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childhood ruined? i just found out that This symbol ->

is called the stousia and was actually invented by alexandrian hesychasts in the 4th century as a contemplative device which represents christ's dual paths of infernal descent and empyrean ascension. the six center lines represent the three days and three nights he was entombed, while the bottom point is taken as the nadir and the top as the zenith.

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wait but Trump's gonna bring back the Persian Empire right. that will check the Ottomans. there'll be a rival power in the region again

eric adams is going to be mayor of new york again due to ottoman perfidy

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Yesterday while I was out I saw a deer. Today while I was out I saw a heron. I know that's only two data points, but it definitely seems like the animals I see outside have been getting progressively more heron-like over the past couple days. But I suppose the process has reached its logical end-point now.

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the last surviving referent was just discovered and humanely euthanized by field semioticians in the salt flats of utah. apparently it was what people were referring to when they'd say. well. it doesn't matter now anyways does it.

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i can’t believe that complaining about the nintendo switch 2 online didn’t make the console bomb. we have no choice but to “switch 2” our second most effective option: sanctimonious moral shaming, regardless of whether the target audience will even read it

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Craigslist missed connections really has it all, eh?

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Not having read the wiki I would guess that taiga is like an archetype that appears again and again, that is cool though, wait were the mammoths just preventing taiga from happening? also that is great art, fuck Julian Jaynes for saying that the ppl who created it didn't have fully developed language or whatever (i think he said they had nouns but not proper nouns?)

the taiga biome in its current form is younger than the human invention of furry art

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Man, religion really used to be ... less systematized or something. Or maybe this kind of thing really was just b/c the Mongols were kinda at the border of a lot of places. It just feels like this wouldn't happen in modern America. Or at least that if someone was switching religions this often, it would be between a bunch of cults that no one else had heard of. Not between Major World Religions w/ "traditional" one that we instinctively think is doomed to die out in competition w/ monotheism treated as just another option.

Öljaitü, the Ilkhanid shah (r. 1304-1316), was apparently raised Buddhist, converted to Christianity at age 10, subsequently converted to Sunni Islam as a young adult, became taken with Shiism after his coronation, later considered switching to his ancestral Tengrism, and possibly returned to Sunnism before he died at age 34. nobody was doing it like the Mongols

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A happy ending!!

For a long time she knelt there, feeling pressed against the barrier that confined her, the barrier that, probably because of Karen, was now an inert impersonal thing instead of the malicious agony-laden frustrating, deliberately evil creature it had been for so long.

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there are 12 months in the year, 12 signs in the western zodiac, and 12 signs in the chinese zodiac

is there a reason to use 12 other than "divisible by 3 and by 4?"

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I have a wart on my thumb and whenever I see a tree with a gall on it I think "I'm like you, tree"

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solidarity between people who want to take psychiatric meds to function and those who don’t.

What’s important is that we both have autonomy, informed consent and safe access to treatments we want, and to not be forced, coerced or pressured into those we don’t.

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if you ever complain about the microsoft software you have to use at work/school you have no idea how lucky you are compared to me who has to use the google suite exclusively we don't even have word or excel on our computers it's all browser

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gotta hand it to Saudi Arabia's urban planning department. nobody else has the combination of huge revenues and absolute autocratic control to even conceive of the wild shit MBS keeps announcing.

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I don't think I'm going to actually read one of those, but thank you.

Do you have any idea where the Melchizedek reference came from?

What's weird about the range of options on the Christianity poll?

The fact that Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses get listed, the fact that it’s phrased “Church of England”, the fact that Greek Orthodox specifically is listed rather than Orthodox in general, like, what the heck.

I picked Baptist because it was the only somewhat accurate option.