#god inhabit the world

[fictionadventurer]

From what I can see, all the commentary on the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie thinks this story is trying to answer its philosopical questions, and completely overlooking the fact that all the answers these characters find are the wrong ones. The right answer is in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and Mockingjay. You can tell because the main character of this story is the villain in the other ones.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #the first couple of reviews made me go like 'wow it must be so weird to approach this series from a non-christian viewpoint' #then the christian review was like 'this movie's philosophy's humanist and doesn't mention god' #and i'm like 'no kidding. i wonder if maybe the lack of god in this world is the point' #'and why these characters inhabit a world that will hold the hunger games for another sixty-five years' #'maybe there's another story to be told in this world about what happens when you look beyond that pure humanist viewpoint' #'maybe an entire trilogy'

[gailynovelry]

SCREAM I love dystopias and I love worldbuilding and I am appalled at the thought of how desperate a person would have to be to get something called a Worker Bee Implant omg

Please tell me more fun things about this please

aaaaaaa hello! So this is from Mindhive and boy is Mindhive a ride. Still working out a lot of things about it, but also it's 80k long, so there's a lot of thoughts to choose from. Hmmmmm.

More context about the implants! But not all of the context, hehehe;

~ The trial volunteers do not go into the trial with any idea of what the implant actually does. It's only specified to be a "mental enhancement." Within the context of the world of MH, this means that most trial volunteers are going in assuming that it's going to be another failed attempt at a "general intelligence enhancement."

~ We say "another failed attempt" because the tech industry in MH has been in a hype cycle for "we're going to use science to enhance IQ!" for a while. But "intelligence" is complicated, and brains are complicated, and there's no magic bullet to "enhance" these things.

~ (Can you tell that the tech industry in MH is prone to eugenic lines of thinking and hype cycles for things that will never pan out for practical reasons? Real life is an unfortunately great source of inspiration for dystopia.)

~ But the implant is not an intelligence enhancement.

~ It could be considered a communication enhancement. If you've read the summary, you know one of the things it is capable of!

~ Hooray telepathy : D

~ It's intended to work in concert with a different type of technology, known as an EIS - an Emotive Intelligence System. Basically, a classic sci-fi AI, but under a new name because MH takes place in the future and in my present the tech industry has made the term "AI" into a marketing buzzword associated with art theft and scams.

~ The ideal EIS for this set-up has enough interpersonal skills to communicate with contractors, but only enough interest in workers to maintain Baseline Aliveness.

~ So, not V.E.R.T.I.G.O, who has a near-anthropologist curiosity about people, and a firm desire to provide them with a decent quality of life whenever possible. : (

~ What does this add up to? Not the horrors, of course, I am sure that the way these ideas click together have nothing to do with the way that corporations approach labor costs, working conditions, and bodily autonomy. : )

Also we're really into making webpages right now, so this WIP has some Neocities funstuff happening! Yay!

#Mindhive #thanks for the ask! #you came here at just the right time! #we spent a decent chunk of today rereading Mindhive for a break from Breathing Gods and boy howdy do we have thoughts & excitement <3 #i do think it is very funny that we have worldbuilt a situation where telepathy is very plausible #in a world that otherwise skews high on the realism #it's kind of because of the way we set up the implants tbh; basically the implants communicate w/ brains they are attached to #and also w/ each other #which lets the brains communicate w/ each other indirectly #and that's as scientific as we can make it lmao #telepathy: believable. compassionate computer programs: sure. intelligence enhancements: no. #hgkdhg i love biting into our awful little dystopias #MH is about on par with PP in “worst quality of life for the inhabitants of the world” #all i can say is . . . poor poor Avery / Nathaniel / Lucine

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#theres this feeling i get sometimes. i find it very hard to articulate. its part despair and part awe. dispair at how beautiful the world is #all those intricate little process coming together to organize the chaos. i dont kno y i feel it so deeply or y it hurts so much #because its just. no matters what horrible things r going on in the world. ur body is this miraculous collection of chemicals and reactions #mobile containers of water with a history that spirals back billions of years. and you can hear and see and experience and reflect #and when you die the world goes on spinning without you. if we as humans destroyed this planet past the part of our ability to inhabit it #it wouldnt even matter. there would be continued life past humanity. cosmically we r tiny and insignificant and we dont matter #but were beautiful and wonderful and infinity complex and knowing that leaves me in agony. because i want to kno everything right now but #mind is too small and i walk around with the disorientation of someone whos just been hit in thr face ans i cant focus enough to read #cant make the words make sense and i cant justify the time it would take to try. so i sit on my deck. in the sun. crying as i think about #how the light hit the grass in my front yard the last time i was home. how the cliffs in the backyard are ringed with red lines of iron #separated out as the water leached through the sandstone. how every avaliable surface is stained green as organisms reach upward toward #the sun. and its beautiful and i dont kno y im crying. maybe its bc i cant just throw everything aside and chase that feeling. im not #allowed to feel it. im not allowed to talk abt it in the way i want. bc im afraid no one cares as much as me in the same way. bc when i #talk abt what i study its obscure and academic and so far from what most ppl think abt that they get intimidated and dont try to understand #so i just try not to talk abt it. or maybe im just afraid. bc i have my 1st TA meeting tomorrow and i meet with my new advisor friday #and im worried and im afraid i wont b able to do this in a way that doesnt make me feel like im dying. bc i like to b busy and i like having #a strict schedule but if u throw me that knife im going to stab myself with it bc i dont kno how wield it as a tool without hurting myself #sure ill get the job done. but at what cost? whatever. ill try to b better this time. try to hold tight to the wonder. but that feels like #reaching out into forever. knowing ill never make contact. not knowing what im reaching for. #the closest approximation to the feeling i can find is that scene in the terror. where go0dsir is asking if god is there. any god. and it #doesnt matter bc he can see god in the landscape. in an environment that's so harsh and barren that its killing him slowly in the worst of #ways and its beautiful. its still beautiful to him. there is wonder here. and im wasting my time laying in a dark room crying bc i put #myself into a container so constrictive that the surface snaps and i come spilling out as an angry liquid. smearing away into nothing #unrelated

[sunnysmiles]

Started crying again thinking about Leroy Brown

#fish are creature much like rabbits born in a hostile world born to suffer #when i learned fish sing like birds do my god #they have the freedom of birds but so does Everyone where they inhabit typcially

[davidtennantpussytulpa]

being chubby means there are wars going on in my mind every single day with millions of soldiers dying

#the fact it makes me feel like i am immediately eliminated as someone to be romantically or sexually interested in for most of the world #and like. if its true that someone wouldnt like me for my weight then i wouldnt want them either but like. oh god. oh my fucking god #i do want to lose some weight just bc i have a lot of clothes i got recently that i like that i want to fit into again #and its not even much that i would need to lose. but even the thought of moving towards being skinny is terrifying i would never want to do #that. like the thought that someone could like me as a skinny person and think i was ugly if they had met me a year earlier and i wouldnt #even know is HORRIFYING. #its like. ive moved past the outward fatphobia of our world a lot. i dont really care about how my body looks im pretty neutral about it for #the most part and im happy that ive gotten to thaf point #but the fact that the way i look is a MAJOR part of how other people interact with me is so scary. and makes me so sad #just like jo march. it doesnt really matter how much work youve done on becoming someone strong and smart and secure and having people you #love platonically. at a certain point having no romantic love makes you feel lonely #and a little worthless. like oh someone has to know me really well before ever being interested in me as more than a friend nice to know i #inspire no feelings of attraction in the people i am interested in because of the body i inhabit. awesome 👍🏻 #ugh. its whatever. its just a lot of contradictory shit i think about a lot and hate thinking about so much

[jaythelay]

I'm still on this. How. How did anyone, ever, ever, reach the conclusion that any company, any, fucking company, has the same ideals as leftists. You're just telling on yourself how little you even know about politics, capitalism, the free market, the consumer. Fuck dude like I'm embarrassed and cringing at it as if it was ME who said this embarrassing shit.

God damn dude. Just such a mask off moment. Like, there's alot of things you can say to ensure I don't respect nor willingly listen to you, but that, that's something right there.

The company, Bethesda, the one's who tried to monopolize the modding scene with Valve, them, they're leftists. The one's who false advertised pre-orders, those guys, leftists? Leftists? No like, stop for a minute, recognize how OUT OF YOUR DEPTH, you are on this topic. Leftists. Companies. Capitalism. Leftists.

Sure. Okay. Please reconcile it with actual adult words a human being uses when communicating, not "woke" the most vapid, ambiguous fucking buzzword in recorded human history, only ever used to describe empathy and knowledge.

"cam't C brah n pampty, woke"

christ. Christ. I'd actually delete my channel if that was me. I'd erase myself from existence. I'd never sleep again, I'd have sleep paralysis demon's playing it on loop for the rest of my life. I'd pay people to beat me up because I simply deserve it.

Embarrassing. "woke leftists make me not strip people" My god man.

#Starfield #still a piece of shit #bethesda #definitely not fucking leftists #might not be the common righty #but they aren't fucking lefties #closer to the median republican that's rare anymore because they jumped ship to the wider umbrella #turns out having one mode of thought is fucking stupid in a world inhabited so fucking much #but it sucks every other mode of thought is stuck under one god damned umbrella #embarrassing shit

[identityquest]

ive been playing a lot of pokemon-like games lately to search for something new to fill the void of the desire to collect creatures... so many games show so much promise but there's always something holding them back. it's usually just like one thing and i cant get too mad bc a lot of them are either extremely inexpensive or outright free. but it sucks to be playing a game thats otherwise solid only for it to suck bc like, the writing is abysmal or the gameplay loop is miserable. the most egregious thing ive encountered in a lot of these games is the lack of a robust bestiary. like thats the main reason i played pokemon and stuck with it, when prof rowan asked me to research for him i took that seriously 😭 i want to know abt the animals please for the love of god give me a description, a habitat range some fun facts. please

#strato.txt #i got spoiled to gen IV dex w/ footprints and the height and weight scale and the cry remixer and form differences.. #when they took away footprints i sobbed cried and screamed. i was like WHERE ARE THEIR LITTLE PAWS.... #maybe its cause i associated footprints w/ that guy who gives you a ribbon if your friendship is maxed out #cause he reads how much ur pokemon love you by the way they leave footprints in the sand... sigh #anyways. the scale for showing u how much pokemon weighed was cool too. how it launched dawn/lucas if the pokemon was heavy enough #i just really. REALLY want to feel like a field researcher that was always so important to me as a kid. going out and learning and growing #the villainous team is just a roadblock. and obstacle in my path to learn and see the world #i feel like gamefreak has shifted from learning as a narrative to coming of age and saving the world as a narrative. im sick of it tbh #is that what kids want these days. when i was a kid i wanted to be an astronaut and a paleontologist #so many games are getting the 'whoa cool beast' thing down. theyre the tyrannosaurus lovers. they like the cool animal and its evolution #but theyre neglecting like... the nature part? the part where the animal clicks in with the world. where its part of the ecosystem #they know that trex is cool and huge but not that it lived in a subtropical climate dominated by angiosperms. #the pokemon co and gamefreak have gone to great lengths to make pokemon feel REAL #they exist in their environments and shape them and interact with each other. many prey on each other #pokemon inhabit certain regions of the world bc thats their /ecosystem/. theyre not just randomly placed... #oh my god. i have more to say but im stopping here. im stopping

[zukkaoru]

no one look at me i'm thinking about the parallels between camp half-blood having very few campers who are adults bc most demigods don't make it that long vs. the only non-higher up sorcerers in jjk being younger than thirty bc most sorcerers don't make it that long--

#i can't like. put it into words but it's like #it's about the inevitability of tragedy #how you can see the blood and bones of the past in the Lack #the lack of adult demigods. the lack of older sorcerers. it's the emptiness that gives the warning #and yet. what can you do but continue down the same path? #it's about how the people in charge (the higher ups / the gods) try to cover up the tragedy #no one is allowed to speak about what really happens to demigods and sorcerers #but you can See it #you can see that camp half-blood is sparse and most of the campers are young #you can see that the jujutsu world is in need of more sorcerers and the ones they Do have are young adults / students #it's about how the unspoken is made clear when you really Look #it's about how even when tragedy remains unwritten you can see it in those who are left behind #the difference is percy sees the early deaths most heroes face and says NO that will NOT be me #the difference is percy's mother gave him the name perseus because the original perseus was one of the few heroes who got a happy ending #while itadori accepts his tragic fate. he accepts that he needs to die #his mother gave birth to him specifically so he could be sukuna's vessel - so he could be used #and then so he could die. because itadori was only ever supposed to be temporary - sukuna was always supposed to be that body's #final inhabitant #the difference is percy brings hope when he survives the titan war - survives the prophecy that everyone assumed would kill him #but itadori is not allowed to bring hope. all he can do is die and take sukuna with him #(the difference is pjo isn't a tragedy - it's a twist on myths where the hero doesn't die a painful death #while itadori was born into a tragedy - a story in which there is no room for hope) #haha anyway #hello grace here #also i'm gonna copy the first half of these tags in a reblog bc i can only communicate my thoughts accurately in tag rambling format

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i think it would be a lot easier to examine the morality and effectiveness of setrákus' cause (spoiler alert: It's Bad), and the irl worldviews/rhetoric it's critiquing, if the books came out and acknowledged that the entity:

a) is working from the exact same fundamental principles, just glowier and prettier and has Nicer Neighborhoods about it, and ultimately gets away with it, and

b) in its own right is just plain fucking evil

#lorien legacies #setrákus ra #LL entity #there is a MAJOR running theme in this series of poisonous 'help' being offered by people who position themselves as Selflessly Benevolent #and wanting nothing more than to pile you with generous gifts out of the goodness of their hearts #too-good-to-be-true offers when you need them most #they just need one little thing from you. they just need you to do the work of spreading their Help for them. #whether through direct violent subjugation (hi loric history!); or cutting off their options so they get more and more desperate #until they have no option but to give in. until they have no choice but to suffer and die or Choose Peace #or through just y'know terraforming the entire fcking planet and changing the biology of its sapient inhabitants to make them Better #without asking a single person on it first let alone any of the humans #it shows up with setrákus; it shows up with what five goes through; it shows up with mogpro; and it shows up with the entity #but the entity and the loric acting in its name are The Actually Benevolent Ones This Time You Guys #and they don't even show ANY harmful effects from past instances of garde pulling ancient-aliens shit to ~help advance human cultures~ #the moral of the story should have followed through on 'power does not make you a god' #and taken the next step to 'if any objectively sapient being with the agency to tangibly affect the world; in a way you cannot opt out of' #'tries to position themself as a god because they are powerful; or should be powerful' #'tie on a bib and eat them' #i have a lot of words in me about this and it really sank in when i realized the way sandor talks about life on lorien under the entity #and the culture around it sound E E R I L Y like how five talks about ethan and the mogs when he's being groomed and indoctrinated #lorien was some warren of the shining snares shit back in the day and it's both fascinating and absolutely chilling #your neighborhood isn't less racist because it has breweries and brick pizza ovens etc etc #ANYWAY #LL tag #LL crit tag #the crit files

[nomaishuttle]

its impossible for you all to understand how much of my thoughts r in sweeney references. like there is one person on this earth who understand and its my sibling who is similarly inclined...

#bc i cant at work just be like. I had him and then . but with lamp. i can say the first thing that comes to mind #which lets say hypothetically its oot and im trying to get all the poes and theres one left.omg just have to get this one FUCKING poe. so #easy. go to the cunt. its under that little thangy on the other side of the river from the stairs to kakariko. spoilers if yr trying to #find all the poes in oot but im gonna go ahead n tell you nothing is worth dealing with this cunt. #but anyeays. Omg there he is. shoot him. he runs away #im riding on epona teying to catch him trying to shoot HE KEEPS FUCKING GETTING AWAY. IT TOOK ME 2. FUCKING. HOURS. #and like. my 3rd to last attempt. i was so. so fucking close. like one more shot i wouldve gotten him yk. so close. but he gets away. and #Immediate immediate reaction was I had him and then . his throat was there beneath my hand. NO I HAD HIM !!! HIS THROAT WAS THERE NOW HELL #NEVER COME AGAIIIIIIIIN. it was very funny #bc i was genuinely shaking with rage look i dont often relate to sweeney im gonnacome out and say bad dude yk. in that moment ? i was like #no to be honest there IS a hole in the world like a great black pit and its filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of #the world inhabit it . and yk who one of those vermin is. That fucking poe that fucking poe i hate him i want him dead. #i want his wife. Dead. i want his wife. Dead. i want his wife. Dead. i want his w #my fav video i miss it.. #but anyways yes its near constant. i cant even say yes eithout my brain going yesss... Isnt that her . Shadow-on-the wall 😏? where Theree #Primping making herself even prettier than USUALL if possible.pretty women etc #i cant say oh no without going OH NOOOOO!!! ohhhg goddddd... dont i know you... she said.................... #i love final scene mainly bc i love hearing all the sweeneys realizing its lucy Spoilers btw. not bc its like an avting momentbut bc its SO #FUNNYYYY. 2006's oh god genuinely sends me into hysterics. hs says oh no in lowercase and then goes oHhhfh goD...... its so funny #and who is it that does the rly ling OH NOOOO. its the original one ITS SO FUNNYYY #first of all the kittle bahbuh!!! after Its only a miserable old be- is so long its so funny #and then awkward beat of silence and then OH NOOOOOOO!!!!! and then he says oh my god . in the most harrowed voice ever #ITS SO FUNNYYYY #everybody go listen to final scene Firstly it is my favorite sweeney song probably. love loven ofc 2012 number one 4everr the lyrics r #slightly different from every other version bc 2012 sweeney Technically likee. well its set in a different time period normal sweeney is i #think like. late 1800s? 2012 is 1930s bc of the parallels with like capitalism and what have you.. so the framing device is its a group of #factory workers talking abt sweeney GUYS 2012 IS SO FUCKING GOOD IT MAKES ME PHYSICALLY ILL. #but ya its be like. og sweeney is set during the industrial revolution so like yk. n then the 1930s with labor unions n all that was going #on.. u get it u get it anyways. its so good but some kf the lyrics r sliiiightly tweaked just to like. suit the time period better and im #going to say something blasphemous . 2012s lyrics r so much better and flow nicer and dont sound as stilted like. the older ones dont sound

[true-blue-sonic]

When not stopping the apocalypse Silver is some kind of time tourist. In Sonic Colors, TSR and a bunch of spin-off games Silver just goes to Sonic's time period to chill and sight see and can go for non-urgent reasons like Dodon Pa's Grand Prix.

That is really cute, I like it! Let Silver enjoy the past for a bit, he deserves it <3 I can imagine that he at first starts out quite hesitant to try it because The Future Is In Danger And It Must Be Helped Immediately Right Now This Very Instant, but the others convince him to just relax and wind down for a little bit. And eventually they kickstart a trend in Silver to just come to the past and hang out with the others and have fun!

In Colours DS he states his future is a good one, so it is nice to see that a saved future might not stop him from going back to the past and meeting with his friends. The past and future probably are quite different, so he'll never run out of things to experience! He deserves it, after everything he has been through💕

#also I have talked before about Silver being considered a bad omen by the inhabitants of the past #because he always shows up when things are about to go to shit #imagine seeing him and being like 'OH GOD NO' because he's here so Bad Things Are Going To Happen #but he's just calmly sipping on some multi-coloured soda juice with a curly straw and a little umbrella #relaxing on a beach chair and calmly studying the world around him #lmao I can imagine everyone is very confused then! #silver the hedgehog #sonic headcanon #thanks for the ask! ^-^

[navree]

at the risk of sounding facetious but if you’re categorizing the targaryens as colonizers then i think you also need to categorize nymeria and the rhoynar as colonizers too or just realize that the dragon incest show and all its varied source material written by a white guy who thought these ideas up forty years ago is not in fact that deep

#personal #like i'm sorry but listen #'a group of people sail across the sea to escape persecution in their homeland and settle on a new land' #'and decide they're the ones ruling it and living in it now despite having no ties and it already being inhabited' #hmmmmm it's giving mayflower it's giving jamestown #like this is the problem with trying to attach real world policies and views to a fantasy series written in the 90s #nearly all of the words we fling around as universally negative are actually neutral in theory #but it's the history of OUR world and OUR stories and how WE have lived our lives over the centuries #that have created the connotations we have for certain things #(case in point the concept of cultural appropriation is theoretically neutral but in practice.....whole different ball game) #like listen i love these books and i quite enjoy this show (obviously) #and i'm very willing to engage with it on a deep level especially as it relates to politics #half the asks i get are about my political/historical/sociological take on stuff re: the greens #but at the end of the day it is literally not that deep #(and i'm not even touching on the fact that the targaryens are modeled after the norman conquest which....) #(if someone starts calling william the conqueror 'a colonizer' i will scream i swear to god i will scream)

[instagramsnexttopmodel]

#thank you god #for allowing me to inhabit this corporeal form #everyday I am alive I offer myself to you #I offer you my grateful disposition #and in return I expect nothing #you have already offered me the world #I could never #will never #ask #for more

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

something very soul-stirring to me about the proto-indo-european idea of the world being created through an act of sacrifice

#it resonates deeply with me #and then to have his body dismembered #and then to create the world from his body #my body is earth and earth is his body #it's so alchemical #and to think that this sacrifice was not only an act of creation #but it established a connection between us and the gods #beginning this eternal reciprocity #the exchanging of gifts #and there is beauty in manu transforming his brother's dismembered body into a work of art -- the world #there is a kind of love in that #and then to inhabit it and move through it and live off of it #i dunno i just find the whole idea really beautiful #just the idea of sacrifice as an act of creation #and as an act of gift giving #anyway we're living inside the head of a primordial giant in case you didn't know

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

on god will these kids forget their obsession with perfection and a skewed version of beauty made up by other people like not on my watch will these kids suffer art

#el suco posts #god the world really doesn't change in some forsaken corners of the land #it's inhabitants always break out tho #and we all bring sth back to our people

[gamergirl929]

Good morning 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

#good morning world and all who inhabit it #god im tired #selfie