Also, This Kind Of Tautology Prevents You From Being Able To Have Insight Or Perceive New Aspects Of

I get the impression that Feng Shui isn't really about making predictions about reality, but is rather about value judgments and aesthetics. It's similar to how people see the Golden Ratio or classical architecture. If someone says, "living in a building based on classical proportion is more harmonious" we can recognize that there's a philosophical element which is not literally making a claim we can test, and that's fine.

I read somewhere that in Korea, there's a place where they tried to balance out a mountain range by building structures, and I think there's something going on there that is beyond a desire for material results and gain. It's a value judgment about how the world should be.

Of course, the reason Feng Shui is targeted is the result of cultural prejudice, but I think it has just become one of those idees fixes for skeptic community people where they automatically dislike it

Skeptical inquirer subscribers when they fail to calculate the current directional taboo and walk right into the presence of a supernatural being:

I wonder if 'drug user' was an unnecessarily technical-sounding translation of, like, 'addict' or something. "She had so many drugs, like an addict" is a sentence with good flow

She had so many drugs... like a drug user.

I'm staying subscribed to a repetitive anime channel that writes all its scripts with ai and recycles videos, out of spite for society

In the Hungry Ghost realm the rivers are made of sewage

(the drawing is beautiful, so maybe hungry ghosts can't see it...)

How come pics like this never trend.

new Touhou game title idea

texture of ultradimensional sin

The hidden aspect of this (and something I feel this analysis doesn't get) is that there's something missing in our society that can only be filled with a good vs. evil battle. It probably corresponds to a mass ritual in ancient times. But altered and filtered through a moral framework which is not natural to it... people want to be heroes to get immersed in a moment of violent intensity and cosmological forces

there's a fun thing about the eventual perfection of the "random crime" in the hero video game because it calls to how the desire to be a hero is also a desire for people to be in trouble, because you need people to save, and crimes to solve, and if there are no crimes there are no heroes, and

why would you complain about a super hero who can run out of things to do? shouldn't that be a good thing? to want to save those who are hurt one must need people being hurt. you are the same as your enemy you fucking imbecile

I'm still afraid of them

Panic

The idea that gameplay is all that matters for games has been a disease on our aesthetic worldview. Mixed media is undervalued and infinitely powerful. The full potential of video games is to create maximalist sensory-rich stories and world. Please continue to make long cutscenes.

this makes me want to play the game more actually

attr. Sang Schichuan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple