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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯
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And I, shall I not have pity for Nineveh the great city, in which there are many more than one hundred twenty thousand human beings who do not know between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· Apr 23
I have a bunch of religious special interests, so if I followed you, that's probably why : )
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2h
Expressing love for my screwed-up desires (by refusing to either sate them or repress them, therefore causing them to just linger for however long they like, and spending that time with them.)
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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social Β· 1d
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
Stealing a graph from @christianityon.bsky.social:
A Cartesian plane where the X axis goes from "reasonable" rightward to "unhinged" and the Y axis goes from "sincerity" downward to "irony." In the sincerity + unhinged quadrant there is a red circle labeled "the autism zone."
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
I love it when someone gets both the traditionalist Catholic autism and the Episcopalian autism and so they end up as a Latin Mass attender who is also a gay-affirming universalist.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
It does not help that I keep highly variable, irregular, and erratic hours.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
I am a big fan of the hours, I just... am bad at mustering the executive function by myself to do them in a way that makes consistent sense. I will do very strange combinations of different hours and different versions of the hours according to my abilities.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
This is what my circle is discussing. Sometimes to my considerable distress.

I am not consistent at all in the hours.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Christian who insists that not only is Siddhartha Gautama a valid saint (because of the canonization of Josephat) but so is AvalokiteΕ›vara (because of the canonization of the Virgin Mary).
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
"Your face, so sweet, not bones, not meat, just gradings on the shore." "The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me." "The changing of the light is torture." "And I made the air move in arrows but I don't know how to love you." "Love is not love." Swirling in my head for years...
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
The degree to which my religious life has been shaped by sketchily comprehended lines from Cate le Bon songs my mom shows me is quite bizarre.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Happy birthday! Congratulations!!
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
The only thing cooler to me than an account with a one-digit follower count is an account with literally zero followers that for whatever reason posts anyway.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I love praying the canonical hours.ΒΉ

ΒΉ All this user prayed today was vespers, twice, from two radically different traditions.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
The reason was that the Spinozist analysis of how cognition works is not compatible with physicalism and neuroscience.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Spinoza also gives you a weird diagrammatic organism in Part II of the Ethics when he's explaining memory. I have seen him called pseudoscience as well of course.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I like it when, in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, he whips out his weird diagrammatic organism (undifferentiated vesicle). I'm always asking writers to show me their weird diagrammatic organisms.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Giving me bronze statues of bodhisattvas that I can play with like dolls in order to accrue divine favour for yourself... is pseudoscience...
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I finally got my tofu sandwich. I fried the tofu in sesame oil, and unfortunately immediately after finishing eating, I was still hungry and now desired to eat more sesame oil. Ideally in the form of a substance in which a tofu sandwich is fried. It never ends.
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I made myself a tofu sandwich today, which led a loved one of mine to want a tofu sandwich, so I made her one hours later, and her tofu sandwich made ME want a tofu sandwich. Which I fear I might act on at any point.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I feel like that should be in the contains section 🫀
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
But what if you did bite him ("him" being a Buddha (making me guilty of the fourth of the five cardinal sins and excluding me from rebirth in Amitabha's pure land))...
morrowind-txt.bsky.social morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social Β· 3d
It's not all that bad. It's not like I bit him or anything.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Ultimate reality does not admit of "it is so" "it is not so" "it is both so and not so" "it is neither so nor not so" which means that the conventional use of any of these four is open to skillful means 😎 (also to the three poisons tho).
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Vimalakirti and Zhuangzi are teaming up to make me stop being afraid of words.

Specifically of saying one thing now and another thing at another time.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I always find myself thinking about Psalm 139:6 for this reason. The knowledge that is worthwhile for me is wonderful beyond all attaining, and the knowledge that is attainable for me (🌳) is not an acceptable substitute.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
However this is also very Lotus Sutra induced. I simply do not have the faculties of the Buddha (or God, for that matter) to discern what anyone is doing at any point or the manner in which they are acting as a bodhisattva. I must become like Monk Never-Disparage.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Also thinking a lot about when Israel says to Esau, "No, please; if I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand, for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me with such favor." This I also would like to cultivate in myself.
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