@newmodel not that into dudes tbh. only if theyre really twinkish

@prettygood @vriska this hehe

the murti wiki article really downplays the belief which is widespread in hindu bhakti in my understanding that the murti is a literal form of incarnation of the deity, hence its often just called "the deity". it seems to be a response to criticism of idol worship. instead the article seems to pretend that a catholic like belief exists in regard to images of the divine. maybe the sources I'm reading are too traditional though? in one part of the article it says that its understood that brahman has no form, but many believe that the brahman has both no form and infinite forms/manifestations. I wonder what the Hindi, Tamil, etc versions of the article have to say!

youre addicted to weed I'm addicted to seaweed. I ate 42 snack packs in 2 days.

I want seaweed so bad

@bulldoggirl300 they just need to sneak in a snub at the homos huh

@Mr_NutterButter 2026 is my year

kinda sad how even though vedic learning and ritualism are kind of denigrated in the upanishads and puranas the supremacy of the brahmanas as inherently superior and thus worthy of astounding remuneration is still maintained. and it can't be entirely attributed to the mimamsa school, either.

@paula8 uh oh

@patchuun @xj9 real oldfags know

@paula8 is that a good thing in kilograms?

@xj9 xj9 is back???

@paula8 proud of you

its so funny how many cows are given to the brahmanas in sanskrit hindu literature as an act of thanksgiving. absolutely absurd numbers.

"we come from God and unto God we return". yet so many religions have qualms with the second part, or interpret it loosely...

@technicallydifficult @vriska Arabs themselves have a lot of African admixture, but the jewish people predates this admixture. I read this in a relatively recent genetic study on jews which found that all major jewish populations along with Palestinians Jordanians and Lebanese are around 50 percent indigenous Canaanite. so yeah, if you want to know what jesus looked like as an indigenous semite, look at a Samaritan or a Druze, not a yemeni jew, who is quite admixed with arabs. Druze and especially Samaritans can be quite pale skinned, but in reality they are a range of skin tones from white to brown, kinda like the french and italians. also consider that the apostle paul, who was also jewish at the time of jesus, was known to be ruddy red and paler skinned. however jesus was probably very tanned not having a permanent residence so he would definitely be brown but not black, or sub-saharan african.

@technicallydifficult @vriska this isnt true actually. indigenous semitic peoples who havent been arabized like Yemeni jews and most Arabs tend to be lighter skinned, like Samaritans and Druze. not as light skinned as euro jews but definitely not black.

slept for 17 hours today what the actual fuck

wizards of the coast sells for cheap some 4e and older materials up to the TSR on drivethrurpg which is a print on demand site. pretty cool

I should read the king in yellow