Dharma Curious (he/him)

I literally only opened the comments to ask someone to do this. Lol. Thank you for anticipating my needs

I just finished a player of games a few months ago! Someone suggested the series to me here on lemmy (perhaps you? Lol. I never take note of screen names when I should), and I read Phlebas and APoG before I got distracted. It’s so good. Like ridiculously good. Phlebas wasn’t quite my speed, not bad by any stretch, I just found myself wishing for more of what there was little of and less of what there was much of, but APoG was fantastic and exactly what I was looking for!

They’re also allowed to name their successors. If he’s really as concerned with the direction of the church as he has claimed, you’d think he’d ensure who’s gonna be wearing the fancy red shoes in the coming years. But honestly, I think he’s not quite as concerned about that as he’s lead on. He strikes as me as a radical centrist, it just looks progressive compared to so many of the others.

Thus the concern. Haha

David Graeber had a take on that before he died.

If you convince a billion people that you can breathe underwater, and then you go sit at the bottom of a lake, you’ll drown.

If you convince a billion people you’re the king of France… Then you’re the king of France.

So the question becomes, how many Catholic friends do you have?

This is how I found out the Pope is in poor health.

Given how every election seems to out recently, they’re probably going to seek out the vilest, most fascist, hardcore traditionalist they can find who thinks Vatican II was tantamount to a pagan takeover or some shit. Fuuuuck

Saw this the other day on prime:

Had to screenshot

What’s the black line for?

Whoah! That’s a personal question I don’t feel like would reflect accurately my life if someone knew. There’s more to me than my body count. I contain depths and multitudes outside of the number of people I have slept with!

280ish. But there’s more to me than that!

Basically, yeah. If you’re around it long enough then natural curiosity is gonna get the better of you eventually, and then you find out it ain’t half bad and get a liking for it.

We’ve gone the opposite direction in the last few years, though. We don’t buy dog food anymore, and just make our own because it’s cheaper (and can be purchased using EBT/food stamps) and better for them .

My mom used to own a grooming shop, and everyone there liked eating the beef jerky made for dogs better then the stuff for humans. Buncha white ladies, pepper is spicy. Lol.

A few days before I got this I got one asking if I wanted in on some stocks or some shit, blocked, then I got this in duplicate, blocked, and now I’ve gotten this same one every day for like 3 days, each time it’s two of em. I block, the chick makes more. The chick is relentless, infinite, and eternal. We must choose now whether to destroy the chick or to worship her, there are no other options.

No, sorry. You’re a roommate. Every thing is a ritual object, every one is a roommate and good friend.

Reductionist? Maybe? But it made me feel all warm and tingly, so thanks lol

Just reachin’ up there with they whole hand, huh?

Oh, no, step boarding pass officer, I forgot my ticket and now I’m stuck!

No, no you don’t. Everything that isn’t fully functional and necessary for life is a ritual object! And also some of the the other things to! It’s all ritual! It’s ritual all the way down, baby!

Whenever I see this referenced it makes me think of an old man I worked for named Olan. Olan was an asshole. He was a jerk. He was just a miserable old man with no redeeming qualities.

We did odd jobs for him because he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t do them anymore. One time my brother was cleaning out a disgusting, moldy, vile stench filled chest freezer for him while he screeched at my brother for gagging, and chucking random shit at him for being “a whiny little faggot”

But the thing that makes me remember him when I hear “lemon stealing whore” is this day a friend visited him while we were there, and the friend asked about some guy who used to work for him

Friend: whatever happened to Bill?

Olan: fired him. He stole my battery terminal cleaners*

Friend: he did?

Olan: yeah. Died, too. Stung by some bees.

Friend: that’s a shame

Olan: he’s cleaning in batteries in hell now

*Terminal cleaners, if you don’t know, are at most a 10 dollar item

I feel seen. The introvert part of me is horrified, but the big, sloppy sub part is excited to be suspended from a fake smoke detector…

Why’s the sub always gotta be little and cute? #NormalizeBigSubLove