the tummy troubles persist

most hindus who try western spiritual outreach along with many new age types who take after Indian religions consider Jesus to be like the buddha, a great ("ascended") master but not a full-fledged avatara like Krishna. to them I ask, why did Jesus choose to suffer on the cross if he was just a great yogi, alike in pain and pleasure and capable of withdrawing the senses like a turtle its limbs? his suffering must have had a greater purpose, like the establishment of religion which is a primary purpose of an avatara.

I could never accept papal infallibility if I were a church that wanted communion with the catholic church. supremacy sure but not infallibility. popes aren't prophets or yogis after all.

sorry uncropped

I keep having really interesting dreams

think I'll take a nap two hours after waking up

I'm a goated tummy rubber

I have a really bad stomach ache and I'm out of pepto bismol and tums too...

tfw no vanilly malty milky

Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

linux isnt really a computer that works but it is a computer thats yours

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

There you go, there it is. Yup.

God cannot be said to hate remotely like a person hates, for his hatred is entirely a righteous antipathy that does not vanish in him like other mental hobgoblins that go when a soul is fully enlightened--that is to say, things not found in yogis like hatred will naturally not be found in God who is their master. But Gods wrath--Gods special anger, His hatred for evil should always be worshipped if it is to be revered at all alongside his universal indiscriminate love. Gods hate is finite while His love is beyond all numbering. God is (beyond uncountably) infinitely good and loves (beyond uncountably) infinitely, while beings dependent on God have finite egos and finite sins, and thus God hates terrible sinners while loving them beyond countlessly more. an evil cosmic dual to God will never exist, so hatred beyond all numbering will never exist. this is ontologically true: God is God, the Lord of Love, the Full and Complete one, not full of hatred. cultivate bodhicitta and realize him in your circumcized heart!

I would be in my yellow dragon fruit era were it not for everyone else eating them before I can get to them

I really need to fix data on my phone smdh

I'm out of pepto God help me

lucy unfollowed me smdh

learned today that someone reads my tarot reading whenever they feel down or stressed that makes me so happy!

malekind has always both justified and delimited its own excesses by fetishizing killing and especially dying for a cause but if karma yoga (surrendering of the fruit of ones action and offering the action itself to God) isnt being done and atonement isnt made then living and dying by the sword usually creates bad samskaras, inauspicious karma and poor rebirths. God sees nothing special in man dying (and especially spurns killing) for his own or another mans causes, and is very reticent to accept violence for His own sake. when Jesus said "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword" he meant they thus become ineligible for eternal life. Krishna was pro war for natural warriors in righteous wars, but the kurus field is also called dharma khestra-- the field of dharma, meaning the conflict of the Mahabharata is taken as both a literal history and as an allegory for the battle of good against evil which is like a war.
people who take lives also cannot be said to fit the ideal of a martyr who dies for what they believe in. dying in an act of vengeance for the murders they committed, they reap what they have sown and should not be celebrated. dying for God is very different than killing for God, for ones life and ones belongings should be given to God but not others lives. dying for God is just an extension of living for God for the saints. for violent people prone to violence, they neither truly live nor truly die for God, instead living and dying to sate either their own violence projected onto God or for a God who loves violence and thus is not God.
antiviolence is so often denigrated by violent inclined and angry people as only useful to keep villains in power, but I'd argue that any cause that uses excessive violence will just create a cycle of vengeance and recriminations leading to its downfall, whereas true antiviolent liberation movements like that of india can create great lasting popular support. ahimsa being deeply rooted in Indian religion, it will hopefully become a huge part of our emerging multipolar world.

*pedo painter voice* age is just an umber