@yew @nyx le bathtub fishe

alright time to attempt sleep

@lain @kaia "God particle" sure guys

@reia "she said solarpunk is racist hurr hurr"

@ra1n I'm a terrible sinner but I'll pray for you that you find belief

at the most religious point of my life I tried to pray for at least 30 minutes everyday and renounce the fruit of my actions as a sacrifice to God, it was very hard for me and I make myself seem better than I was. anyway i lapsed after that and fell into a deep personal hell which I'm still in. hopefully next time I try karma/bhakti yoga it goes better for me, I have reason to believe it will. (divine grace)

@kaia and yet some of those revelations would become very important, like the sacred heart traditions

basically, western thought is very sola scriptura whether orthodoxy or orthopraxis while the vedas themselves say in their upanishads that rituals and scripture only take you so far, only yoga can lead you beyond death

I believe the only reason(s) the east has more successful (at uniting the soul with God) mystics than the west is that in the west there is on the one hand an emphasis on knowledge (and jnana yoga is incredibly difficult, much moreso than bhakti and karma yoga or a synthesis thereof) and on the other hand due to abrahamic religion there is an emphasis on widely-approved-prophet--revealed scripture instead of on personal revelation that still rare but not just a few "chosen" people can have (often leading to scripture revealed to a select few, like the upanishads or the dhammapada, but this scripture is taught to prepare a way for personal action towards enlightenment not to create orthodoxy or orthopraxis so much). and when people like st. teresa of Avila or the Baal Shem tov had mystical experiences and attained siddhis, they were faced with a society that didnt treat them as the start of a respected guru lineage based on their personal experience with conquering the ego but that demanded compliance with orthodoxy. so you had levitating nuns who were still expected to adhere to orthodoxy, and wonder working rebbes who were expected to teach torah more than anything else! but this idea of mine is very half baked like most or all of my ideas...

oh neat Anna's archive is on .li now

@aetios @kaia tbh I havent used fennec in years I wouldnt know

@kaia @aetios I dont see what's wrong with fennec except that firefox doesnt really stand for anything anymore. I still use Firefox ESR with a bunch of addons and about config changes on my lappy when I'm not always on my dang phone

#caturday #catsOfMastodon #mlem
Behold, a cat that has dipped into my coffee. What could go wrong?

@kaia @aetios why not hehe

@aetios I use cromite for android

@Vo @genmaicha yoghurt

this is not the best translation

WHEN FULLNESS IS TAKEN FROM FULLNESS, ONLY FULLNESS REMAINS!

@MK2boogaloo @newmodel gonna go put my personal PIN number in at the ATM machine

@shrew @fiore its the googly eyes, they make fun of people with strabismus or something