sharknado slashfic posted:

Or if you mean who's loving with Grusch it's *waves arms around at the government and MIC*

euphronius posted:

here is something I read today: The way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

sharknado slashfic posted:

I wouldn't call it consensus but I think most of us lean that way.

Anyhow I'm currently reading the Ramayana

Zoobtro posted:

yeah them. have they either hosed up by feeding too much bullshit and grusch went rogue, or is this going as planned? assuming there's nothing really to this, how the gently caress did we end up here?

LuckyCat posted:

kick rear end! Let me know what you think. the line that is engraved on my heart is this:

Lord Ram looks at Hanuman his loyal servant and asks him, “who are you, Monkey!?”

Hanuman replies “when I don’t know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I Am you.”

sharknado slashfic posted:

I think someone mentioned it in detail upthread but afaik the prevailing opinion is that there's three different groups fighting over everything, the pro-disclosure, anti-disclosure and disinfo, and slow drip disclosure. As for who is winning or if anyone is at all, who knows.

Riot Bimbo posted:

What are yall reading goons?

Squizzle posted:

when i decided to do the trading card style posts for one of the domains, i wanted to make sure the cards would have art styles distinct from one another, but still be legible at small size. i chopped up and modified a ton of animation character models, because i didnt trust my own hand at the time to render things in sufficiently varied ways. the results are universally mediocre, and pushing those around trying to make it work is what kept the thread stalled-out until the arrival of cspam took me down a new posting path entirely

Spergin Morlock posted:

seems clear the "total secrecy" faction is not getting their way lately lol

sharknado slashfic posted:

I don't know what you just said but I'm glad you had fun or sorry if you didnt

sharknado slashfic posted:

Unless they're the ones pushing all this and it's not true. No one posting here or on reddit or /x/ or whatever really knows anything

Lux Anima posted:

Somehow humanity hasn't blown up themselves (*e: unto extinction) or the entire planet yet despite our reputation, so let's all relax a little bit and improve our empathy scores down here a while more. We are making progress.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Lux Anima posted:

This bit amused me too for several personally synchronicitous reasons, like listening to a hiphop track where they describe their musical stylings as "Zulu" just after reading this

Also that my first reaction to that 'you can't suddenly change the main character to a plant' bit was, "well sure, unless you integrate an Improbability Drive into your scifi's plot..."

The Whale and the Flower Pot
artwork by Chandi


“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale anymore.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah …! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now, isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, “Oh no, not again.” Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Tekne posted:

a more advanced culture forcing us to behave would be worth it if it prevents billions suffering horrible untimely deaths from global warming, the anthrocene mass extinction, and ruination of what natural spaces remain

even a harsh uplifting would probably be good to the majority's wellbeing and dignity versus our fates in this self-annihilating capitalist hellscape

Squizzle posted:

tyvm it was a useless post in context but it was something i wanted to include into my posting canon because it addresses an unresolved bss thread that might be bothering any scholars of squizzle post studies, and some casual readers

Tekne posted:

a more advanced culture forcing us to behave would be worth it if it prevents billions suffering horrible untimely deaths from global warming, the anthrocene mass extinction, and ruination of what natural spaces remain

even a harsh uplifting would probably be an improvement to the majority's wellbeing and dignity versus our fates in this self-annihilating capitalist hellscape

Fitzy Fitz posted:

is this disclosure?

Squizzle posted:

when i decided to do the trading card style posts for one of the domains, i wanted to make sure the cards would have art styles distinct from one another, but still be legible at small size. i chopped up and modified a ton of animation character models, because i didnt trust my own hand at the time to render things in sufficiently varied ways. the results are universally mediocre, and pushing those around trying to make it work is what kept the thread stalled-out until the arrival of cspam took me down a new posting path entirely

Fitzy Fitz posted:

is this disclosure?

Squizzle posted:

my posting canon

sharknado slashfic posted:

sharknado slashfic posted:

sharknado slashfic posted:

https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/tribal-culture/hungry-ghosts-their-history-and-origin posted:

Some can eat but find it impossible to find food or drink. Others may find food and drink, but have pinhole mouths and cannot swallow. 

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Serious question for the people itt who are more familiar with Buddhism than me. Is it possible that the increase of population worldwide and the fact that we care less and less for our elders in the West would generate an increase in "hungry ghosts" who would in turn torment the livings and make them adopt self-destructive behaviors?

Fitzy Fitz posted:

is this disclosure?

Riot Bimbo posted:

What buddhism even is changes so much depending on who you ask and what branch of it they belong to. that's like asking any Christian to supply information about catholic lore.