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when I was a kid I played all the great final fantasy clone flash games without knowing they were based on final fantasy
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this will be controversial but ive decided that avocado is overrated in the west unless you get really lucky. I find most avocadoes during most of the year have somewhat of a dirty taste. I got one in my salad and it looked like a nearly perfect avocado (most avocadoes are not perfect) but it kind of ruined the whole thing.
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I love yoga as a discipline of becoming pure and holy and eventually unifying with God but yoga as a philosophy doesnt appeal to me much beyond the science of raja yoga because its based on samkhya which kind of loses me in its form of dualism, its treatment of prakriti as unconscious, and it downplaying God or even being classically atheistic. honestly I'm not a fan of tattvic/abhidharmic systems either. I dont like assigning fundamental categories to reality when everything is consciousness and behaves/appears the way God wills it. lowkey I feel like the muslims who thought the science of chemistry was haram.
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I gave my dog a piece of salmon nearly four days in a row (it came from two caesar salads with salmon I didnt eat and I portioned it up) and now she begs for it poor thing.
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a lot of hindus balk at christians calling themselves sinners. I dont think that viewing oneself as wretched before God if thats indeed what they are (many are in kali yuga) necessarily means they aren't also the pure perfect and free Atman. the hindu equivalent is being helpless in the ocean of samsara, unable to overcome samskaras and vasanas, and the pairs of opposites. the outcome of this is suffering and sin, but one doesnt need to die and go to heaven for them to end. only a person who is pure evil is someone who doesnt have the free will to change despite their preexisting impressions and mental composition, but for some it is very very hard, and maya is only overcome with the grace of Ishvara, so we are all powerless before it. that being said, if you look at christians, many zealots view themselves as entirely execrable and yet they dont change their behavior even though they believe God literally suffered for them. so basically, the only necessity is repentance for sins, which is almost universal, the attitude of viewing oneself as a sinner seems to me to be only appropriate for the inveterate sinner who needs grace.
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History of the Nazi symbol and why you've probably been lied to
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Reminder that the Nazis never called their symbol a "Swastika" and that it has nothing to do with the Hindu or Buddhist symbol properly called a Swastika

It literally is a coincidence. The Nazis called their symbol a Hakenkreuz. Hakenkreuz means "hooked cross", and like the name implies, comes from the Christian cross. The first proto-Nazis to use this were the Order of the New Templars, an antisemitic fascist organization that contributed to the rise of the Nazi party. Before that, it was a generic variety of Christian cross that was used for church decoration.

Now, it is true that when Indo-European artifacts containing the shape were found, some of which may be related to the Indic Swastika, that some Nazis said the two were one and the same, but that's different from the usual narrative of "Hitler stole it from India"

The truth is, Hitler didn't steal it, because he didn't even invent it. Surprise surprise, Mein Kampf is full of lies!!! Why would you take Hitler's word at face value???

and the thing is, the "Crux Gammadion" (the name I'm using for the shape as a whole, as its a descriptor of the shape; a cross made of 4 gammas) is found in so many cultures throughout the world, but not because they share some secret unified origin. No it's just an easy to make shape. It's like the triangle, star, or square. It's a shape people independently come up with.

This DOES NOT MEAN you can go willy-nilly "reclaiming it" though. As a Taoist who has explored Buddhism and is still involved in East Asian religions, I do have some religious stuff that use the symbol, but I'm very cautious with my usage of such and try to be courteous. I do not think there is any reason for European Neopagans to "reclaim" the shape and any attempt to do so is very suspect. I really don't think anyone should be reclaiming it if they're European and/or Christian.

Also the idea that Buddhist Swastikas always face left is wrong. Both orientations appear in Buddhist contexts all the time

Now why is there so much unsourced pop-history claiming Nazis stole it from India?
One is that it makes a nice little racial-separatist story about appropriation and why cultures shouldn't intermingle. Another reason is to push the blame of Nazism away from extremist Christianity. It's easy to go "The Nazis were a bunch of weirdo Pagan Hindus" instead of "The Nazis were everyday Germans who were "good Christians". This is why we see so much stuff about Nazi pagans, even though that was literally just Himmler and even Hitler didn't really like it, and not enough about how the bulk of Nazis were Christians or Atheists, the two belief groups that make up the far right today.
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Brahman is knowledge but also encompasses ignorance, so even ignorance of Brahman due to maya is an experience of Brahman...
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some girl called me "generally insane" then followed me, she must have meant it as a compliment femalejoker
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time for the avadhuta gita
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seems to me like shaktadvaitavada is like kashmir shaivism in it regards the universe as real unlike advaita vedanta. I used the think the universe was unreal, then neither real nor unreal, but now I'm leaning towards real, but dreamlike in its transience and in being an adjunct of the more permanent thing.
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some of you really need to calm down
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not a fan of gender performance
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if I ever become famous I hope goya feels named and shamed
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goya hearts of palm is vastly inferior
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gosh I'm excited for caesar salad night tomorrow
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need raw bay scallop
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smoked paprika frothbug
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consciousness and energy are one
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