Message from @Beemann
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What if you're using simile?
I’d be in favor of raising the voting age to 25 tbqmfh
I think the only people who should vote are dead people, they have the most experience.
The dead are in the pockets of the necromancers though
And I don't think black magic practitioners have society's best interests in mind
Dead Lives Matter
Hi
Hello
Does anyone here know what happened to the Tim Pool discord? I was on it and now it's gone
Someone mentioned that Tim nuked it
So, you seem to have observed correctly
JDM didn't even know it was gone until *after* it was gone. The "backup" is all that's left
Tim got tired of dealing with the annoyances people were causing from what i heard.
Who is JDM?
Admin
is anyone a member of the "backup"?
Not sure how many people are there, but I wouldn't mind an invite
About 100. >50 active.
That's very little
Probably better that way though. Only a fraction of the member list participates anyway
"As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. "
Is Blake the one that wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?
If so, yeah, that dude got cynical af.
Yes
Reading through The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion. "
Oof
And one for the culture war "As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible"
Really? Brothels with bricks of religion? Is he suggesting that brothels wouldn’t exist without religion? Sounds like a fool to me.
After that read “The Great Divorce” by CS Lewis
I feel like the full meaning is hovering out of reach, but I think it's meaning is derived from the comparison. Laws are what send people to prison, maybe he's saying religion sends people to brothels?
CS Lewis annuls the marriage of heaven and hell in that book
Tbh Blake reads almost like a proto-Nietzsche
I think you have to consider in perspective that at this time the state and the church of england were the same entity.
so like a religious American would say to Blake "if your religion represses your sexuality, don't be religious"
but for him the state forced him to be both religious and moral, and behavior outside the teachings of his church would separate him from civil society
There does seem to be a considerable portion of the work dedicated to mocking/criticizing the king and corruption within religious institutions
But the way in which he writes reminds me heavily of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Which is nice
I quite like that book
yeah, don't forget that one of the key titles for the King of England is "defender of the faith"
he IS the pope
That makes it more ballsy though really