia has a similar etymology from words meaning immortal or undying.
The food of the gods was pretty well established to be something that humans didn’t have access to. The myth of Ambrosia the nymph shows that it was never of mortal origin. And the Odyssey specifically compares wine to ambrosia and nectar, which again points to wine not being the same.
Both, however, were definitely liquids. They were drunk, and used to anoint, or even bathe in.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any translation of any myths of the greeks that indicates that nectar and/or ambrosia were something from the real world at all. Every mention of them distinctly depicts them as being divine and not simply a confused version of human drinks.
Now, if you want to ignore all of that, and guess at what the origins of the myths might have been built from, and you want to ignore the possibility that those myths were completely fabricated rather than being distorted stories of real people (which it’s fairly likely that they aren’t distorted history), then mead would be a good pick. But, so would entheogens like mushroom teas, or any of the consciousness altering plants extracted.
I would even hazard that, assuming we ignore the same things for this, that a more specific real world substance would be meads made from honeys that are tainted with hallucinogens. We know that “mad honey” was available to the greeks, and that the greeks made use of the kind of plants that bees would access to make “mad honey” in the first place.
The use of entheogens (hallucinatory or not) to connect with or become divine isn’t exactly a rare thing. That the greeks may have simply taken it as granted that the gods would have some kind of “magic” food or drink is more likely than them having a distorted history passed down via oral writ.
Good idea!