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Words are my favorite stim toy
Writing is a kind of madness for us.
Sometimes it eases onto the pages in carefully crafted prose and verse.
Other times it comes howling out like a demon escaping a broken circle.
I've described it before as a quickening, but Lynne's absolutely right and it happens that way for us too
where Popeye listed Popeye's gender as 'amphibious' because Popeye can wear men or women's clothing.
Popeye's twitter account also said Popeye doesn't have pronouns because Popeye's nouns are all amateurs
Popeye here is expounding on the teachings of the Sufi mystic Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, about whom the following story is told:
One day, Rabi'a was seen walking the streets with a torch in one hand and a pitcher of water in the other. When asked why, she replied that the water was to put out the fires of Hell, and the torch was to burn down Heaven, because the fear of punishment and the promise of reward are both distractions from that which is truly fulfilling, that is, basking in the love of God.
O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.
Even if you're not religious you have to admit that that's metal as fuck.
Popeye: also a notable student of Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher and liberation theologist.
In his book On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent, he posits that Job exemplifies disinterested religion — that is, a non-transactional faith that holds even when there is not a direct benefit or punishment. “[The author of the Book of Job] believes it to be possible, although he undoubtedly knew the difficulty that human suffering, one’s own and that of others, raises against authentic faith in God. Job, whom he makes the vehicle of his own experience, will be his spokesman.” Can we maintain our faith in the divine without interest — interest, here, in a financial sense — such that we maintain our belief without worry of punishment or expectation of reward?
Popeye says yes.
Writing is a kind of madness for us.
Sometimes it eases onto the pages in carefully crafted prose and verse.
Other times it comes howling out like a demon escaping a broken circle.
i don't normally scrutinize the hardness of the sci-fi in Gundam
but
it's the morning after watching Gundam F91 and i bolted awake with one thought in my head: "why is there coal in space?"
why is there coal in space?
why is coal an important resource in space?
were my subtitles just busted? was it not supposed to be coal?
did they take a coal bed from Earth, launch it into space, and deposit it in a colony so they could mine it later?
why would they mine coal? every colony has a bazillion space-based giant solar panels for energy. and if that's somehow not enough we see in this movie that they have functioning fusion reactors?!
F91 raises a lot of questions, the biggest being "how fucked up was the production of this media object" but "why is there coal in space" is a close second
