This near-obsessive focus on penetration and ejaculation – indeed, on "measuring" various aspects of sexual activity to begin with – reveals a profoundly phallocentric and "goal-oriented" view of security on the part of most biologists. Not just homosexual activity, but noninsertive sexual acts, female sexuality and orgasmic response, oral sex and masturbation, copulation in species (such as birds) where males do not have a penis – any form of sex whatsoever that does not involve penis-vagina penetration falls off the map of such a narrow definition. The fact is that both heterosexual and homosexual activities exist along a continuum with regard to their degree of "sexuality" or "completeness".
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
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Just turned thirty, I can't believe I've been living in this world for three decades. There's still so much I want to do in life, dreams I want to fulfill, places I want to visit. But to achieve all of this, I need to work hard to realize my dream of becoming a lawyer. To be able to help my family, friends, and those who supported and believed in me.
I know it's scary, exhausting, and a long road ahead, but I'm ready. I'm ready to face it all. I'm prepared to confront the challenges head-on.
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3.] Success & Sex-Oriented Culture
Over top of Corinth was a mountain & on the top
of the mountain was a Temple of Aphrodite; and
every single night 1K Temple prostitutes came on
down into the city to ply their wares.
It was the most success-oriented, & sex-
obsessed city, these were corinthianizers
no rules. Nobody came to Corinth to live
—nobody came there to have a life.
They came to make it, they came to do
Now if you don't see any parallels between Corinth
& NYC—you're a tourist all right, and I'm glad you're
here. But now you know
This is absolutely true, you go to other cities of this
country, you go to Boston or Philadelphia, there's a
tradition, there's an aristocracy.
The people go there to live.
People don't come to New York to live.
People come here to make it, they come
here to do. When Paul came to Corinth he
was beaten, he had a bad time in Athens
and he'd been beaten up actually almost
within an inch of his life in Philippi.
And he was so low that GOD had to come to him in
Acts 18:9 & particularly appear to him & say I am going
to show you that I'm still with you & I'm going to do a
major work. I'm going to plant a Church in the biggest
baddest wooliest city in the world.
…………………………………………………………………
I'm going to show you the Gospel can change anybody.
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• I am going to give you a bunch of converts.
• I'm going to give you a Church in this place
3.1] The Power of the Gospel
The last place in the world you'd think people would turn
to the LORD. I'm going to I'm going to take Corinthianizers
and you know in the early part of this book 1 Corinthians,
Paul writes something that's pretty interesting..
Paul was extremely amazed.
I think the Church at Corinth was a unique
Church in his Ministry — because it was a
sign to him the Gospel can change anybody
And at one point he writes in CH6 & he's making a
long list: adulterers, idol worshipers, homosexual,
prostitutes, greedy thieves, drunkards, & then he
says “such were many of you”
but you were sanctified, you were
justified by the Name of our LORD
JESUS CHRIST & in the SPIRIT of our
GOD & FATHER.
What Paul is saying is the Corinthian Christians are
not bourgeois, straight arrow moral people—these
were people who had done every [sinful] thing.
They had been everywhere & when they
became Christians, the Corinthian Church
was unique in Paul's Ministry—because
when corinthianizers become Christians
When this kind of person becomes a
Christian, you get one of the oddest
things & that is Churches that are more
brilliant than the other Churches
And more troubled, & that's exactly
what you have in Corinth—& if you
want to understand that..
All you have to do is look at CH 13:1-3, which you
have printed there.
You've got a picture of the Corinthian Church.
Better Than Miracles P1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Timothy J. Keller [1 Corinthians 13:1-3]
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So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>
Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).
It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.
I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.
"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.
The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.
But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.
Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.
I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.
That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.
TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.
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