#mirror principle

[selectedthoughts]

Take a Look

Looking within is often like looking outside.

By taking a closer look at what drives you, you find answers to what has shaped you or to where that impact has come from. Like mirrors, we often focus on something inside that we can’t find outside, and we try to change it. That part already exists within existence itself because you are part of it. We often reflect through what we want to achieve, but many times it’s much simpler and more beneficial not to force anything, and instead, let that reflection come to you in a much purer way, as it naturally does.

[medicinalbotanicals]

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[maximura]

[double-u-qed]

who wants a chapter 9 preview. i'm feeling generous

[traeumenvonbuechern]

what new releases in 2024 are you looking forward to the most?

I'm probably forgetting a lot of books, but here are some of my most anticipated 2024 releases:

And here are two I have already read that are absolutely incredible:

Book titles:

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon

Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana

Icarus by K. Ancrum

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

The Prospects by KT Hoffman

[gr8ntaire]

We live in a hellscape where the 03-05 seasons r some of the most interesting narrative and racing seasons and the people are bending the relationship at the core of that narrative as a means to an end of their ship free us

[sweetlullabyebye]

What Oswald wants Oswald gets

[philosophybits]

To check new theories by old ones is not an optional procedure. How else would we check them? The fact that new theories often go wrong just where old ones say they might is not something which requires explanation. It would require explanation if they went wrong somewhere else. We could only make it appear that the "nonrealist" is at a loss to explain the relevance of old theories to testing new ones if we took this straw man to be claiming that new theories arrive completely equipped with equally new observational languages, testing procedures, and regulative principles of their own. But a "new theory" is simply a rather minor change in a vast network of beliefs.

Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

[iniziare]

↪ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐓 : An aesthetics dash game.

𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐁𝐎 𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒. a warm hearth. lovingly sewn buttons. the search for adventure. comfortable routine. unexpected bravery. tea - stained pages. cozy armchairs. dusty relics. hidden strengths. garden parties. moonlit windows. quick thinking. humble heroism. resourceful in chaos. clever wordplay.

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃. never found cowering. strong familial ties. a fierce opponent. loyalty over love. tempered steel. haunted by the past. defending one’s stronghold. sense of duty. forged in fire. honor above all. the weight of legacy. shaped by adversity, tempered by loss. fiercely protective.

𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐘. the balancing of fate. ancient magic. purifying power. bringer of light**. wise guidance. secret keeper. forgotten paths. unseen destinations. cryptic answers. hidden chambers. a mysterious figure. the voice of reason.

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐈𝐋. haunted by echoes of the past. elegant majesty. moonlit counsel. secrets kept in silence. the cautious leader. love of rare beauty. wisdom in isolation. heart of the forest. a silent observer. calculative & condescending**.

𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐔𝐆. golden hoards. thirst for destruction. golden armor. fearsome majesty. glinting claws. the dark allure of treasure. insatiable greed. scorched earth. the unyielding sentinel. watching & waiting. what does not kill you should run. finding a wicked enjoyment in others’ suffering. only one weakness.

𝐀𝐙𝐎𝐆. unfettered brutality. eternal darkness. the rot of vengeance. a warrior’s rage. brute strength. iron - clad resolve. a litany of scars. an unrelenting force. maimed in battle. religion in bloodshed. servant of the darkness. ancient hatreds. branded with malice.

Tagged by: I stole it from @suledein 'cause I'm a pirate, and where you go, I go, kinda. Tagging: @driofaire (Rook), @mercysought (guess who), @immobiliter (Varric, or the... other one, you know the man), @spitecrow and @rookedcrow while I hope that it grabs all the mentions... But also, anyone else who wants to do this, steal it, and tag me. I love seeing these.

[mocury-moto]

okokok so this is definitely the most weirdly specific question ive ever asked but does anyone know if the symmetrical worm enemies in terraria (eater of worlds, destroyer, bone serpent, etc.) flip to stay upright in the same way the asymmetrical ones (wyvern, blood eel, and phantasm dragon) do and we just cant tell bc their designs are symmetrical

[historyartthings]

it's interesting to compare Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard's scenes in the last episode.

To the former, Cromwell is firm that none of her witnesses to the pre-contract are admissible. But then in the interrogation of the latter, Wriothseley says, 'the Lady Margaret tells us there are witnesses to this pledge', as if, in fact, they are. obviously both can't be true at once.

and you can see how they're attempting to spare one but lead the other into outright words of treason

[medicinalbotanicals]

The Money Magnet: Using the Mirror Principle for Prosperity

In this episode, I'm going to talk about the mirror principle and how to attract money and wealth using this principle. The mirror principle is one of the most powerful and profound concepts in reality creation. It states that the external world is a reflection of your internal state. Whatever you see, feel, think, and believe about yourself and your reality is mirrored back to you by the universe. This means that if you want to change your external circumstances, you have to change your internal state first. You have to align your vibration, your emotions, your thoughts, and your beliefs with the reality that you want to experience. You have to become a match for what you want to attract. One of the most common things that people want to attract is money and wealth. Money is a form of energy that represents abundance, freedom, security, and happiness. However, many people have a negative relationship with money. They have limiting beliefs, fears, doubts, and guilt about money. They feel unworthy, undeserving, or unqualified to receive money. They think that money is scarce, hard to get, or evil. They focus on lack, debt, bills, or expenses. These negative thoughts and feelings create a low vibration that repels money and wealth. They create a reality where money is always a problem, a struggle, or a source of stress. They create a reality where money is always running away from them. The mirror principle tells us that if we want to attract money and wealth, we have to change our relationship with money. We have to change our vibration, our emotions, our thoughts, and our beliefs about money. We have to feel worthy, deserving, and qualified to receive money. We have to think that money is abundant, easy to get, and good. We have to focus on abundance, prosperity, income, or opportunities. These positive thoughts and feelings create a high vibration that attracts money and wealth. They create a reality where money is always a solution, a joy, or a source of peace. They create a reality where money is always flowing towards them.

[rustyrailways]

Everyday I wish they explored the class/house system in Piltover further so we could see just how vast the differences in economic status and quality of life exists in the city. We know there is a house system at the very least, but to what extent does it effect things?

[takami-takami]

Keigo's the type of guy to make your mascara run in a bathroom stall and then when the post nut clarity hits, he's pouting on his knees while he gently dabs at the poor makeup look he ruined with a tissue.

[unhonestlymirror]

I genuinely wonder how Himaruya managed to write Lithuania as both a pathetic trembling scared of russia creature and "a murder sword machine on the battlefield." Both are wrong; and since I already explained why the first image is wrong, then, I think, it's time to talk about the second.

Indigenous Lithuanian land or Lietuva, is actually not so big. In preGDL and GDL times, it was shifted more to the East (now those territories are mostly Belaruthian and a bit russian), so the sea coast was Baltic Prussian, Skalovian, Curonian, etc. Those people spoke very similar to modern Lithuanian languages (well, from my point of view as a non-native speaker) because they were all Baltics, but there weren't Lithuanian.

So, since there were not many Lithuanians, and no sea, therefore, no so big cultural and economic exchange with neighbours as in, e.g., Curonia - there was a delayed access to new technologies, including military. And of course, not a single nation is gonna give you their technologies for free. No new modern technologies or people - no superiority in pure military power. No superiority in pure military power - no victory in protecting your land or in colonisation... if you use the "murder machine" tactics. You're just gonna lose your people, and you can't afford that. Therefore, you have to develop in another direction.

I want to give an example from the history of my country. Hundreds of years ago, 513 BC, the Persian king Darius I, with a large army and fleet, began a campaign to conquer Scythia. Darius I Hystaspes sought to extend the Persian Empire to the entire cultural world of that time and, in particular, to subjugate the Black Sea colonies of the Greeks and thereby seize control over the Black Sea trade, especially over the arrival of the Scythian bread that Greece needed.

Darius had thousands of thousands of people; Herodotus reports the following about the size of the Persian army: "The army, without the navy, numbered 700,000 together with the cavalry, and six hundred ships were assembled". The Persians were blinded by their success - they had not known military failures.

Having learned about the thousands of Darius's army, which ended up in their territory, the Scythians held a military meeting - all the tribes were gathered, including their allied Sauromatians, Taury, Ahathirsy, Gelonians and Budyny. Some tribes, such as the Androphages, refused the Scythians' offer, feeling relatively safe. They blamed the Scythians for the campaign against Media and did not want to risk their own peace and well-being. Some historians believe that it is possible that Darius I tried to prevent the unification of the forces of the Scythians and their neighbors and previously sent a message to the kings of all the tribes neighboring Scythia that he was going to war only against the Scythians and was not going to conquer anyone else.

Therefore, the Scythians decided not to engage in close combat with Darius, but to lure him as far as possible from the crossing into the boundless Scythian steppes by making periodic counter-attacks. They sent the women and children and all the livestock far ahead. The Scythians left with them only as much cattle as they needed to feed the detachment. The Scythians also filled up all the wells and springs, set fire to the steppe, and destroyed vegetation in order to deprive the enemy of any benefits and make it difficult for him to move. In history, this military tactic was called "Scorched Earth Tactics". And it fully justified itself. With such a large numerical superiority of the Persians, the Scythians could not afford to go into an open battle. And they completely exhausted the enemy - both psychologically and physically.

The Scythian troops carried out a "psychic attack" - constantly appearing and teasing the enemy, avoiding direct contact, staying at a distance of a day's march, luring the Persians to them, while leaving their livestock - not letting them die of starvation. Darius tried with all his might in his nerves to pursue them, leading the army as fast as possible, but the Scythians were out of reach. According to some researchers, the Scythians used stone mounds (tombs) with grottoes and caves as a shelter, which disoriented the enemy.

Constant active movements, lack of combat as such, depletion of provisions and supplies brought the Persians closer to defeat. Finally, the army of Darius, pursuing the Scythian horsemen, entered the territory of the same Androphages and other tribes who had previously refused to fight on the side of the Scythians. Seeing the advancing Scythians in their lands, some of them continued the tactics started by the Scythians, while others resorted to more radical actions, such as the Androphages, who were "famous" for cannibalism.

According to Herodotus, Darius finally decided to retreat after one significant incident. He sent a messenger to the Scythian general Idanfirs, conveying the following:

"Strange person, why do you run away like a hare, although you have the opportunity to do one of two things? After all, if you think that you yourself are capable of resisting my power, you should stop wandering, fight, and when you realize that you are weaker, then even then, cease to flee and carry land and water as a gift to your lord, come for negotiations".

In response, a messenger arrived to Darius with an unusual message:

My affairs, o Perses, are thus: I have never run in fear from any man before, and now I do not run from you, and I do nothing new now compared to what I used to do in peacetime.

I will also explain why I do not engage in battle with you immediately. We have no cities, no cultivated land, and no fear that they will be captured and ruined. Nothing compels us to enter into battle with you sooner.

I did not come to your land, but you to mine. When I want, then I will compete with you by force. Now, if you found and spat on the sacred graves of our ancestors, then you would see whether we are scary rabbits or not.

The stubborn Persian king did not stop there and answered:

Foolish Scythian! Who taught you to fight so stupidly? I already told you: if you feel courage in your heart, stop and let's measure strength. No one in the world has ever beaten me! If you do not have the strength and courage in your heart, send me, your Lord, the usual gifts in this case: water in a silver jar and land on a golden cape. And I will admit you to me and, as a sign of supreme favour to you, I will allow you to kiss the toe of my black royal boot. I was and will be your Master, and you were and will remain my faithful slave!

Such arrogance and limitation somewhat angered the Scythian king Idanfris, and he ordered to immediately send Darius "gifts" - a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows:

Enough has been said about the battle.

I consider only Zeus, my ancestor, and Hestia, queen of the Scythians, to be my lords.

And instead of gifts of land and water, I will send you such gifts as you deserve to receive. For the fact that you declared yourself my lord, you will have to sob.

This is the answer of the Scythians.

The Persians asked the messenger about the meaning of these mysterious gifts. He said that he was only ordered to give "presents" and added that if the Persians are so wise, let them figure out for themselves what they mean. This once again puzzled the Persians, and they did not immediately understand what it all really meant. Herodotus conveys the expressed assumptions: "Darius thought that the Scythians would give him themselves, and land, and water. He assumed this on the grounds that the mouse lives in the earth, feeding on the same cereals as man, the frog in the water, the bird most closely resembles a horse; the arrows mean that the Scythians are surrendering their military power."

In fact, these "gifts" of the Scythians meant something else, and the Persian commander Gobrius was the first to correctly interpret them:

If you, Persians, do not fly into the sky like birds, burrow deep into the earth like mice, or jump into the swamp like frogs, you will be killed by these arrows and will not return home.

And the Scythians, having brought "gifts", in the meantime did not waste time and went to active actions. We learn from Herodotus: "Meanwhile, one part of the Scythians, who had first been ordered to guard near Lake Meotida, and now went to the Istra for negotiations with the Ionians (Greeks), having arrived at the bridge, announced the following: "Men of the Ionians, we bring you freedom, if only you are willing to obey. We know that Darius ordered you to guard the bridge for only sixty days, and if he does not appear within that time, to retire to your homeland. Now you will not be guilty either to him or to us, if you do this: stay the appointed number of days, and then immediately depart, rejoicing that you are free, and feeling grateful to the gods and the Scythians. And the one who was once your master, we will bring to such a state that he will no longer go to war against anyone." When the Ionians seemed to agree to do so, the Scythians immediately hurried back."

In conclusion, with the onset of night of many nights, taking a select part of the army, and leaving the others - exhausted, sick, wounded and less needed to die, Darius marched back to the Istra (Danube) by forced march. In fact, treacherously betraying his own army, which for him was nothing more than consumables and a way of aggrandizement, he still managed to mislead the Scythians and retreat to a considerable distance.

Unfortunately, the Greeks did not keep their word. The Athenian Miltiades, the general and tyrant of the Chersonese, those on the Hellespont, offered to obey the Scythians and try to liberate Ionia. The proposal of the Miletus Histiaeus was the opposite of this. He said that now, thanks to Darius, each of them is the tyrant of the city, and if the power of Darius is overthrown, he himself will not be able to rule the Milesians, and no one else will be able to rule anyone. When Histiaeus made this point, everyone immediately agreed with his opinion, even though they had previously agreed with Miltiades.

Thus, Darius was lucky: the Greeks did not destroy the bridge and, waiting for the return of their master, helped him and his army to cross the Istra and reach Chersonese of Thrace, and from there - Asia Minor. The Scythians believed the Ionians (Greeks), so the Persians simply slipped away. After this incident, the Scythians began to judge the Ionians as vile cowards and born slaves who love their master and are not in the least inclined to resist. (c)

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The same tactic was used by Lithuanians, although they didn't have the steppe but impenetrable forests: and in such natural conditions, it is much more profitable to use bows or crossbows. Lithuanians climb trees a lot, and many Lithuanians, as well as Belaruthians, are very good snipers. Swordsmen were mostly mercenary warriors, and they created a reputation, but it doesn't mean that the whole nation was like this. Where do you think the tales about Laumė and "forest gods which will punish you" come from? If you want to learn more about someone's war tactics, go into their mythology. Lithuanians resisted Teutons using the "Scythian" tactic for a loooooong time, until Prussia and modern Latvia were completely captured and it was the time to change. In order not to become completely engrossed, they had to seek support from the South, and that's how Grand Dutchy of Lithuania was born. I am 100% sure that the Lithuanians were not happy about having to bravely risk their lives in an open field.

Some bonus facts:

A LOT of Lithuanians are fans of Tolkien and elves.

Gintaras Beresnevičius says that Lithuanian religion and culture exchanged influences with Scythians as well

All of Lithuania's neighbours describe them as very cunning. They're not like naive Belaruthians, they're not grandiose like Polish, they're not hot-heads like Ukrainians, and if course they are not stupid in their insolence and megalomania like russians. Latvians have a word for Lithuanians, which is "viltīgi" and means "cunning"... in a bit negative way. XD

[jordanshenessy]

I also lost my freaking earring down the drain like I was just trynna take it off