Sir Darius the Clairvoyent

Read the alchemist as a child, enjoyed it. Planing on reading it again, an see if I can get a deeper understanding

I remember my first time. It was when computers were relatively rare. One day I got to borrow one from school home. It’s battery depleted in the middle of the video. Also, like half the class used to go together weekly, for years, at what we called a wank party. Good god haha.

Mhm I haven’t looked into the mechanic, but it boils down the balance to resist UV radiation and vitamin D. In places closer to the equator, people are darker because they need protection to the stronger radiation, while further north people tend to be lighter because it increases their ability to absorb vitamin d. Hunter gatherers in Europe was actually quite dark (some of them at least, they were very diverse) because they got enough vitamin d trough a animal products. This changed with agriculture. Point is, sunlight has notable effects on well being. Here we have something called winter depression. Likewise, white people in the southern hemisphere have problems with the radiation from the strong sunlight ☀️ Belive me, after months of darkness, the first sunlight feels like heaven.

Forgive me for useing a translated Norwegian article, but if you are curious about it legitimacy, NRK is equivalent to BBC. https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/livsstil/er-papirposen-bedre-for-miljoet-enn-plastposen_-1.14242724?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=no&_x_tr_pto=wapp It is more nuanced than I presented it. It depends on what degree the plastic is recycled, and that varries enormously. But the real tradegy here, is that hemp is pretty much universally banned.

Why the confusion @Apech, I am happy to clarify or discuss it with you.

Here I have the same feeling as towards the environment. Asking people to choose green products (that in reality is often not very green, just green washed) is a cheap marketing technique. It is a drop in the ocean. Instead I think the government should put restrictions on it. To take one ridiculous example. The grocery store COOP ones decided to start with paper bags instead of plastic. When asked about why, when paper bags are more harmful to the environment, he had no answer. But he knew it was tje case.

Curious about what you and others think about karma: is just sbiut consequences, or is it metaphysical?

Mhm you’re right. For the rare cases of intersex, doctors in Norway prior to the 70s, used to operate the baby in accordance to what they were most like. The idea was that if you raised someone as a girl, they become a girl. This practice ended with a boy callled Victor. They determined he was a girl and raised him at such, but he always felt like a boy. Here is his self protestor: And here is a really heart breaking drawing at age 6: About the drawing, he said: "this si a boy. The boy is now dead. The penis and the boy got burried in different funerals. Everyone came to the penis. funeral. Nobody came to the boys." From what I’ve heard, he is doing fine now.

In Vedic texts thr sky father (dyeus phter for to proto indo Europeans) Dyava in Hinduism, morphed together with Privthi (earth goddess) into one deity: Dyava-prithvi. If I am not mistaken, there are also texts were the sky fertilizes the earth trough rain (semen).

Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896], at sacred-texts.com HYMN CXXIX. Creation. 1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? 2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever. 3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. 4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent. 5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder 6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being? 7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not. THE COSMOGONY (Hesiod) [116] Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all4the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether5 and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. The Greeks seems to me have a very different relationship to sex. Zeus, Afrodite, Dionysus…Ritual sex, Eros. A curiousity shared between the Norse, Roman’s and Greeks (which leads me to believe it is of indo European origin), is that homosexual acts were accepted from an superior to a person of lower status or age. Vikings didn’t just rape women… In fact there is little evidence that they raped them in raids, but kidnapping or enslaving them is not any better. Just for laughs: I believe certain acts of sex are very healthy, and that Christianity f’ed our relationship to sex so much that it took an unhealthy form: sex without passion or love, the Catholic Church… Sky father and Mother Earth, man and woman, Jin and yang. Pretty much the same thing, no?

🥰 20th des

Just throwing it out there. Me being honest about a short break with reality, and you, a stranger, useing it for internet points or judgement is… pathetic really. Not much more to say.

Haven’t read trough all, but speaking of experience, you don’t exactly feel proud afterwords. please don’t get to caught up in technicalities and sematics.

…. Cobid 🤯 Why do you think exposure to the sun influenced skin color?? @ChiDragon How would you describe it?

Well, I am not one to argue with you, as you has a much clearer understanding of eastern thought then I. I always interpreted chi as some kind of.. vitality/lifeforce?