it gets worse when you realize that the same purana describes dairy cows literally the same way "overburdened by their heavy utters, milk flowing profusely"

my mom is an olive skinned mediterranean looking jew while my dad is a pale-ass pale of settlement looking jew with green eyes (or maybe blue, idk hes not in my life). guess who I take after?

it seems that when God descends and takes on a body of sattva guna He chooses His forms with a two distinct and seemingly contradictory goals: to show His superlative qualities, and/or to exalt the manner of form He chooses. with the first you get Krishna, the second, Christ.

its funny when christians poke fun at islam for being a newer faith and theyre literally protestants

@lain @vitalis youre right, its actually a very positive tarot reading if read well. simply put it means that the new experience which is acupuncture will lead to a rebirth of sorts

why am I wired

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dont get me wrong theres a lot I actually like about the monism-lite vaishnava sampradayas (sri vaishnavism and the pushtimarga sect and to a lesser extent gaudiyas), but one of my qualms is that serving God forever in a kingdom of heaven just feels like a fanciful eternal end "somewhere else" to an all-to similar (having a body and residence and role in both) temporary material existence "here". I believe that only God is eternal and unchanging and has no abode being omnipresent and incorporeal, and thus to transcend life and rebirth is to merge into God. I dont see this being necessarily in opposition to what I call monism-lite either, because the dependent parts or emanations one with the emanator can return into the supreme whole. but yes, I find vishishtadvaita and shuddhadvaita both very intellectually stimulating, interesting and compelling ideas about the relationship of God to souls and matter. the sri vaishnava concept that the souls are atomic parts of God which en masse and together with prakriti form Gods "body" is quite neat and reminds me of sabellianism (according to johann lorenz von mosheim according to wikipedia). perhaps even neater is the similar pushtimarg idea that everything is a part of Krishna, and nothing is illusory but all is an authentically real expression of God without being covered by maya. of course, I disagree with this, as my form of monism is closest to kashmir shaivism, but its very neat.

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@lain imagine if zelda was a girl

@lain the worst metaphor is the milk and the yoghurt, or it might be butter idk. I can't find the original sauce (it was from a gaudiya commentary on the brahma sutras I believe) but basically its "were made from God, but once this transformation happens it can't be reversed"

@lain I just used the metaphor because qualified monists are fond of sparks and fire, and sun and sunlight. of course us monists are fond of the ether in the jar, and the snake in the rope.

@lain its a poor metaphor, being as sparks dissipate after coming from fire. "the waves are the ocean" is probably better

qualified monists be like "the sparks come from the fire but they NEVER merge back into it"

he's big on saying "God never changes so we can't become God", but that's not the purport of true monists. we simply believe that everything is God aka all is pure consciousness, including us, and temporary conditioned existence in samsara is due to maya.