1) Recently have become more and more disillusioned with the big three religions
2) Agree with the Satanic Temple’s principles
3) The art of him is beautiful
4) Generally agree with his whole stick of questioning authority and refusing to blindly follow anyone
5) HE‘S PUNK AS FUCK!!!!
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i've been wrestling with this idea for a little while
let me know if you have any insight
i'm fascinated by the idea of true belief. i want it, i admire it, i respect it. i also think it is scary and it can cause so much damage.
lately i've been thinking how everything we see we process through our own perception, so all of reality is subjective. we can interact with nothing as it is, but only as we are. if you think about synchronicity too, all meaning projected onto the world becomes valid and true. everything exists only to confirm what you're experiencing. if you believe the phase of the moon being the same at two points in time holds meaning, it does because it's just another part of your mental map.
but when it comes to religion and politics it can be so destructive. i wasn't raised with religion but i have always felt myself drawn towards it. i am at the same time very critical of it, especially how the human aspect of organized religion tends to be used for control, but i truly admire true belief. but seeing the results of it, like the persecution of trans people in american politics, is scary and sends me back to the critical mindset. but there's still some appeal i can't shake.
what if there were a geocentrist today? someone who worked a normal job, went about an ordinary life, they just happened to believe the earth was at the center of the universe. that's kind of a beautiful thing. if you only draw conclusions from your own experience, of course the earth is at the center. everything seems to orbit around it. and there's still a purity in believing only in what you have found for yourself. the world would live only in their mind, and each world created by each person is all the more precious for being unique and reflective of its individual.
i'm just rambling at this point, but what do you guys think? true belief: yes or no?
Mar 12, 2025
Adorno was 100% right about the occult
but, as a practice literary or countercultural, hell, even to see human connection, to produce something, it’s cool!
This lecture by Grant Morrison sums it up as a practice to experiment, fair warning, it is aggressively 2000s and fantastically weird, but the energy is palpable, wacky as some of the concepts see to be.
Apr 8, 2024
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They’re probably more orthodox but it usually goes like this:
“Oh hey Mariano! Do you have any religious beliefs?”
“Yeah, I guess similar to Tom Holland’s approach, my morals and ethics are traditionally found in Christian orthodoxy, but in a social justice + advocating for the poor + gender equality sort of view.”
“Oh so…not like American evangelical?”
“No more like a Bonhoeffer’s “smoke a pack of cigs a day and participate in assassination attempts towards fascist leaders” type of Christianity.”
“…oh…”
Anyways — the whole theologian / spy to help an assassination attempt on Hitler and being put in a concentration camp with his only request being cigs to smoke and fighting against injustice type of Christianity > whatever we’re seeing from the RNC right now. Some would say this is very “unchristian” and “very progressive” and they’d be wrong and uneducated.
Aug 27, 2024
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A.I. as it exists currently will never be capable of truly mimicking the human mind, including the many emotions we feel on a day to day basis. Right now, A.I. is mostly just advanced algorithms that rip things from whatever its source material is or takes what it can from the wealth of all human knowledge that is the internet. Because of that, A.I. cannot grasp the human experience. It can pretend to, by pulling a post from any social media website and saying “well, when this situation happens, most people tend to feel X“ but that’s not real emotion, is it?
However, technology is constantly evolving. If at some point in the future, some tech bro can figure out how to perfectly and consistently create digital neural networks that mimic the human brain, then yes, that A.I. might be able to feel emotion, though it will never be “human emotion” as A.I.s will never be truly and completely human in the sense you and I are.
So I guess it depends on what your definition of “emotion” is. If you mean emotion as in “the full sensory and mental experience that emotions spawn in humans,” then the answer is no, an A.I. will never fully experience the complexities of human emotion. If you mean emotion as in “When X stimuli occurs, I react X way,” then yes, an A.I would be capable of that.
Overall, A.I. bad, humans good.
For some media to peruse, I’d recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick (if you haven’t read it already) as well as anything related to Bladerunner (which is based on the aforementioned book).
This is a great question, thanks for asking it!
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Recently I went through a rough patch for a couple months where I was only filling about one page of my sketchbook every week and it felt like buns :(
However, a couple weeks ago I started hyper-fixating on Transformers and I’ve drawn so many of those stupid fucking robots I’m not even lying to you. So basically what that means is try and find something that would appeal to you and draw inspiration from that!
Expanding on the inspiration piece- for embroidery, I have a huge Pinterest board of things I’d like to put on my jackets/jeans/shirts. There’s no shame in taking inspiration!!!!
Finally, if none of these things work (and I know it’s easier said than done) literally just force yourself to do one creative thing a day. When I‘m bored at school I draw random faces and people passing by. Just by forcing yourself to get back into the habit, hopefully that will encourage your brain to return to its former creative glory.
Good luck!!!!!
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