most of what I post is religious in nature, the rest is art critique or jokes.
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Last Notes npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten https://key.portend.place/files/9a5b2437-9fe5-468b-a44e-324723b8cae3.webp npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten 'you shouldn't care what other people think' is individualist propaganda isn't it? strong people should be an island they should only ever think of themselves and their own preferences. there's something about shared meaning and communication probably. you can't create any meaning without caring about what other people think. communication itself is about causing other people to think something. what do you get for not caring what other people think, what's the reward? npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten you'll go to fiction hell for that. and that's on you, because of your lack of faithful adaptation. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten weird nerds will be arguing that a movie adaptation should always match the original book but why is that good? what is the virtue of being consistent with written works? it's just something somebody made up, often some sexist guy wrote a sci-fi in the past. also sometimes authors self-censor, they might have wanted to make a gay character or a woman character but decided against it because of audience bias (see Pluribus' Raban). so why is the original work good? it's this ethical thing for them, adaptations must be faithful they just must be. why, why is that your faith? npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten join fediverse, there's no search and it's constantly scrolling the content away never to be seen again npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten fedi auto scroll is just auto hide that post you were looking at npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten AI as a colonization of confidence (as @npub159p…dhu3 so aptly [put it](https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/)) is offering a way to perform ignorance, or at least slide into the social performance of it. maybe ignorance is the wrong word, it's a character of not knowing or not being concerned over certain thoughts. confidence is a kind of knowledge isn't it, self knowledge? this is making me think about the homophobia of anti-intellectualism. I feel like it offers this subscription to a personality, of someone who doesn't worry about knowing. knowing is for the bookish people, the monastic-y library-y ones who are probably gay for each other amirite. so in that way AI is a beard, and more than that it's a conversion therapy. you don't have to be a gay knower anymore, you can be a straight subscriber. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten anti-intellectualism has a pretty strong homophobic vibe to it doesn't it? like, learning things is gay, knowing things is gay, wanting to communicate things is extra gay. media analysis is gay, can't we just enjoy things without them having some deeper meaning or commentary, which are gay? thinking is a form of caring, and caring is gay. that's why accessibility is gay and public health is gay. being gay is a kind of being a woman, which is why it's bad. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten words barely mean anything and they usually just translate into an emotion that the speaker is trying to create. I think about that whenever people are splitting hairs on a definition, it's always like "no it's not [bad sounding word] it's [bad sounding word you don't have as much emotional association with yet]" npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten god gives the most intense magnetic fields to his strongest neutron stars npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten when people were skeptical of Biden the response was "they're Russian bots" or "it's astroturfed" or "secret Trump supporters". now when people are skeptical of Platner it's "billionaire-paid smear campaign". same shit different day. sometimes people are just skeptical because of actual reasons. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten what you're referring to as mastodon, is in fact the JSON network npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten "they're just being edgy" is an intuitive explanation even for people who aren't into internet culture. and I legitimately wonder why that is. is it human nature to say horrible things just to get a rise out of others? was this a cultural bubble a few decades ago that just happened to continue into the internet age? npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten Sometimes those harms eventually become so strong that they can't ignore it, maybe it happens to their own kid or they get kicked out or something. They will be shocked when it happens, they won't remember your warning. They actually only remember the feeling of you attacking them, and don't remember the issue you were bringing up. I wish it didn't work like that but I feel pretty confident it usually does. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten if you try to talk to a mind controlled person about concrete harms that their beliefs cause, whether to themselves or other people, you almost always get the same response. The unpleasant feeling makes them feel threatened, and then they feel victimized because their constructed sense of safety was messed with. It will be 'why are you always so negative?', 'you just want to start a fight', 'you just hate [organization]', 'you don't want anyone to be happy, can't you let people have their own beliefs?' They will never engage with the harm you're describing, they will only engage with the (perceived) assault you are making on their cozy world. They will try to figure out what your ulterior motive is. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten young women are like 19. they keep saying young women when they mean teenagers, so gross. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten 'is anybody weird on fedi?' npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten > Simon Peter said to them, "Mary should leave us, for females are not worthy of the life." Jesus said, "Look, I am going to guide her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven." npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten I found this but haven't read it yet, it sounds great. I wonder if people who understood queer experience without having words for it might have described it like this, "critical of the material world, while being hopeful for spiritual transformation" and a "demand for replacement of the outer person with the inner person". npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten > When the Blessed One had said these things, he greeted them all. "Peace be with you," he said. "Acquire my peace within yourselves. npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten > For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it. - Matthew 19:12 npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten > If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life! npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv smitten Christianity is treated as identical to the family hierarchy but that's an artificial connection. Jesus did not talk about the family much at all. What little he did say was about leaving your family! He did teach children but not through their parents, he taught them directly or answered their questions directly. He probably didn't have children and didn't marry, or if he did it wasn't important to his ministry. The only thing the patriarchs have to hang their hat on is that he talked about "the Father", and the gospels differ a lot on that, it's mostly John and Matthew who are big on it. All this stuff in modern Christian churches where the husband is below God and the wife is below the husband is just totally added on and made up, yet they treat it as the core idea.
